"Dogmatic" is correct. This is the only binding belief that every non-infidel Star Wars fan must adhere to.

The problem with "consensus machines" is that they are useless unless built around some concept of reputation / expertise.

"Thumbs on the scale" are how LLMs address that deficiency (weigh Wikipedia more than random 4chan post), which in turn makes intentional bias easy to introduce.

Solo is definitely under-rated and maybe even goes up 2. Also agree with your oh-so-controversial Rogue One take, but you are dead wrong about Attack of the Clones.

Rise of Skywalker is bad in a league entirely of it's own.

There's a small, vocal subset of "environmentalists" who are really in their heart reactionaries just cosplaying as progressives.

The are firmly anti-global, anti-science, want population to collapse, and society to become a disconnected set of feudal villages or even hunter-gatherer tribes.

If the CEOs and College Presidents had more than rarefied intellectual experience with posturing bullies, they would have known standing up as Mamdani did was the only possible way to be the alpha in the relationship.

Trump is treating him like a literal object of affection - completely enthralled.

Beta who is as enthralled by Mamdani.

I think we'll avoid this, but it is another reason the State Assembly should look into replacing our jungle primaries with Rank Choice Voting.

Pure humor gold.

Pardon restrictions need to be near the top of that list.

Don't disagree, but I think it will be difficult to get there directly rather than through interim steps:

1. Federal: expand the House to 1000 and scale with population again.

2. State: push for Ranked Choice Voting in both your State primary and general elections.

Potentially "further to the right" but really just "right wing true believer". The MAGA split is going to be between true believer dedicated ideologues (MTG but not Trump) and the sycophantic grifters who are in it to steal from the Treasury not for ideology and will blindly do anything Trump asks.

There will need to be a reckoning for anyone that signs off on this payments. Dems should be making noise now to that effect in an effort to put the fear of God into anyone thinking of authorizing theft like this.

After the Trump administration is dismantled that will become the historical consensus. It will also, unfortunately, be the excuse that most of the public will use to dismiss, without self-reflection, this sorry period of our country's history.