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Gothamknight said:

Valheru_84 said:
. . . I don’t view Lucas in a such a harsh light anymore as I come to understand him

I’m on the same page. I more feel sorry for the guy, actually. I mean, he did make some terrible moves with the PT, but it occurs to me that the bones of a good story are there, if only the scripts had been tweaked a bit, a couple different casting choices, and most importantly a different director(s).

Yeah, those movies were almost good… well, except for the writing, the acting, the directing, and the plot. He really had something there, such a shame that it didn’t work out.

moviefreakedmind said:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/13/news/companies/united-dog-death-response/index.html?sr=fbCNN031418companies0230AMStory

Evil flight attendant murders dog. Here’s to hoping the person responsible does the world a favor and dies soon.

Fuck United Airlines.

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/resources/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/304371/2018februaryatcr_0.pdf

http://www.ksbw.com/article/seaside-high-teacher-accidentally-fires-gun-in-class/19426017

Crazy that there are people out there that unironically think the prequels are any good.

Reylo pisses me off.

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

CatBus said:

Well, that’s it. Mueller can go home now. There’s no basis to any of it. Cue the pardons!

I have to subscribe to read the full article? Fuck off, WSJ.

WSJ? Who is that? btw, I could not read the whole article, it said something about have to sign in or sign up and I am not going to do that.

William Shannon Johnson, one of the guys implicated in the Trump/Russia scandal.

jabas envermemt

Neglify said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, the movie is about actors making a war movie in a jungle in Asia and accidentally getting mixed up in a real conflict.

RDJ plays a white, blond, blue-eyed, Australian method actor who was cast as a black character. As a method actor, he stays in character the entire duration of the shoot, so he’s always in blackface, acting as his character. Early in the movie there’s a montage of his other roles, so the audience and all the characters are fully aware that he’s a white Australian in blackface going overboard with his method acting.

I’m the commentary for Tropic Thunder

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

I personally think it’s bullshit to say Ahsoka and/or Ezra survived because even though “I’m no Jedi” for the former, Ezra IS a Jedi. And that kind of destroys the idea that Luke is the Last Jedi. But I think it was bold enough already to kill two (one for sure) of the main characters.

Well we know Ezra is alive (based on Filoni statements, also so is Thrawn) but no idea what state he’s in. I’m imagining he’s sort of been out of commission in some way otherwise he’d have tried to make it back himself.

I definitely think there needs to be some explanation of what Ashoka was up to (and why, I suppose, Yoda felt they couldn’t rely on her).

I agree with this. I don’t care that she’s not technically a Jedi, she’s still a decently powerful light-side oriented force user that could have conceivably helped Luke and the rest of the OT rebels. I think that warrants an explanation.

pittrek said:

Finally seen it. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first 3 seasons, they were OK but much worse than Clone Wars, but the 4th season was the best one. And the last bunch of episodes, absolutely beautiful.

I have a non-spoiler question - is the bearded guy in Return of the Jedi actually Rex?

I’d say it’s very heavily implied, but it’s not technically confirmed. So it’s really up to you to decide if it was or not.

I really enjoyed the episodes up until the epilogue.

W.Va. lawmakers try to give teachers smaller raise, accidentally pass bill giving them full raise

The West Virginia state Senate on Saturday tried to vote to give teachers a smaller raise hike than negotiated, but accidentally voted on a bill giving teachers the requested raise.

lol

I hate when people say incendiary or incorrect things and fall back on “woah, why are you so mad, dude? Why are you taking it so seriously?” the second someone tries to respond.

Dek Rollins said:

The remarks, delivered inside the bathroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate during a lunch and fundraiser, were upbeat, lengthy, and peppered with jokes and laughter.

WIR

Mrebo said:

ChainsawAsh said:

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TV’s Frink said:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-public-school-teacher-white-nationalist-podcast_us_5a99ae32e4b089ec353a1fba

Obviously the best solution to this is to give her a gun while she’s teaching.

That would be a bad idea. We do have a horrible 1st Amendment that allows her to do her podcast without repercussions like being fired. Time to repeal that amendment too? Maybe we can avoid that problem in this case if she expressed these statements in school (as she said she did and lied to the principal) or discriminates against students. But do we ever want white supremacists in our schools?

She can totally be fired for that, can’t she? Just not jailed or legally barred from making and distributing her podcast?

No. Public schools, or any other government employer, can’t punish people for their beliefs and expressions. If she brings it into the classroom that’s another matter, which may be the case here.

