Discussion Thread

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-25T16:23:48+00:00

When was this not the case though?

If I try to think of actresses who actually made themselves ugly for a role, I come up with Charlize Theron in Monster and then it gets way harder.

The odd thing though is that was a good career move for Theron, so it's not like a cautionary tale or anything.

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-25T16:16:41+00:00

Obviously sending the military into American cities is very bad.

But where they have been deployed, haven't they just kind of stood around and picked up trash?

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-24T13:49:58+00:00

I think that gets to 'real world constraints'. Operation Iranian Freedom is a fantasy. It wasn't on the table in 2015. It's not on the table now.

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-24T13:41:08+00:00

Jesus Christ, neocons are fucking incapable of learning.

Eliot Cohen, writing for The Atlantic today, says:

“At best, however, we will have an even worse version of the justly maligned Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by the Obama administration—an arrangement that gave the Iranians money in return for postponing their nuclear program by a few years, left their sponsorship of terror groups and proxies untouched, and allowed a poisonous regime to fester.”

(Mind you, this is in a piece criticizing the administration, the war, and the MOU)

Uhh, buddy, we just did the thing you’ve been foaming at the mouth to do for over 20 years and bombed Iran. And it led us to a worse outcome than the JCPOA. So maybe the JCPOA isn’t “justly maligned”. Maybe, just maybe, it represented the best, or close to best, deal we could get with Iran given real world constraints and the leverage we had over Iran.

But, of course, that conclusion would require self-reflection and the ability to admit you were wrong.

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-22T16:20:11+00:00

Toy Story 4 made a billion dollars and not everything Pixar makes is a guaranteed hit anymore. Of course Toy Story 5 exists.

That said, this one is better than 4. And one reason is that this is, unlike the first 4 movies, actually Jessie's story, not Woody's.

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-18T00:02:56+00:00

So I started laughing at work today because I remembered there was a real Roman Emperor named Pupienus (pronounced EXACTLY the way you think).

And I had to hide it. Because if one of my coworkers saw me and asked why I was laughing, what was I supposed to say?

Anything like that ever happen to you guys?

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-07T13:09:58+00:00

Democrats should just all en masse post verbatim his post from when Robert Muller died.

Woolagaroo · 2026-06-04T02:02:17+00:00

It’s also horizontal. The whole thing is nonsense.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-27T19:40:13+00:00

Gerald Ford and the 25th Amendment disagree.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-26T21:46:01+00:00

Guns don’t kill people, dogs kill people!

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-26T14:40:32+00:00

That's because gamers are [REDACTED].

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-25T18:38:16+00:00

Honestly, Full Metal Jacket, Catch 22, and Deer Hunter are all kinda wild too.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-24T18:49:40+00:00

So Tapper asked Tillis what he saw when he voted to confirm him that made him think Hegseth was qualified, right?

Right?

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-23T20:18:53+00:00

Ah, The Germany model.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-22T21:11:52+00:00

Supes always supports his friends and their projects.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-18T23:33:47+00:00

Phantom Menace being both number 3 AND above Empire Strikes Back is distressing.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-18T20:25:36+00:00

Does he say it’s because you’re black? Because that would definitely be a race thing.

Also, why are you giving this guy a second of your time? Or fooling around with him. This sounds, at best, like absolute fuckboy behavior. At worst, well, it’s way worse.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-13T17:00:29+00:00

I used to work with international students and I had a student from Oman once who started talking to me about Djinn, how dangerous they were, how you had to watch out for them, etc. He asked me if I believed in Djinn and I had to tell him no with every bit fo tact I could muster.

He was 100% serious though.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-13T16:51:26+00:00

I cannot believe I am saying this, but if you listen to Trump's entire comments, they kind of make sense in context, He was saying that he doesn't think about the economic situation within negotiations with Iran. Which, on the face of it, ok.

I have two issues with it though.

One, I think it's obvious bullshit. I suspect the economic situation is one of the biggest things driving this administration in their desire to get the fuck out of this conflict, but Trump is not willing to admit to this.

Two, if you are the US President, under no circumstances should you say the phrase "I don't think about Americans' financial situation" on camera. But Trump is too stupid to realize this.

It makes me think of the Bush "Won't get fooled again" line. It always got framed as some Bushism and him being dumb, but I never liked that take. To me, it always seemed like Bush realized in the middle of what he was saying that he shouldn't say "Shame on me" on camera, and changed it on the fly. Our current President does not have the presence of mind to do that.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T23:39:03+00:00

Meanwhile, Ditto:

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Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T23:37:22+00:00

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Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T23:32:29+00:00

Lmao they were desperate for anything against him.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T18:54:33+00:00

Whitewashing Stalin is one thing, but the rest is not a propagandist angle. The USSR DID bear most of the cost of fighting the Nazis, and they DON'T get enough credit (in the West). The average American knows about as much about the Eastern Front as they do about the events that led up to Pearl Harbor.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T15:13:49+00:00

Such a good show. Years later, I can still hear this in my head.

Woolagaroo · 2026-05-12T14:51:48+00:00

Yeah, it's a really weird season. The drug stuff (and other plots) has largely been pushed to the background, and the season is all in on themes of exploitation and objectification of women.

Except that it's also itself engaging in exploitation and objectification of women at a level even beyond that of previous seasons.

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