moviefreakedmind

In an ideal world, once Trump is out of office, we’d be able to remove all of his appointees.

People give me shit for my hesitation to vote, but it’s for that reason. There isn’t much of a choice in most states and districts.

I’m hoping that if the Democrats fail to get the House in the midterms, then they’ll finally wake up and run on progressive principles. Being corporate centrists doesn’t appeal to anybody and they’re too stupid to see that being the lesser of two evils is nothing to brag about. If they would have ran on actual progressive platforms like Medicare for all, taxing the rich, workers’ rights, a living wage, ending corporate influence on our government, then they’d end up taking both the House and the Senate for sure. Conservatives that hate those kind of things aren’t ever going to vote Democrat no matter how moderate the candidates are, so stop trying to appeal to them. Now Democrats just have a fair advantage in the House races and a longshot at the Senate. It’s pathetic.

Sorry to hear that. My best friend had a similarly traumatic father experience. He didn’t change his name, though.

Yeah, some Romero films are being essentially held hostage by the person with the rights.

paja said:

It’s bad, but it’s very typical of cover art these days, unfortunately.

The way the poster is photographed makes the person look like a 30-year-old woman with short hair, not a kid. Plus the title is bad. It would be better marketing to just call it The Kid or Kids Rule like the tagline. Whatever.

EDIT: Oh, Patrick Stewart’s in it. I hope it’s good just because I love him.

I’m sure Trump is dumb enough to think that he could use it to campaign. I think that the “adults in the room” wouldn’t allow that to happen, though.

Jay said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Jay said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Jay said:

This whole “issue” is proof that people want to be outraged and will remain willfully ignorant in order to do so.

I don’t think it’s really an “issue,” it’s just something mildly annoying that people are poking fun at because of the test today. It’d have had a similar reception if the test had happened while any other President was in office.

Trump’s penchant for Twitter just makes it a little easier to make fun of.

The remarks about propaganda in this thread didn’t read like jokes to me. We’ll have to agree to disagree that the reception would’ve been the same with another person in office.

It depends on the person. If Obama did this, then conservatives would be up in arms. It happened with Trump so the other people are up in arms.

Probably true.

It’s actually not probably true, it’s definitely true. I remember a ton of idiot conservatives thinking that Obama’s attempt in 2009 to deliver a “stay in school” message to the children was a brainwashing attempt to destroy Christianity or something stupid.

I didn’t find him compelling in TFA.

Another question. How do you feel about cisgendered actors playing trans characters? Movies like Boys Don’t Cry, which is one of my favorite movies, and others.

I was going to ask if you were interested in reassignment surgery. I’ve not met many openly trans people, but the ones I have talked to have told me that they didn’t feel that they wanted or needed the surgery, which I was a bit surprised by. I just always assumed that surgery would be a primary goal or desire of transitioning people.

RicOlie_2 said:

Note that when I think of psychological disorders, I don’t think that it has any bearing on how valuable or fundamentally good a person is. Some people seem to get really wound up about the idea that gender dysphoria could be some kind of disorder, but have no problem calling depression a mental illness (and bear no ill-will towards depressed people).

I’d hate to answer questions that you posed to someone else in their thread, but depression and transgenderism are not comparable. Depression is a chemical imbalance that lessens the quality of life significantly of the person in question. Being transgender, while often a difficult experience in most societies, is not something that in and of itself prevents someone from living a productive and happy life. I’m not transgender so I can’t speak for people that are, but homosexuality is and has been frequently slapped with the “mental disorder” label in the past and I think it’s a similar mischaracterization of the issue.

We’ll see. My personality is so erratic that by tomorrow (or even just later tonight) I could revert to my old diet of sleeping pills and Coke (the soda, not the drug) and slip back into total depression. That’s why some days I’ll be a productive and cordial member of the forum, and others I’ll be raving about which characters of Close Encounters deserve death.

Possessed said:

moviefreakedmind said:

They can tell it’s not normal genetic baldness because my eyebrows are falling out too. So that is good news. I doubt I am capable of leading a healthy life on my own, though. We’ll see.

You’re confusing capable and willing young grasshopper.

I am trying.

Jay said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Jay said:

This whole “issue” is proof that people want to be outraged and will remain willfully ignorant in order to do so.

I don’t think it’s really an “issue,” it’s just something mildly annoying that people are poking fun at because of the test today. It’d have had a similar reception if the test had happened while any other President was in office.

Trump’s penchant for Twitter just makes it a little easier to make fun of.

The remarks about propaganda in this thread didn’t read like jokes to me. We’ll have to agree to disagree that the reception would’ve been the same with another person in office.

It depends on the person. If Obama did this, then conservatives would be up in arms. It happened with Trump so the other people are up in arms.

They can tell it’s not normal genetic baldness because my eyebrows are falling out too. So that is good news. I doubt I am capable of leading a healthy life on my own, though. We’ll see.

dahmage said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I doubt it. It started falling out two years ago and is really bad now. It’s probably just bad genetics or something. As far as I’m concerned it’s more motivation to die young.

or you could take the rational approach and see a good doctor and get an informed opinion about what is going on.

I hate giving people credit, but I found out that my hair most likely fell out from a combination of untreated anemia, untreated Major Depressive Disorder, untreated nutritional deficiencies, and a few other untreated problems that plague me. So they tell me, it will grow back if I turn my self-care around. So, you were right and my dumb ass was wrong.

You’re my favorite person that’s still alive.

Handman said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m picturing Leonard Nimoy’s head on that body as that’s the image I always associate with you.

I should be so honored.

Leonard is quite possibly my favorite person ever to have existed.

I’m picturing Leonard Nimoy’s head on that body as that’s the image I always associate with you.

Yeah, I also don’t want you gone.

The phony FBI investigation.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Trump’s tax fraud exposed. Oh wait, this is the New York Times, not something trustworthy like Breitbart or InfoWars. Joking aside, this is a great article and another example of an impeachable offense that Republicans and Trump supporters will likely do nothing about.

Jay said:

moviefreakedmind said:

He downplayed the suspicious circumstances and is pretending that it’s merely a tragic accident. It obviously wasn’t and is another example of cops getting special treatment.

It’s this kind of thinking that I find disturbing. Accusing the cop in the video of “pretending” and saying that it “obviously wasn’t” a tragic accident are firm statements about a man’s thoughts that you can’t possibly know and a situation where you weren’t present. I tend to think the accused is lying, but I don’t know and I don’t think it’s obvious at all. Thinking she’s lying is my gut; it’s not evidence.

I have evidence. I have witness testimony. Evidence of the layout of the apartments such as the doors automatically closing and his apartment not even being on the same floor as hers, plus the obvious fact that people with functioning brains don’t enter wrong homes and not realize it until after they’ve killed the person living there and called the authorities to say they’ve killed someone in self defense (as she claims happened). That’s compelling evidence pointing towards her lying. The most favorable explanation for her is that she’s so belligerent and unfit to care for herself that she’s a threat to everyone in her midst. Even if that’s the case, it still is an indictment on the police force who found her to be fit for duty and fit to be armed. Mike the Cop, as always, embraced the police’s side of the story with no attempt to examine the context or the evidence.

How many innocent black men have spent decades in prison because their accuser was certain and the prosecutor thought their guilt was obvious, only to be exonerated through DNA or recanted testimony?

That’s totally different. They didn’t admit to committing the crime. They were framed and often convicted based on shaky, questionable evidence. That is not even remotely comparable to this woman’s situation where she broke into another person’s home and shot him immediately and then proceeded to give what may be one of the flimsiest and unconvincing excuses I’ve ever heard.