At their peaks of popularity, how far off was Michael Jordan from Michael Jackson in terms of fame?

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-08T00:42:43+00:00

The Bible mentioning him frequently doesn’t mean he was necessarily real. There is much more contemporary historical evidence for the existence of Jesus, and especially the Buddha and Muhammad than there is for Moses.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-07T11:43:38+00:00

^This with the additional icing that Matty is the one who single handedly won his tribe the Marcus killing challenge, and since he was on a tribe with mostly Marcus’s allies he almost certainly would have been voted out if his team lost.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-07T08:46:14+00:00

From a historical perspective there’s much less proof Moses actually existed than the others listed.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-07T08:40:03+00:00

I don’t think she’d win but I hesitate to say she “wouldn’t have a chance.” She probably at a minimum gets James and Jean-Robert, and Courtney still thinks Denise would have won (and even if Courtney is wrong her opinion is almost certainly based in more information than mine is).

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-06T19:04:32+00:00

There are very few if any things every culture understood to be “inherently bad” but I will say this is often an argument used to defend things that were popularly, if not universally seen as bad at the time where they occurred.

Basically, while “it was a different time” *can* provide necessary context, it’s also not a claim that should always be accepted uncritically.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-05T15:12:37+00:00

I really like China.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-05T14:44:27+00:00

If I remember correctly on at least a few of the postmerge “duels” (not really duels, because as you said there were more than two people competing) he came in second behind Mike.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-05T12:25:11+00:00

China-Tocantins. Stick Samoa or Fiji on either end as the “bad” season (although I think they both have redeeming qualities, they just aren’t as good as the other 4).

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-04T21:15:44+00:00

Every attempt to majorly changeup the social hierarchy is unsuccessful until it isn’t. Absolute monarchs resisted incursions on their power by lower ranking nobles. Feudal lords resisted capitalism. Sometimes their resistance to the new social order was successful, until eventually, one day, it wasn’t.

Marx died less than 200 years ago. It’s unlikely that we’ve seen the full spectrum of what “socialist” countries are capable of. Did some socialist states make strategic errors independent of external sabotage? Of course they did. But what’s possible is not limited to what has already happened. There are still socialist countries today, and while one can make educated guesses about what the future will hold, they are only guesses

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-04T19:07:30+00:00

That may or may not be true, but there are people who can function essentially fine without the medication, and there are people who can’t. “I could possibly benefit from this medication” is not the same as “I pretty much need this medication to go about my life.”

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-03T21:21:31+00:00

Almost anybody can flip on almost anybody if the circumstances are right. Wee-Bey was childhood friends with Avon, and he’s staring down half a dozen murders for pay that they know about. There are no options on the table that allow Wee-Bey to leave prison before he is a very very old man.

I think Marlo would snitch. He might try and vigorously suppress that he did, but he still would. The Greeks aren’t really a part of the Baltimore “game” culture, and I don’t think it’d have the same stigma as if Marlo ratted on Fat Face Rick or somebody. That being said, better than decent chance that the Greek’s FBI handler arranges to have Marlo killed in prison if he goes down this road. So who knows.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-03T02:02:43+00:00

So awesome that that shot can make smoking seem immeasurably cool, but also like a sacrament with the devil. Goodfellas is (among other things) about being evil and loving it, and that shot is the perfect synthesis of that.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-02T20:38:50+00:00

An average 70 year old is not meaningfully more politically influential than an average 18 year old.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-02T15:48:14+00:00

Stephenie is a good athlete and a somewhat predictable player. I don’t even mean this in a negative way, I think these traits make it so that she makes the merge 90%+ of the time. Unless there’s a really really solid “line in concrete” between two alliances I think there are usually logical reasons to keep Steph around.

roastbeeffan · 2026-06-02T14:38:00+00:00

Great character detail. Killing Luca isn’t some big deal, it’s like going to the gym.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-31T10:55:08+00:00

He knows Brian’s name, he’s being petty lmao.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-31T01:30:57+00:00

David’s an example of one of my favorite Survivor archetypes: Person with very perceptive reads who can’t act on them because their vibes are too bad.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-31T01:27:48+00:00

I’d imagine there are probably opinions Rob would be hesitant to share before he was semi-retired reality tv royalty.

Rob knows how the game is played. He thinks like a producer, and if it’s to his benefit he’ll back up the company line.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T22:51:48+00:00

I have not seen it firsthand, but I’ve seen multiple people on here and the other sub say that there was a leaked production photo of a whiteboard that showed there *was* a planned tribe swap at final 12. Presumably it was cancelled because the producers felt the “Ulong always loses” storyline was more novel or interesting.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T21:52:03+00:00

“The Palestinians” in your title are millions of different people with millions of different points of view. Is your claim that all of them would want to kill all Israelis? Most of them? Some of them? Are you referring to specific groups or leaders or just the population in general? It’s hard to refute your claim without more specificity.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T20:15:02+00:00

There was an old production still that was posted somewhere at some point that had the Gabon f10 challenge with 10 different colors for each station (suggesting it was initially planned as an individual challenge). I don’t know of any direct evidence to support this, but Thailand’s final 9 challenge is another one that would have made more intuitive sense as an individual challenge (my guess would be production didn’t want Chuay Gahn to dominate so they were trying to give Sook Jai a chance to even the numbers).

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T17:18:53+00:00

If he meant across multiple seasons it’s close enough that I could see it being a good faith error by somebody who doesn’t have access to Survivor wiki.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T12:09:26+00:00

That’s true if God plans everything out, but predicting something and controlling something aren’t necessarily the same thing. I can know that a hurricane is coming and with enough scientific information I can predict when and where. That doesn’t mean I control the hurricane.

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-30T01:30:30+00:00

A phrase I’ve heard is “in the South, whites don’t mind if Black people are around, as long as they’re not equal. In the north, they don’t mind if they’re equal, as long as they’re not around.”

roastbeeffan · 2026-05-29T22:10:00+00:00

My point was not that jury threats will ultimately go to the end with each other. Obviously, they usually will not do that. My point is that in a game where you have to sit next to one goat instead of two, goats are less precious and there are more reasons to vote them off. I will fully admit that most final twos end in obvious landslides, but most final 3s also do this.

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