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The Great Muta 22 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

So given the history of special councils, when we're in year 3 of Trump's presidency and there's still no charges, are we then allowed to start laughing openly?

Except you're already doing that, so you can't play that card lmao

So? In 3 years when I'm still doing that, will you stop complaining and maybe accept it's valid? I'm less concerned about when I can start saying it and more concerned when YOU will start believing it.
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

darkjedilink posted...

CADE FOSTER posted...

Mueller isnt finished yet goons

That's what you've been saying for a year.

Because you guys have been saying it should be finished by now since about a month into it, proving your complete and utter ignorance on the history of Special counsels

So given the history of special councils, when we're in year 3 of Trump's presidency and there's still no charges, are we then allowed to start laughing openly?
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Shuto-uke posted...

Polycosm posted...

How will Fox cover this story today?
A. conspicuous silence
B. move goalposts
C. "...but do you even care?"
D. "We'll cover this on Monday" / cut to gruesome car crash footage

E: other: talk about some Mexicans that their viewers should be raging about

F:
Funbazooka posted...

DOJ: There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.

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spudger posted...

the white supremist part is worse than the trumpeter part

The white supremacist part was a 4chan trolling effort, though.

See:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43071710

US media quote the head of white supremacist group the Republic of Florida Jordan Jereb as saying Mr Cruz had once trained with them, but the group had not wanted or ordered him to carry out a school shooting.

However local media later reported that investigators had been unable to find any link between Mr Cruz and the ROF.

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/02/15/
florida-school-shooting-suspect-nikolas-cruz-member-white-nationalist-
militia-tallahassee-leader-say/341751002/

In a profanity-laced post hours later on a social media site, an account bearing Jereb's name said the whole thing was a "legit misunderstanding," saying they have more than one member named Nikolas. He also said he not slept "for like 2 days."

Jordan Jereb, the leader of the Republic of Florida Militia (ROF), a white nationalist hate group that we have been monitoring, earlier today claimed that Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is a member of his group. Hours after claiming a connection to Cruz, Jereb said he had been misunderstood.

On its website, the ROF describes itself as a white civil rights organization fighting for white Identitarian politics, And the ultimate creation of a white ethnostate so we can be free from anti-white policies and have policies that reflect our values as white westerners. The ROF Militia is the armed forces of the Republic Of Florida.

Jereb initially claimed that Cruz was a member, that he had participated in one or more ROF training exercises in the Tallahassee area, and that he carpooled with other members from South Florida. Though the link was reported by several news organizations, the SPLC has not confirmed it.

It may seem odd that Jereb would bring attention to his group by claiming a connection to Cruz, but Jereb has always been somewhat of a publicity seeker. In 2014, in fact, he wrote us to complain that we had not already listed ROF as a hate group. In April 2017, Michael Tubbs, the leader of the Florida chapter of the League of the South, a well-known hate group, wrote that Jereb never misses a photo op and called him a nut job who should be avoided.

Also from the ADL itself:
https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz

After self-described ROF members claimed on the discussion forum 4chan that Cruz had also been a member, the Anti-Defamation League spoke with an ROF member who identified himself as Jordan Jereb.

UPDATE: On Thursday afternoon, following news reports of the alleged association between Cruz and the Republic of Florida, a member of an alt right discussion forum wrote that all of the claims were false and were part of an elaborate attempt to troll a network news reporter and other media outlets. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, the Broward County sheriff said a connection was not confirmed at this time, but that law enforcement was still investigating.

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Ah yea, it WAS the facebook ads group:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/01/media/russian-facebook-ads-release-house-intelligence-committee/index.html

Here are some of the ads they ran:

A Russian-run page entitled "Donald Trump America" called for "disqualification and removal of Hillary Clinton from the presidential ballot" and ran an ad linking to the White House's crowdsourced petition site, on which there was a petition that claimed the "dynastic succession of the Clinton family in American politics breaches the core democratic principles laid out by our Founding Fathers."

The Internet Research Agency ran several pages designed to look like they were part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

One ad encouraging Facebook users to like one of those pages, "Black Matters." The ad featured pictures of African-American people shot by police, and contained the message, "Join us because we care."

One ad promoted a "Support Hillary - Save American Muslims" event that was set for outside the White House on July 9, 2016.

On the morning after Election Day 2016, the Russian page "Black Matters," which was designed to look like a black activist group, began promoting a "Trump is NOT my president" event, to take place at New York City's Union Square.

