What you WANT to happen and what would LIKELY happen are not the same thing. This fan narrative gives the NHL & hockey culture a huge pass for a metric ton of awful shit & puts the onus for the lack of out gay players entirely on individual players “choosing” to not come out.

Closeted queer NHL players are not going to feel excited seeing “how feral we are about the Skip kiss” or by the knowledge that you being feral about two hot actors kissing on TV “would 100 000% transfer to them”! They don’t want to become sex objects/romance projections for random strangers!

The real pessimist says there’s still a lot further to fall.

“And we’ll fill the vacant ranks with a million freedmen more” is my winner from Battle Cry.

But yeah, battle hymn is great, but you can’t really extract the God from it.

I remain, as ever, the lib Christian the atheists can mostly tolerate (cause I’m right 😁)

The unified mainline is a really fascinating future for the church and I’m kinda really excited by the possibility.

Gimme a woke great awakening, please.

God’s foremost servants are a bunch of atheist doctors working for MSF, tbh.

A good consolation alternative to the stupid current standard, yes.

Yes, but more in a sense of “the correct response to an insane hegemon is an appeal to a wrathful deity.”

This ends with the Joint OAS-NATO Task Force on Gulf Security trying Americans at The Hague.

Well yes, but the advocates made much of this point in the briefing. It’s not like SCOTUS doesn’t know, they are just engaged in bad faith nonsense distinctions.

Or put differently, yeah, but it got little play because that’s the whole point of the (idiotic) logic of the opinion.

The majority opinion relies on a diagnosis that is explicitly defined by sex of the child and then says because the discrimination is based on that diagnosis rather than sex, it’s not sex discrimination. So it seems to follow that other discrimination based on diagnosis is uninteresting

Yes, but also the next time I hear Germans talking about my country being “young” I’m gonna tear my hair out.

I guess I feel like Blanc’s alienation really should have been a bit more *personal* than it was.

Not quite as brilliant as the original but very very good.

(I am a bit sad that they did NOTHING with the “Blanc is canonically queer” thing tho)

The Lord of the Rings was published in the 50s 😁

Sure, people have always been dumb.

Etihad park??? Really???