Makai

🙄 You’d think the vice president for communications, marketing and public affairs would be aware of the Streisand effect. She said it to Chelsea so I doubt that she was lying.

I get it but personally I stopped caring once I learned the definition of literally had been updated to also mean figuratively. 🤷‍♀️ Words matter but they aren’t static. Same. Saxon is the sibling that has his parents’ approval and they want him to go down that path. I do think his behavior feels someone off but I think that is because he’s not being true to himself rather than him be calculating.

I agree. I read that entire scene, and the previous episodes, setting up Saxon to be hoisted by his own petard. He repeatedly breaks sexual and social norms with his brother. He repeatedly makes comments on his younger siblings sex lives. He set himself up as some kind of wingman to Lachlan and went out fully intending to manipulate women into sleeping with them. Just before they were offered the drugs he tells Lachlan to pace himself and “let them get all messy.” He had no problem with everyone getting drunk and high because he thought he was in control of the situation. He just wasn’t counting on dealing with women who didn’t cooperate and were able to stay in control.

I saw an interview where Parker Posey said she was doing a snotty affectation as Victoria and I think she did drop it in that moment to show that is a rare moment where Victoria wasn’t “on”.

Oh, so that’s why the stock market was down after a pretty solid week. I should have known Trump was to blame.

Nope. Outside of some legal definitions (which can still vary by jurisdiction) there is no universally accepted definition of words. They vary depending on the source and words evolve over time as colloquial usage changes. The Oxford definition that you quoted says sexual activity and not sexual intercourse. As does the Cambridge dictionary and the APA. Actually that definition only says between two people who are very closely related in a family. If them being members of the opposite sex was a requirement it would be in the definition. The examples are between opposite genders because we live in a heteronormative society which is reflected in our language. We are seeing that evolve as gender definitions are also changing. Because what happened in the episode feels every bit as incestuous as it would have if Saxon and Piper were involved. So it makes sense that many are labeling it as incest.

Brilliant movie by The Atlantic. Drop the bombshell, sit back for a couple of days and watch the assholes lie that no classified information was included and then release the classified information that was included. I don’t have any hope that the hypocrite Republicans in congress will actually do the right thing and cooperate with an impeachment but I do think there will be at least one sacrificial lamb. I agree. An interesting test will come with the special elections on April 1st. The two House seats are in Republican strongholds in Florida so I don’t expect them to flip but it will still give an idea of the impact of the last two months. Gaetz and Waltz won one in those districts with 2/3rds of the vote last November. The other is a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Musk’s super pac is spending money in all three elections.

Click on your avatar to open your profile and open the settings menu. Click ignored users at the bottom of the page. Start typing the user name in the box under “Add new user to ignore list”. When you see the right user pop up select them and you can select what content you want to ignore. Or he will switch to a less traumatic method like the poisonous pong pong fruit smoothie that was oh so coincidentally mentioned in the first episode. This show has a few Chevok’s gun. Both literally and metaphorically.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing into the Signal app fuckup ended within the last hour. I’m starting to see clips on social media.

I agree but the fact that we haven’t heard from those that have been vocal, like AOC, Crockett, Sanders and Green, makes me think they are still in process of being debriefed, determining the full extent of exactly how big of a problem this is and figuring what they can do officially.

Personally, I am going to give them a couple of days because they should be dealing with this officially first given the seriousness of the breach. They might know the extent of the conversation that the reporter saw but there is a bigger question if there were other classified conversations happening using the same method.

I hate the incest storyline but I do like that Victoria is so focused on her daughter being corrupted by evil, outside, Godless forces and completely blind to fact that every male member of her has been corrupted by their own actions. You can use the ignore feature in that situation. I appreciate that certain posters do that level of research but they crash my phone browser every time. It’s basically an employee training program. She manages the spa at the White Lotus in Maui and is in Thailand so she can learn new things to take back with her. Pornchai and Belinda are on pretty equal footing professionally so I can’t see that being the case.

I remember that episode. I realized that Musk reputation had taken a turn for the worse through The Good Place in 2018.

Highlights a key difference between current MAGA and Democrats. For the most part, Democrats support policy, MAGA supports Trump. MAGA hated all electric cars until Musk sided with them. Democrats loved Tesla (and Musk by extension) because it was an innovation in clean energy. Democrats still love electric cars for the same reason but can easily ditch Musk and Tesla because it was never about one person or one company. MAGA genuinely cannot understand that. It’s why they constantly bring upon various Democrats in any discussion of Trump’s bad behavior. They don’t understand that playing tit-for-tat does not work with most Democrats. It’s probably also why they are more successful at the moment. Blind allegiance is easier to focus.

She didn’t say that. She only compared her version to the original. I understand people feeling like she disrespected the legacy of Snow and she certainly could have said it with more tact but mostly think the I reaction is insanely overblown. Largely by people who don’t give a shit about the legacy of Snow White.