For the hateful requests, that is the exact situation I mentioned in the second example. A right-wing douchebag went to a Colorado bakery and wanted them to create two bible shaped cakes with anti-LGBT messaging and imagery. The baker refused to decorate the cake with that imagery, but offered to sell them bible…

But a wedding cake is a service this bakery offered. They refused a service to the gay couple that they would normally provide to a straight couple. That is discrimination. If the baker didn’t offer wedding cakes as a service, no one can force them to. The problem is this particular baker was in the business of…

There is no law that says bakers have to do everything a customer demands. That’s not what public accommodation laws say. What they say is that you have to treat people equally, and cannot refuse service to people on the basis of a being part of a protected class. A baker cannot refuse to bake a wedding cake to a…

I can trot out laws too.

As far as I know, Nazis and MRA hooligans are not protected classes. You can totally refuse service to Nazis and MRA hooligans. And while sexual orientation is not a federally protected class, it is a protected class in Colorado, where this baker did business.

1. Being a cop who beats a murder charge for shooting an unarmed black teen is not a protected class.

The thing that absolutely drives me nuts about the whole thing is that you could totally argue that religion is a choice. Like sure, a person may be “born” into it, but considering how many people convert, or change religions, or become atheist/agnostic, you could totally say it’s something people can control.

But Rhaegar died at the Trident, before Aegon did at the sack of King’s Landing. So assuming Rhaegar and Lyanna had the name picked out before he died, he was planning on naming his new son the same name as his other still alive baby son.

Same!!!!! Dragon Ex Machina. After last episode, I was hoping they would reveal that Viserion was not a wight dragon, but a white walker dragon. That the Night King went thru so much trouble to touch him, when he didn’t need to touch any of the dead at Hardhome to raise them, seemed to suggest that. And his eye…

I think the fact that we’ll never know is evidence that this whole plot was poorly written. That you have to make so many assumptions about Arya and Sansa’s motives and beliefs and plans, is a sign that they could have laid this out better.

Maybe Daario got the snip snip and didn’t tell her. Lol.

I buy Bran not realizing Rhaegar and Lyanna was married, and missed the wedding because he had so much data to go thru. But Bran thinking the revelation was that Jon’s name is Jon Sand? Pfffft. Bran was there when Lyanna Stark said his name was Aegon Targaryen. Bran went out of his way to go back to this scene. …

Bran went out of his way to return to the Tower of Joy to find out what was so important about that scene. He was there when Lyanna said Jon’s name was Aegon Targaryen! It is ridiculous to suggest that he didn’t bother to lean in a get a good listen. SooOoOooOo stupid.

THIS!

How is Viserion able to fly with holes in his wings at all? And how is he able to breathe fire? Magic I guess. So dumb.

I agree with (almost) everything you said. This show has turned everyone into either assholes or idiots.

The show and the books have parted ways when it comes to Dany’s fireproofness. In the books the funeral pyre was a special bit of blood magic. In the show Dany was revealed to be fireproof both at the funeral pyre and when she burned up the other Khals. They also showed her touching burning hot dragon eggs, and…

At least Jon brings with him some fresh Stark blood.

I‘m guessing she figured out Littlefinger’s ruse the moment he suggested Arya wanted to be Lady of Winterfell. Because anyone who knows Arya would know that being Lady of Winterfell is the last thing Arya would want.

Rhaegar is supposed to be super hot too. I was disappoint.