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nikosoft posted:lmao this was Elon Musk btw It's better than that, part of it was the muskman getting into a twitter fight with Ken Macleod over whether Banks was anti-union Ken MacLeod is another Scottish SF writer, and knew Banks very well (according to wiki they met in secondary school, long before either had a literary career) And, much like Banks, MacLeod is an actual socialist The exchange did not go well for Musk, although I'm quite sure Musk thought it did, because Musk is a loving idiot
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vyelkin posted:I remember it differently, Chief is the protagonist of the episode and it follows him around as he explores the dangers of the industrial apparatus, the legitimate grievances for why the workers are striking, his exploration of the emerging caste system, and so on. He tries to raise these issues with the admiral and president, but gets blown off because "we need the fuel chief, all that matters is get them working again I don't give a poo poo how many people die". Iirc in this scene the elite leaders are also like eating fancy food or something to make the disparity really obvious. The chief goes back and restarts the machinery using the street cred he'd built up as the union leader on New Caprica, but then a child worker is instantly maimed and he shuts it all down and declares a strike again. He only caves when the admiral literally gives the order to have his wife shot because he can't have fighter pilots going on strike or disobeying orders to do a suicide mission or something like that. They could've leaned pretty hard into the caste system side of things if they'd gone on for another season or two. Zarek once made the point that he didn't think that anyone who wasn't named Adama would ever be in charge of Galactica, and he was almost certainly right.
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BobHoward posted:And, much like Banks, MacLeod is an actual socialist
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Grape posted:Britain hated slavery, eventually, because much of the Caribbean is proof they were once big fans. after the british raj was established, britain got many indian people to go to the west indies and work at sugarcane plantations they ended slavery, but they didn't stop exploiting people
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taqueso posted:Does Ken Macleod write good stuff? I can't speak for your tastes, but if you try him, and don't like it, it won't be because it suddenly got all chuddy on you.
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there was also the episode of the simpsons where homer becomes a union boss to get back their dental plan. pretty sure that episode made it quite clear that mr. burns was the bad guy
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Post Trump voters realizing Trump is going to poo poo on their dead loved ones here https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1295956792220848128
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FMguru posted:He's an out-and-proud socialist and was good friends with Ian M. Banks. wikipedia posted:He is part of a group of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. sounds good to me
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Mr Interweb posted:there was also the episode of the simpsons where homer becomes a union boss to get back their dental plan. pretty sure that episode made it quite clear that mr. burns was the bad guy lisa needs braces
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Mr Interweb posted:there was also the episode of the simpsons where homer becomes a union boss to get back their dental plan. pretty sure that episode made it quite clear that mr. burns was the bad guy Megillah Gorilla posted:Yeah, the only thing most people took away from that episode is this:
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i must have missed loomer calling parkland a hoax, i thought her core concerns were calling muslims subhuman and shamelessly trivializing the holocaust for publicity stunts
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VitalSigns posted:Post Trump voters realizing Trump is going to poo poo on their dead loved ones here Trump people giving Loomer the 'This you?' treatment is going to be a fun watch. e: He deleted the tweet. What a goddamn cuck. DesertIslandHermit has issued a correction as of 06:28 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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yeah but that was a one off joke. the rest of the episode it's made pretty clear the only bad guy is mr. burns
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Kitfox88 posted:was loomer also the one banned from uber and lyft for repeatedly sending away drivers who showed up for her but were insufficiently aryan Yup.
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Kitfox88 posted:was loomer also the one banned from uber and lyft for repeatedly sending away drivers who showed up for her but were insufficiently aryan Well, they’re both (threatening) to shut down in CA, so we see who got the last laugh.
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I’m the one with the last laugh. I mean, have you seen Loomer’s face? I’ve never seen someone get so much plastic surgery and still look like a ‘Chucky’ doll. Gives me a hearty chuckle every time. Seriously though, congratulations to the future congresswoman, Florida couldn’t have a better representative, I mean that, truly.
