Recent content by Skallagrim

We were just talking about quietly cancelled projects, and we were very punctual about it-- because here's Rian Johnson confirming that his SW trilogy is definitely not happening. In fact, it was never happening in the first place. There was never even an outline. Reading between the lines...

And this is where you are wrong, and why philosophy is important-- although the underlying reason you are wrong here is probably also the reason you can't (or, I suspect: refuse to) understand why philosophy is important. It's about consistency in thought and reasoning. If you use logic, you're...

My eyes dropped millstones. ...Speaking of "Jedi origin stories", wasn't James Mangold picked -- after the ignominious slinking-away of Benoff and Weiss -- to write and direct a film about the origins of the Force and of the Jedi? Whatever happened to that? Another casualty of Disney's...

I love that some people try to use "looking too much into it / being too philosophical" as an attempted put-down, and then proceed to be fine with lengthy and quite woolly posts dedicated (meta-)analysis of... not the subject, but the discussion about the subject. That's a performative...

The last point is valid as any fanon, although what we got from the EU material suggests otherwise to me. To be fair: that's all elaboration from guidebooks, written later than the novels. But basically, Bel Iblis was actually less willing to "waste lives", and he thought people like Mothma and...

Had you watched the linked video, you'd already know that you're factually wrong. Feral Historian quotes Lucas directly on this, and "modeled directly on the Vietcong" is a bullshit story that people repeat. Literally the next sentence in that interview is Lucas saying "They're the American...

That's because TEH J00S are behind EVERYTHING!!!1!!! ( ;) )

Medical confidentiality doesn't extend to cover everything. In this case specifically, confidentiality may not be used by a doctor (or to force a doctor) to cover up criminal acts. As has previously been discussed, mental competency to act as President isn't defined in detail. So even seeing...

As I've written here, and in many other dscussions: I believe every people has a right to its own ancestral homeland. Arabia is the land of the Arabs. It is the land to which they, more than any other extant people (and therefore to the exclusion of any other extant people), may rightfully lay...

These spambots are probably automated, so to really keep them away, you'd need to implement a human test. I understand that there's an NSFW subforum where you can get access by posting a message into a specific thread? Well, you can also do that for the whole site: before a new member gets the...

It goes beyond just obligation to the Crown. The myth of "evil" feudalism is largely nonsense; an exponent of the "dim Christian dark ages!!!" myth that was peddled centuries after the fact. In fact, it's also a case of the darkest tenets of far more recent absolutism getting back-projected onto...

In a display typical of the anti-semite, @Iconoclast eagerly ignores my actual post and goes off on unrelated tangents muddled with conspiracy bullshit. He also expresses an implicit support for the BDS movement, further revealing the depths of his anti-semitism. (BDS is designated as an...

Yeah, I don't see the countless Jewish states all over the map, where everybody has to be a Jew or gets oppressed, and other religions are persecuted. I don't see a shitload of Jewish radical organisations trying to make every country Jewish. I don't see Jews flying airliners into buildings or...

No, he was always like this. Just not about politics. What @Bacle pointed out is the heart of the issue: he'll never admit to being wrong, no matter how much evidence is presented. He'll double down, and resort to insane troll logic and screeching to avoid retracting his errors. He was always...

If we presuppose that China gets curbstomped (or manages to commit suicide), Vietnam is presently in an excellent position to profit from the resulting mess. If we look at long-term historical trends, their inclination in civilisation-building will then be of a mercantile nature. This of course...