The United States by 2020 will prove itself to be the most racist and genocidal civilization humanity has ever known.
Your use of the future tense betrays your inner Pollyanna.
I keed, I keed!
How long has Wikileaks been in the tank for Putin?
“First, they came for the Nazis, and I said nothing. Because @#%$ them, they are Nazis, they are literally the reason you know this poem!” - Unknown
Now I’m wanting some nachos galacticos.
*sigh*
What is so difficult to understand?
breast on female = private part
display of private part = nudity
nudity not appropriate in public area, unless area is zoned for nudity.
Would you feel better if every public place had a roped off area for breastfeeding? Would that be ok then because it’s designated for that usage, even though you could still accidentally see one of those scary offensive nipples?
Anyway, what is so difficult to understand?
Adult’s mouth on breast on female = sexual
Child’s mouth on breast on female = survival
Never read Grapes of Wrath, eh? 😉
It’s fairly appalling to me that Corporate America seems to have a stronger moral compass than some of our major religious leaders. I’ve never been a fan of either, but corporations are by definition amoral, profit overrules everything institutions. And yet here we have Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, Google, AirBnB all doing the right thing while white evangelical leaders are silent or worse. Who’d have thought taking a stand against Nazis who murder people would cause so much hand-wringing, dithering, and shoe-gazing. I guess being amoral eats into your profits long before it hurts your church attendance, depending on your church. That’s not to say there aren’t major religious leaders who do speak out – they do, and bless them – but it disgusts me that so many do not, when it is presumably their day job.
Source on Twitter and Facebook doing the right thing? I thought they had been mostly complicity in this issue.
You are correct. I swore I’d heard Twitter was shutting down white supremacist accounts (except Trump’s), but I’m not seeing a source now.
Meanwhile, could someone read the rest of this article for me? I got to this line and couldn’t stop irony-induced laugh-vomiting, which makes reading hard:
King said Bannon was “exploiting the racial issue. That can’t be allowed.”
It’s fairly appalling to me that Corporate America seems to have a stronger moral compass than some of our major religious leaders. I’ve never been a fan of either, but corporations are by definition amoral, profit overrules everything institutions. And yet here we have Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, Google, AirBnB all doing the right thing while white evangelical leaders are silent or worse. Who’d have thought taking a stand against Nazis who murder people would cause so much hand-wringing, dithering, and shoe-gazing. I guess being amoral eats into your profits long before it hurts your church attendance, depending on your church. That’s not to say there aren’t major religious leaders who do speak out – they do, and bless them – but it disgusts me that so many do not, when it is presumably their day job.
JFJ is a terrible person.
Like father, like son.
Oh yeah? Then why is Donald Trump Jr. such an upstanding…
Oh.
Everyone always criticizes Uday, while Qusay gets away with everything.
It’s fairly appalling to me that Corporate America seems to have a stronger moral compass than some of our major religious leaders. I’ve never been a fan of either, but corporations are by definition amoral, profit overrules everything institutions. And yet here we have Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, Google, AirBnB all doing the right thing while white evangelical leaders are silent or worse. Who’d have thought taking a stand against Nazis who murder people would cause so much hand-wringing, dithering, and shoe-gazing. I guess being amoral eats into your profits long before it hurts your church attendance, depending on your church. That’s not to say there aren’t major religious leaders who do speak out – they do, and bless them – but it disgusts me that so many do not, when it is presumably their day job.
Charlottesville is 911 for white people. It’s an inside job as part of the operation to divide this country 50/50 and set everyone at each other’s throats. Trump is a full player in this and has been carefully crafting his response to be inflammatory while appearing sympathetic to whites.
I don’t know what the end-game is for these people, but may all those with the globalist cabal burn in agony for all eternity.
here is another guy the mods need to get rid of.
Agreed. There’s a line, and race war conspiracy theories, even if so inarticulately phrased as to be almost indecipherable, are fully on one side of it.
Was talking about this the other day: it wasn’t too long ago, historically speaking, that the Democrats told the white supremacists that they were no longer welcome in the Democratic Party. But prior to that, there was an alliance – a craven, power-over-lives, look-the-other-way alliance. Eventually the Dems made the right call, the Dixiecrats were born and eventually were welcomed by the Republicans.
So the question is: now that the craven, power-over-lives, look-the-other-way alliance is clearly on the Republican side, when will it get bad enough that they will they make the same call? I suspect there is no “bad enough” for that to happen, but I’m a cynic.
