They're just trying to avoid second and third order effects.
The states removing Trump from the ballot advanced the theory that he need not be convicted of a crime, if they felt that the evidence met the criteria of the crime they could remove him on that basis alone.
That means other states could, for example, remove Joe Biden from the ballot for taking money from the Chinese simply by asserting that they felt there is enough evidence that it happened. Repeat ad infinitum for both sides for every candidate they don't like, forever.
It wasn't that they cared about Trump, so much as they probably recognized that the ramifications of the opposite decision would be a complete breakdown in the American election system when state authorities begin to simply disqualify anyone they want from their ballot using simple accusations because they don't like their politics.
no one is discussing strategies for actually solving the problem.
Because the only real solution is violence. When the people that keep the state-sponsored extortion racket going are afraid it will cost them their lives, they will stop.
However, simply discussing it will get your posts deleted and you banned. And anyone that discusses/encourages it online is as likely to be a glowie as a real person.
I can't disagree with his politics more. Trigger warnings with timestamps to skip to if you can't bear to see real life, whining about "inclusivity", etc., but his conclusions about the art aren't wrong:
- trying to appeal to everyone ends up appealing to no one
- we can sense insincerity, and corporations using this art style to pretend that they care about minorities or social issues is easily sniff out and repulses us
I think the weight of the female vote has a greater impact than the natural shift towards conservativism.
If it were as simple as "today's Democrats are tomorrow's Republicans", we would be seeing a steady and gradual increase in people supporting the right/Republicans that matches the steady and gradual aging of populations.
The women I know are perfect voters for the left: they worry about feelings instead of facts, they tend to be less affluent (less to lose when voting for giveaway programs), they seem more trusting of authority, they exhibit cognitive dissonance (if ACAB, why do you only want cops to have guns?). The government standing in for their husband, and every whiny special interest group standing in for their children, pretty much explains their voting habits.
It's called 'Enterprise' but the ship is a rust bucket with pea shooters. It's unimpressive in every conceivable way and most of the ship-to-ship conflicts become exercises in teeth-gritting
That's part of the core concept of the show though: this isn't the mighty Federation, a powerful political entity with an armada of top of the line spacecraft. It's earth, a relatively unimportant planet taking its first steps into the universe
If you're familiar with aviation history, the US didn't build a single fighter plane in World War 1, and all of its fighters were borrowed from France (like how the Vulcans are the keepers of knowledge and technology in Enterprise).
Contrast that with the Korean War-era and later where the US is now the undisputed master of military aviation, with the exception of the mysterious and inscrutable Soviets (a role filled by the Klingons in TOS).
I'll grant you that the execution was somewhat lacking, but I found the concept interesting, with enough historical analogs that it was believable.
Picard Season 3 is supposed to be better, but I couldn't even work up the energy to watch it after the absolute train wrecks that constituted the first two seasons.
Star Trek and Star Wars have both been ruined by current day production teams that don't understand the charm of the original at all and probably hate it if they do.
I'd rate TOS higher than DS9 if there were a full AI remaster or overhaul or something to make it less dated looking.
No thank you. They redid all of the exterior shots with CGI for the Blu-ray release, and it's jarring when compared to the scenes with actors. At least they had the decency to give you the choice between watching that version or the one filmed with little models.
I think we have to accept media as a product of its time, especially science fiction. There's really no way to "modernize" a show where they are feeding physical cards into a computer to program it without reshooting the whole thing, and then it wouldn't be TOS anymore.
Man, what a great character. The slow shift from "foe but sometimes uneasy ally" to pawn of the Dominion ala Vichy France and then crazy cult leader was quite a ride. I thought it was unintentional, but I always kind of felt sorry for him.
He and Garak were the best parts of the show. I also liked what they did with Nog; pivoting from a stereotypical greedy and shitty little ferengi into a Starfleet officer was great. Especially given how boring Jake's growth into a "journalist" was.
Unfortunately, I never felt that Benjamin Sisko was very interesting. He had pretty much none of the gravitas that Picard had. Even Janeway pulled off being a commander and authority figure better than he did.
When I was younger I avoided it because I thought the starting theme music was too gay.
I have heard that people literally hate the theme song, and by extension the entire series. It seems strange to judge an entire show on something so trivial, but it's a complaint I see often when the show is brought up. That and how much people hated the final episode- which seems to be something so many shows get wrong.
I think it started out slowly and didn't find its groove till the end, but if you watch the first couple seasons of TNG or DS9, you'll see the same thing. The first season of TNG is a excruciating, as you can almost feel them stumbling while trying to figure out what each character's personality should be.
I think the show suffered from a form of fan service: "we've got to show the Borg", Let's find a way to work in Data's creator", etc., but at the same time, those were some interesting and fun episodes.
Given the prequel setting and how they worked in so many references to the previous shows, it almost feels like some sort of retrospective send off to Star Trek, which now seems appropriate as pretty much everything in the franchise since then has been trash.
They're already planning on doing that here in California for electricity.
