Ok, that was a bit unfair. So here’s the deal: Your two criteria for this to work is: 1.) if I am not a stranger, and 2.) if I were to threaten you with making false allegations.

I am a huge celebrity with alot of money. I am consciously and purposely telling you this in order to control you into agreeing with me. Therefore, you must agree with me now.

Yes yes, but again, you are giving too little weight to a person’s own agency. If I were to tell you I was actually a famous person with a lot of money in order to win this argument, would you then be compelled to just give up and say I was right?

I think you’re taking what defines a power imbalance a bit far. While a celebrity would have more influence and power over the average person, that does not mean that this “power imbalance” automatically removes the agency of that average person.

They understand it about as well as they do the second amendment, so that’s hardly surprising.

Agreed. Though to be fair, complaining about other, better pirates seems like pirate-like behavior too.

People who took the time to read this article and care enough to comment. You, apparently.

This is only partly true. If you watch high-tier matches or even pro games, Widows tend to appear often enough in both attack and defense. A talented Widow can completely dominate a round.

Huh. Coincidentally, the most bloodthirsty gun nuts among my old airsoft buddies are a couple doctors and my sister in law nurse is always super excited when she has to write disaster/calamity reports for work.

Well said.

I’ll say. Taking someone’s brownies without permission is a serious breach of communal refrigerator etiquette. You monster.

Could just be Russians again. Seems more plausible at this point.

He sold the United States a wall.

I hate to defend what is obviously a poorly implemented fighting system but to be absolutely fair, I suspect the more experienced people in HEMA will point out that the way they’d fight in a sparring match with blunt swords is probably going to look very different should they attempt to use the real thing.

Because eventually, some racist teacher will gun down an unarmed black kid and claim he was on drugs or “going for his waistband” or something.

Given that schools are now being treated like warzones, are you at least getting hazard pay to go with the new gun-friendly environment?

Oh, damn it. Good call.

Trump remarried twice. The man’s about about as Catholic as MB’s Cock. And I’m not talking about the OP.

An oddly appropriate opinion for someone naming himself after a character that died realizing his life’s work was a pointless waste of time.

I guess this is the answer to Wednesday’s gaffe where Trump accidentally blamed guns and expressed a desire to keep them away from crazy people. Took them long enough. I was worried they might start behaving like normal people for a while there.