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Not super recently. The joint near me is technically Guatemalan, not Mexican.

Is he playing himself? Because Jeremy Renners Hot Sauce is already a thing in-universe.

legendary_zell posted...

Another example is that Eugene Debs was convicted of a very serious felony and served 10 years in federal ass prison. He ran for office from a prison cell. And yet he was more fit for office than anyone since then. The felon status isn't what matters, it's the fact that Trump is a plutocratic fascist who used his money to deceive the public.

Agreed. I was going to bring up Debs, myself. He was literally convicted under the Sedition Act for encouraging people to dodge the draft during World War 1. A true hero, and an undeniable, unabashed criminal.

StealThisSheen posted...

Yes, actually. Entirely. You post so little, yet felt the need to suddenly post in this topic with the takes you have decided to post, and said takes basically now make up a majority of your active posts.

Well, like I said, I had thought about sharing this sentiment in any of the other numerous topics celebrating Trumps (correct) conviction, but didnt feel it was worth potentially disrupting those. This topic, however, since it was expressing pretty much the same thing I was feeling, felt like a more natural place to chime in. Normally people dont reply to my posts, so when I do post its usually just one post with no or little follow up. Here, though, people are replying to me, and I generally try to respond to people who are replying to my posts in good faith, unless I already have them tagged as some flavor of bigot I dont wish to engage with.

EPR-radar posted...

Let's not be too scrupulous here. Trump is a convicted felon, Trump being a felon can and absolutely should be used for maximum political advantage in an election where Trump's chance of winning is far too high.

I dont necessarily disagree with you on this point, but Im a bit skeptical that these tactics actually give any real political advantage, versus the potential harm that supporting the stigmatization of felons causes. Maybe Im too cynical in this regard but it feels like at this point anyone who was still on the Trump train isnt going to be swayed (or even demoralized) by the outcome of this trial.

StealThisSheen posted...

Hmm, alright. Maybe you'll be able to defend your point further.

Oh. I see.

Im confused by this, is your point supposed to be that I post too little on a niche video game message board to have a valid opinion on politics?

bfslick50 posted...

A felon after they've served their time and Trump who is pre-sentencing aren't the same thing.

Definitely, and I agree also with David1988s point that Trump will absolutely suffer no felony stigma as a result of his conviction. Thats not really my issue.

How did you feel when George Floyd's killer went to jail? To me that felt like justice that I didn't think would happen. Cheering that justice worked is an OK thing to do, albeit insensitive to the guy's family, but at that moment I was more concerned with George Floyd's family. Cheering here, that a guilty man was found guilty, is cheering the justice system.

I dont at all mind people feeling relief, or even joy at the result of the trial. But a strong sentiment coming from the Democratic side for this election cycle is that you cant seriously vote for Trump, because he is a criminal. And a lot of the emphasis on Trump being titled convicted felon is related directly to that desire to score a political victory, for lack of a better term. If it was just about justice being served, Im all for it. He deserves worse. But it isnt just about that. And its the other stuff that its about that rubs me the wrong way, a little bit.

I definitely have felt the same misgivings about jeering about Trumps status as a felon, not because I care about Trump (if I posted the things I felt should happen to Trump Id surely be banned in a heartbeat) but because holding up that attitude towards felons is harmful to those felons who are just trying to get their lives back together and be productive members of society. Like we are still fighting for the right of felons to be able to vote in some states, and some self-proclaimed progressives are throwing those same movements and people under the bus so they can play respectability politics.

I dont feel strongly enough about this to bother posting in any of the topics about it, or to bother making a topic of my own, but it doesnt sit right with me. Its the same feeling I get when people cheer about bad things happening in red states because they deserve it for being under Republican control.

Stop

I know that seems like it goes against the general idea/principle of having a safe word to begin with, but in the heat of the moment if things get too intense sometimes you panic and in that kind of situation you dont want to risk someone forgetting or freezing because they have to think about it.

Not only do I believe he did it, I believe he did it specifically after seeing her cameo appearance in The 40 Year Old Virgin.

I liked it, but it definitely felt anticlimactic

IIRC didnt it make the birth rate something like 1 in 1000? Humanity would die out within a couple generations at that point.

