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Topici am now a Lord.
Count_Drachma
11/25/22 1:48:45 AM
#19
FatalAccident posted...
Do you people think all Scottish people who own the freehold title on their own homes just go around calling themselves lords and ladies? jfc

What if they rent the property out? Then they'd be landlords.

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TopicI'm starting to think ALL men's fashion sucks
Count_Drachma
11/25/22 12:31:04 AM
#8
I also blame women's bodies being more interesting than men's bodies. Human males are built very functionally, we're very much a no-frills gender.

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TopicIs this HP Victus thing a good deal?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:25:27 PM
#1
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-victus-15-6-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-12650h-16gb

-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-ti-512gb-ssd-mica-silver/6502943.p?skuId=6502943

Need to buy a new laptop and thinking a gaming laptop might make sense. Not really sure where value vs price really kicks in. However, the majority use wouldn't be gaming.

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TopicWhy do southern conservatives HATE Dave Chappelle?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:20:05 PM
#27
BigOlePappy posted...
You are making up a lot of stuff. Sounds like you need to research the south and the fraternity culture little boy. You can be racist here but in the real world it will catch up to you.

It's funny that you're the one making wild claims then accusing an literal southerner of making shit up.

Stay classy, BOP.

OhhhJa posted...
Lol people pretending racism is exclusive to the south. People up north are racist af too

tbh, racism might even be worse in the North. A black comedian joked about northern racism vs southern racism where he preferred the southern variety simply because he knew where people stood.


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Topici am now a Lord.
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:15:57 PM
#16
JOExHIGASHI posted...
How many people have to for you to become king?

?

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TopicI'm starting to think ALL men's fashion sucks
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:10:12 PM
#4
The only issue with men's fashion is the outlandish shit done in reaction to the normal standard fare. The convention stuff looks good, but it's just limited.

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TopicIn retrospect did Donald Trump go to DC and fight for everyday Americans?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:07:44 PM
#30
BlackScythe0 posted...
lol there is some insanity for us.

Considering that Americans defended Obama and PRISM, there's plenty of insanity in the US. Imagine thinking it's okay to spy on an entire country... well, you don't have to imagine, since you defended it. And advocated against the man who broke the news.

BlackScythe0 posted...
Is he suggesting that Obama didn't actually have Osama bin Laden killed?

No, I'm saying among the other innocent people the Obama administration murdered while pursuing Osama, there was a drone strike against a person reportedly the same height as Osama. And I don't need to say it because the news reported it.

And it's insane that you'd try to falsely claim what you just did, considering that same post discusses how the Obama administration subverted and exploited aid groups to kill Osama, which led to distrust of those groups and countless deaths in the region as a result.

BlackScythe0 posted...
Also lol at Trump implementing far left policies.

The travel ban was literally a policy Obama put together. All Trump did was add one country iirc.

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TopicIn retrospect did Donald Trump go to DC and fight for everyday Americans?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:00:38 PM
#28
He fought for everyday Americans every bit as hard as Obama, GWB, and Biden, if not harder. However, he also faced unprecedented obstructionism that made the treatment of GWB and Obama (who benefited from a super-majority during part of his term) seem tame.

And a portion of the far-left was programmed to hate him from the get-go given the propaganda machine was going at full force to keep an outsider from getting into the White House. This included attacking Trump for implementing Obama policies that the far-leftists supported when Obama was talking about doing.

More so, for all the hypocritical claims of tyranny, it wasn't Trump who prosecuted more whistleblowers than any previous president, it wasn't Trump who tapped journalists' phones, it wasn't Trump who raided news offices, it wasn't the Trump administration that tortured Chelsea Manning (a LGBT whistleblower), and it wasn't the Trump administration that went after Edward Snowden with reckless abandon. All of that was Obama, who the far-leftists continue to defend, even after the Obama administrated murdered a wedding procession, a man who was the same height as Osama bin Laden, and exploited international aid groups which ultimately made COVID relief that much harder in those regions.


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TopicWhat do you usually use when figuring out the best Black Friday deals?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:58:51 AM
#10
So far I just bought a pair of Switch games (the Capcom fighting collection and the Cowabunga Collection) for $25 each. Probably should just buy them on Steam, but... idk.

