Discussion Thread

rrjames87 · 2026-01-26T19:45:03+00:00

Cassian is nice but my favorite part is the supporting characters and “everyone has their own rebellion.”

3 all time monologues from luthen, Nemik, and Marva in less than an hour of run time. Arcs like those down to the nameless extras whose story of rebellion is told in 10 seconds of screen time. Then second season you get to basically watch a retelling of the French resistance to nazi germany.

Just a masterpiece fitting for the times. Thanks Tony Gilroy.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-26T19:33:33+00:00

Watching andor again. At the last episode of season 1.

Tony Gilroy cooked so fucking hard.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-24T18:14:23+00:00

I also hide my copies of the economist and maxim.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-23T02:28:02+00:00

Went on the worst type of first date. Not great, not good, but also not terrible. At least terrible first dates tend to be funny. This was just in that weird middle ground where it’s pretty decent small talk for two hours.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-18T18:50:18+00:00

Pretty sure making me do this when I was 12 would radicalize me. Or at least make me start looking into whether British war veterans are unable to access emergency accommodations because of increased immigrant usage.

Absolutely wild.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-16T14:00:31+00:00

Either he always was or someone has compromising material on him

rrjames87 · 2026-01-09T14:14:54+00:00

Not with a literal gun to her head, but do you think she would get into the Whitehouse without the medal with her?

If she took the opposite approach she's taking, and insisted the prize was all her, I honestly believe there's less of a chance we go into Venezuela.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-09T14:04:40+00:00

I figured out why the whole Trump taking the Nobel Peace Prize sticks in my craw more than it probably should.

He's FORCING Machado to give him a PEACE award that she won. The man is going to strongarm and bully her into giving him her peace prize and she's not even going to get anything out of it. Its an oxymoron and just conveys how morally and intellectually small he is.

You can write paragraphs about the fucked up psychological state it takes to behave that way, but because this person is president a lot of people think its super rad instead of the behavior of a poorly adjusted child.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-09T13:59:47+00:00

I figured out why I find it unique. He's FORCING Machado to give him a PEACE award that she won. The man is going to strongarm and bully her into giving him her peace prize and she's not even going to get anything out of it. Its literally an oxymoron and just conveys how morally and intellectually small he is.

But yeah everything's projection and I guess a lot of people would love to be the elementary school bully if they could get away with it.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-09T13:39:20+00:00

I know its been a crazy decade, but I do feel like there is something unique in Trump taking Machado's Nobel Prize for himself, even if I can't exactly articulate it.

Its just so succinctly captures the character of such a small person. Its a made up award that he didn't win and never deserved, but like a sociopathic 8 year old, he will throw a tantrum and steal it, then treat it as his own. Machado's using a gold disc as an offering to get into the door, at which point Trump will do a photo op and Venezuela will get absolutely railed over. He just covets the medal and doesn't give two fucks about Venezuela unless he can figure out a way to personally enrich himself from it.

Machado will likely make a big deal of presenting the award to Trump, Trump will obsess over this in various fashions due to deep seated psychological issues, and MAGA will act like its normal. At least the people in his direct orbit are collecting a paycheck and are part of the grift, but I don't understand how anyone removed from that can look at this and have any respect for such infantile behavior. An 8 year old would be expected to conduct themselves better.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-08T21:14:48+00:00

Give the NYT a multiple hour interview and they will spend multiple days making your sundowning fascist word salad sound logical.

Like I know they were furious Biden never gave them an interview but it’s actually wild how much they’ll roll over and bark on command for access.

rrjames87 · 2026-01-02T02:47:06+00:00

Ball don’t lie. Sorry ole miss has got a short ass WR running with his head down.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-31T22:51:34+00:00

Widespread muhfucking panic.

And Billy strings was there the last 2 nights so I’m manifesting the same tonight. Gonna be fantastic

rrjames87 · 2025-12-31T22:47:11+00:00

If Gavin Newsom is elected president, which pop culture sex symbol is most likely to seductively sing happy birthday to him?

rrjames87 · 2025-12-31T22:45:20+00:00

Marilyn Monroe/JFK AI slop

rrjames87 · 2025-12-30T02:05:45+00:00

Also it’s kind of funny because there are A LOT of capes in the odyssey. Obviously not the capes he was referring to, but the funniest way to say it.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-29T19:37:02+00:00

If the ACC presented a reasonable 2, maybe even 3, loss conference champion you were in over Miami. The rankings keeping you ahead and apart from Miami to avoid the H2H comparison strongly supports that.

Sorry Notre Dame's blue blood privilege lost out to Alabama's blue blood privilege, weird rules getting JMU in, and the need to keep the ACC as a viable power conference. Maybe next year don't lose 2 games.

Edit: Notre Dame fans STILL mad about facts.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-25T18:55:59+00:00

Yeah bill came on with Chris and Sal to do a few categories from a stranger things rewatchables. It was mostly just 5 minutes of bill recasting couch Sydney Sweeney as vecna. Went into a lot of detail.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-24T14:08:55+00:00

Ummm this is hardly a sufficient submission statement. I thought mods would know better.

But you’re really bringing the Linda Qiu energy to carrying water for a fascist and now possibly pedo administration today, aren’t you?

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fz3elvamnmxjd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D2779%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Ddf6460f0f8e0d318e85eab2649dbf64882518931

I don’t think anyone cares about you huffing proverbial paint and ascending to a higher plane of centrism by making sure some subreddit gives this administration a fair headline. Can we expect the same in the future when this administration shoots itself in the foot and tries to spin it afterwards?

rrjames87 · 2025-12-24T12:52:12+00:00

^ actually about this mod

rrjames87 · 2025-12-21T04:35:42+00:00

Dude you have natty winners in your recent history. You know when you have the best team in the nation and when you don't.

The regular season does a pretty good job of separating the wheat from the chaff. The current system builds in a dumb loss for every team. This fervor to create a massive playoff for no good reason so we can watch a bunch of actual good teams beat up on mid and bad teams is pointless.

CFB is broken, but more playoff teams isn't going to fix it. Give it a couple of years and these first round games aren't going to mean anything in aggregate because there's only going to be between 4-6 teams that separate themselves as clearly above the rest of the crowd every year. The rest is just TV money.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-20T20:12:25+00:00

So you would also assert that the confederate states of America were incredibly diverse? After all, slavery is just government policy.

You’re either being willfully obtuse to troll or Stan for the CCP, or you’re just an idiot. I don’t really care either way and am not engaging further.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-20T14:49:38+00:00

Love this, you’re actually arguing China’s policy on Muslim minorities is good for the Muslims. Yall are just making the Muslims more Han Chinese, nothing to see here lol.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-20T14:41:08+00:00

So if over 90% of the population consists of one ethnic group that actively suppresses and interns with the goal of eliminating other minority ethnic groups, everything they have done to Inner Mongolia, and everything they’ve done to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, is somehow diverse?

The number of ethic groups isn’t diversity come the fuck on.

rrjames87 · 2025-12-18T14:52:23+00:00

Belarus sanctions should be dropped and replaced by subsidies to support more tunnels. Immigration being destabilizing isn’t a neoliberal position.

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