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TriangleGang 29 points ago +29 / -0

CEO of a health insurance company that ruins people's lives daily got murdered? I'm honestly surprised this sort of thing isn't commonplace.

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TriangleGang 9 points ago +11 / -2

So is the US. We enjoy greater rights here, but if you exercising them ever became a serious threat to the government they would strip them away.

A gilded cage is still a cage.

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TriangleGang 46 points ago +46 / -0

I'm sure they're just watching something else, although I'm not sure what he's trying to accomplish telling everyone they're watching Judgment at Nuremberg. Just the standard Jewish schtick of wallowing in Holocaust victimhood?

The Nuremberg tribunals have always bothered me because they are championed as a "triumph of justice", but they were mostly ex post facto crimes invented for the trials. There simply was no concept of "crimes against humanity" or "waging an aggressive war" as a distinctly criminal act prior to this. They also didn't afford the defendants most of the rights somebody being prosecuted in the US would enjoy. I'm not sure how convicting someone at a trial that wouldn't be legal under your own laws can be championed as a Triumph of Justice.

They were simply the allies slapping on a veneer of legality while engaging in the standard age-old practice of executing or jailing the leaders of the losing nation after a war.

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TriangleGang 25 points ago +25 / -0

The generations that fought two world wars to defend democracy would have booed a candidate like Donald Trump off the stage. They certainly would never have elected him president.

The men that fought in WWI and WWII would find modern day America unrecognisable. It's a fucking nanny state where basically everything not compulsory is forbidden and your reward for being a "good citizen" by getting an education, getting a good job, and not committing crimes is to be taxed into oblivion to pay for a bunch of people who are decidedly not "good citizens".

And I can think of few things that would disgust those men more than the modern Democratic party's fetish with abortion, transgenderism, and illegal immigrants. None of those things correspond to the values held by the men who fought WWI or WWII.

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TriangleGang 14 points ago +14 / -0

a modern Dreyfus trial - and will end the same way

Wasn't Dreyfus imprisoned though? He spent five years on Devil's Island before being exonerated.

I think Netanyahu spending half a decade in one of the world's worst prisons is probably better than most of us think we'll get out of this.

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TriangleGang 7 points ago +7 / -0

XIII

Is Belgian. But if we're willing to stretch outside of France, The Adventures of Tintin is a Belgian classic that you've probably heard of. It's worth checking out if for no other reason then historical curiosity. The first story was published in 1930.

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TriangleGang 14 points ago +14 / -0

I have an omnibus of the one that Fifth Element was inspired by but that’s it.

Valérian and Laureline?

In addition to the Fifth Element, Luc Besson also wrote and directed an actual Valérian movie. It wasn't very good.

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TriangleGang 8 points ago +8 / -0

Unfortunately, judges aren't the neutral arbitrators that the system paints them to be. They're employed by the government just like the cops and the prosecutor, and they're often former prosecutors themselves. The implicit bias should be obvious, but even if it wasn't, the amount of times they bend over backwards to hand a win to the government would clue anyone in.

In a fair world the judge would have said: "Hand me a list of every officer who claims that they believed he was asking for a literal dog. For the rest of their careers anytime they give testimony or have evidence they collected presented to the jury, there will be a mandatory notification that they are fucking idiots and anything they say or do should be placed in that context."

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TriangleGang 7 points ago +7 / -0

We should also have him maroon Kirk on an ice planet with monsters that try to kill him the second he steps out of the escape pod.

That's absolutely something someone who operates on pure logic and follows all laws and regulations would do.

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TriangleGang 15 points ago +15 / -0

Given some of the outrageous family court rulings and how they casually ruin men's lives, I've always been surprised that these sorts of talks aren't a regular occurrence.

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TriangleGang 27 points ago +27 / -0

This is an oldie, but goodie and worth 45 minutes of your time:

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?feature=shared

Here we have a law professor giving a presentation to his class on why you should never speak to the police. Towards the end he gives the stage over to a police officer to add his thoughts and potentially rebut the professor's arguments. The first thing the cop says is "everything he just told you is absolutely correct".

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TriangleGang 26 points ago +26 / -0

Lots of legal fuckery in this:

A Dallas county judge annulled his marriage at his wife's request; making his children “illegitimate” and revoking his custody rights. His prenup was thrown out

How the fuck do you annul a marriage after 5 years with children? Annulments are supposed to be reserved for cases of fraud, e.g. the marriage was never legal because of bigamy, incest, lack of consent by one of the parties, etc.

