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Ah yes, the semi-successful web series that Nickelodeon bought the rights to and proceeded to do nothing with besides preventing the creator from ever making more of it. Like, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but damn if it didn't feel like a "buying up the competition to kill it" move back...

So if someone were to show up with a Boring Company Not-a-Flamethrower, would they be kicked out? 'Cause it says right on the label that it's not a flamethrower!

They should be doing that anyway. Even more than the sheer amount of acquisitions they've made, I'm sick of them lumping them all into the Disney brand. I hate seeing their damn logo on all the Star Wars Lego boxes. I hate that they shut down Touchstone because it doesn't fit into their perfect...

That's a weird way to spell "awesome side effect". It would, at least, force these companies to pretend to not own those things anymore, which would mean no more Space Jam "LOOK AT ALL THE ICONIC BRANDS OUR MEGACORP OWNS"-fests, I suppose.

Do they want to secede too? Can we have both Scotland and Northern Ireland secede, join up with Ireland, and become the United Celtic Republic or something?

And by "domestic" they mean "white". Say the quiet part louder, why don'tcha!

Also Biden hasn't really done much of anything to post about. Not only is his administration not a trainwreck like Trump's was, he also hasn't said or done a lot to celebrate either. Which is bad—we've got a wannabe caretaker president in a time of multiple imminent crises—but it's harder to...

Actually, I had a thought, somewhat off topic. It's one thing for incumbents to consistently sweep the general election, because most districts have a consistent bias for one party or the other that isn't going to chance from one year to the next, and most voters literally don't even know who...

Yeah, unfortunately it's a toss-up whether the Democrats have a better chance against the Trump fanatics who are a turn-off to the general public, or against the moderates who are a turn-off to the Trump cult itself. But hey, we have some of each, so maybe we'll find out together.

So wait, how many states had primaries? How did 100% of Trump-endorsed candidates win in two states and then 0% of them win everywhere else? That feels... suspicious.

I wonder how many of them also favor secession. Can't reunify with a country that's not part of the UK while still being part of the UK, after all.

Every time Democrats hang out with union leaders for the sake of PR, I'm only reminded once again that if we had a government that really cared about workers' rights, we wouldn't even need unions because everything they exist to fight for would already be the law of the land.

I don't know what that means, but it's probably no coincidence that Square's own games started getting decent PC ports shortly after the company bought out a publisher known for being focused on the PC as its primary market. I wonder if those people will be sticking around.

Eh, my understanding is that the brand of "socialism" practiced today in most of the civilized world was well underway in America right up until Reagan came along (dat 93% tax bracket!) and any claims that there was widespread backlash to the New Deal is just historical revisionism concocted to...

It really just serves to underscore how insidious the original bill was. Saddling the state's residents with billions, with a B, in debt to an already insanely wealthy company if they ever want to take back control of the territory? In no civilized country would such an arrangement have even...

Yeah, there's a big difference between saying the Constitution doesn't contain some invisible amendment guaranteeing a particular right that only the 1973 court was able to see with their magic eyes, and saying it bans Congress from making a law guaranteeing said right. You would basically have...

It's honestly a miracle that any country without ranked-ballot voting both among the electorate and within the legislature itself has been able to maintain more than two functionally relevant parties for any length of time.

I seem to recall a recurring chorus of "Abortion is just a wedge issue the Republicans repeatedly hold over voters' heads as incentive to vote for them; they'd never actually outlaw it" on this very forum. In fact, I feel like it was still being repeated as recently as a year ago. Maybe it was...

We'd have to all leave at once, and then nuke what's left because can you imagine what a country where they literally have no opposition would do to the rest of the world?

Man, what is it with Japanese game studios deciding they just straight-up don't want to make games anymore? I guess it's better they sell off their IPs than twist them into gatcha games and pachinko machines, but still. Yeah, how the hell was Embracer not outbid? And how many more things will...