Came here to say that he’s pretty much completely right, but I’m happy to see every single comment is already saying that.

Most people are idiots with the attention span of a goldfish.
You say “defund the police”, they hear “no police, anarchy, red menace communism”. And guess what ? Most of them won’t bother to do the…

It astonishes me how badly us lefties are at this type of stuff. As has been pointed out by folks far more clever than I, this is something that the righties are super good at; they find an easy to remember and repeat slogan and they FUCKING HAMMER IT until their base hears it in their dreams.

When I hear ‘defund’ it says to me zero dollars whatsoever toward policing because ‘defund’ has been sloganed by anti-choice nutjobs to mean that organizations like Planned Parenthood must close and receive no federal funding for anything, ever.

So who is Obama’s lecture for?

Obama is right.

He’s not wrong, though. “Defund the Police,” snappy as it might be, is a vast oversimplification of what that plan often entails (depending on who you ask)—redistributing funds to services that the police shouldn’t be involved with to begin with, like welfare checks and mental illness interventions.  Yes, explaining…

This is not unique to rockclimbing. The counterculture that created these sports allowed for creative naming. Some of them are super-cool. Some of them are awful. Check out the cycling world's own reckoning:

What are the odd she just goes back to New York in mid-December and refuses to engage with anything involved in the transition?

“One of the few things I liked about The Last Jedi was the acknowledgement from Yoda that the fall of the Jedi Order came from within, and it had nothing to do with Anakin. It was because their teachings were flawed. They stuck to the old ways so rigorously that they never once stopped to try to rethink their…

I do think it was as close as the judges claimed.  In fact, during the showstopper I was convinced that Peter had blown it.  It was only when the judges started critiquing Dave’s that I thought Peter might still edge it.

Second, I take issue with her reasoning as to why she won’t train Grogoo. Anakin didn’t go bad because they trained him when he was too old.

Yaddle appears in ep 1, she doesn’t appear in ep 2 ten years later, which is set before the beginning of the clone wars, so it’s understandable Ahsoka never met her, there’s not a clear cut answer as to when or why she left the council. Would the average youngling ever meet the council? Probably not, maybe only at a…

It’s a lot like the original film really. It’s really simple western style stories with very little character development and even less world building. It’s honestly really fun, there’s literally nothing on TV that is this unashamedly pulpy with this sort of budget.  

Hermine would’ve won...

My opinion: taken as a whole it’s the best Star Wars movie since Empire.

No, the final has always just been judged on that day, not the whole season. 

I really enjoyed this season of bake off. It felt more like home bakers doing their best, where sometimes previous seasons didn’t. Peter was a favorite all season and I agree the judges over emphasized the “draw” aspect. Also IIRC, in previous seasons each episode was judged on its own merits (a standard which I…

I try to not be “that person” who gets precious about words changing meaning, but I have to confess to being slightly annoyed that “existential” is now used to mean “super bad,” because it doesn’t. California isn’t questioning the meaning or purpose of its existence—it’s on fucking fire.

The woman who allowed and encouraged the impeachment of  Trump even knowing the Senate would never convict? The woman who has refused to take the Senate’s miserly COVID offer,giving them cover because they “did something”? The woman who got her caucus to pass the ACA because it was right even knowing that it might…

Silly me. I saw the headline and briefly hoped She was stepping down from the Senate.