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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 24, 2024, 09:38:43 PM »

It's a tiny, insignificant speck of an issue, because nobody had any reason to make it an issue in the first place. Republicans are arguing that nobody cares about January 6 anymore because issues, meanwhile we have McDonaldsgate, gtfo with this bullshit 

No is forcing you to talk about Harris and her lack of McDonald's work experience. All I did was cast doubt on the subject, as Trump himself and many others in his campaign have. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. Making incessant posts to the tune of "I Do Not Care About This Ha Ha Ha" does not add anything to the thread. You can talk about whatever election-related topic you like. You can ignore the McDonald's posts. You're an adult. Stop whining.

Excuse me? That this is a ludicrously silly thing to argue about is an opinion, and I have the right to express it. The only one whining here is you because I expressed an opinion you don't seem to like. So sorry.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 24, 2024, 06:46:11 PM »

It's a tiny, insignificant speck of an issue, because nobody had any reason to make it an issue in the first place. Republicans are arguing that nobody cares about January 6 anymore because issues, meanwhile we have McDonaldsgate, gtfo with this bullshit 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 24, 2024, 04:58:15 PM »

Since everyone is interested in evidence...

I mean, I'm not interested in evidence that Harris worked a menial job 40 years ago, and like Action80 said I doubt many people are, because who cares? It doesn't seem to matter to anyone except Trump and his brainwashed followers, who of course care because they let Trump do their thinking for them. Other than that, and maybe the occasional pedantic internet troll here and there, truly, nobody gives a shit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 23, 2024, 06:28:24 PM »

Harris isn't necessarily a liar. Maybe she really does believe she worked at McDonald's, despite having never worked there.

How did you come by this assertion?

Imagine falling so hard for the propaganda that you think Kamala Hussain Harris ever worked a minimum wage job in her life.

Um, imagine falling for the propaganda so hard that you reject without reason just the notion that Kamala Harris might have ever worked a minimum wage job in her life?

I see what you did here. You said exactly what I said but you stapled an Uno reverse card to it. How did you come up with this novel rhetorical tactic? It’s so simple a child could use it. Like, a very small child.

I know, I got moves.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 23, 2024, 03:40:15 PM »

Harris isn't necessarily a liar. Maybe she really does believe she worked at McDonald's, despite having never worked there.

How did you come by this assertion?

Imagine falling so hard for the propaganda that you think Kamala Hussain Harris ever worked a minimum wage job in her life.

Um, imagine falling for the propaganda so hard that you reject without reason just the notion that Kamala Harris might have ever worked a minimum wage job in her life?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 23, 2024, 03:55:12 AM »

Trump's McDonalds visit was a brilliant campaign strategy. To the average person the chronic Trump-complainers sound like idiots for complaining about this.

The event produced iconic Americana-reminiscent imagery which has resonated nationally and internationally as advertisements for Trump, McDonalds and America itself.

Excellent job digging your nose deep up Trump's asshole as usual, Tom.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 22, 2024, 07:22:26 PM »

Nobody gives a fuck about McDonalds.

Trump does.  So much so he made a whole PR stunt about it.  Probably cost alot of money and time.

He spent his own money?

Probably not if we're being honest. Doubtless it was his zombie supporters who are too dumb to see the logical disconnect between believing their orange leader is a multibillionaire and throwing their social security checks at him who footed the bill for this. And given Trump's record as a hopeless cheat there's plenty of reason to doubt anybody got paid anyway.

But I think Dave's point about the time and effort still stands. He just can't get over the McDonald's thing, CLEARLY it matters to him, and it's absolutely hilarious.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 21, 2024, 07:05:33 PM »

I just thought it was funny that she got in his head so much about working at McDonald's that he staged this in the first place. 

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General

« on: October 19, 2024, 01:39:01 PM »

Everything you write is pretty accurate, but you just don't quite get across how boring it was. I was actually kind of excited to see exactly how they were going to make this a musical and how Lady Gaga would end up fitting into that. Having the main characters occasionally stop all the momentum (such as there is, given the threadbare plot) to mumble their way through a dusty old standard was not what I was hoping to see. And it just made an already slow movie drag even more.

Say what you will about the first movie (it has a self-important air that it doesn't really earn, it wears its influences on its sleeve), I think it's rarely boring.

And yeah, the courtroom scenes were absolutely ridiculous. After how grounded these movies are in general having the judge allow Arthur to traipse around the courtroom like the southern bird lawyer in Futurama and do nothing but bully a witness took me all the way out of it.

