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Dave Chappelle's primary reason for leaving the Chappelle's Show at the time, if you paid attention to what the man said at the time, was that he had just gotten this unprecedented deal for just one more season of the show for $50 MILLION DOLLARS.
HOWEVER, this was all compounded by exhaustion with him working reportedly like 20 hours a day during production, but that wasn't the issue, what the issue was is that during production of all these legendary skits where he as a black man is frequently utilizing his race and the race of others as like cruxes of his jokes, that a vast majority of the people on set watching were white faces predominately, and towards the end he didn't feel like he was being laughed "With" so much as he was being laughed "At".
Also, going back to the $50 million thing, with it being a historical deal for a comedian on TV -- he interpreted that at the time as him selling out to the white man. And he was. They were gonna force him to do all kinds of embarrassing shit because they would keep going back to that like "We paid you an unbelievable amount of money for this! We own you now, don't you know?" So he ran.
It had nothing to do with them asking for him to tone the show down or to be more commercially viable for advertisers with more friendly and less provocative content, no, he was literally worried that he was actually backtracking from the legacy of his great grandfather who WAS A SLAVE by entering himself into a brand new form of "successful slavery". If that makes sense. He made the right call to leave.
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OK, whether you think this is horse shit, or whether you may even be moved by some of the "pastors" here, the end result, bottom line is this:
19:26 -- watch from this point.
The guy with the tattoos is a drug addict. He's doing something or another, but he's also realized evangelism is one of THE most profitable things somebody can do. In America at least, it's all tax-free to run a church.
The other guy, the more straight-laced one, he's no better. Contrary to what he says he's doing though, he IS running a pentecostal service. The people who go and probably pay for his services don't realize this, but he's taking advantage of stupid, weak people. Like every other major religion on the planet.
But honestly, a lot of these television or "pop" pastors -- they're in it for the money. Duh. Tax free AND a dumb clientele to boot? I'd say count me in if that wasn't a completely evil thing to do. Think about that.
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If he was being louder and/or more boisterous then I think it's again just because the two fed off of each other just to begin with, like I am convinced if they didn't meet each other and become friends this shooting may never have happened. But it did. Like it was almost similar to certain homosexual relationships (I am not calling them gay, don't get me wrong) or even in just a lot of human relationships in general, there was a dominant one and there was a submissive one. Eric may not have been as vocal during the shooting but based on his journals alone compared to Dylan's journals it's very clear that the mastermind was Eric. Dylan was probably just trying to please his master, so to speak, as he often did when it came to Eric, or maybe it was in some pseudo way to convince himself that what he was doing was actually OK. It took him spotting a friend to revert to a chilling casual remark, "Oh, just killing people". I can't help but think in that moment maybe Dylan felt a little bit of shame but again, they were in too deep by that point. I am just theorizing here mostly.
Actually I am watching an interview with one of the kids who was in the library, Craig Scott, and he claims "they were both whooping it up".
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It's essentially an epilogue. I've long said that the final two episodes of BrBa are the epilogue of that show. The kind thing that sort of irons it all out so it's neat and tidy at the end, story wise. This movie is essentially then an epilogue to the epilogue. We didn't need to see what happened to Jesse, necessarily. There were two schools of thought -- he lives happily ever after (what we now know for a fact happened) OR he gets busted as soon as he rounds the corner leaving the compound. In all actual honest to God reality, he'd have been caught. That movie would have been more interesting than this. BUT of course he has to have a happy ending and I will say this more than anyone besides the White family + Hank and Marie, he deserves one. I just wish through happenstance or otherwise he knew not just where a measly $750 thousand was, but like $40 million or more of Walt's money. Uncle Jack's last words were pleading to Walt, "You wanna know where your money is, right? Kill me and you won't...." pow
His money was the final mystery, and just like Walt's own family/his children got their money, one way or another, Jesse was technically also one of Walt's kids. Walt took a bullet for him in the end, just like he would have in my opinion for Skylar or Walt Jr. or Holly. Jesse in a way was his closest child, the one he could really talk to and share the burden of this path they ultimately got bound to together. A family business of sorts, except they weren't related. For all the suffering Jesse endured, to see him actually make use of that final bit of Walt's money even if it involved smuggling it with him similar to the way the disappearer guy helped him smuggle $10 million in cash, it could all have been done. Jesse deserved that. "DBAA tax" on Walt's part. (real BrBa fans will get this)
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In Breaking Bad, we almost didn't even get Mike Ehrmantraut as a character. Believe it or not Saul was meant to be the one who shows up and cleans Jesse's house, but he had an audition that day so they created the character of Mike Ehrmantraut for that reason. And he's one of the most important/beloved characters in the series today. Mike was never really a clean cop. Mike's son was a clean cop. We know this from Better Call Saul. As Mike would have it, basically most of the cops are crooked after some time in the force. The ones who aren't are relocated or otherwise dealt with. One time Mike's son came across some dirty money and thought he was doing the right thing by reporting it to his higher up. The higher up is like "Listen, take the money. We all do that, come on, the pay's not good enough around here anyway. Take it, no harm no foul." but he made himself seem so uncomfortable with it that they basically decided right then and there he'd be a liability so they plan to kill him. Before this though Mike's son asks Mike himself for advice, and even Mike himself says "Just take the money, don't worry about it" but by then his son's colleagues were suspicious of him so they decided to get rid of him before he decides to become a whistleblower or whatever. This absolutely destroyed Mike, and of course I think is what finally made him switch sides, he figured "If I am gonna be crooked, I may as well be affiliated with the ones who are honest about their dishonesty"
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^ this is true but Todd was not intelligent enough to really be ABLE to grasp the big picture, Todd was kind of interesting in that he was more of a blind servant than Mike would ever be (and this is proven with how he deals with Walt, although Walt convinces Mike and Jesse that their partner is a 3 way split that's totally equal -- while everyone including Walt realizes he's really the one who was controlling that ship and Mike was smart enough to realize it too, he just didn't care -- Jesse actually believed it was that way because the money WAS shared between them in that split, he was also more of a follower though than anything else, getting off track lol). Todd made up for his basic lack of intelligence with vicious, cold-hearted execution. He was always following orders, I mean even in the Train episode they literally told him "Nobody can know this happened" so like a computer he sees the 13 year old and was like "OK, well nobody means nobody. Cya kid, sorry." In a disturbingly calm fashion. But yeah, he was built from the ground up to obey orders without question, something his uncle probably abused into him from a young age. I mean, something went wrong with that kid, probably more like somethings but you get the picture. Todd might be the most disturbing character in the show for me. Even moreso than Tuco.
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I think it's more of a cultural phenomenon at this point than anything else. People have lived with a lack of socialization, or with poor socialization or positive relationships, forever. They've even lived under those same conditions with an over-abundance of guns within society as well for longer than we've had this problem as well, so it's hardly something to do with the number of guns (although that certainly doesn't help). The thing I think that fuels all of it is the media. A lot of people think Columbine was the first school shooting; it wasn't. It certainly seemed to get the ball rolling though. The news though really sensationalized this as a phenomenon, even if accidentally, and it has become more and more of a common thing since then.
I think a lot of these mass shooters on a conscious or subconscious level are just seeking attention. Sure, they're probably depressed and they're absolutely insane, but think about it -- more people are likely to remember the name of the shooter than any of their victims. The victims don't get a Wikipedia page devoted entirely to them, but the shooters do. This is one reason I am all in favor of not naming the shooter or showing their face on the news, and ideally giving as little coverage to them as possible so it at least takes the fame/infamy factor out of it. Of course, the news secretly loves it when these things happen because as the old saying goes, "If it bleeds, it leads". Violence is good for business for them.
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Yeah basically at this point people need to look at it not as a moral issue but as a health issue. That, and an economic one. It's a waste of money, it's ruining people's lives, and if they're worried that if they legalized every drug that their kids and grandkids would immediately rush out and become heroin addicts, they won't. I think a lot of addicts are addicted not just to the drugs they use but the subculture that illegality has created around it, to such an extent addicts literally do kind of live secret lives where they're forced to lie, in some cases steal, and live in the darkness. They're like a coven of vampires or something, they may have nothing in common otherwise but they each need their fix at least once but preferably twice a day, like vampires would probably feel about the blood they need to drink to survive. Heroin addicts in particular need medical attention, not handcuffs. The rates of overdose/death and the transmission of diseases like Hep-C and HIV/AIDS would actually drop. Portugal, for instance, basically decriminalized all drugs to such an extent it may as well be legal and ironically the rates of usage dropped.
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Not only that but I wonder if Eric would've done it without Dylan. You gotta figure at some point, one of them mentioned to the other they had plans to do something like this. I am inclined to think it was Eric's idea, and Dylan simply went along for the ride. If Dylan was like "No way man" or something and reported it, it could've prevented this from happening altogether. I think their interest in it fueled each other, they egged each other on towards this one goal so to speak. But in spite of the fact I do believe Eric was probably the more disturbed of the two and the one more likely to do it between the two of them, Dylan was reportedly the one who was having the most fun that day. Hooping and hollering, just having a grand old time. Reportedly, Eric was actually dead silent and some even theorize Eric may have even felt a little bit sick to his stomach by the end. People always think Dylan was the beta in the relationship, that he was the unpopular one and maybe even idolized Eric on some level but the reality is Dylan had more friends than Eric and Dylan went to the prom among other things. I think he was depressed for sure, suicidally depressed even. Eric on the other hand was a psychopath. Either way, the two of them fed each other along when it comes to all of this.
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@gagebailey8342 I mean, you could argue that the Bible (oh nevermind, even worse, you meant the book by Roberta Sparrow -- I mean, that book was an actual centerpiece and focal point of the story itself, if we can't enforce our argument by it or other things in the story then what CAN we base it on?) has led to the most literal themes or whatever in the most works across history, so I am not even making an original point in sayingh that. But I mean then again I'd argue the Bible is more than just a "piece of literature". It's more powerful anyway and has had more lasting effects on the world than fucking Harry Potter has for example (which I would argue also has biblical themes, ironically enough). And no I am not a religious person, let alone a Christian, I do think that the power of the concept behind "Jesus like" characters IS strong, though. And in Donnie's case to me I don't think it could be any more clear, he was a flawed individual himself who was basically given a choice between saving himself and himself alone at the cost of the fate of the rest of the entire world, or he could do what he did to save everyone else, the good, the evil, the people he knew and the people he didn't. I mean, that's what a good bible-thumping Christian would tell you their man JC did for the rest of us on planet Earth, one way or another he did die though on the cross, whether you believe it was for everyone else's sake or not is of course up to you.
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My older brother by like 12 years or so (both of my older siblings are much older than me, for a while I was the youngest now I have two half brothers both younger) back during the early 90's stole a blank audio cassette tape from Wal-Mart. Of course, Wal-Mart at the time already had incredible video surveillance systems that covered every inch of the store making shoplifting virtually impossible, but he didn't know it at the time. He just opened the package that it came in, pocketed the tape, then continued walking around the store with my Mom as she shopped normally. He of course thought he got away with it at the time, thinking as they're going through the line if they haven't confronted him yet, they won't. Then as they are heading out of the store towards the car, a security guard comes running out and tells them to stop because the police are on their way. My Mom is like "Police? Why?" and then he says "Your son stole something."
As he's getting booked at the station, he didn't fully realize how much trouble he was in yet. He had to spend the night in the jail's lockup, but then he recounted later on that it didn't bother him that he was going to have to do that. What he said bothered him the most was the look of disappointment and sadness on my Mom's face. He proceeded to think about it the entire time until bail could be arranged and posted the next morning.
It was the first and only charge (as far as I know) on his criminal record. He told me later on he didn't even WANT the tape, and he didn't know why he stole it. But it was the feeling of shame and regret looking into my mom's eyes that hurt him the most in the end.
Seeing the grandmother just completely emotionally destroyed and having to leave the room and then that causing the girl to begin crying herself makes me think about that. This is obviously way worse, but even this stone cold killer of a girl was brought to tears knowing how much pain and misery she had brought to her family, including her sweet grandmother, who probably thought the world of her up until that point. It's heartbreaking and tragic.
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@slaughterhome Yeah it's interesting, too, because there's a few times I think he genuinely wanted to get out and realized he was in over his head. Very few, but they were there, the problem is as circumstances would have it he was always unable to. The main one that comes to mind is when he realized that Gus was making moves that would basically put him and his entire family in danger so he wanted to do the "disappearing act" with the guy for $500k total when he thought he had about $7-800 thousand, but of course Skylar had to give that money to Ted so as not to bring any unwanted attention onto them from that angle.
Plus, she was finally beginning to believe Walt when he told her "there is no danger, it's actually pretty legitimate even though it's illegitimate money" but Walt in the back of his mind I think always knew that his ego would never allow him to be someone else's employee. By the time the show ends he's not just confident in his ability to be successful in this business, he's cocky. When that whole thing happened with Gus, Walt in the crawlspace with the famous maniacal laughter, it's one of the most brilliant sequences in the show because you can follow Walt emotionally the entire time.
He went from desperately looking for the money so they could skip town in time and start living new lives only to realize the money was gone. That was no longer an option. At that moment, Walt realized he HAD to kill Gus, so he fully gives himself to the demon that was Heisenberg in that moment. He had to go into Heisenberg mode a few times just to survive the mania that was being a drug kingpin, but in that moment I believe he fully gave himself to that evil entity, if we can call it that. It saved them and allowed him to finally become the boss, but by that point Walt as Skylar and everyone knew him their entire lives was finally, well and truly gone. And he wanted more, more more.
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@RedRoseSeptember22 Nah, Arya has consistently reminded people of her aunt Lyanna for the entire duration of the show and the books. Lyanna, like Arya, was a tomboy. The kind of woman that only Robert Baratheon could fall madly (and I mean madly) in love with.
Meanwhile Lyanna elopes with Rhaegar, in spite of these "non-ladylike qualities" herself and has enough of a sex drive to conceive Jon. I do think Arya is a more extreme version of that same tomboy now by necessity, she's literally had to become coldblooded and bloodthirsty just as a means to survive, but at the same time that doesn't mean she won't one day mature into a woman who wouldn't mind having a family of her own. Just because she doesn't want it when she's like 10 years old doesn't mean shit.
Besides, I'd argue that Sansa is the one (in the show) who is least likely to marry for love ever again. She had to deal with Ramsay after all. Sansa will end up marrying Sweetrobin because it will cement a relationship between the North and the Vale and also because she's the new Littlefinger, basically, and he would be an extremely easy husband to control.
And if that's not enough to convince you let's boil it down to classic foreshadowing, in Season 3 I believe just before their separation Gendry is preparing to go join the BWOB and she pleas with him to stay, telling him "I could be your family" and he just smiles at her and says, "No, you would be my lady".
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I've been gaming since I was like five years old on my brothers NES. Games used to have an excitement to them, when I got the Sega Genesis around age 7 and the N64 around age 9. Getting (or renting) a new game was an experience back then. They were all different. Some were good. Some were bad. One thing I have noticed since then is a lot of great innovation (think the Everquest and WoW -- although I never played Everquest to be clear) and other innovation with other genres and games like GTA suddenly becoming good starting at GTA3 (where it was kind of ehhh before that). GTA3 and it's successor titles like Vice City and San Andreas, GTA4 etc changed games forever. But in the meantime video games surpassed Hollywood where money making was concerned and when it comes to GTA5 by QUITE a large margin with the online thing. The more they realized the financial potential, the worse things got. Games started feeling more and more like each other and not the opposite. Nowadays they all feel more or less the same, it can't just be that I got older and outgrew them. They literally just don't do it for the passion of making games anymore, it's all about finding ways to make money. Started with DLC packs, then it became lootboxes, and now with Diablo Immortal they literally want you to download their "free game" so they can trick you into playing a slot machine for real money. This is a very disturbing trend within the industry. I have zero hopes for Diablo 4. It looks great but that is the point, that's the hook, then they're going to ruin it somehow by taking a paid game and trying to trick you into paying more for it somehow. For something that is, at it's core, a rehash of something that was done 10-20 years ago and better for less money. The industry has been hijacked.
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Guns are never going away in America. Never. People wanna blame the guns so bad, it's not the guns operating on their own individual accords, it's the people. The people in this country are the problem. The people controlling the guns. The extreme example of course is the people who do these shootings like this but the more everyday example is the criminals and gangsters shooting each other in places like Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans and other cities like that. Those are the majority of shooting statistics. But the simple bottom line reason why gun control will not work in this country is because it's too late. There's too many guns already, and even if every law abiding citizen in the country turned their legal guns in, there are millions more stolen guns etc and those are the ones that the main perps who commit homicide actually do. These events are just more shocking because they're turned on innocent children with their entire lives ahead of them versus street criminals who were in that life already. But the fact is in America it's basically too late for gun control, the NRA will never allow it so long as there is a semi-conservative body in the country, and beyond that it's basically more a symptom of the fact that this society is sick. Some of the people in it are very sick, and you give them guns all of a sudden and it's a recipe for disaster, something so apparent that the people involved in this remarkably were more like confirmed in their suspicions than anything else. Like, "we knew this was gonna happen, and we knew it was gonna be HIM."
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I'd say he won. As much as a man who "lost" in the end possibly could have, especially considering his circumstances. First off, he was given I think a few months to live and survived a whole two years that could've turned into maybe three, four... who knows. He lived longer than his initial predicted life expectancy dictated.
Moreover, he found a way to get $10 million to his kids, in particular, which will of course then rollover to his wife as well as far as being "set for the rest of their lives". Now, I personally would've liked a subplot in Breaking Bad where Walt Jr. was caught messing around with some of his Dad's product, blue sky, that sort of thing. Something to really put it in Walt's face that this is the shit he's making a living poisoning his own community by selling. But I digress.
We can assume that Walt Jr. most likely gets the money and just accepts it at face value, that Grey Matter was giving him some pity money or whatever in spite of everything, maybe even feeling somewhat legally entitled to it if he thinks it's for his Dad's very, very limited role at the company well before he was born. Also, yeah, it wouldn't have made for as good of a TV show but Walt not accepting that position at Grey Matter when Elliot offered it at the party was the pinnacle of his foolishness.
But honestly Walt's only goals from the moment he got diagnosed and planned to cook Meth in Episode 1 like he did were to simply live long enough to make a measly $737 thousand or something like that and that was simply to cover everything all the way up to Holly's college education which he had even adjusted for inflation -- he got all of that to them and then some. And if you're like "Well, he died anyway, he can't have won from that standpoint" THE ENTIRE TIME he was dying. That was the point of the show lol. Him even making that jump to being a meth manufacturer in the first place was all made under the pretense in his own mind that "Well, it's just temporary, and even if I get caught what are they gonna do throw me in jail? For life? I will be dead in under a year anyway" which was the initial outlook for his situation just anyway.
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The scene where he and his daughter go to the Debutante Ball is by far the most shocking part of it, and the part that felt the most true to the original Borat formula.
I used to think we'd never get a Borat sequel because when he made the first one, you'd have to have been a follower of what WAS a cult TV show on HBO, Da Ali G Show. In that show, he played his three most popular characters, which were Bruno, Borat and Ali G -- all of which now have at least one movie of their own.
None of his characters were as successful or as wide known as Borat was.
Of course they addressed this in the second film, when he arrives in America he can't even go down the street without being hounded for $1 autographs and having people yell his various catchphrases to him, so he first goes to a costume shop where he gets in disguise, WHILE in disguise.
The debutante ball actually felt like the room was filled with unsuspecting strangers, which is appropriate to the Borat formula. And they seem to be accepting of him, even though he and his daughter are clearly foreign, although some questions rub some of them the wrong way like "How much would you pay for my daughter?" and one guy seriously says "$500" and of course Borat high fives him, and the man's daughter rebukes him "That's fucking disgusting." Good for her.
The real highlight of that scene is when they do the father daughter dance, which starts out really nice actually and the people start clapping, then Borat's daughter goes full on belly dancer, getting closer and closer to teasing what's under her dress, culminating when she lifts her skirt and we see that she's actually flaunting a horrifying blood stain near her genitals.
Overall it's not as good as the first movie, but again we should feel lucky to have gotten another one at all considering I literally thought Borat and Sacha were TOO famous for it to ever work again.
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@ralcool5932 In my opinion Walt went evil in Episode 1.
I've seen the show like seven times now, from beginning to end, over the years.
The first time I was on Walt's side. Every other time, though, I was more on his family's and basically everyone that got in his way, even Gus.
But at that particular point in time, Walt murdered Mike because the entire time they butted heads, didn't agree, and didn't see eye to eye. Then with Gus removed from the equation and Walt's complete disregard for everything that made it work to begin with, including Mike's hand picked 11 guys, all of a sudden I think Mike knew Walt was going to kill him. Why not? He made no secret about the fact he resented the fuck out of having to pay these guys "legacy costs", and there was no way he could even enforce it.
To me, if Walt didn't come along I think Gus might have gotten away with his operation that he slowly built over the course of like 20-30 years for the rest of his natural life. But then Walt comes along and within 2 years he goes from newb to pro just because he's a genius at chemistry, basically, in this world of new drugs like meth.
That and if Gus didn't die, I think Mike might also still be alive today.
But no, I think Mike knew it deep down, Walt was never going to let him live long term. If only because they had so much bad history prior to that. But mainly because Walt isn't the kind of person who'd ever share something 3 let alone like 12 ways.
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Mind = blown. Btw, have you read that book? The one simply titled Columbine, it's quite lengthy, but if it neglects this aspect of the case I won't waste my time because it literally changes everything. If not that, then what resources did you use to find this information? How recently did it even come to light? Because it all adds up assuming you're right.
Anyway, OK, but why then if Reb and Vodka were intended as fictional superhero identities created for the purposes of defending people against bullies/corruption did they go to a school and shoot dozens of people, murdering a total of 12? Unless they legitimately blamed literally the entire school, people who had nothing to do with it or people who actually were the bullies themselves. If the bombs went off this would've been even worse as an utter tragedy if not the single most deadly attack in American terrorism history depending on how high the death count was according to their original plan (before 9/11 of course). Sure they may have gotten some of them. But not all of them, and in addition to that maybe even some of their friends and people who were nice or people who otherwise weren't mean enough to engage in the bullying. It seems to me that they became the bullies if that was the case, which is quite obvious, but go on because this is fascinating.
This is absolutely incredible, though. Thanks for doing this.
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I am pretty sure Colorado is a death penalty state, and that's almost certainly what they would've gotten. So probably death row in a supermax until their final days which could take years, meaning that they may actually be still alive today if they did NOT suicide. Aurora, Colorado is like not even that far away and of course you already know about the other shooting that happened there. The Batman shootings. That guy's on Death Row last I heard. I think that this act was basically just one of many forms of suicide, they just brought other people down with them -- for reasons that may be arguably justified or not, I dunno, I think the best I can do is understand it. But this kind of thing should never happen, and yet it does all the time. Sadly. I don't think they planned on leaving alive, and they were hoping in the beginning to get even more people via bomb, people they wouldn't have to look face to face. I think seeing a lot of people they were at best neutral or even liked as they were killing them eventually made them at the very least feel the slightest pangs of guilt. Especially if Eric himself was sick after doing what he did. True sociopaths would revel in it, not get sick. Unless it was as a result of a superior dose of dopamine from their brains as a result of it. I have to hope in my heart and mind that they regretted what they did before it was done.
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I haven't hated someone like AOC in politics for a long, long time. I never hated Obama this way. I dunno it's her voice, I think, mainly. And her insistence at making an issue in places where it's not. Acting like "I wasn't safe, from the guards, in that facility". OK, where's the proof? Martin Scorsese that shit, I wanna see a continuous shot from the moment you walk in, show everything you do, then show the moment you leave, with no edits. Wanna know what I heard you spicy bitch? I heard you went in there looking to incite a riot, reportedly, that you went in and started doing everything YOU could to make it unsafe for the GUARDS. We'll never know because you didn't film it the way I just suggested, but that's OK because it doesn't take completed evidence to know what you're trying to do, Alex.
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What are they gonna do? Use their best Zerg strats against us? That's literally the only advantage they have, meanwhile there's a strategic reason that the US has taken such an interest in Hong Kong. It is definitely primarily rooted in the humanitarian crisis, for sure, but just like we are using Israel and Saudi Arabia as hubs in the Middle East, Hong Kong will give us a hub in China that we can use as these relations get potentially colder and colder and colder. What we lack in the numbers China has, we make up for it in quality. We have the best, most well equipped military in the entire world, and if a trade war is contentious I think an actual WAR war would go much differently, especially when they see four or five of our eleven (compared to China's one) aircraft carriers. And we can put them just outside of Hong Kong, each one a literal base in and of itself that can sail around as needed strategically while launching fighter jets and bombers.
It won't get to this point, in my opinion, but yeah we're going to see a lot of feet stomping and temper tantrums from China. A lot of threats, a lot of gesturing and beating the war drums.
Make no mistake, though, if it did come to bloodshed, that would be nothing short of the beginning of World War 3.
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@stentor1980 You said that it's against the law to defend your home with lethal force. THAT isn't true, it depends on the state. In my state, the only stipulation is I can't shoot you in the back, in the event you decide to burglarize my home. I can shoot you if you're facing me, especially if you're heading towards me with what I feel is a gun or weapon of your own, as long as you're trespassing to begin with. If someone breaks and enters in your home in New Jersey and you shoot someone, you are probably going to go to jail, but if you do the same thing in Louisiana, you'll be fine. Because like firearms laws themselves, IT DEPENDS ON THE STATE. I wasn't talking about booby traps specifically, I was addressing your comment that somehow presumes federal law dictates Castle Laws. It doesn't. State law does.
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@mindblowing8672 Cancer and fever are not in the Goetia.
