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11 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

Lots of Americans were for the war, at least half. 

 

 

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Guardians have discovered that Lance Reddick was playing Destiny 2 the night before he passed away.

So, apparently, Lance was playing Destiny 2 the night before he passed. Hopefully he got to play with his friends one last time.

34 minutes ago, Nokra said:

Releasing statements about getting arrested soon is also a great tactic for gaining attention in general, when a lot of people have lost interest in him. 

This was my immediate thought, too...but it was also my immediate thought when he came out and said that the FBI had raided Mar-A-Lago and he was the only source on that claim for like a solid day or two. So I don't know what to expect come Tuesday, because last time he came out and made such a claim I was fully expecting us to find out he lied about the FBI raid.

7 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Nothing tough has ever come out of Connecticut, so I'd start with literally all them.

I'd watch this John Wick style movie.

17 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

I'd argue WW3 never took place because you couldn't guarente that the Soviets wouldn't nuke us back. It's why proxy wars were cool but out right confrontation was avoided.

If this is in response to me, I think you missed my point entirely. It's not about WWIII happening or not, but that Americans are largely guarded from having war occur in their backyards due to our circumstances both geographically as well as militarily. We haven't seen full war on US soil since the Civil War 150+ years ago, and we're unlikely to in our lifetime short of Civil War 2.0, and even that most people aren't afraid of.

Putting most citizens of the United States in a position in which the concept of war is more of a vague abstract concept than an actual real world thing. Leading most people to not really care one way or another what the US does with its military.

I can't speak for Stepee, but I personally forgive you for recognizing the error in your ways upon viewing on a screen with terrible blacks. The amount of people I know that are perfectly content with a TV that has a horrible display of blacks is quite frankly heart-wrenching to me.

Oh, 100%, but those people would be for a war no matter what. Bush could have given his reasoning as 'they stole my ice cream when I was in high school' and they'd shout 'Say no more, we're in!'.

As for the general population, I think it shouldn't be underestimated how safe and protected we are here in the States. War hasn't directly impacted us in any meaningful way in over 150 years. Yeah, we have our occasional 9/11 or Pearl Harbor...but that's hardly war on our main soil when you compare it to the other side of the world. We are painfully disconnected from war efforts or even the risk of war efforts. The fact we'll never have, say, Russian troops suddenly storming through the Canadian border and towards our Capitol goes a long way. War is very intangible to most Americans. WWIII could break out in Europe right now and most people in the United States still won't be directly affected by it. Conceptually, war is just one big Ender's Game to any given person in the United States.

5 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I remember thinking it odd that we were going into Iraq for the states reasons, but supporting it because Hussein was clearly a bad guy

I feel like that was most rational people's reaction. Including people that bought into the weapons of mass destruction BS. The conflict was inevitable because it's what the administration clearly wanted despite shaky reasoning, and fuck it Saddam is bad anyway, right? At least from my memory that seemed to be the prevailing feeling.

I don't recall a strong enthusiasm for this. It was more like when a friend insists on getting Subway when you aren't even hungry in the first place, and reluctantly go because they're offering to pay anyway.

13 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

The Iraq War is now too old for R.Kelly, but rightfully groomed enough for Drake.

Not if DiCaprio gets to it first.

3 minutes ago, best3444 said:

William Williams looks luke a complete pussy. 

Plus, probably not very bright. I can't imagine a parent's best attempt at naming their son was just to name him after your own surname were very creative people.

It's still hard to wrap my head around the fact that full-grown adults exist that never lived in, let alone experienced, a pre-9/11 world. I can only imagine for people my age and older in Iraq and Afghanistan about their own youth.

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19 hours ago, Jason said:

 

I dunno I kind of appreciate that they actually riot their government tries to fuck them. 

I mean, the BLM protests were estimated to be around 26 million people. That's around 1/3 the entire population of France. The largest French protest was estimated to be around a million people, and most are far below that, like 100k-200k.

Along with pure distance like others have mentioned, our government is just so damn decentralized on every level. The federal government alone has almost 600 elected members, and when you go to state, county, and city governments you have literally hundreds of thousands of politicians. Any given issue wouldn't even be solved if our millions of protestor were focused on DC, because there's still tens to hundreds of thousands of politicians across the country all perpetuating the systemic issues. 

1 minute ago, 5timechamp said:

The thing is… he shows up, no bail and gets to leave on his own..

