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  • Just a conduit. Thankfully, Danny DeVito is rad.

  • To be fair to the person I originally responded to, though, Walter's not the main character. It's a lot more common to have unlikable sidekicks who provide a foil to the main character than it is to have unlikable main characters.

  • I don't think the show is trying to convey that point, no, but Carol is definitely a self-centered, hypocritical asshole. Thing is, though, a whole lot of people (maybe even most people) are self-centered, hypocritical assholes. I quite like the fact that the main protagonist of the series is someone who was very much not cut out to be a hero, and who does what she does for completely ignoble reasons. I think it grounds the story and makes for complex characters; this isn't "Twilight" or one of the other YA fictions. It's convincingly real people put into a really fucked up situation and trying to understand it and deal with it to the best of their ability.

    It's fair enough if that's not your bag, but I really like that about the show.

  • Would 100% risk grievous bodily harm to pet the belly.

  • We should bring back berets.

  • People who say that violence is never the answer are just asking the wrong fucking questions.

  • Every single one of these motherfuckers needs to be shot in the face. Every single one of them.

    This is the moderate position, btw.

  • Yup. X is a cesspit of Nazi pieces of shit. Nazis gonna Nazi.

  • DHS released this as an official statement:

    ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.

    An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.

    Of course... there's video online of the incident already, and naturally it shows that that statement is complete horseshit (not that anybody had any doubts about that). This will probably get taken down soon, but here (NSFL):

    https://xcancel.com/i/status/2008961959731859757

  • The spectator was under the impression that it was a closed hearing - that is, a hearing that is limited to only certain select members (in this case, all Democrats). The spectator wanted to know why it was a closed hearing that only involved Democrats on the panel.

    Bennie Thompson told him essentially that it wasn't a closed hearing, that Republicans were also completely free to join it, but none of them did.

  • "Do us the basic courtesy of invading Taiwan"??? Man, fuck tankies.

  • The scientist in me says that there's not enough evidence to reach this conclusion.

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  • Oscar winning cinematography.

    Edit: for real, though, you should watch the movie. It's incredible. Very funny, very sweet, and it features Michelle Yeoh, James Hong, and Ke Huy Quan. In fact, it marked Ke's return to movies after a 20 year hiatus (he plays Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, btw).

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  • I love the smell of barbecued xenos in the morning. It smells like... glory to the emperor!

  • And yet, if someone were to shoot him as an enemy combatant, they'd be prosecuted for murder. Curious.

  • "Hey, citizens, we're out of money thanks to our ruinous, idiotic, 4-year-long invasion of Ukraine. Instead of holding our military and executive to account for our stupid, fascistic foreign wars (oops, I mean foreign military exercises!), we're going to create laws that put extra scrutiny on your transactions. Hope you don't mind!"

  • According to one of the stories my mother loves to tell my romantic partners, I pissed in a hamper one night while sleep walking when I was 7. Apparently, she woke up when I started wondering aloud where the hell the flusher was.

  • Welcome to the culture war I guess, Calibri. God, this timeline is dumb.