But if something does happen, here’s my guess: it will be centered on Russia, and the fissure will start to blow up by the end of September (this year). The Russia topic would allow Republicans to sidestep the issue–denouncing Trump without theoretically alienating white supremacists (I say theoretically because Trump is their damn hero, so it absolutely will infuriate them). And if they wait too long, the continuing never-ending scandal of it all may taint their 2018 prospects. That’s assuming the Russia problem can be contained to just the Trump administration, which is a big “if”, and one of the reasons I’m inclined to think nothing will happen.
Apparently it’s starting to sink in among the Nazis how badly their march is being perceived by the country at large, Trump notwithstanding. They are now manipulating photos in an attempt to make it look like the non-Nazis were attacking police officers. Among their own credulous propaganda circles, it’s unfortunately likely to be a fairly successful tactic. Shit, Pizzagate was completely preposterous on about seventy levels and their people still ate it up…
Ehh, Antifa aren’t just non-Nazis, but I get your point.
Honestly, their ‘communities’ are so insular that the entire world could be telling them that it’s photoshopped and they’d just claim it’s fake news.
As if on cue, Trump repeats a completely untrue anecdote about General Pershing, that the media had already reported was untrue the first time around, as a way of showing how living out some sort of gross anti-Muslim fantasy is the best way to deal with terrorism.
As opposed to starting with reality, and working with that.
Oh, hey I forgot about that, thanks. Complete re-translations are daunting, so I fully expect them to take a long time, as opposed to just pulling existing subtitles from a home video release or TV broadcast, or even transcribing a dub. The current Swedish ones aren’t the best, but I’d rather deal with them a little longer for a really great translation, than get something rushed. So take your time – I’m patient.
Speaking of just transcribing a dub: Slovak, Hindi, Tamil, and Navajo speakers, it’s a relatively easy job… fame and glory… or at least a hearty forum thank-you… the Hindi dub could also be turned into Urdu pretty easily…
Also, even if you’re a new mom who thinks it should be private, the lack of easily-accessible private places kinda severely restricts your movements. And even some more-widely-available private places (port-o-lets) are unpleasant enough you’d really rather do it in public.
So basically moms who think it should be private use a little baby blankie or something to cover up, but still do it in public. Moms who think there’s nothing sexual about eating cover up with a baby. But not doing it in public at all? That’s not really feasible.
Bannon’s interview IMO shows a canny strategist that basically understands Lee Atwater’s (Reagan/Bush strategist) premise that national politics in the US is ultimately about race, but rejects Atwater’s assertion that the racial messaging needs to be increasingly coded and indirect. Basically Atwater’s strategy was: if the election is about race, Democrats lose – but you can’t actually say it’s about race. Bannon just trims the last bit of the statement off.
In many ways, Trump’s victory already proved Bannon’s view right and Atwater’s wrong. But compare the victory with others, and I’m not so sure. With Reagan’s famous “states rights” speech standing right on the very site of the murdered civil rights workers, to his “welfare queens” boogeyman, Reagan was clearly engaged in racial messaging. But you had to be very context-aware to get this. Southerners knew “states’ rights” was code for rolling back civil rights, and standing over the dead bodies of their opponents just added to the symbolism. But northerners may have missed that entirely–it’s just a states’ rights speech at some fairground. Reagan also had an economic message, and a foreign policy message. And Reagan won–and won big.
Romney didn’t run on race at all, and neither did his opponent, so that election was all about the issues, except for voters who made an issue of Obama’s race on their own. And Romney lost.
Trump on the other hand was all race all the time. His policy positions were incoherent, implausible, and inconsistent, all at the same time. But his position on race never wavered. And he won–barely, with the help of a foreign government and a constitutional quirk. But in terms of numbers, he fared worse than Romney.
IMO Atwater’s idea that you needed to turn down the volume of your racist rhetoric as time went on was basically correct – but he was wrong about the timeframe. I’m hoping that 2016 marks the last time anyone will be able to win a national election with a campaign like that, but Trump will get bigger external assists next time too.
Sure but… why would you really want to restore the missing frame?
Apparently it’s starting to sink in among the Nazis how badly their march is being perceived by the country at large, Trump notwithstanding. They are now manipulating photos in an attempt to make it look like the non-Nazis were attacking police officers. Among their own credulous propaganda circles, it’s unfortunately likely to be a fairly successful tactic. Shit, Pizzagate was completely preposterous on about seventy levels and their people still ate it up…
I hadn’t heard about the missing frame. Where is it? Is it really any worse than R2’s moving restraining bolt or the duplicate R5 or the Jawa with human arms?
