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There used to be someone on IMDb whose signature was something like "And furthermore, this is my signature". Got me every time, lol.
Personally, I don't know if it's because I have an old computer or what, but I can't see the smileys people post from their phones. It just shows up as a blank spot. So i'm definitely looking forward to seeing this site get its own, if that's planned.
Not yet, but it's one of the things they're working on setting up.
I'm loving it too. It's pretty basic so far but it definitely has promise, a nice community building up here, with just a few trolls so far. I love how a lot of the old posts have been saved and brought over here, it's like a replica of a lost world that can still be rebuilt, provided enough people learn about it to make the voyage over here.
EDIT:
Hey, we now have an edit button too! Yay! :D
I'm not a tech person so this might be an ignorant question, but is there a way we could use our email addresses to link them or something? If I register my email address and it's the same one as the email address I use for my IMDb account, it would prove it's me.
If not, I could suggest phone numbers, but I didn't authenticate on IMDb using my own phone number (I had once, using my previous account, but I couldn't do it again after i'd deleted that account). I'm pretty sure the last phone number I used to authenticate was the number of a friend whom i'm no longer friends with, who had agreed to let me use hers. Not sure I could contact her to ask her to let me use the number again. Hmm.
Of course new features are being added, but no one has said anything about this specific feature, which is different from something basic like adding an edit/delete option.
Bump. I was wondering about this too. I made a lot of posts with my old account, same username as my current account, and I was hoping I could make my old posts part of my current account. There's got to be a way.
The first movie I remember FOR SURE watching in the theater, was The Lost World: Jurassic Park, when I was 7 years old. I remember it clearly, just me and my dad went. I'm pretty sure I saw other movies in the theater before then, but I can't be sure which ones or when.
I couldn't possibly guess what the first movie I ever watched on tape was. I'm not sure what the first one I watched in the theater was either, but it might, MIGHT have been Toy Story. I can't be certain about it though. That's just my best guess.
So far i'm mostly hanging around in General Discussion. I never posted much on TV show boards anyway, and the movie boards are still ghost towns, with just a few people slowly filtering in. I'll get more active as the site gets more active, which i'm sure it will.
I'm keeping mine, because I have nearly a thousand ratings there and i'd hate to lose them after building them up for years. Also, who knows, the boards may come back someday if the site comes under better ownership or the current ownership wises up as to what an incredibly stupid and shitty thing they've done. If the boards ever return, my account will still be there.
He's a nasty human being. I hope this is the beginning of the end for him.
I loved IMDb, posted on it for over a decade. So far this site is looking like a pretty good replacement for it. All it needs is more people. But if we build it, they will come (see what I did there?).
Sadly that's the way it goes. A site grows big, and big greedy companies become interested in it, the owner sells it for big $$$$$, and the new owners mutilate it because they put profit above what the users want. If this site gets big enough, it'll go that way too. Then we'll just start another one and begin the cycle over again.
Reminds me of that South Park episode about Walmart. lol
I'm looking forward to getting the avatars back too. But first we need more basic things like the edit button.
LOL!
"Democrats should drop the moderates and simply nominated someone with left ideas. Someone that promises medicare for all, to control Wallstreet, end drones and Wars, and is unquestionably pro-environment."
This is like expecting wolves to become vegetarians. It's not in their nature. This kind of thing can only come about by a grassroots mass movement imposing tremendous pressure on the ruling class, forcing them to make concessions. Even then it's not sincere, it's a political tactic, to be dropped later when the pressure cools (as after the 1960s ended). The Democrats' masters are on Wall Street, and a good dog doesn't bite its master's hand. The capitalist system runs on neo-colonial wars to force open markets to exploit (plus the arms industry in the US is enormous, depends on war for its profits, and wields immense political influence), the private health insurance companies pay for the Democrats' political campaigns, and drones are the new "efficient" way to wage war. As for the environment, that would mean challenging the giant fossil fuel industries, which isn't going to happen. Capitalism depends on rapacious exploitation of the environment, and the Democrats as a capitalist party are incapable of seriously challenging these interests, though pressure may force them to make some minor and token reforms.
For these reasons, the Democrats aren't going to voluntarily take these positions you advocate. They will have to be forced to concede on these things, and it would take a gigantic and sustained mass movement to force that (a movement whose purposes would be better served by creating an actually leftist, mass-based alternative to the Democratic Party). We saw how the Democrats treated Sanders, a milquetoast 1960s imperialist liberal. There's no way they would ever allow any real radical reformers to do anything if they can help it. The Democrats would RATHER lose than allow anything that hurts the interests of their class, which the Republicans won't. They fear the population more than they fear the Republicans, with whom they have only superficial disagreements.
The Democrats are in a state of political crisis right now. For that matter so are the Republicans (who absolutely did not want the unpredictable Trump becoming their nominee, and i'd bet they're going to take measures to prevent such things from happening in the future). Neither party is responding to people's basic interests, and both parties are incapable of any kind of major reform. They're welded tightly to the economic and political status quo that the masses of people find more intolerable every year. Trump won because none of the "mainstream" candidates could get people behind them with any enthusiasm. People hated Clinton, who is rightly perceived as a symbol of neoliberalism and corruption. Most of Clinton's "support" just came from the fact that she isn't Trump. Likewise, most of Trump's "support" came from the fact that he isn't Clinton (the right-wing diehards like the ones on this board aside, most people who voted for him only did so tepidly). People hate Trump too, for different reasons, but Trump is perceived as being separate from the political establishment, and he was able to rally the most racist and chauvinist elements to his side with ultra-nationalist demagoguery, so he just managed to eke out a win. Such strategies won't be sustainable in the long run, though, because the young and non-white people are becoming an ever-larger proportion of the US population, and monstrosities like Trump and the openly white-supremacist and fascist elements behind him (such as Bannon, Yiannopoulos, Sessions, etc) provoke enormous popular opposition. Trump could even end up being the catalyst for the Republican Party's demise (though it probably won't happen right away), because its angry-white-guy politics aren't going to help it for much longer.
I don't expect big changes from the Democrats, or from the Republicans. Both parties are circling the drain right now and seem incapable of finding ways to change course (because changing course would mean going against the interests of their class), and when the next big economic crisis hits (which it will, and fairly soon), I think things are going to become unpredictable. Both parties may end up splitting in the coming years, and new parties may rise to challenge their monopoly on power (Greens and Libertarians are already candidates for that possibility, and there could be a new socialist party before long).
Awesome. This site is really taking shape. Many thanks for all your hard work.