Anathema-

More like he literally stole the black ops tech that Russia used to attack us in 2016. He also lied about the capabilities. What he did was not whistleblowing, it was espionage. Get your damn head out of the dirt.

I find the arguments against national rent control to be persuasive. We can drive rent down by building over nimby objections. Landlords may often be scum but fixing the market is probably one of the more shortsighted feel-good policies there is.

Regardless of anything else, snowden's commentary is garbage so let's just not share it anymore. Shaun King has more credibility.

I really liked season one of supergirl although the first few grew insufferable, except for the pilot which was fantastic.

I hope we can just pay a small fee to upgrade to max if we have a cable subscription.

Point is that I don't see how we don't nickle and dime them together. The arguments are logically inextricable.

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Nice.

I'm hoping that this one is too inconsistent to support though, I suppose.

It can't in the sense that it will set a precedence for something they would ostensibly be against. The two things can't co-exist.

He ignores everything that doesn't fit his little world, like that time he defended Tulsi by saying that David Duke endorses people to fuck with them but then never responded with who he actually did that to.

Corporate media is excessively biased but their bias was something you no doubt appreciated in 2016. You want to talk about bias, let's discuss how 800 year old Bernie Sanders is allowed to get off with a hero's origin story after a goddamn heart attack. It cuts both ways.

The problem with that is how it applies to guns. The court can't find there's no compelling interest in protecting access to a thing citizens have a right to obtain for abortion and have that precedent not apply to regulating the sales of guns.

I think they could get away with just remaking game of thrones right now. Think of the cost savings!

Especially if you know you already crumble under scrutiny.

Guardians of the Galaxy is pretty recent.

Thank Christ. Also, nobody walks away from Star Wars. They walked the plank.

I always wondered if he coasted on name recognition. Now I guess I have my answer.

"What we put on that mailer was a pizza oven why are you fake media libs so snowflake-y?"

He's certifiable.

Ever since the "next thread" link stopped saying what thread I'm visiting I never know what thread I'm in anymore.

And The Leftovers is the greatest show ever because nothing else in its sphere has abstracted and dramatized the moral at the center anywhere near as well and had a finale that was deeply affecting and intense while never raising above a whisper. There's NOTHING else like it and it's the deepest meditation on what it means to be depressed and how to overcome it that I've ever seen.

Lindelof treats mysteries with the appropriate respect. If you'd only seen LOST you can be forgiven for mistaking this because he and his writing partner had wildly divergent beliefs on the value and use of mysteries. Mysteries are actually a critically important part of writing compelling stories; you have to make your audience want to know something before you tell them what it is. Lindelof mysteries are things like, why do the police wear masks or why are Angela's kids not black" in the small sense and the large sense asks what is Jeremy Irons / Louis Gosset Jr. up to or what does the advance of squid falls mean? Lindelof's mysteries are not corners he's trying to intentionally paint himself into to see if he can write his way out. That was Carlton Cuse's thing and just look at the other stuff that guy has done for an idea. We see that even more clearly now after episode two. Answers beget questions but not in a frustrating way. Who was that in the sky? This has to be some kind of Minuteman thing right? What are they trying to expose? As much as episode one told us that Jud is a "good" guy I don't think the easy assumption in his closet tells the whole story. Angela found what she found but in a way that evokes the novel and I can't help but be reminded that Rorshach only found what Veidt wanted to be found and she may be getting set up the same way. I really really missed appointment television. This is scratching an itch that has been pestering me since the end of LOST. There's so much to discuss, think about, pick apart, and learn about ourselves and others. This is only the start of what will be an amazing ride.