Are you sure you want to know about it? Once you see it, you can’t look at the scene anymore without seeing it…
On Hoth, when Han’s on top of the Falcon getting it ready to evacuate, some rebel troops run by on the ground. Because the troops are fairly fast-moving, it’s easier to see if you focus on the troops and not on Han (not the normal way to watch that scene). A frame gets dropped right in the middle, not at a scene change or anything.
Interesting
It’s in every release, and also in the 35mm reels we have access to. Which means that frame is long gone, lost in some early production stage. The only way they could get it back is with some nasty frame interpolation algorithm, or, in typical Lucas-style, just shoot a whole new scene.
Verified I was able to find the links without a Facebook account, so that seems good. I guess the only question is whether or not direct linking might theoretically run afoul of Facebook’s terms of service.
Sessions is the biggest racist asshole of the bunch.
Sadly, I disagree. But there’s a lot of candidates and different ways to weigh them.
Sessions is always there in a pinch to keep the Trump admin from sounding like a bunch of racist assholes.
We’ve had a tough weekend in Charlotte [sic] and I know you’ve all been following that. I want to thank the state and local people and the federal people that worked so hard since those tragic events there. We cannot, and in no way can we accept or apologize for racism, bigotry, hatred, violence, and those kind of things that too often arise in our country.
Emphasis mine. It’s like two drafts of the same statement got merged into one – one saying what any decent human would say, and one saying what he thought. Stay classy, Jeff!
Sorry not to join in. Any topic that even vaguely touches on sportsball makes me very sleepy.
However, I saw this for the first time today. It’s from an exit poll PPP did in February 2016, while the Republican primaries were still going on. I think it wasn’t widely publicized at the time because everybody already knew Trump’s core supporters were a hamper of reprehensibles, and the GOP establishment was totally going to prevent them from taking over, so it didn’t matter, right?
Not focusing on Trump’s numbers in particular–there it is folks, 21% of Republican primary voters either think whites are a superior race, or are open to the idea. We’re gonna need a bigger basket.
These newfangled Nazis sure crumble faster than their predecessors.
Maybe they shouldn’t be made out of snowflakes?
I hadn’t heard about the missing frame. Where is it? Is it really any worse than R2’s moving restraining bolt or the duplicate R5 or the Jawa with human arms?
Are you sure you want to know about it? Once you see it, you can’t look at the scene anymore without seeing it…
On Hoth, when Han’s on top of the Falcon getting it ready to evacuate, some rebel troops run by on the ground. Because the troops are fairly fast-moving, it’s easier to see if you focus on the troops and not on Han (not the normal way to watch that scene). A frame gets dropped right in the middle, not at a scene change or anything.
Well, there were three 1980 soundtracks depending on how, when and where you saw it. There was the 70mm six-channel mix, the 16mm mono mix, and the stereo mix. The stereo mix is how almost everyone heard it, it’s how everyone heard it on home video until the 1993 home video mix, and it’s also the basis for the default Despecialized six-channel soundtrack.
So if you hear anything like that in Despecialized, it was definitely that way in the most commonly-heard audio mix and in home video mixes prior to 1993 (there may be some channel differences just from how the six-channel mix was constructed, but no content differences like that). I can’t vouch for the other mixes, but DeEd also includes other soundtracks, including the original 16mm mono mix and the 93 mix, so you can see for yourself if it’s there too. The 70mm six-channel mix was supposedly extremely similar to the stereo mix, but went with a different cut of the video, so it’s a bit of a unicorn.
Movies have flaws. Wait until you hear about the missing frame in Empire. You’ll never unsee it, and it’s in every version of the film ever released.
That’s not to say the current version of Empire Despecialized is flawless–there are problems. But the soundtrack? That part’s pretty much perfect (except that the video lags one frame behind it, which is a problem with the video). Not just because hairy_hen did a great job on it (which he did), but because the original 1980 audio was made available to the public in lossless form, so we had excellent-quality raw materials to work with.
EDIT: Found hairy_hen’s comment on this exact issue. Seems like it’s been there on every audio mix and wasn’t removed until the Special Editions:
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/724246
Also, just to tie everything together with a nice ribbon, the infamous Nazi website that no reputable domain hosting service will touch… just got a new domain. From Russia, with love. Just in case there was any doubt remaining about how this obscure movement suddenly became shockingly well-funded and connected.
Can we call the Nazis “Russian-backed separatists” yet?