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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:32 pm
Remember to check your registration, everyone. If the Republicans can't win fair and square, they will cheat.

Everyone? That would be cheating. I'm not American.

I still say the argument is wrong because it makes a wild unjustifiable claim. "Utopian fiction only reinforces the status quo by implying things will get better." I justified my claim several times over. I mean and I rebutted it to. It's also funny because it's the same argument in TOMORROWLAND an...

Based on the whole "there's no way you can possibly back up your 'theory' that they'll evolve in precise ways you predict in advance" "how dare you call evolution a theory!" exchange I don't think the writers had any idea what they were trying to say either. It certainly wasn't written by anyone wh...

Calling Trump charismatic is just weird. He babbles incoherently, talks about some of the most random shit possible for a presidential candidate (or a president for that matter). That if you just read the transcripts, it is truly baffling in how he could be considered charismatic. At best you could...

Problem with that is that it would feel very contrived, an extreme evil strawman on the one hand almost always is, even with a little bit of "think of the children!" thrown in - that would just come across as attempting to give a transparently false illusion of balance. No, "Dear Doctor" is beyond s...

Dear Doctor's the only episode I've got angry about, and it's really rather disturbing how it has its defenders; it could've been a good episode if it set itself up to demonstrate the dangers of the sort of thinking that it ended up arguing for (well, maybe; I prefer episodes that don't try to shove...

Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 2:12 pm I have to wonder if he fired or imprisoned anyone in his employ that knew how to win and left with mindless yesmen who only see this as a paycheck and no skills.

He's certainly got the type of personality prone to making that sort of mistake.

I liked Rogue One - the Battle of Scarif made me feel a bit like a kid again seeing Star Wars for the first time (well, maybe Return of the Jedi because I saw that one in the cinema when it first came out but was too young for the first two).

I'm just struggling to get over the main page at the moment. Dredd and My Little Pony right next to each other is messing with my head!

So Biden will not seek reelection. May I start screaming now? Screaming, why? Admittedly I'm somewhat removed, being in a completely different country, but the impression I've been getting is that the longer he hung on the better chance Trump has got. Of course we won't know for certain until later...