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Sacrist65 posted:That episode where Bartlett pledges to nominate a conservative AND liberal supreme court justice is the best insight into Sorkin's "politics is a thing to make me sound intelligent at cocktail parties, gently caress material outcomes" ideology. The west wing did a great job at capturing an era of privileged idiots who thought they'd invented a new type of politics where by staking out positions in the geometric center of every issue they could win every election. Clinton, Blair, and even pre 9/11 Bush all had Sorkin disease.
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Sacrist65 posted:That episode where Bartlett pledges to nominate a conservative AND liberal supreme court justice is the best insight into Sorkin's "politics is a thing to make me sound intelligent at cocktail parties, gently caress material outcomes" ideology. Gonna reveal myself as an old West Wing fan here but that particular episode came after Sorkin left the show. That one and the “we solved Social Security” were particularly egregious. I haven’t touched the series since Obama was elected.
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slorb posted:The west wing did a great job at capturing an era of privileged idiots who thought they'd invented a new type of politics where by staking out positions in the geometric center of every issue they could win every election. Thinking about it, their privilege is being boomers isn't it. Born into a land of plenty where others were doing sacrifices and investments on your behalf, giving the privileged an entire life of plenty. And the phenomenon repeats across all possible borders including time in China's case. What I still can't explain is the universal of the privileged generations wanting to dismantle any leveling mechanism that helped them. An entire cohort can't all embrace sabotage as the best competitive strategy, can they?
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Thinking about it, their privilege is being boomers isn't it. Born into a land of plenty where others were doing sacrifices and investments on your behalf, giving the privileged an entire life of plenty. And the phenomenon repeats across all possible borders including time in China's case. I think the fundamental issue of privilege for most is not realizing you had it in the 1st place. When you don't think you got help and its cost effective to cut those services you pull for that because you don't think you needed / got their benefit.
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Thwomp posted:Gonna reveal myself as an old West Wing fan here but that particular episode came after Sorkin left the show. That one and the “we solved Social Security” were particularly egregious. The one with the Gall–Peters projection was really bad.
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Jun 11, 2022 14:20
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Sorkin = democrat political fairy tales. /TEDtalk
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That Works posted:I think the fundamental issue of privilege for most is not realizing you had it in the 1st place. When you don't think you got help and its cost effective to cut those services you pull for that because you don't think you needed / got their benefit. There's also the fact that it's difficult to realize the paths and opportunities that you took in the past may have changed or disappeared, leading you to think that all these disadvantaged people today are too 'lazy' or oblivious to do the same.
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Also a lot of them are just straight up bad human beings
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Thwomp posted:Gonna reveal myself as an old West Wing fan here but that particular episode came after Sorkin left the show. That one and the “we solved Social Security” were particularly egregious. I have been corrected. I must admit I enjoyed Moneyball too.
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Platystemon posted:The one with the Gall–Peters projection was really bad. I just watched that clip and the only thing worse than a Gall-Peters projection is that clip.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I just watched that clip and the only thing worse than a Gall-Peters projection is that clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8wv8QQ-u0 Newsroom guy standing in reverence to a Jet Blue Pilot's rank is pretty good.
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Aaron Sorkin should have just stuck to cocaine…and only cocaine…and not bothered the rest of us.
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The Social Network is really good, but Sorkin as a whole is so loving annoying and not a force for good results.
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mlmp08 posted:The Social Network is really good, but Sorkin as a whole is so loving annoying and not a force for good results. I’d wager David Fincher might have helped to reel some stuff in on the Social Network. A good director is just as integral as the writer IMO.
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Thwomp posted:That one and the “we solved Social Security” were particularly egregious. Since you mentioned it. quote:https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/fast_facts/2018/fast_facts18.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/09/sanders-warren-bill-would-extend-social-securitys-solvency-expand-benefits.html quote:Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced a new bill on Thursday that aims to extend Social Security’s solvency for 75 years by raising taxes on the wealthy, while making benefits more generous.
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Lake of Methane posted:Since you mentioned it. This is obviously needed so it will never happen. The people that get a month or three above the cap would absolutely lose their poo poo too.
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quote:Romney has proposed a bill called the TRUST Act, which would create bipartisan committees that would work to identify potential ways to shore up ailing federal programs including the Social Security, Medicare and the highway trust funds. just throw garbage away? are you nuts? we need to make a committee to discuss how we should move the trash, a planning committee to evaluate the risks and rewards of potential movements, an environmental oversight board to study the environmental impacts of putting the trash into the dumpster, ... the world would be a better place if, any time someone used the word "bipartisan", they were kicked in the nuts, or nuts equivalent
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maffew buildings posted:Also a lot of them are just straight up bad human beings Yeah the boomers were reactionary as gently caress. The anti-war ones get the lion's share of the spotlight but there were a bunch of pro-vietnam boomers too; hell my ww2 grandfather vet took a good long look at the whole vietnam situation and told my dad that he [personally] wouldn't go. But I feel there was a whole host of baby boomers, especially men, who felt they had to prove something and off they went.