On October 19th, 2016, a meme appearing to show Satan and Jesus Christ arm wrestling was posted on the Russian page "Army of Jesus." The post accompanying the image read in part, "Hillary is a Satan.. And even though Donald Trump isn't a saint by any means, he's at least an honest man and he cares deeply for this country. My vote goes for him!"

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Well sure, you can't "seize the means of production" (violently overthrow government) if you don't have the weapons to do so.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42919593

NOTE: Correlates, not necessarily causes. Still, the results are pretty compelling.

They are the places you have to go through in order to get from one town to another and where there are few other routes - hence the correlation with the Silk Road.

What he found was that these correlated strongly with data on violence - including terrorism, war between states and gang violence. Crossroad towns and cities, it suggested, were inherently unstable.

...

Dr Guo's model is controversial. It puts significantly more emphasis on the physical geography of areas rather than other social, cultural or religious factors which might more traditionally be explored as a way of trying to understand conflict.

...

The hypothesis he is pursuing is that certain areas have more contentious ideas flowing through them than other areas, and that somehow destabilises them.

Dr Guo is careful not to say that cultural diversity is an inevitable instability factor for societies, but areas with a lot of movement - whether in culture, trade, ideas or people - do appear to correlate with risk.

"On average, across the world [in 2017], 76% of all terrorist attacks happened within the actual cities where we predicted [in 2016] that they would happen - and around 90% within 50km of the cities. That's the level of predictive accuracy," he says.

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Is this the group that bought all those facebook ads?
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boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

Black Panther looks to be a higher quality and scale than the ones you've posted

Hopefully. That doesn't make it special, though. It just makes it good.

I think it's special in the sense that it's a so-called "black movie" with the same budget and marketing as any other

Bad Boys 2.

tbh, the only parts that I saw were outrageous or disgusting

I wonder if BP would get the same attention if it was rated R and not part of the MCU

Absolutely not. The MCU is the money making machine right now, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. The only reason people are calling BP a "moment" is because they think they'll be able to carve off a corner of Disney's machine to make their own stuff.

EDIT: But just to be clear, regardless of how good BB2 is, it had the same budget and marketing as any other AAA movie which was the key point.

sorry, I meant in relation to the buzz it's been getting from the media and prospective viewers

I think being rated R wouldn't impact the buzz, given Deadpool is a thing. If anything, the narrative would chance slightly to emphasizing how important it is that the movie is rated R because you don't want to censor the struggle of his people.
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hockeybub89 posted...

"Black people already got a movie. Why aren't they satisfied?"

Take a step back, stop huffing your own farts, and realize that nobody is saying, thinking, or desiring that.
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boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

Black Panther looks to be a higher quality and scale than the ones you've posted

Hopefully. That doesn't make it special, though. It just makes it good.

I think it's special in the sense that it's a so-called "black movie" with the same budget and marketing as any other

Bad Boys 2.

tbh, the only parts that I saw were outrageous or disgusting

I wonder if BP would get the same attention if it was rated R and not part of the MCU

Absolutely not. The MCU is the money making machine right now, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. The only reason people are calling BP a "moment" is because they think they'll be able to carve off a corner of Disney's machine to make their own stuff.

EDIT: But just to be clear, regardless of how good BB2 is, it had the same budget and marketing as any other AAA movie which was the key point.
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boxington posted...

s0nicfan posted...

boxington posted...

Black Panther looks to be a higher quality and scale than the ones you've posted

Hopefully. That doesn't make it special, though. It just makes it good.

I think it's special in the sense that it's a so-called "black movie" with the same budget and marketing as any other

Bad Boys 2.
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lolife67 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

lolife67 posted...

Blade wasn't a blockbuster made by a major studio.

It was written by Goyer, distributed by New Line Cinema, released in the summer, and made over $100M worldwide. It was absolutely a blockbuster.

It cost $45 million to make. Not a blockbuster. New Line isn't a major studio.

I don't see why it's such a big deal to say it was a blockbuster. It appears on multiple blockbuster lists. It hits all the notes. Just because it didn't have the biggest ROI doesn't mean it's suddenly something else.

https://letterboxd.com/moviemaestro/list/summer-blockbusters-of-1998/
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls053442021/
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lolife67 posted...

Blade wasn't a blockbuster made by a major studio.

It was written by Goyer, distributed by New Line Cinema, released in the summer, and made over $100M worldwide. It was absolutely a blockbuster.
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boxington posted...

