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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#49201: Feb 10th 2013 at 7:58:19 PM

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.
DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
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#49202: Feb 10th 2013 at 8:09:38 PM

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.

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Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#49203: Feb 10th 2013 at 8:22:36 PM

[up]

we could. But that doesnt rake in as many dollars.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#49204: Feb 10th 2013 at 8:51:47 PM

@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!"
DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
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#49205: Feb 10th 2013 at 8:52:06 PM

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

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#49206: Feb 10th 2013 at 9:03:51 PM

[up]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."

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#49207: Feb 10th 2013 at 9:10:58 PM

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?

DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
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#49208: Feb 10th 2013 at 9:12:02 PM

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

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#49209: Feb 10th 2013 at 9:16:02 PM

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

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
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#49210: Feb 10th 2013 at 9:34:46 PM

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.
Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#49211: Feb 10th 2013 at 10:24:35 PM

So, This is happening.

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#49212: Feb 10th 2013 at 10:26:16 PM

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.
Sledgesaul Since: Oct, 2011
#49214: Feb 11th 2013 at 7:33:33 AM

Rubio is already being billed as the Republican version of Barack Obama.

In other words, he's laying the foundations for a run in 2016.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#49215: Feb 11th 2013 at 7:39:09 AM

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

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Sledgesaul Since: Oct, 2011
#49216: Feb 11th 2013 at 7:54:29 AM

He's not as much of a lunatic, but he's still every bit as much of a Republican on every other issue.

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
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#49217: Feb 11th 2013 at 9:55:04 AM

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.
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#49218: Feb 11th 2013 at 9:59:02 AM

Yes. The hardcore Christians consider mormonism a cult, but the "Catholicism doesn't count" thing has mostly died down.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#49219: Feb 11th 2013 at 10:02:07 AM

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!"
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#49220: Feb 11th 2013 at 10:09:28 AM

@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.

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#49221: Feb 11th 2013 at 10:20:46 AM

Hey, I live in Georgia. Then again, I don't get out much.

terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#49222: Feb 11th 2013 at 10:25:41 AM

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

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#49223: Feb 11th 2013 at 10:37:48 AM

Franken lost a lot of cred with me over the SOPA fiasco.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#49224: Feb 11th 2013 at 12:02:32 PM

Spent my whole life in Georgia and South Carolina, Ramidel. I'm unfamiliar with this uniquely Southern anti-Catholicism you're describing.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#49225: Feb 11th 2013 at 12:07:46 PM

@ Fighteer:

Nobody was buying what Romney was selling.

I wonder if, by the end, that included Romney himself?

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