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That's not Elias Koteas.

All the likes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEk7ajI9sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BTODUEhPk

Trust-fund-baby-turned-billionaire-married-to-supermodel feels system unfairly rigged against him

I can't speak for the guy, but the filtering of empirical fact through the prism of ideology certainly applies to political partisanship in the US. Global warming and evolution are the obvious examples

I came across a variant of this when I was studying translation in university. Roughly speaking, there was a current of translation studies which posited that all translations were done from a male perspective, and that translation should be studied from a feminist studies perspective. It quickly became apparent to me that all this translation theory was a blatant shoehorning of the two subjects into each other, and it helped with nothing other than with the regurgitation of ideology. It wasn't "let's look at translation from a feminist/female perspective", but rather translation is done in a "male" fashion therefore it is wrong and we must fight that by shoehorning feminist ideology into it.

I wouldn't mind living in a world where sequels to bad movies are awesome. Transformers 2: H.R. Giger edition. Fast and Furious 2: 12 Angry Men. After a car crash Vin Diesel is stuck in recovery with a bunch of people maimed by illegal racing car crashes.

Yeah, that was ghastly. Despite the many years experiencing your Volyness, I honestly can't tell if your being sarcastic. The argument certainly can be made that those nerdy big studio movies are rubbish. DC comics movies are the opposite of a good counter example, though. You might as well give the following trailer as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfDtlEwFBk

Not a Stalinist but a populist towards anything that the cooky side of the left might like. She won't support stupid stuff directly but she usually seems careful to words things in a way that doesn't commit her to a definite position. Homeopathy is no longer part of her platform, at least. Replying to what's her position on homeopathy, she can't seem to give a straight answer:

Don't bother. No one was able to play Tyranny because the release date was after the Great Election Apocalypse of 2016.

How not to be a petulant child:

I thought this was pretty good. It's on Republicans, Trump, small government and bigotry. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/10/rick_perlstein_on_how_the_republican_party_will_recover_from_trump.html

The party of personal freedoms and small government opened that door over 10 years ago. And neither party has been interested in repealing it since. Is that part of the libertarian platform?

Which specific personal freedoms have they restricted, so far?

Actually one of the lanes continues exactly like it did before. No one is really actively bothering to fix the pavement, or add safety railings (they interfere with personal freedoms, apparently), or even draw lines on the ground. That lane is still in the same basic condition as before, at least, even if you are still in for a bumpy ride.

Two threads merged.

Yes the media has been creating a narrative against Trump since at least the 80s, leading up to this election. He was always the prototype of the corrupt, scruple-less real estate magnate. After the mess with Ivana and Marla Maples he was also seen as a sleazeball because, surprise, he is one. Up until the birther press conference the media, during this campaign, was actually giving a giant pass to Trump (as long as he didn't explode in a gaggle of nativist incoherent babble, he was being potentially presidential). In any case you are giving a lot more power to the media than it is warranted. Bernie lost because was too much to the left for the Democratic base. It's just demographics. His excellent performance speaks volumes for the move left on the part of of the Dem electorate, but he still didn't have a chance of gaining the nomination. As for the DNC actively working with the media to influence opinion, I'd be flabbergasted if that wasn't the case for both sides of the aisle since, at the very least, the muckraker days. It just so happens, regarding this election, that creating a narrative against Trump isn't so much digging stuff up as it is quoting him verbatim and let him stand on his own horribleness. The odds are stacked against Trump but the responsibility lies squarely on his shoulders. It's really weird to me that HRC and the current DNC seems to be where the buck stops, for a lot of people. Digging dirt on your opponents has been standard procedure since forever. Ditto for saying one thing in private and another in public. All I've seen in the recent Podesta leaks doesn't surprise me in the least. Political parties shouldn't be like this? Sure. Is the political modus operandi fundamentally different from 2008 or 2000 or 1988 or 1980 or pick any year? No.

http://istheelectionrigged.com/

Well, they are married. And kudos given their age.

Holy cow, you've managed to ensure I will never buy this game with a single post. As time doesn't pass like in Fallout it should really not be much of a constraint. It will just encourage you to everything before you leave an area.

Closed for length. Continued here.

Ascension! Health insurance was the ongoing discussion in the last posts of the previous thread.

Isn't Obamacare increasing premiums for some income brackets because insurers are trying hard to get back to the previous status quo where they could screw over the insured with more ease?

We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic. And the electoral college, while it is a throwback to a time when it took days to get from one side of the country to the other it still serves a purpose today. Without it New York, California, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania could decide the election by themselves. States like North Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska and the other low population states would be left out of Presidential politics altogether. Their concerns will be ignored forever. On a practical level it would require one of two things. A Constitutional Amendment. That probably will not happen. Or a Constitutional Convention. I seriously doubt the country would even survive that. So we are stuck with it. @Shady I'm not so sure that's true. There is still a scenario where Johnson can win this thing. And it only happens BECAUSE of the Electoral College. Thanks for stating it clearly, but I understand that perfectly and that's exactly my point. The country of "don't tread on me", personal freedoms and the government is not to be trusted puts states rights above individual rights. And by the way, those states still end up controlling Presidential election outcomes.

I really have trouble understanding how all Americans seem to be proud of saying that the US is the "greatest democracy in the world", but conversely don't seem to have a problem with the electoral college. It's such a clear cut undemocratic mechanism.