His ex-wife then took the boys to California — on the eve of it becoming a “transgender sanctuary state”. She filed to have James chemically castrated, to get around the Texas court order prohibiting it in 2021

Isn't this a federal "full faith in credit" issue? States can't just ignore court orders from other states. Regardless, couldn't Texas just charge her with contempt and issue an arrest warrant, and then California would have to extradite her based on existing agreements between the states on law enforcement matters?

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TriangleGang 4 points ago +4 / -0

It was OK, but the original followed the book better, even if it looks exactly like you would expect a 1980s miniseries to look like. You'll be right at home though if you're cool with V, the North and the South, the Blue and the Gray, etc.

This one focused too much on Mariko IMO, with her physically fighting and defeating trained samurai. She also has more agency than in the book. Without spoiling it, there's a bit of diplomatic maneuvering at the end that was Toranaga's doing in the book but the miniseries turned it into her plan. In contrast, Blackthorne comes off sort of like an idiot, but he was the protagonist in the book and not dumb at all, just a fish out of water trying to learn about a completely alien culture.

This one wins hands down on cinematography, costuming, and special effects. Apparently it was mostly filmed in British Columbia and Canada, but you wouldn't know it.

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TriangleGang 8 points ago +8 / -0

Notice it only goes one way too. There's no tax deduction for unrealized capital losses

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TriangleGang 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, I just checked the local place on the Pizza Hut website, and it's not immediately obvious because they present you the options to order for delivery or carry out pretty prominently, but under the list of "Services" for the location it says dine in.

So I guess they still operate the dining room at the ones that are full size freestanding restaurants. They used to do lunch buffet there as well, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

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TriangleGang 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's been 15-20 years since I've eaten at Pizza Hut. Did they all stop dine in? There are still two near me that are full buildings with dining rooms that are open. Are they just not using them anymore?

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TriangleGang 8 points ago +8 / -0

When I was that age I knew who the candidates were and who my parents favored, but I don't recall having a real opinion one way or the other.

If we are to believe this child, all or most of her classmates (but only the girls) were so invested in the election that they were performatively grieving across her school for hours or days.

Assuming this is true, they are being aggressively politicized and brainwashed by their (assuredly female) parents. Kids need to just be kids and not worry about politics.

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TriangleGang 4 points ago +4 / -0

Exactly. I only see logical fallacies brought up by leftists, and they always misapply them.

Calling attention to the fact that somebody criticizing a politician was perfectly fine with the same behavior when it was someone that shared their beliefs is not whataboutism.

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TriangleGang 3 points ago +3 / -0

Probably the same kind of idiot who who would let it soak into the trim at the base of his wall while he takes a picture rather than clean it up.

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TriangleGang 16 points ago +16 / -0

Thank you. Sites have been reporting that she killed him over Trump winning when the murder occurred before the election was over and over a dispute about whether or not they were going to have the lights in the house on. She's just a nut.

There's plenty of awful things liberals do without us needing to sink to their level and spread lies.

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TriangleGang 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes "adjudicated rapist", which means they're taking findings from a civil trial with completely different standards of evidence, no presumption of innocence, and a "more likely than not" burden of proof and conflating them into some sort of pseudo finding of criminal guilt.

I never seen this term before, but they leave no stone unturned in their smear campaign against Trump.

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TriangleGang 20 points ago +20 / -0

Women have this vacuous "all the mundane things in my life are so deep and meaningful" writing style. It's silly and pretentious. Bitch reminds me of this story:

https://inverarity.livejournal.com/50799.html

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TriangleGang 26 points ago +27 / -1

I immediately texted, “I love you, but out of respect for me and all my liberal writer friends, can you please take down that post? Also, tell your family I love them, but I will not be coming for Thanksgiving, and I won’t be hosting Christmas. I need space.”

Shortly after I sent the text, he brought me a cup of coffee in bed.

“I am sorry,” he said, “I understand.”

We should be living in a world where he backhanded her for her spiteful impertinence instead of apologizing to her like a punk.

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TriangleGang 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's worse than that: the ingredients correctly list that it is made with cream, it just doesn't have an extra allergy warning telling people that it has milk (cream) in it.

So, even if you were the stupidest person on the planet and didn't know butter was made with milk, you still would have been fine if you read the ingredients list.

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