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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Oh, that company. I've seen a couple of Echolight's films before. They're really boring. They don't have very good directors and the actors aren't that great either. Saying this as a Christian, most Christian film producers don't tend to be very good. And they all make 'inspirational' films that focus on some miracle and usually really miss the point of the message they're trying to get across.
Santorum taking over the company probably won't do much.
Also, Texas as the center of the "faith-and-family film industry"? Maybe, if most of the audience is there too.
edited 24th Jun '13 9:40:23 PM by Zendervai
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Generally, I find anytime you get any media that purports to be the good christian alternative to the mainstream, its mediocre to terrible and is only riding on that coattail because as the south park episode where Cartman made a christian band put it, you can pretty much print anything and get it bought as long as it praises jesus a lot, regardless of if it has any merit at all.
Granted, theres always exceptions..but they tend to be just that. exceptions,
edited 25th Jun '13 7:07:34 AM by midgetsnowman
I find most "Christian broadcasting" tends to be closer to Jack Chick (in quality, not necessarily morals) than Chronicles Of Narnia.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Absolutely. Here's
the story (sorry for HuffPo link).
In essence, section 5, which forces states to preclear changes to their voting laws, is constitutional...but it is unconstitutional to apply it to some states and not others under section 4.
NAACP has said "Today will be remembered as a step backwards in the march towards equal rights."
Agree with them. This is not good. I think the obvious solution would be, in an ideal world, to pass legislation extending it to the whole nation. For the time being, local organizations like SPLC, NAACP, SCLC, and Democratic party organizations will have to work around it.
You're on the frontlines now, Southern Democrats. Best of luck.
edited 25th Jun '13 8:12:11 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiUh oh. That's license for states to disenfranchise minority voters.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Because when you've spent decades trying to discriminate against them, you wouldn't be entirely off the mark if you were to assume that, given the opportunity, they would not vote for you.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"But those people are subhuman anyway, goes the logic, and so you can't count on them to be smart enough to know that voting for you is in their best interests, even though your platform specifically attempts to harm them by denying them various sorts of rights. Given that, stopping those terrible people from voting is your only real choice.
I mean, if you've built your party identity around racism, then "not being racist" isn't going to fly with your party's voters. As there is no non-racist platform that these voters will accept, you will never appeal to more than a fraction of the constituencies that their racism targets.
edited 25th Jun '13 8:20:34 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Ah, but that's the beauty of it! Them uppity n*****s can't vote, because they've been disenfranchised! Clever, eh?
edited 25th Jun '13 8:20:10 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiBecause appealing to minorities generally means they have to enact policies that piss off their pre-established base. For all the shit we give Fox News they are right when they say the Democrats have gone out of their way to essentially bribe minorities into voting for them. Where they go wrong is not realizing that they do the same thing yet their chosen demographics are shrinking while the Democrats' are growing.
edited 25th Jun '13 8:26:28 AM by Kostya

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