Which will just fuck the middle class. The reason really rich people pay insanely low taxes is it all their assets are titled to entities designed to reduce their liability to lawsuits and minimize their tax burden. When a millionaire's personal income is actually zero, because it's all funneled through a trust, they'll end up getting free electricity under this model.
Their food seems higher quality than McDonald's or Burger King, but they don't really have a "hook": Jack in the Box has all day breakfast and a very diverse menu, Burger King floods my mailbox with coupons, Taco Bell is "Mexican", Dairy Queen is the ice cream place, and McDonald's has the name recognition.
Wendy's is kind of just there as an alternate burger joint. Apparently the frosty is some sort of loss leader for them, as they do the coupon books at Halloween and you can get something that gives you unlimited frosties for a year for some silly low price like $5. But honestly, I only found this out recently because I never even think of them when I think of fast food.
That's my perception of McDonalds. Occasionally I'll get breakfast there on the way to the airport and I always feel like I got punched in the stomach about 30 minutes later. For some reason McDonald's breakfast is the only fast food that does that to me.
This was argued at SCOTUS 40 years ago in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. The ruling was that VCRs do not constitute copyright infringement simply because someone could play infringing content on them.
Since the emulator allows you to play backup copies of games you legally purchased, the fact that it could also be used for illegally copied games is irrelevant.
There ought to be extremely heavy fines levied on the petitioner in cases of vexatious litigation like this.
Well, the state only really gets involved with their National Guard in appointing the senior officers and when they are activated for an emergency. The rest of the time it's run with federal dollars and is busy sending people to the same training that the active duty receives and trying (and failing) to meet the active duty readiness standards.
It's also staffed mostly by people that were prior active duty but didn't have enough years to retire, so they are rounding out their careers in the National Guard so they can get some form of military pension.
The exception would be things like how Texas is using their National Guard on the border, and have a couple states refused to order their National Guard soldiers to get covid vaccines. There usually isn't a conflict between the feds and the National Guard. Could that and will that change? Let's see how everyone's feeling after the next election.
According to court documents, almost 5,000 people fell for this.
And if you're that stupid you shouldn't be allowed to vote anyway.
I see what you did there...
I wonder if these people even understand the inconsistency of their position. If reading, not committing crimes, getting jobs, being a productive member of society, etc. are all "racist" (for apparently no other reason than the fact that it is "harder" for blacks to attain these relatively low benchmarks of being a valued human) aren't you making the supposed white supremacist's argument for them? I mean, if all these things are harder for them for them for no other reason than they are black that would by default mean that blacks are lesser creatures than whites.
we have made the difficult decision to have you step down from your volunteer position, effective immediately
These people haven't even mastered the English language, or more likely are deliberately corrupting it. You can ask someone to step down, or they can choose to step down (even under pressure) but the term itself means an action initiated by the person in question. You can fire or remove a person, but then they didn't "step down".
It seems like a little thing, but I know the choice of words was deliberate to try and falsely soften what they were saying
For some reason the left needs to politicize everything. I used to frequent Board Game Geek. I think they generally had a left-leaning bent, but generally tolerant to nonconforming views with only flame war type posts getting deleted.
Right around 2020 this changed. They posted a manifesto on their front page proclaiming several "truths": blacks, trannies, women, etc. are oppressed. Their voices deserve to be featured and counter-posts that minimize "their truth" are invalid, etc. They started heavily censoring non-conforming posts and assumed a generally holier than thou attitude towards any dissent. The message became: "we know what is right and what is wrong; if you don't agree with us, you are immoral and either need to shut up so we don't have to listen to you or leave"
So now, if a "person of color" complains that a WWII game doesn't have a black character and you point out that it would be historically inaccurate, you're post will be deleted for being "dismissive" or "derailing".
There was even an video game made where the only thing you could do is beating her up.
Sounds fun. Where can it be downloaded?
I used to love X-Men comics, and didn't really read Batman. I tried watching the X-Men cartoon when they brought it to Disney+ and it just didn't resonate with me anymore.
Physical media is nice, but hard drive space is cheaper. I may or may not have sailed the high seas to get copies of all these shows and more cartoons from that era.
The idiots that scheduled programming in my area never broadcast Pirates of Dark Water, Exosquad, or Conan the Adventurer in the correct order- I don't know if they ever even showed all the episodes. Back when TV shows were still almost entirely episodic, these cartoons had an ongoing story that didn't make nearly as much sense if you watch them out of order.
Batman. It has the most lasting impact and has aged the best.
What you all need to understand about cartoon character, especially classic cartoon character, is that a lot of them were inserts for minority figure
Because it's New York and martial art.
I guess someone missed the day that they taught pluralization in school. Or is this a new part of ebonics, intentionally not pluralizing words to corrupt the language and be "cool"?
"Turnt" isn't a real word. Using one gibberish slang word to explain the meaning of another isn't very scholarly.
Isn't killing people inconsistent with pretty much all value systems? They should probably take down any military pictures, since we wouldn't want to glorify violence.
You know, come to think of it, they should probably just disband themselves, since giving medical care to disabled soldiers just encourages the cycle of violence.
Fucking retards.