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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Or you know, we could just stop talking about it like it's an attraction, by choice. As rage-inducing as it might be to a lot of people, there are people who want to mimic and copycat what they see on TV because of all the attention it's getting.
Instead of dramatizing and sensationalizing this stuff, we could inform the people while being as boring as possible to a limited audience.
Glove and Boots is good for Blog!@Devil: Hey, it's the same media geniuses that cooked up an entire channel whose job it is to spew Republican propaganda. There is very little the news media won't do for ratings (and thus, money).
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Let's not let tragedy go to waste. There's something to gain from all this, be it profit or politics. Since it doesn't yet offend enough people to affect change, then it must intrigue them enough to tune in and crank up the ratings. An in a few months time, maybe people will tune in for the movie!
Is it always the Republicans who spew this out? Certainly not!
No, people were just talking about movies, which the Liberals tend to have more figureheads and spokesmen.
edited 10th Feb '13 8:54:31 PM by DevilTakeMe
Glove and Boots is good for Blog!
I heard something on the Radio 5 Live talk radio station, on the Stephen Nolan Show, about how the liberal bias, as it was implied, was the reason why "Zero Dark Thirty" was getting such a kicking from the same Academy Awards members who gave the film's director and cast, etc, all the awards that they got for making "The Hurt Locker."
Besides, he's only fighting the corrupt system that destroyed his life, and its brainwashed slaves who were cheering on the cops as they screwed the Soul Brotha! Power to the people! (Let's just excise the part about him being a bigoted asshole, it wouldn't fit with the theme.)
I mean, tell me. Isn't this exactly the plot of at least half the action movies written in the '90s?
The Anti-Hero usually makes for a great movie. And it's exactly the sort of thing Hollywood will eat up.
edited 10th Feb '13 9:15:06 PM by DevilTakeMe
Glove and Boots is good for Blog!Yep. And the line between '90s Anti-Hero and Villain Protagonist depends on the writer's sympathies anyway, neh?
So, Rational? That's why lots of people who aren't in the line of fire are cheering this guy on. Because what he's doing looks badass, and because at least some of his targets have it coming, at least if you squint hard enough. Hell, the guy is re-enacting the attitude from Hagakure.
edited 10th Feb '13 9:17:37 PM by Ramidel
TAM: except that, despite what it did well, Zero Dark Thirty had a transparently bad political chip on its shoulder. I haven't raised an eyebrow that hard at a movie since 300.
edited 10th Feb '13 9:35:49 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Yeah, I already heard, time to kill it again. Isn't this more suited for that other thread we have regarding stuff like this?
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.@mctagg: I always thought that congresscritters were actually drones.
edited 10th Feb '13 10:38:30 PM by Ramidel
Rubio is already being billed as the Republican version of Barack Obama
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In other words, he's laying the foundations for a run in 2016.
It's okay, the far right will never go for him. If they do, though, and he can make himself seem as centrist as Obama did in 2008, we could be in for a rough time. Especially if the Dems can't come up with a well-known, charismatic candidate like Hillary.
I just don't think that the GOP is capable of corralling its extreme elements into voting for a guy who isn't as raving a lunatic as they are.
edited 11th Feb '13 7:39:53 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It was hard enough getting the Republican base to vote for a Mormon, and now you're telling me they'll line up behind a Catholic Latino?
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Rubio strikes me as someone who is at least trying to sell the GOP agenda in a package that's acceptable to moderates. If he can succeed in that, he's got a very strong chance in 2016. Romney couldn't, but that's because Romney was caught with his pants down dissing the "takers" on multiple occasions, and his buddy Paul Ryan practically made it his campaign slogan.
Nobody was buying what Romney was selling. Rubio might be able to pull an Etch-a-Sketch, though.
edited 11th Feb '13 10:02:49 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@Tomu: Not in the South it hasn't.
That said, if Rubio can take the Republican nomination, then he's got a dangerous chance in 2016, though not an insurmountable one if the swing states keep moving left. (Sadly, Texas won't be purple yet.)
Of course, if Chris Christie gets the Republican nomination somehow, he may as well prepare his victory speech then and there. There is no way in hell that Biden could beat Christie.
Whoa there,don't forget that Texas did almost vote for Clinton twice back in the Nineties,literally by 2%.
As for Dems in 2016,...has Al Franken declined yet? And what makes it so sure that Biden is a go? He'll literally be older than both Mc Cain and Reagan by 2016.
edited 11th Feb '13 10:26:59 AM by terlwyth

Maybe it will be centered around the SWAT team that brings him down? That would be (slightly) less rage inducing.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.