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07-26-2016 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
I recently heard someone say of aliens (might have been RLM) that it was such a great movie because the protagonists did everything right. They were cocky with good reason but once humbled they set up defensive perimeters, never underestimated the threat and decided to nuke the site from orbit rather than anything dumb. The reasons they got owned were external to their decisions (aliens are super tough, the Corp sent evil whatshisface to sabotage them etc)
Have no comment on this post other than RLM
07-26-2016 , 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Alien is one of my favorite movies, but there's plenty of "let's split up and look for the cat alone / let's stick our faces right in front of these weird alien egg thing" moments of stupidity.
Still somewhat understandable because they're a freighter crew, not trained scientists or military. They were specifically sent out to investigate the egg site. It makes sense that you'd want to at least take a peek inside when the egg opens up. For all we know this is the first alien life humans have ever contacted.

The only time they specifically go after the cat when it's not Ripley (who I think just makes a minor side trip for the cat at the end) is before they realized the thing grew in a few days from a little snake-thing to larger than a human. They stopped worrying about that cat at that point iirc.
07-26-2016 , 12:17 PM
I would guess scientists are more likely to put their face up next to an alien egg and get aliened than a freighter crew.
07-26-2016 , 12:28 PM
The fourth one was a watchable popcorn action movie with a few memorable scenes. Ripley playing hoops was fun.
07-26-2016 , 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
The fourth one was a watchable popcorn action movie with a few memorable scenes. Ripley playing hoops was fun.
Hypocritically i feel about the 4th the way I criticise people feeling about the 3rd. 4 diminishes the impact of the ending of 3 and isnt strong enough to overcome that deficit imo.
07-26-2016 , 12:37 PM
I was surprised and kind of moved by the half-baby/half-alien, and Ripley's conflicted bond. Then again I was expecting nothing out of it, and have only watched it once.
07-26-2016 , 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
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Yeah. I mean it really is the epitome of 1st world problems to spend 9 hours cataloging the failures of the star wars prequels. But damn enjoyable all the same.
07-26-2016 , 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by heehaww
Probably a dumb question: since you have no time limit in the voting booth (false premise?), what would happen if someone spent 7 hours in there, thus preventing hundreds of people from voting? Would people just be SOL?
Yeah, false premise. If someone, or a group, tried to 'sit-in' a polling place the cops are going to be called, they'll read the riot act, and if the protestors don't disperse, they get to go to jail. During this process, the polling place could be moved, and/or polling hours extended. There already are contingency plans and/or process to deal with a roof collapsing, flooding, power outage, etc at polling places.

Some voters have special needs, or differing abilities, and can't use a standard polling booth or machine. There are supposed to be ways for these people to vote regardless, often by providing curtained off areas, and/or allowing assistants. If you are taking up a booth for some unusually long period of time, you can be requested to complete your voting in such an area instead of continuing to occupy a standard booth.
07-26-2016 , 01:22 PM
I've watched almost everything RLM have done (ironically, except their feature films which are all awful) and am a contributor on Patreon ($2 per month yo). I highly recommend the Best of the Worst series if you haven't seen it.
07-26-2016 , 01:54 PM
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"Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era," a paper by Cornell's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they "have not used a government social program." It's the "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" phenomena writ large: a society of people who subsist on mutual aid and redistributive policies who've been conned (and conned themselves) into thinking that they are rugged individualists and that everyone else is a parasite.
http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/hal...social-pr.html
07-26-2016 , 02:38 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/wealt...vancouver.html

I found this interesting. I know NY rejected it. A lot of these big coastal cities with land constraints are really having trouble with affordable housing obviously. Some of it is because rich asian billionaires are buying up tons of apartments and letting them sit idle for huge parts of the year.
07-26-2016 , 06:15 PM
07-26-2016 , 06:23 PM
Left handed nazis!
07-26-2016 , 07:53 PM
Republicans struggling with context as always.

Elizabeth Warren is about as far from a fascist/Nazi as you can get - hence no one curr. Trump is a helluva lot closer on the spectrum, hence there's a little concern.
07-26-2016 , 09:12 PM
TBF the Nazi salute business was pretty dumb. There's legitimate **** you can go after these fools about, much of which relates to ethnic nationalism and fascism. Screen shots of (not) salutes is wack.
07-27-2016 , 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Onlydo2days
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/wealt...vancouver.html

I found this interesting. I know NY rejected it. A lot of these big coastal cities with land constraints are really having trouble with affordable housing obviously. Some of it is because rich asian billionaires are buying up tons of apartments and letting them sit idle for huge parts of the year.
As mentioned in another thread, Canadian RE is an amazing way for "government officials" to get dirty money out of China before the inevitable crash.
07-27-2016 , 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by grando1.0
As mentioned in another thread, Canadian RE is an amazing way for "government officials" to get dirty money out of China before the inevitable crash.
I lived for a year in Vancouver 15 years ago visiting at a university. This was happening back then as well.
07-27-2016 , 07:42 AM
07-27-2016 , 01:22 PM
Reagan shooter released

Derp airspace will be crowded
07-27-2016 , 01:39 PM
Does Bill O'Reilly lose his job over this or forced to resign in the near future? Another thing, does fox with Ailes gone slowly come back to reality?
07-27-2016 , 01:41 PM
Obviously no and no.

The real racists are those who suggest it's an insult to imply the slaves didn't have it so bad because they had a window and were well fed.

It's like Oprah - "You're the real racist! And you're the real racist! Everyone is the real racist!"

Only black people who talk about race and self-identified white racists are racist. Any white person who doesn't claim to be racist or use the n-word is public is by definition not racist.
07-27-2016 , 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by plzd0nate
Does Bill O'Reilly lose his job over this or forced to resign in the near future? Another thing, does fox with Ailes gone slowly come back to reality?
Lose his job over the "well fed slave" comment? Please child that is not gonna earn him a reprimand. He has been talking about retiring soon but he won't be forced out.
Fox's future after Roger is interesting as they have challenges as their audience dies off but as of now the station is a financial juggernaut. It returns over a billion dollars in profit to the Murdoch's. They will do their best to not kill the golden goose.
07-27-2016 , 01:57 PM
I don't even understand the impulse to deny that slaves built the white house. If these mouthbreathers acknowledge this, they think _______ is going to happen? I can't figure it out at all.
07-27-2016 , 01:58 PM
I get a lot of the right-wing lizard brain. I get that they think mexicans are stealing all the jobs. I get that they think affirmative action is reverse racism. I don't agree with their perceptions, but I at least understand how they get from point A to point B. This, I just don't get at all.
07-27-2016 , 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
I get a lot of the right-wing lizard brain. I get that they think mexicans are stealing all the jobs. I get that they think affirmative action is reverse racism. I don't agree with their perceptions, but I at least understand how they get from point A to point B. This, I just don't get at all.


Some people just want to be *******s.

      
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