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Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004


Haven't seen that movie in a while. I just realized that scene predicted no-knock raids and tacticool militarized SWAT teams :stare:

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

reminds me of all those loons who had their brains broken by obama who would upload videos of trains running in the middle of nowhere to youtube and narrate over it stuff like how this was fema transporting bodybags for an upcoming massacre

Going to be sort of funny when FEMA runs out of bodybags in the next few months then

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Clark Nova posted:

Haven't seen that movie in a while. I just realized that scene predicted no-knock raids and tacticool militarized SWAT teams :stare:

and the core of the plot is where the government kidnaps and tortures a guy based on a case of mistaken id, which is something the USA has done several times during the WoT.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Impermanent posted:

Everyone worried Trump is going to do some sweeping dictatorship takeover during Corona is forgetting the first rule: he's even dumber than you think he is. He's not some secret mastermind with an agenda. When we die it'll be through regular neglect and pandemic illnesses, not because a bunch of Marines came in and torched our apartments.

the american government couldnt pull totalitarianism off

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:
I see the potential future as less of a Big Brother dictatorship and more of a Large Adult Son dictatorship

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
Mine is a hoish lookin Trotsky fwiw

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016
Honestly I think its a thousand times more likely that the Pentagon just takes over and establishes a military junta rather than Trump becoming a dictator

Orb Crabmelt
Jan 16, 2011

Nyorp.
Clapping Larry

StashAugustine posted:

What other movies get that "even in the future nothing works" atmosphere well?

Alien and Aliens
Modern Times

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Cowboy Bebop, The Movie
Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Movie
Akira
Paprika
Ghost in the Shell
Psycho Pass The Movie

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

the most realistic look at our future is 12 monkeys, way to miss the obvious thread :rolleye:

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Crowsbeak posted:

Yeah. Brazil’s right is a much different creature to the American right. Brazil right would without a second thought order army to Murder millions of their citizens. American right would get rid of labor protections and pass tax cuts to rich. Also they will destroy Amazon if something isn’t done. America will probably need to launch an invasion in ten years and purify Brazil if there isn’t a revolution there.

Isn't Bolsonaro probably got coronavirus

Organic Lube User
Apr 15, 2005

I've still got my bets on Zero Theorem being the Terry Gilliam movie we all wind up in.

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1242100814925225989?s=19

Her Dryer
Oct 15, 2012

The radicalisation has some ways to go, yet.

He did still vote for Bernie so I think that excuses him.

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Mike Duncan's podcast is pretty good

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
Anyone who still thinks Warren would have been the best president in March 2020 has terminal brain worms.

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
I'm sure plenty of her supporters either came from a believe that they had more or less the same policies but warren's were "less populist"

or they thought since the policies where the same they would give +1 for being a woman to warren

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Helsing posted:

Anyone who still thinks has terminal brain worms.

:hmmyes:

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1242111247325282306?s=19

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1242150267774062597?s=20
https://twitter.com/disc0p/status/1242120217351933952?s=20

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Podcaster trading cards would probably sell embarrassingly well.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


oh no

https://twitter.com/nathanfielder/status/1242171508908109824

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
other dasha can get it if she just cuts her hair not godawful

super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014



lol at Will being 5'10"

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

other dasha can get it if she just cuts her hair not godawful

nah she gives off ayn rand vibes and that is a huge turnoff

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

keychain is hot ngl

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
delighted to know that Virgil has the correct prequels opinion

slippery doc
Jan 17, 2006

kill the boy,
save the man

Her Dryer posted:

The radicalisation has some ways to go, yet.

He did still vote for Bernie so I think that excuses him.

willing to excuse him since he's been neck deep in writing a book about Lafayette, the founding father of succ

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

amber i have defended you many times but "don't rule out bernie" is a thing a crazy person would say.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

gh0stpinballa posted:

amber i have defended you many times but "don't rule out bernie" is a thing a crazy person would say.

The problem is that if Bernie stays decorum poisoned, the DNC will keep rigging against him, the media will ignore or smear him and everybody will run cover for Biden. If they can’t hide Biden’s state, they’ll swap him out and rig for someone else, possibly Cuomo.

If Bernie decides to be Lenin leading the people, besides all of the same DNC and media opposition he has now, I’m sure he’ll be assassinated or something.

Amber would be right in any country except America, but Americans would rather the entire edifice collapse than support rather tame social democracy or democratic socialism.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Frosted Flake posted:

If Bernie decides to be Lenin leading the people, besides all of the same DNC and media opposition he has now, I’m sure he’ll be assassinated or something.

If that's the worst case scenario for Bernie going hard, than it should be an easy choice.

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



MizPiz posted:

If that's the worst case scenario for Bernie going hard, than it should be an easy choice.

I don't think he's the same communist he was fifty years ago. He's a social Democrat now and he will not stand any talk of violence.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Percelus posted:

nah she gives off ayn rand vibes and that is a huge turnoff

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

I think she's pretty either way.



You know what weirded me out, back in ye olden times? Seeing Sinead O'Connor wearing a hat.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
sinead o'connor renamed herself to Shuhada' Sadaqat when she converted to islam

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica

super macho dude posted:

lol at Will being 5'10"

Does anyone have accurate heights for every podcaster, and tradcath wife on twitter? it's for a project

Impermanent
Apr 1, 2010
whats wild is trump is going to have 4 years of a godawful depression on his hands after this year and we have to all muddle through it or die until we get an opportunity for this century's FDR

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Impermanent posted:

whats wild is trump is going to have 4 years of a godawful depression on his hands after this year and we have to all muddle through it or die until we get an opportunity for this century's FDR

Yeah it sucks. But guess what? That means you can work towards something better than FDR. So in ninty years this doesn’t happen again.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Impermanent posted:

whats wild is trump is going to have 4 years of a godawful depression on his hands after this year and we have to all muddle through it or die until we get an opportunity for this century's hitler

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Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

lancemantis posted:

I'm sure plenty of her supporters either came from a believe that they had more or less the same policies but warren's were "less populist"

or they thought since the policies where the same they would give +1 for being a woman to warren
I always find the "X would make a better leader" argument weak because it doesn't matter that x would be the best at the job if X is totally unable to run a good campaign to get the job. And Warren's campaign game was weak sauce.

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