I have an ongoing theory that the State of North Dakota doesn't actually exist.

Sorry for breaking the nearest window and flinging myself screaming through the empty hole. That's just my default response whenever I see 'facebook' and 'politics' in the same sentence.

And I will crush that Spider-Man. And then that other Spider-Man. And all the Spider-Men. Till I'M… The Spider-Mannnn!

I don't think that the failures of the United States military in Iraq and Afghanistan are an accurate indicator of American combat readiness and training. Instead, they reflect the inherent limitations of American military power in sectarian conflict and a multipolar world. The reality is that there are fundamental…

They really aren't, though. While it's a norm that's been eroded in recent years, the military leadership is discouraged from publicly interfering in politics. If the President orders the military to carry out a war, then they cannot go behind his back and undermine the democratically elected government. That would…

Plus, the fact that he's considered one of the best Imperial commanders might actually help explain why he isn't on the front lines of every battle. In Foundation, which George Lucas borrowed heavily from, whenever an Imperial commander gains too many victories, it invites fear that they'll become a threat to the…

Yeah, they make it pretty clear that Mandalorian Battle Armor fulfills a cultural function as well.

The show actually mentions that he had just been promoted to Grand Admiral when he is first introduced.

I'm not sure why you need an explanation for why he wasn't around in the original trilogy. It makes sense that Kanan and Ezra have to be spirited away by then, because the rebellion is such a small movement and force wielders are such a big deal. But the Empire is a sprawling, literally galaxy-sized entity, and…

Not to get too fantheory-ish here, but that would help explain Kylo Ren. It's kind of hard to accept Snoke as this shadowy master of the dark side when his apprentice turns out so whiny and useless. But if Snoke were just a front for Thrawn, then that would actually make a lot of sense. Thrawn may be a brilliant…

I don't think that's completely fair. Thrawn is tracking Dodanna's fleet, which he knows is en route to the base. So he tricks Kallus into sending a signal to the rebels, knowing that he can triangulate their location from those two data points. That's how he knew where the location of the planet was, not because a…

You, sir, have just won the internet.

Actually, I have to admit a bit of a shameless attraction to Tom Holland. Though in fairness, I'm only two years older than him. And about three years younger in emotional maturity.

Hey, Tom Holland can star in my Home of Cumming whenever he wants.

The problem is that many of them are in safe districts, so Tea Party challenges will turn more into a Ted Cruz situation than a Claire McKaskill one.

Yeah, but having social services taken away is the type of fucking over that constituents actually care about. I don't disagree that people are stupid, but in this case voter stupidity would work against them.

I'm an anthropologist, but my work is pretty technologically oriented. Basically I study social behavior to design better artificial intelligence algorithms. But honestly, it can be a little bit of a struggle to share my research with my colleagues. Weirdly enough, it's not the really old people who are the…

And I imagine that if you were in Congress, you would go to the trouble of consulting experts about legislation. I don't think that this type of ignorance is a reflection of that particular age group. It's more of something that I associate with Congress, and because of their age it tends to get manifested with…

I distribute code with collaborators over open-source projects like Git or University built frameworks. Academia doesn't have the money to compete with big content providers for high bandwidth allocation. Heck, even the big content providers know it . . . that's why companies like Google are against it. Where else…

But would you say the OP is missing the . . . core concept?