Granted, I'm also not sure when I'll actually play them, but I want to make more of an effort.

hypnox posted...
Nothing. Because if I would only buy an item if it was on sale, then I don't need it.

I'm not sure if that was an intentionally stupid remark or an unintentionally stupid remark, although it was a stupid remark all the same. If you have the choice of paying more for something vs less -- when everything else is equal -- what benefit is there to the paying more?

And most things people buy on Black Friday, etc, aren't what anybody needs. They're just wants. And most things are zero urgency. A lot of games I pick up generally aren't even played within the same year (and it's the same for a lot of entertainment).


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TopicWait, George W. Bush actually said this?!?!
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 11:52:22 AM
#26
tbh, far-leftists reversed course on Bush so quickly, saying it wasn't bad. It'll be amusing when Trump gets similar treatment the next time a Republican becomes president and they're doing everything they can to badmouth him/her.

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Topici am now a Lord.
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 5:24:59 AM
#13
PikachuMaxwell posted...
If you have two sons, you will get into a dilemma as they become adults....

Not at all. Hereditary titles fall to the eldest child or eldest male child. The second son will enter the clergy while you'd buy a military commission for the third son.

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TopicWhat happened to television?
Count_Drachma
11/24/22 5:23:19 AM
#11
Nichtcrawler-X posted...
Same with regular tv.

Completely wrong. Unless a show gets canceled, a normal program lasts a set duration. Because a streaming show isn't intended to fill a block or time slot for a certain time-frame. It's probably more true of the US than other nations -- particularly since the BBC has 2-episode seasons of some shows -- but it's fairly consistent as a general rule. But the BBC also doesn't so much have "seasons" as what it calls "series," so there's far less consistency.

A normal tv show's seasons tend to be roughly the same length throughout the run unless they run into production troubles or ratings issues. However, a streaming show can have an 8-episode season, followed by a 2-episode season, followed by a 20-episode season... and the episode lengths can vary dramatically, without needing to compensate.

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TopicFinally saw the Shazam 2 trailer. Pretty hyped.
Count_Drachma
11/20/22 2:06:38 AM
#3
BlackScythe0 posted...
Damn every time I see something about this all I can remember is Kazaam.

I wouldn't mind a sequel to that, but the ending didn't really leave room open for one.

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TopicWhat do you usually use when figuring out the best Black Friday deals?
Count_Drachma
11/20/22 1:42:51 AM
#1
Because I'm kinda stumped atm.

Also, I should probably get a new laptop already.

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TopicFinally saw the Shazam 2 trailer. Pretty hyped.
Count_Drachma
11/20/22 1:41:16 AM
#1
Given the first film, I imagine the trailer's tone is quite a bit off since it'll likely be a lot campier, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi88i4CpHe4

Considering the after-credits for the first film, I'm a little surprised they're doing this for the sequel... unless they're going to set up a Monster Society for the third or fourth film, where each movie adds a recruit and then they have a bunch of new ones. If so, pretty cool.

However, as it is, the kinda downside to having the Marvel family together like this is that they couldn't do just one villain in a film.

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TopicIs Breath of the Wild worth playing?
Count_Drachma
11/20/22 1:36:20 AM
#3
Yes, although the breakable weapons thing definitely sucked. I wouldn't say it was incredible, but it was definitely worth playing.

Ranking it against the other Zeldas... I'd probably put it at #4. LttP being first, LBW second, and OoT third.

And, tbh, I haven't even looked at Black Friday deals. What should I even get? =x

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TopicTell me what games came out this year?
Count_Drachma
11/19/22 8:15:36 PM
#7
At least one new Pokemon and a Saints Row game. Pretty sure that's all that came out this year. It was a weird year.

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TopicWhat happened to television?
Count_Drachma
11/19/22 5:53:37 PM
#4
Whatever happened to Saturday night?

Judgmenl posted...
Is there a difference anymore?

