They have more power, but probably not as much as you think, not compared to the power the chinese government is prepared to flex here. It’s not out of the question for lebron to be blackballed over this should he throw his own economic interests over the side and oppose the chinese regime - and, really, lebron’s not…

“Skintangibles”

That’s that’s my failson, man.

Even if trump were going somewhere his replacement would be equally horrible.

I dunno about biden, but you definitely want sandusky to be out of touch ...

Trump will still be running for the 2020 presidential race in january 2021, so ...

Yes.

So whether your actions are a crime depends on whether your targets take you seriously or not? This seems like a problematic standard ...

No, you’re right, modern american hoi polloi are too lazy to actually fight for their own existence - you just don’t grasp that this is actually worse than the prospect of civil war. What that means is that when american government goes from civil oligarchy to democidal totalitarianism nobody will lift a finger. The…

“I firmly believe the biggest unnoticed problem in our culture right now is loneliness”

It’s weird that the Chinese government is trying to promote its taichi phonies alongside actual martial arts. They seem to be fairly sophisticated orwellians, so you think they’d recognize sooner or later their Tai Chi phonies are going to wind up getting their asses kicked in the octagon by international fighters who…

Go pound sand.

Sergeant Pepper, on the other hand, was merely a member of The Stolen Valor Club.

Whereas you believe in the limitless tolerance of evil, extended solely to members of your own tribe. When’s the last time you demanded rehabilitation be offered to someone you considered your enemy? Yeah, that’s what I thought. When’s when’s the last time you agreed redemption should be denied to someone on your own…

But those people think the blood price has already been paid for them, and no matter how expensive a price is it’s cheap for you if you’re not the one picking up the tab. And sure, christians are asked to give up their mortal lives for christ, are even called slaves of christ, and different strains of the religion put…

Pogs? Okay, Morty.

HURR DURR was indeed your response to his claim of tanking. And you’re only proving him right: he says attendance is declining because teams lack talented players, you say if people don’t appreciate teams that lack talented players they should stop watching baseball. Are you beginning to intuit a causal relationship…

When planning a course of action, it doesn’t matter what you need; it only matters what you can reasonably expect to get. Starting on a campaign of world domination at all was a dumbass move. Hitler did unreasonably well and he still needed even more improbable success than he got in order to have succeeded.

Speaking as an outside observer, it’s pretty obvious that your need to push your agenda so overrides any minimal commitment you have to honesty that it’s you, ironically, who’s incapable of contributing productively to any discussion, and that you trot out lines like “back-benchers such as yourself can contribute zero…

No, we certainly shouldn’t fix our system so that it operates as it was intended to in the 18th/19th centuries. The system the founding fathers created was dubious at best, morally and practically speaking, even for their own time - they would probably have been better off just copying the system they came from rather…