My biggest conclusion on a recent rewatch is that Desmond is the true hero of the story and Jack is an absolute jerk.

Every citizen of the US is innocent until proven guilty, so when the Punisher executes people without trial, yes, he is killing “innocent” people.

Quick, look up. Do you see that? Up above you? It’s the joke, flying right over your head.

The straw man is in reframing this as a binary: either character or skin color. I’m not saying that you should change how you operate - I’m saying that proposing that as a solution to the real problems of race in this country is overly simplistic and assumes that we’ve already achieved actual equality on a…

No, but that’s a nice straw man. The option is to strive for a world in which the attitude you put forth is a realizable one, but we can’t get there with a wave of the hand. We have to do the hard work of recognizing how exactly we got here, and as long as there is a significant contingent of people who refuse to do…

In an ideal world, yes. This is not that world, and this kind of attitude, while it might come from a “good” place, erases the very real, consequential history of the world in which we do live.

Well said. I watched this, and the rebuttal bothered me, but I couldn’t clarify in my own head why. You’ve done that, so thanks.

“And we took a picture of everybody, the wives and the leaders, and then the leaders” - He really can’t comprehend that some of those leaders are also wives. 

You’ve never had ice cream?!?

Lifelong Pennsylvanian here; could not agree more about Yuengling. Also, it gives you the runs worse than any beer out there.

And for someone who seemingly values standard English so much, you truly suck at writing it. The grammatical issues in this post are staggering.

It’s really awesome how you can read other people’s minds and tell them what they’d do in your bullshit hypothetical situations. Maybe all of your assumptions are a big part of the problem, huh, sweetie?

The “innate cultural feature” is the fact that there is such a thing as “proper English.” English, like any language, is a construct constantly in flux. The only reason we see some English as “proper” and others as lesser is because of power structures. It’s not like there’s a natural form of English that dialects…

“Whites, by a vast margin, speak more clearly than blacks.” So much bullshit I don’t even know how to begin shoveling it. 

The minute someone falls back on a “We all know that...” statement, that person is no longer arguing from evidence, but invoking a divisive, tribal mentality. The president does this a lot.

I started working from home about a year ago, and decided to use the opportunity to be more active during the day. I do a set of 25 every hour during the work day, and vary my type with each set: standard, triceps (bring your hands together to make a triangle under your chest), incline, decline, knuckles, fingertips,…

Did Spicer actually say “upmost” instead of “utmost”?

It was the very definition of a straw-man argument. You created a straw man of the type of poster on this forum and then attacked that rather than what any real person has said or done.

It was a bullshit comment. If you don’t want replies to your bullshit comments, don’t post them on open forums.

The idea that everyone else in this forum does “blindly except [sic] the liberal ideology” and views “the Clinton administration as savors [sic] of the masses” is an implicit straw-man argument in your post.