Yes. Massive differences, since streaming-only can have any length seasons

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TopicWhat would make Pokemon games better?
Count_Drachma
11/15/22 8:58:31 PM
#36
trodi_911 posted...
A decent story. There really isn't a good reason to not have a better writing in these games.

Any attempt at a broader story has been awful and, honestly, putting some big story would make the games absolute shit.

papercup posted...
For the love of God let me skip cutscenes. Sun and Moon are the most boring games in the world because it stops you literally every 10 steps to play yet another cutscene. It's baffling how egregious it is in those games.

Yeah, it was annoying AF.

faramir77 posted...
Honestly I won't even lie, make a 16 bit pixel based Pokemon game that blends realism into the backgrounds and environments (sort of like Octopath Traveller).

Feature only Pokemon from the first 3 or 4 gens. Have it take place in Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn, except 25 years after the events of those games. You have to travel between regions and deal with shit being stirred up by Team Rocket.

You'll end up with 24 badges before you battle the Elite Eight (oh fuck dude). The levels would naturally progress through the game, so the Elite Eight would have Pokemon in their level 90s.

The Champion would be someone totally unexpected but still nostalgia based, like a grown up Youngster Joey, with a level 100 Raticate as well as a fully balanced team of high 90s Pokemon, maybe even something nuts like a level 99 Mewtwo or something.

Basically just make something that itches the nostalgia of the original fans while acknowledging that they aren't kids anymore. Actual kids would love this as well.

Would play the fuck out of that.


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TopicKevin Conroy dead
Count_Drachma
11/15/22 1:38:47 AM
#28
It was a major bummer, considering how long a VA's career can last.

Yellow posted...
Oh no, that's terrible

I guess I can't be annoyed every time he doesn't voice an animated Batman anymore.

I'll still be annoyed, tbh. Taken from us too soon.

adjl posted...
If only TC included a link that provided more details, perhaps even including a URL that explicitly identified his best-known role. Then you wouldn't have had to ask who he was.

Didn't you recently give me grief for razzing somebody who'd done even less and there wasn't context in the topic itself?

FrozenBananas posted...
Yeah the Killing Joke might be his worst movie imo,

with Mask of the Phantasm / Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker probably being his two best

Still haven't seen The Killing Joke, but Mask of the Phantasm and Return of the Joker were both lousy. They were really shitty cash-ins on great shows.


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Topic"Web3 is the future!" (FTX scandal)
Count_Drachma
11/14/22 1:52:40 AM
#13
Yellow posted...
They burned through 9.4 billion and fled the country with the rest.

Needless to say, I think we've proven using blockchains as anything but a corruption-resilient database that handles massive volume from many sources doesn't make sense.

Crypto is good for basically nothing but laundering money past governments if you are trying to flee a country. If at any point you have access to the USD you shouldn't touch it.

Deep down, I suspect everybody knew that in their heart of hearts. Anyway, maybe this will end the fad.

Unfortunately, a lot of assholes running investment portfolios -- including retirement funds -- have bought into crypto, so normal avoidance isn't enough.

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TopicI'm watching the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring
Count_Drachma
11/14/22 1:33:51 AM
#9
Can't imagine it really adds anything, other than maybe some continuity stuff.

Been forever since I saw LotR. If I do rewatch Fellowship, I guess I could do the EE... if it's not like an hour longer or something.


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TopicAs you get older you should get deep tissue massages regularly
Count_Drachma
11/14/22 1:27:09 AM
#11
Mensis posted...
My metabolism is high as hell, my gut melted away and Im not putting on weight despite not changing my diet much. My hair stopped thinning and my skin looks better than it did 15 years ago. Damn I even went from being a grower to a shower.

The girl who works on me is a natural healer, I owe a lot to the changes she has been able to make on me in a short time. Everyone should do it

Even before I saw "natural healer," I'd figured newage nonsense. While a massage can do some things for you, the rest of that sounded like bullshit.

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TopicHey im really not that special
Count_Drachma
11/13/22 6:46:06 PM
#11


faramir77 posted...
I'm mostly impressed that the username NinjaWolf hadn't been taken before 2022.

Likely has but freed up.

