Which ones: when he refuses to help a gentile woman on the basis that he can't feed dogs while his children starve, or when he throws out his mother for failing to worship him as god, or when he curses a fig tree for failing to give figs on demand? Which do you think exemplifies good morality?

The problem with this argument is that it pretends that there was a time when either Christianity or American stood for something good and decent, as opposed to slavery and indoctrination

They are liberal, as in pro-capitalist center-right, as the term means in the entire rest of the world. What they are not is "leftist"

I am pretty sure they are...

I was ready for everything but friendly worm-sheep-men

sO mUcH fOr tHe ToLeRaNt LeFt!

Y'all want the part after a revolution, but first you need to do the first part

Already white-washing their collaboration

They aren't morons, they are fascists. This isn't a big misunderstanding: these are their core values. You will never bring these people around to your point of view because their point of view isn't an error to dismiss, it is their core identity

It is purposeful. They take milquetoast actions because their funding comes from the same ruling oligarchy

I think before a video game is adapted into a film it needs to first be remade as a more obscure medium: eg as a Noh play or a magic lantern

The only thing scarier than the actual sadist are the team of journalists writing that puff piece. They must know what they are writing and yet do it anyway. No one is forcing them to do it yet, they do it willingly

The US should contribute, France created hell but the US methodically sustained it via an economic blockade

Patternist is amazing. I love how Butler can write an epic about race in America but on the surface it is all about psionics and commits to it, but when you are done with the books, you are like, OH, that was all 100% relevant to racism today.