Good lord
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 16:05 |
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You know, I've been really haunted by a JMS post I read on that excellent Babylon 5 lurker's guide where he says that of course a story about the rise of fascism is going to seem far-out to people living in his present moment of the 1990s because the conditions aren't right for it, but over time things will inevitably change because the good times can't last forever. I don't like comparing this show to Star Trek, but its take on where fascism comes from and what you can do about it is a lot more thoughtful than the Star Trek versions, which I can only really understand because the good times ended a while ago.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 16:18 |
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Data Graham posted:Good lord Always weird to see someone who exists in an alternate reality.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 18:17 |
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Minbari not born of Minbari -- many such cases!!
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 19:18 |
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Goblin Craft posted:Who's defending? It's all trash. Good, I'm glad to see you using the rhetoric we discussed at the last Night Watch meeting. You did well trying to create the illusion that there's any meaningful difference between the so called "alt-right" and the "right", but it's important to also bring up that the left is also filled with dangerous violent terrorists like antifa and BLM. We'll be discussing more advanced rhetorical techniques at the next meeting to be sure to attend.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 19:42 |
lmao of all the threads who brought up cheney because you’ve opened the seal
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 21:07 |
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Ewtbi, Supreme Gerontocrat posted:The so-called "Drafa Plague" is nothing more than a plandemic perpetuated by the League of Non-Aligned worlds to usurp Markhab independence. Emperor Londo Mollari II posted:After the recent disturbances, I would like to point out that there were good people on both sides of the conflict. To Cartagia's supporters: I see you, I love you.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 22:31 |
We vivisected some folks.
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# ? Feb 12, 2021 22:46 |
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Goblin Craft posted:Who's defending? It's all trash. Why do you think they were there?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 01:30 |
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Why the gently caress are we arguing with some loving Republican apologist in TVIV's Babylon 5 thread? If I wanted this type of bullshit I'd go on Twitter and remove half a dozen muted words and phrases, or knock myself on the head real hard with a hammer and join Parler.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 01:37 |
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sebmojo posted:Why do you think they were there? "They" who, the criminals or the regular protestors?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 02:18 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Why the gently caress are we arguing with some loving Republican apologist in TVIV's Babylon 5 thread? If I wanted this type of bullshit I'd go on Twitter and remove half a dozen muted words and phrases, or knock myself on the head real hard with a hammer and join Parler. Actually you're right.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 03:02 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Why the gently caress are we arguing with some loving Republican apologist in TVIV's Babylon 5 thread? If I wanted this type of bullshit I'd go on Twitter and remove half a dozen muted words and phrases, or knock myself on the head real hard with a hammer and join Parler. Life's great questions. It needs to stop tho, I've already had to bookmark this thread, I don't want to have to do even MORE work and probe some idiot, too!
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 03:56 |
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Number_6 posted:Sorry to bug you about this again, CainFortea, but I'm curious what browser & OS you used for the Vudu screenshot of the remastered release? I only just discovered that Vudu doesn't allow full quality HDX anymore on a PC, unless you are using Edge or Safari. Some kind of DRM bullshit. So it's possible that's the reason why your screenshot from Vudu was blurry. OTOH, it could be any number of other things. Thanks! I was using Chrome/Win10. I'll try with edge and post another side by side. After my friends and I do a remote party watch of Hackers.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 04:05 |
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esperterra posted:Life's great questions. Please, just do it. There is a hole in their mind.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 04:34 |
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Goblin Craft posted:Ahem the so called insurrection was merely a few hundred ANTIFA criminals including the leader of the BLM movement carrying out George Soros's's instructions to make true president trump look bad, of course you believe the fake news lies!! This country has always been Trump country so we don’t see it as out of the ordinary to believe our president when he says he will never give up. We have had four years of incredible growth in the economy, advances in freedoms, and more under the Trump presidency so we find it difficult to believe that the media’s portrayal of him now to be accurate.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 08:40 |
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I was really confused by the statement Trump had his lawyers read at the impeachment hearing today. What is “scorched Earth” supposed to mean?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 08:45 |
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post/username
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 09:05 |
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 09:20 |
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 09:26 |
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 12:36 |
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The Babylon thread was our last best hope for peace. It failed.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 14:15 |
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tl;dr
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 14:21 |
Starting over from "the first one sank into the swamp"
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 14:32 |
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You people are hosed up. Perhaps if you followed the purple you be on the winning side.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 16:33 |
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Green rules, purple drools.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 16:49 |
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ultrafilter posted:Green rules, purple drools. Nice avatar color.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 16:50 |
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Fake news! Purple is the best color. Bigger than any other color, and better too. In fact Purple may very well be the best thing of anything. In Purple I look fabulous! Green is a tired old color. Sleepy Green I call it. Sad!
