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Imit8m3 posted...

The biggest promotors of these dumbass challenges is the news outlets that warn against doing them.
Literally nobody was doing this before the news reported it.
24 hr news networks was a MASSIVE MISTAKE

In their defense, the FDA put out a warning, so it's caught enough national attention.

The France helped us so much that it helped bankrupt them when we didn't pay them back everything we owed. Cue a recession > starving populace > the French populace seeing it's possible to beat back an Empire > Nobles being idiotic (putting it lightly) > French Revolution

DarthAragorn posted...

Random question, they keep referring to the Seven Kingdoms but Dorne is still fully independent at this point I'm pretty sure, is this intentional because the Targaryens are arrogant bastards that think its theirs by right, or what? I only read the main series and I don't remember the details here.

More on the subject of the show, the Criston Cole development is pretty solid. And Larys Strong is well written so far, feels a lot like the real Littlefinger (and not what was in the show)

For the longest time, English Kings claimed to also be the Kings of France in their list of titles LOL. Monarchs tend to be pretty arrogant

Ajiri posted...

either she does want Aegon to be heir or she thought Daemon was using her, I think the former

Also she probably has a tinge of jealousy & sexual frustration herself. She is confined into her role as Queen, and has to sleep with Viserys, who while nice, isn't fulfilling her at all

And we have Rhaenyra living her best life out here sexually

cjsdowg posted...

What i have noticed with the discord here is a lot of Infantalization. Oh she was just this helpless women who couldn't do anything to stop the horrors of the UK. Then at the same time being held up as a this great leader. It is like they want her to be a leader and a blameless figurehead all at the same time.

Also I still can't get over the Queens people are German and the UK people are like cool with it. Not that being German is bad, but there leader not tracing her roots to the UK.

You'll find this a lot historically.

The Windsors were originally, the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. But changed it because it was too German.

Before that we had the House Hanover, another Germanic Dynasty.
Before them it was the Stuarts, which were Scottish, but it tied together both Scotland & England.

And if you go as far back as 1066, William the Conquerer was more French (as a Norman). And most English kings after him spoke French as their main tongue instead of English for a couple generations.

And if you wanna go back enough, the Anglo-Saxons were Germanic. They weren't the native Britons.

Zikten posted...

Yea I had trouble getting through the birth scene. Very disturbing

As someone who hasn't read the books, did people (in real life) know about the prophecy already or did this show just reveal it for the first time?

I agree on the birth. It was needed though. It really chilled me to see how she had no say in the matter. Even if she was gonna die, she had no say in them cutting the baby out of her.

Eramir posted...

Shes not A list but get the fuck outta here with that other bs she was iconic in the 90s like a sex symbol in her time

This and ultimately she's THE face of the franchise. Besides Ghostface, she's the most recognizable face next to David Arquette and Courteney Cox.

So let's all take bets here. I think if this is what sinks Trump legally then the GOP will turn heel and gaslight / pretend that they never liked/supported Trump in the first place. And prop up DeSantis

Trump is still the leader of the GOP

There's an ongoing investigation about his very recent attempt to overthrow an election

McMarbles posted...

Im not with these people, Im just totally fine with standing next to them!

They have folks in their party literally calling for Christian Nationalism and they're top Republican leaders arent saying or doing squat to combat it

DarkRoast posted...

It's only because he supports DeSantis, who is basically Trump with less charisma and more direct asshole.

Jon Stewart had a good take on it all last week. Him and his staff were basically calling it, that slowly the Republican establishment are going to swing the pendulum away from Trump and to DeSantis

And yes, Joe's "Technically" not a Republican. But clearly he's a mouth piece for their propaganda and lets's on far right figures, and will go to bat to defend them.

I get that some folks maybe thought Soldier Boy wasnt "as bad" as Homelander. But you still gotta be bad news if you ENTIRE team wanted you gone, and they'd even sell you out for free to do it

Because they're 2 different branches of government

gunplagirl posted...

Oh honey, no. A good number of the pilgrims straight up were being exiled from England because the people who held their religious views were considered religious extremists. And when I say that, I mean like "enemies of the crown, trying to prop up their own king" sorts of crimes were committed by members of their community.

Now, in US history classes and the like, they spin it as though they were being discriminated against and wanted religious freedom. But uh, lmfao nope, that's just propaganda.

So ironically, even centuries ago, Religious Fundies were the assholes no one wanted, who pretended they're the victims. Except with this case, they did everyone a favor and left the country

So I take it that
AmericaTheBrave posted...

