Probably the two a half billion people claiming to identify as christian while actively opposing and taking action against any of Christ's non-self-serving ideals.
If there's one good thing about Maga it's that it clearly illuminated what a majority of these "Christians" actually are.
There are some of us that don't do that. But yeah, even as an adherent, I see and feel what you mean.
That must be painful and frustrating. An old coworker of mine was a “real” Christian (by that I mean kind, pleasant, and non-judgmental) and I often wonder what his take on the last several years would be.
Nah, that's not a plot hole. That's just a seed for the Act 3 twist we're due in about 2 years. When the Vatican incorporates and invades Yugoslavia.
The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must've been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they... really, really didn't.
That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn's Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather... TWICE?? Lazy writing.
Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times...
Not bashing your point though, that's a good one.
The whole wrapping up world war 2 using "the gadget" just reeks of writers struggling to wrap up after writing themselves into a corner.
The end of WW2 was a complex political issue, and the atomic bombs were not the 'press here, end war' that most of us believe.
The Japanese we're holding out hope (stupidly) that the Soviet Union would negotiate a conditional surrender with the united States as the end of the imperial system was unacceptable to them. The US had floated that if there was an unconditional surrender, that the imperial system would stay intact, but wanted it to seem like a US condition, not a Japanese one, because that would be a conditional surrender.
The Soviets always intended to invade, but were held by a nonaggression pact they made with the Japanese. The US pressured the Soviets very hard to violate this and invade Manchuria.
There was literally a Japanese war cabinet convened already when news of Nagasaki reached them. We have actual primary source for their reactions. They did not care.
Only once the second bomb dropped and Manchuria was invaded did some of the cabinet manage to convince the emporer to intervene which was extremely rare.
A few Prime Ministers have been peculiar plotholes. Harold Holt just disappeared. Whitlam got taken out by a madman influenced by the yanks and nominally working for the Queen. Sometimes it seems the writers just get bored of the storyline and drop stuff.
Lol - found my fellow Aussie!
That there wasn't a single mainstream Republican who stood up to Trump during his presidency.
I mean, come on. Who wrote this?
We're supposed to believe that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in government went from taking about how unfit Trump was when he was a candidate ... to standing behind him 100% even when he cozied up to Russia, paid hush money to a porn star, and lied about a Presidential election?
Some voted for impeachment. Still, far more should have defended democracy, decency, and the rule of law.
I don't know about this series, but I play a game with the same name and absolutely hate it. It's hugely pay to win with permadeath and the grind has nowhere near the payoff for the amount of effort you put in.
Probably the stars that are older than the universe.
IIRC, they're too big to have formed in one of the ways we know and then continuously lost matter at the the rate they should have.
So one or more of the assumptions about how they could have formed or how they lost matter over time is wrong, right?
Nope. Older than the universe. Can't weasel your way out of this one science boy
What
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_age_problem
We estimate the age of some stars to be older than the estimated age of the universe. JWST observations have also made it "worse". https://youtu.be/hps-HfpL1vc?si=H9tdTD3DJYLkalvx
Can't watch videos right now, but the wikipedia article says the problem has been solved around y2k by recalculating the age of the universe, and says nothing about JWST making this problem worse.
Nobody has figured out who the Zodiac killer is yet? Come on, people!
Just to emphasise:
from 1990 and before
Folks can't read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
What did drugs ever do to start a war???
Well, the British were able to use drugs to start a war on China once. All in the name of cheap tea.
The universe is not locally real*.
*Locality and reality are defined in specific ways within quantum physics, and "not locally real" doesn't necessarily mean 'illusory' as you might expect. Look into it, it's some crazy shit.
If most people are good why doesn't the world get better without violence?
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
– Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
duck billed platypus
That one on 25th Street that I hit the other day. Oh wait, you said "plot". Nevermind.
The Trump storyline is taking way too long to reach a definitive conclusion, and I’m not even confident that it will be a particularly satisfying one.
I know time got weird with the pandemic, but that was not actually before 1990, believe it or not.
I mean I was aware of him before 1990 and really could not understand how he was famous or successful. My brother is older than me and Trump came up on the news one day and he said "he's either a criminal or his bankers are idiots". We grew up quite a ways from NYC if you're wondering.
The older you are the more insane this timeline seems. I knew he'd get elected. Racism and sexism put him over the top. Still felt like I was going crazy watching it.
Ha ha ha I totally misread the title. I thought it was 1990 and beyond. Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out!
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