Politics And Current Events

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:46 pm

It's sort of like the centuries of portraiture depicting Jesus as a white northern-looking European dude.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:46 pm

There are plenty of new ideas in Hollywood.

But unfortunately, they aren't guaranteed to make money like remakes, recastings, and sequels. Films are too damn expensive for new or experimental ideas!

That's why TV is getting the better content in many cases.

Postby **AuthorTony** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:48 pm

There are plenty of new ideas in Hollywood.

But unfortunately, they aren't guaranteed to make money like remakes, recastings, and sequels. Films are too damn expensive for new or experimental ideas!

That's why TV is getting the better content in many cases.

This x1000. It ultimately comes down to the audience/ticket buyers. As long as remakes/reimagining/retreads continue to make serious money, studios will keep making them.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:58 pm

Yeah, the state of Hollywood storytelling is less a tale about a lack of creativity as it is lack of diversity in appetites. You don't want constant remakes and retreads? Stop going to see them. As long as the live-action Beauty And The Beast is going to gross $1.2 billion there's always going to be the promise of a live-action Hercules on the horizon.

Which is also why you get things like Ghost In The Shell starring ScarJo as someone called Motoko Kusanagi. You know why? Because a tentpole film starring Keiko Agena in the role probably wouldn't have been greenlit in the first place. Which, again, goes to the audience's taste.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:07 pm

It's sort of like the centuries of portraiture depicting Jesus as a white northern-looking European dude.

You mean Kenny Loggins?

Postby **NAN** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:17 pm

It's sort of like the centuries of portraiture depicting Jesus as a white northern-looking European dude.

Except most of the fairy tales from brother take place in Northern European areas.

Jesus should be arab

Postby **CBear3** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:19 pm

Because a tentpole film starring Keiko Agena in the role probably wouldn't have been greenlit in the first place.

Sign me up, love me so Keiko

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:02 pm

It's sort of like the centuries of portraiture depicting Jesus as a white northern-looking European dude.
Except most of the fairy tales from brother take place in Northern European areas.

Jesus should be arab

Kind of like Egypt prior to the Arab invasions of the early Muslim eras the peoples of the eastern shore of the Med were more "Mediterranean" than Arab.

Mosaics from Roman times show a different world than we might think.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:04 pm

what does it matter, jesus was a magician and god isn't real

edit: ok I cringed at how r/atheism I just came off

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:05 pm

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Postby **MR25** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:18 pm

How is it that we're **** 7 months into this thing and some of the decision makers still don't understand the **** concept of "just because you've tested negative in the past doesn't mean you're negative now"

Postby **AuthorTony** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:41 pm

How is it that we're **** 7 months into this thing and some of the decision makers still don't understand the **** concept of "just because you've tested negative in the past doesn't mean you're negative now"

It's willful ignorance.

Postby **NAN** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:44 pm

How is it that we're **** 7 months into this thing and some of the decision makers still don't understand the **** concept of "just because you've tested negative in the past doesn't mean you're negative now"

That one blows my mind. I think I mentioned in the Covid thread a few months back, some dude called into the radio station saying he didn't need to wear a mask because a few weeks back he tested negative for COVID. The host kept trying to say that doesn't mean we will be negative forever and he can catch it at anytime, and the caller just did not get it. He kept screaming "BUT I WAS NEGATIVE I DON"T NEED TO WEAR A MASK."

Idiots.

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:47 pm

Senator Susan Collins has doubts.

Postby **PFiDC** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:49 pm

Senator Susan Collins has doubts.

At least it's not covid

Postby **MR25** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:51 pm

Senator Susan Collins has doubts.

As she does every time something comes up. Then as time progresses she just walks back to the party line.

Her schtick is tired.

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:54 pm

Exactly.

Postby **eddy** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:55 pm

Senator Susan Collins has doubts.

About being a senator past January 3? Can't wait for her to go away forever

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:08 pm

https://theweek.com/articles/942215/sup ... -deal-done

This column perfectly sums up how I feel. I voted for Trump in 2016 for two reasons; SCOTUS nominations and loathing Hillary Clinton. It's been ugly, but three nominations later (not to mention dozens more at lower levels), I am more than content with the payoff. Now, he has gone off the rails and I'm fine with getting him out of the WH before he loses it even more.

And given that fact, why should SCOTUS voters support Trump again in 2020? They don't owe him anything. They paid in full in 2016, and now he's held up his side of the bargain, too. What else is there to say? You don't hang out with the car salesman after you've signed the papers. You certainly don't pay him twice the sticker price for providing precisely what he promised. This is how a transaction works, and the Trump-SCOTUS voter transaction is over. Electing him again won't make Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett somehow more confirmed to the Supreme Court than they already will be.

If anything, giving Trump a second term could backfire for conservative SCOTUS voters' goals. Justice Stephen Breyer, nominated by then-President Bill Clinton in 1994, is 82 years old and considered the court's second-strongest liberal. Were Breyer to die in the next four years, a still-President Trump could create a 7-2 conservative supermajority. This might sound like a further triumph for SCOTUS voters, but a fourth Trump nomination could well do their cause more harm than good.

The backlash would be intense. Court-packing and/or a serious loss of legitimacy for the Supreme Court would become all but inevitable. Democratic panic and partisan animus would escalate beyond its present heights. Centrist swing voters, alarmed by the sharp rightward bend of the most visible stem of the judicial branch, might attempt to restore balance in Washington by handing both congressional houses to Democrats in the 2022 midterms and rejecting comparative moderates like this year's Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, in the 2024 presidential primaries. The dream of a 7-2 conservative court could transform into the nightmare of a 9-7 liberal majority alongside Democratic control of Congress and the White House — the institutional version of Trump's radicalizing effect on the left.

A prudent temperance, then, is more likely than greedy overreach to secure the pending victory Barrett's confirmation signifies. Having gotten what they wanted from him, declining to re-elect Trump may be the best strategic move conservative SCOTUS voters can make. They should content themselves with the bird they have in hand — if they reach for more, they may find a viper in the bush.[/quote]

Postby **Kaiser** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:19 pm

what about our lives, you son of a dodint

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:31 pm

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:33 pm

Senator Susan Collins has doubts.

As she does every time something comes up. Then as time progresses she just walks back to the party line.

Her schtick is tired.

In a non-stupid time Barrett would be a non-controversial vote.

More experienced than some of the folks on SCOTUS already.

But tv time means it gets dumber and dumber each time.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:44 pm

what about our lives, you son of a dodint

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:53 pm

Got confirmation that our completed ballots were delivered to the county election office today and will be counted.