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Hey there internet friends Rittenhouse is probs going to see zero legal consequences for being a massive tool. The most that he is probs legally culpable for, in my extremely unprofessional opinion having paid very little attention to the story, is illegally carrying a thing he shouldn't have been carrying or whatever, which he's also not going to see any legal consequences for because the judge appears to be extremely not good. I'd love for him to go to prison except that I think the US prison system sucks and makes slightly awful people into even more awful people, much like ours probs tbh. I'd love even more for him to stop being a terrible person but hey, realistic goals, right?

I watched the following movies on Disney+ over the weekend: Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings or whatever - really liked this one but to be fair I'm a card carrying MCU superfan and intend to still be watching the latest Marvel film on my deathbed. Funny, likeable characters, I like that all the main characters got decent screen time. Jungle Cruise - really liked this one, probs helps that Emily Blunt can do no wrong, and also I just like swashbuckly tales. This was a good time. Home Sweet Home Alone - So here's the thing. In Home Alone and Home Alone 2, it's fun to watch acts of over the top violence happen because the people it's happening to are jerks who in number one are trying to rob a house and then kidnap a child or whatever, I dunno it's been a while but the point is they sucked and it's fun to watch evil Joe Pesci get all kinds of violent comeuppance. In this latest one the people trying to break into the house are actually more sympathetic than the child and I didn't enjoy seeing violence happen to them at all so I guess overall I didn't care for the film. There were a couple moments that made me chuckle I guess but overall my recommendation is don't bother, which is a conclusion I'm sure most of you already came to by yourself.

'Sup nerds. Realised I hadn't been over to the forums for a while, figured I'd come over and check my notifications or whatever. Side note: my avatar is relevant again, LBA3 is coming, I've been waiting since the Black Isle days.

Hey there America What are you doing

Hmmm well I think Trump said he'd concede if the Electoral College voted for Biden so obviously we can all expect a smooth transition from this point forward, with no controversy whatsoever. As an aside, I remember hearing recently that the Proud Boys had a change of leadership because the former leader wasn't quite white supremacist enough for their liking. Weird how BLM, which is more a decentralised political movement like vegetarianism or whatever, than an actual definable group, is the terrorist organisation; would've thought that would be a label that would more closely fit the white supremacist hate group. Anyway, looking forward to the concession speech that Trump said he'd give.

You know what they always say, 51st time's the charm.

I'm not entirely sure about the nuances of voting in the USA; in Australia, if a 'third party' gets a certain number of votes, it means additional funding. Also I guess it may mean that the major parties see where they're losing votes to the third party and try to pander to those votes by adopting some of their policies. So I guess that's a way in which it could be seen as not wasting one's vote. If you're measuring purely by the effect the vote has in the actual election, though, there would've been no difference to the election if every single third party voter stayed home. So in that sense, their votes are wasted.

So like just better schools?

Yeah, no one's surprised that the fascist states are politically united.

Wow, looks like someone's disinvited from the podcast.

Well you're gonna need to do something about that voting system y'all got there.

It's 'stooge' btw

I haven't really seen much in the media regarding Parler. What chat I have seen has been on other forums, and has been more or less along the lines of 'it's filled with Nazis or people who are Nazi adjacent who want a safe space to spew their hateful rhetoric without having other people rock up and call them out for their hateful rhetoric.' Also apparently you have to provide your social security details to join up? EDIT: My mistake, apparently it's just to access certain site functions. Also apparently they got hacked, lol. https://twitter.com/contentedindie/status/1331374839647653888

Censorship is when it's done by the government, not when it's done by an owner of a platform. If I run a gardening podcast and I decide to stop letting someone on my podcast because every time they come on my podcast they say something stupid like that petunias are better than tulips, that's not censorship, because that person is still allowed to start their own podcast with all the hateful petunia related opinions they want. That's just me exercising the rights inherent in me being the person who runs that podcast. Same with Twitter. They're not obliged to give anyone a platform for their stupid opinions. If you want to scream your dumb opinions into the void, start your own website, start a blog or whatever. No one's stopping you from having all the free speech you want, but they're not obliged to host your comments on the website they own.

lol ok mate

omg ur so brave keep fighting the good free speech fight

I think the way I saw entrapment described is that it requires the police to induce someone to break the law where they wouldn't have usually. If a cop asks a drug dealer for meth and the drug dealer gets them meth, not necessarily entrapment. But if the cop asks someone for meth and they're like um I don't actually know how to get meth, but the cop is all like c'mon I heard you were cool, c'mon be a bro and get me some meth, c'mon man, I'll be your girlfriend if you get me meth (ok so in this example the cop is a woman and also I stole the example from Boston Public) then it might be a bit more entrappy. I don't think asking someone to tell the truth and they then lie counts.

Interesting take, especially given that Fallout: New Vegas came out more recently and most people seem to regard that as their best work. In fact, KOTOR 2 was their first game, so it's just really weird that someone who thinks a game company only had one good game would bother to join their message boards.

Not that familiar with US law. Is the situation roughly that Flynn had the legal right to simply refuse to talk, but Skarpen believes he should have the legal right to outright lie to whichever government agencies he wants to lie to?

TBH I got the impression this wasn't as much the case as it should be, and that we saw a little bit of the good old 'if the President does it, it's not a crime.'

If y'all wanna try a point and click adventure game with fair puzzles, may I suggest Nelly Cootalot and the Fowl Fleet, which I mentioned earlier, and which is very charming and also a good game, and has Tom Baker as the voice of a bird.

Maybe the way Trump exerted his influence on other people - like bullying governors into undoing mask mandates or whatever - has just got us internationals all confused.

Well it's a laugh, innit?

Yo, my bad for misdefining (apparently this isn't a word? whatevs) the office of President. Final sentence was the important one anyway, tho.

What if I answered with 'a large toddler'?