You have no idea how it works, and you never will as long as you are looking at it strictly through the lens of Jesus.
I haven't been sick in decades but I just have a good immune system. You probably do, too. We're talking about physical infirmities vs. spiritual entities.
What I meant when I was posting my original comment is that there IS a right way and a wrong way to do things. King Solomon who likely "invented" all of this to begin was one of the greatest and most benevolent kings that ever existed. He actually received a divine message that gave him the instructions to not just "interact" with the demons, but to literally bind them to his will. You do not become subservient to the demons when this is done well, the demons become subservient to YOU.
Everyone approaches it differently. Some confine the spirits to a triangle, others do not. It's probably in their best interest to do so, but by the time you are even beginning to dabble with these spirits you will have the aid of your holy guardian angel as well as a litany of other methods of protection. It should probably not be attempted by somebody who hasn't devoted at least one year if not two or more to serious spiritual study, particularly when it comes to white magick and using other means to protect yourself. If you approach them and you're unready or too weak to control them or even interact with them, then sure yeah you will get possessed and bad things can happen. Hence me being worried about all these people on YouTube, some of whom seem more responsible and knowledgeable about it than others.
Anyone who practices the occult seriously I will add also believes in God. They do not necessarily believe in Christianity or any other mainstream, organized religion though. And anyone responsible about it like I said is not only well in tune with their holy guardian angel, but they also work with angelic spirits as much if not more than they work with demonic spirits. They are two sides of the same coin and one cannot exist without the other. But above all else is God, who is neither male nor female. God is infinite, and is the divine source from which everything originates.
The occult itself isn't by itself an evil thing. Yes, you can do evil with it but karma is also a thing. If you do evil with it, you will receive evil. Wiccans for instance believe in the rule of three, that if you do evil you will receive evil by a magnitude of three times of the action you performed. It all comes down to what you do with the knowledge you obtain. You can use a hammer to kill someone but that doesn't make the hammer evil. That makes YOU evil. You could just as easily use the hammer to build something, and that is the difference.
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@mikeehrmantraut4797 Jesse asks Mike one time, "Why me? What does he [Gus] see in me?" and Mike responds "I don't know, why don't you ask him yourself? But if I had to say, in a word? Loyalty. But I think you have it for the wrong guy."
I do think Mike sort of had this detached attitude towards his occupation in the sense he didn't mind what side of the law he was working comfortably in, but I do think over time he develops a loyalty himself to Gus, which might have also been another hiccup in Walt's constantly deteriorating relationship with him.
I think at some point there was something else keeping Mike going, and it wasn't just that it was a job and he didn't wanna be "unemployed". It also wasn't just that the money was better than anything he'd make at any legitimate business (but still not as much as Walt was making while cooking full time for Gus -- that much we already know) I think by the end Mike actually had developed a lot of respect and loyalty to Gus and perhaps his usually even-keeled approach to the drugs business.
Just don't call it a drug cartel even though that's obviously and clearly what it is unless you want the retarded fuck above to come try to school you on what's a cartel and what's not, he's like "You never heard of any cartels from anywhere but Mexico, have you? Gus was just running a meth EMPIRE." aka a drug cartel.
He also is clearly under the mistaken impression that all cartels must be surrounding drugs, in addition to they must be from Mexico, which are both false. He was so confident too. Little cock slurper he was LOL anyway no I think Mike had something for Gus and to a certain extent Jesse as well that he could never have had with Walt.
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@abhisheksuratkar I do think two of the prophecies will come to fruition just simply because they're staring us in our face. First, the one regarding the Long Night -- Azor Ahai, the Prince who was Promised, you'd think would come along in one way or another. Whether it's a noticeable fantastic thing like suddenly the person who IS that person (if it is one person at all) starts glowing in this fiery light, or whether it's just simply that someone very important has been there the entire time and will be given a sudden burst of unnatural strength or courage, I don't know, but it's one of those things they've been hinting at for a long time and only have been increasing in the hints as time has gone on. And no, I don't think it's a Red Herring when it comes to that one.
The other important one that I do think will come to fruition is Dany's visions in the House of the Undying. I feel pretty sure that Dany's seeing the Throne Room in King's Landing back in Season 2 as being completely destroyed, either white with snowfall or cinders, I think that will happen if only because I think either via an attack from the White Walkers (could explain the Snow) or if it's an attack from Dragons or even if Cersei blows up the Red Keep (fire and cinders -- in case it's not snow) I think one way or the other the whole idea of "who wins the Iron Throne" is and has always been a Red Herring. I don't think anyone will. I think one way or another it's going to be entirely destroyed by the time anyone "wins" it at all. Which is going to completely reframe Dany's ambitions if she survives long enough to actually see the destruction herself or not. I don't know. But for all the time they've wasted in prophecies, books and show, the idea they're not going to realize SOME of them I think is crazy. No, not all, there's no time, but some of them surely.
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@JBOM-qp8nq "Some sort of drug or alcohol use" there's lots of other drugs under the sun.
And only a moron would think I am defending drug use of any kind. If you go out and kill somebody under the influence of anything, you're a violent person and either the drugs or alcohol (or both, as it were) brought out a more exaggerated version of that in yourself. I am not talking about someone who drinks alcohol and gets behind the wheel of a car and causes multiple fatalities as a result of a car accident because that is, by definition, an accident.
But the idea that meth or any other drug (because I am not just talking about meth here) you take it and suddenly your library-pass having nerd-ass self is going to turn into a killing machine is a logical fallacy. If that was the case, ALL drug users would be murderers.
Besides, I'd love to see the statistics on drug users committing acts of violence. Violence happens AROUND drugs all the time, but that's usually as it pertains to the people selling the drugs, dispute over turfs, profits, etc. It's more centered around the business of the sale of narcotics than it is with regards to actual users going out and committing violent acts.
I would say someone who gets completely drunk and then beats someone to death in a bar fight, it's still 100% the person who is responsible and the only thing you can say about the alcohol is that it contributed to the act. But to say it CAUSED it? You'd have to be a fucking moron. Because again, if that was the case, all alcoholics or people who drink would be out murdering people, too. Does it happen? Yes. Is it the norm? No. It's the exception, not the rule.
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@nagatouzumaki3492 You weren't paying attention, then. Not gonna argue this point further with you. Yeah sure Skylar, your husband irrationally decides to become a drug dealer whether you like it or not, all you gotta do is turn him in! Never mind the fact you'll lose everything you own. It would've been the same situation as it was after Walt was finally caught anyway, the feds would seize every asset they own including their finances (assuming it was all part of the illegal operation to begin with). The kids might even be separated from her, due to CPS. She'd have endured all of that whether she deserved it or not (she didn't) JUST BECAUSE she turned him in. It was explained by two attorneys why it wasn't logical or feasible to do so. And really, if that's the case in America anyway and you find out your husband or wife is engaged in a corporate-level illegal operation YOU will be JUST AS FUCKED as THEM. Period.
She had a decision to make early on. She could take the hard choice and report him as soon as her attorney recommended it -- or do what she did, roll the dice, and hope he never got caught. And he almost didn't.
But no, once she made that decision NOT to report him she was just as culpable as him. And frankly even if she did turn him in when recommended that was just to ensure she didn't face jail time herself. She still would've lost everything.
Hence, WALT took HIS ENTIRE FAMILY hostage because he selfishly wanted to live a more thrilling life of crime in his final years. He justified it as wanting to provide for his family, never envisioning he'd get caught. SKYLAR always knew he would get caught. That's the difference between him and her. But as time went on I think even she began to feel as if worst comes to worse, he'd at the very least be able to walk away safely, but that's mainly because he kept lying and saying that was the case to her.
This is my last response to you, though. You clearly have no idea how American law works (and you're struggling language-wise as well). Skylar by the time she knew what was going on had no good options anymore, every single one of them would've ruined everything including her relationship with Hank and Marie (I don't give a fuck how many times they said they'd forgive her or work with her in light of the facts -- Marie would have disowned her and Hank only cared about catching Heisenberg at that point).
To recap: 1) learn better English 2) rewatch the show 3) learn how criminal law regarding the White family case would actually break down in America or 4) shut the fuck up. Especially if you can't get the English thing under wraps soon enough. No matter, this is the last response you're getting from me Jap ass.
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XuQifei I understand WHY they did it. My guess is the actual cheers weren't enough for their production. I still find it disingenuous, though, especially in this case. Why? Because this form of "wrestling" is disgusting. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities about it. Not in my mind, anyway. So I mean seeing the entirety of the crowd that was there before the match began, I can't help but wonder how few must have been cheering consistently. They padded the sound effects for a reason, it must not have been as full sounding of a crowd as the producer would've liked it to be -- but again, there's probably a very good reason for that (some were too horrified to finish watching, let alone cheer at it). You would expect that kind of deceit from Dateline NBC, not the raw, candid honesty with which VICE made a name for itself. If people were too horrified to cheer, there was a time that they would've left that much in the final product.
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Oh lord, do I really have to explain figures of speech versus having actual statistical numerical data? No dude, I am just relaying that I personally don't think someone like myself as someone who is I guess more traditionally "loner-ish" is gonna benefit from getting on stage, let alone taking on a job as a damn stripper. A male stripper, at that, in my case. I mean, whatever floats your boat dude but again I don't think I am alone in thinking that you may actually be in the minority when it comes to that. A STRIPPER. I will say maybe get on stage in healthier environments may be the better way to go, anyway, again I think you're in the minority as far as that being the remedy for whatever life problems you have. Nobody wants their daughter or worse their son to end up on the pole, or whatever, so to speak. But to each their own :)
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It's definitely going to lead to war with China, especially when they figure out China did this on purpose. They infected their own population after first stocking up on PPE, medicine and ventilators (the stuff they are responsible for providing the world with the most of) THEN they waited and waited to begin warning people, (ensuring it's spread and spread and spread). THEN they corner the market on all these items, storing them just for themselves, and then the real damage kicks in which is not just the deaths of thousands and thousands of people BUT more importantly the shutdown of the US economy (and basically everyone else's in the world as well) as a whole.
China is doing this because of the effects of the trade war, and honestly this is a precursor to war itself I think. Whether we invade them first (ideally) or they invade us. It's just a matter of time.
By the way, at the very least, whatever we owe to China is off the table now. It was like $1.3 trillion. I am pretty sure if they want peace they're going to be owing us money by the time it's all over with, otherwise let the chips fall where they may. You have more people, we have better tech. See you soon China.
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It's odd because the first time I saw the show, I think I was rooting for Walter to a certain extent. The second time, I realized "oh my God, this guy is the most selfish, reckless person on the entire planet.. at any point this could've gone wrong and his selfishness could've gotten his ENTIRE family killed. Hank could've even been killed much earlier on, and what does Walt do? He keeps going. He wants more. I've seen the show several times now, and I can't stand Walt by like Season 2 and a half or Season 3 ish nowadays. Then he's just a dick the rest of the show. lol
The problem with killing Todd was Walt needed his Uncle and the rest of the guys on the Vamonos crew to a lesser extent. More than that, the only other option would be to let him go, which considering they had just robbed a train together killing him would've been the more attractive option -- but again, they needed Uncle Jack for a few other reasons. And yeah, people have been saying Todd looks like Matt Damon forever. He does though lol I agree
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I always laugh when they all of a sudden have new outfits inexplicably that are basically just visual placeholders to show "OK, this character's changed or grown somewhat". That and the fact that Danaerys had a mean braid in her wig, I mean hair, again all of a sudden in spite of the fact that she was literally the only chick left in her posse, I am guessing Missandei was ordered to train a few Unsullied how to wrap hair before her untimely demise because after conquering KL it's almost as if she never went missing to begin with, if we let the hair tell the tale.
But considering you are drawing from actual history in your analogy, you may be closer to the truth than you actually realize. Thrones is famously primarily based on the War of the Roses, but George has frequently shown us that history itself drives a great many of the narratives he chooses to tell, he just decorates them with fantasy elements like a basic system of magic, dragons and ice zombies among other things in the books. He's basically re-telling history in an exciting way, but yeah I think there's a great many comparisons to be made between Dany and a litany of other conquerors.
And that is to say primarily speaking conquerors, because she's an excellent conqueror but I think it's been clear ever since she conquered her first city that like Robert Baratheon she's good at taking cities but horrible at ruling them.
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venus baptiste Proof on the origins of AIDS, like actual scientific proof or keep the tin foil shit to yourself. I think something is wrong with the brains of homosexual people, in the same way some people are wired to steal, lie, or even fall asleep compulsively. I don't think they should be persecuted or have their rights stripped or anything, I also don't really care what they do as long as it's consensual behind closed doors. And as long as they're being safe and more importantly if they truly are gay then I hope they come out and fuck other men if that's what they want to do. As long as they're not potentially contaminating the pool of women or otherwise dirtying up the pool for the rest of us, the majority who have the desire to put our body parts where they were more obviously biologically designed to go. You can either put it in a hole that doesn't naturally lubricate itself where it's main biological function for all creatures is to transport the waste products that the body generates. You know, shit. OR you can put it in the hole that DOES lubricate itself, I mean our bodies didn't come with instruction manuals or anything but it seems pretty obvious that it's the one that nature would prefer you use -- beyond your own selfish and carnal sexual natural predispositions where you have sex for pleasure, nature would dictate you do whatever is necessary to ensure the survival of the human race. To be clear, THAT's nature. It's less that I don't care what they do and more that I realize that that's just the way they are, whether we agree on the fact that their brains are broken like those found in kleptomaniacs or any other compulsive disorder is a different matter, but I don't think it should be pushed in school as a natural practice, certainly not on the same level of normalcy as straight sex. But regardless of where AIDS came from, lastly, there's absolutely no question that it's transmission is more prevalent in anal sex than vaginal sex, for a lot of reasons. Therefore, it's more prevalent in homosexual sex. So if you're queer, wrap it up for your own benefit. If not for your own, then for the benefit of the human race.
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@christopherparker4971 Thanks. Yeah, the fact of the matter is it could happen to anyone and the sad reality of the fact is he may just do it. It goes hand in hand with mental illness and all, and he's clearly losing his mind. If he did end up killing themselves and like it makes you feel good even if only because you predicted it, first off, that's pretty evil, besides it's not even that impressive of a prediction. I wouldn't be surprised if he does. I hate his music, too, but I don't wanna see anyone kill themselves. Period. This face tattoo, I applaud the artist for trying to talk him out of it and even like... compromising a bit, Aaron wanted his FULL face tattooed. Something he's going to have to wake up and look at in the mirror for the rest of his life, sadly. I really pray he doesn't hurt himself.
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Botanist 95 yawn. Because we all know the woman above is the authority on everything, as are you. Life expectancy compared between our two countries is negligibly small. And what do you mean "Fuck AJ" he's made a fortune off of pushing these bullshit lies that seem to have you all convinced hook line and sinker that "the elites" are actively killing people here by what "they" are putting in the water. Again, each municipality is primarily independently owned and operated. The idea the big bad federal government is doing this, if anybody, in a country like the US is preposterously stupid. The big bad poison-water monster! No, some cities are just too poor and/or they had poor planning like 90 years ago when they were actually installing the infrastructure. Lead pipes have been around for a long, long ass time, it's not like the federal government is telling them what pipes to use and not to use, either. But I will be sure to subscribe to the whack job lady above's crackpot conspiracy theory newsletter. Acting like they're pouring cyanide in the lakes actively. It's doing a wonderful job, by the way, our old people are just as old as yours. Get your head out of your ass, focus on the things really worth criticizing in America because there are plenty. But the "poison, evil water there on purpose to kill people" OK where are the corpses? Fucking morons.
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WPLU572 Trunked Radio He was an ex-cop, he was always kind of crooked though. His son, also a cop, was not. The most upstanding hero of a police officer you can possibly think of, we don't learn this until Better Call Saul though.
IIRC his son came upon some dirty money in an investigation, wanted to turn it in, even his chief at the time was like "Dude, just don't claim it, noone cares, we all take that money" and then he goes to his Dad who Mike later found out he looked up to his Dad a lot and even Mike is like "Look, there's nothing wrong with doing the wrong thing sometimes to benefit yourself. It's fine, believe me if it wasn't you some other cop would be doing it in your place" and this broke his son's heart. But his son did ultimately listen to Mike anyway.
Of course by then the other people in his department were already nervous about him like he might be a whistleblower or something and they set him up and kill him.
Again, this is all BCS stuff but it does give more insight into Mike himself as a person, that's one of my favorite things about BCS so far (on top of knowing he isn't dying at any point during it, cause it's a prequel and he was in BrBa lol) but Mike was always more of a dirty cop. He just turned around and used his training as a cop to instead help a fledgling drug cartel instead of the actual cops because I guess at that point he realized who he truly was.
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@Darkdaej Some One The fact they completely threw Quentyn's storyline out the Window as early as they did illustrates to me it's not going to come to fruition in the show. I do agree the books and the show are going to ultimately look very different in the end, assuming we get the rest of the books at all (cause I am not sure we are, at this point) but I don't think Quentyn Martell's storyline is going anywhere in either. Quentyn is dead, burned alive. What do you mean he's not burned? No, I don't think they faked his death, it's not like she was seriously entertaining his offer of marriage anyway, he was trying to impress her IIRC by showing that he was in fact blood of the dragon. But he wasn't, his ass got burned alive, and it took him three days roasting in pain in Missandei's bed to ultimately die. Barristan Selmy even silently reflected that it'd have been better if Viserion had eaten him whole instead vs burning him as it would've been "a quicker DEATH" than being burned alive. And if they're gonna do Sand Snakes but no Quentyn Martell in the show.... just no.
As far as Aegon/Young Griff, again that's another one I doubt we're going to see in the show at this point. If I had anything to do with the show I'd have probably suggested they leave other stuff out if they're gonna include Sand Snakes but leave out Young Griff, for example. At the end of the day though I think everyone who is actively trying to get the Iron Throne is going to die in the process. I also think the Iron Throne and the city in resides in will be completely destroyed by the end, if not by the final enemies/the besiegers but by Cersei herself. It wouldn't be the first time she floated the nuclear/suicidal option when faced with losing her power and the city before. Remember the Battle of Blackwater Bay.
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@jello4479 Yeah that's incredibly rare. Besides, I would still argue those people are vulnerable to psychotic episodes in the first place. So, NOT of sound mind. I have never, EVER heard of someone lose their mind after smoking some weed. Ever. I have heard of them losing their mind after smoking K2/spice, snorting or injecting bath salts, etc. Real hallucinogens like acid, DMT and even shrooms for instance. But weed? Even this new era of high-potency strains, if you have a temporary psychotic episode after smoking some weed I think the explanation is more in the person's biochemistry than "the weed made me do it". There is even a really small subset of people, for instance, that they say meditation is not only not going to benefit them, it actually might make them WORSE. Sociopaths and psychopaths, people like that. All of this when considering the fact that meditation for people who aren't messed up in the heads is considered one of the healthiest mental activities (and otherwise) you can do. Some people are just batshit insane, in other words, and easier to set off.
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@shabutir1820 Nah, plenty of people were prescribed Oxycontin pills for instance by their doctors thinking "Oh, it's prescribed! By my doctor! No harm, no foul!" They take their script, and get addicted. Then they go back and if their doctor is scummy he may give them more. Before long, though, that doctor will cut them off because they're now exhibiting "drug seeking behavior". So what do a lot of these new addicts do? They switch to heroin.
Of all the people who are currently using heroin, I would estimate about 70% of them were prescription pill addicts before they were heroin addicts. The modern heroin and fentanyl epidemic is composed primarily of people that fall under these parameters.
I get it, in your world all the heroin addicts in the world woke up one day and are like "Fuck yeah! I'm gonna become a HeRoIn AdDiCt today! Try and stop me, mom! Fuck you, dad!"
If that's the way you think it works then you're a fucking moron.
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I actually don't think he's crazy though, to be completely frank.
For one thing, the universe is so incomprehensibly large that the idea that we are the only place life exists is completely ridiculous. The universe is so large we don't even have the technology yet right now to even be able to see like a microscopic fraction of a percent of what has to be out there otherwise.
So yes, I think "aliens" as we have defined them have to exist with 100% certainty. Whether they're behind us or ahead of us in terms of space travel though, like, maybe they are, some are, but some aren't, but if any of the ones who actually have the tech to actually visit us wanted to take us over I think they'd have already done it by now.
I subscribe more to the benevolent theory of aliens in terms of them coming explicitly to help people do things. For example, helping people to make the Sphinx. Helping the people in South America to make the Mayan temples and other installations in those places. Things that are so impossibly large in scale for the time they are date marked and technologies involved, that there is just simply no way that it could've just been made like that even with the most dedicated slave labor of all time. No. There's more to it.
For instance speaking of the Mayans there are these long, miles long things built from the ground that could only be appreciated from the sky about 2000 years or so before airplanes ever existed. Why build something so large and clearly meant to be appreciated from above when not even the ruler himself who ordered it supposedly could ever see it himself?
What if those ancient peoples who made contact with them a long ass time ago revered the aliens who visited them as Gods, as you can imagine they only could have if they back then encountered them what with their limited technology vs what they must have seen if any of it is true to begin with?
In both examples above, they built what they did for someone ABOVE to be able to see it, that's for sure. They wanted it to be seen from ABOVE for a reason. That coupled with logic only makes me think that not only do aliens actually exist but they've been aware of this planet for quite some time now. But you also have to realize some of these alien civilizations may still be in cavemen years, that's also the thing we're sure to be ahead of some of those life forms. But we're not ahead of all of them, but the good news I think is that I think they must be benevolent or else why not invade and kill us all by now?
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The way he describes his method towards the end, like... if you are at all interested in great speakers and the (perhaps obscene) amount of power they can wield for being good at it, like... well, it IS like witchcraft. Just as he says. In a way, it's a magician's trick. There's a great book you can read written by none other than Socrates himself called Gorgias, which is an pre-Christ manuscript that details the power of people who are simply able to speak well and move people as their main skills, which are the oratory skills, their bread and butter, and how they pay the bills (people who speak for a living, especially Politicians) versus those who are in positions of actual expertise who may not have the same speaking skill, who deserve perhaps more respect for they are actually better at doing things whereas the speaker is good at only getting what he wants and often from a position of NO expertise. It's pretty much the problem we face in modern political situations I think a lot of the times especially nowadays all over the world but it can apparently also apply to a defense attorney who would on a better day have gotten an admitted murder off scot free if it had only gone more "his" way. So I dunno. I do think people are entitled to great defense but the moral quandary and over-arching question that all people who are not familiar with the law will always complain about is that not everyone is defensible. How could you defend someone that everyone "knows" is guilty like OJ Simpson? Well, they'll tell you that it's better that 10 guilty people go free if it means that 1 who is falsely accused may also go free rather than face punishment for something he didn't do. It's something organized crime feeds on our society for and yet it's also the reason why we at least still have some semblance of freedom although those civil liberties and freedoms seem to be vanishing faster and faster as time goes by.
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@crt1848 .......... then proceeded to cut him out of the majority of the movie. OK. Sure. Got it. That makes complete and total sense, even by 2020 standards. He's so great he gets to be in the director's cut of Justice League now, a movie nobody saw to begin with and nobody will see going forward, with his forgettable take on the Joker. No doubt. I am a Leto fan and that role was embarrassing for him, and no, the antics haven't been explained. I just looked it up. There is no evidence to suggest the execs told them to do it, that they were all "in on it", or anything even remotely close to that. And besides, the proof is in the pudding, if that was all just for "promotional stunts" it makes no sense that he's not a prominent role, or prominently featured despite the trailers and what they all indicated, in the film at all. Period.
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@dudedude7650 Yeah. Nobody knows. But trust me, it was something they did on purpose.
They didn't like the trade war so they decided to do something they knew for a fact would bring the economy to a screeching halt even if it meant hurting their own people first.
It doesn't matter, they are the leading manufacturers not just for drugs that we depend on but they are also one of the biggest manufacturers of things you'd need to minimize damage in the event something like happens in the form of PPE and Ventilators. They were stockpiling it all ahead of this to help minimize damage to themselves (only for the numbers, though, even though those are fudged as well) while also retaining them from places like her so the damage in terms of fatalities and economic cost is substantially higher here vs. there.
I don't know how exactly we're ever going to find out where it exactly came from either, what are we gonna do send the FBI there?
We can't.
They won't even let our journalists stay there to accurately report it, nor any other foreign journalists or people who don't have a necessitating impetus to toe the party line like people from China themselves. No, this was an act of war. There will be a reckoning, too, once we gather enough common sense to piece all the information together. It's not just Americans, the entire world is pissed at China's oppressive bullshit communist-when-it's-convenient government.
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That plus he's also completely guilty, what with the predatory in his low-IQ attempts at manipulation. "Yeah I ripped his ear off by kicking him in the ear from a straddled position -- in self defense!"
I think the guy probably just assumed Kai was gay, too. Made an advance. Something Kai was completely caught off guard by, and offended by, and even stirred to feelings that probably were in fact in his own psychopathic mind "self-defense". I think he didn't even give the guy a polite "No, sorry, guy. I don't swing that way. I will pay you back, if that's what this was about..." and then the guy would say "Oh, no, don't worry about it. You can keep the clothes, and I hope you enjoyed yourself otherwise. I'm sorry I made the assumption. But yes, I am a gay man. I didn't mean anything by it." and then they'd have gone on their separate paths, if that ever happened in normal situations. Because this whole thing of gay people, especially men, basically adopting kids off the streets happens all the time. Quid pro quo sort of thing. But no, I think Kai was come on to then freaked out and killed the guy.
There's no way the guy's ear was ripped off from a kick. Not even if it was Jackie Chan or whoever doing it.
