TheMongoose

We had a chance for that, but the electorate was too stupid to vote for it anyway.

Referendums. Huh. What are they good for? Fucking over the rest of us, that's what.

People are too stupid to buy a smaller car.

Maybe in North America. Small cars are fine in Europe...

it would not have provided sufficient protection for American workers

There's some irony, considering from this side of the pond, it doesn't look as if they have any...

Jaxo is looking at him with the 'damn it, I still thought you were going to start Ice Ice Baby..." expression.

There's no cunt like a righteous cunt.

Almost immediately, Twitter users began to call for me to be charged with perjury. With liberal usage of the N-word and homophobic slurs, they also said that I, along with my family, should be hanged for treason.

I got up from the bench and briskly finished my walk home. After I locked the door, I went and checked the go-bag that I had kept packed for exactly a moment like that. And then I followed the plan I had in place to leave my home.

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these fucking cultists?

Rejected tag line for Sesame Street

I've heard people saying everyone should be more involved in local politics, but I don't think this is what they have in mind...

and [Holdo's] plan ending up getting almost all of them killed.

Woah, hang on a second. Holdo's plan would (probably) have worked fine if she hadn't told Poe. It was because he told Finn and Rose over a line he didn't know was secure so he actually also told Benicio Del Toro, who then sold that info to the ~~Discount Empire~~ First Order that everyone died.

And then rather than punish Poe for that, she took responsibility for it, did what she could to save everyone else and sacrificed herself for the cause.

Poe incited a mutiny. Holdo made a command decision about Need To Know. I know who deserves the medal after that all dies down, and it isn't the hotshot that had already been demoted earlier that day for disobeying orders.

You're 100% right about #3. And I can't really disagree with #4 either.

God, I wanted to love this film. I still quite like it, but I can't really bring myself to rewatch it as often as, say Rogue One. I think it's weaker in retrospect after the retcon-fest that was Rise of Skywalker, which is a shame. Rian Johnson had some great ideas that could have reinvigorated the franchise. Instead, it's barely limping on, giving us stuff like Andor as enough of a teaser that we don't just give up on the whole thing.

Got echos of that old Northern Ireland 'joke' where the gunman asks "yes, but are you a protestant atheist or a catholic atheist".

Chilling.

WELL THAT'S ALL RIGHT THEN!

I mean... he picked up the lightsaber, dramatically went one on one with Kylo Ren and immediately got the shit kicked out of him. I thought that was fairly sensible.