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I_am_SniperFrog posted...

It's odd how many of them I already use.
Outcast (although I don't really use either term in normal conversation)
Guys (to me guys is as gender neutral as 'dude' while a guy or a dude is masculine)
Asian (oriental isn't even a word in my vocabulary unless used to describe furniture)
I'd say I use old people and senior citizens about 50/50
I have always avoided saying 'girls'
I don't think I've used either wheelchair bound or a person using a wheelchair. Maybe disabled (which probably falls under wheelchair bound as opposed to "person with a disability)
I've always used manhole
I've always used chair
I say special needs, physically/mentally challenged
Banned is used way more often than blacklisted
Staffing I use as well over "manned"
I avoid racial topics at work, but I do use ethnicity and nationality (as a Colombian in the USA it does come up)
I do use uneducated

10/13
Funny really, never even consciously think that I'm using the PC terms, just what makes sense to me
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lilORANG posted...

Who is doing the what?

Imagine not knowing who Lin-Manuel Miranda is
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

does that REALLY need to be in there? >_>

It was an attempt at bringing levity into an otherwise negative post.
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You're telling me a president who lies, who advocates policy that will increase the cost of living for the majority of Americans, who appoints unqualified cabinet members and not only hasn't filled numerous key positions but also had several officials resign because in their own words they are “unable to work for this man,” who fired the FBI director and AGs for not doing his bidding, who wants to kill the EPA and sell off our national parks, who spends almost as much time playing golf as he does in the White House, who sends his children to stand in for him during official events, who advocates violence against the media and has some of the most divisive rhetoric we've ever heard, who tweets things that I would scold a teenager for saying, who takes zero responsibility for his own words, only cares about ratings, insults women, is a cyber bully, how he insulted a POW and said he prefers soldiers who don't get caught, and then said having sex in the 80s was like being in Vietnam, ripped off thousands of people in business, had a fake university, had four bankruptcies, is intellectually lazy, likes ketchup on burnt steak, colluded with Russia against America, refuses to get daily briefings, pulled out of the Paris deal, has unqualified family members in high positions, hasn't released his taxes, insults minorities, the handicapped, war heroes, the pope, news outlets, private citizens, incites violence at rallies, profits off his private businesses while in office and lies, can't speak in complete sentences, unfit for the oval office, his administration seems to be incapable of handling the logistics of simple tasks, see: booking a hotel for G20, ordering eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt, replacing the Obama signature on the autopen, doesn't respect the oval office, insults a GOLD STAR family, claimed he sacrificed as much as that gold star family because he owns real estate and employs people (how that compares to a mother and father who buried their son after he was killed fighting for his country is beyond the scope of my abilities).

You're telling me that president is the least popular in history?
Gotta be fake news.
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Clad posted...

most new millionaires from the last few decades were self made. IE no inheritance, no loans from parents, etc.

http://www.fa-mag.com/news/most-millionaires-self-made--study-says-14565.html

While that's a good point, they still largely benefit from circumstances beyond their immediate control. See here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-22/how-did-the-worlds-rich-get-that-way-luck
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GreatEvilEmpire posted...

maybe you should think about how to become a CEO one day.

As Darkman pointed out, that level of mobility doesn't exist
In fact, he posted a couple years back about how poor people and rich people both have hard workers, smart workers, etc. it's just rich people got lucky. Lucky to be in the right place at the right time, lucky to be born into the right family, etc.

The point here is that there is income inequality in the country and in the world. That's a fact.
How we choose to fix this is where we differ. I'm on the side that says redistribution of wealth to social services to create a larger safety net will allow people to have a greater chance at climbing the ladder of wealth. You seem to be on the side of cutting those same services to give people a reason to try and climb it.
And as pointed out, we have quite a few dumb lazy rich people and poor people as well. It's not about what do individuals deserve, but what can we as a community do to make it better for everyone.
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Ivanka has weird nips
Although I'm not into women so my opinion isn't worth as much as others on this
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Mark_DeRosa posted...

And man is probably one of the best mcu movies

Y'know what? You're right.
IM 1, Avengers 1, Cap 2, GotG 1, and Cap 3 are clearly better than the rest.
Then you have the middle of the road like Ant-Man, Strange, GotG 2, and IM 3
Then there's the bottom level Cap 1, Thor 1, IM2, and Avengers 2
And finally the shitty ones that are Hulk and Thor 2
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Spidey5 posted...

