Why would you ask that? Don’t you know that jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams ...

Given your attitude problem, why should anyone want to work for you, excluding a lack of viable alternatives? Are you actually a hiring manager, or are you pretending for rhetorical purposes?

Of course turnover in the officiating ranks is increasing. This is the standard plan for undermining institutions, as brought to you by the GOP: shriek constantly that the authority you hate is corrupt, interfere with its functions as far as you are able, wait until your disrespect discourages people from wanting to…

Silver gets no credit here, not just because his motives were reprehensible, because he should never have been trying to thread that needle in the first place, but because he did nothing. He flailed around like an incompetent goof and is being bailed out because the chinese government, thanks to the total cowardice…

But it’s the characterization, the emotional, psychological content that gives the mcu its draw, what distinguishes it from run-of-the mill comic adaptation, which lives off fantastic suspense - and that dichotomy should give you pause, because if cinema based on plot rather than characterization isn’t “real cinema”…

If men were angels, or robots or something, then no, they would never need external motivation and would consistently perform their functions to the literal best of their ability. Does that sound like anyone you know, in your real life? Even michael jordan had to invent beefs with other people if nobody had…

Is it dishonest to tell your girlfriend “I’m yours, baby” without adding the caveat, “until someone better comes along?” If you have a reputation along those lines, if that’s just what you do, does that make it less dishonest? What if, instead of dumping your girlfriend after a year or two as you’d usually do, you…

Actually, no human being is capable of making rational decisions - not you, not “the impoverished” (bad sign you’re othering them like that), not anyone. Homo sapiens is a rationalizing animal, not a rational animal. The rational choice paragdim you’re operating from is a pernicious falsehood.

The brothers moved to mount vernon for employment purposes, as in being paid to play? Talk about radical honesty!

Yeah, she’s not attempting a rational calculation as to how briles will affect property values; that’s just her way of expressing her hope that things will be better, and her moral values are so stunted and warped the only way she can even express such a hope is “my property values will increase.” 

If lebron actually believed what you’re pretending he might have believed then he was an absolute fucking moron to ever travel to china in the first place, and he’s got no standing to complain about anyone else’s behavior, trivial as it was compared to his own responsibility for the situation he put himself in.…

Oh, the irony of you virtue signalling your superiority over the people you despise by accusing them of virtue signalling. Everything you’ve said here describes you to a tee - you are a stupid coward with a false sense of superiority who wouldn’t have the guts to say any of the stuff he’s typed here, relatively mild…

Yeah, your line of reasoning is bullshit pretty much any time it’s trotted out. Most of the world’s successful political revolutions were sparked by resistance by people who could never have reasonably expected to accomplish anything themselves. This applies to more that political protest, in fact; if you reject…

The second half of your statement would bring down the full weight of the chinese government, though. Might as well go full hong kong if you’re going to dip your toe in the water. The first half would work, except it is obviously disingenuous; anybody who actually cared to could learn enough about the hong kong…

Well, we *have* been holding out for a herro ...

“Either way, the Cardinals are in the deepest of shit now, down 3–0 with another two games to play in Washington.”

First of all it’s pretty fucking patronizing to the chinese people to suggest that the poor little dears can’t know the bounties of western culture unless we engage them. They are citizens of the world just as much as we are, dumbass, despite their government's attempts at censorship, so ratchet your racism back a few…

Does it also apply to people like you who engage in bad-faith criticism of the critics of the nba? Far as I can tell you've literally never been a decent person, so either you are super oppressed or totally depraved. Care to tell us your life story?

What does that have to do with anything? If you stick up only for people who look like you, you are the worst form of scum that crawls this earth, and your wokeness is hypocrisy. Intersectionality is a non-negotiable tenet of progressivism, because if people who “look like” lebron refuse solidarity with anyone else,…

What a pantload, Tristan. Neither the chinese government nor any of our other foes will refrain from pushing the overton window in their preferred direction, in your terminology they will refuse to ease up on their own versions of “cancel culture”, if we do. Unilateral disarmament does not work. Of course you already…