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@Nightdare Debatable at best, but you bring up certain good points. I don't personally believe it's possible to truly control THE WORLD but I do think that Germany had such a stronghold established at that point that if they had chosen to attack Britain directly and take the island THEN go for Russia vs. doing it the way they did, they might have ... well, as you put it, lasted longer.
The #1 thing is the timing of it all, that to me is why it was not only important but imperative that America enter the fray exactly when they did (and maybe even sooner but ... politics). That paramilitary strategy on that scale had never been done before at least, again, on that scale, and I doubt it ever happens again. It was a one time ace in the hole for the Americans anyway and thankfully it was successful.
But every single prong in that approach was crucial. I am not an expert on war strategies, let alone WW2 strategies, but I am fascinated and get choked up every single time I think about those brave, brave men. Band of Brothers to me is the perfect WW2 story from the American perspective, in every single way imaginable. Especially showing just how confusing war can be, all the accidents that happened, and then just the entire concept of being so mortally injured thousands of miles away from home, screaming for your mother in some cases. Those men saved the world.
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@danielkokal8819 Yeah that's a painful place to get shot, too. I actually never even thought about that, but yeah Mike and Walt are both shot in basically the exact same spot. Whether it was intentional or not, who knows, but chances are that it was an intentional thing. The #1 takeaway from it is that the gun is basically a metaphor for Walt himself, especially his accidentally self-destructive nature. He built this thing that was TOO effective, and it ended up having collateral effects in the end against him, to such an extent you could even say that Walt died by his own hand. I do think he wasn't expecting to survive the firefight, nor did he want to, but I also think he was planning on killing everyone INCLUDING JESSE until he realized that Jesse wasn't partnered with them after all. Then he took the bullet for Jesse. But yeah the same thing could be said about Walt's blue meth, he technically built that thing as well and just like the gun it also had a collateral effect on not just him but every single person he cared about prior to that.
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Botanist 95 I did some limited research and found out England has poor cities, too. It's not all socialistic, or whatever. As far as cities having untenable drinking water... that's literally just Flint. It's because of severe mismanagement on their part, but that's not uncommon for Michigan cities in general, Detroit is also notoriously bad. Just depends. But in your own country, it's not like it's a socialist country or anything where every city gets the same funding. It's really not that dissimilar from the way it is here, it's just smaller while also having more socialist elements without being outright socialist. But nah, if you wanna live in a nice part of any country, move to the nice part of it. It's not a problem unique to America, if anything there's more rich places here than anywhere else in the world, so take your pick. Or don't.
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@dawnswain5136 You don't see many adults who aren't parents anyway walking around holding kids hands. Certainly not marrying one. That's one reason it's so bizarre that Michael Jackson, a public figure, did just that with OTHER people's kids. This much isn't even disputed by the way, so you just owned yourself.
"They not gonna admit thier recieving money". Your English is horrible. Anyway for them to appear in this documentary claiming they didn't receive any money, that's actually against the law in the context of the promotion of a film. It's such a minor thing too, most people are compensated for appearing in documentaries but it's almost like they knew the most brainwashed and delusional among you would swear up and down they're only doing this for money -- except by all accounts they're not doing it for money, they haven't received any money, and they're not even looking to get any from the estate down the line. That ship sailed when their original lawsuits again failed in 2013/2014.
Regardless of your own story with child abuse, no offense you weren't abused by someone as famous, as powerful and as manipulative as Michael Jackson was. He leveraged celebrity against people who already loved him so that the one he wanted to diddle the butthole of would effectively fall IN love with him. I do think that's the way his feelings remained with them, he never did anything forcefully with them like Jimmy Savile would so besides the age difference I don't even think it was perceived as abuse from the boys until much later on. I legitimately think they were just trying to please him, as they said, and MJ knew this, using it against them. That's not the way child abuse typically goes. Again, when you think of child sexual abusers you think of what probably happened to you and stuff more in line with what Jimmy Savile did, where if you don't give it up he'll just take it by force. And reportedly even worse than that. But no I get the impression that MJ and the boys actually did have a brief romantic relationship, but it still qualifies as abuse on his part even if it came from a loving standpoint because he was too old for them AND he knew it.
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There's no way aliens are not real, with how impossibly and incomprehensibly large the universe is. Countless stars and star systems, and to put it in perspective our own galaxy is comprised of 9 planets to one star. ONE STAR. Some people are still not convinced there isn't another planet in this system that doesn't have life (like Mars -- probably not, but some think it's possible). Just saying, if life as we know it is possible here, it's a statistical likelihood that there's billions of other planets that could support life out there. The problem is the universe is impossibly large, if they do exist the chances that we ever find them -- or that they ever find us, mind you, because you have to imagine they have to go through the gamut of space exploration the way we only just began about 50-70 years ago before they ever develop craft that can ever really get out there and start exploring -- are really, really slim. So yes, they exist, but no we'll likely never make contact with them.
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Yeah, people, just stop using drugs. Kick that heroin habit today. People have been using intoxicating substances, regardless of their legal status, since the dawn of the time when man knew what intoxicating substances were. Most likely something like cannabis or mushrooms or like... peyote or something naturally occurring would be the first and this idea that people will ever stop is completely and totally false.
What they need to do is at the very, very least DECRIMINALIZE all drugs. If not just outright make them legal. I don't think they should be easy nor impossible to get for people who want them. This will eliminate the process of spiking drugs, it will reduce if not remove the overdose and disease transmission factor, it will allow the price to normalize because right now these cartels are making billions and billions of dollars off of something that is artificially expensive because it's illegal.
These drug gangs would cease to exist, or would end up moving to more traditional crimes like burglary or extortion or that sort of thing, but the drug war itself would end overnight. These gangs are still going to be incredibly rich from the money they've already made, but one way or another a lot of it will end up trickling back anyway. The bottom line point is, though, the drug war itself must end before this sort of thing will end.
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It sounds like a Ponzi scheme to me. It has all the core necessities required by such schemes:
For example, you come into it seeking money. In this case said money is "debt".
You pay a $400 fee to get into the program, then you must do "education" which is really just a fancy way for them to cover your eyes while they jingle and jangle around, but this is only important because they require that time must pass and that atonement must be "earned" through, in large part, your money (ironically) and your time.
Scientology is also known for this, on a religious level, but they do it on a much, much larger and more nefarious scale.
But then you have the people who the money DID come through for, or so they say. It may have, but they were probably in for a while before these "revelations" came to be.
Some of them were probably just paid off with money he was getting from NEW members (see Ponzi scheme definition) so they not only are feeling validated that it works, but they're going to tell their friends as well, and those same people may join themselves only to be further along down the track.
He'll make it work for the people who got in earliest, in a nutshell. And because it works, they believe it. And they make others believe it. But at the end of the day the scheme will not work for everyone, eventually there will come a day where they all will demand "we all want our debts erased now, too! Or else, we want our money back!"
They won't be able to get it, there won't be any more money at that point to give.
This is a classic example of a Ponzi scheme, in other words. Just at a much, much smaller level than Bernie Madoff's was (the biggest in history).
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@1stYoutubeHandle Gus was almost certainly a better man than Walt was, but that's not saying much. First off, I don't think Gus ordered the murder of Brock's cousin. I don't think Gus was going to fire those men, but I do think he was going to deal with it in his own way if given time to do so. But before he could, Walt ran them over to prevent Jesse from doing something he'd regret.
But yeah Gus was basically everything Walt could ever want or dream of being, but the difference between them is that Gus broke bad about thirty or forty years before Walt did. It also didn't take some crazy life event like getting cancer for Gus to do so. Walt could've had even more money if he never shot himself in the foot by leaving Grey Matter and breaking up with Gretchen to boot, he'd have made more money legitimately than he ever made illegitimately -- more than Gus probably ever made. But probably around the same time Walt was beginning that company, Gus was beginning Pollos Hermanos but it was never primarily about starting a restaurant chain. It was simply to create a logistical network to transport their real product/commodity -- methamphetamine.
But yeah I don't think Gus even looked at what they were doing from the framework that "Oh, this is good" or "evil". I think he was a very pragmatic businessman who just realized that if it wasn't him it'd be some other guy selling it. That's the way real drug kingpins look at the drugs they sell. And they have a point, sort of. Nobody held a gun to anyone's head (well, unless you enter the realm of like human trafficking) and forced them to become meth addicts. Gus is simply providing a service that just happens to be artificially expensive because it's illegal. I don't think he was nearly as evil as Walt. Not a good man by any means but compared to Walt he seemed like a good guy.
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daz samuels Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, people are always going to use drugs. Whether it's through, or around, the law, it makes no difference. Addicts will get their drugs no matter what. It's just a matter of whether the law forces them to buy it from some shady fuck or from a pharmacist. And truth be told, a lot of your experiences with drugs may also have been directly related to the cut in the substances. Heroin, for instance, in it's pure form, is ironically not even THAT bad for you. It's the cut in the drugs that makes it worse. Yes, there is a risk of overdose when dealing with pure heroin, but it's not dirty like Black Tar or even what's nowadays considered "good" Heroin. In fact, pure Heroin is completely clear, not the dark black shit that addicts are unfortunately pumping into their veins.
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These guys have serious balls to do this lol... I mean, it's true, 99.9% of the world will never get to actually go inside of North Korea. And if you DO, if they don't like you, they'll even make up a crime or something that you did, and you'll wind up in one of their gulags/prison camps -- no trial, nothing. And there's nothing your country will be able to do to get you out. They're keeping one American right now, I'm pretty sure. Guess he bribed the consulate, too. This is truly an amazing documentary, but like I said, they're crazy for attempting it in the first place lol
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North Korea is probably the shittiest country on the entire planet. Shane Smith almost got detained there, speaking of journalists who go there to film it in all of it's humanitarian, natural beauty. He kept derailing from the government ordained and approved tour to film things that were not yet approved, and they caught him a few times. After the 2nd or third time they actually took his camera from him and destroyed it.
"The people look happy and healthy" -- the same country where if you don't show blind devotion to the dear leader with enthusiastic applause that you'll be sent to the gulag, that they're actually putting on appearances of happiness and health? Besides, you're only seeing the ones who get to eat, and even they are fucking miserable. If you stumbled into one of their many prison camps that exist pretty much exclusively for the benefit of China I feel pretty sure you'd eat those words pretty quickly, considering they're worse than the Jewish holocaust camps ever were, reportedly.
North Korea doesn't want a "peace treaty". They want the right to pursue a nuclear program both for the energy benefits AS WELL AS so they can stack bombs like America and China and Russia are. North Korea, the same country that is always misbehaving and shooting off missiles into the ocean near a) Western allies b) Western interests and c) their OWN allies and interests. They're doing it from a standpoint of absolute distrust, and basically doing it from a standpoint "well fuck you, whether we have the approval or not we will be a nuclear state one day or die trying".
Read, they will die trying if they keep this up.
It's only a peace treaty from the standpoint that if they got it then they'd all fall under the realm of threat management by "Mutually Assured Destruction" when it comes to nuclear bombs AKA MAD. But this is North Korea we're talking about. They're not known for being the most reasonable country in the world or anything. So they're less likely to be the one who stops from firing the bomb because they are so driven by their desire to destroy the United States. I mean say whatever you want, you're just seeing the North Korea propaganda and taking their side. I am taking the propaganda I've seen and siding with that. By that I mean the propaganda North Korea themselves have made and put out. The one with the White House blowing up and North Korea having won such a colossal victory with no casualties on their own side is a really great one to start with.
I challenge you though, go. Go to North Korea. Take a camera please. Get caught with it. I hear it's kind of like Space for war prisoners in North Korea. Once you're there, nobody can hear you scream. You can certainly try though. Enjoy that. More power to you.
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***** Sure, like WWE level pro wrestlers probably not only have greath health insurance, but some of them may even have insurance on individual body parts. WWE is a multi billion dollar company, CZW said it themselves, they're lucky to profit from the show alone usually like 5 grand, that's per each Tournament of Death. Look, it's not a lot of money. Yes, it's the more amateur level, but ... still, there's better ways to "make it" in mainstream wrestling than mutilating yourself in the short term for a crowd of 1 thousand people. For like, who knows how much or little money. I don't know the path to that since I am admittedly not the biggest wrestling fan in the world but the real money is ironically in the more tamer versions of the sport, I notice.
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venus baptiste Well, whatever, agree to disagree then. If you don't detect logic in anything I said before then you won't detect logic in what I have to say now. I literally said I understand that it exists but I mean let's just be really honest Gonorrhea does not equal HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. And it is much riskier. Anal sex practiced by anybody, gay or straight, is far more dangerous than vaginal sex. Period. Look it up. It all has to do with proximity to blood vessels, because it is transmitted by blood, and the anus as it is not designed to endure such punishment is very, very fragile, and is bound to bleed. That's why if you really must engage in such behavior, wrap it up. The only probably more risky behavior a human being can engage in as far as contracting serious blood-borne illnesses is engaging in IV (intravenous) drug use and specifically sharing your equipment, needles and spoons and/or all. So yeah. I am not comparing most human beings to murderers and I am not comparing most of them to thieves. The murderer part came from the other person justifying homosexuality because it exists in the animal kingdom. Which is a really bad argument, for so many reasons. The tendency for individuals to lie compulsively is me simply saying some people are born with that, too. Not all, not even most, but some. And I can say the exact same fucking thing about the gays, too, because not all, not most, but some people are born with that predisposition too. It's in such minor numbers it can only be explained as a deviance from what is otherwise normal behavior.
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Honestly I think they should give kids more options as far as WHERE they want to eat. The extroverted folks are the people who actually love the concept of a cafeteria and being in a room with all of one's friends and maybe even a few enemies. In other words, other people in general. But for the introverted folks, maybe have alternative choices that are more quiet for them to eat. You don't get your driver's license until at least sophomore year, in some states not till like Junior or Senior year. Anyway when I was in school they let you drive off and go grab lunch wherever you wanted as long as you were able to get back in time. Barring that though, let them go to the bleachers or to a quiet nature area or anything, whatever makes them feel most comfortable, because I think forcing people into social situations is what gets a lot of people in trouble. Those "eyes" you feel may not even actually be on you at all but what I think you're really feeling is peer pressure. So yeah, I am with Amazart, the more you can tune that out the better. Trust me, once you get out of high school life will improve for you significantly, starting with the social aspect, something middle and high school are notoriously difficult for being.
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George RR Martin said it will be a bittersweet ending. My take on is that a lot of our favorite characters, some that given logical storytelling dynamics would otherwise never reasonably die (like Arya for instance) will die in the end anyway. Jaime I think will die, too. I wouldn't even be shocked if Jon Snow died again, or if Dany died. I wouldn't be shocked if at least one, maybe two, maybe all three dragons dies before the end. There's going to be a lot of death, some we're going to cheer for, some we're going to want to throw our remotes for. But the one thing I will agree with Juan about is that once the dust and smoke settles, everything probably WILL be Okay again. All the evil will have been vanquished, and all the horror that Jaime and Cersei's twincest and the civil war that sprang up in it's wake will have been eradicated. That's the sweet part. The bitter part though is that the entire world will be in shambles. All the people who were vying for the throne will realize that at the end of the day, because they fought so brutally for it, the irony will be that in their destructive efforts at the end of the day there will be nothing left to rule, period. If Jon Snow does live, I could see him basically being handed the Iron Throne and him saying "you know what? Forget the one throne system, my first and only action as the one true king is to dissolve the Seven Kingdoms (the way it was before Aegon Targaryen) and you guys can rule over yourselves again just like the good old days. I'll be in the North, rebuilding." and with that he gallops headlong to the North so he can do just that. George RR Martin is a pacifist in real life; his works do contain a lot of violence and warfare, but just keep in mind that he himself does not believe in violence. And all the violence we've seen over the past few years has done nothing but hurt the world of Westeros. That and the ambitions of people who would have had the Iron Throne for themselves. At the end of the day, NOBODY will win because in real life George RR Martin believes that the net result of warfare is nothing but hell and destruction. His works capture that masterfully and beautifully.
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Blerie Onez Ok, how about this -- go pick up a heroin habit, you goddamn genius, tell me how smart you think that decision was about 4 months in and you've just graduated to the needle. Your life will be fucking ruined. Curiosity/experimentation with drugs? Sure, everyone does that a little bit. But that's precisely my point, I highly doubt the numbers are truly better represented for smart people. If anything, I would say intelligent people are more likely to get addicted to substances/be addicts in general, but I don't really see how feeding that beast is inherently smart either. I don't write like a reporter, you just write like a fifth grader, which also has me challenging the claim that you're "intelligent" at all, but I digress -- the only successful junkies I can think of already had money by the time they really got in deep with drug use/experimentation/ultimately addiction.
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Blerie Onez It's just funny you had the gall to imply that you, yourself, were intelligent, as if that was the only source you had to prove that intelligent people have more of a "propensity" to do drugs. No, I think you're just an average, run of the mill, drug user. Nothing special. But if you think I am not countering all of the points you made (before you came back here to tell me how you intended to tuck your tail between your legs and run) then you're either not reading, are an idiot, or are a troll. But yeah, thanks for the last word, thanks for hearing what I had to say. Good luck with your future heroin habit, it's reserved only for the best and brightest in the world. People like yourself ;)
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CreaturePlaysGames I was just using Heroin as an example, brains. Yes, Meth is also extremely addictive, but in different ways. I would say all of the drugs you listed above have the potential to ruin lives, yes, even the "non-addictive" drug THC, found in Marijuana (anyone who thinks THC isn't a drug and isn't somewhat addictive, especially psychologically, is an idiot). Not physically addictive, mind you, but for people with addictive personalities, Marijuana itself CAN be addictive to some people. Like, those very same people who are like "you can't get addicted to it, but I smoke every day". Just because you don't get sick from not having it, doesn't mean it's not addictive. Heroin is addictive across the board, psychologically and especially physically speaking. I never said Heroin was the only drug, though, that you can get addicted to and/or ruin lives. I encourage you to read a little bit closer, comprehend a little bit better, before chiming in next time. "Contrary to what my comments say" you condescending little bastard, more like contrary to what you were able to understand.
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Guy Dude Bernie Sanders entire plan, when he's not telling people "I won't give every nickel and dime" and to date there's only been estimates as to what his proposals would cost, and the average is approximately $60 Trillion dollars. That's three times the economy of the United States as is. He cannot afford to do everything he says he's going to do.
Not even if he did implement his three-prong plan that he suggests would pay for it ALL.
1) Defund the military. Something that will absolutely never happen.
2) Take the money from the country's richest people. Won't happen, if he's the nominee all their money will simply be moved to a bank most likely in a place like Switzerland where it won't be touchable in the event the man does become President (read: he won't).
3) Tax the "billionaires" and corporations across the country.
This entire plan if enacted would completely destroy the US economy as it already is, and it would also precipitate a stock market crash. Not a recession, a crash.
By the way, any time someone comes in and identifies themselves -- themSELVES -- as socialists, that's what they are. And the idea of providing for the have-nots by TAKING from the haves, irregardless of the faulty math and the broken promises, that is the essence of socialism. A guaranteed living wage, whether you have a job or not. Something given to you that you would have to take from others. The redistribution of wealth.
You know, fucking communism and socialism.
I understand you're a bleeding heart liberal but that doesn't mean you have to be a moron, too.
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Sounds like outliers to me. Most people whether they admit it or not are vaccinated now. Some had to and it wasn't their choice, some did it reluctantly but didn't have to, and others did it willingly. I do not know a single person who has had any complications from it and I know a lot of elderly people who you'd think would be most susceptible to it who are triple vaxed and doing fine. It is a risky thing for them to have to come up with something like it so quickly and rush it to market with very little in the way of testing or whatever, but the facts remain that most people who were hospitalized for Covid at the peak were not vaccinated. It didn't prevent you getting Covid, no, but by basically every available metric it made it so that if you ever DID get it you would be much more likely to not need hospitalization and, barring that, die from it. I don't know, sure some people had some negative reactions to it. That's the way it is with every pharmacological issue or product in history. But I know enough people now that if the "blood clots" and "heart attacks" were common enough to warrant any reasonable level of fear to such an extent you forego the vaccine to begin with, we'd be hearing about it. If not from the powers that be (those spooky, tricky powers that be) then, you know, people we actually know IRL personally or from people they know. Outliers will always be outliers.
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The problem with that is there is no such thing as non-human bias. Bias exists because humans are inherently biased, this means that in school a lot of the opinions you have on world events depend in a lot of cases on who wrote the book. Most textbooks take a liberal bias, decidedly, nowadays, for instance. Anyway, the Supreme Court justices are supposed to be as fair and balanced as possible, as unbiased as possible, but again, there is no such as NO bias. Ultimately the judges can be predicted to vote one way or another -- conservative or liberal. But at the root of that though they're still supposed to take each on a case by case basis, in the case of Justice Roberts he's expected to vote conservative and yet he's the only thing standing in the way of the Supreme Court being entirely conservative. More than anything else about the prospects of Trump winning 2020 is that at least one more of the justices is liable to die (I'm sorry, but RBG may be one of them who doesn't make it another four years from 2020) and the president more or less can put whoever he wants there so long as Congress approves of it.
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@fatalshore5068 That's cool and all but like unless you wanna shift to voice acting altogether (Mark Hamill from Star Wars comes to mind) like the goal of your career should be to do as many projects as you can. If you are lucky in the beginning, you will get a great part, in a great role, in a great movie. Edward Norton from Primal Fear comes to mind; the youngest person (at the time) to be nominated for an Academy Award in his debut film IIRC, and he deserved it, but then he basically got to choose the roles he got after that.
Going back to the Frodo analogy, like Elijah Wood has been acting since he was a kid but ever since Frodo it seems like his career slowed down. Contrasted to Daniel Radcliffe who made a fortune off of the Harry Potter movies, he's still acting and doing weird roles and some stage shit to this day.
Then we have Aaron Paul, who like... actually agreed to do the Need for Speed film. And not really showcase the extent of his acting ability, although again I think his range really isn't as great as people think it is but he WAS Jesse Pinkman. Like, it was nearly effortless for him is what I mean to say because in many ways I think he WAS Jesse. If you look at the beginnings of his career especially he's always playing these like angsty high school kids and/or fuck ups. Not knocking it, just saying. But he was born to play Jesse and thank God he did, nobody else but him could have played it the way he did.
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scariest part to me was seeing the creepy smiling guy, not just during the wake scene before the funeral where he smiles at Charlie, something I did notice the first time, then seeing him again towards the end. He has a very particular look about him with the creepy smile, build and blonde hair, but then you see him at the very end in the corner, in the darkness, his teeth almost appearing blue, right before possessed Mom hops down out of the damn CORNER OF THE CEILING to chase him up into the attic, somehow getting inside even though he locks it (again, possessed) and then... yeah you know what happens next, what she does.
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@kieranduffy6760 Guess it just depends who wins the war then? The Americans won the revolution, therefore it was a revolution and not a civil war or an insurgency which is absolutely what it would've been referred to as if they had lost. The IRA were at war with what they viewed as a "foreign government" which is not dissimilar from what occurred during the American revolution, it's just they lost, so it was a failed revolution or insurgency. I don't care what it's referred to in common parlance. Ireland was absorbed into a country, they didn't like it, so they rebelled and began attacking their own countrymen. I don't care WHAT it was called then or what it's called now, it was an act of a part of a country being at war with itself, therefore it is, by definition, a fucking. Goddamn. Civil War.
Doesn't negate my original point either. That's what another civil war in America would resemble this time around. Terrorism. Insurgency. Keep nitpicking, I really don't care. Is Ireland considered part of the UK or not? Technically, Ireland was at war with its own country then. Guess what's another way to describe a country that is effectively at war with itself? Derp a derp. I don't care what stylistic name they've given it, it could've been the war of the merry band of potato men but the TYPE of war is in fact, by definition, a civil war. They may not have recognized being a part of that country, that didn't last very long though did it? Upon losing said conflict especially. When you go to war with your own countrymen, that is a civil war. By definition.
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@twat5225 They are appealing, though. The statute of limitations is over, their final chance at really suing the estate ended when they turned 26 years old. Also, it's not like it's going to be a court case. It will be decided by a judge. And the only entity he can actually sue now would be the same sphere as Michael's employees and his agents/managers, etc. That's not even where the bulk of the money is. But no, it's been thrown out once already (and again it's not going for the estate itself, it's going for this ancillary target they can only really go after because of a loophole) and it will be thrown out again, I guarantee it, ESPECIALLY because the documentary got made. It's not like it's going to be a criminal trial again where it will be something at all decided by the public. It is and has always been decided by a judge, so I really don't see what grand sweeping victory doing the film was from a lawsuit's standpoint. Suing. If anything it will hurt those ambitions, but I get the impression more they just wanted to finally tell the world what happened to them. Realistically speaking mainly because of the statute of limitations, mainly also because they're literally the reason he got off in the first place, they're not getting any money from the Jackson estate before all is said and done. Not even with their superfluous appeals.
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They're so naive they think if they control the conversation in terms of music, late night comedy shows, basically all awards, most celebrities (unless they're not afraid of ruining their careers by openly supporting Trump, a la Jon Voight, too old to care most likely anyway) but the reality is they had all of that ahead of 2016 too. Trump didn't win the election because of Russia, Trump won the election because people felt like he was being honest with them. The first honest "politician", so honest of a politician he's not even a politician professionally, so they let the liberals control the conversation but lose anyway because Trump won on the backs of silent people who are sick of all this coddling of the left, punishing the majority at the behest of the minority, so we all have to live in a world where Caitlyn Jenner isn't a freakshow science experiment, but "stunning and brave".
