Alright, I am wrong then. I was under the impression that the entire controversy was on the basis of this statement released by her campaign, which was passed around twitter with the clarifying line “The US government has finally released the long-classified 28 pages from the 2002 Congressional Report, which have…

Yeah, I agree that they will get a surge from general discontent with the establishment in general and the two candidates in particular. I guess I wouldn’t necessarily dismiss all of that surge as voters so uninformed that they haven’t bothered to determine the general platform of the party they’re defecting to. Nor…

I’m probably marginally more sympathetic to third party voters than you are - it is, for example, confusing to me that third party voters, who do at least vote, get the overwhelming brunt of these “incredible luxury” comments when a full 45-50% of the voting age population doesn’t vote at all. However, if this was…

Yeah, I’m willing to believe that both issues were brought up to cynically pander to lunatics who would choose to interpret any critical statement about 9/11 or the FDA as in support of their lunacy, though if that’s the case it was one of the worst political calculations in an election season full of mind-blowing…

I definitely agree that there are plenty of people who will go third party this time out of pure dislike of Trump/Clinton, but I also think there are plenty of people who have sincerely held leftist or libertarian politics and support the Green or Libertarian parties generally for that reason. In either case, I don’t…

But aren’t third party voters voting more for their support of a given party’s platform than the idea that a given third party candidate will actually be POTUS? I don’t think a single sane human being believes Johnson or Stein have any chance of winning.

Not a Jill Stein stan by any means, but I’m confused by the truther interpretation of her 9/11 comments. I’m under the impression she’s calling for a more strenuous examination of the role of the Saudis in 9/11 and of intelligence community failures, not attempting to suggest “Bush did 9/11!!!”. Am I wrong?

No, because I don’t think publishing something that I disagree with the newsworthiness of is illegal.

I like HamNo a lot generally, but strongly disagreed with him on this. I think there’s a difference between what the public may be interested in and what is in the public interest, which is to say, what has value. But even putting that distinction aside, I was never convinced the public was even interested in this. No…

I would say there’s definitely a similarity to the Forsyte Saga in terms of the scope, as far as both time covered and number of characters. I love that this New Inquiry piece described the series as an epic, which I think is completely accurate.

Feel like there’s a 90% chance this is an anti-Trump song.

I’m sure some people would consider this blasphemous, but I do think you could read them out of order as long as you read a decent synopsis of the events of the previous novel(s). It would definitely be confusing if you didn’t know the general events prior to any given one, because each very much follows right on the…

People definitely have wildly different preferences in terms of which they like, so it’s possible you’d like the later ones more. Personally, My Brilliant Friend is my favorite, but my best friend loves The Story of a New Name, which is my least favorite by far.

I promise it’s worth it!

Really?! I hadn’t heard that! That is so bizarre to me, I’m curious to look into this now. The last one in particular is so bad I had to literally tape a piece of paper over it because I couldn’t stand seeing it.

I can’t speak to the non-Neapolitan novels as I haven’t read them yet (although I’d be shocked if they’re bad), but the Neapolitan novels are excellent. Don’t let the terrible Europa covers (almost as much of an insult to her as this doxxing if you ask me) dissuade you.

Unfortunately I started seeing “false flag” claims within minutes of the CNN tweet breaking the story. So disgusting.

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Oh totally agreed! I’m not saying he’s a good filmmaker, I’m just denying that he’s a niche one. I don’t think he’s had a good film since Ed Wood, and I don’t have any particular fondness for any besides Beetle Juice and Edward Scissorhands.

Alice in Wonderland made over a billion dollars. Granted, that’s high for him, but most of his films from 2000 on make over 100 million dollars. His movies are 100% for average middle Americans. You don’t get a $110 million dollar budget, like he did for Miss Peregrine, by being an actual art house director. For…