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:I’m the one with the last laugh. I mean, have you seen Loomer’s face? I’ve never seen someone get so much plastic surgery and still look like a ‘Chucky’ doll. Gives me a hearty chuckle every time. she won't get the job, dems won the district +27 in 2016 and republicans didn't run anyone in 2018 she also won't get her twitter account back, lol
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freemandela posted:she won't get the job, dems won the district +27 in 2016 and republicans didn't run anyone in 2018
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Mr Interweb posted:there was also the episode of the simpsons where homer becomes a union boss to get back their dental plan. pretty sure that episode made it quite clear that mr. burns was the bad guy simpsons also just makes a bunch of dumb jokes about "lazy teamsters" which i can't tell if that was stereotyping or not everyone i've worked with who was a teamster was pretty good about it although there were still some idiot chuds who thought T H E U N I O N was stealing their money, or that they legit had less money after a raise because tax brackets because no one explains how those work and the apparent loss was due to the way employers generally do withholding (over withhold and then let the IRS give a refund) rather than the actual tax bracket that teamster's chapter got all the employees classified as unemployment eligible while still getting 50% base pay and full benefits when all employees were furloughed due to covid
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:She didn't run to get anywhere, she ran so she could say "I'm a politician, you're interfering in elections if I don't have an account" and wouldn't you know it? Her team yesterday demanded that Twitter reinstate her account or it's "election tampering". And they said no afaik
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Mercury_Storm posted:wow Loomer is such a piece of poo poo that not even Tormp will support her Trump already endorsed her lmao
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Mercury_Storm posted:Yeah I thought it was trump deleting the tweet supporting her lol A strong daddy never, ever admits to doing anything wrong.
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Mercury_Storm posted:wow Loomer is such a piece of poo poo that not even Tormp will support her jt lewis decided “you know what? my brother’s loving dead and i got a good job at the bootlicking factory, i gotta look out for me”
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vyelkin posted:I remember it differently, Chief is the protagonist of the episode and it follows him around as he explores the dangers of the industrial apparatus, the legitimate grievances for why the workers are striking, his exploration of the emerging caste system, and so on. He tries to raise these issues with the admiral and president, but gets blown off because "we need the fuel chief, all that matters is get them working again I don't give a poo poo how many people die". Iirc in this scene the elite leaders are also like eating fancy food or something to make the disparity really obvious. The chief goes back and restarts the machinery using the street cred he'd built up as the union leader on New Caprica, but then a child worker is instantly maimed and he shuts it all down and declares a strike again. He only caves when the admiral literally gives the order to have his wife shot because he can't have fighter pilots going on strike or disobeying orders to do a suicide mission or something like that. the whole pegasus plot line was pretty explicitly anti-fascist as well, what with the whole "oh yeah we stripped the civilian ships of parts and left them to die" thing to set the tone with the caveat that again it was to make the conservative military/liberal civilian leadership look good by way of contrast, although i think it was someone lower down the totem pole who almost starts a war with pegasus because they kill a fascist while saving a cylon crewmember from being tortured to death also should note the multiple evil opportunists who are or become left-wing politicians (okay i can't remember if baltar ever goes left but there was that other guy who was the crooked revolutionary/politician)
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ShadowHawk posted:If anyone's ever interested, it is surprisingly not difficult to get a congressional nomination this way. No serious politician wants to run in a certain-loss district, so completely inexperienced and unconnected people can end up as the nominee by default. this one was actually somewhat competitive though because its president trumps district
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Groovelord Neato posted:JT Lewis whining about a Sandy Hook truther when he's doing his damndest to ensure Sandy Hooks keep happening is obnoxious. ah, so he's fully aware that it happened and just thinks the blood of 6 year olds is a fair price to pay for boombooms
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Hodgepodge posted:also should note the multiple evil opportunists who are or become left-wing politicians (okay i can't remember if baltar ever goes left but there was that other guy who was the crooked revolutionary/politician) One of Baltar's many reinventions is as a left-wing political prisoner who writes and smuggles out of his jail cell a populist treatise about how the patrician elites are running the fleet against the interests of ordinary people. This comes shortly before his final reinvention as the leader of a sex cult so, y'know
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Shugojin posted:ah, so he's fully aware that it happened and just thinks the blood of 6 year olds is a fair price to pay for boombooms He's aware it happened because his brother was murdered in it but he humps the "school safety" bullshit and is against gun control like the Parkland dad. He's one of the most disgusting people I know of.
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vyelkin posted:One of Baltar's many reinventions is as a left-wing political prisoner who writes and smuggles out of his jail cell a populist treatise about how the patrician elites are running the fleet against the interests of ordinary people. This comes shortly before his final reinvention as the leader of a sex cult so, y'know otoh the sex cult is evidently a literal divine reward for embracing monotheism and then learning how to actually not be a total piece of poo poo so in other words, sex cults are a land on contrast (in mormon scifi)
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ElGroucho posted:I honestly hate this motherfucker What do I need to know about Grimes?
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