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Never in a millions years did I imagine that someone, a clown like Donald Trump, would be able to not only become the GOP's nominee, but to then go on to WIN the election, only to lose the next one and yet the party is still his. This has never happened before. The GOP as we knew it is dead, like even during the neo-con era it never resembled fascism the way it does now. They are literally sacrificing the ones who don't remain obedient to Trump. On January 6, these lunatics inspired by his words broke into the Capitol and were literally poised to hang Mike Pence if they could find him. They came very close to finding him, too. And the worst part of all is that they only wanted him because Trump told them that he had the power to nullify the results of the election which is false, only Congress has that power, but they believed it and were calling for his head anyway. They think they're fighting for freedom and for a patriotic cause, the truth is they've been duped by a megalomaniac.
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@Reub3 I mean it is one of those situations in my mind anyway that it should warrant the board to investigate anyway, he found this one small clause that vaguely in his mind gives him permission to do what he is doing (theft of property, let's keep it 100% here) by some obscure "537" clause in California's animal rights protection clause. Vague being the keyword.
His actions are on camera now anyway, the same thing I think he legitimately believes in his mind will protect him, going in there and saving those animals where maybe 50 in 5,000 if not even more than 5,000 overall were dead as natural living things tend to do from time to time -- die.
I understand his position but at the same time I think he's out of his fucking mind if he thinks he's ever going to get people to ban killing and eating animals. It's absolutely bizarre, and he's using Malcolm X methods to do it, at least Malcolm X did what he did in the name of the benefit of the oppressed in the ranks of MANKIND ITSELF. This guy doesn't seem to get that all of us including his ancestors survived as long as we all did because we discovered very early on that the flesh of animals could sustain us. A miracle, really, if you think about it, then figuring out how to cook it etc.
I mean until the day a deer or buffalo can build a skyscraper or even strike a fire of their own, UNTIL that day I will always hold the position that we are the superior race and honestly as long as the animals are not wantonly mistreated it is absolutely unfair for anyone to say Hey 1% of us don't like this, you must all stop it immediately or else we will FORCE you to.
No, this guy has gotta go, if only just to put it all into perspective where society's position on the issue and how his position can never, ever possibly work, especially as long as he is massing hundreds strong militias if you wanna call it that to come steal people who absolutely did nothing wrong's property. The only reason they did it anyway was because they knew it was being filmed. They literally think it's gonna lead to a good outcome for them.
No, it's gonna lead to a 60 year jail sentence for the ringleader, because that is exactly what he is, for sure, especially if they throw the book at him for it.
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@henrymcbark7337 Some people in China have it really, really good. But more people in China have it really, really bad. And I mean it's not like there's not poor people in America, there IS poverty here as well, but the idea that we're censoring people on the level China is is preposterous.
These guys are only able to argue with us because they're using a VPN, YouTube is banned in China for the average citizen. And they have their own special version of Google, as well, with all censored material removed. What you're talking about is their proposed social credit score, where yeah they're basically going to decide how good or bad of a citizen you are based on a variety of superfluous factors.
And yes, they absolutely are using North Korea as something they can point to and be like "See? We're not THAT bad." No China, you're pretty goddamn bad. North Korea is just worse.
Our version of poverty is guaranteed minimum wage at even the worst of jobs like McDonald's. Their version of poverty is working in a sweatshop on iPhones that Americans can buy (and frankly they're more affordable, and in a way we're guilty because of it, because we are profiting from China's slave labor). It's not technically slavery, they're making a few cents an hour, but it might as well be slavery. But yeah I think this conversation with China has been needed to be had for a while now.
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It's meant to represent the Lake of Fire as well as the stress that living under a life like Walt and Gus and everyone that chose that path is truly choosing. A world in which you constantly feel as if you're drowning, or close to it. Like Gus lying defeated next to his dead partner, barely escaping death himself and lying next to the pool. The same pool he ultimately extracts revenge on, against Don Eladio, who drowns none other than in his own pool. The drowning of the Teddy Bear after the crash of the airplanes, collateral damage in a ripple effect that was basically caused by Walt, whether he realizes it or not. The attempted drowning of his wife Skylar, who can't take living with Walt's secret anymore plus also feeling scared for all of their safety (as she should be). The pool represents what making that decision, to become a professional outlaw, and bringing everyone else along with you for that journey whether they want to go or not, that's what the pool represents. Drowning.
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Yeah I think this guy made a good movie but for him to be like "Unlike other war movies, I wanted to make a movie that really showed how much war sucks". First off, that's every war movie ever made. Second off, there's better films to showcase the horrors of war. Saving Private Ryan just might be the most graphic/realistic I've ever seen in a movie. As far as shows go, Band of Brothers does an outstanding job of showing just enough to realize "War doesn't look that fun, actually". All the friendly fire, especially, the chaos. They basically take you as far as the triage tent where you're like "OK I get it surgeries are taking place here" but it never forces you to watch a surgery. It does make you watch several men die, though, some die from their injuries, others don't. All of this suffice to say, I hear that The Pacific is basically Band of Brothers except instead of showing the Allies taking Germany, it talks about the Allies taking Japan, and it's even more graphic/violent.
At the end of the day I just think it's preposterous to think that he went into this movie like "I am gonna do what no other war movie has done before, paint war in a negative light!" Again if you're willing to let your kids watch something violent but to teach them something (and you think they're ready) I recommend Saving Private Ryan at the very least. I think if you have sons especially who think war is cool, they need to see it, their sacrifices weren't in vain but they were sacrifices. And it wasn't comfortable or pretty.
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That's a shame. Unbelievable even, the only thing I thought to say first is maybe back then the Grammy's being an American production weren't as focused on international acts. But that's just a guess.
Beyond that, that's kind of the problem with award shows. Certainly back then there was a lot of great music being made, and not everyone can be much more than just nominated. Not everyone can win. But yes, as pointed out, they were nominated a few times which makes more sense.
In the movie world, even Martin Scorsese who started out making great films from basically the moment he really started in the 70s took until 2006 to win his first actual Academy Award. I think that in retrospect given how political these awards shows are that if they knew Freddie was going to be taken from us so suddenly and so surprisingly and to see the legacy they truly did have years later they may have given them a Grammy or two earlier when they could.
But when he died, he literally only had just announced the day before he was sick, so it was literally one of those cases of "You don't know what you have till it's gone" with him. We took him for granted, the only thing that could really be made a parallel would be if Elton John had gotten sick for similar reasons and we lost him instead, while keeping Freddie and Queen much longer.
By the way, look out for the new Elton John movie coming soon by the way! They advertised it during tonight's Oscars.
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@Deliverygirl No, I didn't read it. I just responded blindly to something I saw that had your name preceding it. Yes, I read your comment. It's a good thing "you didn't like it". But you're not framing your sentence correctly, you are saying you DIDN'T like it because you felt like you enjoyed it so much that you were at risk of getting addicted if using it again. So you did in fact like it. You just don't like the prospects of getting addicted, which is where I can say either way that's a good thing.
If you didn't like it a la putting your hand on a stove, you wouldn't feel at risk of doing it again. Now if you were to tell me that you were scared of it because you DID like it, that makes more sense. If you didn't like it, obviously there would be no inherent risk of getting addicted to it for you personally just by matter of fact that you aren't going to be regularly consuming it. Either way, I guess if someone was just held down and forced to use it for a week straight biologically speaking the chances are good they're on their way to being addicted. It's just that rarely happens outside of human trafficking circles, at least from what I can imagine. Waste of dope.
But you have to understand that most people who get addicted to opiates of any kind whether they're pills or heroin they didn't take it like "Oh this was great! I'm terrified now I better stop! Oh gee willickers!" they are like "This is great. I can probably get away with using it a few more times before getting addicted. Or I can only use on weekends, can't get addicted as a weekend warrior!" but the point is BECAUSE it is good they keep using where that is what you are insisting is your anchor point in not using.
Whatever it takes for you to avoid it I guess but for most people in general who could be at risk of becoming "druggie scum" or whatever you view them as with the sneak diss at druggies above the best thing that could possibly happen is if you avoid it altogether. Don't even let it have a chance to create a bookmark in your brain that "this is good. I should do this more often". That's what opiates are famous for doing.
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@farhan007 You need a college education for common sense? To think critically? Holy shit they got you good. Contrary to what you have been led to believe, clearly, you don't need some $20k + a year establishment to have common sense. Period. "My fast food example is irrelevant" Go fuck yourself, it's not irrelevant, it's actually perfectly relevant, I know someone who had a "safe" degree and found out like many other people that they couldn't do shit with it after the fact. It's relevant. Here's the thing though I don't have the time, energy or desire to jerk off here with you all day. "It's not relevant" yeah and you should probably consider suing your former college or the one you're currently attending cause they fucked up for you in the common sense department. According to you that's something you should've gotten from them by now! Fucking fool LOL
College is a racket. Enjoy being in debt until you're 45, here's a little extra homework for you ass-plug, go Google the number of unemployed undergraduates that went to a decent school ($20k a year and above) and how they're faring in the private sector now. Telling me my information is irrelevant, it couldn't be more relevant derp a derp, talking about the futility of higher education FOR ALL and naming personal examples, people I knew personally, who got the shaft up their posterior in a very major, serious way after the fact. I was 19 on my way going into college at the time, they were just finishing college and working for about $35k a year at a Pizza Hut. There was probably barely room for groceries on top of paying back those student loans and putting a roof over the poor girl's head.
Nice try correcting me though, faggot, LOL at you though thinking one of the things college is going to do for you is teach you common sense. Sense enough to recognize a scam/racket when you see one, sense enough to realize that people who have fallen for it found out the hard way it doesn't mean shit to have a master's degree even in the post 2009 recession in the American economy. Sense enough to a realize a relevant anecdote and the difference between that and an irrelevant one. It's on topic, it's completely in line with the conversation. It's relevant. And you still have no common sense faggot LOL
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Same thing with Rockstar Games and GTA Online. I don't play it anymore, but they did false suspend me me a few years back. Wouldn't tell me what for (because they don't want people to know what it was because it helps to keep their "anti-cheat" systems working at maximum potential/power, which clearly are an absolute joke to begin with) and It wasn't just that I couldn't play for a month, it reset my entire account back to zero. Absolutely no chance of it getting reversed or overturned. You have to jump through hoops to even talk to a real person and all they'll do is give you the "We understand you are frustrated, all we can say is this is a legitimate ban." I was so pissed. I quit playing and my life has been better for it, even though I did ultimately go back and get everything again because I could, quite frankly. Never went as hard as I did the first time again though, mainly just because I knew that that could potentially happen again. Point is, these companies get so big they don't even care about their customers anymore. No humans to talk to via tech support. And if a few fall through the cracks, it's fine. If you have a platform and make enough noise about it though to the point it is affecting their bottom line, like Asmongold here will, then they will get serviced. As they say, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
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I actually do think that an actress might be hesitant to tell their agent like "Yo, this guy you sent me to... he raped me." I doubt they'd tell the agent for a few reasons. For one thing, they probably feel fortunate to have an agent and be in Hollywood and be meeting people like Weinstein. They probably figured for the longest time that "this is just the way it is, especially for actresses in Hollywood." And for good reason, it does seem like that's the way it is or WAS anyway. But no, sadly one of the biggest things a person who was raped feels after the fact is SHAME. And if they didn't report it to the police, I can just about guarantee they're not going to tell their agent. I do think more people knew about it than not in Hollywood, by the way, maybe even the agents themselves, but for a long time it really just kind of was the way it was. Sex for roles. It goes so much deeper than that, you think it's bad where it pertains to women. Children have had it worse than adults in Hollywood for just about ever.
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@sharonmax6968 Well first off I think Wade Robson especially doesn't even need the money. He was choreographing for some of the biggest pop acts in the country and was living independently doing it, so maybe choreographers make more money than I thought they would.
I think though as far as "why are they doing this now?" well for one thing it's many years down the road now. The perpetrator is dead, so there won't even need to be a trial let alone having to go to a place and stare him in the eyes while you recount all the things he did to you, defending yourself from his attorneys etc.
I think it took them both decades to really figure out what they actually went through was NOT love, unlike what MJ had told him, it in fact was actually statutory rape. As he got older he realized, "Holy shit, I really did get abused didn't I?" anyway I think after all this time they were both ready to come forward.
Also, the official story was that it took both of them becoming fathers for this change of heart to happen. If you ever have kids you will understand what that means. Like by keeping the lie in his heart and not telling the truth, what about the other kids out there who don't have the voice or the platform to seek justice? What if it was his own kid instead of him personally receiving the abuse? That's why I think they talked overall.
It didn't hurt that the past two years have been defined, especially in Entertainment, by the whole #MeToo thing. Sex abuse is rampant in Hollywood. As far as who can it help or hurt, I think the only ones it can really help right now are the two victims. It's certainly not doing anything for the Jackson estate, they're about to go blow $100 million trying to sue HBO with a team of lawyers more powerful than the Jackson's (bet).
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TBH what should've happened is either
a) Drogon shows up, destroys the Iron Throne, then turns his gaze on Jon's stupid ass who's still just there waiting to be arrested or whatever, and draw in another breath to kill him too, but not until Jon Snow lunges at it just in time to stab him right down the gulet, then carve backwards opening the Dragon's neck and killing it, but Jon himself dies again too. Incinerated, burnt to a crisp.
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b) Drogon does what he did in the show, bounces up outta there with his Mama, but Jon Snow's hands are bloody from the Queen's murder, and it's obvious someone just died there, and they quickly put together that it was her lover Jon Snow who murdered her right there. IRL Grey Worm and his men would've charged him immediately, they didn't just look at her as a fairweather Queen, she was a GOD to them.
And yes I do agree, she should've gone mad, she should've been the twist villain at the end as it is very much in your face at the very least when you learn it's not just her as a Targaryen, he is too. And knowing Targaryens have a 50% chance of going insane, and knowing that they're actually both Targaryens and the differences between them are night and day, like it's just obvious she was on a path to becoming the Mad Queen if she wasn't already way earlier on.
The idea that the Unsullied just waltz in and he's like "I killed her" and they're like "Very well, we will imprison this man until his trial!" is just completely out of character for this emotionless army driven entirely by duty and nothing else, they'd see their Goddess murdered and then not kill the man immediately who did that, and deal with the aftermath later. Cause let's be real, the North after all they've been through vs the Unsullied it wouldn't even be close. I can't believe Grey Worm didn't stake a claim as King in this new land now that Dany was gone. God the writing was just retarded this season.
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You have to ask yourself, what if you were married to this guy all the way up until the time he gets his diagnosis, and all of a sudden then YOU were held hostage by him in a way, because the entire time he was telling himself and I think he believed it until the moment his money is taken from him, he's in that basement bunker in the laundry place and he's being told by Saul like "Listen, because you got caught, there's no way that money is ever going to get in their hands anyway. You didn't do this for them in the end." and I think he learns the hard way just what it means to be a mega kingpin type because you may be good while you're good, but ultimately not if but when you get caught it was ALL FOR NOTHING in the end. And Skylar knew that from day one, but Walt insisted he was never in any danger. He fooled himself into thinking he'd be OK, staying in the game long after he said he would, going from needing only $180 thousand or so to then craving as many millions as he possibly could get. It was all Walt's fault.
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@ShuyaoXu-i9h That's literally how the coronavirus is believed to have started, at a particularly bad wet market in Wuhan, China. Sadly, it only takes one bad seed to create a rogue strain of a new coronavirus like Covid-19.
It's less that it makes us disgusted and more that it's entirely unsanitary and unsafe, with something like this being one of the worst case scenarios as far as end result being concerned.
It only takes one, apparently. I am not saying they're all poorly run, dirty shit holes or whatever. Just that that one was, and now the entire world is suffering for China's lack of regulation and oversight where it concerns these wet markets. These things wouldn't have existed in America in the 1920's, that's how dirty and crude they are. Now you gotta get food and drugs past rigorous barometers of sanitation or else the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) will not allow the product to be sold for consumption by Americans. And something like that market would never have seen the light of day, let alone operate with impunity as long as they did in Wuhan.
I bet it stops once the dust finally begins to settle, when and if that ever happens, even in a place like China that will be desperate to never see something like this happen again, surely. The way China's lying about it's origins now, too. Nobody's buying it but the Chinese themselves and whoever they can manage to convince, like people in Africa. Nope, it happened accidentally because China allowed a particularly dirty wet market to operate with impunity. Now the whole world is paying for it. China will be held responsible, one way or another.
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Correct. I mean it's amazing that most people even without the help of attorneys know not to fuck with judges, so even her own DA probably didn't even think for a second to warn her to "be respectful to the judge".
It's so common sense it's like saying the sky is blue on a good day and the grass is supposed to be greenish. And beyond the fact that basically everything she did oozed sass and disrespect from the get-go she then sarcastically says "adios!", and that was the final straw for him. And then she decided to flip him off and curse him after he called her back again, which made her increased fine turn into jail time.
I mean if there was no doubt as to her actual meaning of it when she did say "adios" at the time, when she turns around and flips him off saying "fuck you" I think it's pretty clear then. If she was monotone like a robot and said "adios" or with a measure of somberness and regret and then marched away obediently to begin with then maybe that explanation could be acceptable, "she was just saying goodbye".
No. With the very first adios she may as well have already been saying "fuck you", this is why he called her back to begin with. He knew by the tone of her voice she needed a little more tuning up. Anyway, if you have any brains at all, be overly nice to judges even if you just run into them in the supermarket, cause if they don't like you and you find yourself in their courtroom, they can and will fuck you up legally. Anyone who behaves this way to a justice has it coming just anyway.
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I will tell you something, the judges aren't there to be your friends. They're not there to entertain you, they're not there to be "professionally courteous" to you. They are there to adjudicate, to rule in the various cases brought into their courtrooms on a daily basis. You don't understand, it wasn't the judge being petty in return necessarily. It was the judge drawing the line in the fucking sand as any other judge in the country would do in similar circumstances, was she made an example of? Probably. But that's my point, she "asked for it" in a way, either that or she was disastrously misinformed, cause in no place ever is disrespecting a judge a good idea. You know, the same people who determine your bail amount and length of sentence. Practice your "your honor" skills or at the very least don't do what she did. But yeah worst case scenario just take your sentence and let your lawyer do the appealing, certainly don't fucking flip the bird at the judge as if that's gonna improve the situation LOL "CONTEMPT!" just like that
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The only movie they're really glorified in is The Godfather. Scarface too, I guess, but even that was primarily a tragedy, it was operatic, so if all you walked away from it is "man this Tony Montana guy, he's alright. Knew how to make money, knew how to live well." you missed the point of it. GoodFellas and like, The Sopranos, do a really good job of showing that the money they're making is slightly above what the risks involved entail. Even the boss was like, just doing aight, for all the worry about law enforcement, and snitches, or getting murdered even, not really worth it when you look at what they were truly out there risking it all for. But yeah, truthfully, they're scumbags. Among the lowest of the low. Not intelligent, nothing, they're just people who would peak in most other blue collar jobs that their intelligence would allow them to do but chose to incorporate some risk into things to make slightly more. And I do mean slightly, like, a lot of organized criminals really don't make a lot of money which is contrary to what a lot of people think and even the money they do make is off the heels of their neighbors and communities who they're happy to contribute towards the destruction of for a little bit of that grease on top.
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Yeah, well it reminds me of this guy I know, an older guy, he's run a few restaurants in his day but ultimately found most of his success as a lawyer. His passion has always been food, though. Restaurants. So he ends up spending $1+ million, just about all of his savings, trying to start up a restaurant near his retirement age and unfortunately he found he couldn't easily do both. His law practice tanked. The restaurant failed because he spent too much renovating and didn't charge nearly enough for the food (somehow he had no business skills). The food wasn't bad, but not nearly as good as he still imagines himself being as a cook today. He didn't cook the food himself, he had a full time chef, but some people don't belong in the restaurant industry AT ALL but they think they do, and it's a delusion that can cost you a lot in the long run. This lawyer I know won't be retiring till he dies, most likely, and it's all cause he blew it all on a pipe dream he couldn't afford and had no business taking part in to begin with.
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I had to call 911 for my neighbor who is in his 60's now, he had been out drinking and he ended up falling face first on the pavement and basically concussed himself, he couldn't remember where his car was, where the house was. Fortunately he was almost to the house, so I brought him into my place and called 911. When the ambulance showed up, camera crews popped out of the back as well. I am wondering if it had anything to do with this show, actually, we live in a city that does a lot of filming for TV shows etc. I immediately told them they didn't have permission to film, though, this particular neighbor of mine would 100% not want that sort of thing to happen. You do have the right to tell them not to film. Just in case that ever happens to you. And no, they won't tell you that in the heat of the moment, either, probably mainly because they just want to get the footage.
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This kid's family are great. They make all the difference in the world, more than anything else in his life, especially schools and the culture they inherently embody. Because he was not only allowed to, but encouraged and accepted to, participate in this activity, very well actually literally may have saved his life. Not saying all people with Asperger's or Autism are similar or characteristically capable of doing such terrible things, but that kid who did the Newtown situation had Asperger's as well. The difference being that instead of his Mom and Dad getting divorced and then giving him guns to play with, this kid's parents allowed him to use oversized soft-noodles to fight with and the confidence to actually get out there and socialize with people who share his interests. I don't care what anybody says, being a loner isn't healthy, even for people who particularly enjoy their quiet time. Privacy is one thing, completely isolating one's self is bad.
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I guess, I have no idea. I have to agree though, Crowley seems sketchy as hell. A bloody genius, sure, but even based on the stuff about him that wasn't just rumor, but was actually proven, I mean, if there is any equivalent of Hell or purgatory in existence and he managed to not go there, then I have to wonder who would. Inb4 enlil has the cosmic answer for the afterlife or something as well, now, too. LOL
I really do hope that Crowley didn't actually engage in some of those things that were mentioned about him. I think it's interesting to compare him to Hindu but the fact of the matter is some of those things are evil for a reason. To force yourself to indulge in it and learn to like it, that's just terrifying to me as a prospect. Learning to enjoy sacrificing children. Disgusting...
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***** ZDLR = Zach de la Rocha, who is the frontman for Rage Against the Machine. I've had this username for like 8-10 years now, and it's never changed, although I would never vote for ZDLR if I had the option today (he's in favor of radical socialism, which seemed much more appealing to me when I was a kid) but all the same, it's my username now. And it has sort of come to mean something else to me personally for that reason alone, and for others I am sure as well (I am pretty sure that most people don't know who ZDLR is, although I think you're the first person who actually ever bothered to ask).
But yeah, it IS depressing. If you're smart enough to see through the smoke and mirrors and question things, you are in the 10% of the population of this country capable of critical thought and being able to vote. Back in the day, you used to have to be a white landowner to vote -- I disagree with the racial aspect of that since I've met plenty of intelligent black people and plenty of moronic white people, as well, but the landowner part is what's most important. In doing so, you would vote on behalf of yourself and everyone on your land, in theory, and more importantly to own land you'd have to be in the higher-tier of mankind -- the landholders. That takes a certain level of intelligence, it wasn't just anybody and everybody who was able to vote. That's the way it is today, and it's a dangerous idea since I bet if you gave people a simple poll on the basics of who they're voting for, about half of them wouldn't get above a C+ or other relative score on the test. Many would fail altogether. So you literally have people who DO bother to vote, but don't know what the hell they're doing. That's going to be the downfall of Democracy, and why in my opinion the older form -- the Representative Democracy -- is much better for the people and the world in general.
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***** Interesting points. So you're from Europe, then? Those of us who are paying attention are keeping a pretty close eye on Greece. It will effect you guys sooner if they leave the Eurozone or if any number of things happen with them and their economy, but it won't take long for that to affect the rest of the world either, due to the fragile (and insane, honestly) state of the world economy as it has been changed by capitalism and other socioeconomic experiments. I honestly think the biggest mistake any of our countries have made at this point is adopting a centralized economy that is entirely dependent on, and hinging on, a federal bank for it to work at all. I am certain this affects Europe as well since the IMF is running the show for all of us, but as it stands now in America it's literally impossible to completely pay off the "debt" we're creating. Not only is the amount just disgustingly and astronomically high, but the way it stands, because of interest, there's never going to be enough money in circulation to pay off the entirety of the debt. What that means for us when our creditors start knocking down our door looking to get that money back (again, with interest) I really don't know. If you divided it by all of the citizens in the USA, the debt comes out to like $55-60 per citizen. For those who can't pay their share, I shudder to think what will happen. Maybe debtors' prisons, or maybe something far worse. I don't know. But getting back to the original point, I do personally believe in a lot of Libertarian principles myself and I believe big government is much more detrimental to people than they even realize, which sounds moderately similar to what you were saying.
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***** It's pretty bad, Google the US Debt Clock. It shows how many millions of dollars are being spent, per second, and where those dollars are going to. The United States spends about 50% of it's annual budget on the military alone, which I believe is more than any other industrialized nation combined. It's ridiculous, and it is. It's terrifying that it's gotten to such astronomical levels. Many people here don't even talk about it or seem to realize it's going on, that or they don't want to think about it. Things definitely do seem to be taking a turn for the tyrannical more and more, left and right -- but you look at problems in Mexico and other places with Drug Cartels, etc. -- a simple change in policy in the United States would force those criminals out of business over night. In other words, admit the drug war is a failure and legalize all drugs, whether you intend to use them or not. It sounds crazy, but honestly the fact is people are going to do drugs no matter what -- illegality has never stopped people from consuming substances before. But the flip side is it's funding violent terror and costing us a ton of money, this is just one area the USA and other developed nations could really turn the tide on criminality and even terrorism, and then treat societal problems like drug abuse and poverty and crime in an environment where most of them aren't involved in drugs and other forms of crime to begin with. I can think of a number of ways we can solve these problems, but at this point the USA at least is in a very, very serious financial hole that I honestly have no idea what the outcome will even be when all is said and done. Money is owed to somebody, and they will come knocking for it one day or another.
