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Alderaan

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#1078939
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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imperialscum said:

Alderaan said:

Those “rules” are what makes a movie good though. They aren’t arbitrary.

Rules? Don’t be silly. This is art, not your mom’s house.

What does this even mean?

Alderaan said:

What screenwriting rules does ESB break?

None because there are no rules. As long as things make sense and are relevant to the plot, they are fine. TFA sucks because 2/3 of the things are not relevant to the plot.

This is an ignorant comment. Writing is a craft, and successful writers don’t just sit down and write whatever comes to mind. The same way John Williams spent years studying music and music theory, before he could possibly hope to compose the music for Star Wars, so to a good writer will spend years studying storytelling and screenwriting theory before they are capable of writing anything nearly as good.

The person who just types up a script with the idea that as long as everything makes sense and is relevant, and otherwise has no clue what they are doing, is the same as the “composer” who just grabs some pots and pans and starts banging them together, thinking it sounds good.

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#1078930
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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I saw some right-wing warriors jumping to his defense by insisting that the positions for the picture were previously arranged, so he was just going where he was supposed to go.

As if that is an excuse for not politely tapping the guy and saying “excuse me”.

Guy is a total clown. An almost 70 year old baby and a national embarrassment. Shameful that a grown man would ever think about acting like that.

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#1078924
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Editroid said:

Why do people always blame Disney instead of Lucasfilm? Disney is just the parent company.

Disney has final say on everything. Often, they will just let Lucasfilm do their thing. But Disney, like all studios, will butt their head into matters and mandate certain things where they think appropriate.

So yes, it’s perfectly fine to be pissed off at Disney and Lucasfilm. If Disney wanted to make the OOT possible, they could make it happen.

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#1078647
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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By the way, none of that even touches on her reckless handling of classified information which she forwarded to her pal, Sid Blumenthal, who was hacked by foreign governments, and did not have a security clearance or authorization to view any of those top secret communications.

Is she not to be prosecuted for that, in the same way that Kristian Saucier, U.S. Navy, was sentenced to 1 year in prison last summer for having old pictures on his cell phone of classified information?

The double standard exists because of who she is, period.

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#1078641
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Ryan McAvoy said:

CatBus said:

That’s a very different conclusion from the ones reached by the FBI, and the relevant House and Senate investigations, none of which found she’d committed a crime.

Alderaan said:

She and her people set up their own private email server IN ORDER TO circumvent those laws.

No that’s wrong (CatBus is correct). As has been mentioned in this thread several times (along with quotes from the relevant laws). They NEEDED to prove intent, which they couldn’t. Hillary being possibly naive/lazy/foolish/incompetent is not enough and not a crime.

This is just wrong. Intent is not mentioned or inferred anywhere in the relevant statutes. Additionally, the Republicans in Congress have claimed that the FBI notes on the investigation never refer to intent. According to them, Hillary and her subordinates were never questioned on their intent, and they never offered any answers about intent. No Democrat in Congress has refuted those assertions, and the FBI has refused to release details on the interviews and the investigation.

There are countless cases of right-wing media, supporters, and politicians claiming that Hillary Clinton committed a crime and should have been prosecuted. For the most part, their opinion is politically motivated. And there are countless cases of left-wing media, supporters, and politicians who claim that Hillary Clinton was just incompetent, didn’t mean to do anything bad, you can’t prove intent, yada-yada, and she should be left alone because she did nothing illegal. For the most part, the opinions of these people are also politically motivated.

Although I’m a liberal, I consider myself an independent leftist and don’t care for party politics. I believe in a higher right/wrong moral standard. I don’t think there is any question about what Hillary and her team were up to. She didn’t want her communications subject to outside oversight. Despite the existence of laws mandating that government communications be preserved and subject to review, she setup the private email server anyway, because she’s Hillary Clinton, and who the hell is going to stop her.

You Democrats sound awfully high and mighty accusing the Republicans of only pushing this case for political theater; but I would argue that the mock investigation was the only thing that constituted political theater. Starting with the government never utilizing its powers of subpoena, to the FBI granting immunity to everyone and everybody who ever worked for Hillary Clinton, to the Attorney General meeting on the tarmac with the husband of the person being investigated, to the FBI director then calling a press conference and announcing there would be no prosecution (which is clearly not his call), to this nonsense about intent when her intentions were neither asked nor supplied, nor were they relevant anyway.

CatBus said:

Republicans control all three branches of government

Barack Obama, a Democrat, was the President and in control of the Executive Branch during the investigation.

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#1078595
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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CatBus said:

That’s a very different conclusion from the ones reached by the FBI, and the relevant House and Senate investigations, none of which found she’d committed a crime. But okay.

She wasn’t prosecuted because of who she is and the power that her and her husband and all of her supporters have in Washington. The 2009 Federal Records Act mandates that all government emails must be preserved for record keeping, in accordance with Freedom of Information Act requests. She and her people set up their own private email server in order to circumvent those laws. Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNBC host) agrees: http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/06/msnbcs-odonnell-clinton-email-system-obviously-set-up-to-circumvent-foia-requests-video/

Are you able to make a legal argument or logical argument that she did not commit a crime? Or are you just going to fall back on the “they didn’t prosecute her, so therefore she didn’t do anything wrong” defense?

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#1078417
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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A transcript of Trump’s phone call with murderous Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been obtained and released by The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/read-the-full-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte/

This either reads like two children talking politics to each other, or two liars just smiling and talking bullshit to each other.

I can’t decide which.

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#1078411
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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DominicCobb said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/were-seth-richs-parents-stop-politicizing-our-sons-murder/2017/05/23/164cf4dc-3fee-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html

The family’s actions suggest they are not confident in the police investigation. They hired a private investigator, and now they are requesting the police department to release more information regarding the investigation.

The following aspects of this case seem suspicious to me:

  1. The police claim it was a robbery, but nothing was taken from Mr. Rich.
  2. Julian Assange has all but said that Seth Rich was the Wikileaks source.
  3. Kim Dotcom said he has evidence that Seth Rich was the source (which I don’t necessarily think is credible), but instead of asking to speak with Mr. Dotcom, or asking him to provide evidence, the police quickly put out a statement that Seth Rich’s death has nothing to do with Wikileaks.
  4. How can they be sure what his death was or was not related to when they have not solved the case and supposedly have no leads?
  5. There seems to be a concerted PR effort on behalf of liberal syndicated papers linked to the DNC. You can tell because in every single one of the articles in the NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, etc. the writers and editors painstakingly smear Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom, Sean Hannity, the private investigators, etc. But they never mention that the family spokesman, Brad Bauman, is a long time DNC PR operative. That doesn’t mean the family can’t hire him of course, but if a news organization is going to disclose the background of everyone else in the article, it’s probably a little suspicious when the only person they don’t offer full disclosure on is someone who works for the DNC.

This is my opinion, but I think the family’s anger is directed at the right-wing types like Hannity, who undoubtedly have very little interest in Seth Rich’s death, and would use it to advance their own political agenda. I think they have every right to feel that way, naturally. Nothing is worse than watching right-wing nutjobs clamor about Seth Rich in one internet post, and then talk about shooting Muslims and hanging liberal traitors in the next one.

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#1078378
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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In other political news, Sean Hannity says he’s under pressure from liberal media groups to lose his sponsors and get fired for promoting DNC murder conspiracies. While I do think there is something shady going on with that story, and the way the media and police are handling it, and I would like to see justice for Seth Rich (a fellow Bernie supporter), I would love to see Hannity get the sack. You know his motive is not genuine and he certainly deserves it.