SUT.. da fuck up

The only GameFAQs user I knew from St Louis ended up becoming a Proud Boy. Stay safe out there.

Rise of Skywalker is the worst Star Wars movie ever made, unless you count stuff like the Holiday Special

I am, once again, thinking about The Contraption

If its going to be done well, then either is fine.

If its going to be done badly, on the other hand, I think Ill prefer the cliche ending. Shock value, edgy, twist endings have a much, much lower floor comparatively.

its I thought you liked me!

not loved

sorry

If Im having a nightmare or something I will definitely believe in whatever paranormal stuff was going on for the minute or so it takes my brain to fully wake up and recognize that I was dreaming. So in those brief moments you could argue that I do believe in ghosts/the paranormal.

But like, as a rationally held belief? Nah. Ive gone on all kinds of ghost tours, stayed at haunted hotels and B&Bs, etc. and Ive never seen anything to convince me that any sort of paranormal phenomenon is real.

It doesnt really bother me if other people believe in it, though. I think like tarot and astrology type stuff its mostly harmless.

RoosterGold posted...

The shrimp thing always sounded like bullshit to me. Why not just end the deal or increase the price if that was really the killer?

The chain was always doomed after the land sell off and lease back scheme, but the permanent endless shrimp promo was just the current parent company (Thai Union, a conglomerate of seafood suppliers) accruing as much profit into their own ledgers as possible, pushing losses onto an asset they knew was circling the drain anyways.

I always assumed it was a Boomer-ass show

I hope Im still living in PA when his term comes up so I cant vote against him in the primaries. Hell Ill even phone bank for someone to unseat him. I might even knock doors. Fuck.

Humble_Novice posted...

https://twitter.com/Staroxvia/status/1789718906099101700

I read that thread a few days ago when it was posted, and it has a few pretty glaring leaps of logic, but at the end of the day Keffels is a pretty huge piece of shit so, what do I care?

You think thats bad, Im visiting my nephews this week to help out while their dad is away on a work trip, and the ONLY music they will listen to, which they demand be played at every single meal, is the Encanto soundtrack. (They have never seen the movie)

The irony of an unrelenting TERF not wanting to be called by the name she was given at birth is not lost on me, but if Im not mistaken, the whole origin of people referring to her as Joanne came from the fact that she would constantly search her own name on Twitter in order to harass anyone who said anything negative about her. So it all just leads back to her being an insufferable egomaniac.

The Gen Z slang thats mostly AAVE, seeped into white culture via gay appropriation (mostly through Ru Pauls Drag Race) can be off putting, at times, when its being used by white kids/young adults, but thats mostly due to the appropriation part, I think.

For me, though, the one that drives me absolutely up the walls is a local/regional one where people use of the word anymore to mean nowadays or lately. Examples of this would be like People are just too sensitive anymore, Its always so expensive to go to the movies anymore, or Well, anymore its like she thinks shes the center of the universe

My blood boils just thinking about it.

Nothing will ever top Dee Dee Mega Doodoo

Its another in a long line of media that tries to critique its contemporary society by portraying a satirical future dystopia based on those critiques, only to have stupid people later say things like its just like X movie/book predicted!

wasnt it just like, a couple of days ago someone was trying to push her report in another topic?

IIRC it doesnt really matter too much what class you start out as because you can eventually train pretty much anything.

Vicious_Dios posted...

I mean... <_< It's a free game, what did you honestly expect from an EA game?

You get what you pay for.

You can just as easily delete it, and peruse for other games instead of whining at us about it.

Im not sure that its free, you get what you pay for really applies considering that plenty of people paid full price for the game upon its release.

I remember it being quite bad

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4636ac65.jpg

Its fine. The story is good, the gameplay is fine other than the Law system, which you can cheese easily enough for the most part.

ROBANN_88 posted...

is the show related to the movie?

It borrows from the same concept as the movie, but its very different. Some parts are, imo, better than the movie, some are not. The first season is probably the best, but all are watchable.

Popeyes for sure, but I wont turn my nose up at KFC when its whats available

More Kramer imo. Very jumpy and looks like he would burst into your apartment randomly.

Both have one okay movie, one pretty solid movie, and one flaming pile of dog shit movie, so its hard to say.

The prequels benefit from having a singular cohesive vision driving them, but the sequels have much, much better visuals and dont overly rely on CGI the way the prequels had to.

They both have terrible dialogue. They both have enjoyable action sequences.

I think Im gonna hand it to the prequels, because even though the sequels have higher highs, they also have much lower lows, and The Rise of Skywalker is by far the worst movie in the entire franchise. I would rather watch all of the Ewoks movies again than sit through a rewatch of TRoS.

Yeah, Im a big fan. Lobster is great! Havent gotten a chance to watch Poor Things yet, but its high on my list.

He goes to his fathers, in whose mighty company he shall not now feel ashamed

Definitely steal. You could do wonders for the economy just by picking the proper targets to steal from, and destroying the assets you stole.

Fun fun fun fun

Eat_More_Beef posted...

I can kinda see why. Now, maybe I'm ignorant in the subject, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but women's wards aren't about keeping women away from men for safety, it's because the doctors/nurses that work on those wards are specialists in the anatomy of a biological woman.

You start dropping biological dudes in there, then you need more doctors for a specificity that is no longer specific.

Like, don't put heart problem patients on the cancer ward.

I apologize if some of my nomenclature is outta date. Just correct me if so and I'll change my wording.

This is sort of a misunderstanding of the NHS usage of the term ward. In the US a ward is like a department, a cluster of individual rooms for one or two patients all requiring the same kind of care and sectioned off from the rest of the hospital. In NHS hospitals, instead of having clustered rooms for individuals, generally have large rooms with 4-8 beds with privacy curtains and a single shared bathroom. These beds are under the supervision of a single head nurse, and the room itself is called a ward. Some wards are specialized (maternity, oncology, emergency, etc.) but even the general population are all placed in wards. Under the 2012 amended NHS Constitution, all NHS wards must be single-sex, with exceptions for certain emergency situations or wards for certain kinds of treatment such as chemotherapy.

This means that if you are admitted to an NHS hospital as a general patient, you are placed in a mens ward or a womens ward.

The new proposal would see that transgender women are not allowed to be placed in wards for women, meaning they would either be placed in mens wards, or they would have to have separate wards specifically for transgender patients.

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one thats going on right now.

Shut the fuck up

Because human doesnt have the same linguistic/etymological roots and origin as man and woman. Human comes from Latin, man/woman from Germanic.

Interestingly the same root of the Latin version (also where we get the prefix homo-) did also make its way through the Germanic languages, and into English, where we get the term groom, as in bridegroom

Never tried it but I feel like I would end up choking to death

legendary_zell posted...

Often the order itself is violent. It's not moral to uphold that type of "order". Having "peace" while these colleges and our government are complicit in and profit off genocide is not the type of "order" we should respect. That order is the problem and it's what the students are dissenting against.

It's straight up white moderate bullshit, the exact type of thing MLK was talking about and huge swaths of America have never at any point understood or agreed.

Its such a cliche at this point but its basically the its all part of the plan Joker monologue. The people who have built this order love it above all else and will do anything to protect it, even if the order itself requires that children have their legs blown off by drone strikes, and food aid workers are killed in their cars. Only its even more extreme because you dont even have to do something as sinister as threatening to assassinate a public official for everyone to lose their minds. You just have to set up some tents where they have decided you should not be allowed. One small toe out of line entitles them to bring the entire apparatus of state violence down on you with total impunity.

Cops when pro-Palestinian protestors are being attacked by Zionists: I sleep

Cops when its time to disperse the pro-Palestinian protestors:

https://x.com/huntedhorse/status/1785996746952429875?s=46&t=2B8t9GE_Xny7zJuZWyeWNw

I think its true to some extent, that when faced with senseless, overwhelming violence and trauma such as is experienced during war, the human mind can have a tendency to search for some kind of greater meaning as a kind of coping mechanism.

I dont think it has any validity as an argument in favor of any particular deity or religion, however. Just because we tend to search for meaning in things does not mean that any such meaning is actually there.