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- 2017-08-18 12:30am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
See, this is the standard mouth noise to make regarding freedom of speech, and I get that... But it's kind of beside the point. What's at stake really, really is not their right to have discourse and a voice. What's at stake is their ability to win the argument. The reason letting Nazis win the arg...
- 2017-08-14 10:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
I've been a bit out of the loop on things. What do "the SJWS" believe and what have "the SJWs" done which is so harmful? Atleast some (with emphasis on that) believe in various toxic things about race, over reliance on identity politics that further divide people, and an emphasi...
- 2017-08-14 08:46pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
As a white guy coming into this conversation and learning what happened, my own takeaway is "fuck, we need to stop laying down ANY damn kind of covering fire for these fuckers." I mean, imagine that there is a battle for the future of America, and the battle is over whether the greatest p...
- 2017-08-13 02:17pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
The owner and driver of the car was documented via photograph as being with the American Vanguard group during the rally. Yes, he has been confirmed as "related to the protests". I wasn't aware of this yet, though a new article I just picked up seems to confirm this but my point still sta...
- 2017-08-13 01:43pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
Heather Heyer. The dead has a name, now. You're welcome to come out of your hole and try your hand at saying how vile scum like the nazis being able to spew their evil is more important than her life. I expect your attempts will be more of the slippery slope fallacy moral cowards always trot out to...
- 2017-08-13 01:09pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
Free speech is generally not curtailed in Europe even if they have stricter rules regulating hate speech. I think it is possible to have a clearer definition of what constitutes hate speech than the US approach. There's a difference between unpopular opinions and hate speech. If the US public has n...
- 2017-08-12 11:07pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
This is when I felt US laws on free speech is probably not as good as laws in Germany and etc in confronting hate speech. Extremist groups that cannot really appear in public are far weaker than those that can. I'd personally disagree with that. I believe (and this is just my opinion so clearly cor...
- 2017-08-12 10:05pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
It does feel like white supremacists groups are remarkably persistent in the US. For an ideology that is supposedly discredited for a long time, it seems quite resilient in the US relative to other western liberal democracies. Neo-Nutzies and White Supremacists aren't exactly dead in Europe but I t...
- 2017-08-12 09:20pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
Yeah. I posted when I was in a bad mood. I really need to work on getting a grip. I apologize for being emo... again. :oops: Nothing to apologize about. This is VERY upsetting even for me who has an inkling of the history of the white supremacist movement. If you don't realize how active white supr...
- 2017-08-12 07:57pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
Yes, but I doubt he will. Can't piss off the base. His response was absolutely horrible. By employing the false equivalency narrative and blaming it on people on both sides, he is implicitly equating the white supremacists with their opponents, legitimizing them while giving a superficial appearanc...
- 2017-08-12 03:14pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
- Replies: 301
- Views: 68601
Re: Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
It's come to the point where being a bigoted piece of shit who thinks "Hitler had the right idea" can comfortably be out and about doing Nazi Salutes Not to excuse it, but do you honestly think thats anything new? Are you not aware that Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists have been out and g...
- 2017-08-12 02:27am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Poll says half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election if Trump did it.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 12443
Re: Poll says half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election if Trump did it.
Its discussing Trump bitching about widespread voter fraud, while Trump might be a complete and utter moron I doubt he is complaining about HIS voter fraud, hence it stands to reason his concerns are about Hillary's antics during the election.
- 2017-08-12 01:54am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Poll says half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election if Trump did it.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 12443
Re: Poll says half of Republicans would support postponing 2020 election if Trump did it.
Honestly I could believe atleast some Republicans (not saying all or a majority) would be totally fine with Trump suspending elections because they have it in their dang fools heads that Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that there was absurdly massive voter fraud. Some Republicans ...
- 2017-08-11 05:50pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Need Some Assistance Locating Post-Apocalypse Movie
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9135
Re: Need Some Assistance Locating Post-Apocalypse Movie
The first movie sounds a bit like Screamers starring Peter Weller. Its been forever since I saw that movie but I remember there being little robots in the ground and I think it was set on a ice planet. The second movie definitely sounds like Nemesis 2 starring Sue Price. The whole Nemesis series is ...
