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Agreed on all points! Jack Cassidy was so much fun to watch. So charming and condescending towards Columbo ...
The police are allowed to lie to suspects and often do in order to incriminate them.
However, it is illegal to lie to the police.
I mean this is standard law enforcement procedure right? I mean let's say a bodega is robbed and the owner shot to death. The police have some very grainy surveillance tape and are pretty sure two neighborhood kids did it but have no murder weapon or physical evidence that will stand up in court.
So what do you do? You haul both suspects in and tell each one the other one ratted him out and is cutting a deal and will get a lighter sentence for cooperating. If they're both smart they'll just ask for a lawyer. But then the prisoner's dilemma kicks in ...
Are they in jail/prison or in "concentration camps?"
These people broke the law.
The Supreme Court has only ruled the President is above the law.
Not his supporters.
"Kamala absolutely would put Trump supporters in concentration camps,"
She is not spreading "lies and conspiracy theories that he is the next Hitler." That's his VP candidate J.D. Vance.
The rest of what you wrote is just what her opponent is doing. Like I said projection.
Just to jog your memory:
"Our country is going bad. And it's going to be changed on November 5, and if it's not changed we're not going to have a country anymore." - 2020
"If the left gains power, they will demolish the suburbs, confiscate your guns and appoint justices who will wipe away your Second Amendment and other constitutional freedoms," - 2020
“He’ll bury you in regulations, dismantle your police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns, terminate religious liberty, destroy your suburbs,” - 2020
None of those things happened. Crime is actually sharply down from pandemic highs.
The projection here is off the scale. Everyone here knows there is zero chance she would do any of these things.
Harris isn't talking about using the military to go after the "enemy within."
Harris isn't talking about lining up her political enemies in front of firing squads.
Harris isn't praising dictators and promising she'll be one on day 1.
Harris isn't calling her domestic opponents "vermin."
That's the MAGA cult leader.
You calling me names really convinces me that I am wrong and that you are correct. Ciao!
So are you saying it's impossible? This is a film, not a documentary.
MY whole point is that this DOES NOT happen regularly. That's why it's newsworthy.
In a sense I'm agreeing with you.
The Phantom Menace apparently was a masterpiece since it made $1 billion.
I saw it last night in San Francisco (Saturday night 6 pm) in IMAX:
Ticket: $25.99
Convenience Fee: $2.69
Taxes included I guess?
Total: $28.68
I just saw it last night. I'd give it a 8/10 - it's very good.
Is it as good as the absolutely 10/10 perfection that was Fury Road? No, but I didn't expect that. The visuals are just as good.
I enjoyed watching Chris Hemsworth with his over the top hammy performance as Dementus but I'm sure it's polarizing so you either love it or hate it.
I thought the two female leads who played Furiosa at different ages were both excellent.
I just finished watching the film.
To me it was obvious that the Fletcher's entire purpose in life (as he sees it) is to push musicians to become the next great. Almost no one can meet that standard which is why he's so frustrated and abusive. Whether or not this technique actually works in real life is another matter.
If you've ever seen B.B. King play (I haven't live but I've seen videos) you'll see how the instrument appears to be an extension of himself. The music just flows naturally. That's a great musician.
Fletcher wants to create the next Charlie Parker, the next B.B. King, the next great. In the ending scene Andrew became a great drummer. Both of them achieved what they most want in life.
3 POC gangbangers getting shot on the subway likely wouldn't have made the news in 1980s NYC. Also they were Wayne Enterprises employees which is part of the plot - the Joker's movement is against the rich & powerful and 3 yuppie businessmen getting shot fits right in.
Funny, I had the exact opposite reaction. When I saw her my first thought was wow there is an actual female agent I could see working at the FBI as opposed to the usual stick figure supermodel.
Q: Why did Michael Jackson like twenty-nine year olds so much?
A: Because there's twenty of them!
It's going to be tough to ever bring Ducky back as the actor who portrayed him, David McCallum, died aged 90 on September 25, 2023.
It doesn't actually solve anything. Europe's population was reduced by an estimated 40-60% during the black plague and today more people live in just Germany than in all of Europe back then.
A fertility level of slightly above 4 means a halving of the population is reversed in just one generation.
For reference, the fertility level of Niger is almost 7.
A better "finger snap" would be for intelligent species to voluntarily keep their population numbers at a sustainable level.
I provided basic facts (which can easily be verified online) to back up my claims you're operating on pure emotion and anecdote. Which one of us is the one devoid of pragmatism?
There are people who will become & remain homeless drug addicts no matter how much you help but I'm not talking about that group.
I'm talking about the fact that it has become much harder simply to live in this society compared to decades ago. That's going to take a toll on people who are barely making ends meet and for some that will result in life spiraling out of control when that could have been prevented in the first place.
Addendum: I have personally helped "save" someone like Alan. I don't mean in the way Thomas wants to "save" Charlie.
I'll just call him Alan even though that is not his real name.
I met Alan in college. He was a very devout Mormon. He never swore or drank alcohol. He left on a two year mission in a distant foreign country even though his father was dying from cancer at the time.
He was also, just like Alan, a gay man.
He eventually left the Church. He met someone and has been with his husband for 25 years now.
He told me one thing that convinced him to not end up like Alan in the film is that he saw his friends (like me) living full happy lives without religion and realizing it was not, as his Church taught him, an absolute requirement to live a happy & full life.
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You're going to say but God blah blah blah.
There are plenty of Christian sects that welcome and celebrate same sex unions. If you can ignore the parts condoning slavery in the Bible then you can ignore the parts condoning same sex relationships as well.
So many religions have traditionally been opposed to same sex love because it doesn't usually produce more followers. Just like the Catholic Church opposes contraception. They want as many babies made as possible. The babies will more likely than not follow the same religion as the parents which means more followers, money & power for the Church.
It's easy to change the above though. Just look at what the Mormon Church did in 1978. The Mormon Church taught that having black skin was a curse from God. Black people could not join their priesthood.
After the Civil Rights Era, that racist belief became more and more untenable and a threat to their power & money so they received a "revelation from God" that they can stop believing that black skin is a curse from God and welcome black people into their Church.