Taken at face value, she’s claiming that 75% of the US population would have died over the last three months if not for Trump.

That is possibly the most insane thing I’ve ever heard come out of a person’s mouth.

Oh, don’t worry… This data is from January to March, so it doesn’t really reflect the actions of the current president. We’ve not even begun to see the impact of Trump’s bold economic agenda.

It’s going to get so, so much worse.

If your relationship needs this, you’re better off single.

It is overrated, and I say that as someone who very much enjoys Nolan.

He’s never at his best without his brother on scriptwriting duties (that’s why TDK is far and away the best of his Batman movies), and he constantly struggles to present human feeling and emotion in a way that feels believable and real. He’s so caught up in his love of crafting intricate Rube-Goldberg machines that he forgets all the other aspects of the film-maker’s craft.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan and I’ll show up for every movie he makes, just to enjoy watching how he fits all the little intricate parts together, but he doesn’t even make my top five for directors. Almost everything he does, Denis Villeneuve does better.

Interstellar in particular really exposes his weaknesses, because it’s a film about love being a more powerful fundamental force than gravity, and Nolan is such a fucking robot that he really doesn’t know what to do with something like that. It’s a movie that contains lots of really great moments, but just doesn’t hang together or feel cohesive as a story. I won’t knock anyone for enjoying it, but it’s a clear demonstration of Nolan’s flaws.

And they’re right.

I think it would be absolutely ridiculous if we couldn’t.

While I accept that not everyone agrees with this, to my mind the idea that gender is a performance, a presentation, not some hard coded biological fact seems to be an essential part of liberating ourselves from strict roles and enabling trans people to live their true selves fully and without prejudice.

I want to be clear that when I say gender is a performance, that doesn’t mean it’s fake. Gender is an expression of something deeply integral to who you are. Often something that you could not change without causing yourself severe harm. But the presentation of that integral identity is for you to decide, and that should be true for everyone.

I think every cis person has gender goals, but most of us allow the world around us to define those goals instead of defining them for ourselves. I think that’s a part of why cis people act so hateful towards trans people; because a person simply throwing out the handbook and saying “Actually, this is how I want to express myself…” reminds them that they could be doing the same thing if they wanted. I think that’s also why crossdressers, trans people, and men who do nothing more radical than wear nail polish often get lumped in together. All of it is violating these supposedly hard coded realities.

So, maybe I’m wrong here, maybe I’m out of line, but I think the world would be better for everyone, cis and trans, if we all recognized that we have gender goals and were comfortable talking openly about them.

Also, Gomez Adams is an absolute gigachad legend. Raul Julia, forever king of my heart.

I think a good chunk of our media establishment (especially the very right wing friendly parts owned by Americans) are going to see to it that Pollievre disappears very quickly. And they’ll try their best to tie the stench of this epic failure to him.

He might think he’s staying on as leader, but he’s wrong. The knives will be out tonight.

I honestly don’t even know how to respond to a comment like this. Every word is such abject nonsense that it’s hard to even figure out where to begin, and I frankly do not have the energy for it.

I don’t think hope and anger are a binary choice. As the saying goes, you have to hate something to change it.

I want an NDP that brings hope to people who are angry, by sharing in their anger and pain, and offering a way forward. Those things can build on each other.

I’m hoping someone can convince Charlie Angus to unretire and make a run for leader.

He did, and he’s stepping down as party leader. Personally, I think it’s a good thing. His leadership has been far too soft and cuddly. The NDP need a leader who will channel the anger a lot of Canadians are feeling at watching their quality of life get sold off to oligarchs.

I decide to start a business. I borrow a million dollars from the bank at 2% interest.

I now have a million dollars cash, and a million dollars of debt. Logically, rather than investing my million dollars of cash in building and growing a business, I should use it to pay off my debt. That’s clearly the the best use for that money.

Do you see how what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense?

Hard to even be mad about it. It’s just someone fucking around. Wikipedia would be a very bad place to be looking for early election results anyway so no harm done.

It’s the subtle attempts to skew articles towards a particular agenda that really bother me. Stuff like this is just whatever.

He’s setting himself up to be the new leader of the CPC. And it’s probably going to work.

Judging by the early turnout numbers that’s actually because everyone has already voted.

Oh no! You mean to say that siding with the oppressor didn’t save them? That’s totally shocking and unexpected.

Seems like he cares a lot; https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-investigations-negative-approval-rating-polls-2064949

Approval always matters, even in a dictatorship. If it didn’t, the most autocratic governments would produce the least amounts of propaganda, and have the freest of free presses

Every leader ultimately rules by consent. Democracy just codifies a much simpler, much less violent process for granting or withholding that consent.

It’s genuinely insane that this was a TV show that aired on a Disney streaming service, and they were dropping lines like this.

“Freedom is a pure idea” will be forever seared into my soul.

So much of Andor is like that. Absolutely unforgettable. The writing, the performances, the ideas.

There are shows, movies, books that I can barely remember a word of. But every frame of Andor is alive in my mind. Even if it had never gotten a season two, it would still be one of the most perfectly executed pieces of television I’ve ever seen.

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