When will there be the political will to fight the American Taliban? I’m not talking politically - these people are literally hurting people. It’s past time to fight them with guns and shit. Step 1: dishonorably discharge any and all service members who will not renounce Evangelical Christianity and other repressive,…

OP said nothing at all about whether or not the current article should be published. Relax.

Yes, “standing” is the key here. Definitely. You are a very smart person. The reason Kyle Rittenhouse was allowed to murder protesters in cold blood and get off scott free with a laughable stand your ground defense is because he was standing, and the reason that Marc Wilson was convicted for defending himself from…

We don’t send them, they are drawn.

“If you put me in Marc’s shoes, there’s no way that I would’ve been prosecuted. Odds are I would’ve been given a medal — probably gotten a parade in my name. It’s unreal how he was treated just because he’s a little bit more tan than I am,” he told Yahoo! News.

Always worth considering that our own perspectives are not universal

They actively filter out empathetic and intelligent applicants to local police forces. The rot in policing is systemic, from top to bottom. It cannot be reformed, and a handful of “good” officers can’t even begin to turn back the overwhelming tide of bad ones. The only solution is to dissolve all police forces and…

Persuasive. What “legitimate” criticism of RoP is being unfairly characterized as racist or sexist?

“Social justice? Why is it even in this document? What does it even mean, aside from it being a term politicians use to buy votes,” he said.

This is the same Lindsay Graham who enthusiastically supported Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination and confirmation after voting had already started in the 2020 election, when literally just over two years earlier he promised not to do exactly that and even said at the time to “use my words against me”. He doesn’t give a…

“But apparently, since the genders were reversed, it’s fine right?”

People are only calling racist or sexist criticisms racist or sexist.

My grandpa was born in the 20s, and his teacher succeeded in beating the left-handedness out of him. I mean, not really, but he did write with his right hand his entire life. When my mom told me that story in the 80s I was just baffled. I still can’t comprehend it now. I truly, sincerely hope that in fifty or sixty…

Five 8-episode seasons is 40 episodes, while three 13-episode seasons is 39 episodes. Basically the same (on streaming or premium cable, you can fart around with run times to get those the same length pretty easily). So suppose you’re an executive giving the greenlight to one of these. Do you a) spread the budget out…

It’s for budget/quality reasons. They have a certain budget, and they can use that to make 22-25 really cheap episodes, or 8-10 higher quality ones. Lost was a fairly high budget show by the standards of the time, but it also didn’t require a lot in the way of sets, costumes, or special effects (though those did come…

Yes, I assume that. Because we live in a democracy and if the king or queen tried to actually exert power we would just ignore him or her and carry on as though they hadn’t done so, until we were able to formally strip them of their last vestiges of authority.

By most accounts he’s not really all that interesting (as subjects of movies go). He’s a pretty normal guy, in a nerdy way, and his life hasn’t really had a lot of drama in it. This is by far the best treatment for a Weird Al biopic.

They don’t have actual power. They are figureheads. The ostensible power that they have would be stripped from them immediately if they ever attempted to use it.

No, that’s the point. She was literally not allowed to take political stances. Could she have done more? Possibly. But she had no clout or influence. She was just a really rich person whose consent was technically required to pass laws, but who was not allowed to withhold that consent or to influence in any way the…

That’s fair, and I agree that ME3 did weapons best. The improvement I would have made there is having all weapons findable in the missions instead of only purchasable in stores (DLC weapons I mean).