There’s a totally reasonable way to responsibly compare Russian interference to 9/11. The Cliff’s Notes is Puerto Rico/the underpaid/women seeking healthcare/victims of hate crimes/the under-insured and large percentages of people who have already died needlessly under Trump’s policies would still be alive. That…

Can’t wait

I more-or-less disagree with your overall opinion here (the literal descriptions are obviously quite on point, I just happen like the new “old” girl), but the painstaking detail with which you broke down the two designs (and that I knew someone here would) is one of my favorite idiosyncrasies of Trek fandom. I rarely…

What a dipshit. All the “Hey remember ‘Blade’ & ‘Blade II’” pieces have been a blast and a wonderful unexpected fringe benefit of ‘Black Panther’ hype. This movie is helping people appreciate ‘Blade’ more, what a friggin’ dipshit.

Oh hell no on Joy Reid.

You literally can only by liquor from the state in PA. And absolutely no gas station sells beer. E-cigarettes carry a 40% tax STATE WIDE. Non-whites are not allowed to go to good schools.

Unrelated to Star Trek but a story about living Option C in the (non-starship) workplace:

Yea, no need to secretly suspect. The only “conservative” (married closet case) I have social access to is laughably obviously gay (set aside all the manerisms, all of which he has, this is a guy who hates sports but always comments about how fit and good looking the male athletes are) and disgustingly homophobic (no…

Except that is what happened, Hillary ran a campaign everyone begged her not to because she couldn’t win, then Trump got elected and fucked with Obamacare funding in such a way that directly killed the most important person in my life.

Those are the hard truths of the real world, it doesn’t matter if it hurts you to see them, your insolent sensitivities. Own it, own yourself and quit fucking everything up. You don’t get to debate me, this shit actually affects my life, whole it has no bearing on your precious Xbox and cat video time. It makes you…

Obvious cash grab aside, my first thought when I heard about the revival was “yea I bet you want the chance to retcon that lottery booshit.”

Laugh all you want, that sentiment is genuine. Elizabeth Warren was and is preferred over Bernie. Kamala Harris is fine but like it or not (and trust me I don’t) only populists can win presidential elections, that fact gives no shits about your feelings or mine. I trust the good Senator from CA is a smart and…

Booker yes, no one else you named.

I think its’ a combination of what you’re speaking to (20 years of hard living) and that it’s not inconsistent for them to have had (and have) socially progressive values about drugs, sex, and race. They’re in a suburb of Chicago, the Connors are not Jeff Sessions. And neither are a lot of Trump voters.

What? No, it’s not going to represent any of that because that’s not the perspective it’s coming from. Those characters and their real life versions don’t see the world the same way we do, Rosanne worked because it never imposed unrealistic worldliness on the Connors. When that lack of education or broader cultural…

So you were a huge fan of a show about a culturally detached white family from a flyover state, but now that it’s being brought back you won’t watch it?

There is no believable scenario where the Dan and Rosanne wouldn’t be Trump supporters. That’s not to say this is a non-story, I just don’t get the whole “now I won’t watch it.” It was always a show about a Trump supporters, there just wasn’t a Trump. Acknowledging probelmatic cultural trends in a way that doesn’t…

“...areas where the comedian has been flat and out of his depth”

Eh, I go back and forth on this. The idea is that humanity is somehow the more special species because we have cognitive self-awareness, but how is that any different than the jellyfish in ‘Ishmael’ who thinks the most important thing in existence is jellyfish and that there is no world beyond the sea? People know…

“I drive drunk and make it home” was an extremely popular “college-only” era Facebook group at the first school I attended before transferring (to a school in the middle of a downtown, nobody was driving at all at the second stop).