But you don’t employ Oxford commas? :(

I’m actually lucky enough that WAMU IS my local station. And I’m a proud member. They’ve done such a good job over the past several years making it more than just a “national” channel. They’re focusing a great deal on local issues in Maryland, Virginia and the District, especially education, transportation and poverty…

1) The Ropucha Class does have shipboard air defenses (critical to an amphibious craft); however, it is a very common doctrine among as many nations I’m aware of to deploy MANPADS as well as other shoulder-mounted heavy weapons when transiting an area where threat has been assessed. You have to remember that no…

That was 25 years ago, before Russia was militarily intervening in the affairs of its neighbors. If a country wishes to join NATO, that’s between them and the alliance. Russia gets no say.

Every member signed up knowing the requirements. It's not our job to finance all of NATO.

They've been the same from the beginning. Every member nation should spend 2% of its GDP on defense spending. That's not asking much.

But NATO has never been about offensive actions. It is purely a mutual defense treaty. NATO membership has probably prevented many small conflicts with Eastern European and Balkan states.

NATO is not the same as the EU. They have quite different goals, the biggest difference being that NATO isn't about economics. While it is true that individual members have their own goals and strategies, it's NATO that helps guide those strategies. The biggest problem with NATO today is that the US and a few Eastern…

The house arrest that he is currently under seems reasonable. At least we know he’s securely confined to his home with the mandated ankle monitors.

That’s your evidence? Look, I don’t like the disproportionate Israeli influence in this country and the amount of aid we give them. But that link is tinfoil hat nonsense. The operation you hypothesize would be the most complicated plot in the history of the planet, and nobody confessed, and what is the goddamn point…

I’m ready for him to be booted. He’s hijacking my threads.

Holy shit, Syrians are Israeli propagandists now?

Someone needs to get Bender a drink, stat.

That guy’s a racist conspiracy theory nut who gets all of his “news” from Russian state media. He never makes any sense, and if you question him he’ll just start whining about Jews.

Huh?

Lots of women have rape fantasies. Please remember that kink shaming is not okay, and neither acting in nor viewing videos simulating rape is an endorsement of actual rape.

No joke. I am considering moving out of my house today as one of my housemates just said, “Good! I saw those videos of PP selling baby brains and they deserve to be brought down.”

Hell, I’d like to thank institutional racism. Wouldn’t be here today without it.

Not really. This can still be their new canon first face to face encounter without wrecking the scene from Empire. The dialogue in the scene is as follows:

Luke: You killed my father.
Vader: I’ve killed very many fathers. You’ll have to be more specific.

Later in the fight Luke confirms he was on the Death Star and that…

That, and the fact that his (previous) master beat the crap out of him.