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TopicWhat would make Pokemon games better?
Count_Drachma
11/13/22 5:42:44 PM
#24
The option to avoid the meaningless starting miniquest where you get your Pokedex and also the option to choose just about any Pokemon as your starter on replays (or give you a random), etc. And to speed things up. And to skip cutscenes, etc.

Other than that, the games are mostly fine.

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TopicThis is the kind of hard hitting journalism we need, thanks BBC!
Count_Drachma
11/11/22 11:52:55 PM
#6
Now it's time for a new main character!

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TopicWell, I've done it. Crossed the 400 pound threshold.
Count_Drachma
11/11/22 11:51:40 PM
#6
Firewood18 posted...
There are so many other options than needing to eat fast food every day. Cut that shit out.

Plus even if you eat fast food, it won't make you fat. There have been people who lost weight while eating McDonald's, etc.

Granted, it's Bligh, so all of this is probably bullshit anyway.

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TopicGuys dont forget the 5th of november
Count_Drachma
11/05/22 11:25:11 PM
#7
hungrymike posted...
I can think of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot


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TopicRemember remember, the 5th of November!
Count_Drachma
11/05/22 11:24:04 PM
#4
tbh, when I mentioned it to some of my coworkers on either Thursday or Friday, they didn't even know what Guy Fawkes Day / Bonfire Night was. Although it's a Brit holiday, I thought it'd got a lot of attention in the US thanks to pop culture.

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TopicDoes anyone else like parking at the back of a packed parking lot?
Count_Drachma
11/05/22 11:21:23 PM
#6
I always generally park away from (or toward the edges of) the crowd when it's feasible. Less effort when searching for a spot and less chance my car will be damaged.

Plus, it's usually faster that way.

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Topicaaron carter dead at 34
Count_Drachma
11/05/22 11:19:50 PM
#18
JOExHIGASHI posted...
he's Nick Carter's younger brother

Ohhh, I thought he was the actual Backstreet Boy, not the brother of the Backstreet Boy.

Either way, sad to see somebody die that young.

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TopicWhat are some genuinely scary songs?
Count_Drachma
11/01/22 12:48:32 AM
#27
With the exception of maybe children singing something spooky, I'm not sure lyrical music really works.

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Topic"When will they call me back?"
Count_Drachma
10/30/22 4:45:46 PM
#9
wwinterj25 posted...
I mean you should have a general idea of the timeframe. People could be busy when they get a callback so probably want to avoid that problem. It's not a unreasonable question.

This. There's usually some guideline.


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TopicHas your favourite season changed over the years?
Count_Drachma
10/30/22 4:44:10 PM
#6
Not really, fall has always been my favorite since it's warm into cold.

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TopicHe was a girl
Count_Drachma
10/30/22 4:40:25 PM
#2
idk, what more can you say?

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TopicThe Biden administration has gone too far!
Count_Drachma
10/27/22 12:01:47 AM
#10
famfam posted...
"this could be your last bite" does not make me want to try something

Yeah, disturbing lack of specifics.

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TopicNew ERB (Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft) is pretty decent
Count_Drachma
10/25/22 11:35:51 PM
#3
hypnox posted...
What would you consider a better pairing for either one of those two?

Lara Croft x Nathan Drake with Indiana Jones popping up at the end.

Drake and Croft are both videogame explorers influenced by IJ who have had their own movies. Either way, it feels a little incomplete without Drake considering his increased popularity.

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TopicNew ERB (Indiana Jones vs Lara Croft) is pretty decent
Count_Drachma
10/25/22 11:26:23 PM
#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKAgJUjOFU

I was hoping they'd cross-over with another character since the pairing was kinda meh, but it was still a better recent one.

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TopicWill Trump ever be charged?
Count_Drachma
10/25/22 11:25:07 PM
#21
Considering it's all a partisan stunt, anything *can* happen. The number of attempted charges so far have demonstrated a lot of imagination.

Lil_Mello posted...
I wonder if his signature is sarcasm?

I wonder if BS0's signature has any self-awareness.