Nope. Don't plan on ever going to one either. Doesn't sound like my scene.

But why expose kids to drag? Why can't kids just stay kids?

So I take it that you'll walk your kids out of a play if there's ever a man dressed up as a woman, with exaggerated features.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Ehhhh

It's a bad flub and I think it's fine to make fun of Biden

But this "You say he had a speech impedement yet how come he spoke fine 5 years ago!" doesn't seem to understand speech impediment is.

It's not "Healed" you just learn to overcome it which takes effort and focus. Biden is older now and talking more since being president than he has probably ever before, so he's going to fuck it up more.

It's like a guy having a bad leg stumbling more if he's walking 12 times as much. Well no shit.

Make fun of Biden all you like but don't pretend he doesn't have a speech impediment. you're making fun of a dude with a speech impediment. IF that bothers you then stop doing it, if it doesn't bother you then keep doing it. The lying to not feel bad about doing it is pathetic.

I agree.

I have a stutter. I had a speech pathologist for 13 years in grade school. I deal with it everyday, and have to speak a lot professionally. Normally people cannot tell that I have a stutter, but oh boy, there are definitely days where I can really flub on certain words or letters. Sometimes you just have those moments

NatsuSama posted...

I'll just say....

I am a black guy who is a born American. I dont call myself "African American." I'm not from Africa. I have no known family from Africa. I've never set foot on Africa.

They can have the term "African American" imo. I hate the term.

I am in the same boat that I don't identify as "African" American. I just say I'm black.

But that doesn't discredit the complete bad faith that DeSantis acts in. And very clearly it is a dogwhistle / middle finger. Ultimately if it "triggers" anyone then his base sees it as a win (just a juvenile one).

DeSantis clearly wants to model himself after Trump, but my gut is that he's not as stupid as Trump.

Collat posted...

"George Carlin would have been right wing if he were alive today"

LOL as they ignore his thoughts about picking on underdogs. He wasn't "PC" but he also knew what targets to pick on, and what damage punching down on marginalized communities can do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV8xUorQ8

I think folks are going with the Emmett Till approach, as macabre as it seems.

Considering how fans treated Kelly Marie Tran, it's valid concerns

TastyPopcorn posted...

Dude taco bell pays like $16/hr. Guy probably had some summer job, it's not hard to come up with a couple thousand bucks before age 18. Heck, I knew dudes making $25/hr in high school working in construction on weekends

Especially if someone doesn't have to pay any bills. Pretty easy to rack up some money

There needs to be a serious amount of investigation into the cases prosecuted by the DA & Police Dept. We can only imagine how they've handled minorities in their district.

Good take from Carlin about the dangers of punching down as a comic.

https://youtu.be/F8yV8xUorQ8

And at the same time they're trying to enforce transphobia in the rest of the LGB+ community. Making it seem like "We have no issue with gays, it's the trans people that are the problematic ones." Anyone with a brain should know that the rest of the community is on the chopping block once they're done with trans people. Yet you see grifters like Dave Rubin bending over backwards trying to appease these bigots.

I've heard complaints that this is going to let insurance companies off the hook in some payments

Was a huge fan of O&A years ago

Shame to see how some of them ended up.

Ant really fell into alcoholism, abused his girlfriend, and went down the alt-right tailspin

Interesting to see the new strategy pop-up to divide the LGBTQ community.

They want the LGB's to feel safe and separate themselves from the "TQ+" side. Make us feel like we're in the pack now / one of the good ones. Turn a blind eye to what's happens to transgender and other queer people.

Anyone with sense will know that they'll still come for LGB individuals in the end. They'll still try to strip away all the gains we've made regardless. Esp with the right's lean-to accepting more and more fringe Evangelical and Q candidates.

Umbreon posted...

"10 is too young to talk about this!"

"Let's not confuse teenagers about this, wait until they're 18!"

"LGBT? I never knew anyone like that when I was growing up!"

The end goal is to prevent people from being used to non-binary.

Nevermind the fact back in my day some of us had boyfriends and girlfriends. Granted 'Boy/Girlfriend' at that age just meant you liked playing with them. But even then, I remember thinking a girl was pretty.

Golly gee, it sure sounds like children can have limited understanding about gender, and be interested in other kids well before puberty. Too bad Florida can no longer explain why Timmy really seems to like being around Jessica.

Yep. Nothing like the "kids are too young to know they're gay" comments. Yet these same parents are the ones to ship their first-grader together with their first "crush" as long as it's the opposite sex.

I hope he knows he can sell his own briefs online as well. Men might buy it too