Black Panther looks to be a higher quality and scale than the ones you've posted

Hopefully. That doesn't make it special, though. It just makes it good.
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"Black Panther is the first black superhero movie!"
Hancock?
"Black Panther is the first black superhero comic book movie"
Spawn? Steel?
"Black Panther is the first black superhero marvel comic book movie"
Blade?

"Black Panther is better than Meteor Man"
Yea... I think we can all agree on that.
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Shuto-uke posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Shuto-uke posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Shuto-uke posted...

Guys, guys, the groups leader is only kidding lol. There is no proof crux is part of that group. He is a good kid who had a momentary lapse in judgement, he is a poor soul in distress who needs our understanding. P.s. close the borders

The hipocrisy of the right is amazing.

Jesus christ you people love to make nonsensical leaps of logic. Are you really that butthurt that it turns out CNN was trolled by 4chan and the guy isn't actually a member of the white supremacist group? Is it not enough that he's a gun-loving child murderer?

No, I am talking about the fact that every time a loser with no life and no resources plans or stages an Isis-style attack and he even hints at being part of said group the right goes full chicken little and says that such a group planned the attack, despite the fact that there is no way its true.

Yet if this guy wears MAGA hats, has a very alt right online presence and the leader of a local supremacist group claims him as one of their own you people still go like lol u peeps be trolled!

Because you did get trolled. The freaking ADL said as much.

Or they had afterthoughts. Look, he did wear MAGA hats

No. You got trolled. Full stop. There's now multiple stories out there talking about 4chan orchestrating the fake white supremacy angle. The ADL itself acknowledges it. There's no other interpretation.
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I think the opposite. All moderations should be public, and all users should be able to see the current moderations of all other users.
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Shuto-uke posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Shuto-uke posted...

Guys, guys, the groups leader is only kidding lol. There is no proof crux is part of that group. He is a good kid who had a momentary lapse in judgement, he is a poor soul in distress who needs our understanding. P.s. close the borders

The hipocrisy of the right is amazing.

Jesus christ you people love to make nonsensical leaps of logic. Are you really that butthurt that it turns out CNN was trolled by 4chan and the guy isn't actually a member of the white supremacist group? Is it not enough that he's a gun-loving child murderer?

No, I am talking about the fact that every time a loser with no life and no resources plans or stages an Isis-style attack and he even hints at being part of said group the right goes full chicken little and says that such a group planned the attack, despite the fact that there is no way its true.

Yet if this guy wears MAGA hats, has a very alt right online presence and the leader of a local supremacist group claims him as one of their own you people still go like lol u peeps be trolled!

Because you did get trolled. The freaking ADL said as much.
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His own family could commit suicide in front of him and he'd say it was a false flag. The man is nuts.
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YellowSUV posted...

Nice post of showing a lot but not showing how this is a hoax created by 4chan.

Try reading next time. From my third link:
https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz

After self-described ROF members claimed on the discussion forum 4chan that Cruz had also been a member, the Anti-Defamation League spoke with an ROF member who identified himself as Jordan Jereb.

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Shuto-uke posted...

Guys, guys, the groups leader is only kidding lol. There is no proof crux is part of that group. He is a good kid who had a momentary lapse in judgement, he is a poor soul in distress who needs our understanding. P.s. close the borders

The hipocrisy of the right is amazing.

Jesus christ you people love to make nonsensical leaps of logic. Are you really that butthurt that it turns out CNN was trolled by 4chan and the guy isn't actually a member of the white supremacist group? Is it not enough that he's a gun-loving child murderer?
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iClockwork posted...

I just don't understand why you would allow anyone with this resume to be allowed entry to the United States...

Huma Abedin probably asked her.
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davyheinz posted...

hyperpowder posted...

SuperMariano3 posted...

Shaun White was pretty good.

Yeah, still can't touch us in Snowboarding.

Because its fucking snowboarding...

Its like bragging about the NFL on a worldwide level. Nobody else does it, so what is there to brag about?

Any country seriously fielding a curling team really has no right to look down on snowboarding.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Im glad Nier Automata has taken a similar route with its storytelling

Just play Nier. If you want something with the same level of story but with better gameplay, the first Nier is ALSO good (not automata good, but good), and the NG+ playthrough really messes with you horribly.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

A lot of them just fight for life in prison and not the death penalty.

And sometimes they get lucky and the prosecution goes for first degree murder and they can actually get their client off due to being unable to prove premeditation (see: Casey Anthony trial)
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This is why the government is spending so much money investing in drones and autonomy. That way these fat recruits can still be useful from an air-conditioned bunker.
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BlueTigerLion posted...