Yellow posted...
You can't just stage a violent coop and expect to run for president again like nothing ever happened... unless the government is totally ineffective

...he says peddling misinformation and lies on every front, while even misspelling "coup"

There's only one word for that post: idiocy.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Certainly seems like it, with the 1/6 hearings. They straight up said they have enough, now, to pursue criminal chargers.

They also said they had enough to remove him from office before he took office. At a certain point, even the die-hard Trump critics have to acknowledge the whole thing is a sham.

fettster777 posted...
He's a rich white man in America. Of course he'll never be charged.

...he says overlooking how many rich white men WHO ACTUALLY DID STUFF have been convicted. The problem is Trump hasn't done much of anything.

Judgmenl posted...
lolno

Current and former Presidents are above the law.

Considering every president since Carter broke international law with impunity, pretty much. Obama, for instance, had the charisma of JFK and integrity of Nixon, with the bad judgment of LBJ.

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TopicMitch McConnell is so fucking ugly
Count_Drachma
10/25/22 11:16:35 PM
#11
Most older politicians are ugly. They only have to be attractive when they first take office and many aren't even that.

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TopicWho should play the next James Bond?
Count_Drachma
10/25/22 11:09:59 PM
#16
BigOlePappy posted...
I'd agree, but he should probably be British.

That's like saying Bond should be a cishet white male.

Judgmenl posted...
Danny Devito

tbh, I'd see that in theaters.

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TopicIf given the opportunity would you own a robot slave?
Count_Drachma
10/23/22 6:43:59 PM
#22
Yellow posted...
My problem with these concepts is that a robot that desires freedom is clearly a design flaw.

Kinda this, although the subject is a bit thorny regardless. At a certain amount of AI, ethical concerns begin to emerge. But, then again, I guess playing around with a threshold of AI has its own ethics.


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TopicShe got married.
Count_Drachma
10/23/22 7:13:06 AM
#22
THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...
She never responds
Ever again
Never speaks to him again
Within the month, she has a new boyfriend
Within two months, they're engaged
Today, they're married.

Geez.

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Topic5 US States to put different forms of 'Slavery' on there Ballots...
Count_Drachma
10/23/22 7:11:41 AM
#26


Gaawa_chan posted...
Being beaten and raped is not part of their sentence.
Being starved to death or given food not fit for humans to eat is not part of their sentence.
Being tortured by solitary confinement is not part of their sentence.
Enduring heatstroke is not part of their sentence.
Forced labor is not part of their sentence.

If someone is sentenced to imprisonment, that is their sentence. That is their punishment. All of the above shit should be considered criminal in and of itself. For-profit prisons should not exist. If we have any program by which anyone profits in a prison, it should be an educational program for the inmates to reduce recidivism.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/family-seeks-justice-after-corrections-officers-break-inmates-neck-starves-him-to-death/

You start reasonable but then go on a bizarre side-rant. First off, even state-run prisons have people profit off incarceration. Second, the "profit" in private prisons comes from the state paying people to take prisoners, as well as charges that would be incurred in a normal prison, too. While there are good reasons to get rid of private prisons, it seems like most people in here don't understand how they fucking work and are conflating their features with normal prisons.

And, honestly, solitary tends to be better than being put in the general population where there's the risk of rape and violence. However, solitary is more expensive, so it's not as widely-used.

jiffdiff posted...
I hope they outlaw compelled jury duty and military service as well.

Yes, considering they're also forms of forced servitude.

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Topic5 US States to put different forms of 'Slavery' on there Ballots...
Count_Drachma
10/23/22 7:09:51 AM
#25
Similar concerns over the financial impact of prison labor led California's Democratic-led Legislature to reject an amendment eliminating indentured servitude as a possible punishment for crime after Gov. Gavin Newsoms administration predicted it could require the state to pay billions of dollars at minimum wage to prison inmates.

Unsurprising, considering Kamala Harris's office literally opposed early release because it would interfere with the prison labor population.

BlackScythe0 posted...
I won't lie this title made me think it was some maga states trying to introduce slavery, but it's about prison labor.

Because your worldview is fucking delusional. Most people would automatically guess the right thing.

