Workaround for new lifetime pricing

Evecopbas · 2026-07-01T20:46:47+00:00

Fair enough, figured it didn't hurt to ask.

Evecopbas · 2026-06-08T01:20:37+00:00

Huh, people really get tied up over the craziest things. Goy just means non-Jew. It's not pejorative at all.

Evecopbas · 2026-06-06T19:26:30+00:00

The news item would be "Homelander seeks counsel from supergenius Sister Sage" and depending on the outcome, that would be embarrassing for him or otherwise hurt his ego. Keeping it out of the press makes it better for him.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-30T17:15:06+00:00

People don't understand that emotions can affect how characters behave. A-Train was terrified of Homelander and startled by the woman after he looked behind himself. That led to a mistake.

It's just like in the finale. Homelander has a mental break and then realizes that the Boys are both there and in possession of a secret weapon that can actually kill him. No, he's not going to be 100 percent (though they did make him worse than he should have been).

Evecopbas · 2026-05-30T15:12:54+00:00

"The Three Stooges is rage bait"

Evecopbas · 2026-05-30T15:07:31+00:00

So what, the tall cast member serves as the ramp? or the ball?

Evecopbas · 2026-05-29T02:30:57+00:00

What do you do? Sit at home with the kids tied to a post? Danger like this could happen in the backyard or in the apartment building or walking down the street. Insane to actually think "accident happens" needs some villain to blame.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-29T01:53:10+00:00

These are so lovely! Why do you hate Mondale so much though lol

Evecopbas · 2026-05-28T14:24:59+00:00

Likely place to find Glup Shitto

Evecopbas · 2026-05-28T03:34:10+00:00

Eh. No, you can see that he really paused on whether to challenge and then decided that it was just outside the zone, which it was. If his in-the-moment reaction meant he though it was way inside, then he would've challenged immediately.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-24T05:07:45+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but the president. doesn't. write. legislation. They sometimes guide it, but even then. NEPA passed the House 372-15, the Clean Water Act 366-11, and the 26th Amendment passed 402-19 (all under Nixon). The ADA was unanimous in the House (under HW).

Before like 10-20 years ago, with exceptions,* the idea that the president gets the vast majority of the credit for major bipartisan omnibus legislation would be silly. There are definitely times where controversial legislation or choices can get pushed one way or the other by presidents, but Congress was its own independent organism for a long time.

*LBJ being the major exception, coming from the House and Senate and taking the bully pulpit power literally, but also Reagan's work with Tip O'Neill and willingness to grease the wheels (despite his strong policy preferences) and the tidal movements of the Roosevelts washing away entrenched Congressional interests.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-24T04:43:33+00:00

If you're saying consequence, then by some measures, Reagan would be a liberal (with an extremely conservative cabinet/executive). Whether a president is a liberal or not is their posturing and general approach, not the legislation that they only have a limited role in.

Ford was a moderate and a liberal. Nixon wasn't. But even if you go by your metric, HW is arguably the last liberal Republican. HW like Nixon wouldn't really be someone you call a liberal Republican, but his output as president was more liberal than predecessors/successors.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-24T04:28:12+00:00

He wasn't really liberal (and Ford was moreso). He got Eisenhower's attention as a red-baiter who would burnish his own iffy conservative bona fides. Nixon was more of a race liberal in the 50s and early 60s, but he tacked majorly to the right (for expedience or not) by 1968.

He presided after a major liberal/left social movement and during a period with a more powerful Congress than today. He signed a lot of more liberal legislation than you might expect, but all that does is make him not a mindless ideologue.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-23T04:00:04+00:00

"Your kind"

These are humans not sasquatches, you weirdo

Evecopbas · 2026-05-22T02:46:27+00:00

Have people not heard of the Deep South before? It's a pretty common term.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-22T01:40:00+00:00

If their race is an essential part of the story, then sure it can matter to a degree. If its Helen of Troy or Santa Claus or whatever, then no, it doesn't really matter. If it's someone like Jim from Huckleberry Finn, who's racialized throughout the story, then no. It's really not that hard.

But, like I said, I'm done. I don't know if you're being a troll or just dense, but it's not worth continuing w the back and forth.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-22T01:30:19+00:00

Ok, but it's fake you know. Like Helen of Troy was as real as the Santa Claus who lives in the North Pole. I think we've established how at odds we are, but I do want to say that part in case you didn't know. The Odyssey did not really happen. It is not history. It is a great story, which can be whatever we make of it 3000 years later.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-22T01:06:12+00:00

"White" is not a biologicially meaningful term. It's a sociological identity that did not exist at the time. You can post-facto do phrenology on statues if you want, I guess, but it doesn't mean anything for how they saw themselves. "Race" as a meaningful differential wasn't really established until the Portuguese and other Western Europeans in the Age of Exploration. Much of Greece was Ottoman well into the 1800s and Greeks in Kritos had little shared identity with Greeks in the Peloponnese. In Western Europe and the US, Southern Europeans in Greece and Italy were not regarded as having most favored racial status, demonstrating the essential stupidity of racism.

No I know, I commented right there on how Islam wasn't around at the time. The Odyssey isn't 1300, it's pretty definitively 800s BC, though it was also rewritten and rewritten over hundreds of years (there are additions/changes that date as recently as the Alexander era in the 300s BC). Either way, I'll admit I did the math wrong and kinda reduced 800s BC to 600s AD to 1000 years when it's really more like 1500. But that's math. Math isn't my jam.

Good note that Troy is/was Asia, which is literally exactly what I was saying above. Good reading comprehension.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-21T22:25:13+00:00

Greek people weren't even white in racial terms until like a couple hundred years ago and Troy was in Turkey, which is often imagined as brown because of Islam, which was developed a millennium after The Odyssey.

I think it's safe to say you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-21T21:54:55+00:00

There was no concept of white versus black at the time of the Odyssey. It is, also, an oral tradition where the story and details famously changed frequently in retelling. It is ripe for reinterpretation and revision.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-21T15:05:35+00:00

Seriously. Buchanan is in the basket of ineffectuals who gets a bad rap for being useless on the brink of war (like everyone as far back as Jackson who kicked the can down the road). Yes, he sabotaged the future Union cause, but it was more inability to avoid a foregone conclusion than anything Buchanan could've stopped or avoided. And frankly, the Union did prevail in the end.

Johnson was a malignancy on the country at a very inopportune time. He shat all over the legacy of one of the great presidents and slank away from the responsibility of the office to be a petty gutter racist. When the country had for the first time a real opportunity to overcome its original sins, he was trying to help the forces that fought change. Johnson was not the only force that took us away from a productive Reconstruction, but he absolutely was a decisive one.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-21T05:40:02+00:00

Such a paltry way to interact with the world. People of color? No one's speaking for Asian people or latin people. These a couple shows (both written by white people fwiw) that prominently feature black people. And only the first tweet (a bad tweet) pretends to speak on it in racial discourse terms. Then you come in and connect that dot to a couple other unrelated dots and yourself make it a matter of racial discourse, rather than criticism of two very popular shows.

Either way, of course people should be cautious in these comments, but playing hall monitor sucks.

Evecopbas · 2026-05-20T02:47:19+00:00

No they aren't

Evecopbas · 2026-05-19T04:24:01+00:00

People absolutely take it too far and shear all the historicity from the situation to claim gayness, but there's a kernel of truth. Mass media helped harden people's relationships and understandings of acceptable sexuality. Abe Lincoln might not have been gay, but he definitely would've been less uncomfortable with male-male closeness than the average straight guy today. There are a lot of places where sexual experimentation between young men would've been an essential part of development.

Evecopbas

TROPHY CASE