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 16:54 |
If I were IK I’d probe all you filthy greens.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 17:17 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Why the gently caress are we arguing with some loving Republican apologist in TVIV's Babylon 5 thread? If I wanted this type of bullshit I'd go on Twitter and remove half a dozen muted words and phrases, or knock myself on the head real hard with a hammer and join Parler. I am much happier now that I just use the Ignore list when these trolls show up in a thread I follow. Got two in one week out of recent activity here, and it’s already paying off in one or two other spots. There are some interesting conversations to be had out of recent topics, but not with the posters trying to “start” them. You could go broad and think about JMS being deeply influenced by golden age scifi writing, and the ways in which that and TV scifi were influenced by Westerns. Or postmodern, and talk about the degree to which B5 does or does not endorse the “Great Man” theory of history, and whether it’d be a problem if it did. Or going back, to think about all the things that have come out about great “genre” shows of the 90s and the fairly toxic conditions for women on many of them. All of those might be interesting and productive discussions. But only if specific posters are excluded from them entirely, because while it’s clear what personal gratification they expect from intruding on the thread, nobody else is going to get any pleasure from the result.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 17:28 |
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Narsham posted:I am much happier now that I just use the Ignore list when these trolls show up in a thread I follow. Got two in one week out of recent activity here, and it’s already paying off in one or two other spots Goblin Craft isn't a troll, he's been posting in B5 and Doctor Who threads for like a decade-plus (back when his username was Komrade Hitlerstalin), he's just very unabashed about being a conservative.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 18:38 |
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The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 19:27 |
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Would Jerry Doyle have voted for Trump?
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 20:01 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Would Jerry Doyle have voted for Trump? Almost certainly; he claimed to be a libertarian but always said he voted straight-ticket Republican in every election. And given Trump's attitude towards women, I have to imagine Doyle would have seen a kindred spirit, there.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 20:06 |
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from the blindwatchThe_Doctor posted:S3ep15 - Interludes and Examinations
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 20:43 |
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Ayin posted:from the blindwatch That's not wrong. Jet Jaguar posted:In the middle of rewatching season 3, and we get not one, but two episodes with Bester in them! And G'Kar asking Garibaldi not to thump the Book of G'Quon. It's really amazing to watch this and some of the related videos and see Richard Biggs out of character. There's just absolutely no sign that he's at all hard of hearing, let alone as deaf as he was.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 20:52 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Would Jerry Doyle have voted for Trump? He took over Master Shake's radio show for a while so he absolutely 100% would be on the Trump Train. He'd probably be on the Q-train. Less because of the global pedophile cabal but more just because he longs for the Day of the Rope. JMS stole the "screw the electric chain, I want an electric bench" line from Doyle just talking.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 21:01 |
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I always thought that line was in reference to everybody getting “what they deserved”. Figured it was just a bitter old cop saying that everybody was an rear end in a top hat who probably deserved punishment.
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# ? Feb 13, 2021 21:12 |
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If "getting what they deserve" is a purely punitive view of justice, then sure.
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ultrafilter posted:It's really amazing to watch this and some of the related videos and see Richard Biggs out of character. There's just absolutely no sign that he's at all hard of hearing, let alone as deaf as he was. (The movies were Ablaze and Miracle Mile)
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