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Huh thank you whoever got me this lovely avatar
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Huh thank you whoever got me this lovely avatar Someone wishing you a Happy Pride
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Zamujasa posted:just throw garbage away? are you nuts? we need to make a committee to discuss how we should move the trash, a planning committee to evaluate the risks and rewards of potential movements, an environmental oversight board to study the environmental impacts of putting the trash into the dumpster, ... In the British civil service I believe this is called moff, Months Of Fruitful F... works.
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Lol imagine not voting for something that affects the .1 percent but already does for 99.9% of the people who vote for you. Every single one of them is bought off POS.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Huh thank you whoever got me this lovely avatar I thought Custodes were immune from 4th Dimensional Warp Fuckery?
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I thought Custodes were immune from 4th Dimensional Warp Fuckery? Pretty sure they cooked up their own 4th-dimension-fuckery post-30K out of boredom.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Pretty sure they cooked up their own 4th-dimension-fuckery post-30K out of boredom. Well that was more internal then Beastmen
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Well that was more internal then Beastmen Well something is going on behind the golden throne and something is holding the portal there. And a portal kinda looks like a ring...? 40k is a goatse allegory
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Huh thank you whoever got me this lovely avatar thats a pretty drat nice avatar
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Well something is going on behind the golden throne and something is holding the portal there. And a portal kinda looks like a ring...? Well I mean when you have something called the great rift and it’s basically the galaxy being torn apart into two sides….
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Sacrist65 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8wv8QQ-u0 This made my skin crawl and everybody involved should feel bad or at least be unable to take themselves seriously. Woof
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Soul Dentist posted:This made my skin crawl and everybody involved should feel bad or at least be unable to take themselves seriously. Woof Honestly you can just copy and paste that to any Sorkin clip.
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So apparently Patriot Front likes to rent U-Hauls, then pack in and crash a protest. Looks like they were going to do the same at some Idaho pride event, but got pulled over and https://twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1535735682877902848?t=5ExTglGQu-oIRxmEZnKfcQ&s=19 I sure hope they didn't bring any illegal guns and weaponry! Edit: also this will be the first time that a lot of Patriot Front members get unmasked, so the internet's having a big ol' celebration: https://twitter.com/LaResistance01/status/1535738659315494912?t=5EmafjGjSTCMGqF27cb3eQ&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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maffew buildings posted:Tough day for the local PD arresting all their new friends The person postings last tweet said they were being detained.
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“Am I being detained?” I tweet as the state uses violence to make me log off.
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That Works posted:The person postings last tweet said they were being detained. There doesn't seem to be that much reporting from the event (again - Idaho), but it really looked like the cops more or less broken clocked on this one. Either a tipster or an FBI undercover likely tipped off the cops, so they pulled over the U-Haul early. Feds might even get involved using the U-Haul as an excuse related to interstate travel. And it's not like the nazis were being quiet about it: https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1522638544166170626 So then with the actual work done, the cops more or less went back to their usual mass gathering/protest protocol - arresting randos for whatever they can come up with, or journalists/recorders that are just "in the way".
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More on informer etc. https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1535743403933179905?s=20&t=nLMJF-lQztWb3DguL8stcA Not sure of source validity.
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enjoy it while it lasts because those fucks are about take over every level of Idaho government in november unless the candidates are all informants 
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That Works posted:Not sure of source validity. Here's the official bit: https://twitter.com/KyleSimchuk/status/1535769937741942784 https://twitter.com/KyleSimchuk/status/1535769563173748736 https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-supremacists-from-patriot-front-detained-en-masse-near-idaho-pride-event shame on an IGA posted:enjoy it while it lasts because those fucks are about take over every level of Idaho government in november That's essentially why I'm celebrating this whole thing - it's rare, might get rarer, and this group seems to thrive on their anonymity, which has now been obliterated. And the original kinda-sorta-maybe reporter is apparently free now and mostly was detained for the usual nothing deal (though per her profile and etc, not exactly a police fan): https://twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1535766578305695744 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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That Works posted:More on informer etc. The very next tweet is the video clip of the cop saying it. https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1535752096586276865
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Mr. Nice! posted:The very next tweet is the video clip of the cop saying it. heck of a time for them to need to do a purge
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