Like one where the population was over 70% black? It seems a certain demographic are often the shooters and victims when I hear about another school shooting.

White kids seem content to keep their killing to their school and the occasional church.

Let's see how black kids are doing?
http://time.com/4823524/gun-violence-black-children-study/

Guns kill about 10 times more black children than they do white children each year, according to a new analysis.

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Also from the ADL itself:
https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz

UPDATE: On Thursday afternoon, following news reports of the alleged association between Cruz and the Republic of Florida, a member of an alt right discussion forum wrote that all of the claims were false and were part of an elaborate attempt to troll a network news reporter and other media outlets. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, the Broward County sheriff said a connection was not confirmed at this time, but that law enforcement was still investigating.

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YellowSUV posted...

Where is this evidence that this is a 4chan troll? 4chan says shit like that all the time with nothing to back it up.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43071710

US media quote the head of white supremacist group the Republic of Florida Jordan Jereb as saying Mr Cruz had once trained with them, but the group had not wanted or ordered him to carry out a school shooting.

However local media later reported that investigators had been unable to find any link between Mr Cruz and the ROF.

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/02/15/
florida-school-shooting-suspect-nikolas-cruz-member-white-nationalist-
militia-tallahassee-leader-say/341751002/

In a profanity-laced post hours later on a social media site, an account bearing Jereb's name said the whole thing was a "legit misunderstanding," saying they have more than one member named Nikolas. He also said he not slept "for like 2 days."

Jordan Jereb, the leader of the Republic of Florida Militia (ROF), a white nationalist hate group that we have been monitoring, earlier today claimed that Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is a member of his group. Hours after claiming a connection to Cruz, Jereb said he had been misunderstood.

On its website, the ROF describes itself as a white civil rights organization fighting for white Identitarian politics, And the ultimate creation of a white ethnostate so we can be free from anti-white policies and have policies that reflect our values as white westerners. The ROF Militia is the armed forces of the Republic Of Florida.

Jereb initially claimed that Cruz was a member, that he had participated in one or more ROF training exercises in the Tallahassee area, and that he carpooled with other members from South Florida. Though the link was reported by several news organizations, the SPLC has not confirmed it.

It may seem odd that Jereb would bring attention to his group by claiming a connection to Cruz, but Jereb has always been somewhat of a publicity seeker. In 2014, in fact, he wrote us to complain that we had not already listed ROF as a hate group. In April 2017, Michael Tubbs, the leader of the Florida chapter of the League of the South, a well-known hate group, wrote that Jereb never misses a photo op and called him a nut job who should be avoided.

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

Every time something like this comes out in the news nowadays, you get people trying to claim it's "actually a 4chan hoax!".

Again this often reeks of attempted misinformation.

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/964237375466479616
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Simply explain that the American democracy is built on a near indestructible foundation of checks and balances and that unlike some other countries, the election of one leader cannot fundamentally alter the foundations it is built on and destroy it.
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Pitlord_Special posted...

You guys realize theres an established practice of certain lawyers or disabled folks who will go around and troll businesses looking for minor or obscure ADA violations and sue them for a payout.

Few articles from just the last year explaining the problem

https://www.dailynews.com/2017/05/24/ada-lawsuit-abuse-remains-a-problem/

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/23/disability-violation-lawsuits/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/02/small-businesses-targeted-by-ada-lawsuits/

Wtf we love predatory lawsuits now

Ssh... everything conservatives do is pure, unadulterated evil completely devoid of logic or reason.
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Howl posted...

Extreme irony huh? The idea of liberalism itself is that changing ideas are good.

That's exactly the point, guy. Liberalism is about changing ideas, but it's exceedingly difficult to get many people who support changing ideas to openly discuss and debate both the merits and justification of those changes. It's "things should change, and I refuse to engage with you in why, or the specifics of how"
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

s0nicfan posted...

So if you take issue to people making sweeping claims about conservatives, maybe take a step back and read the shit you're posting first.

so because i dont like sweeping claims about conservatives that means i shouldn't say "don't blame one side for something both sides do equally" because that is, itself a "sweeping claim"?

You're a reasonable guy, but come on. If you SAID what just you said above I wouldn't have bothered to quote it because you'd be making a completely fair statement. What you actually said, though, was

as opposed to those historically open-minded Conservatives? give me a fucking break

which falls below the standard you're holding yourself to, because the only reasonable way to interpret that post is that "conservatives are not historically open-minded" which is exactly the kind of thing you don't want people saying.
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Meanwhile, at the MARS factory:

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

if you expect every single Liberal to have a universally accepted definition of what Conservatives are and what they do then I don't know what to say.

in general i don't like to frame things in the "Conservative vs Liberal" dynamic because it's unproductive. however, when someone comes in and makes some ridiculous claim like "Conservative are always open minded bastions of free thought and Liberals are always closed-minded mental midgets" I feel a need to object.