I'm not usually picky with marvel movies, but man that movie was a disaster lol.

Hulk, Cap 1, Thor 1, IM2, Thor 2, Avengers 2, and Ant-Man are all worse than IM 3
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https://www.facebook.com/LibertyHangout/videos/1934059796807600/
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chrono625 posted...

But was he inciting violence? Gimme a break.

Considering there have been a ton of threats towards journalists since he did tweet this, yeah it does count as inciting violence.
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leverageblargh posted...

The upside is that any amount of time in prison is doubly difficult for pedophiles.

No one should think vigilante justice or prisoners harming each other / guards doing it is a good thing.
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http://factitious.augamestudio.com/
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gamer167 posted...

I've been seeing some fat shaming as well.

That's the kind and loving libs for you

It's ridiculous that the president doesn't believe in exercise.
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davyheinz posted...

Hilariously enough, Manhattan has cool shit going for him despite seeming like a freaky, glowing, blue guy who doesn't wear clothes often at first glance.

Like... yeah, he basically becomes a god and that sounds really powerful because it is, but the way he behaves makes the story so much better.

Do I want to build glass structures on Mars? Do I want to help Earth or be a dick despite being capable of teleportation and not having to breathe? I could go anywhere, but maybe being a dick on Earth is cool enough.

Honestly until DC decided to do new things with him last year, he was actually on the lower level of reality warpers. Plenty of characters in Marvel and DC who could do more.
Still even the 'weaker' version would be unstoppable in real life.
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I like the theory I read that since the lesser species could only tap into a small amount of Sauron's power, that it reflected their abilities

Like Boromir wanted it for Gondor, man is fairly capable at leading and fighting, so they could use that. Hobbits however are the lowest of creatures, and so are only good at hiding and become invisible with it


I'm not Tolkien lore expert though
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ElatedVenusaur posted...

Because Steny Hoyer is just so inspiring.

I agree. Maybe Luján, but no one else is exactly inspiring.
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The reason democrats are pushing for a Pelosi change is because they are hyping up to impeach Trump/Pence and a bunch of top level Republicans.
This would mean that the House minority speaker has the best shot at becoming POTUS, and they'll be damned if we get a president Pelosi.
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AlternativeFAQS posted...

she never said it was French either

And she also never said that most of the spells were Latin, but they were


BLAKUboy posted...

I mean, that's more or less how writers in general work. Maybe not always to the same extent, but they'll know the world more deeply than their actual work will ever show.

Definitely. I think he was right about the "she just blew up in popularity more than other writers."
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Honestly at this point I just press the Spanish option because they're actually fluent in the language and seem to be nicer than other callers (especially when they're also Colombian so we talk for a bit in the downtime).
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2/2

Do you ever see Republicans saying it's time for people like McConnell or McCain to go? No? That's why they're winning, that's why they have power. Party over country might be an abhorrent philosophy but it still works, because a sound and unified party is nearly untouchable.
Pelosi is just fine where she is. As long as she's fit to serve, she is an asset to the Democratic party. The rest of the Democrats need to band together, not snipe at each other. That's exactly what Republicans and Putin want
This last highly publicized GA election had the Republicans attacking the Dem candidate by constantly attacking Pelosi. And now Dems are calling for Pelosi's head. Tell me that's not weakness. Dems are still getting played by high school mind games.

She did a great job getting dems to fall in line on important House votes in the past (and as mentioned even this year) so she is a good leader in that regard as well.


Republicans attack her precisely because of how formidable and brilliant she is, and then the casuals stroll in with nary a memory of all she's done and is capable of doing to say Dems should take her down just like the Republicans want them to do.
Under Boehner and now Ryan, she has outmaneuvered the majority party on a number of occasions to force favorable outcomes for the Democrats, when the situation seemed hopeless.
Throughout her career she has single handedly raised nearly half a billion dollars for the party, something no other congressman can compare to. Under the Bush years, she leveraged this and her remarkable political acumen to usher in a blue wave. She then used that majority under Obama to help perform the Herculean feat of healthcare expansion and reform, which multiple Supreme Court lawsuits and full Republican control of our government has not been able to undo. Obama gets all the credit due to the moniker Obamacare has been given, but she was the one who actually convinced him that it could still be done when he had lost hope following the Massachusetts special Senate election that fell to Republicans. She skillfully showed she was right.
If the Democrats were smart, they'd shut the fuck up and support one of their finest in the face of opposition rather than throw one of their best assets in the garbage bin just because Republicans attacked her and won a squeaker in a district that was heavily in their favor.