 

now that hes shown to be a loud mouth and inciting (again)… that technically gives the judge ground to detain him for generally being a shithead..   wont happen, but if it were anyone else

If this is the way things play out then I'm sure prosecutors won't complain when 45 inevitably sends out 10,000 tweets between then and his official court date filled with incriminating statements.

9 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

So like, Rosa Parks was just forced to sit on the back of the bus because she was super ugly or something?

At least this would be funny. Seems the whole story has just been boiled down to an 'and then everyone clapped' story. Which, more meliciously, makes the plight black Americans have faced in the world seem like grandstanding over nothing. 

Because when a 7 year old years 'we celebrate Rosa because one day, for no particular reason, she was asked to move seats on the bus, refused, everyone stood up and applauded, Albert Einstein gave her a hundred dollar bill on the spot, and now people celebrate her as a hero' really does make it sound like black people are privileged and society will celebrate any tiny accomplishment they perform. 

Any luck catching them ducks?

Do you think it'll accidentally clean your booty hole if you're at the urinal when it's cleaning? 

Riots in France? Is it Thursday already?

8 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

You don't describe an experience as being "the shittyest experience in an industry FULL of shitty experiences" and walk away "respecting" one of the architects of that experience 

I mean...you 100% can. I have had some downright shitty jobs filled with shitty experiences and shitty co-workers/managers/bosses and still walked away having respected certain individuals. And most of those jobs didn't have the amount of assholes you get when working on a multimillion dollar Hollywood Blockbuster.

And especially when there are TONS of shit stories surrounding the production of that, and none of them involve Zack. Ben isn't the only one that has come out about how miserable of an experience it was, and all the stories are about how shit hit the fan after Joss Whedon was brought in. It's been fairly consistent that the problems with the production were largely the producers and Joss Whedon. Even Ben states that Whedon taking control is what pushed him to abusing alcohol while filming.

Every single horror story around that production inevitably involves Whedon, not Zack. I think saying Ben has a low opinion of Zack off of what he stated is reading text so in between the lines that it can only be located in the quantum realm. Especially when Ben himself is specifying that things spiraled out of control when Whedon came in.

That interview sounds like he's talking about the entire mess that was Justice League which included shitty producers and Joss Whedon being a psychopath. That mixed with just how exhausting super hero movies seem to be. While he may not being overly praising Snyder, either, the section where he talks about him seems to have less of a miserable tone. He also admitted to at least being on board with Snyder enough to be willing to shirk the unions to shoot an extra scene or two at Zack's house years after he finished the film. If he didn't respect Snyder at all, and Snyder was his biggest issue, I can't see him agreeing to that. 

31 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Oh no.

4 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Whatever Snyder's thing will be, it will probably be self contained and targeted at his fans and will serve to wrap up his Snyderverse plans that he had set up in Justice League.

Which would be the Injustice stuff. Which, to be clear, 'Injustice' in this context isn't specifically referring to the actual Injustice universe or story. It's just what's become shorthand for the future timeline in which Zack was working toward as it was evident he was taking at least partial influence from Injustice. So that's what people, at least that I've seen, tend to refer to that timeline/storyline as.

48 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

This wasn’t even a bad episode, y’all need to watch some shit TV from time to time to reset your baseline. 
 

I swear, I have no idea how shows like The X-Files lasted as long as they did. There are some truly rancid turds in most show runs, and something like that show was 85% “filler” by today’s standards. 

This is why I try not to get into discussions too much anymore over TV shows/movies. There's only so much I can take of watching people rip apart something that's more often than not mediocre at worst as being the hottest pile of dog shit they've ever witnessed. Especially in television, you can have 10 great episodes in a row, but then a mediocre episode hits and suddenly its somehow indicative of how far the show has gone downhill, and everyone that watches this season is puking all over their living rooms in disgust with themselves.

43 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Assuming it’s a comic, I have no idea what his sensibilities would be. The extent to which his movies work is because he does have a knack for producing great visual flare. But his edginess coupled with slick production was novel when he was coming up. Edginess has been a part of mainstream comics since Miller and Moore (among others of course) blew shit up in the 80s. Snyder cannot out-brood the masters in their own medium, so…

Double assuming it's a comic and it's a continuation/wrapup of the Snyderverse story then I suspect his role will be relatively minor. They're going to grab some combo of writer and artist that make a compelling and unique style together(Or in theory will), and Zack will mostly be there to lay out the overall story and story beats of how the movies would have gone ending with the Injustice movie(If this isn't just straight to Injustice altogether).

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