Thomas Brookside

[Thomas Brookside @thomasbrookside]

@asymmetricinfo Everyone is faking belief in the benefits of early childhood education because adopting it makes childcare (of a sort) available to Democrat constituencies slightly earlier than before.

[Thomas Brookside @thomasbrookside]

@xwanyex Some X% of workers getting priced out of a given area is one of the mechanisms that raises the wages of the workers who remain. The left just doesn't want to let that work, because it's "mean".

[Thomas Brookside @thomasbrookside]

@FloppyOriginal @mat1_u "The economic transaction where people buy my labor is fundamentally different from the transactions where *I* buy stuff. I'm not going to explain how though, because I know if I do I'll get eviscerated, so I'll just pretend it's so obvious that I don't HAVE to explain it."

[Thomas Brookside @thomasbrookside]

@bizlet7 First World was Europe, New World was the Americas, Third World was the nations that became independent in Africa and Asia after decolonization. That leaves China and Japan out of the naming convention, but that was always just handwaved over.

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@JrHopeless You needed to show me a character I could respect if you wanted me to regard his fall to the dark side as dramatically meaningful, or to see his future status as a fearsome villain as credible. Go find the best kid in this year's West Point class, and compare him to AOTC Anakin.

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@JeremyF41929541 A "tragic fall" story is supposed to be "capable and good man succumbs to worst impulses due to fatal flaw" and they never establish the first part. Anakin is never more than a whiny little bitch, so his fall has no weight. Anakin's GOOD version simply needed to be more imposing.

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@AlaskaLP What do you think of laws criminalizing lying to people about what the date of the election is, or what polling place they are supposed to go to?

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@DavidVStewart Within 40 years if not less the prequels AND the OT will be utterly forgotten. The coming generation doesn't watch movies or TV and every last story or character presented in that format will utterly vanish from the cultural landscape as soon as they grow up.

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@euromaximal I know without checking that you absolutely, positively treat everyone YOU buy ANYTHING from as disposable, so spare me the moralizing.

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@stephen_richer Or they know in advance that leftist judges will protect Democrats at all costs, so the only way to achieve even a modicum of justice is to maximize the political impact of the revelations.

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@dilanesper This is also true of the Palestinians, you know. If they’d just lost more definitively in 48 and accepted it, they (and everyone else in the region) would be better off now. (To tie two of your threads together.)

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@EtherwXlf @baby_hoy @butchbishonen I've met a handful of women in my life I'd marry & if they'd said, "I don't want a relationship with you, but I'm willing to hook up once," I would have (obviously) said, "OK, fine!" Because I found them attractive! "I wouldn't hook up with you" is not something I'd say to them.

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@CyGasser I always thought that line meant the singer didn't care if he ever got back to his life outside the ballpark

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@leuchtman If it's no big deal, they really shouldn't have lied about it to a federal court.

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@JooVicentemyoy @Socdem_Michael Why are you claiming they didn't disclose her attempted retraction, and trying to prove that by...posting a screenshot where they disclose her attempted retraction?

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@Socdem_Michael They did attest to a federal court that they had nothing to do with the other Sullivan running, though. It seems like at a minimum they perpetrated a fraud on the court.

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@MicahJRasmussen @MaryPeltola "We can still get through this if we just keep lying!" Good luck with that, bro.

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@LittleBootsPro The prequel CGI is uniquely bad even for the era. George wanted to prove he could green screen everything, and sure that was innovative - but it looks like my ass and the "screensaver" feel of it takes me right out of my immersion on every wide shot.

[Thomas Brookside @thomasbrookside]

@Empty_America The 75th percentile in Los Angeles is around $175k, and at that household income in CA you may as well be a hobo. It would be around $150k in Minnesota, and Zillow shows houses in New Ulm in the $250's.