Kesha and Lady Gaga were edgy and cool at the same time Katy Perry came on the scene. Perry has always been the lame one playing catch up.

Let’s be exceedingly clear. The .5% of the population (if that’s the number) that identifies as transgender is not dominating the political discourse. Shitty ultra-right-wing assholes are using the LGBTQ2+ population as pawns in their terrible culture war. That’s what is dominating the media. 

From watching about an hour total spread across three or four seasons of these three judges, I can say that the contestants are way worse than before, the production value looks like a bad copy of Kazakhstan Idol, and Lionel Richie is a good dude who’s trying to be positive all around, Luke Bryan wishes he was Lionel…

She’s so out of touch with common people, she has no idea of what issues they face.

Only about .5% of the population identifies as transgender.  Why are .5% of the population dominating our political discourse if the politicians are supposed to be addressing real problems their constituents face?  If this truly is a democracy shouldn’t they focus instead on helping the majority of citizens instead of…

I’m thinking maybe she just ended up mixing her messages a bit here. We had the bit about the suitability of the trophy for stabbing the oppressors. Okay, good. Then, she gives a salute/battle cry to vajayjay-havers, using “up the vajayjay!” in the sense of “up the revolution!, while thrusting the trophy triumphantly…

I just got back from a week in New York City and can attest to several terror-filled cab rides, and I am not easily terrorized. I swear, those drivers come within an inch or two of other drivers all the time!

toojayzee is a troll. Just dismiss their comments.

Thanks for the context. All too often, in click-bait driven online posts, the largest result of an action are pinned as the largest, or sole, cause of an action. It would have been all too easy to simply say Disney was playing hardball against someone who picked a fight that threatened profits and curtailed business…

Mr. Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes said “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” Too many individuals, however, want the civilization at a discount.

Taxes are proportional to the opportunity some locations allow, through culture, higher education, better living, access to huge workforce and prospective jobs.

People tend to forget that the characters in Star Wars haven’t seen Star Wars.

It’s all made up.  You can literally say anything you want, even that 9,000 are hiding out on a moon somewhere.

I’m so tired of hearing about this affair. It is boring and commonplace, and it was probably some producers idea on the dl. 

They weren’t “all over the galaxy.” There were about 10,000 of them. There are THOUSANDS of planets, with trillions of inhabitants. You really expect everyone in the galaxy to have seen and know about a group of people that’s less than the population of Rhode Island?

Some 10k Jedi across an entire galaxy is not much. Han Solo could have lived his wole life during the height of their power and only ever heard rumors about them.

He had heard of the Jedi, he just thought they were charlatans, e.g., “A lot of simple tricks and nonsense.” And there could be trillions of people, like Din and Carga, who know nothing about the Jedi or the Force. The stories just tend to focus on people who are better informed. 

It was also an original idea that jedi could just have kids they could bequeath their laser swords, as with Anakin and Luke. The history of Star Wars is one of constant revision, both inside and outside the fictional universe.

exactly this, I think folks get too caught-up on the OT and Luke being the “only one,” able to defeat Vader (and another)...while ignoring all the times Lucas would swerve from “cannon,” and the million ways to interpret it, ways Lucas changed himself.

It makes sense that you don’t get 100% on stamping out thousands of highly trained warriors. It bugged me in the movie that Order 66 was so complete. It’s a big galaxy.