I don’t think there’s much reason to believe the galaxy had anywhere near as centralized government as we do. Most planets should be fine without the New Republic. The rich on those planets would still be rich.

If somehow Brussels was blown up tomorrow, I guess a lot of people would be scared, but the economies of…

It isn’t really a hypothetical as to whether Vader would pay off war profiteers and bounty hunters. (Spoiler alert for a 37 year old movie: he would).

Please don’t even joke about a new, even bigger death star. I don’t even want to think about the fact that JJ Abrams is probably going to do exactly that.

Remember how after 9/11 the president came on TV and told everyone to go shopping and live life like normal or else the terrorists win?

Or how America has seen two huge gun massacres this fall, and the 1% responded by organizing tax cuts for themselves? Just scale that up to a whole galaxy.

Canada’s immigration/ asylum system isn’t actually friendlier than ours. Trudeau is just less obviously a dick.

People made fun of that senator, but the internet actually is a series of tubes, and those tubes don’t exist without eminent domain and government subsidies. The tubes should be regulated.

Yes, this is all about small mom and pop isps.

I don’t want to specify my not-in-a-bubble credentials because it would be an unverifiable fact that you can’t do anything with. But no, I am not in a bubble. I am fully aware that violence against women is a widespread problem. Barriers to reporting and whether police ever act on reports are infinitely bigger causes…

On further reflection:

The guys saying things like “what, we can’t complement women anymore” are mostly being disingenuous.

You’re clearly not Facebook friends with any gun people. Literally every single news story leads to people saying “the problem isn’t guns. It’s culture / people’s hearts / rap music.”

I guess if Fox was getting sold anyway, Disney is not the worst buyer. At least it didn’t go to Comcast or Amazon.

Yes, I’m the enabler. Blaming rapists instead of blaming society at large and a million other bullshit excuses somehow enables them.

Unless she just came out of a bunker like Kimmy Schmidt, she probably figured out that the guy inviting her over for dinner might have had romantic intentions.

What a fucking prick. Either you’re a rapist or you aren’t. Shrugging it off as a product of how we’re all the problem doesn’t excuse shit. No, the problem isn’t all of us. The problem is rapists, harassers, and people who cover up for them.

I didn’t know being “unpleasant” was a crime.

I anticipate no unintended consequences at all from woke race realism.

By firing this guy, is Netflix saying they did believe the accusations, but just weren’t interested in doing anything?

Dude should run for senate.

In fact, American drinking culture is different than in other countries, and the legal drinking age is a big part of that. By the time you’re 20 in, say, Germany, you know or should know from experience the difference between having a drink and getting drunk. When you’re 20 in America, most of your drinking experience…