bit more obscure/recent one: Antoine Reinartz as the prosecutor in Anatomy of a Fall

Nah, Illinois, and fwiw I'd agree that everywhere has their specific variety of shitty candidates (in Illinois it's corrupt machine hacks), that just happens to be Maine's imo

Yeah that's fair! Maine elects quite a few women, my point was more that the specific type of candidate Platner is tends to be a man

Flashback Friday - 2001 "Clockgate" Michigan State Amazing Upset Over #6 Michigan YouTube video by WazeeDigital_BigTen

Similarly (and I'm saying this as a neutral Iowa fan), if you use a stopwatch for the 2001 MSU/Michigan game, there was 0.3-0.4 left on the clock, Spartan Bob was innocent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50K...

Most states have their progressive movements more connected to collective (often disproportionately POC-led) activism, which produces better progressive candidates

Maine specifically has a thing for white (usually dudes) whose identity is "obstinate outsider," which is how Angus King is their other Senator, in this case it helps the progressives

Like Platner would probably beat Mills head-to-head in a lot of states, but most states wouldn't produce that specific head-to-head

I think my view here is that not that Mills would win in another state but that a less white/idiosyncratic state than Maine would have produced someone other than Nazi Tattoo Guy as the winning alternative

I mean Markey seems to be doing OK vs. Moulton

Top-tier Hating from Ferentz, basically said "it's more likely that PSU blocks the punt for a TD then gets a field goal for the rest of the game," PSU immediately threw a pick on the next drive, proving him right

I think Glasnost/Perestroika/Gorby being fairly lenient on Eastern Bloc rebellions accelerated the collapse by about 10-20 years but also made it a lot less bloody than it would have been

Gorbachyov's reign was basically the institutional equivalent of Wile E. Coyote looking down after walking on absolutely nothing for a bit and immediately plummeting to the ground

"Great music, absolutely trash story" describes most of Webber's post-Phantom work

As long as you have the correct level of Sondheim reverence this opinion is acceptable

TIL about this monstrosity (the message of the artwork is cool + it's so absurdly garish that I kinda love it?)

They're all fantastic actors, but Oldman for Darkest Hour/McDormand for 3BB/Rockwell for 3BB/Janney for I, Tonya all sweeping the season was a real misfire from the Academy when Chalamet or DDL/Robbie or Ronan/Dafoe/Metcalf (or Manville) were all right there

Also if you object to feeling an association with Israel bc of Israeli war crimes, I have bad news about Britain

Catch Me If You Can is full-on propaganda, most of it is complete bullshit Abagnale almost certainly made up to seem cooler of a con artist than he was

Also, Mandelas are quite rare! It's really just needing the right circumstances/concessions + an Israeli de Klerk (not necessarily a radical but a pragmatist more concerned about his country's future than his own) + a Palestinian Gerry Adams (not necessarily a peacenik but a fellow pragmatist)

Hoxha is one of the funnier dictators to stan bc he objectively ran Albania into the ground

Also American Jews being somewhat reactionary/nationalistic about Israel is actually pretty par for the course for diaspora politics (see also the Cuban and Venezuelan diasporas, the Irish diaspora during The Troubles, and Balkan diasporas during the Yugoslav Wars)

(FWIW Sith is still definitely better-written than the first two)

It's mostly a continuation of the prequels having a decent story but...not ideal writing

Yeah I interpreted "lost the will to live" as the doctor sugarcoating "we saved the kids but she died due to the abuse + childbirth"

I think J Street moving on this/the Iran War was really huge in providing American liberal Zionist Jews with an acceptably Zionist path to endorse stricter policies on Israel
As I've said before I think the American Jewish consensus will end up at "pro-sanctions but also pro-two state solution"

Plus it was the same "the possibilities are endless" feeling as the early days of rock that punk bands wanted to recreate!

(or at least similar, though of course JD/NO played a role in that)

Also like 70% of post-punk/new wave bands had the exact same musical progression

This is also true of Judaism (closer to Islam than Christianity)