moviefreakedmind

It was an unreasonable ban.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/valve-criticized-over-appalling-school-183039234.html

They’re trying to distract from the real issue of gun control again.

Mrebo said:

I’m not sure the purpose of your proclamations, mfm. Your rampant generalizations make it difficult to respond.

I’m proclaiming my stance on things in a clear and obvious way.

I agree that it’s perfectly reasonable to say that the Dems or the GOP is worse on a given issue. But the reasonableness depends on the extent to which you’re informed on the actual positions of each party.

And any generalization of a party’s position doesn’t apply to every member of the party and doesn’t comprehensively describe a party’s position, parts of which actually may not be bad.

It does apply to the party’s general position, though. Are you seriously going to claim that the Republican is not worse on gay rights than the Democrats?

Your statement on civil liberties for gays is an obvious generalization but also a mischaracterization.

Prove me wrong. The Republican platform is “family values” which is another term for anti-gay.

Mrebo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-the-boy-scouts-of-america-is-a-pedophile-induction-center/

Note: Alex Jones was an ardent defender of alt-reich mouthpiece Milo Y when the latter condoned the statutory rape of minors by adults and also admitted to knowing of active childraping priests and other abusers that he refused to name. Jones also defended Republican pedophile and child-molester Roy Moore. Ironically, Alex Jones is the real supporter of pedophilia, not the BSA.

Again with the boogeymen!

All those people are nutbars. I know they find some quarter among people who call themselves conservatives but no party is free from having stupid, dangerous, and crazy people supposedly on their side.

A boogeyman with the President’s ear and an audience of millions.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-the-boy-scouts-of-america-is-a-pedophile-induction-center/

Note: Alex Jones was an ardent defender of alt-reich mouthpiece Milo Y when the latter condoned the statutory rape of minors by adults and also admitted to knowing of active childraping priests and other abusers that he refused to name. Jones also defended Republican pedophile and child-molester Roy Moore. Ironically, Alex Jones is the real supporter of pedophilia, not the BSA.

And the Republican party is worse. I hate the Democrats too, but to several groups of people the Republicans absolutely are worse. The Republican party considers gays an aberration and is opposed to their civil liberties on the whole. There’s nothing unreasonable about calling them “worse”.

Jay said:

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-the-alt-right-is-not-pro-free-speech/

Reminder that the alt-reich are some of Trump’s most ardent defenders. (He never denounced them.)

Trump didn’t renounce Spencer and Obama didn’t renounce Farrakhan. Both are wrong.

Total false-equivalence. Obama never associated with a black supremacist outlet like Trump has with the alt-right (Brietbart and InfoWars). Trump even implicitly defended the worst of the alt-right by refusing to condemn the Nazi rally in South Carolina where a counterprotester was murdered and another twenty were injured by an alt-right terrorist. This absolutely is whataboutism. Who cares that Obama didn’t denounce someone significantly less dangerous a decade ago? It’s irrelevant to the conversation about Trump’s courting of the alt-right. And by the way, Obama never once tried to court the “anti-white” vote the way Trump courted the racist vote.

Yeah, but a lot of people on this website have the solution to go back and watch laserdisc instead of the imperfect blu-rays.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-the-alt-right-is-not-pro-free-speech/

Reminder that the alt-reich are some of Trump’s most ardent defenders. (He never denounced them.)

As of right now it essentially allows for some states to be far better than others, which is unfortunate for the people living in the worst states. I think it’s important for states to have their own governments run by people that actually know what life is like in those states, but certain things (e.g. gay rights, abortion, marijuana) need to be legalized everywhere and all Americans’ rights to those things need to be uniformly protected. Unfortunately, the states rights platform is basically just an anti-civil liberties platform.

Even if you’re going to say that they were lazy output, they still look far better than VHS, laserdisc, and DVD.

LexX said:

Many BD releases have gotten good video/audio reviews, like Jurassic Park, 007 films, Back to the Future etc. but on this forum people have had a different opinion as they have older releases and possibly even original audio tracks or film reels to make their point.

I’m just going to be completely honest with you, and some people here may get pissed off at me, but most people on here just generally aren’t the experts that they think they are, and that’s putting it extremely politely. Just because someone on this forum thinks that old laserdiscs or DVDs look better than a perfectly fine blu ray doesn’t mean that you should listen to them. The 007 films look great on blu ray, except for Goldeneye which wasn’t restored. But even Goldeneye still looks better than it did on DVD and VHS. I’m going to go out on a limb and wager that over 99% of blu ray releases are better than any previous home video presentation of the film in question. I think the OUT and the “accurate” (however the hell that’s even judged) Star Wars color obsession has gotten many people on this site to think that all modern home video is questionable and all old home video is inherently accurate when that’s not true at all.

Federalism is a big part of why the US has such a problem with civil liberties. A lot of states are completely backwards on things like gay rights, abortion, public school funding, separation of church and state etc. etc. even though the country as a whole is more progressive than that, but since each state has two senators, the people in Mississippi and Wyoming have equal senatorial representation to California and New York and states like that. Senate and electoral college aside, the voters in those states still elect governors and legislators that either have a poor track record on or are outright opposed to most civil liberties and constitutional rights, making states like Mississippi far worse places to live than states with populations that are overall more reasonable.

Divorce, adultery (as long as it’s heterosexual), greed, alcoholism, and some others are “sins” that are often much more easily forgiven in fundamentalist circles. At least they are in the US, so I’m assuming it probably goes for other places too.

I’m not surprised. A lot of people in non-American 1st world countries are a lot more liberal than their laws would have you believe. Australia only recently legalized gay marriage, just a few months ago, even though their population was largely in favor of it.

NeverarGreat said:

I think it would be really great if we started valuing things like truth, justice, and the American Way again, whatever those things mean to each individual.

That’s fake news. MAGA 2020.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/entertainment/bill-cosby-harvey-weinstein-message/index.html

I don’t want a strong center. I want a strong left that actually stands up to the right. The loons on the right actually run our government while the weaklings on the so-called left just stand by and watch.

I’ll be dead so I can live with losing them at that point. 😉

If there was a way for me to save my files in outer space, I would do it.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

That’s why you have the actual physical thing as well as the cloud. I don’t trust either of them as adequate so I use them both.

How many hard drives do I need before I don’t need the cloud anymore? Is seven enough?

None are enough. No amount of clouds or hard drives are “enough” in the sense that you don’t have to worry about potentially losing everything.

Also, if you do a lot of writing, it gets saved to the cloud when you save it on your computer, so if you lose the computer before putting it on the external hard drives then you don’t lose the progress you’ve made since the last time you saved it on the external drives.

Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

That’s why you have the actual physical thing as well as the cloud. I don’t trust either of them as adequate so I use them both.

Because if you lose one cloud, you’ve still got the other and the external hard drives and the computers. If you lose one hard drive, you’ve still got the others and the clouds, etc. etc. It’s just being safe.

I never understand anything.

My files includes writing and personal journals and things. If I lost it all, I’d pretty much lose all that I care about.