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daz samuels That's an interesting point. Yes, I can see that happening, between the point of them announcing that legalization is on its way. Some dealers would probably make as much as they could by selling product with more and more cut, and that could probably lead to a spike in deaths. The other problem is the government is going to tax the shit out of it, so there may still be a huge black market because they're able to get the unregulated garbage for a better price. That being said, I have no reason to believe that legalization is going to be any more or less harmful than the way things currently are. I mean, slap a warning label on the side of the product like they do with cigarettes and alcohol. Can't say they didn't warn you. But at the very least you know it's a cleaner, safer, product. I don't think your theory is a good enough reason to keep things the way they are, especially since you are suggesting that it's better because we have "plausible deniability" so long as it's still legal. That's nonsense. The net benefits are going to be much higher than the downsides, because no matter which way you look at it, people are dying left and right AND going to jail. Having their lives ruined in one way or another, and it all costs the taxpayer indirectly in other ways. At the very least decriminalize everything so they can focus on catching the real criminals. If they legalized the real thing then there would be no reason to buy the synthetic crap, unless you just happen to be an idiot. You'd much rather live in a society where you have to go through shady people and deal with shady situations for people to procure their drugs. I am sorry but I couldn't disagree with you more. By the way, please stop responding in several parts. There's an edit button for a reason.
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daz samuels Regardless of what your perspective on drugs and drug usage is, to think that just because you have had personal experiences that were bad (with illegal substances) and just because you now have this moral, SJW attitude about it, doesn't mean you can just snap your fingers and people will be like, "Oh, OK we will all stop immediately". If that was the case, the drug war would have been won years ago. The fact of the matter is, people are always going to use drugs. They always have, they always will. To combat it by keeping it illegal has never worked, if anything it's only given rise to stronger and better criminals and criminal organizations. With alcohol, it was basically the beginning of the modern day Mafia. With other drugs, we are now dealing with cartels that, because of illegality, are now pulling in billions and billions of dollars by peddling substances that have an artifically high value because of their illicit nature, and because of that, South of the border we now have cartels that are actually stronger and better equipped than the Mexican military. Those who do choose to remain in law enforcement, most of them end up going corrupt and working with those cartels. The ones who do not go corrupt, end up quitting the military and/or the police force and joining up with the cartels themselves because the money is far better in an already poor country. So now, on top of all the problems with the drugs themselves, we are seeing some of the most vicious organizations the world has ever known. Beheading and torturing children, in some cases, all because the profits from illegal enterprises are so good. There's one organization in particular that's really scary, Los Zetas. They're a drug cartel made up in large part of people who are ex special forces/military and are using that training (as well as military equipment including helicopters and RPG's) to basically do the opposite of what they were doing before when they were in the military. To just wish the problem away is completely unrealistic. The real solution is to admit that human beings like drugs, and will always like drugs, and so long as that's the case if there's a demand for it -- there are people in the world that will take advantage of that to criminal effect and get filthy rich. I can't think of any good that's come from this drug war.
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***** That's true, the blood situation is exaggerated for the "spectacle" of it -- and it's just as one of the guys in this documentary even said, it's worse for the viewer in a lot of cases than it is for him, himself. That being said it does make me wonder what all kind of paperwork goes into something like this, especially how frequently the athletes must undergo blood tests. If any of these guys have HIV or Hep-C it's like... the risk goes up when dealing with open wounds like this. That being said I don't think every football player, even running backs or whatever, have to deal with blown out knees and concussions ALL THE TIME. Yes, it happens, it happens way too frequently in fact, but it isn't like it's for sure going to happen to every single football player at some point or another. And even then I would posit that it's somewhat more acceptable, not just socially but for them on a personal level because they're also oftentimes making millions of dollars a year with great health insurance, among other things, so they can deal with the aftermath of a life long-lived by the risk and reward of bloodsport. These guys are either not very bright or are just in it exclusively for the passion and exhilaration of it, I can't imagine any of them, even the cleaner-cut looking guys, to be making any more money than would allow them to live in a nice-ish trailer, maybe. They're not making that much money.
OH and lastly one guy almost did die during a Deathmatch, one of CZW's Deathmatches actually. Cut his side open after a stunt with the light bulb tubes went wrong. He literally died on the table for a few minutes but they were able to bring him back. Thankfully.
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venus baptiste Dude, this is fucking YouTube. Everyone has an opinion on anything, why even waste recreational time watching these videos? If the comments section isn't there to talk about things that you care about or believe in then I don't know what it is there for. I never said it didn't affect me I just said what my parameters for acceptance were. Namely, behind closed doors, etc. You were there for as much so I don't see any point in rehashing and re-explaining my positions, again. What started this entire argument was whether it's natural or not. I think by simple virtue of the fact that without artificial components the sex is virtually impossible at least without causing terrible damage to the body over time. Incontinence, things of that nature. Yes, people do it, but if it was so natural you'd think it'd moisturize itself. Otherwise it could fall into arguably a form of self-harm, particularly the one on the bottom. So no, agree or disagree with it but without this life of modern luxuries it wouldn't be as possible or even practical. It literally requires the existence of stores to facilitate. There's nothing natural about fucking stores LOL. So I mean at least give me that much, these are just people who feel a certain way in their minds and figured out a way to make it happen, cap'n, so to speak. There's no way it's natural. Read the above again and again if you still don't get it, I have made it as clear as I possibly can.
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venus baptiste For the last fucking goddamn time this argument was started by the other person, about how "natural" homosexual is as a human practice. You never mentioned animals, the other fucking dumbass did. I am the one who mentioned children, because having children and reproducing is all part of the natural circle of life. I don't doubt that there are more heterosexual sex offenders than homosexual sex offenders. That only stands to reason because there's more heterosexuals. Hello? This isn't fucking rocket science. The rest of your argument starts getting a little wonky, more heterosexuals are involved in violent crimes? I would ask for a source on that but you haven't shown me sources for anything else I've asked for so I already know you're not going to do it, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that there may be more heterosexual crimes AGAIN because there are MORE OF US than the fucking gays. And I seriously doubt it has nothing to do with whether you like to take it up the ass or otherwise defile your own body for the lulz or whatever their reasoning is. What words of wisdom would I have peppered this feed with if this was about IV drug users? Are you fucking retarded? I am actually legitimately curious, are you retarded? This thread would likely not even fucking exist if the content of the video was about something else, but look man if I even so much as feel the simple urge to say something then I will. IF I have something to say, then I will. Always. Just take the L and move on, fuckboy, you're not even making sense anymore, trying to tell me how peaceful the gays are in your theoretical faggot utopia. GTFOH faggot
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***** I mean I don't see that me having any more or less time on my hands is a very good argument, either. We're both on YouTube. In the comments section. I think it's very safe to say we're both not being the most judicious with our time -- I'll also expand on that and point out that it doesn't take me nearly as long as you think it does to write my responses. Like, it could be worse is what I am trying to say. Not that you care or anything.
OK OK OK, so with that out of the way, I am getting really tired of the apples and oranges arguments. I am not the one who cited animals having homosexual fuckery as evidence that it's a natural practice that moral issues aside is clearly not natural. Clothes, not natural, but I mean we're not talking about clothes. You could say Skyscrapers and having the technology to go to the moon, among other things, anything developed by humans, that's ALSO not natural. But it also has absolutely fuck all to do with my point and if anything it only serves to bolster it even more. You're absolutely right, clothes do not naturally occur. Man what a profound thought, I would never have figured that out myself. We're not talking about that, though, we're talking about sex. You know, reproduction. You know, nature.
Surely you know the difference between a biological function and clothing or feats of humanity. I seriously hope you're not putting the feats of humanity and anal sex in the same sentence. Surely you're not. And where we are always going to disagree is just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should, and I mean I've already pointed out like 50 times now that I realize faggots exist and I don't think we should be making their lives hell or anything but I also don't think we should coddle them and tell them that porking each others buttholes with foreign objects in a space that without the marvels of humanity is just as safe as heterosexual sex (LUBE! That's up there with the eight wonders! /s I mean it probably is if you require it to facilitate the "natural" sex you're having but I digress)
I also conceded that straight couples have anal sex, too. I never said they didn't. I only said that if they wish to penetrate each other then their bodies are designed from the get go to do such a thing -- gays, particularly gay men, are not.
Fuck you, calling my thought process shitty. Just because you disagree with me my thought process is shitty? Lmao whatever dude, man however will I go on and live with myself if some random fucknugget try-hard fag sympathizer thinks my thoughts are shitty. Boohoo. :'( not
Again, I have already said as much, I realize they exist and their brains are the way they are and it's not even worth trying to change them, but as long as their risky behavior stands to threaten the entire population as a whole by simply adding more cases of AIDS in the world (you have to realize not all of them are protecting themselves properly or else why would they contract terminal blood-borne illnesses so disproportionately more) then I am going to take issue with the practice of anal sex as a whole. Please do understand that I am only attacking "the gay" because unlike straight couples who have a choice, gay men do not, from the ground up that's a degenerative lifestyle as far as the natural order goes. Now the only thing one can do is hope wishfully that "the gay" isn't hereditary.
Oh, by the way, "muh way of life is better than you and I hate you" because that's probably all you're going to read and it's also, categorically not what I said. That's just how you read it. Clearly. SMH
venus baptiste You know, I give you credit for not devolving your argument to that last, classic retort much sooner. That's one of the MOST faulty arguments when it comes to the fags, they almost always think your aversion to them is a sign that maybe you are gay, too. To so many of them it's never occurred that maybe, just maybe, I am being so critical and harsh towards their lifestyle because it's fucking disgusting to me. And it's just as disgusting when straight people do it, so believe you me it's less about gay people and more the lifestyle that so many of them lead.
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venus baptiste It does concern me, when did I say it didn't concern me? Why else would I watch it? We've been over this already. In fact I remember I specifically told you that I have acceptance parameters for it to the point that allow me to at least live with the existence of them. But I don't think it should be encouraged in school and I don't think it should be placed along side heterosexual sex. I get it, some people will deviate and gravitate to it, but the more impressionable ones won't go springing into the world thinking the sodomite subculture is normal or healthy. By itself without the aid of items bought from the store it's not, so however you feel about it, whether you agree or disagree, it's not natural. People with gambling addictions and eating disorders are also very troubled people but those are truly forms of self-harm. Sexuality is inherently about two people. Lastly it wasn't you who brought the animal argument into it so I will let that one slide, but you did certainly seem to agree with it when it was offered as proof by the other individual. My point is animals shouldn't be looked up to as behavioral standards or ideals, like I get it we're mammals and we have a lot more in common with animals than we would like to admit but I also think that as humans, sentient beings with intelligence, usable thumbs and the capacity to do great things I just absolutely resent the argument "animals do it, so it's k". So fucking what? Again, that's more directed at the other person who spoke before you but again, I digress.
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venus baptiste No, I don't feel the same about oral sex. Don't hear about people contracting life threatening, world plaguing illnesses from those. I mean, you can catch or spread other diseases that way but they're not generally world changing, life shattering events or anything. HIV/AIDS and other, more major diseases however are only able to spread via contact to blood. There are lots of blood vessels lining the walls of the anus, which isn't designed for receiving anything, certainly not with the potential forces that sex can involve. Bleeding can and does happen very frequently, whether it's visible or not. That's why condoms are beyond mandatory for it, I mean if you or anybody reading this absolutely must have that in their life, just be safe about it. Like, squeaky clean safe, and don't assume that others you're with are adhering to the same standards. EDIT: I know, you said you're not gay, I mean it more as in the more broad use of it meaning anyone.
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You didn't have to say it was the cure, you just agreed wholeheartedly with someone else who said it before you. I should certainly hope you two were being silly. Indeed. It doesn't affect you either (so you say) so I mean, I can reverse the same statement back on you. Why are you here? Does it fucking matter? No. Oh lord, here comes the racist comments. "Some spoiled rich white bitch" -- say what you really mean LOL wowww dude. I had a feeling you might be black, but I really don't care either way. AIDS affects everyone on the planet with reproductive organs, the risk of contracting it is there for everyone, but especially gay men, for reasons we've already discussed. It's a world problem, so by virtue of the fact I live on the planet it does sort of affect me. At least potentially. It potentially affects us all. I will agree the terrorist and mass shooting problem is pretty serious. It is also a societal problem that can potentially affect us all, God forbid. And yeah you better believe Trump is gonna be the most oil friendly president perhaps in history. That's Russia's #1 export and in the past few years oil's been in a recession. Saudi Arabia is one of the primary reasons that's the case, but I digress. I care about all of these problems, too. I don't see why the fact that we ran into each other here on this one video means that that's somehow suddenly ALL I care about. I never said that, I care about all of these problems and have opinions on all of them, you can find me talking about those and other world problems most likely on videos that are relevant TO those said problems.
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If only it was that simple. You'd be shocked how many people either don't know, or don't care, to use condoms. Oil is used for far more than just energy by the way, but yeah I actually was in agreement with you before, and yes there are some technologies we could be using at least for energy instead of oil but until the last drop is drilled for Big Oil isn't going anywhere. Oh, and when it does we're screwed because there are thousands and thousands of products that we rely on oil to even make. Shampoo being one that comes to mind. And plastic. Genius, I tried meeting you halfway with some of these other issues but you still insist after all this that the crux of my message is that all of the world's problems are caused by gay black men from the South, I don't know how many times I have to say it, or how else I even could say it, STD's like HIV/AIDS are only one of the major threats to the world today but not only is it affecting more people than just this one example group (although it does disproportionately affect them, again for reasons I've explained far too many times) but that's far from the only thing that endangers the world today. Yes, HIV/AIDS is not a death sentence anymore. If you are educated about it and get tested that is (if you can't bother to use condoms). Which if you watched the video you'll see is part of the problem, a lot of them don't know, and then still there are some who don't care. If you don't treat it and let it become AIDS your life is gonna be all the more hard. The point this video is trying to make is that a lot of them aren't treating it for a number of reasons. That's bad. But you can't seem to wrap your head around the concept that I care about more world issues than just this. This is just one of them.
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I was legit scared for you man, the guy's clearly just angry at himself and life in general... and he's got a gun. Like, yeah it would be his ass especially with such damning video evidence, but for all you know the guy's dog just died, his best friend killed himself, his wife just left him, or like for any reason whatsoever the guy drew his gun because he didn't like what you were doing. That's somebody, for whatever reason, abusing power to the degree of it being nigh-on terroristic. Maybe the camera saved him. Who knows. It's not right, though, this cop should be fired.
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XuQifei Fair enough, I mean I have no idea truth be told entirely what goes on but I dunno, I just can't believe they couldn't simply record the sound in a more generalized way. Something more befitting of recording the sounds of, you know, a modestly large crowd of over a thousand people. I mean, I could be wrong but I got the impression a lot of those aerial shots they were getting were from a drone, so I understand they don't have access to industry standard equipment used to make feature films. Not to say drones are cheap or anything, I'm just saying they're not that expensive and in fact are game-changers in the world of filming I understand, when before you oftentimes needed a helicopter instead for similar shots. I'm just saying VICE is and always has been more "grass-roots".
But my other thing is this, like, you'd think the technology would be there to capture all sound faithfully from a crowd as well as film at the same time. If the crowd was not cheering at the parts where they inserted the sound effects... only if that was the case would I find it to be arguably disingenuous because of the documentary/journalistic/fact-based nature of the program itself. If nobody was cheering, they shouldn't just pad the sound with artificial cheers, it should be presented as close to what actually happened as humanly possible.
I do hear what you're saying though.
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tatskamies Fair enough, but considering this is about a man from America who lost his job after refusing to work on an American holiday, I am throwing that out there (by naming the holiday, as opposed to saying the month and day of year it otherwise would be for the rest of you non-Americans) for discussion basically by Americans exclusively. I mean, most other people I think kind of understood that before going into semantics "well, people who aren't Americans might order pizza on Thanksgiving durr hurr hurr hurr". Yes, sure, and I eat pork during Ramadan, which would really be offensive if I lived in the Middle East but alas that is not the fucking case nor would I try to make a case for that situation. Okay, specifically, let me rephrase my comment to prevent the aspies from coming out of the woodwork arguing technicalities with me. See the original post, edited to make your life a little bit easier and prevent such a ridiculous response being left on my comment again. You probably thought you were being so clever, too. /s
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tatskamies People's views on immigration vary greatly. I don't know who told you that being a mixing pot was a good thing, if anything I think it's actually a bad thing. Contributes to a lot of the problems we have as a society, I imagine. As far as if I believe things should be closed, well, yeah. I do. But that's only because I guess I have a family to spend Thanksgiving with, and for that I am grateful. You are really doing a great job illustrating how great your diet is, and it's ironic you have an appetite for so much fast food garbage that you even can say "Murica" with a straight face. You are more American than I am, in terms of your diet. You apparently eat shit. And lol at your last sentence. I would honestly bet serious money that nutrionally the meal I eat on Thanksgiving is ten-fold better than yours if you are arguing for the merits of eating fast food at all, let alone on one of the most important American holidays there are. It's just that in your case, instead of eating a shit ton of food like you so confidently know I do, you simply just eat a ton of shit. And why should you have respect for my country's culture and ideals? Because if I am correct in assuming you and your family haven't been here many generations, you're basically a guest in our house. Not the other way around. To do anything but respect our traditions and holidays is to categorically be disrespectful to them. You don't have to practice them, that much is guaranteed in our constitution, but anything but respect for these customs and traditions is patent disrespect. Either way you're basically admitting you're an asshole.
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I would argue that same thing except take it even further that it also in a weird, ironic way required Gollum, too. Yes, Sam deserves more credit than he deserves for literally carrying Frodo when he couldn't walk anymore, but I think the curse of the ring was so strong that nobody who was holding it could ever bring themselves to throw it in the fires of Mt. Doom, knowing that it would destroy it. But then you see Gollum who is like the most damaged being of all time as a result of his relationship with the ring and it was precisely his sick desperation that ended up being the driving force, the blind greed, that was necessary to destroy it at all. He bit Frodo's finger off just so he could hold the ring for 10-15 more seconds, costing him his life as well as allowing the ring to accidentally fall into the pit of Mt. Doom as well. But I think yeah although we mostly think of Frodo and Sam as a duo, I think of them in a lot of ways as a trio. The trinity required to destroy the ring, even though Smeagol's role in it was accidental at best.
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The dad just kinda keeps his head hung low, sorta glancing slightly every which way. Almost as if he had farted, and while she was just yapping her mouth off about tangents and being accepted, blah blah blah, he's like... "does she ... does she smell it? glances towards camera-men ... they definitely smell it... oh Lord... oh, look alive, they're looking at you!" nods bashfully, then returns into his reclusive fear "they definitely smell it, they just don't want to say anything because it would be awkward"
After seeing this a few times, in all seriousness, it's funny, he doesn't say a single word. Not one. And it's hard to tell what his emotional state is, it's almost like ... well we know where the gene came from when it came to Jon's birth. He seems a little out there himself.
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By the way, the USA is absolutely in the throes of a terrible epidemic when it comes to opiates. We have the pharmaceutical industry and drugs like OxyContin manufactured by Purdue Pharma Co. to blame for that, in large part. And then when they reformulated those drugs to prevent abuse, what did people do? Switch to Heroin. Which a lot of people took up the needle for, exclusively, some out of necessity and some who simply didn't want to "waste their money" by smoking it. This is why as a society we MUST insist that there be needle exchange programs, starting with the hardest hit areas first. When needles get involved it becomes that much more of a societal problem, because it facilitates the spreading of serious, serious diseases like HIV/AIDS and Hep-C, among other things. With the drug problem being this widespread, too, you don't even need to be a drug user or a needle user to be exposed to it. Your boyfriend or girlfriend could be doing it behind your back, or could HAVE done it before you, or both. They could literally have it and have no idea or even have the inclination to go get tested. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better. And regardless of your position on drug legalization, the idea that people are gonna be less inclined to use drugs because they have no access to needles is beyond absurd. They're just creating a black market for needles, which you oftentimes have no idea the full history of, and artificially inflating the price of what would otherwise cost pennies on the dollar. It's a hair away from being completely out of control -- educate yourselves, people.
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Well they made it sound like he had to jump through a shitload of hoops just to get the appropriate licensing or whatever, now that he has it I can only imagine that it's going to be similarly difficult for rivals to come in and try to compete. But like, it's a case of the original almost always dominating market share basically for the rest of time. For example, the WCW, then WWF which is now WWE is still the dominant brand after it basically was there first to cash in on the craze. Other rival organizations did come up, or tried to, but none were ever really able to compete with the original. Same thing relative to the difference between the NFL and the XFL (remember that?). THAT BEING SAID I can see Bare Knuckle Boxing's prospects going one of two ways. One, it will do extremely well, taking fans from UFC/MMA as long as they're given the opportunity to hear about it, which in this age of social media is basically a given, given that these new fans actually enjoy the heightened violence. Two, it will do extremely poorly, with fans already kind of on a "barely tolerating" UFC/MMA basis to begin with. I think women will be more likely to hate BKB. Men though, they're the ones who were really watching primarily anyway.
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@Will to Freedom The main thing is they withheld information while conspiring with the WHO to spread misinformation (fitting a snake is a centerpiece of the WHO logo) while also simultaneously preparing themSELVES in a way not many other people in the world, least of all the USA (one reason they chose to go with this attack, undoubtedly) were ready for. So they infect their own people and get the petri dish bubbling then over the next few months they're sending people home, all over the world, regardless of their final destination but ideally if it was somewhere in the West and bonus points if it was in the USA.
This is nothing short of the greatest terrorist attack in the history of the world, basically, perpetrated by none other than one of the oldest countries on Earth.
Their goal was not just to kill people, though. It wasn't even their primary goal. Their primary goal was to dismantle the entire fabric of the economy of the world. What is China's greatest asset? It's ability to manufacture things completely and totally independent of anyone else, whereas we're completely dependent on them. Especially for things when it comes to the HEALTH INDUSTRY like PPE, ventilators, etc. Not to mention the vast majority of drugs in the world, and if there's any medical development surrounding this disease and I don't think there will be anytime soon (in terms of vaccines etc) almost certainly the cures/treatments are going to be made in China, as well.
We need to give up our reliance on China for all essential areas of manufacturing. It will be more expensive, but there's just some things you don't want to trust China with making for you. Not anymore, anyway.
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Without a doubt some people are just born with characteristics that society, at large, would collectively agree could be described as "evil". They may not view it in their minds, in his own twisted way he might be like "You know, other than a few fetishes I have like killing women, I'm really a great guy otherwise!" and when it extends to other people with severe wiring issues like, being attracted to children for instance, a lot of them likely don't view what they're doing as "evil" either in spite of everyone else basically universally agreeing that they're wired to do something evil. They think they're out there just pursuing what they're attracted to like everyone else, which is true if you think about it, but their attractions/fetishes are wired in such a way they don't align with society's or the law's values therefore they're inherently "evil" in our mind. And I agree with that, so yeah I do think once you get that out of the way, some people are born with the capacity and urge to hurt things, and destroy things, and people, for fun. There's too many examples of people rising over bad circumstances and environments or situations to be like "Oh, that's why they did it". I think it might have just shaped them into being a more extreme version of whatever it was they were underneath that all along.
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If you look at the history of the founding of America, you can understand why we might take it personally that their response to an oppressive government is to go to 'Murica. We didn't have that option, faced with an oppressive government we fought back, overthrew it, and replaced it with something better. They made their choice to go somewhere they weren't welcome en masse, doing absolutely fuck all to solve the problem itself as irresponsible as that is (if you were too sick to walk thousands of miles you're still living in conditions worse than "concentration camps", I guarantee for all the healthy that made the journey there are several who were left for dead because they couldn't be carried, etc.) and now they're being held in detention centers that are akin to "concentration camps" in the eyes of liberals everywhere. That's actually insulting to the survivors and victims of the actual, real Holocaust itself. We're doing what we can for people that don't belong here and they're lucky they're even getting that, but this idea that we're providing the dole for everyone who has enough energy to fucking walk here is an idea that is going to be reversed by the time Trump is done in 2024. Yes, he's getting re-elected. Accept it now, none of the Democrats in the race currently stand even the slightest chance at defeating him.
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It's really unfortunate but the reality is it's a proxy war between the West (primarily America and countries influenced by America) and the East which of course is Russia and the former USSR. It may as well be America and the West vs. Russia, but we can't conveniently do that and we don't want any of our soldiers or people to suffer. Ukraine is just a tool we're using to fight this war for us. So from that standpoint, it makes absolute sense that Putin is now talking about using nuclear weapons. It's terrible, but it makes sense especially if you play devil's advocate and look at it from his perspective. The people of Ukraine are the pawns in this entire thing and the media narrative is absolutely catering to that perspective where if you don't do anything but clap as we send billions worth of equipment and weapons over there and we do it from the guise of "support" when really, we're arming the dogs we have in this fight to defeat our enemy which is and has always been Russia. The reality is, Russia knows that if it DID lose Ukraine, it has lost the doorway into and out of Europe. Russia has no real economy of its own, it's biggest export is oil and for the longest time it's depended on Ukraine and pipelines through Ukraine to transport it to its customers, which are primarily in Europe. It not only loses the pipelines, it loses its last strategical bastion in the form of the geography of Ukraine itself. If Ukraine joins NATO which at this point it looks like it does, Russia will basically have to kowtow to NATO and it won't even have a choice in the matter anymore which is why it decided to attack when it did. It's just a real shame, but that's the long and short of it. Ukraine is being used by the West to fight what's really our battle for us.
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It's like you know how when you go to Thanksgiving and there's always like the older, confused gentleman who has opinions, clearly, because he won't shut up but he never actually says anything. It's like if that guy was the most powerful man on the planet, with access to nuclear codes, etc.
