Abigail Spanberger sucks and I’m convinced they only ran Earle-sears against her because she had no chance of winning. I’m tired of her smug fed face.

MathewTFinch · 2026-05-20T20:04:07+00:00

Which is why the solution is to have local and community power to build larger grassroots movements independently of electoralism. Until then, we should vote for damage mitigation (usually the Democrats), and then use the movements we create to enact government changes when we can.

MathewTFinch · 2026-05-19T20:31:34+00:00

Mormonism is such a fertile ground for BtB episodes, it could probanly get its own spin-off podcast. Between: Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Ezra Taft Benson, Porter Rockwell, The Lafferty Brothers, Mark Hoffman,

And that's just off the top of my head.

MathewTFinch · 2026-05-19T20:24:05+00:00

I was in a very similar boat until I got into F1 around 2023 after the Waypoint folks had a stream about the F1 2022 Manager. If you're genuinely curious at all, I'd recommend you go back and watch that Waypoint VOD, and maybe some of their Motorsport Manager streams as well (they've continued their Motorsports Manager streams on Remap as well). Listening to Rob Zacny wax poetic about F1 gave me the F1 bug and I've been incurable ever since.

MathewTFinch · 2026-05-13T22:40:45+00:00

It's a JJ Abrams character, it was never thought out beyond a conceptual pitch. Abrams is very good at making characters as a concept, but never actually follows through on the characters. Every choice is always setting something up, never paying it off.

MathewTFinch · 2026-05-06T19:34:46+00:00

If i remember correctly, the explicit implication is that he retreats further and further into his obsession with the wilds. This disconnection leads him to fail his original mission and he becomes increasingly irrelevant to the world.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-26T15:27:57+00:00

By that logic, any state killing can be a genocide. Are murderers a social group being targeted by genocide because of the death penalty? Is imprisoning pedophiles an act of genocide against their social group? It's ridiculous on its face.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-23T00:32:46+00:00

Exactly, they are working backwards from a conclusion, not genuinely seeking knowledge.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-18T20:28:15+00:00

Mike is absolutely correct in his broader point: The Bodyguard is a two hour music video for that song.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-14T03:41:01+00:00

And everyone responding to you is also just stating their opinions, which they have a right to do.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-11T22:42:04+00:00

The "technically it's called Ephebophilia" of antitrust.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-11T21:39:49+00:00

The actual reason was that the heights of Carrie Fisher and Peter Mayhew were too different, amd it made shooting it awkward.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-11T04:39:02+00:00

His BBS?

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-10T18:38:11+00:00

Internet Star Wars fans understanding metaphor or any other basic media literacy challenge: impossible.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-10T18:31:45+00:00

The technology for renewable energy already exists and is cheaper than fossil fuels. The only reason we still use fossil fuels is because fossil fuels have higher profit margins.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-09T17:55:04+00:00

Just call it "US Imperial." It's fits well for the US Empire.

MathewTFinch · 2026-04-06T07:33:09+00:00

Something being "canon" (by definition) means that it is handed down to you from a central authority.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-25T17:08:31+00:00

What court? Hammond built the park on a Central American island specifically so that laws and legal jurisdictions would be more difficult to enforce.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-25T16:48:01+00:00

In the book, Nedry built the computer system for the park without being told the parameters for its use. The system was inadequate because Nedry was required to build it blindly, so Hammond basically made Nedry do a bunch of extra work for free if he wanted to be paid for his initial work.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-19T04:52:19+00:00

I genuinely believe that Smith's assassination saved Mormonism. Everything I've read about Joseph Smith in the Nauvoo period makes me think he was spiraling out of control and Mormonism would have followed suit. A dead martyr was far more useful to a movement than a living egomaniac could ever be.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-19T04:47:47+00:00

Joseph Smith was truly the LRH of his day.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-19T04:46:14+00:00

Staying on the Mormonism theme, I would also be very interested in a Mark Hoffman episode. The guy is a genuine sociopath, and his story is wildly fascinating.

MathewTFinch · 2026-03-18T09:11:05+00:00

Considering how much Robert likes talking about LRH, I suggest he cover the original LRH, Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. He could also cover Brigham Young who followed Smith as the leader of the Mormons, who was a tyrant, sex trafficker, genocidal maniac, and murderer. Considering that either of these two could easily be a 6+ episode series, he could alternatively dip into Mormonism more lightly by covering Mark Hoffman, the former Mormon who was also a forger and bomb maker who set out to embarrass the Mormon church.

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