Recent content by illram

You've awoken me from my slumber... CAR covers!

Fun little test, it confirms my own implicit bias that I harbor implicit bias. /naughty liberal

She bent the spoon.

There are some pretty involved "mythical astronomy" fan theories out there. E.g., there used to be two moons and one was destroyed by a comet and this caused the Long Night and all the myths about dragons raining down from the sky and lightbringer etc. etc. Personally I think GRRM's "big ideas"...

I love the books because of the additional backstory and universe building we get vs. the show. But this is the type of additional exposition you just have to cut for a TV series. It sucks, but I get why they didn't bother to lay this out for us. There are so many characters on the show to...

Yes. 5 char

Caketastydelish is appealing the following infraction: All relevant PMs are above. As you can see, Cake's appeal is based on his assertion that this was made on April Fools, he is known for making jokes like that, it wasn't that bad, and he is middle eastern. My take: first of all this is an...

Are there any decent opinion polls on Trump supporters and where their main support lies? I found one NY Times poll that basically said "yep they're just all racists" (paraphrasing) but I am not so sure I trust it for reasons stated in the article about how it was compiled. My unscientific...

1. Nominate Bernie? Serious answer: 2. Court the Hispanic vote. Religious, socially conservative, family minded. Great GOP territory.

I can't remember exactly where but I think around Book 3 they start diverging and around 4 and 5 the show totally goes in different directions with a lot of the characters in very important ways. It's been a while so my memory is a little foggy. The showrunners basically knew how it all ended...

It's nothing I have not seen before Funky. White guy "studies Islam, totally gets it." The Blind Sheik was a radical who preached fanatical fatwas that justified terrorism. This doesn't make him mainstream and it doesn't make his particularly loathsome interpretations of the Hadith authoritative...

It's not what the government is going to do or not do that really concerns me. (But you underestimate the power of the Executive Branch, by a lot.) It's the perception and animus Trump's rhetoric breeds. Both from whites and minorities alike. Racists and terrorists for example both see Trump as...

Trump doesn't need to accomplish anything to be a disaster. He just needs to open his mouth. Do you guys not get this?

Lawyers really shouldn't be considered experts on anything other than the law.

Who said anything about Hitler? I'm not even calling him a fascist. He is actively courting racists, encouraging his supporters to beat people up, and is completely cavalier and uncaring about any consequences of anything he says as long as it accomplishes his primary goal of making himself...