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Butlerian Jihad when
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Ross Douthat when someone dusts off a slur nobody's used since Wallace ran for President
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Really brilliant work by @protectdemocracy.org. Highly likely they had these amici teed up already for just such an occurrence.
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But the worst sin, in my eyes:
4. The Holdo chase conceit is just Battlestar’s legendary chase episode, “33,” without any of the grit, human toll, or underlying sense of terror
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Generally it’s a rehash of OT concepts that refuses to engage with broader Star Wars lore, to its detriment
1. Canto Bight is “we have Nar Shadaa at home”
2. Luke’s ennui turns reams of EU content on Jedi history into a mere plot device/punchline (“the sacred texts!!”)
3. Leia spacewalk
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Honestly that much more a triumph then
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👏🏻 tour de force Jeff
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The Trump Administration escalating pushes us closer to a Ghorman/Mike Duncan scenario where someone, “nobody knows who,” fires a shot, all Hell breaks loose, and dire, unpredictable consequences unfold from there.
Hopefully cooler heads prevail but this is getting serious.
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One of my dad friends just dropped $1,000+ on a new Magic: The Gathering set and I’m admiring his ability to mix the most expensive hobbies around
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Reminds me of the time I ordered a blueberry bagel with jalapeño cream cheese with my Jewish girlfriend (now wife) and she called it “vaguely antisemitic”
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There is a weird reluctance to accept that COVID outcomes are mostly due to public health measures and practices rather than intrinsic risk factors. A two-fold difference in deaths would require a very significant difference in age! We do see some difference here but it advantages ND.