tl;dr: I think she's good. Could be better, could be much worse. But I think it's overblown right now
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If Pelosi retired, it wouldn't leave Republicans nobody to criticize (at least not for long), it would just vault someone else into the limelight to be the figurehead bogeyman or bogeywoman. Whoever leads the caucus becomes famous, and becomes a lightning rod because they will become the face of the partisan fighting.

Look at Paul Ryan's favorability ratings - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/paul-ryan-favorable-rating.
He was hovering around the break-even point (viewed equally favorable and unfavorable) until he became the Speaker in October 2015, and since then his favorability has tanked in a year and a half.

Mitch McConnell's favorability ratings are terrible - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/mitch-mcconnell-favorable-rating (Republican Senate leader).

So were John Boehner's - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/john-boehner-favorable-rating (former Republican House leader).

So were Harry Reid's - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/harry-reid-favorable-rating (former Democratic Senate leader).

Chuck Schumer - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/chuck-schumer-favorable-rating (new Democratic Senate leader) is brand new, but his net favorability has already dropped from -6 to -10 in a couple of months.
He is the new public face of the partisan battles in the Senate - http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/chuck-schumer-department-of-justice-fbi/index.html and is being attacked in national media outlets for it -
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/opinions/whats-gotten-into-chuck-schumer-callan/index.html

The fact of the matter is that in modern politics, whoever leads a partisan caucus will inevitably develop high name recognition and poor net favorability, and be used to attack other candidates. Whatever benefit in this area the party derives from her retiring would be short-lived.


Furthermore, Nancy Pelosi is really good at gathering money -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/nancy-pelosi-fundraising_n_1677796.html
That seems like a useful skill even if she's unpopular. A replacement might not be as proficient in fund raising.

1/2
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M_Live posted...

And this would be incredible, rather than the bipartisan bullshit we have that nobody actually likes yet never actually changes.

We already kind of have that. Parliamentary systems tend to create coalitions of multiple parties.
If you look at Republicans, for example, we have members of the Freedom Caucus, those people who rode on the Tea Party wave, RINOs, libertarian types, etc. Similar idea with the Democrats. If you think about it, each of those segments of the party could be considered their own 'party' and the party as a whole is a coalition.
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Texas Roadhouse or Red Lobster, imo
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Source where he admitted in a Fox interview all of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/us/politics/trump-indicates-tape-tweet-was-meant-to-affect-comey-testimony.html


The federal statute on witness tampering is interesting here. Under the statute it is unlawful to "engage in misleading conduct toward another person with intent to - influence, delay, or prevent the testimony."
Trump just actually admitted that he engaged in misleading conduct in an attempt to influence Comey's testimony.
Even if Trump's intention was "to make Comey answer truthfully," he's still engaging in misleading conduct with intent to influence testimony.


I think the excuse of "he's not used to being a politician" is really biting him in the ass. I mean, it's obvious he is out of his depth and surrounds himself with less-than-the-best advisers, so yeah.

Mueller's job gets easier every single day that goes by.
It's amazing how Trump is too dumb to just shut up and stop incriminating himself.
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Matt-Moores posted...

we do it with our own sex (here comes the barf)

cringe
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So going through his post history, he's from Turkey
Not likely that there would be a way to get him punished for it
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Man I loved that game. I'd give anything for it to go up on PS4 classicsor what-have-you.
It satisfied a craving that Diablo/PoE/etc. haven't met.
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Hinakuluiau posted...

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

200?

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EyeWontBeFooled posted...

200?

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oy vey
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Hinakuluiau posted...

InstaReturns posted...

HEY

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InstaReturns posted...

HEY

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Hinakuluiau posted...

ok

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ok
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https://imgur.com/a/5gO4x#AaLw9Ft
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GigaSPX posted...

Just wondering, what MCU movies would you say are duds?

