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DominicCobb said:

You’re missing the point.

What point is that?

yhwx said:

Handman said:

I find it kind of unsettling that sexual abuse in the public conscious is all about men preying on women… it goes both ways… I’d know.

Woman-man harassment schemes are much less common than man-woman or even man-man (see: Spacey, Kevin). While I’m sure it happens both ways, trying to frame it as an everybody problem is disingenuous.

It is an everybody problem. I typed a story of mine recently and then deleted it because it’s embarrassing. The short version of the story is that when I was harassed by some dumb, evil motherfucker absolutely no one cared. At all. You can’t expect everyone to be up in arms about something if you’re unwilling to acknowledge the reality that it’s not a black-and-white issue that only affects certain people. Your soulless, pragmatic approach to “this happens more so other people’s experiences are automatically less important” actually sickens me quite a bit. By your logic someone could just as easily say that since most people won’t be raped, it’s disingenuous to frame it as such a big problem. Also, your “I’m sure it happens both ways,” is totally dishonest. You know that it happens both ways so don’t frame it disingenuously.

This creep doesn’t sound like the type that would let a little distance get in his way.

He’s a perfect example of why I don’t speak to anybody in person unless I absolutely have to.

It is interesting that she brought up the idea that this may not have happened if Hillary had won. I think that Trump and his crew gaining power might have emboldened people a bit to stop putting up with the shit that Washington, network television, and Hollywood have been allowing to happen for years.

I don’t understand strong feelings either way on them either.

I’ll never understand the strong feelings TFA evokes in people.

My not looking forward to TLJ has nothing to do with my hatred for Christmas.

Warbler said:

Well, try to keep an open mind until you actually see it.

I have an open mind I just don’t want to see it. I hate Christmas and find it the most depressing time of the year.

I’m not pumped about the Last Jedi. I hate the holidays and can’t wait till they’re over so that I can be miserable and not have to be bludgeoned with Chrismas BS.

If you deliver pizza for too long, your car will explode.

Never loan money. You can give money, but don’t loan it unless you’ve got a legally binding contract.

The Chaplin 'stache is still safe if you wear the Chaplin hat and the Chaplin suit along with it.

Nightmare 3 is a great film.

TV’s Frink said:

Really unnecessary, man.

Eh, it’s a timely.

RayRodgers!!!

I’m really glad you posted again, Trident.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

It’s true that my point is inapplicable if the BLM member fired was white. And I never said that BLM and Nazi were equivalent; in fact, I was arguing that they aren’t equivalent. However, if a black person were to get fired for being in BLM, a good lawyer isn’t going to get bogged down into arguing that it’s morally wrong, he’s is going to use the BLM status as evidence that the employee was actually fired for being black, which is a protected class. No such legal device would exist for a Nazi that was fired, so I was arguing that Warbler’s point (that firing a Nazi is as illegal as firing a BLM member) isn’t true.

Right and wrong is great, but in court you have to have some legal statute to refer to.

I know exactly what you were arguing, I was just agreeing with you by throwing something in off the top of my head.

The 15 disc set is fairly low-priced in the US.

I did read it. I was pointing out how much of a false equivalence BLM and Nazis are in the first place. It really isn’t even debatable. It also doesn’t necessarily have to do with a protected class either because there are non-black members of BLM.

I own it! Disc 2 of Halloweeen has some older features on it like Halloween Unmasked and the commentary track featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, and Deborah Hill. The TV cut of Halloween II is on a second disc for that film. The TV cut of Halloween I is included in the 15 disc set, but it’s not on disc 2, it’s on the bonus disc for the whole set.

EDIT: Basically, disc 2 has bonus features that have been released previously back in the DVD days, while the new stuff is on disc 1

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

The legal ramifications of firing someone for being a member of the Nazi party, versus being a member of BLM, are very different. The reason is that (to my knowledge) Nazi is not a protected class. Now, being a member of a protected class does not mean you can’t be fired. It means you can’t be fired for being in that class. An employer who fires someone for being in BLM would find themselves in court arguing that they fired the person because he was in BLM, and not because he was black, versus a skilled lawyer who would be working very hard to convince the jury otherwise. A good lawyer would have a field day, and the employer would be quite vulnerable. By contrast, there is no protected class status for being a Nazi, so there is no comparable legal issue.

There’s also the obvious fact that BLM, aside from a minority (arguable in size) of its supporters, is not inherently violent, racist, and supremacist in nature.

That could be debated. Protected class cannot.

BLM isn’t a protected class.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

The legal ramifications of firing someone for being a member of the Nazi party, versus being a member of BLM, are very different. The reason is that (to my knowledge) Nazi is not a protected class. Now, being a member of a protected class does not mean you can’t be fired. It means you can’t be fired for being in that class. An employer who fires someone for being in BLM would find themselves in court arguing that they fired the person because he was in BLM, and not because he was black, versus a skilled lawyer who would be working very hard to convince the jury otherwise. A good lawyer would have a field day, and the employer would be quite vulnerable. By contrast, there is no protected class status for being a Nazi, so there is no comparable legal issue.

There’s also the obvious fact that BLM, aside from a minority (arguable in size) of its supporters, is not inherently violent, racist, and supremacist in nature.

Handman said:

Me too. I realized everyone I thought was important, isn’t. I felt pretty alone before, but now I really am alone.

To be completely honest with you, I like you. I doubt that’s worth much, but I hope it means something.

I’m depressed too! We have so much in common.