Biden is going to freak out one day like "Oh man, where did I put it?" and the secret service is like "What's the problem Mr. President?" and then he says "it's the dagnabbin' nuclear football. I had it here right next to my remote, I was watching Tiger King, and then after my bowl of ice cream I fell asleep and now I can't seem to find the thing. What is this malarkey?"
And then the secret service agents look at each other, and then at Biden in his whitey tighties with dried up ice cream on his chest and bits of M&M's and cookie dough, and then they point underneath him and say "Sir, you're sitting on it."
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Bernie can't even tell you how his own plan will work, besides stealing money from other people, raising taxes, and defunding the military. Not even TYT are feeling that good about their prospects.
I really do pray Bernie is the nominee, though, to beget the same level of sorrow as the other video which is now a classic in my eyes where TYT wallow in their own tears after losing in 2016. "After doze poll numbers"
Trump's got record unemployment numbers, the economy is in a better place arguably than it's ever been. Trump defeated ISIS when Obama held the military's arms behind their back. Trump made more changes in prison policy than a black man ever did whilst in office. He tricked Iran into defeating themselves. He's winning the trade war against China and confronting their policy of currency manipulation head on as opposed to just allowing it like everyone else. There is absolutely nothing negative besides "public opinion" about some of the things he says whereas most people view him as an Andrew Jackson type who doesn't hide behind his euphemisms and other things. Is he perfect? No. But he's doing things. I just wait for him to address infrastructure then he may be the best of all time, a short term thing that would create lots of short term jobs but it does need to be done.
But out of all the candidates I hope it''s Bernie Sanders. If the reports are true, that's who Russia wants as well. And they don't want him because they want Bernie, let me assure you of that LOL
Can't wait.
Final edit: Only liberal polls are showing Bernie ahead in a theoretical election if it were being held today. The #1 thing that will cause Bernie to lose the election is his stance on socialism and communism as well as increasingly revealing comments he's made in defense of one of the worst communist regimes in history, Cuba. Moderates will not vote for him when it comes down to that.
Besides, you all should've learned your lesson about polling data and how it translates to the real thing by now. SMH
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People keep pointing to the Afghan military basically just throwing their guns down immediately.
If people actually thought nation building and the pursuit of Democracy in a place like Afghanistan would actually work, they do not understand the region or its people and this was bound to happen one day, one way or another, whether it was today, five years ago or five years from now. The outcome would ALWAYS have been the same.
They do not want us there. They never have. At best they just sort of allowed it, and in the military's case they were like "Sure, give us all this world class equipment (then leave it 20 years from now when you abandon us). Give us all this world class training. Give us everything you have under the pretense that once you leave we'll pick up where you left off" but here is the kicker -- they never intended to do that. In fact I would go as far as saying the Taliban was encouraging people to join this new "Afghan military program" so that way they can receive the benefit of all the training and tactics.
TL;DR -- we have literally just trained the Taliban to fight like us and we've left behind all kinds of toys and equipment they actually know how to use now. It's genius. We lost the war, we lost trillions of dollars, and we just trained our enemy to fight us down the road. Like honestly they are laughing their asses off at us right now and for good reason. Anyone who actually ever thought this would work is dreaming.
And a bonus note, I can't stand Donald Trump but even he had the wherewithal to realize that it's better to destroy the stuff we left behind if it's too expensive to move it. If the Taliban was a threat before, they're a super threat now because they have the benefit of our training now as well. It's not that they can't fight or wouldn't fight -- they were never loyal to us to begin with. You have to understand that.
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It's actually pretty badass, I don't see anything wrong with it.
It's kind of like how professional football players used to not make any money, these guys now know the risks and they know how much they stand to make. So when they get injured, it's almost like an unspoken contract with the Devil. You made a deal with him, you know that at any time he can come collect, and when he does you can't even be all that mad besides you got what you did while you could.
Translate ALL of this over to the battlefield versus the football field, suddenly you now have guys as they pointed out when they get killed or captured, there isn't even so much of an emotional side effect from people beyond the person's immediate family themselves. They weren't someone who volunteered, no in fact those soldiers are SAFER because of these guys. I know it sounds crazy but I legitimately think some people love being in war. Like they said in that movie "Blackhawk Down" I believe.
Some people are self-described War Junkies. They sign up repeatedly for conflict after conflict not just because it pays, but because they love it. They love fighting. They love everything there is about the military, and being private not only increases your profits it gives you more control over that entire aesthetic and lifestyle. No standard government issue anything anymore, you use what you want. But yeah if you get killed or captured, don't expect there to be a national parade.
Overall, I think it's great for everyone involved and it frees up military personnel to stay at home and protect THIS country versus going anywhere and everywhere else. I mean ideally there'd be no war at all, especially in the context of American warfare which is so normal now it's almost pervasive. But considering we've now been in Iraq and Afghanistan for the better part of 20 years and there's really no clear end in sight, if this is the best solution to that problem then so be it.
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It used to be I think one of the dirtiest secrets in Hollywood that people, I should say, but especially women, have known there's multiple paths to the top in theory. You can be the kind of person who goes to all the auditions and like attends all the classes and seminars, makes contacts in that way while supporting yourself with two jobs somehow in the meantime.
OR you could fuck Harvey Weinstein, for instance. Let Bill Cosby drug you and have sex with you. It was "Quid Pro Quo" and I think honestly whether it's all revealed one day or not, I think Hollywood was built around this concept it's just taken about a century for I think the politics and the technology especially that we can scrutinize people for things not just that they're saying or doing today, but things they said or did years ago.
I am not saying all people in Hollywood fuck their way to the top, I do think that option is available and has been for a long time but this #MeToo thing might actually make people apprehensive to engage in those kinds of practices anymore, lest they wind up in jail like Weinstein, but I am here to tell you that Bill Cosby and Weinstein are FAR from the only powerful people in Hollywood who have done that sort of thing.
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GoodFellas is the more realistic mob movie. It's also depicting the mob in a more "modern" light. The Godfather basically showed Mafiosos to be virtuous, chivalrous, knights with a code of ethics and principles of honor. People in the mafia basically are all doing things in a conspiratorial like way to engage in things the government have said should be illegal and then pedal those products/services to people anyway if there is in fact a demand for it in spite of it's illegal nature. Quick, easy money, till you get caught, but that's the contract that basically every organized criminal in history has signed. If you can't handle the thought of eventually going to prison one day, then you need to stop selling your little bullshit dime or dub sacks and go to college. If you in your heart of hearts can look yourself in the mirror and be like "I am willing to go to prison for this" then do it but you may as well go balls to the wall with it and start dealing more in weight vs playing it small thinking you'll be more likely to slide if you stay small enough. If they want you bad enough, they're going to get you one way or another.
Anyway I don't think The Godfather is that good of a movie, and that's an unpopular opinion I realize. I am not saying I hate it, I just think GoodFellas is by far the better mob film. But it tells the tale of a fuckup/rat in the Mafia, Michael Franzese is very much like Michael Corleone, but really that and the fact that the business was kind of forced on him because his father got sick -- Vito never wanted Michael in the business, but nobody else was up for the challenge but Michael so over time we see Michael transform into this cold-hearted motherfucker and I don't think Michael Franzese ever got to THAT point. Then again, I have no idea the full extent of ALL the things this guy is responsible for doing or ordering.
I do think Franzese deserves his own movie, if only because it will be able to say something The Godfather never could -- Based On A True Story.
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San Francisco has been going down this path a long time. It was one of the first cities basically to cow to the drug epidemic, when they had an epidemic of heroin use so bad that they actually made a documentary about it ("Dark Side of the Street", an OLD HBO documentary that covers the lives of a few heroin addicts in the city over the course of a few years -- it's great, if not sad). One of the first cities if not the actual first in America to have a needle exchange program. Needle exchange programs ARE good things, overall, so I am not really criticizing that aspect of things but the flip side of the coin is while it does lower the rates of HIV and Hepatitis spreading, it also gives the perfect place for all the city's various junkies to come and meet. Share dealer contacts, score together, get ripped off together, etc. It's just like everything else in the world, you gotta take the bad with the good.
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Welp, early on George RR Martin offered each of the cast members to tell them an important secret we won't know till close to the very end, some didn't want to know like Kit Harington I believe, others like the actor who played Bran did and he just revealed he's known he was going to be the King by the end for basically this entire time because George TOLD him in the very beginning. So yeah, to all the people who are mad that it was Bran after "he did nothing" the whole show (I thought his arc was interesting, I just wish he had used his powers more effectively like warg into the dragon or something, when the Night King fell I swear to God I thought that's what he was gonna do) it's the way George is gonna end it, too. That is, if we get the remaining two books at all.
I think Bran should've taken over the Night King's dragon by warging into it, something not done by a 3ER in history (or not for a long ass time anyway), thus allowing Jon to go after the Night King and not spend the rest of the battle cowering from the dragon. I think if he did that, people would like Bran more. If Jon managed to fight his way through all the generals cause he's Jon Snow burning with the power of Azor Ahai as his sword begins to glow slightly more and more as he carves through them, he's hacking through them with a fury we've never seen before, finally he makes it to the Night King and has met his match. They engage in a duel that lasts quite some time, but Jon can't get any hits in on him and he is in fact apparently losing the battle. Meanwhile, intense choral music backs this part like the duel between Luke and Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi. It looks like Jon loses but just before the Night King is able to strike the final blow, THEN Arya does what she does. The main reason what she did doesn't make sense is there's no way she ran past all those generals undetected. In this version, JON kills them all so logically speaking it's just the Night King vs Jon until Arya comes in and gets him in the back or whatever, or his actual death can happen just as it did in the show from that point, cause that knife trick set up last season WAS cool, it's just the battle leading up to it kind of sucked.
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I don't think he ever intended to actually sue her. If you look at the song in question, according to an article I just read about it that was written in 2019, the song went from 300 listens/views to over 260,000 just in the period of time after he threatened to sue her. Kind of a bottom-feeding strategy considering I think it rubbed most of the people, including these new people who listened to it the first time, the wrong way. If it was meant to drive sales or interest in him, I don't think it did, he just most likely attracted a bunch of people who wanted to see if it was actually a case of plagiarism or not.
And frankly if you think about how progressive and strange the song overall that this unknown guy wrote was, it's telling that the best sounding part of it is the part he's accusing them of having stolen from him. Also, again going back to the "it only had 300 listens beforehand" thing. That would mean she was one of the 300 listens I guess. She's out there perusing and stealing from all sorts of strange sources. No the fact is there's 12 notes on the scale and you can combine them in a variety of ways. It's incredible that there's as much variety in music as there is, but no people are bound to end up sounding similar sometimes. Sometimes it's actually theft, but other times it's just a side effect of the beautiful limitations of music as we know it.
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Nothing criminal will happen to Trump. Regardless of what happens or what he does. I also disagree with the notion that it sets a precedent that no indictments will basically mean that any future president might be more inclined to give in to his worst instincts and/or commit crimes, abusing the power of their office. The problem with that is that precedent has already been set. First with Nixon then with Clinton, basically, but mainly Nixon. And what happened with Nixon? Nothing because he resigned before they could ever charge him with anything and had the Vice President turned President Ford PARDON HIM for any and all crimes he had ever committed.
Dollars to donuts Trump is going to do the same thing. If it becomes clear that the writing is well and truly on the wall for him, he'll just resign and Mike Pence will pull the same move, pardoning him for everything and then what I expect him to do is at the very least start his own news network, considering he and Fox News basically broke up after this last election, if he doesn't take it a step even further and literally start his own political party. This would be bad news for Republicans if he did this, considering he is so divisive there's even a subset of the Republican Party that want him gone, too. Like the Murdochs, apparently (the family that owns Fox News).
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I completely agree. Let Minneapolis be the control subject, and Hollywood be the variable. There's all different kinds of rich people in Hollywood, to such an extent when on the same night Cuba Gooding Jr and Matt Damon both get robbed it can't possibly be a hate crime! Unless you count the hatred of those having money a hate crime, which honestly maybe we can and should explore that, too, after the Purge... I mean, this experiment... ends. At least the purge only lasted what... 24 hours? 12? I wouldn't know, I never saw any of them.
Hollywood is so scared of offending anyone right now that they're just echoing what the plebeians are baying in the streets. "Defund the police? Uhhhh YES absolutely do that immediately... then we can move on, right? OH you want free food and supplies, too, CHAZ? OK got it ... now let's begin the process of .... you want something else? Yes, please, anything!" I think we should absolutely honor their request to contribute to a more egalitarian and social society, let them be the examples we will all... lel, follow one day. You go ahead lefties we'll catch up to you later. not.
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In the eyes of the general public, the civilians and the government especially, criminals like Michael and his father John AKA Sonny are just that. Criminals. The dregs of society. But in THEIR eyes, whether it be them or anyone else who gets involved with organized crime, they're just plying their trade. Al Capone has famously said before that all he was doing was providing a service that people wanted, when talking about bootlegging which was how he made his bones early on. And that if he didn't do it, someone else would. In other words, if it wasn't that he may have chosen to become someone who was involved in another business like banking or stocks or maybe he'd just become a plumber. Because really when you think about it, unless there are innocent bystanders in some instances (which is truly terrible) then dollars to donuts if the mob targets you then you likely were a player in the game yourself. It's just business. I mean I personally see them from more of the same standpoint that the law does, and society, because at it's worst organized crime really is a plight on communities wherever it takes root especially in other ways like loan sharking and extortion, etc., but honestly in these guys mind's they're just doing what they are professionally good at and it just happens to be crime. Take that out of the picture and the remarkable thing is that they're more like normal people than we'd ever like to admit. Such as being such a good father that he never missed one of his son's games. That's just the mark of a good father, taken out of context that the fact is he either has murdered people before or has had them murdered. But again, 99% of the time targets are other criminals and it's pretty much a cardinal sin that will beget punishment from the commission if innocent people do get caught up accidentally or otherwise. The best of them went out of their way to see to it than no harm comes to the innocents.
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"Get back to work."
Breaking Bad is a character study more than anything else. It always has been, always will be, and it's true for each and every single character in the show. Gus represented everything Walt deep down desired to be. The only difference is Gus realized it apparently at a much younger time in his life because he was able to, without the impetus of the cancer diagnosis which is what enabled Walt to finally "Break Bad" to begin with (Episode 1 in my opinion), decide to basically take up crime from an earliER age as a business venture.
I think in that spirit and considering this is a character study it's important to basically take your idea of characters being "completely evil" or "completely good" and throw it out the window.
It may sound shocking to a lot of people who hear this but I actually think Gus was more benevolent than Walter was. Both technically criminals and by extension considered at least traditionally "evil" people, IMO really Gus managed to take an already volatile business and more or less corporatize/automize it, just as you said. Everything ran like clockwork, according to Mike, and the plan would've continued to work probably indefinitely UNLESS Walt managed to "win" that one and kill Gus the way he actually, in fact, did.
I legitimately think the incident with the child was not something he knew about necessarily, I think he was genuinely upset when Jesse told him about it and when he told them to no longer use children I think they took it upon themselves to kill him. As in, it's never specifically stated that Gus actually ordered the child's death. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Maybe the child knew too much, but regardless I just don't think Gus ordered it. Maybe not. We'll never know what Gus's reaction to the situation would've been left unattended, Walt jumped the gun on that one for him (to save Jesse, which was admirable in it's own way) but basically all but committed career suicide with Gus whether he subconsciously knew he wanted to be the boss yet or not.
But the idea that Gus was evil just because he was someone who sold meth (and fried chicken which is also addictive and kills people, in a way anyway :P) and even because he cut Victor's throat in that one scene I think more than anything else Gus did everything he did simply to further his business interests. He was in the business of meth and chicken, if people didn't want these things, there would be no drug war. No drug business. But unlike real kingpins in real life, Gus actually seemed to value peace as well whenever possible, if only because again his #1 motivation was to make money wherever and whenever he could. A true businessman. And as much as possible stay out of the violent aspect of things because the violence was good for no one, but when it did come time to utilize violence to secure his interests he was as good as any of them in effecting "positive" change for themselves.
Drug lords in real life are far more scary than Gustavo Fring was, he actually tried to run his business as peacefully as possible whenever possible because at the end of the day the #1 thing in his mind was growing his business and that also included being able to take care of a work force that all things considered probably included hundreds if not thousands of people. And at the end of the day in his mind, if drugs were so terrible and harmful to people who apparently really, really want them, then it wouldn't be a billions or trillions of dollars a year industry. And if he didn't sell them, someone else would've, he just spent 30 years or so building a logistical network that would make it as safe and as lucrative for himself and his people as possible.
And if Walt didn't come along, he'd probably have lived the rest of his life never getting caught for it. Everything in his organization was taken care of and thought about given the benefit of years and years of preparation and building the Los Pollos Hermanos logistical network which was mainly used for as a distribution chain than it was an actual restaurant, but I guess the chicken was pretty good, too :)
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It's really this simple. The answers to everything lie in Jon's heritage. People are like "Oh so he's the heir to the Iron Throne, it never meant anything?" No it meant everything. It's not that he had a better claim than she did, which actually arguably Gendry had the better claim once legitimized than either of them ever did. It's that they're both Targaryens, and we know that in their lives Targaryens have a coin flip, a 50/50 chance of going good or evil. IF we now know Jon was a Targaryen this entire time, the differences between them couldn't be more clear in retrospect. She did SOME good things, but she did so with a hateful, furious vengeance, and it overtook her. Meanwhile Jon at the end is begging her to give her at least one sign she's not completely lost, to show mercy, and she says something along the lines of what Joffrey said in Season 1 that, something along the lines of "Mercy's for the weak"
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@myredfast When someone says "You're on a list" that normally gets eye-rolls out of me, first off, we're all on at least one list somewhere. That's kind of what I was getting at is first off, you're not just gonna take the bark off the tree and eat it or whatever as this tool before you suggested, saying that nothing transformative was done with it blah blah blah, but ultimately yes it sounds to me like it'd evaporate one way or another leaving only a powder which must then be pressed one way or another -- pill presses came to mind. And yeah those are incredibly expensive. Again, I have no interest in actually doing it myself and I am not even interested in chemistry let alone interested in drugs enough to oversee the fact that I hated chemistry in school. It's just interesting to me to see what people can take from nature and turn into something else entirely, even while understanding that step by step can't and shouldn't be shown. But yeah this guy thinks he's Bill Nye the science guy, he's honestly more in line with a cantankerous, smelly vagina wart than that, IMHO.
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He should've left it at paragraph one of two.
Paragraph one, he acknowledges the statement by Anthony Rapp, he apologizes for it, maybe leave the drunken bits out of it but that's not a necessary thing necessarily. Apologize again, and be done with it.
But then he attaches the paragraph two which almost seems like something he copy pasted from his "when I choose to come out" note on his iPhone or whatever. It literally feels like he's almost like saying "well, ah. I feel better after apologizing, so much better I think it's time you guys knew the truth! I am in fact gay! Go ahead I will wait for the slowclap to build."
Like he almost doesn't even realize what he did is not just fucking wrong, it's illegal, and he doesn't seem to get it yet or something. I guess he was drunk when he responded within like an hour or whatever at the original outset of all of this but I bet his PR guy is about ready to fire him, not the other way around, if only for making the rash decision to post the dumbest "coming out" statement I've ever seen in my entire life.
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I guarantee off camera if he like was greeted at the door by Michael who was just in his socks, he asked "shoes on or off?". For one thing he looks like he comes from a family or region that would have an opinion on it, so it shouldn't be a foreign idea to him. I know me personally, the first thing that would pop in my mind as I noticed is: "OK, on a cultural level among other things, I am going to ask if he has a preference on the shoe thing or not -- if only to save my own life, cause, yeah, that's how Mafia works.". Cause some cultures I know like Indian people (well, I had a friend who dated an Indian chick -- she was hot af, too -- but the one or two times I went over there it was a shoes off house for sure) ask that you leave your shoes at the door. But in America no it's not even close to being a standardized thing, I know feet are generally smellier out of shoes than in them but it really all just depends what the priorities of the homeowner are I guess.
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@teamtwiistz It's hard to say if they really wanted to beat them or not, I think there's a strategic advantage to having something like them around if you really think about it, but our main interests were simply to occupy at the time. Period. Not to defeat the Taliban, even if that's what they were saying was the goal. Meanwhile, it just wasn't being put in the faces of the people, otherwise if the news was covering the war like they were back during Vietnam it'd probably have had to end a lot sooner. They learned their lesson back then, and yeah the state of our own news is not that great either. It's just not censored news, so still better, but yeah like they're not gonna be talking about wars that have been going on for over a decade you know, let alone wars that would be won. But make no mistake, if another Adolf Hitler came around, they'd formulate a strategy to actually defeat you.
Go ask ISIS. They're a shadow of what they were before, but again, it's easier to fight an enemy in uniform than it is to fight "sheep herders in Afghanistan". We took that threat as seriously as you make it sound. Don't act shocked.
Second comment, TL;DR. Whine on, commy-capitalist boy. Whine on.
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@teamtwiistz Again, we're not trying to take over China. I don't know why you keep harping on that. As far as an enemy in uniform vs. an enemy not in uniform, we're talking the difference between the PLA and "sheep herders in Afghanistan". We take one a bit more seriously than the other, obviously. We're talking hypotheticals here anyway. As in, "China vows to respond to the US's new laws" -- ok. Do what, exactly? Blah blah blah, you're a good little Zergling. I am sure they will factor that comment into your social credit rating. LOL
It's less of a war and more of an occupation, when it comes to Afghanistan. You act like that's the only one we were involved in, too. SMH.
Yes, I'd rather have the state of my country's news than yours. You get only state run news, unless you use a VPN and hop onto all the different options I have as far as informing myself. I get access to all the news in the world without the need to use fucking TOR to get it, including news from your own country, but I don't bother because it's about as propagandistic as North Korea's own media which is fucking hilarious when you have the time and want to watch it on your VPN version of YouTube.
China's got a bigger economy on paper than the US does. IT IS more capitalistic than us. Jesus Christ, you're brainwashed. LOL how are you going to do that and still have class systems, like there's rich people and poor people, but we're communist? No you're not. You're divided into haves and have nots, just like the fucking United States of America, when it comes to money and resources. And actually the dark side of Communism enters the equation when we realize that the have nots in your country are nothing better than glorified slaves. Which we've not had for nearly 180 years.
China is the most hypocritical country in the entire world. And I come from America, so that's saying something. But at the end of the day, I'd still rather be from here than from fucking totalitarian dictatorship communist Red fucking China.
So, yeah, you have a slave economy with rich people and poor people BUT is not the spirit of communism to SHARE the wealth? Of course it is! But it doesn't work, has never worked, and never will work. China is as capitalistic if not more than America is, the only difference is we'll tell you straight to your face and everyone else in the world that we are capitalistic. As long as there is a class system with rich and poor people, then at the very least it's not really a communist country, is it? Jesus Christ, stay brainwashed you fucking tool LOL I'll be sure to report that you were a good little commie to your overlords though.
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@teamtwiistz I am very sure that the literature has been re-written many times to bastardize the meaning of what communism is meant to be. Here I am talking to someone who believes that they have what was the best economy in the world but they're not a capitalistic country. They're in fact communistic, even though it completely doesn't resemble what a communist country is meant to look like. I am very sure the rules have been re-written to trick the gullible and the powerless in your country to thinking it's equitable. But I've made no qualms about the kind of person I am talking to. My only compliment is your English is better than my Chinese, but that's because you've been forced to learn my language and not the other way around.
Mine is the language of capitalism and of business. Something your country has realized it's far more fruitful to be a part of than to keep chasing a false communistic ideal.
So now all you have is a country where they've kept the controlling aspects of communism with the complete lack of emphasis on human rights, but they're also now using people in their factories essentially as slaves to make products for people like me in the West and you've made a fortune doing this. Off the backs of slaves in the "lower class" aspect, the Hellish part of this completely equitable and communistic society where we're all supposed to share everything. What a joke.
Do me a favor before you fuck off, enlighten us all here then if your country is still communist in the sense that everyone understood communism to be in it's original inception and controls more GDP than the Godfather of capitalism itself, the USA, while off of it's lowest class citizens like slaves to do said enriching of themselves, explain to me how it's communist then when resources are clearly not being shared in such a way that people in Hong Kong are desperate not to join your shithole of a situation? Explain it, then, how China has completely changed the definition of what communism actually is, because it's not a communist country in actuality, not by definition. But like every other instance of communism they DO change the rules, they do write new literature that makes it sound like it's a fair deal to all the uneducated people that are victimized by it. Who wouldn't know any better because they aren't ALLOWED to? You tell me, commie boy.
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We're not talking about slander or libel here, though. It'd be impossible for that to occur because you don't know who I am, and I don't know who you are. But let's say for example I did know who you are, let's say you're a Nazi supporter and I have proof of it. SO LONG AS I have proof then I can actually say these things about you, and that would be in the pursuit of the truth which as you say is protected speech. Fair enough so far. Let's say I go around saying you are a Nazi supporter though WITHOUT any proof. Even if it was true, if I didn't have any proof to the claims and you decided to sue me, regardless of whether it's true or not, that speech would NOT be protected. But this is an entirely different area of the law regarding speech and it deals on a personal level. The fact that you have a bunch of people who don't know what they are talking about saying these shootings never happened, that there were no deaths let alone in some cases NO BIRTHS to back up the claims, it's a grey area but I would think that if any of the claims made by these truthers are actually false and somebody did want to sue for damaging their reputations they could. I think in large part this hasn't happened because a) lawsuits are expensive and b) conspiracy theorists/truthers are usually poor, not worth suing. Can't bleed a stone, that sort of thing. But no basically generally speaking "the truth" isn't necessarily protected speech, particularly when it comes to personal accusations and floating them in the press for the public to consume, but if you can actually prove what you are saying to be true (conspiracy theorists never can) then you can say whatever you want that reflects that truth otherwise. But if you just come out expressing the "truths" that you personally believe without any justification or proof whatsoever, if you come out and say Hugh Hefner is a Satanist and he molests children and animals without anything to back it up, Hugh Hefner then has the right to sue you into oblivion EVEN IF IT IS IN FACT ACTUALLY TRUE. So no, not all free speech regarding the truth is protected, if that was the case then there'd be a lot less powerful, deceitful people playing the game of life than there are today. Don't be an idiot.
