Serious answer... because it was by far the largest influence over my dad's political worldview before he died, and that fact still shakes me to my core. I do need to learn to let go of this, but it's not easy.

I re-watched this movie and not only is Killmonger evil, he’s an idiot who learned nothing from US failures. Sending all of your advanced weapons to randos is literally what created Al Qaeda. If he had walked in and been like, “Let me tell y’all about soft power,” I’d be like ok I’m listening.

The weather in both Texas and Florida is miserable for more than 6 months out of the year, which is the amount of time you need to spend somewhere for it to be your “domicile”. If you want to just move around for tax evasion and have no community, sure, have at it. Lots of people will stay, though.

How many class of 2018 members have passed significant legislation, though? Dems had a trifecta for only two years and most laws die via Senate filibuster anyway.

I think in a cycle where North Carolina Leans D, against all of my instincts, I think Texas is going to be a genuine toss-up. We shouldn’t kid ourselves that we’re “flipping” the state though, at best Talarico is sneaking in for a term like Doug Jones.

When you’re told your entire life that home ownership is the path to building wealth and suddenly you realize that path is impossible, are you going to have a positive view of the economy because it’s doing somewhat better than it was a year ago? Covid was that realization for a lot of people.

My expectation of the show at this point is a mediocre story that’s held up by one or two incredible performances. I was ready to write it off mid way through season 2. Then the Cassie breakdown happened, and I was like holy fucking shit Sydney Sweeney is an incredible actress.

The only themes I find memorable by him are Pirates of the Caribbean and Gladiator and they’re both sound like the same theme.

Ian McKellan’s Magneto in the 2000s films takes it a step further because it’s not just vengeance. He calls other mutants his “brothers” but they’re expendable to him because he wants to rule the world. “In chess, the pawns go first,” is such a great character line for him.

See, most NYC mayors, they think the path to greater power is moving to Albany, but Eric Adams knows where the real action is

No I totally get what you’re saying. The thing is that his friends and sources on the youth gender medicine beat are conspiracy-pilled. When you spend all of your time in that echo chamber, you lose those contours. His entire schtick is, “Well, a milder version of their conspiracy is true.”

I think you cease being a reasonable person when you form your entire beat around, “Academia silencing anyone who disagrees with woke leftists ideology,” during the late 2010s while there’s literal fascists running the government.

The Washington Post is beyond repair. We need to build independent pro-democracy media that doesn't equate Donald Trump's pathological lies with Joe Biden.

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Like if you included Barack Obama in these polls, I bet he would be leading. Because most people responding these polls don’t have the 22nd amendment committed to memory. That’s how fickle this stuff is.

I don’t think she actually does once you consider how much of that is just Name ID. Most voters don’t have a clue who any of these people are yet, so they respond to the names they recognize. That always changes with actual primary campaigns.

She’s not in any way the most likely Dem to become the nominee. She has near universal name recognition which translates into early polling results. But that’ll change when primary season actually gets going.

The case I’m thinking of is if you were caring for your relative who insists on watching it for several hours a day. Like regular sustained consumption of that shit will change you. I’d watch like 15-20 minutes sometimes back in the day and be like oh god turn it the hell off.

I shouldn't say "ever" gets worn down. I'd say it's unlikely to get worn down.

Agreed on principle, but again how much and how you consume matters because your bullshit detector is finite. I don’t consume enough that the detector ever gets worn down. But if I had to watch that crap for hours a day, yes I’d be impacted at some point.

The other thing I’ll say is that mockery is the best inoculation. Like even if I thought Ben Shapiro had a good take, I’d still have an impossible time taking him or it seriously because I’ve listened to hours and hours of Robert Evans and Cody Johnson making fun of him for being a terrible writer.

There is something to this because sure, with 20/20 hindsight you could convince me Obama could’ve done some things better handling Benghazi. But that’s not *really* what Fox was trying to convince you of. They’re trying to convince you that the American leaders should be militantly Islamophobic.

I think it depends on how much of it you consume. Like if it shows up on your social media feed and you have an automatic bullshit detector, it’s unlikely to do anything. Spend hours watching it, and yea you’ll hear some disingenuous libertarian/paleocon stuff that sucks you in.

The Jeffersons did this too, and the joke is literally just George being weird about it.

I'm absolutely not a believer that TERFs are closeted simps for patriarchy. @reproutopia.bsky.social wrote a really good book about how it's far more complicated than that. But that is absolutely the end result of what they are doing here.

Are there sex differences impacting performance? It’s possible, we don’t know. But what I do know is that even the faintest suggestion of such things has been used as an excuse to marginalize women since the beginning of fucking time. Cis women supporting this are digging their own graves. /2

It’s astounding they can’t see how harmful it is for so-called feminists to claim, “women are biologically worse at darts than men,” when there isn’t particularly strong evidence suggesting so. Emma Hilton might as well be saying, “Larry Summers was right about women and math.” /1

SoM would be a really neat world to bring to life in an anime because it’s classic Tolkien-inspired medieval fantasy alongside techno-futurism, including a literal Death Star.

It’s Legend of Mana, which is different. After SoM the games became more choose your own adventure rather than standard Jungian hero’s journey. Which is cool on the one hand because you can have a lead protagonist who isn’t a human white male. On the other hand, it loses cohesiveness.

One of the biggest eye-rolls in Time to Think is Hannah Barnes asking a trans person who underwent sterilization, back when it was required in the UK, if they are upset that they didn’t wait longer rather than asking if they’re upset that their government coerced them into a eugenics program.

SoM and OOT also both had a lot of content that died on the vine because Nintendo scrapped disc drive projects for both SNES and N64. With SoM I’m curious about what was lost in terms of the characters. With OOT I’m curious about the Sacred Realm & Light Temple being playable areas.