Third party votes ~wouldn’t have made a difference~. You wanna blame someone? Blame Mook, Clinton, Schumer, and everyone who who thought that the Obama Coalition would just turn up

Third party votes ~wouldn’t have made a difference~. You wanna blame someone? Blame Mook, Clinton, Schumer, and everyone who who thought that the Obama Coalition would just turn up

Uh, giving people you’re not actually at war with warning is SOP.

Nah, one of the main appeals of Far Cry is that since 2 it’s actively attacked the power fantasy by structuring narratives around the idea that nothing the player actually did was important at all, that the player had no idea what they were actually fighting for or what was really going on, etc, etc. You become…

It kinda seems like it goes with the territory, right? Hylians are kind of the shrimpiest folks around barring the Kokiri/Koroks.

I get that it’s very very very very very very hard to climb all the way down off that high horse, but maybe actually listen to what sex workers and academics/professionals who engaged in fighting Sex Trafficking actually have to say about how this makes sex work less safe, investigations into trafficking more…

There is nothing “Pro Life” about the death penalty. Williamson is an advocate for the death penalty.

There is nothing “Pro Life” about the death penalty. Williamson is an advocate for the death penalty.

It’s double-weird because reigning Zora monarchs are almost always depicted as fat and large, in contrast with the other Zora. Why wouldn’t the Zora Queen in Link Between Worlds be at least the size of the King in Ocarina of Time?

Serious question: Is Francis just Elizabeth Bruenig in a rubber mask and big hat?

I disagree, the fact that the gameplay is so smooth and facilitates the player’s power fantasy is important thematically, as it helps ease the player through situations where the Rookie joins up with increasingly unhinged and violent militias. It’s like Spec Ops: The Line. It becomes increasingly clear that what…

Duckie’s behaviour, honestly, makes a lot more sense if you go with what’s apparently Ringwald’s reading of the situation: that Duckie was a closeted boy with few friends, no romantic prospects, etc who is just pretending to be straight/smitten with his best friend.

The why is actually pretty easy: it’s just how they did things. Look at what happened when Vicky Triponey tried to discipline players for behaviour that was nowhere near as scandalous.

For every ten idiot celebrities there’s a Joana Lumley or Cynthia Nixon who is actually smart, has some experience of real activism, and probably would do a better job in office than a groomed corporate pol.

Unless Hamas was firing on them, then no, they don’t.

But the Gormenghast books offer a third option, and in that respect I think that they owe something to the Dadaist interpretation of the early twentieth century. You have the failed traditions, you have the callow, wicked authoritarian who repurposes them, and then you have Titus who has the courage to leave. To…

It does when the country’s an ethnostate practicing apartheid nominally in the name of millions of people across the world who disapprove. Also you kinda seem pretty ignorant of the tension between Israel and ‘Diasporist’ groups like Jewdas. You should probably read up on that. hth.

Or... maybe it’s just the political culture of israel after the assassination of Rabin legitimized the far-right settler movement? I mean we live in a world where Eli Yishai, speaking as Interior Minister, proclaimed that Israel “Belongs to the White Man”, where pro-settler counter-protestors in Tel Aviv sport…

I uh, notice you’re not including the tweet that that’s a reply to, which kind of contextualizes the joke. Y’know, Israel using a comically small amount of money to buy up a sewage plant and a UN vote...

I think you’re selling Jewdas short. Their pamphlet on criticizing zionism without legitimizing antisemitism puts them streets ahead of both Labour and the Tories when it comes to meaningfully discussing Israel.