Meera Reed is the only reason any of these SOBs is alive at this point.

Shut up.

I keep remembering that Olenna actually KILLED Joffrey and it makes the burns all the more savage. She's like, I murdered your little shit of a son, but I don't think I am totally finished gathering you yet.

Technically, we did get a scene in Dorne. And it was pretty damn cool.

I am glad other people were having sex-feelings about Dayne.
He was bae, cool and awesome…so of course he was not long for this world.

I don't think this can be emphasized enough. It's something people really don't get, because we love Jon and get his plan and all.

Yeah, Feig is such a dick for saying that what he was going through was the same as or worse as rape victims.

I wouldn't say "great," but I do think it gets dragged a little too much. It's no where near as bad as people made it out to be.

Every time I go down into those comments it's like a race to the bottom to see who can be the sassiest, most smarmy person on the internet. And the drek is always heavily starred and at the top.

Nah. Very prominent in local politics. Really they're centrists that just so happen to be in the South.

Yeah, I agree. ????

We call em "Dixiecrats" down here.

Not necessarily a rebuttal, but in America we often demand that our feminists be anti-racist but very seldom do I see the demand that our anti-racists also be feminist. Despite being 51% of the population women's rights often are forced to take a back seat to other social justice narratives; this being a perfect…

Hence the reason I added the disclaimer? Regardless of veracity or belief, the characters in these stories are Hebrew not Arab. Even if you regard the characters as entirely fictional (which is fine) there's an argument to be made that they should reflect their cultural antecedents especially in light of the fact…

Koestler was attempting to show Europeans that Jews were also basically European so there was nothing to hate. Unfortunately, he re-wrote and erased a lot of Jewish history in the process providing amo to people who claim that Jews have no "real" connection to the Middle East.

Yes, the Khazar theory has pretty much been debubked. Koestler was attempting to provide an antidote to anti-semitism in Europe moreso than providing an accurate historical record. Well meaning but really off.

I am generalizing, but based on what I've read form geneticists like Harry Ostrer, the genetic links are closer than most people think. Even with the inter-marriage, a lot of Jewish communities in Europe remained culturally and geographically isolated.

Close in apparence to Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews, who yes, are hard to distinguish from Arabs to most westerners. Even so, Ashkenazi (white) Jews have more genetically in common with Arabs than Europeans. There are also Arabs who a very "white-passing" depending on what country they are from. I have a Lebanese friend who…

Moses, Noah, Jesus, Joshua and co. were not "Arab" (whether you believe the Bible is real or not).

Pour some out.