Hulk, IM2, IM3, Thor 2, AoU are all what I'd consider below any of the DCEU
IM1, Avengers, Winter Soldier and Civil War have been better than anything the DCEU has put out
The rest are all over the place with them mixed together, most likely with Wonder Woman at the top


Honestly I can't ever look past what Marvel did with Thor. His first movie was really on the meh side but at least it had some cool worldbuilding. Thor 2 was straight up insultingly bad.
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GigaSPX posted...

A lot is riding on Justice League because they're already going off the the most anticipated mashup of DC's greatest early on unlike how Marvel took their sweet time to introducing each Avenger first.

I don't agree with this line of reasoning.
Superman and Wonder Woman got their own movies before JL. Batman literally just had three movies of his come out (I know it's not the same continuity, but he is the most popular superhero for a reason) and was a major character in his own right for BvS.
Who else do we have in JL? Aquaman, Flash, and Cyborg. Cyborg looks like he's gonna be a major plot point with his armor and stuff, and the other two are more well known than Thor and Cap were at their time.

I don't think there's anything wrong with jumping right into the team-up movie. If they built up slowly, they'd be accused of copying the MCU. No, better to do their own thing.
Honestly I think the movies get too much hate. The MCU has quite a few duds, the DCEU matches up with the middle of the road MCU movies, except for Wonder Woman which is solidly up there with the better MCU movies.
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Obviously not all Muslims are bad. If they were Islamic terrorism would be an unstoppable force.
Islam has it's problems. Just like Christianity it has a ton of issues with the core beliefs. But Christians have been dragged kicking and screaming into the present. We need the same for Muslims to happen.

You can see it already has, to some degree. A Muslim in the USA is more progressive than a Christian in Africa, for example.
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scorpion41 posted...

Obama is done. Why do people still care what he thinks like he's relevant?

Wait until the next democratic majority puts him on the Supreme Court
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Do you ever see Republicans saying it's time for people like McConnell or McCain to go? No? That's why they're winning, that's why they have power. Party over country might be an abhorrent philosophy but it still works, because a sound and unified party is nearly untouchable.
Pelosi is just fine where she is. As long as she's fit to serve, she is an asset to the Democratic party. The rest of the Democrats need to band together, not snipe at each other. That's exactly what Republicans and Putin want
This last highly publicized GA election had the Republicans attacking the Dem candidate by constantly attacking Pelosi. And now Dems are calling for Pelosi's head. Tell me that's not weakness. Dems are still getting played by high school mind games.

She did a great job getting dems to fall in line on important House votes in the past (and as mentioned even this year) so she is a good leader in that regard as well.


Republicans attack her precisely because of how formidable and brilliant she is, and then the casuals stroll in with nary a memory of all she's done and is capable of doing to say Dems should take her down just like the Republicans want them to do.
Under Boehner and now Ryan, she has outmaneuvered the majority party on a number of occasions to force favorable outcomes for the Democrats, when the situation seemed hopeless.
Throughout her career she has single handedly raised nearly half a billion dollars for the party, something no other congressman can compare to. Under the Bush years, she leveraged this and her remarkable political acumen to usher in a blue wave. She then used that majority under Obama to help perform the Herculean feat of healthcare expansion and reform, which multiple Supreme Court lawsuits and full Republican control of our government has not been able to undo. Obama gets all the credit due to the moniker Obamacare has been given, but she was the one who actually convinced him that it could still be done when he had lost hope following the Massachusetts special Senate election that fell to Republicans. She skillfully showed she was right.
If the Democrats were smart, they'd shut the fuck up and support one of their finest in the face of opposition rather than throw one of their best assets in the garbage bin just because Republicans attacked her and won a squeaker in a district that was heavily in their favor.
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If Pelosi retired, it wouldn't leave Republicans nobody to criticize (at least not for long), it would just vault someone else into the limelight to be the figurehead bogeyman or bogeywoman. Whoever leads the caucus becomes famous, and becomes a lightning rod because they will become the face of the partisan fighting.

Look at Paul Ryan's favorability ratings - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/paul-ryan-favorable-rating.
He was hovering around the break-even point (viewed equally favorable and unfavorable) until he became the Speaker in October 2015, and since then his favorability has tanked in a year and a half.

Mitch McConnell's favorability ratings are terrible - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/mitch-mcconnell-favorable-rating (Republican Senate leader).

So were John Boehner's - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/john-boehner-favorable-rating (former Republican House leader).

So were Harry Reid's - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/harry-reid-favorable-rating (former Democratic Senate leader).

