Greatoneshere

He didn't go far enough. Organized religion was a mistake.

Me, I'm saying it! I was with some . . . let's say . . . stupid and/or sleazy people who were going to law school to get away with things or purely for money/power/prestige rather than be a real attorney who believes in the civic mandate of the profession. As a result, knowing the actual law wasn't high up on their list of priorities.

I said it first Ronan!

You really have to stop pushing for things based on the assumption people, particularly governments, are rational actors with the peoples' humane interests in mind, just because you are smart and rational and responsible (which you are!). I'm not outing you, but I have noticed a pattern. In this specific case (as the case with the DIY guns) you're technically correct but it's potential abuses outweigh its potentially benign nature in this case, and elsewhere where you've argued a more moderate or conservative viewpoint. To be clear, I agree with you, but its ignoring context and how people work and are. I learned this the hard way, where I thought objectivity was more important than context. This election and this era has taught me . . . it isn't. It just isn't, because the world isn't objective. So why would we be? We need to bend things to how they should be when one side is actively doing the opposite, but using the veneer of objectivity to push their agendas. It's insidious. Just my .02 not trying to hate, I respect your opinions as they are often very informed and I learn a lot.

I would say this was surprising, but I went to law school. Some people should not have become attorneys, I can tell you first hand . . .

I love when Christians talk about Jesus like they know what happened back then better than what they ate yesterday for breakfast. "Jesus was definitely in Egypt for 3.5 years! Didn't you see his lease on his apartment in Cairo in 29 CE? It's all right there!" These people, seriously. The Bible is just stories, not historical documents peer-reviewed and checked.

Preach.

Edited my previous post and added a good bit haha.

Precisely. Abolishing ICE is an incredibly important move. If not abolish ICE, at least separate the two branches of it from each other so everyone knows which branch to really hate (Investigations vs. Immigration Detentions & Deportations). http://thehill.com/latino/394757-more-than-a-dozen-ice-agents-call-to-abolish-agency That would help so much. Because ICE has clearly gone way past its mandate at this point and separating the two bureaus under ICE would so clearly indicate how bad the one bureau is for the people. Trump uses the existence of the "Investigations" branch to justify all the bad things the "Immigration Detentions & Deportations" branch does and it confuses people. Separate them, Trump has no leg to stand on, and the Immigration Detentions bureau will be abolished, I guarantee you. The Investigations side is actually important and I do not think that should be dissolved but I'll take the entire dissolution of ICE if they can't be separated. ICE being under the Department of Homeland Security is also a labeling nightmare because immigration generally shouldn't inherently be under "Security" because it implies that all immigration requires security which implies threats. Immigration, as an idea, is not inherently threatening, but the government wants us to think it is by doing it this way. You see the marketing now? It's ridiculous.

Well, if I could have double-italicized the word something in my previous post, I would have. Not too surprised, but sad all the same.

Well these two things are something at least.

I think Leia doesn't really count as "someone to kill off" in terms of drama for the film, which is what Ort is getting at, I would think.

He's just saying things now. Of course he forgets to mention that the Democrats (who aren't obstructing - laughable - I WISH they obstructed more) are/would only obstruct because they want to go back to at least Obama-level era immigration. Trump wants it even harsher - he wants to make his illegal immigration policies and executive orders legal by turning them into law through legislation, and he's annoyed Democrats won't vote for draconian immigration laws. Of course they are obstructing! That's like being angry that someone is obstructing your ability to murder people, while you ask them to help make murder legal. Like, WTF?

I don't mind this at all, to some degree, I understand the point. He should be 3x as harsh on Russia though, yet . . . Weird. He chastises Germany for doing a deal with Russia, but then doesn't ever chastise Russia directly? It's like, hate your friends for working with your enemies but don't hate your enemies?

Fake news = doing investigative journalism to make sure whether alleged claims are real or alleged. Okayyyyyyy then . . . It's weird actual adults in important positions resort so quickly to name calling and "fake news" outrage. Like, it feels so childish now I'm taken aback these days that 50+ year olds are screaming things like this.

My first reaction as well. No judgment so long as it remains benign, but definitely weird in a potentially bad way. Like, DIY an anime girl pillow or some hentai stuff is also weird, but to me this is weirder than that because one is much more inherently benign. Both should be legal (in this case) but yeah.

Trump doesn't understand how percentages within percentages works with regard to subsets and the overall set.

Right, they'll kill her off offscreen, likely between films during a time jump or at the very start of the film. So how is it they "have" Leia for Episode IX?

Either Trump colluded with Russia, or Putin is the luckiest guy in the world. "Hey, totally by accident the American president is doing literally everything I wish he would do." I mean, that's so highly suspect I wonder why that's not what everyone is talking about.

Just make sure you watch the connecting film Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark as it helps understand season 2. It's meant to be watched after season 1 but before season 2. It's not available in the US (may never be) but I'm sure you can find a way to watch it as I did. :p

Joke post?

First 9 episodes are out so far subbed and dubbed.

Been watching the sequel show, 2202, every week. The show is fantastic, I'm sad the old thread about 2199 and 2202 is gone.

I think that's because women playing men isn't in the least bit offensive. But if Cate Blanchett played a black man, then it's a problem. It's all about respecting sensitivities. No one is saying make the movie a demagoguery of trans people or anything, they just want representation about their own kind done by their own kind. Same as how blackface is a problem because of how oppressed they were and what blackface represents. Again though, it's not clear cut, I agree.

Hey, I'm just saying she can, and I've seen employees do it in real life. I'm not saying she should, no pressure there, but she could if it was important enough to her, especially someone in her position. I did indeed suggest the latter earlier in this thread as more reasonable.