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I mean it's great that democrats might win a wave election this time, and possibly hold their seats and win the Presidency in 2020...but are they actually going to do anything with that power? The GOP seems to be effectively tearing down institutions of government and has won SCOTUS for another generation. Unless the Democrats plan to actually pass universal healthcare or a total ban on money in politics (and federal legislation that somehow bans gerrymandering at the state level legally) then America is just as fucked as it is today. The GOP spends its time tearing things down, and the Democrats spend their time holding things together, but not advancing. It should be the opposite where conservatives spend time slowing things down and then liberals advance.

95% of people who see Star Wars movies don't even know who Kathleen Kennedy is, and 90% don't care about the details of movies. In the end it failed because: 1) Less general awareness of the movie 2) Not Harrison Ford and not mainline film in the trilogy 3) Marketing didn't make it look interesting

Can we remove the category labels in the Entertainment board, or at least make them all the same colour? They look abrasive and distracting right now:

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Why wouldn't they be paying tariffs? Because he is confident that the trade war will be won before they are implemented? lol.

The reason the North-American model is great is because while you still retain your own culture in private, your kids will move another step closer (or all the way) to the standard culture. So by allowing people to integrate slowly, it actually fosters better integration long-term than by segregating people up front if they refuse too 100% assimilate.

Yes this hurts American workers, but most people in Europe are liberal (relative to Americans) so they will briefly have to pay increased prices until the new facilities are up and running. That is more than enough of a victory to offset the permanent loss of US manufacturing jobs!

She might come back tomorrow and cry in front of the press at how she has been treated by other private citizens. Then the NYT and WaPo will write articles about how the left needs to behave itself, and will ignore another news cycle worth of coverage of the continuing child detention camps and attempt at elimination of due process for migrants.

This is true. While body-positivity may be responsible for this, it doesn't appear there is any link beyond correlation at the moment. For all we know, people don't consider themselves overweight simply because everyone else around them is fat so they consider it normal.

It may have all been orchestrated, too. The guy who first tweeted about her being kicked out is also the guy who attended the White Power rally last year that saw that woman get run over. He was interview by tonnes of the media as a PR person for the rally and has ties to the GOP.

I don't know that anyone is saying the latter, thought some may be saying the former. Honestly I think it's possible that someone could have it be their favourite SW film, especially if they value cinematography as it's undeniably the most beautifully-shot SW movie. In any case, here is a 20-second fan edit that I think we can all agree fixes the movie entirely: As funny as this is, it actually would fix one of the criticisms of the movie. Well, not her doing it this way, but if she piloted the ship instead of Holdo. As someone on Resetera has pointed out, Poe could say something like "You can't use a ship as a ram in hyperspace, the jump is too erratic!" Then show Leia concentrating with the Force, and doing it anyway. It would explain why they don't just ram drone X-Wings into Star Destroyers all the time, and would provide a nice sendoff to her character as well as allow Holdo to remain as the leader of the new Rebellion (since there are already so few continuous side-characters in the new trilogy). This of course is said with hindsight that Carrie Fisher was going to die in real life. Obviously if she would have lived then having her play a role in stopping/turning Ben would have been more important.

And if this pattern were actually true, then TFA should have bombed since there was a generally perceived feeling amongst the fanbase (though not public) that the entire PT sucked. But these sorts of things don't really hold up unless it's the same director, series, etc. So if Rian Johnson had made two Star Wars in a row and then the third bombed, we could reasonably believe that maybe the first two had something to do with it (assuming other conditions weren't in play). But Solo was a separate movie by separate people starring separate actors. I don't think the general movie-going audience really pays attention to this stuff like we do, and they just weren't excited for Solo. Honestly, I expect IX to do very well, probably a little below VIII. Audiences are going to want to see what happens to Luke now that he's dead, and I'm sure a large part of the marketing will go towards that.

As sblfilms has also said, all we know about TLJ is that it was widely liked by audiences from the only two scientific polls we have. Anything else is anecdotal, especially internet forum feedback since it is self-selective. That doesn't mean it is a good movie (or bad or okay), as there is no such thing as an objectively good or bad movie. But in terms of being liked and enjoyed, TLJ is universally both by the public.

DO you have any research to back this up? I am genuinely asking, not meaning to be snarky. I ask because online forums can't count for either side since it is 100% self-selecting (you only go online with the intent of sharing your opinion, so only the opinionated share them). The only evidence that can be used is that collected from people who were not self-selecting themselves. As far as I know, the only research of his nature that has been done is by Cinemascore which showed TLJ was very popular with the general audience (A). While I do believe that there is a divide amongst longtime fans (I would agree that it's probably a 50/50 split for and against the movie in this group), hardcore Star Wars fans probably only comprise 5% or less of the movie-going audience in general.

I'm sure the defense will now shift to we left because of the principle, you can't value freedom.

In other words, George Will was never a conservative and all his past work is now to be re-seen through the filter of him being a secret Democrat by Trump supporters.

He doesn't exactly think ahead.

I imagine it has something to do with the fact that she's from France, and also that while there may be signs, you would normally expect an international border to be highly visible (more than just a sign). I'm just speculating though, it would be nice to see actual pictures. Regardless of that, holding her for two weeks does seem excessive.

If only her party didn't support business owners refusing service to people for whatever reason they want.

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lol. True, but it's pretty big in that everything slowly becomes more and more partisan. Man, even just having a federal elections department would be incredible (yeah yeah, I know that won't work because elections are all state-level, blah blah...which is a top-five flaw, lol).