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by General Mung Beans
2017-05-11 10:08pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: The Handmaid's Tale (On Hulu)
Replies: 12
Views: 7053

Re: The Handmaid's Tale (On Hulu)

Offred/June seems a bit more intelligent in the series than she did in the book. Offred seemed to accept everything that hit her in the novel, and didn't really think about the deeper implications of a lot of her situation. Both the movie and the TV show give her a literary job (librarian in the fi...
by General Mung Beans
2015-08-29 05:06pm
Forum: History
Topic: Book recommendation/request thread
Replies: 218
Views: 222138

Re: Book recommendation/request thread

Two book recommendations. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ViqTx8c6L._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg While I'm not sure if Emerging Republican Majority technically counts as a work of history, there is literally no better work for understanding American electoral geography from 1865 to 1968. Kevi...
by General Mung Beans
2015-08-07 06:32am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Questions regarding abortion discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 9367

Re: Questions regarding abortion discussion

I really don't understand how this is supposed to be a compelling argument for the anti-abortion side. Who cares if killing a fetus against the mother's will is considered murder by the legal system? It's just a legal fiction to get the desired end result of punishing the guilty party. We all agree...
by General Mung Beans
2015-08-07 06:22am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Questions regarding abortion discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 9367

Re: Questions regarding abortion discussion

Specifically, the discussion was that if someone killed a pregnant woman, they'd likely get charged with 2 murders/deaths, yet if the woman terminated the pregnancy, she wouldn't get charged at all. I do not really see the point in bringing that up. As you said, it is about bodily autonomy. And bod...
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-22 04:49pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!
Replies: 88
Views: 8782

Re: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!

Yeah, but there is a definition of what a Christian is. It's basically "Get baptized, believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for all of our sins, rose on the third day after his death, and is The Lord God Our Creator." Though I'm not 100% on the getting baptized part. That was what t...
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-21 06:07pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!
Replies: 88
Views: 8782

Re: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!

I just find the whole thing funny as hell, TBH. "YOU BELIEVE IN THE EXACT SAME GOD AS WE DO BUT YOU'RE NOT HARD ENOUGH ON PEOPLE WE HATE SINNERS!!!" That is more or less what it comes down to, frankly. And they wonder why the numbers of Christians in the US are declining... As this articl...
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-20 02:22am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: L.A. Raises Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars
Replies: 37
Views: 4227

L.A. Raises Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/us/los-angeles-expected-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour By JENNIFER MEDINA and NOAM SCHEIBERMA...
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-19 01:39pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Soviet Russia if the Central Powers won WWI
Replies: 40
Views: 17015

Re: Soviet Russia if the Central Powers won WWI

How plausible would it be for Germany to win WWI by getting the USA on their side? If not via direct military action, then by economic support. The question is how would that happen? Ethnic Germans and Irish excepted, most Americans were more sympathetic to the Allied cause with it being especially...
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-19 01:32pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Egypt's (ex) president sentenced to death
Replies: 7
Views: 1574

Re: Egypt's (ex) president sentenced to death

Hardly a big fan of Morsi, but putting him to death certainly isn't the best idea. Outside of Tunisia, it looks Arab Spring is going the way of 1848.
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-19 03:33am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Texas House committee OKs full marijuana lega­lization bill
Replies: 3
Views: 1248

Re: Texas House committee OKs full marijuana lega­lization b

It'd be amusing if Texas legalized pot before most of the blue states.
by General Mung Beans
2015-05-19 03:23am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!
Replies: 88
Views: 8782

Re: CHRISTIAN FIGHT!!!

General Zod wrote:This is the sort of thing that leads to holy wars and crusades and jihads.
Yes I'm sure that's why the rise of Unitarianism in early 19th Century New England or the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy of the early 20th Century led to mass outbreaks of violence. :roll:
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-27 12:18am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Soviet Russia if the Central Powers won WWI
Replies: 40
Views: 17015

Re: Soviet Russia if the Central Powers won WWI

If its an early Central Powers victory (ie before 1917), a Soviet Russia would not exist at all.
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-27 12:15am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: ISIS builds NHS-style public health service
Replies: 5
Views: 1709

