what is your idea of support?

I'm still waiting on ideas about how we "stick it to Assad" and show that we don't tolerate dictators?

Yeah, but what's the specific complaints? Is it about the substitution of violence and rape porn, all excused by the name of "realism"? The unbearable WASPiness? Is it the goofy battle scenes and fights? Is it a complaint about the generic fantasy tropes?

Like, how is it that you are watching the show, but you don't know who Sandor Clegane is. He's literally had the best fight scenes in the entire show. His showdown with Brienne is quite possibly the best fight scene of the entire series. He did his absolute level best to protect the Stark girls and ...

I feel like we should have a consistent anti-vicious-tyrant who gasses people stance. I get that we sometimes do business with the wicked for some hope of greater good, but that doesn't make it ok if it's the best among all bad choices. I'm goal setting here, not doing a past referendum. I mean, wh...

So, I've got a low bar for fantasy or medieval shit. You get some dudes with swords, maybe some supernatural hit, I'll watch the hell out of it. I'm part of the reason Hercules and Xena were popular. We don't get a lot of fantasy stuff, so I'll eagerly swallow up any swill you throw me. But seriousl...

Amnesty. If you haven't killed, raped or maimed somebody, welcome to the thunderdome, get your SS number and sign up to pay taxes like the rest of us.

(Unrelated to the current discussion, do you think Trump wants the Affordable Care Act repealed simply so he can replace it with Trumpcare? Like he just wants his name branded on something that people will use for decades-plus?) Do you believe he actually HAS a plan? To enrich himself, yes. I would...

Why do people keep saying Tlsi is "pro-assad"? She met with him, on a trip primarily sponsored by assad and his supporters? She won't call him a war criminal? alright, I can dig it. That makes sense. So, who is Bashar Assad? Well, he's the current internationally recognized head of state f...

Just to put this out there: Doctors without Borders runs on slightly less than 2 billion a year. This was half a years funding for them. The problem, as I see it, isn't that people want to rebuild Notre Dame nor fund that. The problem is that we live in a society that places more value on inanimate ...

IIt's really sad watching democrats tear themselves apart with abandon.

I hate the morning. Given the chance, I will happily sleep til 10 or 12. But I often have to get up before dawn. I'm never happy about it, but I'm pretty good at getting up and going.

That's understandable.

"whiteness".

Considering the source material is basically crib notes of world history, crammed together and jumbled, with a dash of dragons mixed in, why the high hopes?

Well, let's be fair, saying "white" isn't real doesn't erase the repercussions of centuries of white supremacy. It's just the first step in that direction. Discussing the origins of whiteness is essential to understanding the ways in which systematic racism was built up, especially in the ...

I mean, whatever. The point is that the color of the paint or the design of ergonomic features doesn't change the core properties of the object.

Yeah. Me too. I get if we want to have a conversation of how we need to transcend race in the way we think of people. But there seems like there can be a marginalizing effect by saying, "There's no such thing as white people." Because there is such a thing in our societal structure- they ...

Seriously, I'm not. I'm an american of mixed racial/ethnic heritage. I've got black and white ancestors. And in North Carolina, when I get a license or ID, I'm allowed to state my race. I chose "other". So on my drivers license, the "race" part is just blank. "white" is...