Just checking, because the wording is awkward, but what you mean is that “people who pick fights with libraries are on the wrong side of history,” correct?

Edit: I misremembered. And now I look like an ass...

When you can’t be right, may as well be condescending.

I see your view, and to an extent I agree: there are political implications in everything. However, that doesn’t make every person’s choice inherently political in nature, it just makes those choices have political consequences. That checkers game our hypothetical person bought? Maybe they were motivated purely by a…

That isn’t at all how art or critical thinking works.

Because it is just a faint of meaning and relevance. The banal meaninglessness of the games statement makes it not political.

I think people would have liked having the expectation of having the plotlines of the first movie followed.

“...from all walks of live”

Poe isn’t a child. He’s a fighter wing commander. Holdo had no reason to withhold information from him other than entitlement and incompetence.

Her failure to communicate with her subordinates sparked a mutiny, and she waited until half the transports were destroyed to employ a tactic that should have been plan A once she decided that she was sacrificing herself with the ship anyway.

The whole movie was mildly disappointing. Snoke was wasted, Luke was wasted, Canto Bight was wasted, Benecio Del Toro was wasted... the whole thing came off in such a distractingly unfocused way. Not that it didn’t have quite a lot to like in it. It did. It just felt flat. Like Rian Johnson wanted to fuck around SO…

When Uncle Jesse’s last name went from Cochrane to Katsopolis on Full House.

“Scarcity is not actually real, btw.”

It just requires that people not be greedy assholes

So why did Ukrainian peasant and Chinese Peasants die of starvation by the millions if scarcity is fake news? Everything has a growth/extraction capacity as well as a logistical capacity. Scarcity it most definitely real.

Holy fuck. You sound exactly like the conservative nutjobs who were threatening to take up arms while Obama was in office. They claimed to be patriots, too, waving guns and threatening sedition, all while proudly exclaiming they were going to “take back our country!” {from the brown people, democrats and dirty,…

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Feels bad, man, I’m sure.

I’ll show myself out.

I usually find Sharon Van Etten a little monotonous, but boy was that ever the right song for the moment. That one, The Veils & Trouble have been my faves so far. Oh yeah, The Cactus Blossoms, too!

Charlie Sheen? Roy Dotrice? James Garner? Gary Busey? Harry Dean Stanton?