Her beef was with her (partly paranoid, partly justified) assumption that Westeros—its people, commoners and lords both—is rejecting her. 

There’s some “shoulda-woulda’s” to all the dragon riding. On the ground they look pretty great. Flying solo they look great too. The Loot-Train Attack was seamless. The white north - as a background - may just be unforgiving for FX.

It is if you are a politician trying to get your message out in 2019. Twitter is a shithole, but Trump and Ocasio-Cortez are proof that if you can’t navigate that shithole you no longer make the cut for the big show

“The shock of realizing exactly how fucked my parents’ generation made our world ON FUCKING PURPOSE hit me like a ton of bricks.”

I think individuals of any race can be racist. I think we have all seen or directly experienced evidence of such. I fully recognize institutional and systemic racism operate differently and are best viewed through lens of power dynamics. Yet I don’t believe that approach discounts the ability of individuals of any…

I don’t understand how there is “no such thing as WhiteFace or reverse racism”. Everyone is capable of racism, it’s the fact that white people have the power to practice their racism in the worst ways. We can’t really believe that only some races are capable of racism and not others.

I expected to argue, but no... This last is legit. 

Mr. Robot!

Context is everything. Ted Cruz isn’t a tone-deaf phony because he’d quote Watchmen or any of the other pop culture he claims to like. He’s a tone deaf phony because he has a long history of being a hypocrite, of trying to look tough rather than accomplishing anything; because he’s often been spectacularly clueless in…

Yeah...I think you’re looking a little TOO deeply into this. It’s a quote relevant to the context of the discussion, it’s not her saying “I’m Rorschach, bitches!!”

Isn’t the point explicitly that he COULD have died there ... and that’s what his life is, was, and forever will be? Believing there’s a definitive answer as to that particular scene in Holsten’s IS controversial, and it always will be.

I mostly take this approach as well; going a little further I’d say that Chase is telling us it doesn’t matter if Tony lives or dies at that point. He’s already a monster, he’s not going to change, so either he dies there in the diner as a horrible person or dies later as a horrible person. 

What I don’t get: why people get so bent out of shape about it. Isn’t the whole “24 frames per second” deal just a construct of the fact that cameras were hand cranked during the silent movie era? So we only ‘think” 24 frames is more cinematic because we’ve been conditioned to think so with no real weight behind it?

It’s tone deaf because of the context. Barging in to say “Okay, but these are good tips!” when discussing things black people had/have to do in order to avoid all manner of trouble from citations to lynching is incredibly tone deaf. I’m sorry you’re incapable of understanding that.