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That Works posted:It's from "The Time Machine". Probably misremembering it here, but I thought the surface dwellers were smart but weak, while the morlocks were dumb brutes. Maybe the Guy Pearce/Samantha Mumba version is clouding my memory. And 7up guy being a talking super computer.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Probably misremembering it here, but I thought the surface dwellers were smart but weak, while the morlocks were dumb brutes. Maybe the Guy Pearce/Samantha Mumba version is clouding my memory. And 7up guy being a talking super computer. From what I remember the Eloi were intelligent but completely innocent in terms of thought and had no real conception that the Morlocks wanted to harm them.
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The guy pearce movie had it that the underground peeps were doing some psychic poo poo to keep them from talking about the monsters and to keep them docile.
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Re: Trump causing riots, that's definitely his reelection strategy yeah. The fox news world thinks that the more chaos the country is in the more people will support the incumbent. That doesn't make a lot of sense and I think it's probably another symptom of conservatism disappearing into its own rear end.
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Best Friends posted:That's definitely his reelection strategy yeah. The fox news world thinks that the more chaos the country is in the more people will support the incumbent. That doesn't make a lot of sense and I think it's probably another symptom of conservatism disappearing into its own rear end. It has been historically true. It's also been historically true that even the worst president made an effort to look like he was uniting the nation, so there may be some small discrepancies they are ignoring
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Probably misremembering it here, but I thought the surface dwellers were smart but weak, while the morlocks were dumb brutes. Maybe the Guy Pearce/Samantha Mumba version is clouding my memory. And 7up guy being a talking super computer. Iirc the morlocks had all the technology etc, and they basically farmed/bred the eloi and used them as a food source. The eloi didn't understand technology or understand anything about the morlocks other than that they came out at night and if you were caught out you would disappear. I've not read the time machine in like 20 years though.
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BigDave posted:Good christ does he actually want to start another riot? Yes.
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orange juche posted:Iirc the morlocks had all the technology etc, and they basically farmed/bred the eloi and used them as a food source. The eloi didn't understand technology or understand anything about the morlocks other than that they came out at night and if you were caught out you would disappear. This is how I remember it but yeah been forever.
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BigDave posted:Good christ does he actually want to start another riot? Donnie is currently down to Biden by 8, with Biden clearing 50% and Donnie not hitting above 42. He needs to do something, and it's a thing, so he's going to do the thing! It doesn't matter than only 33% of people like him doing that thing. IT IS A THING AND WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
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BigDave posted:Good christ does he actually want to start another riot? Edit: realized I wasn't clear. All he is running on is fear since there is NOTHING positive going on in his administration, so another riot would probably be good for him. Maybe. stealie72 fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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That Works posted:This is how I remember it but yeah been forever. Also the air raid siren pavlovian training thing, where the eloi would go to "air raid shelters" that were actually harvesting facilities set up by morlocks. That may have been a thing in the movie vs the book though, I'm not sure.
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Why Republicans are failing to govern Short answer: no one wants to cross Trump even though it means likely electoral wipeouts so every R has already skipped to step 101 and are preparing for 2024. They’re content to let Trump take the fall and are completely okay with letting hundreds of thousands die all at the altar of “government is the problem, never the solution.” I don’t care what your ideological principles are: people are dying, do something, anything! loving ghouls. Edit: this should be a bigger scandal, possibly more than Trump’s abdication of leadership. At every turn, Republicans have chosen cowardice over taking a stand. Even when handed an opportunity to actually remove him from office, they stood behind him. Every one of them should be held just as responsible as Trump because they allowed him to remain in office. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Next Monday, the postal ghouls testify. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1295418633469001728?s=19 Democrats can gently caress up a two-car parade, but all they need to do is find stories of vets with late medicine deliveries and direct stories/videos from inside the post offices. Then, beat the fuckers upside the head with it, for hours.
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Meanwhile in #NotAllPresidents news:BBC posted:Portugal president helps rescue two women caught at sea
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facialimpediment posted:Donnie is currently down to Biden by 8, with Biden clearing 50% and Donnie not hitting above 42. He needs to do something, and it's a thing, so he's going to do the thing! In his misfiring mind, he's the law and order candidate. If he gets his militarized cops to crack more peoples's heads, he thinks it will boost his election chances. If he can keep people pissed off and in the streets, he can try to declare a state of emergency in the run-up to the election. He's clutching to his base as tight as possible, but it's like trying to squeeze a handful of sand. More and more slips through his fingers and no more can make it in.
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He's not wrong, though. The boomer chuds around me all believe that Chicago is a warzone and that Biden wants to literally abolish the police. Every time a window gets broken it's more fuel for the fox news propaganda fire.
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orange juche posted:Iirc the morlocks had all the technology etc, and they basically farmed/bred the eloi and used them as a food source. The eloi didn't understand technology or understand anything about the morlocks other than that they came out at night and if you were caught out you would disappear. correct, the eloi were literally sheeple
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And through all of this poo poo, Chud Central thinks that the world of today is going to be the world during voting. They don't seem to realize that it's about to get worse for them. https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1295422803865477120?s=19 I mean, you have fun as an incumbent president running for reelection with schools and colleges under COVID quarantines. It's a bit hard to bleat about RECORD-BREAKING MAGA BOAT PARADES when you're radicalizing moms in Portland.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Meanwhile in #NotAllPresidents news: Love it. A president that gives a poo poo. Wonder why we can't have nice things oh wait republicans.
