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Post by Optimus on Jan 18, 2021 9:19:48 GMT -5
I never said Twitter was doing anyone “a favor.” You're right, you didn't. MichaelW did, though (with his tongue firmly planted in cheek) and Rob appears to have been responding to him in that paragraph.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 16, 2021 19:09:03 GMT -5
Watched the first two eps tonight. It's interesting, I'll give it that. And kudos to Marvel for trying something this different and "out there" in terms of concept. I'm not sure how long the concept will stay fresh, though. The story really needs to start picking up in the next episode to keep this from becoming stale too fast. The episode concepts so far have been clever, but they seem more like distractions and filler because the actual story (i.e., what the hell is going on, why, and who's behind it) is moving at a snail's pace thus far.
I don't think it'd be as much of a problem if they'd dropped all the episodes at once. I know I'm beating a dead horse but for some series it's tough to feel how well-connected the episodes are, or how well they flow, if they're spaced out like this. Some series just work best when binged together. I think Wandavision would be better if it could be binged, especially given how short each episode is.
They keep flashing the S.W.O.R.D. insignia around (the person watching at the end of the first episode, it was also on the full-color toy helicopter she found in the bush, and the back of the beekeeper's suit). So, I'm guessing that she's really in a SWORD lab somewhere under observation, trying to figure out how to bring her out of some sort of coma or something?
I'll keep watching, for now, because I am at least a little intrigued. And Elizabeth Olsen is enough to keep me interested regardless.
It's also funny how Wanda's Russian accent just kind of disappeared after Age of Ultron (and the first 20 minutes of Civil War) and nobody's really ever acknowledged that. They could at least toss in a throwaway line/joke about it to address this very small elephant.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 16, 2021 15:44:30 GMT -5
Welcome to the board! Agree with what you said above. Hubris is bad enough. Incompetence is even worse. But when a person, especially the so-called "LeAdEr Of ThE fReE wOrLd" (god, I hate the phrase sometimes) suffers from a mixture of both hubris and incompetence, it's a deadly combination. Literally, in this case. Two key decisions that I think are big examples of hubris+incompetence involved distribution of face masks: 1) Apparently a company in TX told the White House way back in January of 2020 that they could produce nearly 2 million face masks a week, and were ready to do so, but the govt never placed any orders or even responded (it seems). Granted, the company should've probably started producing them anyway and instead sold them to large healthcare companies. That was back when we could have taken steps to get ahead of the virus before it became a huge problem. It's also back when the WH was still in full denial mode. Just think of how many Trumpers might've worn masks if their messiah Trump had come out early and promoted them, and announced the deal with the TX company: www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-us-response-trump/2020/5/10/21253689/covid-19-masks-trump-white-house-prestige-ameritech2) Several months later, in April, the US Postal Service announced a plan to distribute 650 million reusable masks to pretty much every mailbox and PO Box in the US. Basically, ensuring that every American had access to a mask. The WH stepped in and cancelled it. www.cnbc.com/2020/09/17/white-house-abandoned-plan-to-deliver-650-million-face-masks-across-us-report-says.htmlAs much as I can't stand Trump and think that he's human garbage, if he'd actually been proactive on COVID, and not actively blocked efforts to keep Americans safe(r), then I'm not sure he would've lost. His utter failure on COVID is likely what ultimately cost him the election.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 15, 2021 21:18:38 GMT -5
I'm not sure "jobs" meant "blow jobs." I think it meant actual jobs in exchange for sex, no?