It absolutely is the case here.

In the same episode, Volitich boasted about bringing her white nationalist beliefs into the classroom and hiding her ideology from administrators. She said that when parents complained to the school’s principal about how she is injecting political bias into the classroom, Volitich lied to the principal and said it was not true.

“She believed me and backed off,” she said.

Volitich also agreed with her guest’s assertion that more white supremacists need to infiltrate public schools and become teachers. “They don’t have to be vocal about their views, but get in there!” her guest said. “Be more covert and just start taking over those places.”

“Right,” Volitich said. “I’m absolutely one of them.”

moviefreakedmind said:

Ah-lee sounds offensively similar to Muhammad Ali and I refuse to associate a prequel character with him.

Depends on where you put the emphasis.

Ah-lee is correct, but I think it’s fun to pronounce it as oh-lee-ay.

moviefreakedmind said:

Personally, I don’t think many people are intelligent or responsible enough to operate a gun (including cops). I also think it should be much more difficult to legally own and operate a car.

I wish that were the case, but most cities in the US just don’t have the infrastructure to support that. Cities here were built for cars, and I think it’s mostly too late to change that.

timdiggerm said:

Wouldn’t it make a lot of sense for “What comes next” to be the new-canon version of the Legends Thrawn trilogy? They’ve introduced Thrawn, they’ve introduced Noghri, and only one film left in the ST makes it a perfect time to start telling post-ROTJ stories.

It’s possible, granted Thrawn survives Rebels (we have one episode left to see). There’s already some post-ROTJ content (Battlefront 2017, the Aftermath series) that a Thrawn series would have to be made compatible with, and I don’t know how feasible that is.

chyron8472 said:

I have not been contributing to the gun control conversation because I feel the changes we need to make are too vehemently opposed by ignorant, stubborn people. The kids are going to have a march on Washington and many people discount their opinions because they’re just kids and don’t know what they’re talking about.

This. Really tired of this smug “le tidepod generation wants to lecture us on guns,” attitude. Teens are not the vapid morons that everyone seems to think they are.

TV’s Frink said:

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Regulation. Name any regulation, and that’s another option beyond just banning guns or having armed guards.

What regulation? like I said, banning guns isn’t going to happen. So what regulation would you suggest?

I’m not an expert on the issue, but some things that sound good to me on a surface level are; raising the minimum age to 21,

probably not going to happen, too much opposition. Also kids could still get them from their parents. I think that is what happened with Columbine.

a ban on high-capacity magazines, more extensive background checks on a national level,

not going to happen, too much opposition.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966662241977360384

I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue - I hope!

I’ll believe it when I see it. You’ll forgive me if don’t take Trump at his word.

These things will help, but I don’t think them alone will be enough.

For sure, but I think Trump’s support of the ideas is a step in the right direction.

He also supported the dreamers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Trump’s support of anything means less than nothing.

Oh, for sure. He’s a notorious liar, I wouldn’t take anything he says at face value. I think his stated support for those ideas is a step in the right direction.

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

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Jeebus said:

Regulation. Name any regulation, and that’s another option beyond just banning guns or having armed guards.

What regulation? like I said, banning guns isn’t going to happen. So what regulation would you suggest?

I’m not an expert on the issue, but some things that sound good to me on a surface level are; raising the minimum age to 21,

probably not going to happen, too much opposition. Also kids could still get them from their parents. I think that is what happened with Columbine.

a ban on high-capacity magazines, more extensive background checks on a national level,

not going to happen, too much opposition.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966662241977360384

I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue - I hope!

I’ll believe it when I see it. You’ll forgive me if don’t take Trump at his word.

These things will help, but I don’t think them alone will be enough.

For sure, but I think Trump’s support of the ideas is a step in the right direction.

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

Regulation. Name any regulation, and that’s another option beyond just banning guns or having armed guards.

What regulation? like I said, banning guns isn’t going to happen. So what regulation would you suggest?

I’m not an expert on the issue, but some things that sound good to me on a surface level are; raising the minimum age to 21,

probably not going to happen, too much opposition. Also kids could still get them from their parents. I think that is what happened with Columbine.

a ban on high-capacity magazines, more extensive background checks on a national level,

not going to happen, too much opposition.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966662241977360384

I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue - I hope!

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

And, to add onto that, should the police be arresting kids?

It depends if they committed an offense the merits arrest. I would hope you agree that if kid enters school with a gun with the intent to shoot other kids that it merits arrest.

