The larger issue here is that our society idolizes the military in the first place. I find that much more concerning than “stolen valor.”

Don’t tell idaho, their bars will have a “Super awesome straight skinny guy beach days” every Saturday…

You apparently struggle with reading comprehension. You wrote out that entire tirade against something I didn’t say. Again, the advertisement was KEVIN COSTNER, the actor not a character, going on about what great people settlers were. In fact, it was a rather terrible advertisement because all I could gather is that the movie is about settlers going west.

The advertisement I saw for this film struck me as some white supremacist nonsense, so I won’t be seeing it. Costner carrying on about what great people settlers were, no thanks.

If you consider that around 3,000 people were killed on 9/11 and around 5 million were killed by America’s responding “war on terror,” this really was Isreal’s 9/11. Hell, the US put boots in damn near every country in the region except the country that funded, trained (with our help), and planned the attack.

I think that is fish filets with lemon and fly garnish.

I apologize if I wasn’t clear in my statement. I was not supporting shaming fat people. As someone who is, once again, overweight, I know they are well aware. I am, however, opposed to those who state that you can be healthy and obese, as the evidence does not support it. Also, no one is owed to be found attractive by others. The greater your weight deviates from healthy, the lower your pool of potential partners. People need to accept the realities, not expect others to indulge in fantasies. That was all I was trying to convey in short hand. I still think all people should be treated with respect, and it isn’t anyone’s job, except maybe a medical professional, to point out someone’s weight to them.

As with most things in “mainstream” American culture, that was the case for the majority of minority cultures in the US. It just takes a while until the majority catches up.

This was a decade before all about that bass, the healthy at any size nonsense, etc. Either way, it really is unfortunate that we’ve gone from “you shouldn’t be shitty to people because they’re fat” to “being obese is something to be celebrated.”

It really is a terrible article.

That was an unrelated story about some other guys with “ties to ISIS” who were not implicated in any specific plot that was included in the story for reasons unknown.

I’m very suspicious of this story, myself. Somebody hit that little girl with the racquet.

I get it, though. Every country has the equivalent of “felons,” and they are not obliged to allow felons from outside in.

I spent six years there as a kid and experienced quite a bit. I really wanted to revisit as an adult, but that’s not in the cards now. I will always cherish the memories of my time spent there, and I’m glad my parents made a point to see as much of the country, people, and culture as possible.

Not funny at all, actually. I got a DUI a month after turning 21. Fortunately, nothing terrible happened. There are many countries that either consider a DUI a felony (Canada) or just don’t want you endangering their populace (Japan). There’s quite a list, but it’s less than 37, lol.

Damn, a former president is banned from entering more countries than I am. That’s fucking wild and make me feel slightly better about some of the places I’ll never see again.

Demolition Man was a cyberpunk dystopian prediction taken to the absurd in order to be palatable to the masses. Really, though, who’s to say what eventual conglomerate will be on top. Tangential revenue streams and strange mergers could make tomorrow’s winners. Either way, the rest of us lose.

It’s more red dwarf than trek, but it’s more trek than red dwarf.

It’s been that way a long while. I remember seeing footage from the 70s with a toddler chasing a bear cub in Yellowstone while all the adults laughed. People, on average, are dumb as fuck.

I think they are authoritarians over any other ideology they claim to hold. The second most important aspect of their beliefs also does not relate to socialism/communism, which is that a government be “anti-west.” That is why they have “uncritical support” for Putin, who isn’t even remotely leftist, let alone communist. It’s all bullshit.