It’s nice to want to think that way, but that’s not how war is measured. If success in war was measured that way by all sides, we wouldn’t have any war at all, but there’s always one side that’s willing to sacrifice lives to make war happen, which is how they all get started.

The worst way to revitalize a military is to spend all your funds on projects that are so terribly “designed by committee” that they can’t even perform basic tasks. The F-35 got so much mission creep in its design, that the entire initial premise of the plane got lost.

I tried, but I was in no condition to do it. In the first week of August, I was right up to the line of a suicide attempt, and wound up hospitalized for a weekend of observation. I was an absolute mess, and the last thing I could do was try and talk about Trump with my family at length.

There have been a few around me for sale in the last couple years, but not that many. And there aren’t any at all, now. Truly sad. I sold mine to a kid from Fiji back in early 2000. I hope it ran a long life beyond me.

My first car (at 24, not 16 sadly) was an ‘86.5 S12 hatch with the CA20E and I absolutely loved that little car. If I had the space and ability to acquire a nice one today, I probably would. It had great looks (IMO) ran well, could be repaired relatively easily, and had great visibility. Here’s a picture of mine the…

I actually had some people tell me that I came across as a know-it-all because I used capital letters and punctuation on IRC. That was the only thing they could point to.

I refuse to use text/message/chat “shorthand” unless it’s limited on text capacity, or for sarcasm. Whenever possible, I text from my desktop PC as well, and will definitely send a paragraph at a time. Information is key, information must be conveyed clearly and with as much skill as possible.

Any flub that she made could be reasonably expected to have been part of the script, Spicer is that fucking terrible.

Sounds a bit like the way the Phaeton’s air conditioner works, with the dash having panels that flip up to expose vents when the car cools down at first, and then when it’s maintaining the temperature the vent covers drop back down and the whole top of the dashboard is perforated to let this smooth breeze blow…

I wouldn’t say Cameron missed it, I’d say he just didn’t want to tell that kind of story. Alien had one tone, Aliens had a different one in contrast to what we often expect of sequels today. It’s hard for me to think of many sequels that take the thematic style of the first film and then so cleanly flip it on its head…

Stay classy. You’re doing the Don’s work there.

I know, right? Those pesky, reliable liberal voters that’ve been there since the early 90's. We’re so awful.

Agreed. Lots of them, for a few months before the election and not just in the last few days. And we need to make sure that people know not to get too confident, and rally people in every district in every state. Show them that bending to the will of right wing extremists will cost them dearly.

I’m not saying it’s worth less than nothing, and you’re right, it’s a start. I just hope that the number of people who will be truly active afterward will be at least somewhat higher than the people who were already active beforehand. What bothers me is that there’s definitely a history of these protests being easily…

When I see some actual progressive victories following these kind of protests, I’ll be wrong and happily so. Attacking me wins you nothing, and wins the right plenty, as they get to watch infighting and consider it a victory. I never said protests were bad, I never said all protesters weren’t trying, I just said…

Then why are you responding to me?

I mean stay home from the protests if they won’t vote, but yes. It would be vastly preferred that they get out and vote.

And voting. Don’t forget voting.

If I lived someplace where standing up would accomplish something? Yeah, I think I would. (Though this particular weekend I was taking care of a sick boyfriend, so I probably would have passed.)

Good, and I really hope so. It’s just unfortunate and disheartening that the history of mass protests like this has just not been particularly productive for our side over the last 20 years or so. I have absolutely no problem with the people who get out and protest and then make those calls and write those letters to…