this whole scene was a bit of theatrics on her part to submit Jon into kneeling, because that's her thing (to appear ruthless and not weak). She came of a bit bitchy this time though, how about "let's get to know each other" before the show of authority?

for now he got his glass, but that's not what you could call an alliance. Besides what will happen with the queen if and when Jon wants the throne (because of what his brother will tell him)

yeah potato potato

agreed. In Kurdistan this is already in place with interesting results but I'd have to dig deeper to know to which extent (besides they're still at war, and propaganda is high on all sides). This is also a similar basis than Occupy / Indignados/ "night standing", and had been adopted to some extent in big cities in…

no chance they will all get along fine either. But they tend to better accept self-proclaimed leaders and discipline, even if they're not totally fine with it.

I have nothing against mocking religion, it's all about context. In a context where religion is a dominant force you definitely should try to fight it. In a context where religion is practiced by a (very much) discriminated minority, with absolutely no power, it's very often made in the name of racism, it's not fine.

this system I find appealing:

you do realise than even in the sentence "Conservatives are insufferable and liberals are smug"; liberals still have a very strong avantage?

The fact Le Pen used some economic arguments belonging more to the left is purely opportunistic on her part (it is very obvious when she says she wants Union learders striking to be considered as "terrorists"; and when all the people from her party in power repeatedly did nothing to repeal liberal projects). Given the…

it would appear at first glance that France is traditionnally more left sided than the US, (socialism and communism are historically a big thing here); but on a lot of "progressive" issues, it seems the US a bit ahead since a lot of those haven't really hit the core of the liberal agenda here. The "social-democracy"…

This thread hurts my head, because i'm not american, and to me "liberal" doesn't mean at all what it means for you. For me and probably any european "liberal" means being very right-wing about the economy (basically fuck the poors), and very moderate to conservative on other issues (moral, sexual, minorities,…

in a western world where muslims are treated pretty much like shit, yeah, sure, let's humiliate them some more, that's very "brave" (and it's not "the muslim faith" who will treatens you, as it doesn't exist; that's a few extremists). Also I'm french and I despise "Charlie Hebdo" which has become a racist pile of…

the show still makes it perfectly clears that it considers Cartman to be a gigantic asshole, and never a rolemodel. In fact while in the later seasons it kind of blurs in the first few seasons of the show the message it wanted to delivered was pretty clear, not nihilistic at all, and pretty moderate on all account. I…

the whole part about wholefoods and gentrification is indeed spot on
by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

because the "social justice movement" is a uniified thing (that has a weekly meeting, monday, at 5). There is no "social justice mouvement", there are people fighting and struggling for different causes or matters, that sometimes are vital to them. It's not a nice little hobby to occupy your rainy day.

"if you cannot argue with an idiot in defense of your beliefs and win, then you are either uninformed or wrong"
I couldn't disagree more. All beliefs come from affects; including those based on rational thinking, including yours if you think as them as perfeclty rational. If you want to persuade someone you're right…

well when I hear centrists these days I think of this:
https://thenib.com/centrist…

I kinda respect the fact they went to the oscars completely high on acid.

I think we should go back to a clear definition of non-mixity and "safe spaces" (if they are indeed the same thing) as a political tool used by opressed minorities to organise against their opression, not as a long term political project of appartheid in itself (the long term project being not needing safe space…

yes, I knew that, but the confusion is indeed real in this comment thread where everyone seems to cling to their own definition (and seemingly alt-right supporters side with people from the left based on the ambiguity of the term).