Re: ISIS builds NHS-style public health service

How likely is it that ISIS will be able to translate this program into widespread practice considering they are currently in the middle of a war opposed by literally every other faction with a presence in the Middle East, controlling a territory that's been devastated by years of war and where milli...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-27 12:12am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Uninsured Rate Falls Again for Random Reason Totally Unrelat
Replies: 11
Views: 2424

Re: Uninsured Rate Falls Again for Random Reason Totally Unr

No, but if 4% is increased employment that would be important to know. Just like if .01% is the result of increased employment. You need facts to make smart policy decisions. I mean if one person gets a new job and 4 people get insurance as a result, that person, spouse, two kids, it has an effect ...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-20 01:52am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Finnish elections 2015
Replies: 19
Views: 3337

Re: Finnish elections 2015

Yeah, with 92% of votes counted, Center Party got the biggest pot, at ~22%, National Coalition and True Finns within a hair's breadth of each other at 17.8% and 17.9% or something like that and then the Social Democrats. Greens got a good haul, better than ever before. They've managed to connect a ...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-20 01:51am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The 2016 US Election (Part I)
Replies: 1871
Views: 249590

Re: The US Election 2016

Kasich will basically be the Pawlenty of this cycle since Establishment Republicans tend to prefer to coalesce around one candidate (ie Jeb this cycle), although he might get a place on the VP spot if he's lucky.
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-17 11:20am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The 2016 US Election (Part I)
Replies: 1871
Views: 249590

Re: The US Election 2016

My conclusion is that, when it comes to the Presidential election, the Right Wing has insured that it will be all but Impossible to win the Presidency, for perhaps the next 20 years, or more. The reason for this is that, while "Nutjobs" and wackos keep winning at the local level, when it ...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-17 11:16am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: News websites and political resources thread
Replies: 76
Views: 163639

Re: News websites and political resources thread

http://www.vox.com/-A somewhat clickbaitty site but does a good job of breaking down the nuts and bolts of policy into digestible chunks.
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-17 11:10am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Singaporeans' response to freedom of speech criticism
Replies: 29
Views: 3259

Re: Singaporeans' response to freedom of speech criticism

Certainly no one is beyond criticism, but the purpose of such criticism should be to improve ourselves because we know our flaws and our mistakes. Free speech helps achieve that goal. However a troll doesn't contribute to improvement because they tell falsehoods or stir shit up for their own entert...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-17 11:06am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: TN House Approves Bill To Make Bible Official State Book
Replies: 14
Views: 3776

Re: TN House Approves Bill To Make Bible Official State Book

Point of clarification: Does conferring the status of official state book on the Bible -or on To Kill A Mockingbird for that matter- actually mean much of anything outside of making the state tourism board's job marginally harder? It's also indirectly claiming that the Bible was written in Tennesse...
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-16 02:55pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Replies: 1584
Views: 317481

Re: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Looks like the Empire will remain the villains. The new Sith lord (?) looks rather ominous even if it looks like his wearing a ski mask.
by General Mung Beans
2015-04-15 03:48pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The 2016 US Election (Part I)
Replies: 1871
Views: 249590

Re: The US Election 2016

Tribble wrote:The way things are going, I'm surprised the media hasn't started speculating on the 2020 election yet.
This election "started" much later and is less hyped compared to 2008.
by General Mung Beans
2015-01-24 06:00pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
Replies: 297
Views: 34490

Re: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris

Republican Party. Blatant Racists who are openly working on disenfrenchising PoC's off the voting polls. 50% of the political establishment in the US. On par with every far-right party in Europe. Case closed. No the GOP and the European far-right parties are not comparable and I say this as someone...
by General Mung Beans
2015-01-24 05:09pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
Replies: 297
Views: 34490

Re: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris

The United States is actually probably far less racist than most European countries, precisely due to its longer history of minority populations. Took you a century plus a major civil war after gaining independence to abolish slavery and another century to get rid of institutional discrimination. O...
by General Mung Beans
2015-01-24 02:51pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
Replies: 297
Views: 34490

Re: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris

Whereas very unified societies are often sternly oppressive toward anything other than the unifying ideology. The least religiously tolerant societies within Europe, for instance, were usually those which remained a sectarian monoculture the longest. O you mean like the Scandinavian countries which...