- 2017-08-10 07:54pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Worst Star Trek Movie?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32391
Re: Worst Star Trek Movie?
It was incredibly boring. When I was 7 the day care center took us to see it and I fucking fell asleep. I'm fairly positive I fell asleep watching Empire Strikes Back when I was 5 and that movie didn't even have dancing multi-titted cat ladies. It might be the worst example of Star Trek as a dumb a...
- 2017-08-08 12:57pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: New star trek discovery info at SDCC
- Replies: 76
- Views: 49028
Re: New star trek discovery info at SDCC
I actually like the explanation of the stupid looking spikey Klingons being a sub-species from presumably the thousands (hundreds) of years of space exploration. One complaint alot of people has is just how same looking the cultures we met are. Everyone wears the same clothes, everyone has the same ...
- 2017-08-07 09:34pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Deadpool 2's Cable
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4718
Re: Deadpool 2's Cable
Not bad. Not enough pouches but still not bad. Josh Brolin is no Keira Knightley but he'll do. I'm more interested in whats up with that gun. Its clearly a Kriss Vector as the base but with what looks like a Thompson buttstock with a dial on it, a M203 grenade launcher (which is awesome, I love SMGs...
- 2017-08-05 03:46pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Worst Star Trek Movie?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32391
Re: Worst Star Trek Movie?
Final Frontier was atleast entertaining. Stupid as all hell? Only in the Mirror Universe its not. A nonsensical plot I think was made solely to stroke Shatner's ego? You better believe it? Boring? Oh hell nah. And I don't even think the Enterprise series finale was the worst, I think Voyager finale ...
- 2017-08-05 11:47am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Worst Star Trek Movie?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32391
Re: Worst Star Trek Movie?
I gotta echo Eternal Freedom, its a tossed salad up between Insurrection and Nemesis. Insurrection is terribly written, insulting, and feels like some episode (some bad episode) idea they stretched into a movie. The plot was just soooooooo stupid, set during the Dominion War and they focus on these ...
- 2017-08-04 12:03am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Ghost in the Shell LiveMovie
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6134
Re: Ghost in the Shell LiveMovie
I actually enjoyed the movie though not exactly the biggest fan of the anime. Watched the movie and enjoyed it even if it got weird and watched an enjoyed the first series or season of the anime (with the Laughing Man and the Major being boom headshotted but not really) and bits and pieces of later ...
- 2017-08-02 07:31pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Are variations in English by region accents or dialects
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7794
Re: Is variations in English by region accents or dialects
I've heard it referred to as 'mumbling' but that may, again, have been a regional or individual thing. Like... really deep-in-the-mountain regional. What threw me off is I've never heard it called mumbling, I'm assuming thats an "outsider" appellation. There is certainly a regional accent...
- 2017-08-02 12:21pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Are variations in English by region accents or dialects
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7794
Re: Is variations in English by region accents or dialects
What is that? Is that like in reference to the deep accent some Mountaineer Americans have?
- 2017-08-02 11:24am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: A bunch of Nazis on Mars (RAR!)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18357
Re: A bunch of Nazis on Mars (RAR!)
What changes there might be might be limited. They would probably be sacrificing much for survival, hence using weapons old enough to retire to Florida, but I think most of the sacrifice would be on the bottom rungs. The elite and the military would probably be fat and happy....ish while everyone el...
- 2017-08-01 12:55pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Marvel vs Wonder Woman and Bathos
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5670
Re: Marvel vs Wonder Woman and Bathos
I think WW worked better then MoS and BvS or SS because it felt more like Marvel movie then anything DC. It had some moments of levity and had moments where despite it being the middle of war it still felt relatively light. A better fit tone-wise for the DC movie verse Wonder Woman would be the Wond...
- 2017-08-01 12:20pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: A bunch of Nazis on Mars (RAR!)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18357
Re: A bunch of Nazis on Mars (RAR!)
That actually is a really good question, how would the world recognize them either for purposes of trial or trade? They are a direct descendant of Nazi Germany and consider themselves the last of the true Germany. Clearly Germany would dispute that....... greatly. They are descended from a more or l...