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Thwomp posted:Edit: this should be a bigger scandal, possibly more than Trump’s abdication of leadership. At every turn, Republicans have chosen cowardice over taking a stand. Never, ever forget this. They have known full well what Trump was, longer than the general public has. They knew what he was, when they voted to acquit. They knew the types of things he was likely to do, and they don't get to try and distance themselves from Trump now, or ever. Their Trump-enabling should be used as a bludgeon to crack their skulls every single day for the rest of their lives.
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MrMojok posted:Never, ever forget this. They have known full well what Trump was, longer than the general public has. They knew what he was, when they voted to acquit. They knew the types of things he was likely to do, and they don't get to try and distance themselves from Trump now, or ever. That would require Democrats to collectively grow a spine and call Republicans on their poo poo, and hopefully force the party to break down while they're the minority by passing legislative reforms that prevent the Republican strategy of governing from the minority position by holding the country hostage and using the other party as a shield from blowback.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512326-biden-discusses-child-care-with-cardi-b-jokes-his-nickname-is-joey-b Biden discusses child care with Cardi B, jokes his nickname is 'Joey B'  CRUSTY MINGE posted:Love it. A president that gives a poo poo. Wonder why we can't have nice things oh wait republicans. All Republicans Are Bastards. Wait... that might not be the best acronym. Maybe All GOP Are Bastards? AGAB?
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Finally got a haircut today after I think six months. Thanks to my COVID beard I was able to ask for the Ulysses S. Grant look. Speaking of, hey McNally, you know a good way to get a U.S. Grant costume together without spending a ton of cash on reenactment grade stuff?
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512326-biden-discusses-child-care-with-cardi-b-jokes-his-nickname-is-joey-b All Conservatives Are Bastards works
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Proud Christian Mom posted:the Republicans who've protected Trump(all of them) are the same ones Biden and establishment Democrats want to work with. So we're going to head into another "Gee shucks we just wanna work across the aisle" cycle of the Democrats stepping on rakes legislatively while Republicans are actively wrecking the country from the minority position.
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512326-biden-discusses-child-care-with-cardi-b-jokes-his-nickname-is-joey-b Oh settle down, he joked that she called him that. And he said this, which is a point that needs making more drat often: quote:Cardi B noted her recent experience navigating child care since giving birth, also pointing out the decline in availability of after-school programs.
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orange juche posted:So we're going to head into another "Gee shucks we just wanna work across the aisle" cycle of the Democrats stepping on rakes legislatively while Republicans are actively wrecking the country from the minority position. A perfect repeat of 2010 onwards! Hail SS18 SATAN. May the nuclear hellfire cleanse us all.
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Arven posted:He's not wrong, though. The boomer chuds around me all believe that Chicago is a warzone and that Biden wants to literally abolish the police. Every time a window gets broken it's more fuel for the fox news propaganda fire. Conservative propaganda at this point is an all or nothing thing. Either the person looking at it will easily be swayed or they'll reject, if they where gonna be swayed in the first place THEY WHERE NEVER GONNA VOTE NON-REPUBLICAN SO WHY EVEN CARE WHAT THEY THINK.
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Defenestrategy posted:Conservative propaganda at this point is an all or nothing thing. Either the person looking at it will easily be swayed or they'll reject, if they where gonna be swayed in the first place THEY WHERE NEVER GONNA VOTE NON-REPUBLICAN SO WHY EVEN CARE WHAT THEY THINK. Democrats: "But we're right and they're wrong! Here, we've got a 13,522 page analysis we commissioned to prove it with graphs and charts that has a fifty seven word title and three hundred word subtitle authored by seven really smart guys who have fifty eight PhDs between them! Just read it!" Republicans: "I'll consider lowering your taxes a bit if you let me loot the country for my billionaire donors and keep being unconscionably evil to brown people." (gets elected) BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512326-biden-discusses-child-care-with-cardi-b-jokes-his-nickname-is-joey-b Just a couple of sexual predators hanging out and yucking it up
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Internet Wizard posted:Just a couple of sexual predators hanging out and yucking it up Wait, what? I know about the presidential candidate of course, but what did the rapper do?
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MrMojok posted:Their Trump-enabling should be used as a bludgeon to crack their skulls every single day for the rest of their lives. There are more Republicans seeing which way the winds are blowing and doing what they can to scrub off the Trump stink for any future government/DC jobs. If it moves votes to Biden, great, but they never should be able to scrub off that poo poo. https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1295428130170195968?s=19 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/google-miles-taylor-dhs-muslim-travel-ban-nielsen?__twitter_impression=true Proud Christian Mom posted:the Republicans who've protected Trump(all of them) are the same ones Biden and establishment Democrats want to work with. A lot of this will be dependant on Senate composition, if Biden wins. If it's a 50-50 Senate (due to Manchin), Biden and Co will actually *have* to work with those loving fuckers to get bills passed! It's also central to Biden's electoral narrative about bringing everyone together. You can always nuke the Senate and shove aside the Republicans later. But it's generally good politics to bleat about bipartisanship to go after the (few) persuadable voters left, rather than declaring you'll nuke the Senate before you even get the Senate. Also makes it easier to spin said nuking when you say "We wanted to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act but Republicans said no". I don't know if it helps you in the 2020 election if you just outright state gently caress REPUBLICANS I'M NUKING THE SENATE IF WE WIN. Most elections have showed the inverse. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Best Friends posted:Wait, what? Claimed she would rob rich johns during her time as a sex worker or some drat thing, but IIRC she said nothing about sexually assaulting them like is being claimed.
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Oh good. I like cardi b. Short of like murder I don't really care what happens to rich johns much.
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Internet Wizard posted:Just a couple of sexual predators hanging out and yucking it up So an ex-prostitute is a sex predator? wha? gtfo dude. You do know that prostitutes are on the victim side of the power dynamic right? Or are you one of those "dudes with money have a right to sex" idiots.
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