And no, there's nothing on the screen to justify its ridiculous budget, nothing at all. As I said before even Gaga is just wasted. There's basically one big action set piece. 90% of the rest of the movie is the same prison interiors, the same courtroom. They deserve for this to be the bomb that it is. They had no business spending so much on a movie that looks so dull.

And, ok, I hated the ending, and part of what rankled me about it is that Todd Phillips changed the narrative to make a point to the toxic incels that revered Arthur in the first movie. There was never meant to be a Joker 2. The first movie was supposed to stand on its own and it definitely implied that Arthur would become the Joker. He changed the story as a "Take that" to the fans that made the first movie a hit. But couldn't he have gotten his point across without changing the intended story? How am I, who came into these movies as a fan of the character first and foremost, supposed to react to the fact that this was never the character I came to see, and that the only reason for this is that Phillips felt he needed to make a political point?

Sorry, WB, swing and a miss.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General

« on: October 12, 2024, 04:12:57 PM »

Joker 2 was a steaming pile of shit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: October 08, 2024, 09:44:25 PM »

I'm pretty sure that nobody in the government is trying to "disarm" the public

You mean except for all the people in the government trying to explicitly ban guns from being owned by the public.

Examples?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/kamala-harris-assault-weapons-ban-tax-relief-pennsylvania

https://pelosi.house.gov/issues/gun-violence-prevention

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-democrats-continue-push-for-assault-weapons-ban

Oh, ok. You should rest easy then. If I'm found with a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb by the federal government it will definitely be taken away from me and I will definitely get in a lot of trouble. So this "disarming" that you speak of actually happened decades ago, no need to fear it as something imminent now.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: October 08, 2024, 07:41:58 PM »

I'm pretty sure that nobody in the government is trying to "disarm" the public

You mean except for all the people in the government trying to explicitly ban guns from being owned by the public.

Examples?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 06, 2024, 04:40:45 PM »

It's still a Bible. It's still a religious text. If the conservative members of the Supreme Court want to make a precedent out of allowing Bibles to be distributed in public schools again nothing will stop them, and this pretext wouldn't make it any easier because it's STILL A RELIGIOUS TEXT.

So no, this is not why they're doing it, but nice try anyway at rationalizing their bullshit, I know you see it as your job and I'm sure you did your best.

Also, this isn't what many of the Founders believed, but you go ahead and keep propagating that lie.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 06, 2024, 02:50:34 PM »

It makes sense to me why they would need a special Bible with the Constitution in it. They are attempting to bring Biblical study back into the school system. If they use a regular Bible then they can be accused of running afoul of their students' freedom of religion. They would get criticisms and questions like why not use the Quran or Torah?

 

Yeah, add the Constitution in there and this issue just vanishes, right Tom? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk

« on: October 06, 2024, 10:01:23 AM »

https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-elon-musk-supports-dark-maga-conspiracy-at-donald-trumps-butler-rally

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519415674111672325?t=r4AR1SSE72VK23RM8R9FRQ&s=09

"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally"

Welp, so much for that. The man's every bit as much the charlatan and hypocrite Trump is. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 02, 2024, 02:36:58 AM »

Would you be concerned if someone ate your favorite pet?

You guys certainly don't seem that concerned, considering that you want to dismiss all claims by claiming that there is not enough evidence to your satisfaction.

The linguistic gymnastics in this sentence... Tom, you are a master at using the maximum amount of words to say absolutely nothing.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 08:00:49 PM »

I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

lol this never happened.

Do you have evidence it never happened?

Ooh, got 'im. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 01:08:25 PM »

I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

I'll take "things that never happened" for $1000, Alex! 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 29, 2024, 09:09:47 PM »

It's a thing. You won't find any evidence of it because the mainstream media won't let anybody talk about it and the Deep State suppresses it but it's all a part of the vudu.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 26, 2024, 07:39:56 PM »

According to the article I linked…

Trump and Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, are charged with disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity.

Yes, it’s doubtful that the case will go anywhere, but it’s yet another example of the number of fucks that Trump gives about the truth and the potential consequences of his words and actions.

It's also an example of the kind of overblown, unnecessary actions taken against Trump that his followers use as ammo to say that he's just being targeted for political reasons, and given that they're correct in this case, it's justification for that attitude. This really isn't helping any.