I appreciated the dude going for the “you’ll be on your deathbed and happy that you voted no” reverse psychology angle. But in reality I’m a pessimist and I think underneath Jeff “thank you for your informed advocacy” Flake’s surface is that GOP demon muttering under his breath “you think I’ll be happy I voted no,…

Seems like the life expectancy should be reversed... incredible how passive the U.S. is compared to elsewhere. Passing any of the awful bills and executive orders from this year would have resulted in all kinds of violence against leaders in 75% of the world. The people of the country most happy to use violence to…

I enjoyed the conversation, Ady. We won’t always agree, by I admire your courage and knowledgeable advocacy

That’s kinda how I read that. Hope I’m wrong, but no surprise if this doesn’t change a thing.

As an aside, I marvel at the fact that movies continue to ask whether humans are interested in fucking robots. Yes. They are. We settled this. Just stop asking.

I say this knowing that Alita came out in the ‘90s.

Those eyes are bad and unnecessary and those involved in that decision should feel bad.

“Does it bother you that I’m not completely human.”

WHY YES. YES IT DOES. You either need to be 20% less human or 20% more human.

You can’t prove someone wrong whose answer to any question is “because I said so.”

You don’t have him on for the same reason you don’t have Milo on: you won’t get anything of substance out of him.

All having him on your show does is bestow legitimacy to him where he deserves none.

You seem to be implying that a company CAN tell employees and/or penalize them for how they live their life

Businesses get bought and sold every day.

It always blows my mind that the Good Friday Agreement wasn’t even 20 years ago. That’s pretty much yesterday, historically speaking. The fears over all that reopening are incredibly valid.

You and me both...

I don’t want to live in this country anymore, and I’m ashamed to have served in its military.

Yep. I’ve said it ad nauseum on here, but the true test of someone’s character is when someone they like/love is accused of something heinous. The mental gymnastics people will go through to defend people they like (even ones they don’t know) is incredible.

What if we just left them alone? I know this might come off as a bit radical, I was thinking to myself recently that if they want nuclear weapons as a nuclear deterrent against the United States, maybe we should let them...but only with the support of two other nuclear states to oversee them. Let France and maybe…

Someone needs to explain age-old concept of “white man’s burden” to you. White guys leisurely discussing the cost in lives of “civilizing” another culture is... problematic to say the least.

As an independent nation, they are 100% free to develop whatever offensive or defensive technology they would like.

If someone has a real suggestion as to how to get NK to simmer down, without any loss of life, I’d love to hear it.

J.K. Rowling is probably the best argument ever for the death of the author. It’s increasingly clear that she holds herself to none of the ideals she wrote about. That doesn’t make the books bad, it just makes her bad.