Chuck Schumer - http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/chuck-schumer-favorable-rating (new Democratic Senate leader) is brand new, but his net favorability has already dropped from -6 to -10 in a couple of months.
He is the new public face of the partisan battles in the Senate - http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/chuck-schumer-department-of-justice-fbi/index.html and is being attacked in national media outlets for it -
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/opinions/whats-gotten-into-chuck-schumer-callan/index.html

The fact of the matter is that in modern politics, whoever leads a partisan caucus will inevitably develop high name recognition and poor net favorability, and be used to attack other candidates. Whatever benefit in this area the party derives from her retiring would be short-lived.


Furthermore, Nancy Pelosi is really good at gathering money -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/nancy-pelosi-fundraising_n_1677796.html
That seems like a useful skill even if she's unpopular. A replacement might not be as proficient in fund raising.
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Caution999 posted...

Remember when Bush did this to Obama?

Oh that's right he didn't. He respected the office of the president and didn't try to divide the country even further.

Obama needs to go away as Anne would say on Weakest Link. Be a private citizen with some class and don't comment on anything like a good boy.

What did Bush do that Obama tried to tear down? What piece of legislature did Bush pass that every Democrat who ran for office said they would remove the second they got into office?
That's why Bush didn't comment on anything. There was nothing of note, not nearly as bad of a political climate, etc. to compare to the ACA.

The ACA was one of the things Obama fought for and was proud of. For all of it's faults, it was a step in the right direction.
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Sami1000 posted...

How would i know who is an actual criminal?

You have super hearing, sight, and speed. You could quite literally prevent every crime happening or stop the crimes in the middle of them happening.
After a while people would be in fear of committing crimes. Who wants to fuck around when you start messing with a literal god?
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Sami1000 posted...

Everytime you don't do something would make you feel like it was your fault, because you didn't do anything. Zero time off, if you public because other people would blame you for everytime you didn't prevent something or save somebody.

I think if you're really interested in being a hero, you could spend a week preventing everything possible. After that week pretty much everyone would know that the chances of getting caught goes up and up to the point where it's not worth it.
Then you can relax and focus on natural catastrophes and scientific endeavors.
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White House Warns Reporters Not to Report on Instructions About Not Reporting on Thursday’s Press Conference
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/22/white_house_press_conference_no_camera_notice_is_not_reportable_white_house.html

The Trump administration has started to cut down on the number of press conferences it gives that occur on camera. Wednesday, the administration announced that Thursday's* press briefing by Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be one such no-video affair, then declared that the announcement itself was "NOT REPORTABLE."

What a day for Republicans:
WH exposed for trying to gag the press
Congressional GOP can't figure out how to write an ACA repeal that anyone likes
Trump admitted to being a lying, manipulative POS with Comey tapes
Revelations confirming that Trump asked Intel chiefs to refute collusion claims
More revelations that not only were voter rolls hacked before the election, but they were altered, specifically targeting Democrats

http://time.com/4828306/russian-hacking-election-widespread-private-data/
Source for the last one since it seems so crazy
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Annihilated posted...

Hinakuluiau posted...

The only people upset were comic purists who swear they're not actually racist but don't get upset over other changes

Wrong, showing your ignorance. People were upset because a clueless director decided to make Sue Storm's twin brother a different race because PC-ness takes higher priority than logic.

Sue is older than Johnny, they're not twins. Talk about clueless.
And the whole point of Fantastic Four is that family comes in all forms. Adopted brothers and sisters are still family, so it's quite nice.
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darkphoenix181 posted...

People were very upset when Johnny Storm was made black.

The only people upset were comic purists who swear they're not actually racist but don't get upset over other changes


Not to mention that Batman being old money is a critical part of his backstory. Old money in the USA tends to be white, unless he's adopted or mixed then it doesn't make sense to be anything but white. Contrast with Johnny who just has to be attractive cocky guy who cares about family.
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It's just sort of a cop-out response.
Of course the democrats have their problems and they should be lambasted for it. In comparison to how republicans have acted though, they've only looked better and better.

Anyone who goes around saying that both parties are as bad as each other just reeks of wanting to feel superior, like an edgy 14 year old who has discovered some deeper meaning that the adults are missing.
That goes double for any self-proclaimed libertarian.
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There are some things where I just bypass critical thinking. - ROD
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