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4 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

Don't forget the opposition party is having an identity crisis consisting of "is Democracy good?" or "should we undermine the constitution to remain in power perpetually?" and if white nationalist talking points should be a feature of their political platform or if it should remain just underneath the surface like it has been for decades. COVID, climate change, and inflation are not the only threats America is facing. The Republican Party has emerged as the most serious threat to the country, and I do not mean that hyperbolicly.

 

Accomplishing all this while half the country are brainwashed feral MAGA-heads is no small feat.

Democracy has Democrat in its name. We have to make sure to oppose it with all our energy. /s

2 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Ummmm….no. 
 

 

Directed at the tweet and not you.

43 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

This actually shocks me. I would have thought with 33% of the country being nut job Trump supporters there would be enough viewers to keep it going. 

Think its more none of the cable providers are wanting to carry the channel knowing what it entails and the possibility it will alienate the other 67% of the country from using their service.

17 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

I don't love the OT because of the incredible writing; I don't think anyone does.

 

That doesn't mean the writing has to suck moving forward 50 years later. There's a way to respect the source material without making the stuff you build off of it kind of suck. The way Disney has fumbled the ball with live action Star Wars is mind-boggling. Outside of TFA (which was a beat for beat reboot of ANH, and imo needed to be so) and Rogue One, and bits and pieces of The Mandalorian, it's been a trainwreck. 

 

Another example

 

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Outside of Starkiller and the X-Wing attack on it (the third act), TFA wasn't a beat for beat reboot of ANH. Really the only similarity is the fact that Jakku is a desert planet like Tatooine. Rey is a force sensitive living on the desert planet, but she's nothing like Luke. Finn is someone who wants nothing to do with the fight, but he's nothing like Han. Poe is entrenched in the struggle against the First Order, but he's nothing like Leia. Until the movie reaches/leaves Takodana is the best Star Wars movie since ESB, but Starkiller is a dud because of how similar it makes TFA seem to ANH.

The failings of the Sequel Trilogy lay at the feet of RJ deciding to only have interest in one third of the storylines and making his own movie in the middle of the ending trilogy of a trilogy of trilogies.

7 minutes ago, GSG said:

 

 

This is making me think of this

 

 

 

But yeah, I don't really understand how the Amber Alert helps

Will it create a way to push notifications to peoples phones like the Amber Alert does?

Just now, Lorewarn said:

 

 

 

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Don't even get me started on how Reva found out about Luke

 

Bail Organa, a veteran of the clone wars and holder of probably the biggest secret in the entire galaxy, doesn't know to not use specifics in a message? "Obi-Wan, did you get Leia? Anakin's daughter? Does the emperor know that she's Anakin's daughter? Do they know about his son Luke? The one on Tattoine with his family on Tattoine? Do you think they've found out? Are you okay Obi-Wan? Oh man if they find out about this..."

 

 

2 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

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I'll give a few examples. Spoilers included

 

• Leia's message to Obi-Wan in A New Hope clearly contextually implies that they've never met. People can quibble on technicalities all they want to defend the show, but the way it was written and performed in the first film is obviously a message to someone she didn't go on an interplanetary adventure with 9 years prior. Not only that, but she's not really personally shaken up by Ben's death in ANH, which she would have been had the events of the series made sense in the timeline.

 

• Qui-Gon telling Obi-Wan that he'd always been there as a force ghost, but Obi-Wan wasn't ready to see him doesn't make any sense with the lore surrounding force ghosts. If it's based off of some sort of skill level or oneness with The Force, then it breaks Luke (who's entire connectedness to The Force thus far is deflecting two training blasts) almost immediately hearing Ben's voice to run, and seeing him on Hoth. Even if you square those, Yoda tells Obi-Wan in Ep III that Qui-Gon figured out the path to immortality, and that Yoda would train Obi-Wan to commune with him during his solitude on Tattooine. So...where's the reason that never happened? Maybe the argument is that Obi-Wan closed himself off from The Force. Okay sure. But did he do that immediately? He seemed down to follow Yoda's instructions and train after dropping off Luke, did he lose faith after a week, a month, a year?

 

• Vader saying 'last time we fought i was but the learner but now I am the master' is not definitively broken by the events of the series, but it obviously makes way more sense referring to Mustafar than it does trying to rationalize it after two more fights long after Anakin is a 'learner'

 

 

 

 

 

24 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

 

 

Democrats need to stop protecting R voters from themselves. Let them start actually facing the consequences of their voting behavior more than they already do.

This is it. This is the line. Rs have been able to do whatever they want because Ds attempt to work for the betterment of everyone with their policies when its been clear for the past 15-20 years that Rs only care about staying in power.

I'm confident that as long as the team wins this year, he will go to NU.

2 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

Are you guys who think nothing will come from this still sure?  If you're right we are truly and wholly f#&%ed.  

 

 

I mentioned it earlier in the thread somewhere, or maybe just a thought I had, but I truly believe that the DOJ wanted the committee to take the lead on this to make sure that all the evidence of wrongdoing is aired. They want everything known by everyone in congress and the public to make sure when the DOJ does press charges, there's no cry about a witch hunt outside of the magidiots.

2 minutes ago, funhusker said:

The job of SCOTUS is to interpret the law and apply it through the lens of the Constitution.  Their rulings become precedent and frame future rulings.  Friday would be called more of a mistake since they not only threw our Roe v Wade but also every case of state laws that have been ruled unconstitutional.

I'd like to hear what is different about the NY concealed carry law on Thursday that forced them to can it and why they are able to rule differently with Roe vs Wade in regards to states rights.

4 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Interesting. IDK the answer and have lived here for about 36 years. Heck I just became aware that we have about the most liberal state abortion laws.