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@carlrood4457 I do think the tonal shift in how war movies are presented to us has changed, like The Dirty Dozen, MASH and The Great Escape are ... less drama/action war epics, and in a way almost more like comedies, especially MASH, etc.
Having said ALL of that though, I still don't think there's any movies out there that are going out of their way like "This is great, war. This is something humanity should strive to be at all the time, in a constant state of murder, destruction and savagery where no matter which side you're on, it's unfortunate that it came to this to begin with and we all hope it ends soon, etc etc etc."
Even the most lighthearted of war films to me still takes the position that war isn't something anyone wants to be a part of, so from that standpoint my point still stands. I think if all war films are NOT anti-war, then there's something inherently wrong with us, especially people who are like these supposed "pro-war films", along with the guy who made them.
Even a war like WW2, a war that absolutely 100% NEEDED to be fought, a more modern example it may be for sure but Band of Brothers gets it right. That was a miserable one for both sides, even if you take the horrors of the Holocaust away from the equation, I think Band of Brothers does the best job of showing the highs (which aren't very high, like, having a chocolate bar to share with your foxhole buddies is a high point -- watching them die in your arms when it's 20 below freezing outside is a low point, both of which it shows us)
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The only people who support Sanders are children and morons. He may as well be running for high school president, promising basically a B+ average to all students regardless of performance, attendance or merit, with unlimited free time for all students and a guaranteed allowance of $15 a day. "How are you gonna pay for all of this?" Vote for me and we'll figure it out latah! I am not gonna give you every nickel and dime..." because he fucking can't. I understand it sounds good, that's how he's gotten as far as he has, speaking in a way that sounds good. He has no tangible plan beyond that, though, besides "take it from the billionaires and the defense budget then tax the wealthy!" which would precede a stock market crash, basically, because anyone with money will leave before he has a chance to do anything like that. Anyway the establishment won't let it be him, mainly because they know that he has no chance vs Trump where Biden has a fraction of a chance.
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The immigration lawyer is lying if he says he doesn't believe that there are certain kids who are routinely brought over the border as fake children of people, usually who pay a sum of money, to "rent" the child and to cross into the border. The child is then shipped back to Central America to make the trip over, and over, and over again. They have found a way to exploit immigration laws and it's a cottage industry in South and Central America, if he says he isn't aware of it, he's lying. Or ignorant. It really isn't talked about enough, though. Modern illegal immigration techniques as a business require children and of course documents are not as important (like birth records etc) because they can always claim "Sorry, we don't know what that is, remember, we're coming from shitholes after all wink wink, but yes in spite of the fact he's crossed this border over 50 times this is in fact my 10 year old son... uhhhh Pablo? Yeah Pablo"
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It's basically like being a losing gambler... times 8 billion. That's really what he was doing, first off he lied when he said he wasn't going to use customer funds for anything but what he did was he took the money secretly, invested some of it when it wasn't rightfully his to do so, and he did it extremely recklessly as well so that when he did lose out, every penny he put into it was a losing gamble. It wasn't his money to do it with though. Then of course whispers start generating that there may not be enough capital for everyone to get their money out if they wanted to, and sure enough, whispers become panic really fast just like the market crash preceding the Great Depression and subsequent bank run where everyone was trying to get their money out at the same time only to find out that the bank didn't have enough money to grant them their withdrawals. If his gamble worked out like Coffeezilla said, everyone would be none the wiser and may even be singing his praises, but if it didn't... well, it didn't. And now he's caught. It's fraud. Depending on which judge he gets in the Southern District of New York court system, he could even get life in prison for this. At a minimum, he's getting 20 years. Anything over ~28 years in that court system is a life sentence.
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He knows his audience well lol. Just kidding, no this is really cool, I was like "it's all well and good if he personally wants to take a pay cut, I hope his crew aren't necessarily mandated to do the same" but he actually does say in the video his crew and everyone else still get paid the same, but HE takes the pay cut. And it won't matter to him cause he already makes a lot of money. For a conservative, and he is a Trump Republican, he's actually taking a greater initiative than Bezos ever has, it's just Bezos is the richest man in the world right now, a Democrat, if Kid Rock had the same net worth his little drop in the bucket would be at least eight, probably nine figures, really giving credence to the idea of "trickle down economics" where it only trickles down, in fact, if the people who have the money to begin with ALLOW it to.
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They are about to start throwing some people under the bus, is basically what this means. This kind of scandal absolutely, 100% goes all the way up to the very top but UNLESS a VERY brave person is willing to talk about how the CEO abused them and, here's the most important part, TOTALLY REJECT the millions upon millions of dollars that he or she will be offered to simply settle the case, sign a document saying they relinquish the right to a) sue again and b) speak on it again, unless they reject the money and speak up anyway, the powers that be will remain unaffected. As far as the other people who were simply following the culture at the office, they'll likely be sacrificed to save the most powerful people in the company and if civil or even criminal charges come as a result of it, they may even go to freaking jail. Not the CEO and other people of REAL power at the company, they can afford to basically pay their way out of anything. The like average Joe employees engaging in it, they can't.
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@farhan007 Mechanical engineer is something you should be going to a specialized school for that. Anything with the word "Engineer" at the end of it is invariably going to be a better thing to invest your time in than any of the other routes you can take in school. But that's only a fraction of the various paths and routes you can take. Even majoring in Economics would be better than majoring in Business, but do they tell students that? No, why? Because it's a fucking scam. If you do go to college, major in something that is going to lead to a good entry level job. Also, be sure you can finish it because even racking up a semester's worth of tuition is going to sting you in the ass when and if you do drop out.
Blah blah blah, TL;DR for the rest of it, I'm not going to argue with you.
Liberal arts degrees are one of the examples of degrees that I think fall into the "Ha, stupid student, we got them right where we want them" type of degrees. If you wanna major in that, please get a full ride before doing so, as spending a penny towards that is spending too much as is. But your argument is "they seem smarter and more balanced after finishing the degree" .... yes because we know how well that puts food on the fucking table. You'd be better off staying at home and engaging in ponderous thought for free than going into a Liberal Arts program with this idea in your head like 50% of the people going to college right now currently have that "It'll be fine! I'm going to college, doing what I was told I needed to do to be successful!" and then they realize not all degrees are the same.
Yes, if you're paying for an education, get something you can use. And to your credit, the one example you did mention happens to be one of the better fields. Also good are Computer Science, for instance, but that's not for everyone -- neither is mechanical engineering. No, it's far easier I think for the average person to go to school for Liberal Arts. Hence, my point that not everyone should be going to college, it's not just a waste of their time, it's a waste of money.
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It's been pointed out by others but Tyrion wasn't going to get a fair trial, no matter what. His father hated him for being a dwarf, basically, and being "embarrassing" to him his entire life, as well as being the one during whose childbirth his beloved wife Joanna (Tyrion's mother) died. His sister hated him I think for similar reasons, but there's something else psychologically going on there as well, but I think it started with the death of her mother then yeah it just boiled down to embarrassment on their family name, or perceived embarrassment, but also Cersei Lannister (his sister) I think more than anything else resented being born a woman in what's clearly a man's world, using satellite men in her life to run things (poorly and emotionally) behind the scenes, like her son Joffrey and even Jaime. But no, Tyrion was the scapegoat. I do not think for a second that Tywin believed Joffrey was killed by Tyrion. Cersei may have believed it, but that's because she's a temperamental, unreasonable person, by character.
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The fact that he isn't talking suggests that he does know what happened to her, and it's not good. She is almost certainly dead. Some people have suggested that they had a contentious relationship, some have even suggested that she was a bit overbearing at times, maybe even abusive. That doesn't justify killing her, though. I understand, shit happens and it's very possible what happened happened in the moment. These people just want to know what happened to their daughter right now, even if it's bad news. I can't imagine the pain they're going through right now where there is still a glimmer of hope but logically they know that they're probably going to have their hearts broken in the end. But it's their right to know so they can not only lay her to rest but begin the process of grieving. Oh, and then let the wheels of the justice system turn, obviously.
Some people have suggested that she may have committed suicide either during or after one of their explosive fights. OK, maybe. I think he'd be willing to talk if that was the case, though. The only way he wouldn't be is if he told his lawyer that's what happened and now his lawyer is insisting that he clam up and say nothing because, especially now, nobody is going to believe that. Devil's advocate here for a second, she could be one of those vindictive types of people who was like "Well, if I can't have you then I'll kill myself but make it look like you did it" which is why I think they need to get access to their cell phone records IMMEDIATELY. I mean they need to look at their entire text conversation from beginning to end to try to get a better look into what their relationship was like. He doesn't need to speak for them to get access to that.
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@NJtheawesome I guarantee it does sometimes. This is Canada you're talking about, year long, either way IDK where you are from currently but me personally I get aggrieved when I have to sit outside in the mid 40s. That's when I double up bundles to smoke. And that's about the only benefit you're getting other than having to share a piece of land with a bunch of freeloaders and shitbirds and varying levels of drug addicts.
There was a similar experiment done in New Zealand in the 70s where basically these people disagreed with the concept of owning land so collectively they all pooled their money and bought a piece of land with the express intention of making it so NOONE owned it. It was fine the first 20-30 years, but then guess what happens? Human nature invariably kicks in one way or another and people begin carving off more and more of a chunk of that pie for themselves. By force, usually. Idealism only exists in your head, in your ideas, but you quickly forget the meaning of idealism when you're hungry and/or you're cold, or maybe you're too hot, maybe you get tired of having to run to the local Wal Mart for even the most basic supplies that the rest of society take for granted now (you big shot campers you, LMFAO, roughing it... at Wal Mart).
Look you'd be better off getting an RV or one of these trucks people convert into living spaces in the back (lots of great videos about that on YouTube) THEN drive out there and live out of your vehicle. You may make a friend or two as well by being the only one with running hot water (if you have the sense to set your truck/van/rv up with such amenities). Make a trade out of it, oh wait no! That's too human naturey of you, much better to just give it all away for free, at all hours of day or night. Count me the fuck out, that sounds like a nightmare. lol
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@NJtheawesome 1) Don't give a fuck. Sorry.
2) Again, don't care.
3) Human nature is and has always been the problem with these idealistic experiments. The only thing that stays the same is that there's always morons saying the same thing "Oh well they messed it up, we'll do it right though! You'll see!" It may take 10 years, it may take 50 years, but whether it's communism or it's a little faggot camp in the woods in the middle of nowhere in Canada, dollars to donuts human nature will always get in the way of idealism, which is again just that, unicorns that fart rainbows and all those niceties etc. Remember, one scoop if you take a piss, two if you take a shit.
4) No.
5) Yes, that's why I like to live as close to the supply center as possible. It's in direct line with a deal that everyone in civilization makes, you will need to go to the store, the closer you live to it the better. The closer you surround yourself with the reasonable ability to use those amenities is even better. Taking an RV is something people have done already at Poole's Land, just saying, you laugh at it as if you're already mastering the art of removing dingleberries because you're more a landsman or woman or he-she or whatever the fuck, you're gonna really show the man by sleeping outside. OK, I said it before, more power to you.
6) What? Who gives a fuck?
7) Again, more power to you, I just think it's funny when I see all these people preaching about the simple life and attaching this superiority to it when really you're just living in a higher quality homeless camp (and that really is debatable considering Seattle is arguably the greatest homeless camp there ever was but I digress). And then they fucking admit they still rely on one of the largest corporate giants on the face of the planet, Wal-Mart, to get just what they can't out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Which I am guessing amounts to just about everything they need there, it's not like they have a blacksmith or something to make their tools. Certainly not the chainsaw Poole doesn't know how to operate.
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This is exactly why Democracy is dangerous. Even a representative democracy like we have, it still relies on the people being able to make rational choices about who they want to represent them. It's not entirely their fault, the cobweb of information represented by all of the various media outlets with their own various agendas and biases makes it basically impossible for people to figure out a) what's true and what's not true, or what's being manipulated anyway and b) how they feel about it. I do think it's designed not only to intentionally confuse people, but more importantly to drive a wedge between the two ideologies that started at just disagreement, then it became resentment, and now they're actually taking it to the point that they are scaring people. These Republicans, they're not evil people, but they're scared because their network of choice has them convinced that the US is embroiled in a socialist coup that they need to fight for, and that is what led to January 6. Here's the thing -- it won't end there. That was just the beginning. I do not think our country will survive the next election without an extremely violent incident, regardless of what happens.
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@saraa.7760 I think that one way or another the living will prevail again this time, too. From what I understand every time the Long Night happens, Azor Ahai will be there in one way or another. My guess is that whoever is Azor Ahai has to either defeat the Night's King OR maybe even make a deal with him. Or even sacrifice himself so that everyone else may live. Anyway, I am well aware of the Age of Heroes, and I literally just said it wouldn't be the end all be all "100% peace mode" solution. There will always be conflict in a place like Westeros. But that being said The War of the Five Kings and every single thing that's happened as a result of it has literally almost bled the entire continent dry and brought it to it's knees, which is why if someone like Jon wins I think he'd look at what all the Iron Throne wrought for the ENTIRE realm and realize that it's no good, it's never been any good, it's too much of a liability lest one bad seed wind up sitting on it again. I disagree that it was bloodier before Aegon's Conquest. I mean if you were arguing that in an ideal world like one where there's a good/benevolent/strong King sitting on it to keep the entire realm in a state of lawfulness and peace then sure, but we've not seen one example of a King like that from Episode 1. It's either someone like Robert who is good at winning thrones but terrible at ruling on them or any number of ambitious and in many cases ill intentioned people vying for it, not a single one of them with a selfless or "benevolent" intention in their hearts. The Iron Throne brings out the worst in people. Clearly, even Ned Stark himself described the place in which it was located as a "Den of Vipers".
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@saraa.7760 Lord Bolton was having to do what he was doing in secret, though. It wasn't until Ned Stark was taken care of that he really began coming out of the woodwork, then when all the Starks were dead and King's Landing was under Joffrey's control they finally stopped caring who knew if they were flaying people again or not. Nobody was there to stop them. So the presence of a good lord inhibits the behaviors of the bad lords. Whatever ratio of good to evil lords, I guess.
But Roose is kind of an extreme example at the same time, just as Ned Stark is. Get a sociopath like Joffrey or Ramsay on the throne and you'd get predictable results. Too much power for one person. That's just the way I feel about it.
But yeah there will likely still be some connection between the Kingdoms, a council of sorts makes sense, a place where they can all air their grievances with each other etc. and make their wishes of each other known publicly. A seven member council, where there will be a representative from each region maybe. Something like that.
I think for the most part in times of peace especially someone like Roose for example, or Balon Greyjoy, if they are caught doing bad things then invariably some of the more just lords will rally a cause to stop them, whether it's out of friendship or even like a "we can't allow this to continue happening" or whatever. There will still be laws and alliances and therefore people to enforce them, it just won't all fall under the definitive authority of one person -- whoever that person may be.
The Iron Throne is only as good as the person who sits upon it, it just so happens nobody in the show so far has been "good" except for Tommen. And he was just controlled like a puppet by his family until he ultimately killed himself because he was heartbroken about Margaery.
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@videosdinder4870 Yeah well that was also different, there was mass looting and people were literally killing each other. Also, yeah, we actually have guns here, some of the protesters were engaging in firefights with cops. It's within the rights of law enforcement to shoot back if being shot at. Also yeah like Waco that's considered a sour note in history, besides those riots were racially motivated. You don't have the slightest idea of what racially motivated conflict is in China, when everyone in China is fucking Chinese. But yeah, riots are riots. Most of the deaths during that particularly awful riot were at the hands of the rioters themselves, another reason the police stepped in with deadly force. Do understand the difference between peaceful protest and the fucking LA riots. Apples and oranges.
As far as Ferguson itself, though, one person died during the protests IIRC but it wasn't due to law enforcement. At any rate it's never state sponsored killing, if cops use force unjustly in this country they will be charged and prosecuted for it. If they're deemed to have used force justly, they're not prosecuted.
It's far from what they're mulling in China right now where Beijing will give the OK to use lethal force and there will be no due process as a result whatsoever. THAT is the difference. We've never had a case of peaceful protest where the government has authorized lethal force.
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@Darkdaej Yeah well I do think they gave Jon Snow his story elements in the show, they even gave him his name "Aegon" which if Rhaegar ever did have a son named Aegon and WAS killed, it's not likely he'd ever have another and give him that name, too. I thought Jon Snow's Targ name revealed was going to be Jahaerys, 100%. For a lot of reasons. But no I think in Season 5 is when they really started showing diminishing quality and also started poorly choosing storylines to feature. IMO. Like the Sand Snakes, why not just scrap them all cause they couldn't possibly do them all to begin with and give the rest of that to Quentyn and Jon Connington? The entire trajectory of the show would've changed for the better. But Season 5 is really where it all started going downhill as a book reader. It's still good, but I am frequently asking myself "Where the fk are they even going with this and why hasn't this other thing appeared yet? Oh wait, it's not going to is it..."
At this point we just have to take GRRM on his word, he says his #1 priority now is Winds. OK, well just as you said it's been almost a decade. And the man himself is getting older, he's almost written himself into a hole I don't think he knows how to get out of, it's so complex, and beyond that I think his #1 fear and it's probably well justified is that he's afraid people are going to hate him when it finally ends. All the theories and people trying to draw connections and like religiously believing they are right in how it ends, like, he probably low key is afraid he's going to start a Civil War or something among the fans if he does release them all. It's just gotten too big, too soon. I just wish he'd hire a ghost writer then edit them and call it a day, I think that's the only way we're seeing the finished version one way or another.
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@prncssbby He doesn't have a single symptom of PTSD. "Some are asymptomatic" this is a psychological condition, it's not fucking Covid-19. If you are asymptomatic with a psychological condition, you don't have the condition. The only thing I will say is that sometimes people with PTSD don't realize it's PTSD until years after the trauma occurred. It doesn't have to pertain to warfare, either, you can have PTSD after your house burns down. After you get robbed. You know, after traumatic experiences. But everything from being a notch above seeming almost like a daily smoker/stoner to being calm and in control of your faculties, this guy for the entirety of the interview is exhibiting behavior that is the antithesis of PTSD.
I can't believe there are at least two people dumb enough in the world (assuming you didn't upvote the last one yourself) and as many as three who recognized that as a legitimate comment to begin with. I can't think of a better example of a warrior to observe as an example of someone who does NOT have PTSD than this guy.
People who truly have PTSD can barely even go outside for fear of sudden loud noises or otherwise, anything to recall memories of the trauma that effected them to begin with.
Also, blame Google notifications if you really need someone to blame. If I got the notification that you responded, I'd respond right away. In this case I didn't notice it until someone else had posted. I am sure there's thousands of threads just like this. Doesn't matter, though. I'm here now to completely mop the floor with your misunderstanding of PTSD, this fking moron "This guy surely has it! You can tell!" and in the same breath railing against professionals "self-diagnosing" or whatever, when your own mistaken diagnoses of this individual is what got the ball rolling to begin with. Talk soon!
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The Columbine High School massacre would likely still be the worst of all time if their real plan succeeded. This video points that out, as well, but here's a bit more detail into that:
Their original plan involved home-made propane tank bombs that they strategically placed throughout the cafeteria and were timed to go off at a certain time, the peak of lunch hour beginning around 10:30 am or so. There would be lots of people in the lunch hall by the time the bombs went off, but more importantly than that the cafeteria was right below the library. Their hope was that the blast would bring the ceiling down which had the people in the library in it, probably instantly killing hundreds who were in the cafeteria and the library above it, then they were going to wait outside in the parking lot, picking the survivors off as they scrambled out of the building.
Realizing the bombs failed, though, then they stormed the building starting the shooting outside the school then working their way to the library upstairs after visiting the cafeteria first which fortunately was already empty by then. There is CC camera footage of them trying to set the bombs off anyway with their guns but the bombs didn't work. Thank God. After that they worked their way to the library, shooting whoever they saw on the way. The library is where the worst of it happened. All there is is audio recording of that, and it's absolutely horrifying.
It was the beginning of a new era for America, where these shootings were slowly becoming more and more normal to the level we have them today. And yes it was horrible. But it could've been so, so much worse. We're talking hundreds of dead and wounded, which again would still be the worst ever even now that we have had so many more of them since then.
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I just finished watching it the first time.
First off, I think one of the main things that I liked about it overall was it didn't show the Allies steamrolling the Germans at all. Nor did it show the Germans steamrolling the Americans. It also went to great lengths to show just how many mistakes were made, especially from the Allies perspective, appropriately because it's meant to be from that perspective.
For example, one time in the dead of night a soldier is awoken from his sleep abruptly and in a fit of fear forgets to even ask the "call sign" which I believe was "Flash" and then the response was "Thunder" or something like that and he accidentally bayonets his own guy. He survives, but man his cries of pain when they were supposed to be quiet and the guilt on the soldier who did it as he realizes the terror and gravity of what he had done are something I'll never forget.
For another it goes into this situation with what I believe was a "replacement" something the series goes on to tell you that each soldier who had been there since D-Day treated with scorn and apprehension, until they proved themselves anyway, and he ends up tossing a grenade and running into the room too soon, effectively grenading himself. He doesn't make it.
At the end of the series, though, it shows the Germans and Americans more or less immediately becoming civil again once the war was over, and in fact it shows one American who is a drunken sociopath who ends up murdering German civilians for not giving him gas, then also nearly killing the American who confronted him about it. Of course, this guy ends up getting caught, beaten and ultimately (presumably) charged for war crimes.
Another character named Spears who I hated at first but ultimately came to respect in a weird way because there were literal urban legends formed about this guy, the most famous being that he had captured 20 German POWs on D-Day and he's being all casual with them, offers them all a cigarette and while their guards are down shoots them all in cold blood. It's never really confirmed or denied if it's true that he did it, but we saw it in Episode 2 so we know that those 20 POWs were killed by SOMEBODY.
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China definitely helped when it came to ending the war with Japan, but it was the nuclear bombs that ended the war with Japan. We did that. And the reason we did it is because Japan was fanatically dedicated to their country and the war. They wouldn't surrender, not until the last man was dead, so we showed them the strength of God (from their perspective) with two atomic bombs and threats of more if they didn't surrender immediately. But as far as boots on the ground and traditional conflict, yeah China did a lot but that was geography for one thing and their personal histories with one another for another. As far as the campaign in Europe is concerned though, there were two factors that led to the Allies having a snowball's chance in Hell at all. For one thing, Hitler made a huge mistake when he decided to go for the USSR/Russia first with the intention of doubling back for Britain later. For another though, and more importantly, the US finally entered the fray just in the nick of time, and it all came down to blood and sacrifice as well as mobilizing our huge industrial power and manufacturing weapons. Where we were originally selling weapons and equipment to BOTH SIDES (yes, some companies were even trading with the Nazis) we suddenly doubled down, making equipment for the Allies and ourselves. The US involvement in the outcome of WW2 cannot be understated. If the US didn't get involved, who knows we might even be speaking German right now.
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@crystalb4694 Molotov cocktails and bricks are commonplace during US riots. The only difference is bow and arrows, but honestly, I think there's a huge tonal difference in what's underlying what's happening in Hong Kong right now vs. the mood in any other riot that you could conjure up, from Ferguson to the LA Riots of the 90's. The people in Hong Kong essentially are sick of being Chinese and they're a few organizational steps away from beginning the process of seceding, or they'd like to anyway, it's just they don't have anything they can reasonably fight back with EXCEPT for bows and arrows. We've not had any Civil War-esque riots in the US since the mid 1800s but I mean one day we'll likely get that pissed (maybe when Trump loses and/or wins 2020, God forbid though) that we'll be bringing legitimate weapons to the riot like guns of which we have no shortage of. At that point it's more the beginning of a Civil War than a riot, though. Also yeah if the government was actively floating (publicly, mind you) they were about to begin using live ammunition, that wouldn't make me more likely to put my bow and arrow away. To the contrary. If it's all I have to defend myself, it's going nowhere. So yeah, it'll get worse before it gets better, sadly.
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The truth of the matter is if you have an addictive personality or you think you might have one and you ever need surgery, do consider not taking the pills. Or not taking all of them, if it's a particularly bad surgery and you really just need something to help because it is great medication when used correctly.
But Artie is telling you the truth, if you are pre-disposed to addiction you'll take these pills and they will TRICK you into thinking "this is what normal people must feel like all the time, I have to get more of this and more and more and more" but then the drugs actually stop working, to such an extent you will never feel that good down the line again but you will always chase it. IE chasing the dragon.
But over time something changes and suddenly you don't feel comfortable UNLESS you have it, and by the end of that one way road you don't take them to get high anymore, just to feel normal. You will get a little high but it'll never be like the first time, or the honeymoon period as I like to call it, of addiction. Opiates in general, the basis of legal painkiller pharmaceuticals, are other derivative forms of drugs like Heroin and just as addictive, but they come in a pill so you are more likely to fall victim to it.
It doesn't come in a bag from some sketchy guy, it comes from a doctor. And believe me when you go back for your third or fourth refill, they're gonna cut you off, then most people actually in a lot of cases have switched to heroin instead. It's an epidemic and it's happening every single day.
