Recent content by Vrii

Why wait until someone gets shot when Trump can just make up a rambling story about one being shot at that never has to be fact-checked or verified in any way, but can still be used to justify martial law or a crisis or whatever it is he's aiming for?

That is absolutely not the origin of the term. OED says its earliest evidence is from 1986, which lines up with my having heard it used as an insult my whole life.

I'll point out for completion's sake that I'm pretty sure I've heard bus-takers referred to interchangeably as "passengers" and "riders" and I have never, ever noticed that either of them is used less respectfully or whatever. The idea that riding a horse like the Rohirrim is the etymological...

I’m just enjoying the idea that anyone’s deciding to call someone taking the bus a “rider” instead of a “passenger“ because they think it sounds so cool.

So cool.

You don't think there's a meaningful distinction between an astronaut who is trained and acts as part of a spaceflight's crew and a passenger who spent some money and sits in a chair? Is everyone who's ever travelled by plane a pilot, too?

Nah, yall have lapped them a couple of times over in the last two months. When they start paying other countries to share use of their death camps and threatening the sovereignty of their historical allies we can revisit the discussion.

Honestly, given that the Habs are a) on the verge of clinching a playoff spot for the first time in years, and b) introducing their most anticipated rookie in longer than that, I think moving the debate just makes sense if you're hoping that anyone in Quebec is going to watch it. It's pretty...

Nah, some of the recent ones are absolutely bad. Bad scripts, bad direction, incoherent decisions. Shang Chi is an example of what you’re talking about - a movie that followed their formula to a fault and did what they’ve always done. This Captain America movie and Eternals before it are just...

Finally watched the new Cap movie, and...ugh. Wow. It tried to steal every interesting story beat from Winter Soldier and be the sequel to the original Hulk movie that nobody has ever asked for at the same time. Genuinely in the running with Eternals for the worst MCU movie yet. This wasn't...

Oh hey, it's snowing.

The director of ICE making pro-human trafficking comments is certainly a thing.

I think that "just" is the only thing I disagree with in what you said. It absolutely is a ploy to transfer wealth, but I think it's pretty clear that it's also a means for Trump to get attention, to feel important, to get world leaders calling him, and to hurt some of the people he/his handlers...

And was preceded by the man himself announcing on social media that it was time to buy. Blatant market manipulation, but there are no laws anymore so

My response was to the semi-sarcastic "wokeness made America work," and wasn't at all meant to suggest that the hateful racist fascists don't intend to be hateful racist fascists.