Recent content by Rattrap

Heh. You know, I was going to say how I'd written my clauses carefully with 'this thread' and 'until', but it suddenly dawns on me that this forum is a waste of my time and I'm still here out of habit. It was worth something when it wasn't a self-segregating population (i.e. not a subforum)...

Nope. Definitely still you. Clearly and obviously. Whatever else Mayhem said, he's unequivocally correct about one thing: If there was only one ban to be made, none would make a bigger improvement to discourse, reduce the amount of bullshit and vitriol spewed, spare the mods the time, etc...

Well, now I know I need to be more in tune with my shows if this is my first notification...I guess I'd better get on it! This makes me happy to hear.

I was delighted Spider-Man was finally done right. I've been wanting to see this, but haven't made it out to yet. Glad to hear promising things.

Going to have to go with T'Pol on this one. The show overly sexualizing her probably doesn't hurt (I'd argue it hurts the show, but not my fantasies!)...

Ugh. It's always a shame when the tide brings the sewage back. Is this the self-defense mechanism you're going with these days when finding your shitty perspective in the minority? A clever person would get a better perspective. But there's always the less clever option of sticking with ****...

- Chumbawamba

Eh. I give up. It's taken half a dozen posts to get part of an answer, just on affirmative action. I'll just have to assume your reasons, I guess. Let's go back to this, then:

I didn't ask you to. I asked you whether you agree with them or not (which you mostly addressed) and why (which you did not). I assumed animus when I asked him a very straightforward, direct question, would choose the non-"I'm a vile piece of **** human garbage heap" answer. He did not. I no...

Supa has a subtle point - just throwing a list of cases is meaningless. Context, please? Do you agree/disagree and why? Ha, yeah, to be fair to you, it still is. I have a hard time calling it that having studied engineering physics. This is...very true. Though to be fair to BsS, I haven't seen...

I don't know I'd call political theory a science. Do a Google image search of "political compass" and you'll find hundreds of variants (including triangles). I think it's important to have some frame of reference for a productive discussion, as a 1D spectrum is ****. And yeah, Joe Schmoe on the...

Supreme Court picks.

I'm fairly in agreement with where the Political Compass put him: He isn't defined so much by right or left so much as extreme authoritarianism and whatever economic whim, rightwing or leftwing, will enrich him in the moment (which to be fair, is inherently rightwing). The dude wants to be a...

I mean, it is. Its abrupt interjection into a back-and-forth about immigration is out of place and apparently without a point though. :dunno:

Cheap immigrant labor*, although it stands true enough as it was. Other issues around immigration - refugee policies, cultural diversity, ****** policy, etc., etc., isn't left-right. It's on the other axis.