that final scene is the first time I’ve ever felt like anyone who hasn’t seen the show would be at a serious disadvantage, and I’m sure the next episode will provide the basics for them.

This is just such a weird thing to get hung up on, reminiscent of this site’s reviews of Fargo which insisted on making a big thing of whether Mr. Wrench in Season 3 was the same character as Mr. Wrench in Season 1, when there was literally not one single reason that anyone could possibly question that.

“I’ve seen some complaints that this screws up the timeline, since he’s not part of the regular New Republic fleet in that show and it wouldn’t make sense for him to see this big ring and not mention it to anyone during The Mandalorian, but there’s no reason to think that this doesn’t take place immediately after…

That’s because it is appealing to the two types of republican voters left. Those who think the world conspires against them personally and are so caught up in the message itself and hating the world that is passing them by and those that think any politician without an R next to their name is part of a cabal. The…

Trump could once again win the presidency while losing the popular vote.

This is literally the Fascist playbook. The enemy is both weak and strong.

This is a pretty common piece of cognitive dissonance in GOP messaging in general (though Trump of course gives it his own shitty spin): The government is somehow both bumblingly incompetent and can’t find it’s ass with both hands *and* an incredibly complex and sophisticated conspiracy directed by Jews/Lizard…

This is not anything new. It was the same with Obama. He was masterminding the US’s downfall, but was effeminate and weak. And this whole Sleepy Joe as communist infiltrator and election stealer is old news as well.

Translation: I, a superior being, am above your petty human notions of “right” and “wrong”. I see all sides and have no biases, regarding all things as being equally true, all positions equally valid, and seeing no situation where one lesser being may ever be in a higher moral position to another.

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“...they’re chastising him because he’s saying he understands them.”

For anyone out there wondering if they’re biased, here you go. If you can take a statement that is clearly & fully embedded in the main article, lop off its entire second half containing the nut of the issue, just so that it seems like Riley is merely aggrieved by the reduced quote’s throat-clearing opening, then the…

As much as you’re jumping in to defend Fincher the opposite could also be true!

No, they’re chastising him *specifically* because he said “All we can do is encourage people to talk.” and Reilly’s point, as well as Mary Kate’s point, is that people HAVE talked. Primarily on the union side. The AMPTP has not “talked”, they have lectured and repeatedly rejected efforts to negotiate, which is…

Isn’t there something to be said for making anti-capitalist statements with Amazon’s money?

I’m not sure what your point is. Anyone who’s ever worked with Amazon is a hypocrite if they support the strike(s) now? The deal with Amazon to make I’m a Virgo was signed in 2020, three years before the strikes. Thousands of other people who are now on strike have also worked with Amazon (and all the other members of…

There are two sides here.  There’s one side that wants everything for themselves, and the other side, consisting of all the workers, that doesn’t want to be left with only the choice of dirt to eat as a reward for working.

He’s just pissy because he can’t promote his new project. Tom Cruise all over again.

it’s a “let them eat cake” take, he clearly has no idea what is actually going on (or at Venice where during the stupid standing O he mouthed “what is this?”)