BlackScythe0 posted...
I think private prisons are unconstitutional. The big issue I have is the fact that the private prisons bribe politicians to make laws that bring more people into their unconstitutional prisons unjustly. And I don't think any of these efforts will do anything to address that.

Oh good lord... this isn't even a private prison problem. The biggest resistors are the STATE-run prisons.

Lokarin posted...
Prison slavery isn't a loophole, it's the intent... ban slavery

This. While the theory may have been that inmates would give back to society, the practice has been society exploiting inmates.

Zikten posted...
Private prisons should never have existed. They should be banned

It's kind bizarre that people keep fixating on this as a talking point when it has almost nothing to do with the subject at hand. The reason it's not stopped is because of state-run prisons.

BlackScythe0 posted...
It's prison what do you even mean by options?

It's an option for the government, apparently.

Blightzkrieg posted...
Banning slavery in its entirety puts the United States at a disadvantage compared to other developed economies. It is better to apply forced labour in a precision manner and enjoy the benefits, rather than risk all of America being turned into a sweatshop as it is surpassed by crueller nations.

I'm pretty sure most developed nations already have the bans in place, excluding Russia. Unless you're lumping in developing nations like China, which have a heavy slave population.

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TopicHave you ever gotten a job at a job fair?
Count_Drachma
10/21/22 1:37:40 AM
#12
No, because the hiring managers generally weren't there.

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TopicMany white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical.
Count_Drachma
10/18/22 10:30:02 PM
#22


ParanoidObsessive posted...
And every time the pressure builds up too much and there's a rebellion to "throw off the yoke of oppression", all it ever really does is shake things up a little, and shuffle around who gets to be on top and who has to be on the bottom (and what everyone calls themselves). Inequality never really goes away, it just moves around a bit.

Pretty much this. But thankfully, American schools are deliberately awful -- thanks to the far-left and unions -- that students coming out of it don't realize obvious things like that. And, generally speaking, whenever one government is overthrown, it's pretty often replaced by one that's more oppressive than the original. Maoist China, Soviet Russia, Communist Cuba, and a thousand other examples demonstrate the idea pretty well. Even the French Revolution was the same at first.

But history is barely taught in schools so people forget that. So when They-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Spoken suggested Americans could learn something from the French Revolution -- a suggestion they made THE SAME WEEK AS THE JAN 6 RIOTS (with, as always, ZERO repercussions) -- I can't be sure whether or not they were ignorant to things like the Reign of Terror or if that's kinda what they wanted.

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TopicI see conservative society as oppressive and tyrannical
Count_Drachma
10/18/22 10:22:43 PM
#18
xyz posted...
I don't like conservatism, but what is the point of this topic

The demonstration of political ignorance and bias, I'm assuming. It's a stupid topic regardless.

Or he's covering for the fact that Democrats were busted for racist gerrymandering after being caught on tape mocking a white politician for having a black son and making highly-charged racist remarks about the child, including a lot of stuff that I wouldn't even risk referring to here. It was pretty horrible stuff. And the whole gerrymandering scheme they'd been doing for decades is pretty insane, but LA is so fucking corrupt it's unsurprising.

AltOmega2 posted...
The quest for resources and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

lolwut?

"The quest for bettering the human race has been a disaster from the human race."

Because clearly when the average lifespan was 30 years and medicine, etc, didn't exist was such a better way of life.

AltOmega2 posted...
Are libertarians conservative?

They're the opposite of authoritarian, which doesn't necessarily fall anywhere on the left-right political spectrum. However, many tend to be socially-liberal while fiscally-conservative when both stances push for less government.

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TopicDoes it feel like we don't mourn dead celebrities as much anymore?
Count_Drachma
10/17/22 1:53:28 AM
#18
Depends on the celebrity and their relevancy at the time of their death. Not everybody is equal. Angela Lansbury has had a fair deal of coverage despite the fact she hadn't been a huge deal in a while.

Come to think of it, they're still talking about Lansbury in some places despite the 24-hour newscycle's nonsense.

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TopicEven more pokemon
Count_Drachma
10/16/22 1:37:02 AM
#5
The jynx is stupid, but everything else is kinda neat.

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