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Well yeah, but underground lines are 10x more expensive than the normal ones hence they haven't made that leap yet.
I guarantee every single person in every house in New Orleans the past two weeks (including my own, although we're in an area that already has the underground lines and we consequently got our power back sooner than most everyone else as a result) is saying "I don't care what it costs, they should do it."
Here's the thing, Entergy is already talking about raising people's bills right now to cover the cost of this storm. If the people want it, the people will have to vote it in then pay for it themselves, essentially. Entergy is as greedy as they come. They're acting like heroes just by turning the power back on right now. It's disgusting. There needs to be the same kind of Federal relief in terms of $$ that came after Katrina where they rebuilt the levees and then use that money to reinforce the power structure this time.
But it is unbelievably expensive and really, really remote areas like Grand Isle and Lafourche will not get it. Maybe partially they can, but not like underground the entire way or anything. I am optimistic they will rebuild it better than it was, though, and keep in mind that tower that fell didn't even waver during Katrina. Ida did more wind damage than Katrina, Delta and some other hurricane combined on a power level.
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Would I like to live my entire life in Medieval times? There was a time in my life (as a young child) where I couldn't get enough fantasy and medieval themed content to the extent that at some point I remember I wanted to actually live during those times more than anything else. I even said it to my Mom one day and she told me that "you're only seeing the good parts". And as someone who has more knowledge now, she was completely right. Living in medieval times would probably suck major, major balls. Just in general I think living back then would've probably sucked, especially for most people. Not only were there no treatments for many, many diseases, the actual quality of life for most people was pretty freaking bad. Even the ones who had it well would've probably looked longingly on the technology and comforts we DO enjoy today. Like the Internet and TV. The life of a soldier would've been grueling as well, I mean say whatever you want about violence on a show like Thrones and/or violence in modern shows that if they feature violence of any kind it's generally going to be within the context of firearms and guns, but ask yourself this, would you rather be shot or stabbed/cut? I would rather be shot. Personally. Something about combat that predominately features things like blades and/or hammers or maces, axes, things of that nature (and oftentimes weren't even sharp, were rusted and/or dull, see the comment about "quality of life" for MOST people again) just kind of disturbs me. Granted, I wouldn't want either to be the case preferably, don't get me wrong. But it's not like you had the right to even deny fighting back then, either. If you were like most people you were but a lowly soldier who belonged to a vassal or lord and if tehy called the banners, you'd better show up. If you deserted, they had very harsh penalties for doing such a thing. And basically little to no room for advancement because if you were lowborn, you will stay lowborn 99% of the time. It's not like the army of today where (unless of course there will be a draft when WW3 hits or whatever... God forbid) you have a choice in fighting or not. Back then you HAD to fight. And sometimes you'd be given the vanguard which made it even more likely that you'll at least get cut if not cut down altogether. From so many angles it would just be a miserable existence I think but hey, it does make for some great TV right? I would maybe like to live like a week or a month in medieval times but beyond that, nah. And it would have to be during a nice time of year, wherever I went. No AC and all.
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@kryztynagil5328 Yeah, side effects of meth use are unbelievably bad. It can cause you to stay up for days on end, in some cases people report not sleeping for upwards of a week. When you stay up that long I can imagine it begins to drive you insane just by itself. Some people use it functionally and they do it so they can work two jobs and still be able to care for their kids. Not excusing it, just explaining it. It's really popular with truckers as well who use it so they don't lose focus. I would say even this is a misuse of the drug, but that is the way I would say "responsible" people use it. Other people, particularly those in the gay community (gay men, specifically) use it to enhance sexual experiences. That's not to say they all do, but many of them definitely do. But even then it's not causing even a notable minority of them to ultimately "snap" one day and then go on a homicidal rampage. I would think someone who is that close to the edge could ultimately be set off by cocaine use, or alcohol, but it's just as you said it isn't going to effect everyone that way. In fact most people it won't, or else everyone would become a murderer on these substances.
It's just as I said before that if you're already prone to violent outbursts and things of that nature, using a drug like meth or alcohol will only bring out a worse version of that in you. But that already existed inside of you to begin with, the substance just gave it a microphone so to speak.
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@annamallen90 Define "capable" because sure I guess everyone has the ability to grab a hammer and kill someone with it or accidentally crash their car into someone but I disagree with the notion that everyone has a killer instinct. I don't. I can't think of any situation where I'd kill someone on purpose except for in a situation where someone had broken into my house and was actively attacking my family. If that ever happened for sure, give me the chance and I will destroy them, but that is different than someone going out and engaging in a killing spree.
Depends how long you've been off the opiates, how long you were on them to begin with, how much you were taking, your body type, etc. Opiates are basically chemical happiness. That's why they are so good to begin with, they are an artificial dose of what is literally happiness and if you go long enough using or worse, abusing, drugs like that your brain gets used to a new normal until one day you can't afford it anymore or quit. The thing most people associate with opiate addiction is getting sick. That's just one aspect of what makes it so hellacious. I also used to be addicted to opiates, starting with pills then moving on to heroin like everyone else but have been "sober" for years as long as we consider being on Suboxone being sober.
That being said meth and opiates are apples and oranges. Meth literally drives people insane temporarily from lack of sleep or otherwise and to me seeing someone kill on that seems more likely than seeing them kill on opiates. Opiates are liable to make you nod out and go to sleep. Everyone's personality is different though. Meth makes people see red.
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O SNOOPY SNOOP COLEMAN Is your caps lock key broken? How many food stamps? I'll mail you a DELL keyboard immediately, just not for free.
It's important to realize that slaves back in the 1700s and 1800s were just part of the economy. Every developed nation in the world had slaves, and if you were an agriculturalist which most of the founding fathers were, then you had slaves. Period. It sucks, I think it's an abomination and it's the second most disgraceful thing this country's ever done, but every first world country now or in the past has had slaves at one point or another.
That's in the past now, though. It's only brought back to the present again like 170+ years later by people who somehow still feel the effects of it generations upon generations later.
Anyway, it's true, God does help those who help themselves. Or maybe God doesn't exist and people just feel that way because they in effect became Gods of their own destinies and assumed complete and utter control of their own lives and it did nothing but benefit them (holy shit).
Either way, these people are faced with an oppressive government in a place that's hot with little food and come to the doorstep of America and complain that they're hungry and it's hot in the tents we constructed for them. If we really were savages, we'd let their skin pigments do the work instead of a roof over their head, and let them hunt and gather for themselves.
Of course we're not doing that, us villains, but we already know what kind of citizens they'll be when they're not even here yet and they're still bitching about the lack of air conditioning. Go back home then, stupids.
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They would explain that it's because they're the leaders. They are the ones facilitating and planning it all, they're the ones doing the recruiting and that is what Allah's purpose for them is. They, too, will go to the promised land when they die, they'll explain, and they will also get their 77 virgin women or whatever the fuck they believe, but to be a suicide bomber is perhaps an even greater honor in the after life than the leaders themselves will receive. This is what they are telling these young, impressionable people anyway. Like, "I'll be there too but you'll be greeted as a rock star!" Anything they possibly can to get them to do what they want. In other words, they're told "We're all going there because we're engaging in jihad in honor of our God, but you are simply going to be taking a shortcut to paradise where you will then be showered in all of the riches and glory that God can possibly bestow upon you."
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@Ziolek.2000 Well when Jesse told Walt that that was in the middle of his now classic monologue where basically he was rejecting Walt's offer to continue working with him (something Walt was only offering to get Jesse to drop charges against Hank, unbeknownst to Jesse at the time) but he was like "Nah, Mr. White. No. Ever since we started down this path together, everything I've ever loved or cared about has either given up on me, abandoned me, or died. So no, I am not turning the money down, Mr. White. I am turning YOU down." and if only Jesse stuck with that. But yeah I think by the time Mike himself died Jesse deep down knew that Walt was lying. He at that point knew Walt better than anyone but his own wife, at that point, especially the "real" side of him. At least at that point. The "Heisenberg" side. Which for the last two years of his life, Walt was in this constant struggle between THAT side of him and of course the person who he was. I am convinced that by the end of Season 1, old Walt is completely dead, and everything else is just the aftermath.
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@horyalpr He killed Mike for a lot of reasons. For one thing, they never got along. For another thing, Mike insisted on paying his "old guys" hazard pay out of the money Walt, Jesse and himself were all making. Once Mike's lawyer gets caught by the DEA giving the guys said money, it's all seized and suddenly now his old guys are all threatening to talk again. Without the money, there is no reason to stay silent anymore. Hank was actually going to find one of them who accepted the weakest deal and get them to roll on the entire operation, which would have given them Mike, and Walt didn't know if Mike would keep his mouth shut or not. Jesse's like "No way man, Mike would never flip" and I believe that, too, even though he hated Walt as much as he did. And beyond that I think in Walt's heart and in his mind he believed that he deserved all of the money and resented having to split it 50/50 let alone three ways. He found a new distributor in Lydia, so he didn't need Mike anymore. I think he was going to do the right thing and give Mike his money and let him be on his way until he opened the bag of money, saw how much it was, and he saw the gun in the holster on top of it. It was a crime of passion almost too, he almost looked shocked when he pulled the trigger.
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Well I mean if you work for a big enough company it's not unheard of for them to buy you a nice place to live. The thing is, I doubt he worked for Victoria's Secret. Like for example I know for a fact that in the corporate world if you're someone worth the money they'll get you a really posh, nice place, but you only have it as long as you're working for them. Source: I know someone this happened to. Got a damn penthouse in Manhattan completely paid for and everything, they didn't even have to pay utilities, but the cost of entry to that is you gotta be making them tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars and also be like a young candidate for "the future" of the company, as well, as the person I am speaking of nearly became the youngest female CEO in history but ultimately got passed up for it. They were pissed, quit, and yeah needless to say the penthouse isn't theirs anymore but the thing I am saying is it's actually really possible as long as they really, really want to incentivize you to stay.
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My personal favorite rendition of the Joker is still Heath Ledger's, but this one wasn't really trying to be that. Heath Ledger's joker, to have an origin story about him would defeat the purpose of the character. That character's strength lied in the mystery behind him. Every single time he would tell people how he got the scars, he'd give a different answer every time.
Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, however, oozes with realism in a way that not even Heath's did. We found out that he was in fact some low-rent clown, so he knew how to apply face paint so it actually looks refined and smooth for clown makeup whereas Heath's looks crude and done by someone without necessarily the patience to make it "look perfect". It was chaotic in nature, just like he was, as opposed to Joaquin's relatively calm Joker by the end.
Joaquin's Joker by the very end has undergone a metamorphosis. He's no longer concerned with getting his medication -- he's no longer having uncontrollable fits of laughter. He's in fact very much in control of himself and his movement by the end. And Heath's Joker was decidedly, by definition, blissfully out of control.
They both worked in different ways, but if there is a Joker 2 (and there almost certainly will be) I hope we get to see him building his criminal empire with maybe some hints that a young Bruce Wayne is ... mourning and reclusive after the death of his parents, and we see that he hates the "clown movement" ostensibly led by this Joker character to such an extent he becomes obsessed and that is what motivates him to undergo all the training he needs to become Batman. I don't think we will actually see Batman until movie 3, if that ever gets made (and probably won't) but the idea is that's where it would be going if they wanted it to. It would also have to be at least like 10-15 years in the future I would guess, too. Joker himself always in and out of Arkham Asylum.
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Boardwalk Empire's a great show if you like the characters that are central to this guy's story. I mean he's talking about how his first major case was defending this guy for stealing a car basically and transporting it across state lines -- a felony. And something that is according to him almost always a lost case, and yet he won. Probably some jury intimidation there, but we don't hear that LOL.
Anyway he says that it impressed a guy named Meyer Lansky. Meyer was #2 only to Lucky Lucciano, the man who basically gave birth to the American Mafia at least insofar as having it be a loose organization of gangs that are governed by a body called the "Commission" which was basically the bosses of each family. It gave more organization to organized crime than had ever been done before. And with it, more power... and oftentimes more peace, because each of the heads of the 5 families all must unilaterally agree for anybody from any family who was a made member to ever so much as be touched by anybody. And of course death and destruction comes to those who would break that rule, Henry Hill and his friends come to mind, who murdered made man Billy Batts in Hill's restaurant and then prayed nobody ever found out it was them.
Anyway, Lucky Lucciano's #2 and the "brains" behind it for all intents and purposes was Meyer Lansky. And of course no story about those two would ever be complete without mentioning their protege Bugsy Siegel, who basically was sent to Las Vegas to turn it into the city it is today -- Sin City. A playground for gangsters, celebrities and normal people alike. Boardwalk Empire talks about the roots of that relationship and covers it all in such a great way. For every fictional character/event, there's like 3 or 4 things that are true to life or at least based in truth.
Finally, my favorite allegory about Lucky Lucciano and Meyer Lansky is how they met to begin with. Lucky Lucciano was always a tough guy, a bully even, even in his youth. One of the people he picked on during his childhood was this young Jewish kid, he figured he'd have money and not be able to defend himself. Wrong. Meyer Lansky couldn't fight, but three times or so all within one week Meyer Lansky fought Lucky and his goons. He lost every single time. By the 3rd or 4th time, because he was able to take the beating so well, Lucky was like "I could use someone like you, you got a lot of fight in you. Not enough, but you got a lot." or something like that. He respected Meyer's ability to take a beating, in other words, and his ability to defend himself even when there's no chance he'd win. That was the basis of their friendship and of course their business relationship, with which they made a fortune doing a variety of crimes and scams but most importantly of all running booze -- and heroin, too, that came later. A secret venture all of their own. Lucky Lucciano basically invented the black market heroin trade in America.
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I believe China created the coronavirus in a lab but not before developing the vaccine needed to treat it RIGHT before unleashing it. Catch the rest of the world by surprise, kill a few of our own people, a year later we'll re-open having apparently beaten this thing and the rest of the world (namely the West) will still be in a state of absolute chaos and upheaval.
I do not think they created the virus to kill people as much as they did it knowing we would not have any idea how to deal with it. CDC wasn't ready for it. I am guessing China knew this, too, but their real motive wasn't death as much as it was to completely destroy the economy of the US and maybe even the world at large. Motive? Trump's asinine trade war with China. We were hurting from that, too, but they were hurting more. This was their ace in the hole, and it also is probably the only reason Trump lost the election and Biden won. By every other metric, Trump was winning re-election until the 'Rona hit.
And they not only wanted him gone in favor of someone more traditional and controllable (for better or worse) like Biden, but they wanted to cripple the economy of the United States. They've succeeded on every level if this was their intention. If it was truly an accident, it's worked out more for them than it has for us.
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Rule #1: never talk more than the girl
Rule #2: Don't look TOO interested. Look interested, but keep it casual, don't act like you're trying to speedrun your relationship or something.
Rule #3: Have your own life. Your own friends. Have opinions. Don't be afraid to disagree.
Rule #4: If you find that you are disagreeing more than you are agreeing, it's not gonna work. Move on.
Rule #5: If it doesn't work out, it's OK. Don't ask them for their friend's numbers, if they did have a friend you met that was also single who you might feel more interested in and it's clear they were also interested in you, pursue that at your own risk. Chances are good that that friendship between the two females will be over anyway as soon as they find out you replaced her with her friend.
Rule #6: People want what they can't have, that's the same with men and women both. You can't take advantage of this aspect of human nature, though, when you are not in a relationship and stay in a constant state of availability. If you are 47 years old and have never had a meaningful relationship, at some point people are logically going to start asking the question: "Why? Why hasn't he had a successful, good relationship, at his age? Gotta be a reason right?" and they wouldn't be wrong. Cause there is a reason.
This guy doesn't care about anyone but himself, apparently, and I think more than he wants someone to share his life with he's so attached to the idea that he HAS to be with someone that every single potential mate that comes along he scares away with his over-zealousness. He's too pushy for a dude, and if he mentions that he wants kids on the first date that's going to scare off 99.7% of them.
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These poor dudes. Like they talk about it like "Oh well it's just a job. Doesn't mean I have to like it, but it's my job." and "If I had other professional opportunities, I'd do that instead of this."
You really think you can just submit a two weeks notice and resign from a job like this? It's blood in, blood out. There is no leaving once you're in. I believe them to a certain extent when they say that nothing bad ever happens to people who "don't deserve it". But who decides who deserves what? I think there's a certain level of naivete when it comes to this sort of thing, by the time you realize just how bad of a deal it really is, you're stuck. There's no way out of it, whether you win the lottery the next day or not. And if you're just a gunman, you're a pawn in this metaphorical game of chess. I wouldn't want to be El Chapo either, to be the boss, because you may just be another face in the crowd as a soldier but as the boss there's going to be higher bounties for you, whether they're law enforcement bounties or bounties from other cartel members. But you rarely see them out in the trenches fighting alongside the soldiers for a lot of reason. Their lives are more secure than yours in a firefight, and they will use you if you let them.
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I think it's also interesting to note that Walt never once thought that it was odd that Gus lived in his neighborhood, or close enough anyway so as to make it seem that way. Had a nice house filled with toys, presumably children that he had with his "wife" or whatever, giving the image that Gus is naught but a proper family man. Family before business. Who else in the show do we know who sounded exactly that way when talking to Gus not long before that? In other words, Gus had somebody go buy a bunch of toys to decorate his "house" for that visit so he could actually better get in Walt's head and convince him to keep cooking at the time, even though Walt was expressing desire to quit prior to that. "He values family, so I will show him that I also value family". While we know now, or "know" now that Gus more likely in fact was actually gay. In my opinion that's just one of many houses Gus had, it's not as if he couldn't afford to have one near each of his Pollos locations if he really wanted to. I don't think that was really his house, though, certainly not the one he stayed at regularly, he probably had a network of safehouses all over the country that he'd travel between when necessary.
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You have to ask yourself this -- why is Iran so ballsy right now? Because they know that Russia and China, specifically, are looking for any excuse to go to war with the US themselves, right now. Iran by themselves wouldn't win a conflict with the US -- if Russia and China back them, however, that's one the US can't and won't win. That will also have further ramifications for the geopolitical landscape, as the US is already engaged in a costly (for both sides) trade war that's essentially pointless, in effect, as China's just gonna wait for Trump to get voted out as a bad economy would surely mean for him in the 2020 elections. But if it turned bloody when it comes to Iran, I do think that would be the most costly mistake the US has ever made and I am legitimately scared out of my mind because Iran knows they won't be alone if it turns to that. I don't know that Trump knows that, though. They're not being insanely ballsy right now because they're crazy. They have a plan if it does turn bloody.
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@bananasdoingthetwist She's a thorn in his side the entire time. People wanna see him go balls to the wall and actually succeed on some level in actually getting them the money he's making for them, but until she actually saw the duffel bag full of money he laid at her feet when he finally confessed, and only on maybe the 8th or 9th time he was like "No, this is totally safe. It's as legitimate as going to work for a company on the Fortune 500, I wear a lab coat and it's all completely and totally untraceable back to me, or us, and it's safe. AND I am going to be making more than this actually, four times a year, from now on" was she like "OK maybe this isn't SO bad, as long as it's safe..." and for his part I actually think not only did he believe his own lies himself at the time, I think he was right. Gus knew he was going to die from cancer most likely if not sooner than later, he wouldn't even have to waste the guy afterward because he knew too much about the lab. I do wonder though if Gus had gone with Gale instead if he'd have killed him down the road. You have to understand, that's the Mafia/Cartel mentality when it comes to people who work with or for them. They're all smiles and cooperation while they're actually working but you can't ever really truly walk away from it. Not alive.
Anyway, non-rambling TL;DR version is that I think in Breaking Bad the viewers were primarily interested in seeing him go as far as he could in the criminal underworld and she was always the ref calling superfluous flags and interrupting the flow of the game like "Time out time out, this is actually unbelievably stupid and dangerous of you, Walt" but his position was he was in control at all times in this enterprise, at least in his lies to her, but in reality he was never in control of it.
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Altaf Kalam I think the main thing is the first time you watch it it's almost a guilty pleasure, you want to see him go as far as he can in this insane new lifestyle of his.
But then you watch it again for the first time, at least in my case, and you know exactly just how far he goes and what he does.
The brilliant thing about Breaking Bad and other well made shows like it, like Better Call Saul even or The Sopranos is that they're almost better the second time you watch them. You see them from entirely different points of view in a lot of cases.
But when it came to Breaking Bad, now that we know exactly what Walt does and all the moves he makes etc, you start looking at it more realistically like there were SO many times he could've been caught, and in some cases even should've been caught as someone pointed out above.
But just like Jesse said about Walt, Walt's not just smarter than most people -- he's luckier than them.
But if he ever did get caught, or like killed or whatever, most likely the shitstorm would've just crashed down on his entire family that much sooner.
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@doriangray104 Skylar inadvertently cooked those books by signing off on things Ted was having to do himself up to that point. TED was cooking the books, by the time she noticed it was already done/too late. Then it became a matter of trying to avoid the IRS auditing them for any reason after the fact, which unfortunately meant that the only reasonable solution at the time was to give Ted the money he needed to square things away with the government before they started digging TOO much into not just Beneke's but ultimately the bookkeeper Skylar's affairs and perhaps even her extended family as well -- which she knew by the time she found out the books were cooked. Ted was cooking the books. By the time Skylar noticed, it was too late, but because she had signed off on them she was technically complicit in it, too. Ted cooked the books, not Skylar.
BTW, Season 3, Episode 3 is when she fucked Ted. You had it as Season 3, Episode 5. For someone listing Seasons and Episodes for your references, you may wanna make sure you're right first make sure you're referring to them correctly.
No, she strongly suspected Walt of doing something shady/illegal but didn't know for a fact until he admitted it to her after the cliffhanger in Season 3, Episode 1. She thought he was selling cocaine at the time. She just knew he was up to something, but didn't "know" know until he finally told her. Season 3, Episode 1.
Walt knew she wasn't going to sign the divorce papers, by the way. That was his way of calling her bluff. At that point I think she also realized that pursuing a relationship with Ted would ultimately make her the asshole of the family (until Walt got caught, that is) but more importantly she also was beginning to get a taste of Walt's meth money and I do think on some level she wanted to stay along for the ride, so to speak, even though logically she knew it was not a wise decision for herself or her family.
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@Paul WT We don't know every species or organism that has ever lived. Again, we're not talking about going to the zoo, either. We're talking about intelligent species with the capacity to leave their planet and go to others. If the reports of sightings are to believed, even if only 5-10% of them are true, where's the invasion? Where's the big freighter ships where they're hauling off all our resources and people to use as slaves? Not happening, is it? Guess I will come right back on the eve of the invasion and tell you you were right, that I was just a buffoon, childish and ignorant to the "facts" (preach Daddy, enlighten me). The idea that all life and all life forms exist just to loot each other or be looted is fucking stupid. Some animals exist entirely cooperatively, some animals exist independently. But alas, we're not talking about fucking animals are we? And in the same breath you call others ignorant LOL what a clown
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Jon Snow wins the Iron Throne, but couldn't care less about it and also he'll look at an entire civilization that was literally brought to its knees over that damned chair, so he's going to abolish the Iron Throne system and grant independence to each of the Seven Kingdoms, then ride North to Winterfell to begin the process of rebuilding.
Gendry will become legitimized along with a handful of other people, in his case as the last Baratheon and granted all of their historical lands, castles and titles including Storm's End. Legitimized, he'll marry Arya and they'll rule the Stormlands together.
Sansa marries Sweetrobin, which will work out for both of them because I don't think Sansa would ever marry for love anyway and Sweetrobin is basically the perfect match for her at this point, being equal parts useless as he is also controllable. They might have sex like one or two times specifically to birth an heir and that will be it, but at any rate they'll rule the Vale together. Mainly Sansa, though.
I think Yara and/or Theon (or both) will get the Iron Islands.
The Reach I have no idea, it could go to Samwell Tarly but I imagine he'll stay at the Wall and be their maester or maybe even he can be removed from the Wall somehow and then serve as Jon's maester at Winterfell. The problem is the Reach used to be ruled by the Tyrells, but as we all know Cersei blew them all up at the end of Season 6.
Dorne is another one that will be problematic, unless Elaria Sand and her daughter are still alive in Cersei's torture chamber (I think they are... right?)
Westerlands (the area where King's Landing and the Iron Throne has been this entire time) will probably go to Tyrion. If they don't outright destroy the Iron Throne, he may even wind up sitting on that chair himself but it won't be "The Iron Throne" anymore in terms of it's power.
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I like this movie but I don't love it, it's too fking long for one thing. I am more of a GoodFellas guy, but I actually do find myself watching Casino when it comes on TV pretty frequently and I do like it enough being a fan of Scorsese especially and the genre and all. We're lucky we have Casino AND GoodFellas actually because until he read the script for GoodFellas he didn't wanna do it, thinking there was nothing else that could actually be done with another new "gangster picture" as he called it. Also, I think he hates those people (people in the Mob or associated with it in any capacity) having grown up around a lot of people he saw that were in that life, but like everyone else maybe had a sort of outside looking in fascination with it, the entirety of the subculture. So he made not one but THREE new "gangster pictures" starting with GoodFellas by my count and of course the last being (if memory serves) The Departed which is maybe my 2nd favorite of all the movies mentioned. It is truly excellent. Of course the people featured in Casino got far, far richer than the ones we see in GoodFellas who basically gained small yet large sums of money and then blew it all and repeated the process as soldiers, these guys were running the equivalent of banks to the Mafia in Casino. The beginnings of the Mafia's effort to get more and more legitimate money, which has expanded all the way to the way the Mafia is approaching business today. Less crime, more investment in legitimate businesses with illegitimate fortunes.
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