Assumed respectability and cordiality is a powerful tool, it really is.

Working hard how? In a two party system, seems like such people's options are limited. Obviously, they can do something during primaries, but otherwise, what?

I can't tell if you're serious - sorry.

Yes. My standards for judging leadership and national decisions is whether they are better or worse than Hitler.

I doubt Trump and his ilk think that deeply about theology. I suspect his thinking is more along the lines of "I'm rich, male, and white therefore I'm a Christian and have a free ticket to heaven already."

The legacy of homeschooling. The 1990s Pride and Prejudice was on the very short list of movies/shows that the homeschooled kids I knew were allowed to watch.

If anyone ever figures out how something becomes a fad, I'm sure whoever it is will be quite wealthy.

I thought it was smart about exploring toxic parenting in a grand comic-book way. Like Ego is an outsized version of the type of parent who is so self-involved, he can only love a child to the extent that the child is "like him." Gamora and Nebula are the children of a parent who played favorites taken to extreme…

Sure - but these immigrants had to filter through places filled with people from other countries (they didn't teleport to the "Midwest") and were altered by the experience. That's why the Midwest is smiley and Scandinavia is not. People who stayed didn't have to learn to deal with people from all over.

I appreciated that the movie was largely immune from "We must recapture the lightening in a bottle! More More More!" Syndrome. It felt like what I wanted. We were seeing these characters again on their next adventure. I also appreciated that the movie was really focused on a theme that worked so organically for all…

I'm not sure what your point is then. The point of the sketch is that people in oppressive states who don't suffer the oppression themselves are often blind to the sufferings of the oppressed. This blindness (and the fact that they passively benefit from the status quo) means that they don't offer useful assistance.…

I assume they were seeking allies back when they were marching against oppression (years earlier). And are the dudebros morons? They actually have to hear specific words like, "I don't like having my eye torn out, help please!"? If someone comes up to me panicking and saying that someone else is going to hurt them,…

I actually loved it a lot. I loved that it had a theme and explored it with the characters and plot in so many unique ways. The humor didn't always work for me (sometimes I felt like the humor pointlessly broke up the emotion of the scene), but otherwise, I thought it was great.

Wouldn't "your own plan" involve other people acting with you? Isn't the point of the sketch the frustration of people seeking allies against oppression who are instead faced with stupid, meaningless advice and inaction? If I ran up to you and said, "Help! I'm on fire!" and you responded with, "You know. People…

Serena Joy is a part of the system, she isn't the system. I think you missed the point of the sketch: That those with power and without fear will make gestures towards "help" through pointless advice and admonition but are otherwise willfully blind and supportive of the system that gives them the power and safety…

How? What would being "the architect" mean? Does that mean that all (adult) crime victims are actually to blame for their victimization?

10 years? At the last funeral I went to, there were still flowers being placed on the stones for babies who died 50 years before. Death monuments make sense. Being buried, yeah, not so much.

And yet… North Korea.

Won't someone think of the people who think dumb jokes are funny!? They already have so little, why take facile humor away?

The girl of course. Getting used to wearing a bra before having to use stuff with underwires and whathaveyou.