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Post by Optimus on Jan 15, 2021 20:18:19 GMT -5
Gonna watch it later tonight. I'm annoyed that they don't release all the episodes at once. That's standard for streaming but Disney+ and Amazon are trying to break away from that (and usually getting review bombed for it). But, that's a first-world problem, so not really a big deal.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 15, 2021 12:47:04 GMT -5
Wonder if the leftist parts of the media will ignore or shit all over him like they did during primary season. I'm not sure what their problem is with him (I like him), but the bias back then was pretty clear.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 15, 2021 12:26:22 GMT -5
That's pretty good. I guess if I name my media company "Death to the Jews," I can toss that up there, as well... ETA: Ooooo...here they are: twitter.com/murderthemediaThey have some sort of catch-phrase: "smooth brain." I'm not sure what that means. And they're very incel and racist. Lovely people. Ha, "smooth brain" is just internet slang for "stupid/dumb." It's a reference to the fact that our brains have "wrinkles" (sulci and gyri) that serve to increase the surface area of the brain so it can do more stuff. It's equating "more wrinkles" with "more intelligent" (having a "smooth brain" is also an actual brain disorder called lissencephaly). So, having a big wrinkled brain means that a person is smart and having a big smooth brain (no wrinkles, i.e., sulci and gyri) means that the person is an idiot. For example, Trump often speaks with smooth brain energy, lol.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 15, 2021 11:22:04 GMT -5
All villains see themselves as the real heroes of the story.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 14, 2021 15:29:25 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Jan 14, 2021 12:23:29 GMT -5
So fucking dumb. The only process that should be involved is showing up and showing your ID.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 14, 2021 12:21:29 GMT -5
On the last from the Onion piece, on forcing Congress to get things done quickly...yeah, that's not happening. McConnell has already quashed that idea, with the trial not set to begin until after the new Senate is seated, after Biden takes office. That means the Dems will control the process, which I'm guessing lets a bunch of Repubs breathe a huge sigh of relief, while it's probably not sitting too well with Biden right now. I'm wondering if behind the scenes top Dems aren't regretting fast-tracking this. Because if they're holding the trial after he leaves office, they could have done it a month or more from now. Sure, they got a bunch of positive press in the short run, but that doesn't buy them anything. It may also muck up Biden's plans for getting his various cabinet and other leadership positions filled that require Senate confirmation. How much time will they have for that if they're busy holding Trump's impeachment trial?
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Post by Optimus on Jan 14, 2021 12:18:19 GMT -5
Now, if only all these companies would take action against Facebook given that's where the majority of the planning happened. That won't happen, though, because the optics would be a lot less beneficial, no matter how fake the underlying motivation.
There's another Twitter-like platform called "Minds" or something like that, I think? Wonder if it will get more popular now.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 13, 2021 13:04:36 GMT -5
Apparently the majority of planning of the riot was done on Facebook. But, FB doesn't have the conservative veneer rubbed all over it, so of course they're completely ignoring it and focusing instead on Parler. Again, I'm not sad to see Parler go, but this is completely about ideology and has little to do with public safety, etc. The tech companies were just biding their time to silence an ideological enemy and they've now beeen provided with the perfect time to strike.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 13, 2021 12:57:54 GMT -5
I see McConnell's move as calculated to help him retain whatever power he can. As bad as Trump is, the true evil of the GOP the past 15 years has been McConnell. He shifts his loyalties in whichever direction he thinks will leverage him the most power. When Trump came around, it was all in with him because the GOP basically ran everything so McConnell could do what he wanted. Now that Trump's stock is in the shitter and he's on his way out anyway, McConnell can be a turncoat (because Trump is no longer useful to him) and try to portray himself as more reasonable to the incoming Democrat rule.
This is not a "profiles in courage" moment for McConnell. This is standard politicking for him. Everything he does is cynical and motivated by a quest to keep as much power as he can.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 12, 2021 16:57:52 GMT -5
Whatever prevents him from running for public office again is fine with me. As to whether or not the riot was insurrection...it was. What they did was literally the definition of insurrection. Whether the more violent aspects of some of the BLM protests were also insurrection (and we can also throw antifa in Seattle and Portland in there too) is immaterial to this specific case and strikes me as an invocation of whataboutism. Just because something else awful happened that wasn't properly labeled or dealt with in a fair way has no bearing on how this specific, separate instance of very similar awfulness should be labeled and dealt with.
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