Irvine511
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Pretty good/relevant South Park this week.
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Yeah. The signs of google, Apple and amazon with the chant "You will not replace us" was really good.
On a different note, was anyone else's sound way off for the episode ? I felt like music was way too high in mix and couldn't hear what characters were saying
On a different note, was anyone else's sound way off for the episode ? I felt like music was way too high in mix and couldn't hear what characters were saying
Irvine511
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I think that was part of the HGTV mockery.
dazzledbylight
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Wow, quiet tonight.
Dave C thanks for your long post on the Byzantine Empire etc .
AEON not sure I'll get all my questions, and comments in one post... I haven't read some of the latter parts of the previous thread of your and others so my apologies to you and readers if I'm repeating things particularly if I am asking things in practically the very same words (it was a lot to catch up with this thread.
1)Racism
a) Do you believe black and brown people in general to really be less intelligent than white people?
b) Do you believe the very same to be lazier than white people?
c)Do you believe the same are morally inferior to white people?
Do you not take into consideration at least some of the historical and current impediments other posters have raised:
(the original outrage of) slavery, share cropping, Jim crow, red lining in The North, segregation in federal housing , often poor educational opportunities etc that would cause these people to often be poorer on the economic ladder.
Tangential question: are you one of those people who believes that if you are poor it's because you are morally inferior?
2) PC
"PC" which has become a derogatory term.
When you are (in general, I'm leaving class issues out for the moment [I do believe there are class issues in the USA]) a White Male Christian you are the fish swimming in water, the dominant culture.
You have operated in general without outside pressures to be something else/act a different way... until more recently (historically) because you have been/still are the dominant culture.
Just about everyone who complains about PC is coming from the dominant culture(s): "race", gender, straight identity. You have/had the majority of power, and now you are asked to share, to have openings for equal placement at the tablet for " the other(s)".
The poster (sorry don't remember who) that said that when you've been the dominant person/culture others asking for equality feels like oppression to you is spot on!
They are asking for equality not to reverse the situation (except for small percentage
- yes 'turn about is fair play' may even flash through many minds but be discarded).
I can even speak to that in a fictional way: as a fan of book and media SF (science fiction) at least 2 of the Trek series did episodes where women were the dominant people in power. Truthfully I got a bit of a kick out of it, but I wouldn't want it to really be so.
That's enough for now I might have another area or two to you about at some point in the future.
Dave C thanks for your long post on the Byzantine Empire etc .
AEON not sure I'll get all my questions, and comments in one post... I haven't read some of the latter parts of the previous thread of your and others so my apologies to you and readers if I'm repeating things particularly if I am asking things in practically the very same words (it was a lot to catch up with this thread.
1)Racism
a) Do you believe black and brown people in general to really be less intelligent than white people?
b) Do you believe the very same to be lazier than white people?
c)Do you believe the same are morally inferior to white people?
Do you not take into consideration at least some of the historical and current impediments other posters have raised:
(the original outrage of) slavery, share cropping, Jim crow, red lining in The North, segregation in federal housing , often poor educational opportunities etc that would cause these people to often be poorer on the economic ladder.
Tangential question: are you one of those people who believes that if you are poor it's because you are morally inferior?
2) PC
"PC" which has become a derogatory term.
When you are (in general, I'm leaving class issues out for the moment [I do believe there are class issues in the USA]) a White Male Christian you are the fish swimming in water, the dominant culture.
You have operated in general without outside pressures to be something else/act a different way... until more recently (historically) because you have been/still are the dominant culture.
Just about everyone who complains about PC is coming from the dominant culture(s): "race", gender, straight identity. You have/had the majority of power, and now you are asked to share, to have openings for equal placement at the tablet for " the other(s)".
The poster (sorry don't remember who) that said that when you've been the dominant person/culture others asking for equality feels like oppression to you is spot on!
They are asking for equality not to reverse the situation (except for small percentage
- yes 'turn about is fair play' may even flash through many minds but be discarded).
I can even speak to that in a fictional way: as a fan of book and media SF (science fiction) at least 2 of the Trek series did episodes where women were the dominant people in power. Truthfully I got a bit of a kick out of it, but I wouldn't want it to really be so.
That's enough for now I might have another area or two to you about at some point in the future.
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Iggy Fizz
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Trump is becoming a Democrat. This is going to be fun.
LuckyNumber7
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I'm returning to the United States tomorrow
What have I missed
What have I missed
Salome
you are what you is
A natural disaster hit the country.
There has also been a hurricane.
There has also been a hurricane.
kiwilad
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See, I thought that particular shade of orange signified unnatural...
BVS
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Saying that we'll "totally destroy North Korea" at the UN seems like a thing a president should say
Iggy Fizz
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You and Ann Coulter saying the same thing... interesting
Hmm, I never took you for a fan of Ann Coulter. I try to ignore her myself, she is absurd.
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corianderstem
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If that song gets ruined for me, that's definitely going into my Trump Burn Book.
TheFox
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Trump is insane. He's trying to start a nuclear war.
Danny Boy
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No, he's just trying to prove he has the biggest dick in the room.
TheFox
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Possibly but playing a pissing game with a thermonuclear rogue state is insane.
kiwilad
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There we go, that reads much better.
LuckyNumber7
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Danny Boy
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Agreed.
OP
OP
DaveC
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what song is that referring to? i have no context here at all so i don't get it.
corianderstem
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Rocket Man by Elton John.
Trump has been calling Kim Jong Un "rocket man." He called him that in his UN speech today, because sure, why not.
Trump has been calling Kim Jong Un "rocket man." He called him that in his UN speech today, because sure, why not.
Danny Boy
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I mean, how is that even an insult? If I was a crazy dictator trying to develop ICBMs, I would consider "rocket man" a compliment.
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dazzledbylight
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Dr Strangelove lives! 
and yes, thank you Danny B!
I heard like a half min of Trump/UN on the quick update of news earlier today. Jaysus! :/
and yes, thank you Danny B!
I heard like a half min of Trump/UN on the quick update of news earlier today. Jaysus! :/
dazzledbylight
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but run to the NYT for their new article on Manafort! Looks like he's going to be indited. 
Moonlit_Angel
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but run to the NYT for their new article on Manafort! Looks like he's going to be indited.
And on a similar note, saw this story earlier, too:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-trump-using-campaign-rnc-funds-pay-legal-195535169.html
#winning
kiwilad
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He's had his fun, now he's trying to serve your conscience overseas
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