Recent content by G.B.Blackrock

FWIW, I found Threads (Meta's would-be Twitter-substitute) to be far worse, and far more quickly. I stopped using it because within only a week or two, my feed was flooded with left-wing political commentary. While Bluesky (in my experience, of course) definitely leans leftward, I find...

With some voters, it's clearly not, but it really IS with a lot of folks who lean more to the left.

Even if I agree re: court expansion, you do NOT want to keep promoting that idea for at least the next few years.

I've nothing against Mamdami, but I'm concerned about the narrative that attributes his win solely to his willingness to be the kind of fighter that liberals have been asking for (not at all a bad thing), and fails to at least acknowledge that Cuomo lost his previous job because he's a sexual...

I've noticed an uptick in complaining about BlueSky's supposed hyper-liberalism in recent weeks. It's not even just a conservative complaint. There are signs of moderates (or, at least, somewhat less liberal folks) complaining about liberals essentially eating their own and complaining when...

One thing that can be done (and, in fact, is currently being done in the Senate vis-a-vis the big spending bill, which I'll call the "Large Ludicrous Legislation" just to deny MAGA its preferred name) is to delay voting on things for as long as legally possible (in this case, by introducing...

One could easily argue that it already is. Especially in the Everglades (for humans, anyway. Other, typically rather dangerous, animals thrive in that environment).

It's probably worth remembering that JD Vance once wrote a book saying lots of anti-Trump stuff. Once he changed his tune to enter politics, he was warmly embraced, and is now the VP.

Fought out, no doubt, but that doesn't mean he'll lose. He doesn't always, even though he should.

That depends entirely on how much power the cult retains without him guiding it.

Thing is, there's no guarantee at this point 1) that Doctor Who will even return (although I expect it will, and within a year or two at most), nor 2) that RTD will still be in charge (this, in fact, is rumored to be unlikely). Why go to all that trouble to set up stuff that you're not even...

I considered it when I first heard about the concept, but then I saw the actual toys and the pricetag, and decided not to. Even at a deep discount, I can't seem them being worth the price.

Why not release the toy in another line? Why do we need one specifically in Studio Series 86 at all?

That's always been my own gripe. Make G1 Megatron a tank all you want. But it's no longer a fit for Studio Series 86. The label is meaningless. That said, in regard to doing something that was never in the movie... it's hardly the first time a character has been given a previously-unseen...

I remain unconvinced, for a bunch of reasons. That said, I can't completely disprove it. It just doesn't mesh terribly well with what's known elsewhere.