Just remember that whenever you hear Gorka mentioned, that should be "White House national security advisor and confirmed fascist sympathizer Sebastian Gorka."

You have more faith in the consensuality of Neanderthal-Cro Magnon sex than I do.

I don't think you can call this a "random thing in the past" that doesn't really have anything to do with today's use of "identity politics". It's like "class warfare": a term that is often used disparagingly of any economic policy view even slightly left-of-center, but which also does originate on the left (in Marx,…

While I respect your perception of the term, that doesn't appear to be historically accurate. A quick glance at almighty Wikipedia indicates that "identity politics" was coined as a self-descriptor by civil rights and progressive groups in the sixties or seventies, with perhaps the first definition provided by a black…

Thanks for avoiding a knee-jerk response and being open to the idea of respectfully disagreeing. In a political coalition, different people and factions will always have different views on how different priorities should be weighted. That's fine. This is something we should discuss. It's the litmus/purity tests and…

I agree with all of that, but it doesn't really address my point, that "identity politics" has an unfortunate tendency to focus on issues that are more symbolic than substantial.

I would even be "OK" with Mueller getting fired if it was certain that Congress would reinstate him by naming him as head of their own investigation. As in, it would be an outrage, but it's the kind of outrage that might damage Trump more than our democracy.

I'm someone who thinks the Democratic party and liberal groups should focus less on identity politics. Not because I want to throw minorities under the bus, but because it too often seems to lose a sense of proportion and priorities, getting hung up on symbolic issues and political purity tests. For example, when…

Correction: It's not accurate to say that the population is declining in "the rest of the fully developed world." In western Europe, populations are growing in all the northern countries (it dipped briefly in Germany around 2010, otherwise they've been increasingly constantly everywhere), though much more slowly than…

And JFK was hopped up on an exciting cocktail of drugs throughout his time in office.

Let me reassure you: That article is nonsense.

He's not. Not quite.

Yes, I mean, that's terrible, but I'm very curious about this story. Did he pose as 16 to the same people for two years (as in, he pretended not to age for two years)?

Oh, you're a nut. Carry on, then.

It's a concrete example of how the precise behaviors you deny could possibly be justified under any circumstances can in fact, when put into a larger context, be quite excusable.

To maybe expand a little on that, while I liked Gone Home overall, in my opinion one weakness was that each story was a bit too straightforward and obvious.

That's definitely how I interpreted the voice-overs. At first I was a little confused, then I accepted it as a narrative device breaking realism, and then when I found the diary at the end it all clicked. It was one of the neatest bits of the whole thing for me.

I played it quite recently, and as far as I can tell I didn't miss anything major, so no.

Yeah, I got that his dad was a jerk (what was in that letter he wrote – "You can do better"?) and that something bad had gone down with the uncle when he was a child (the obvious guess is some kind of abuse, but as far as I can tell that remains speculation). Eh, sure, but I think his story overall is more about his…

Yes, yes, yes, no.