That's fine, and a totally reasonable thing to object to. As reasonable as objecting to:
Giant_Aspirin posted...

as opposed to those historically open-minded Conservatives? give me a fucking break

So if you take issue to people making sweeping claims about conservatives, maybe take a step back and read the shit you're posting first.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

s0nicfan posted...

No, but trading on currency exchanges is.

I buy what you're saying but will you go into more detail?

Crypto is just a totally different beast. In some ways you're betting on the underlying blockchain technology and the distributed/secure nature of the transactions becoming standards. They're closer to stocks in that you're buying into the unique features of each blockchain code branch and hoping that implementation takes off. It's less about the value as a currency and more about the value of the currency as a platform.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

lol a lot of people are gonna be mad about this...

but my question is...this will be a feature that women can turn on...you can only message people who you match with...meaning the woman found you attractive too....so if they want to message first why is this feature necessary then?

If I had to guess, Tinder has the analytics of their userbase and they were probably losing a lot of women to bumble. Given that a dating service lives and dies by how large their woman userbase is, they probably thought that the added power would be an attractive feature. Having total control not only over who you swipe, but who among them you even choose to engage with, even if it's redundant, is attractive as a feature.
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No, but trading on currency exchanges is.
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Protip: you need to play the game 3 times to get the full ending. Playthrough 2 has you going through the events of the first playthrough from a totally different perspective, and game 3 has you starting where game 1/2 end. It's not nearly as repetitive as you'd think, and the different perspectives are great. Plus most of the major plot revelations come at the middle/end of playthrough 2.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i have no idea how Darmik's post relates to mine.

"Conservatives" can't simultaneously be constantly challenging leftists to debate and ALSO be guilty of being "historically resistant to having their ideas challenged."

.... but i didn't endorse what Darmik said at all so i dont know why that relates to me or what I said? you sure have a hard on for picking arguments with me lately.

I'm not saying you did. I'm lamenting the challenge on this board of dealing with the fact that liberals have wildly different default assumptions about what conservatives do, which can make it incredibly difficult to have a reasonable discussion because people often jump in to conversations with contradictory assumptions.
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Meh... Tinder was always about people trying to hook up for sex. A feature that adds another layer of shallowness to something that was always shallow isn't a big loss for anyone.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

i have no idea how Darmik's post relates to mine.

"Conservatives" can't simultaneously be constantly challenging leftists to debate and ALSO be guilty of being "historically resistant to having their ideas challenged."
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

as opposed to those historically open-minded Conservatives?

Yes

People like Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, Charlie Kirk...basically every right-wing commentator with exposure have debates with people they disagree with all the time, and guess what, no other right wingers deride them for giving the left a "platform"

Tell you what: for every zero cases you find of a right-wing group attempting to shut down a leftist speaker, I will find you infinite cases of a leftist group trying to shut down a right-wing speaker. Ready, go:

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yeah Mal, I concede. only Liberals are closed minded while Conservatives are the bastions of free thought and never dismiss ideas without giving them fair consideration. you got me.

And this is why:
Mal_Fet posted...

Leftists are historically resistant to having their ideas challenged.

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

both sides do this, don't act high and mighty like your side doesnt do this

Darmik posted...

Why do these conservative blow hards always challenge people to a debate.

I wish you guys would hold a meeting or something and decide what "conservatives" actually do and don't do.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Because its not against the catholic faith to eat pork.

So?

UnfairRepresent posted...

It's like you're attempting to the least logical statements that you possible can in weak attempts to bait people into questioning your intelligence just so you can mark them.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Why only if they're Muslims?

Because its not against the catholic faith to eat pork. Since the ruling is on issues involving religion, and both parents were catholic, pork would only be an issue if they were muslims because it would be a violation of their faith.

The long and the short of it is that the ruling was clear and the woman spited the husband by baptizing the daughter so that the husband couldn't be there. That's contempt of court.
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Darmik posted...

Why do these conservative blow hards always challenge people to a debate.

Debate is a healthy part of a functioning society. I'd be more bothered if one group refused to ever engage in it, because you should be able to defend and justify your positions on issues if you actually believe they should be part of common law. They challenge people to debates because they believe they have the better case.
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