But I really don’t like the idea of agreeing or disagreeing with someone based on the person saying it.

But that’s not what I was doing? I’m agreeing with him, because the House of Saud being a bunch of fuckers doesn’t make his statement any less true. But the fact remains that they are still fuckers, and asking me to be okay with that is unreasonable.

I hate that I’m agreeing with a member of the House of Saud on anything, and yet here we are.

Would that be better or worse than getting 2nd billing but only showing up in the last 30 seconds?

Here’s everything you need to know from the about page:

To this end, the Foundation also trains and cultivates young writers for careers in journalism and serves as an outlet for a host of both young and established conservative writers and thinkers.

So, y’know, nothing more than a fascist whining about Dems recognizing that there are more non-fascists than fascists out there and are making at least an effort to appeal to them.

Yeah, TFA is bland corporate cookie cutter crap, but it’s at least not deliberately hostile to people who actually liked Star Wars going in. But on the other hand, the fact that it was greenlit as a mainline Star Wars movie was rather indicative that either Disney didn’t actually care to properly vet what they were putting out, or that I was very definitely not part of the target audience they wanted. So I haven’t watched or read anything else since.

Prequel nostalgia exists because kids at the time liked them, and are now able to push back against existing criticism from older fans. There won’t be sequel nostalgia, because kids today simply don’t give a shit about Star Wars, so they’re not going grow up and decide to push back against sequel criticism.

Nah, it actually is graft, because it’s specifically him using his government position to enrich himself, for instance by taking bribes. Grift is the general case of dishonest money, although there’s usually a connotation of scam involved.

I figure he’s decided that’s he’s squirreled away enough graft money and is deliberately trying to get booted from office so he can pull a runner.

That was the middle of Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward initiative, which due to mismanagement saw vast numbers of people starve to death.

Hm, don’t remember seeing that with the Switch demo. Yeah, that’s skeevy though.

To add on to this, having people complain, while not good exactly, is a state that can be worked with. It means that the engagement is still there. Like, to put this in the context of D+, it means that people are still watching the shows to know what to complain about. You won’t see me complaining about Star Wars anymore, for instance, because I stopped caring at all after TLJ. There’s so much other stuff out there that I don’t see any point in signing up for D+ to watch Star Wars, and ultimately that hurts Disney more than me continuing to watch while bitching about it.

Flushing isn’t exactly silent, though? The toilet getting clogged should make a very noticeably different sound.

Just go back to first principles and celebrate the actual solstice.

Look, the doctrine of papal infallibility means that by definition this is anything but heretical, and any who don’t like it can go and form their own church with blackjack and hookers.

Something something mysterious ways

Didn’t Dolly suffer from premature aging due to her telomeres? The article seems to imply that using stem cells somehow fixed this, but how?

Pretty sure it’s just typical “fuck you, got mine” mentality.

Welcome to FPTP voting. System is working as designed.

Well, for one, Russia will have been forced to expend a shitton of lives and war materiel, and will be forced to expend a shitton more putting down the resultant Ukrainian insurgency. Crippling the Russian military for a generation is no small thing.

It’s leave, you idiot! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.