At the beginning of the war both sides tried to avoid civilian casualties and only attacked military targets. A single German bomber accidentally bombed London, which caused England to bomb Berlin, which sparked the Blitz as revenge. https://web.archive.org/web/20230109101126/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1413593/The-Luftwaffe-blunder-that-started-five-years-of-destruction.html
It not really anyone's fault that terror bombing became the standard for the war, although I've never seen anything that claimed Luftwaffe strategists were enamored with Giulio Douhet and his theories of destroying a nation's will to fight by terrorizing their civilian populace the same way the US Army Air Corps was. Indeed, the Luftwaffe's bomber force consisted entirely of light and medium bombers originally intended to tactically support the army.
I never had an issue with the alien angle. In fact it wasn't until I heard that others were complaining that I would have guessed that so many people had decided that only religion/magic was "real" in the Indiana Jones universe.
I hated Crystal Skull due to it's incoherent plot, Shia Lebouf, the CGI, and not funny attempts at humor throughout. I thought bringing back Marion Ravenwood was good, and didn't even fundamentally have a problem with introducing an illegitimate son to give Harrison Ford someone to pass the hat and whip to- except the shitty actor they picked for it.
Ultimately, it just didn't feel like Indiana Jones. I doubt this one will either, in fact I suspect it will be much worse.
It's pretty sad when a cookie cutter action movie is the best thing released in the last couple of years.
No dig on TG: Maverick, but we used to get half a dozen movies like this every summer.
That wouldn't fly in a US libel trial. The plaintiff would have to prove that the person who wrote it intended the reader to understand that she was literally a member of the Nazi party and that it wasn't simply hyperbole.
You needn't preface a comment with "in my opinion", it's sufficient if a reasonable person would interpret your statement as an opinion. Given that whatever version of the Nazi party still exists is an extremely fringe group and that it's a common internet insult to call someone a Nazi, you would have to pretty much explicitly state that you are in fact saying someone is a member of the Nazi party for this to get any traction in a US court.
Libel in the US: you wrote something that is demonstrably false. You can say anything you want as long as it's clear that it's your opinion and not being presented as fact.
Libel in the UK: you wrote something mean.
True, and a town is probably too small of a political unit to effectively push back on the federal government to force them to change policy.
However, giving up federal funding and refusing to cooperate is probably the best way for states to fight back against overreach, woke policies, etc.
People don't realize how reliant the federal government is on lower level political bodies to function. For example: they have agreements with every state to share data for Social Security. They don't even know that someone has died unless the state tells them. That's just one thing the state can stop helping with to push back on the feds.
Towns that don't meet the cookie-cutter requirement for economic diversity will lose federal funding.
This is the only mechanism they have to force compliance. Despite being huge, the federal government really doesn't have a lot of employees or law enforcement that are able to impose their will on you. They rely on partnerships/cooperative agreements and coercion through withholding federal funding to get state and local governments to do their work for them.
State and local governments need to stop being reliant on federal funding if they want to maintain their independence.
"People". Yes, that's what I see in that video.
Dr. Narita, 37
Well, there's your problem right there. I doubt Dr. Narita, 67 will share the same opinions as his younger self. It's very easy to talk about sacrificing for the greater good when you intend for someone else to be doing the sacrifice.
And how are you going to implement vaccine mandates when they lose in every case that is litigated? Was it New York just forced to rehire a bunch of police officers they fired for not getting the vaccine? This guy must be a slow learner.
I think that we flatter ourselves with the belief that mankind has somehow fundamentally advanced past things like burning witches and the Spanish Inquisition.
What the last two years have taught me is that there is absolutely nothing different between your everyday Joe in 2020 and in 1520. Only the technology has changed. It's frighteningly easy to whip up a mob of NPCs into the modern day version of a witch burning, and they lack even the basic introspection that would let them see the parallel.
Did they release him to a zoo? Jesus, that guy looks like a fucking mutant. I'm not surprised he has health problems, he looks like his genes are jumbled as fuck.
Here's a thought: it's not illegal to discriminate on the basis of political affiliation. You've got a 99.9% chance that any gays are democrat, so just say you're refusing them service on the basis of their political beliefs instead of their sexual preference.
"Department for Levelling Up"
This has got to be fake. Only a straight retard would name a government agency using contemporary slang that recalls grinding in a JRPG....
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-levelling-up-housing-and-communities
And, it's real. The UK is fucking worthless.
Beginning in October of 2021, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, then in the minority, sent dozens of letters to the Biden administration demanding internal executive branch documents about the investigation of parents. But with Republicans lacking subpoena power, the Justice Department did not provide them.
Ian Sams, a White House spokesman, accused Mr. Jordan of “rushing to fire off subpoenas only two days after the Judiciary Committee organized, even though agencies already responded in good faith seeking to accommodate requests he made.”
So, The Justice department refused to cooperate when the Republicans didn't have the authority to force them, so now when the Republicans do have that authority and use it they act like it was unnecessary and they would have cooperated. Fucking bullshit.
Don't worry, the Dems will still use it as justification for more gun control...
I can't be the only one who prefers to watch these sorts of things in their original language with subtitles.
mental coercion
This is the one to be concerned about. Countries like England (and apparently Romania) already have laws about this. Not laying a hand on someone isn't a defense when they can say that you abused them through manipulation. Look for scummy politicians to start with this shit in the US soon.
Clown world assholes:
Women are equal to men
Also these assholes:
Women are so weak and stupid that men can control them like children or retarded puppets simply by being smarter than them and using their sinister man-power of mental control and coercion
If only there was a way to shoot it down...oh well.
Not surprising. If the law says you can't do something, or sue for something there's always a lawyer willing to argue that "prohibited argument X" is totally different than the exact same argument labelled "argument Y".
And why not? I just read about a case in New Jersey where their new red flag law was marked by their own attorney general as violating the Fourth Amendment with advice to state law enforcement to not use it, the judge in the case challenging it opened with "can we all agree this law is unconstitutional?" and yet the state defended it ultimately won.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take is absolutely part of how lawyers work, and they will throw out any argument in hopes of a win. Without any real penalties for this sort of thing, you would be doing your client a disservice if you practice self-restraint because a law clearly didn't support you.
So, OpenAI is t very open then?
The shitheads who made this crappy play:
Only "people of color" should review our show!
Also these assholes:
Whites can buy tickets to watch though. We want your money.
As for the custom of theater reviews only doing reviews for shows they received an invitation to review: sounds stupid to me, and smacks of using what is supposedly an unbiased review system for stealth advertising. If I had a play that I was putting on, I would only invite people to review it that I was fairly certain would give it positive reviews.
I've taken to collecting cartoons and shows from my youth. I guess it's the nostalgia factor, they're not terribly entertaining to watch as an adult. Most of them never got a DVD release, so fans have painstakingly preserved them for us.
How do these compare to Harmy's despecialized editions?
I downloaded those a while ago and have been considering buying the Blu-ray versions with menus that some people are selling on EBay to get a more professional/official release style copy.
He was also the asshole TA in Roadtrip who tried to get the main character kicked out of college.