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Acebuckeye13 posted:I imagine that a lot of older Dems have strong memories of 1980, when Ted Kennedy's primary against Carter severely weakened him in the general. One of the benefits of incumbency is you can raise money and look good/competent while the other side is busy burning wads of cash trying to tear each other apart in their primary, and a real campaign to primary Biden would waste one of the biggest advantages the Dems have in that regard. I don't think they care about winning. They just want to make sure the right kind of democrat gets the nomination and they already have that with Biden being president
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shame on an IGA posted:I'm surprised the US acknowledged it, seems like it would be easier to feed disinfo if we pretend we can't see it It's harder to figure out what a device is receiving when it's passive.
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VSOKUL girl posted:whereas DS9 you can only sometimes watch out of order I bounced off DS9 season 2 a number of times. I loving hate everything about the maquis. So stupid. So when I was IK in SciFiWiFi I ran a competition to show me the very best of DS9. Didn't care about spoilers or order or anything. Each poster got a few sentences to set the stage for the episode if they wanted to. Doing it that way was the only way I could get interested in the show enough to watch past season 2. Which I eventually did (Except the stupid baseball episode because baseball is stupid).
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ASAPI posted:This about sums up my experience with DS9 as well. It did click, but I had to watch the best of the best first. Then go back and fill in the rest of it by watching it.
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That whole bit about the changeling menace was one of the things I really didn't like about DS9. The Federation is supposed to be better than us. Yes it's unrealistic but I don't care. It's space ships, it's okay to not be real. Edit: yea, B5 is rough to start. Still one of the best payoffs in TV though. Especially if you enjoy the Dominion War or the aformentioned "how much is our safety worth" things from DS9. It goes hard on that stuff.
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McNally posted:That's the thing, though. The Maquis don't have defensible reasons. Also the maquis have bigly "Traditional Values" vibes with Eddington going on about how replicated food just isn't as good.
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Grip it and rip it posted:The Maquis were the good guys Maquis are the same kinds of people who go winter hiking on mountains and then die, while putting hundreds of other people at risk searching for their stupid rear end.
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McNally posted:Same issue, but they weren't involved with the Maquis. Yea, it's not the maquis but you can see it as like, a proto-maquis. Another reason I hate the maquis is because it's clearly trying to draw parallels to native's being genocided and their homes destroyed but it's just because eddington is a foodie hipster shithead.
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psydude posted:I just want to reiterate the US just shot down a literal Unidentified Flying Object in TYOOL 2023. All things shot down, unless identified, are UFOs.
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lightpole posted:The angst in anticipation of racism is extremely weird. Mlyp (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Wombot posted:Yeah, this seems like a bad idea for a hobby? This community is using a set of calculations to figure out how much helium to put in a standard mylar party balloon, but those envelopes can't handle more than 30k feet altitude. There are some low-cost (tens of dollars) envelopes that can handle higher, as well, but still 40k feet or thereabouts. So you have a community of people who looked at the FAA regs and saw the rules only apply to things weighing more than 6lbs and decided, "We're fine! Launch 'em if you got 'em!" right into the airspace used for commercial aviation. It has literally never been a problem before, specifically exempted by the regulations, and is only now being noticed by other people because everyone's looking for a distraction. It's not really on them
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slurm posted:Gun tech and gun laws haven't really changed in generations but eventually we just become so hosed up as to think, wow let's just slaughter each other because we're mad at Facebook. A country just straight up racing backwards as a society, and we weren't even that good to start with. We can no longer be trusted with guns and I remember when that was something we relentlessly mocked other countries for. Gun laws have been changing a lot in the last few decades. It's just not a lot of lawmakers making changes at the federal level. It's a lot of state changes and ATF administrative changes.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:And let's not pretend that the CIA wasn't going to do whatever the hell it wanted down there, authorization or no. He still authorized it.
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lightpole posted:Putting in a lot of effort to push a Carter Bad narrative Lotta effort in the whole "Carter never did anything wrong" version of history.
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lightpole posted:"Carter Bad" and "Carter never did anything wrong" are two different things. Yes.
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CommieGIR posted:Another case of don't meet your heroes. Big time Garibaldi from Babylon 5 vibes
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orange juche posted:lmao the Belzer v. Bollea case back in the day, Belzer shouldn't have gotten a penny, man got put in a sleeper hold after begging Hogan to do it, and Hogan refused, only doing it after being heckled by the crowd, Belzer, and Mr. T. Hogan slipped while setting Belzer down and Belzer cracked his head on the concrete and he sued Hogan for 5 million dollars for injuries. Hogan was a poo poo wrestler and deserves absolutely no benefit of a doubt. His technical skills are negative.
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