Of course, I’m more worried about minor infractions. Here’s a relevant excerpt from the aforementioned article.

Putting more people with guns in schools is not the answer. By increasing police presence in school, we are guaranteeing that more students will be arrested – perhaps unnecessarily. Increasing police in schools will contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. According to the ACLU(pdf):

“In practice, most school police spend a significant portion of their time responding to minor, nonviolent infractions – children who have drawn on desks or talked back to teachers, for example – rather than behaviors that seriously threaten school safety.”

Minor issues such as these that used to be dealt with by school officials are now being dealt with by police officers who will arrest students for such minor misbehavior. Students who bring weapons to school or who commit violent crimes on school grounds should be arrested, of course, but not those who write on desks or talk back to teachers. One arrest dramatically decreases the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school, and can create a host of other issues down the line.

Regulation. Name any regulation, and that’s another option beyond just banning guns or having armed guards.

What regulation? like I said, banning guns isn’t going to happen. So what regulation would you suggest?

I’m not an expert on the issue, but some things that sound good to me on a surface level are; raising the minimum age to 21, a ban on high-capacity magazines, more extensive background checks on a national level, and maybe a mental health examination but it may have the potential to be problematic.

Warbler said:

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Also, I don’t think I’d feel very safe around an armed guard, I’d probably feel less safe then I would without a guard. People with guns make me nervous, not because I’m afraid of guns, but because I can never know if they’re going to use them or what they’re going to use them for.

Ok, I will give this a real response.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I don’t know why an armed cop would make you nervous. He/she has the gun in case the worst happened. As long as you behave yourself, you don’t need to worry.

I don’t trust that all cops will be totally sane/rational. If the guards were “extremely well trained and extensively background checked,” as you said, I think I’d be less averse to the idea. That said, I think “trained and background checked” is too vague to really have a discussion about, and it seems to me that it’s rooted in a ‘perfect world’ ideal without really considering how it would be done and how feasible it is.

obviously, a lot more details would need to be ironed out before going ahead with this.

I’m not saying that a cop is going to shoot a student (though I don’t doubt that it would happen), just that people with guns put me on edge.

And when you say “behave yourself,” what does that mean?

Obey direct orders from cops

Kids? Obeying direct orders? Doesn’t compute. And again, what happens if they don’t?

Depends on the situation. What I talking about was obeying direct orders in an emergency situation, like an active shooter.

When not in an active shooter situation, what would you have the guard doing?

Just be on normal guard duty, ready in case an active shoot situation occurred.

I don’t know if you read the article I posted, but it said that often, teachers would pawn off that responsibility of dealing with rowdy students over to the police.

I don’t think that is what should be done. The cops are there as a last resort in a dire situation.

The teachers don’t want to deal with the rowdy kids, but that absolutely shouldn’t be the job of an armed guard; what’s the solution?

teachers should be told to deal with normal kind of rowdy. When it is not not normal is when the cops should intervene.

What is “not normal?”

Not exactly sure, but basically when violence goes beyond the normal kind of violence that kids do in schools. Certainly if kids start fighting with deadly weapons like knives or guns, it is time for the cop to intervene.

What about a fistfight? And, to add onto that, should the police be arresting kids?

Will they be shot? What if the guard feels threatened by a student?

unlikely.

It’s still something that should be addressed.

So should a nut trying to come in and murder doubt digit numbers of kids. But instead, the right blocks banning of guns, and it seems the left is unwilling to allow armed guards. So nothing will happen and more kids will die.

Those aren’t the only two options.

I’d like to know a third.

Regulation. Name any regulation, and that’s another option beyond just banning guns or having armed guards.

Best case scenario, I think, if guards were absolutely necessary and there was no way they weren’t gonna happen; would be that they never interact with the students. Lock them in a room or something, have them watch the security cameras. They’d be solely reserved for dealing with an active threat. Even then, it would still be colossally expensive, and for what? How many of these guards will actually get the chance to do their job? How many will be successful at their job?

The knowledge that they are there itself might prevent a shooting. You don’t see these nuts trying their rampages at a police station do you? Ever wonder why?

Because their trauma is school-related? They weren’t forced to go to a police station nearly every day for 13 years. They weren’t (presumably) bullied at a police station.

or maybe they known they wouldn’t be able to murder people in the double digits there before being stopped, isn’t that a possibility?

Sure, that’s probably part of the reason; but on the other hand, I don’t think these shooters are very familiar with rational thought or survival instinct.