I cited an academic paper. That’s not “bad faith”. You’re now just smearing me for daring to know more than you and being confident because I put in that work.

So you just made all those statements without an iota of evidence huh?

Based on what information? The most recent polling data I’ve seen has it in the mid-40s. That’s not “firmly against”. That’s before the media focus reaches largely tuned out voters. The idea that the issue is “firm” in voter’s mind doesn’t match any evidence I’ve seen.

The point of an impeachment process is to drive public opinion. I’ve been basically shouting this online for weeks now, but it DOES NOT MATTER if it fails due to Republican intransigence. Force them, on the record, to say “this criminal-looking behavior doesn’t bother us”. Hang Trump around their necks before 2020.

His new party to “distance from racists” is littered with the exact same racists the old one is littered with. Imagine being dumb enough to fall for such a mediocre rebranding. 

Very few people talk off the cuff without a ton of filler like that. It’s a well-documented linguistic phenomenon. It serves multiple purposes. Some people train themselves to just pause because it comes off as more authoritative, but it’s not really a useful skill. I should know, I do. On a good day I don’t use much…

I’m not sure you can do any finale without it feeling cliche. Every ending has been done, somewhere, in books or TV or movies. There’s only so many ways to end a story. All the creative stuff is usually in the middle. The end, well, it has to end.

This is niche knowledge, but there’s a genre of Early Irish literature called an immram, basically a “voyage”, usually to the Otherworld. One of the surviving ones is the Immram Brain (the Voyage of Bran).

“Everybody in the game wants to make friends to achieve their goals”

That works great, if you have friends who play WoW, are on a well populated server, are on when other people are on, and can find people to make a group with.

I’m no fan of the “run a dungeon without typing a single word” thing that’s so common now, where everyone is expected to know every part of the dungeon and people rush it, but the counterpoint is not “wait 35 minutes in trade chat waiting to build a group”. Marking trash mobs in BC and still wiping because a pull went…

I definitely forget the completed quests thing, and I played a lot of Vanilla back in the day. Memory is a tricky thing, and years of something different just tends to get projected back.

That looks like one of those awful “fashion keffiyeh” some American brands were trying to sell. It’s both racist and a fashion crime. 

This is basically white supremacist fantasy history cruise. Also included on the tour is David Barton, a man so incredibly incompetent at his far-right revisionism that even many conservatives call him a charlatan.

Iran has a lot of smart and experienced people reading every US statement and action for overt and covert meanings. The US also has a stable of such people, but you don’t listen to them and indeed have harassed many of them when they don’t agree with your statements or your partisan underlings.

It worked well at slowing invaders, particularly nomadic peoples who relied on their horses, so that the Chinese dynasties could muster an army to deal with them.

This is a reminder that walls do not work, and that no matter how many strange design elements he tries to add from his fevered imagination that will not change. Walls of this size do not stop movement. They didn’t do so even in ancient history.

If you can’t treat the public with respect and are so concerned with protecting your own, you need to be fired. I’m tired of cowardly self-interested people with badges. You take on risk to protect the public. You don’t get to act with impunity or irrationally just because you’ve decided you’re on the side of good.

Alright. I’m done. You are incapable of admitting your error and seem to have no issue with huge leaps and intellectual dishonesty. Jumping from partisan identity to cults is the kind of thing someone pretending they know psychology does when they’re desperate. These are not the same things, even if there is overlap.

You have no fucking clue about human psychology if you think that’s how partisan identity works. You descend deeper into charlatanism. You have literally no evidence to support your position, you’re now just making appeals to authority and hoping I’m not smart enough to notice. Just because you think they “look bad”…