I have no clue on the exact abortion rates in Colorado. In fact, now thinking twice about it (some stat or graph or write up I saw a long time ago), it might be Teen Pregnancy rates that plummeted after they eased the access to birth control (no clue if expanded Sex Education was included).

Here's the first link I found on Google about this:

https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc

Highlights
This initiative empowered thousands of Colorado women to choose when and whether to start a family.
Thanks in large part to the Colorado Family Planning Initiative:
Teen birth rate was nearly cut in half.
Teen abortion rate was nearly cut in half.
Births to women without a high school education fell 38 percent.
Second and higher order births to teens were cut by 57 percent.
Birth rate among young women ages 20-24 was cut by 20 percent.
Average age of first birth increased by 1.2 years among all women.
Rapid repeat births declined by 12 percent among all women.
Costs avoided: $66.1-$69.6 million.

The best way to prevent abortions is to provide easy access to contraception and comprehensive sex education. Didn't Colorado provide birth control for essentially free a while back and have their abortion rates plummet?

5 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I wonder what the members of SCOTUS would be thinking if one of their daughters were raped and the pregnancy some how risked the life of their daughter. 

Rules for thee, not for me.

If we're going all purity police, lets just restart prohibition.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

We can only hope. 
 

 

It's funny, he's at the forefront because he was the one who perpetrated the action. Maybe if he didn't incite the January 6th insurrection, the gubernment would've been fine with him just f'in off to Mar A Lago (unless any of the other lawsuits against him gained more traction).

Episode 5 was the best episode yet because it stopped focusing on internal pain and had characters actually do stuff instead of dwelling on said pain.

My take on Reva is that she was placed in a very poor situation and has since been playacting and forcing herself to be on the darkside because she knows thats how to survive until she can take her shot at Vader. The reason she's not as intimidating as Vader or some of the other darksiders is because there's a part of her that doesn't believe in what she's doing so she takes these big, exaggerated actions to make sure she's seen as the biggest possible dog in the yard. When in reality, she's just a Chihuahua with a bark bigger than its bite.

3 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

Great, but... what has Merrick Garland been doing since 1/6? Surely as head of the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE he would have, at his disposal, ample means to investigate all of this already.

 

Right?

Have to believe that the DOJ is making sure to cross all their t's and dot all the i's because while Trump is the headliner, it is a deep conspiracy that has a lot actors. They're piecemealing the charges on the bottom guys cause they don't matter. They're just patsies, and they are going to announce the charges once the committee exposes all the information into the air. Announcing charges and then letting the trial expose everything, would probably be a poor course of action in this instance due to the cult following the guy at the top.

2 hours ago, Enhance said:

I've been enjoying the series so far, but, there have been some pretty glaring and bizarre writing decisions up to this point. And I'm not a fan of the way they've written Reva or the performance that actress is giving.

 

So far I'd give it maybe a 6/10. We'll see the last couple episodes hold.

IMO, what theyve done with the inquisitors has been some of the best parts of the show. Reva feels like shes acting the way she does to compensate. To drive her Jediness away so that she can become Vaders apprentice.

On 6/6/2022 at 11:50 AM, JJ Husker said:

Yeah, I’m enjoying it too. I’d rather Obi-Wan wasn’t so depressed and defeated but am hopeful that will change. I think it is the perfect timeline gap to be filling. I mean who wouldn’t want to know what happened between ROTS and A New Hope?…But I’m not a hardcore Star Wars nerd, I haven’t delved into the clone wars or rebels.

I think depressed and defeated Obi-Wan is warranted. The man experienced first hand a genocide of his people that was perpetrated by a man he thought was his brother. I have no issue with him just existing in the first couple episodes. Its just as soon as he gets roped in by Bail to rescue Leia, his life has turned into one instance after another of what can the storytellers do to make him hurt, emotionally and physically. Episode 4 changed that up a bit (in that it focused very little on Obi-Wan's pain), but it's very easy to see what's going to happen in the next few episodes (not that I'm complaining of something being telegraphed).

I'm just not seeing a reason for this show to exist outside of fanservice. It'd be different if it was fun, like Solo, but its just not. It's a competently made show (though some of the lightsaber stuff in ep 4 was eh), and the acting's been good, with a surprisingly good child actor. The show might have been better, though, if it split focus between Obi-Wan on Tatooine meditating/learning from Qui-gon and a different Jedi running from the Inquisitors/Vader. Keep Indira Varma's character the same, but just have her helping the mother and child at the beginning of Episode 2 get away, which leads to the cell being discovered, but the mother and child surviving as a hope for the future bit (supposedly that was Corran Horn and his mom as a setup for the Rogue Squadron movie, for the peeps who know their EU).

Spoilers for Ep 4

43 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

Clean up in aisle 5 Johnny.  We got a live one here...  

 

 

Stop breaking the law a$$h@!e!

If you don't want to be arrested, maybe don't do anything that requires being arrested. 

5 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Ouch!!!! He can say what he wants or feels but the way he worded it sure doesn't come across in a good way. Its almost like he doesn't want to deal with any type of adversity at all. Hope he doesn't tell SF his demand to start.

You obviously don't know his story if you say he doesn't want to deal with adversity.

Episode 3 is out

I’ve been thinking about the 2nd amendment in passing and I don’t think the phrase “we’ll regulated militia” means civilians like it’s been interpreted by some. That sounds like a member of the National Guard. Someone who takes time out of their lives to be trained and act as a unit. 
 

the previously posted tweet with the marine vet makes sense. Also no civilians should have an ar-15. And if they do, it should be limited to single shot. 

1st two episodes have released, and I was right in that everything but Obi-Wan has grabbed my interest.

Some spoiler thoughts: