Consider LGBTQ rights. Off the top my head, there's no gay marriage in China (1 billion people), India (1 billion people), Islam (1.5 billion people) or Catholicism (1 billion people). There's not likely to be much overlap in those groups, so right there is 4.5 billion people, more than half the world's population, for whom a statement like "a man cannot marry another man" is uncontroversial and obvious.
Maybe the ethics of the Bay area aren't exactly universal, and they could be more tolerant of diverse opinions? Particularly when those diverse opinions represent the majority of the world?
I don't want to blow up the system. I want to save the system by stopping a foreign invasion of people who don't share American values and are at best indifferent and at worst openly hostile to the people living here. I think the people trying to flood the country with foreigners are the ones trying to "blow up the system."
Same thing with "dog whistles." I'm a right winger. Trump says something like "Make America Great Again" and leftists say "dog whistle for white supremacy!" but I can't hear it, and I'm the dog. Maybe that means it's not a dog whistle, and the leftists are just hearing whatever they want to hear.
A few years ago, I thought that the growing backlash might result in some self-examination and a grudging-but-peaceful retreat from this intolerance
Yeah, I thought so, too. I remember when Trump won the NH primary and HuffPo's headline was all caps "NEW HAMPSHIRE GOES RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC!" I thought Trump was going to win since about a month after he started campaigning, and I wondered, "when Trump wins, will the media and the libs on my FaceBook feed reflect and say 'Ohhhh...NH didn't vote for racism and sexism and homophobia...they just want somebody to do something about the opioid crisis that's killing their families and neighbors! Silly us, 60+ million Americans didn't suddenly become Nazis!'" Nope. They just got even more delusional, and concocted elaborate fantasies that Russians spending a few thousand dollars on FaceBook ads convinced their countrymen to become Nazis.
It's delusional, deranged, and there is no end in sight.
And even then, it didn't really blow up until Larson opened her yap and said something less than brilliant at which point agenda driven shills, etc., ran with it.
It seems uncharitable to put the fault for the "controversy" on the people who believed Larson's misandrist statements rather than on Larson for making the misandrist statements.
They smash box office records because they're cookie cutter scripted movies. They're fun spectacles and almost entirely unobjectionable. If you have a group of friends who want to go see a movie or a bunch of teenagers or whatever, you will never go wrong picking a Marvel movie to go see together.
So maybe what we should have then is Congress writing a law like the Stored Communications Act but include phone tracking data in it. Dissecting this issue simply isn't a job for the Supreme Court.
This will not happen, of course, because Congress is fucking worthless for anything other than moral grandstanding.
Right there with you. I wanted to build a new machine in February but the GPU prices were nuts, so I waited, and I'm absolutely not about to go drop $600 on a 2 year old GPU. I've waited this long, I can wait until the next gen GPUs come out.
I agree with you except for the gender bit. In the pilot episode Captain Pike opines that he has trouble getting used to the idea of women on the bridge. So blacks, aliens, no problem...but chicks?!?!?
A few months back I bought a Wii U with ~25 games off eBay for $350. Great games, phenomenal value. I think it's about the perfect time to buy a Wii U because people are unloading their old stuff to buy a Switch, but the Wii U isn't old enough to have nostalgia value.
And then came episodes 1 through 3, which conclusively proved that Lucas knew how to build a universe, but had no clue how to write a good story.
Yeah, I find that I enjoy stuff other people do with the Star Wars universe far more than I enjoy what Lucas or Disney do with the movies. The prequels are dumb, but I played the hell out of Battlefront II, and the maps where you're playing droids versus clones were fun. Star Wars is like a sandbox. The prequels added to the sandbox. But the sequels have shat in the sandbox.
How about James Gunn and Guardians of the Galaxy? He made Slither and Super, which were great little films, and then he knocked it out of the park with Guardians. Or Taika Waititi with Thor Ragnarok? Dude makes quirky films in New Zealand and then makes the best Thor (or Hulk) movie. This seems to work out pretty well.
So you don't buy a new TV and instead buy a new pair of shoes to replace your worn, failing ones. You buy nicer food. You insulate your house better (and save more money, thus able to buy nicer things).
During the time electronic toys and what not have fallen in price, what's happened to the price of food? Construction costs?
That would be it exactly. Xi will now instruct Kim to capitulate to a reasonable peace compromise with SK/Trump in exchange for Trump not raping them at the WTO. So, China, how many hundreds of billions of dollars a year are the Norks' nukes worth to you?
It doesn't look like it's coming from who they hope their new fans will be, either. TLJ vastly underperformed TFA, and I've seen articles that Solo is on track for a record low opening. We'll see what happens, but Disney paid $4 billion for what should have been a license to print money and they've fucked it up.
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No LGBTQ rights in China, tho.
Consider LGBTQ rights. Off the top my head, there's no gay marriage in China (1 billion people), India (1 billion people), Islam (1.5 billion people) or Catholicism (1 billion people). There's not likely to be much overlap in those groups, so right there is 4.5 billion people, more than half the world's population, for whom a statement like "a man cannot marry another man" is uncontroversial and obvious.
Maybe the ethics of the Bay area aren't exactly universal, and they could be more tolerant of diverse opinions? Particularly when those diverse opinions represent the majority of the world?
And in this case, of course they should.
You say that now, but wait until you're getting eaten alive by a genetically engineered mammoth.
I don't want to blow up the system. I want to save the system by stopping a foreign invasion of people who don't share American values and are at best indifferent and at worst openly hostile to the people living here. I think the people trying to flood the country with foreigners are the ones trying to "blow up the system."
Same thing with "dog whistles." I'm a right winger. Trump says something like "Make America Great Again" and leftists say "dog whistle for white supremacy!" but I can't hear it, and I'm the dog. Maybe that means it's not a dog whistle, and the leftists are just hearing whatever they want to hear.
Except the invisible hand already created Zenni, and I got my glasses from them for like $60.
A few years ago, I thought that the growing backlash might result in some self-examination and a grudging-but-peaceful retreat from this intolerance
Yeah, I thought so, too. I remember when Trump won the NH primary and HuffPo's headline was all caps "NEW HAMPSHIRE GOES RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC!" I thought Trump was going to win since about a month after he started campaigning, and I wondered, "when Trump wins, will the media and the libs on my FaceBook feed reflect and say 'Ohhhh...NH didn't vote for racism and sexism and homophobia...they just want somebody to do something about the opioid crisis that's killing their families and neighbors! Silly us, 60+ million Americans didn't suddenly become Nazis!'" Nope. They just got even more delusional, and concocted elaborate fantasies that Russians spending a few thousand dollars on FaceBook ads convinced their countrymen to become Nazis.
It's delusional, deranged, and there is no end in sight.
Yes, I despise the word "divisive." It's used in a very Orwellian manner.
A: "We want to take your stuff and force you to behave like we want."
B: "Thanks, but no."
A: "There you go spreading your divisive rhetoric again."
I'm more concerned with the way CNN exploits media to distort public opinion. A lot more people pay attention to that garbage than twatter.
And even then, it didn't really blow up until Larson opened her yap and said something less than brilliant at which point agenda driven shills, etc., ran with it.
It seems uncharitable to put the fault for the "controversy" on the people who believed Larson's misandrist statements rather than on Larson for making the misandrist statements.
They smash box office records because they're cookie cutter scripted movies. They're fun spectacles and almost entirely unobjectionable. If you have a group of friends who want to go see a movie or a bunch of teenagers or whatever, you will never go wrong picking a Marvel movie to go see together.
So maybe what we should have then is Congress writing a law like the Stored Communications Act but include phone tracking data in it. Dissecting this issue simply isn't a job for the Supreme Court.
This will not happen, of course, because Congress is fucking worthless for anything other than moral grandstanding.
Right there with you. I wanted to build a new machine in February but the GPU prices were nuts, so I waited, and I'm absolutely not about to go drop $600 on a 2 year old GPU. I've waited this long, I can wait until the next gen GPUs come out.
I agree with you except for the gender bit. In the pilot episode Captain Pike opines that he has trouble getting used to the idea of women on the bridge. So blacks, aliens, no problem...but chicks?!?!?
A few months back I bought a Wii U with ~25 games off eBay for $350. Great games, phenomenal value. I think it's about the perfect time to buy a Wii U because people are unloading their old stuff to buy a Switch, but the Wii U isn't old enough to have nostalgia value.
JJ Abrams and Rain Johnson ruined my middle age.
And then came episodes 1 through 3, which conclusively proved that Lucas knew how to build a universe, but had no clue how to write a good story.
Yeah, I find that I enjoy stuff other people do with the Star Wars universe far more than I enjoy what Lucas or Disney do with the movies. The prequels are dumb, but I played the hell out of Battlefront II, and the maps where you're playing droids versus clones were fun. Star Wars is like a sandbox. The prequels added to the sandbox. But the sequels have shat in the sandbox.
How about James Gunn and Guardians of the Galaxy? He made Slither and Super, which were great little films, and then he knocked it out of the park with Guardians. Or Taika Waititi with Thor Ragnarok? Dude makes quirky films in New Zealand and then makes the best Thor (or Hulk) movie. This seems to work out pretty well.
That doesn't have anything to do with Trump, though. We were still jailing 1% of our population when Obama was president, too.
During the time electronic toys and what not have fallen in price, what's happened to the price of food? Construction costs?
Ohhhh.
That would be it exactly. Xi will now instruct Kim to capitulate to a reasonable peace compromise with SK/Trump in exchange for Trump not raping them at the WTO. So, China, how many hundreds of billions of dollars a year are the Norks' nukes worth to you?
I'm shocked it took someone this long to make a school shooting game.
It doesn't look like it's coming from who they hope their new fans will be, either. TLJ vastly underperformed TFA, and I've seen articles that Solo is on track for a record low opening. We'll see what happens, but Disney paid $4 billion for what should have been a license to print money and they've fucked it up.
But the title crawl is the exposition. They tell you exactly why Leia is being chased by an evil weirdo in a black suit.
The toys are not selling at all. Nobody wants a Rose Tico action figure.