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there's so much interesting war happening right now, who has time for all that old war, history never repeats etc (in seriousness i feel your exhaustion, friend)
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CBJSprague24 posted:I've never seen it but it's on the list. I was always a bit touchy with Vietnam stuff as a kid since my dad got an invite from Uncle Sam and spent 11 months there. The original score by Nine Inch Nails works better than it has any right to
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Jun 10, 2022 03:30
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Ken Burns’ Vietnam, and The Civil War are seminal works in the documentary world. Vietnam makes me angry mad and sad cry. I think a lot of GWOT vets would understand what some of these men went through. Goddamn I hate politicians. And generals. I won’t say officers broadly, but definitely generals.
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Jun 10, 2022 03:50
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Baseball episodes 1 and 2 are the best Ken burns documentaries. It's weird he never finished the series, but how do you top perfection?
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BUG JUG posted:Baseball episodes 1 and 2 are the best Ken burns documentaries. It's weird he never finished the series, but how do you top perfection? You get Hank Azaria to narrate a re-release of it in his Brockmire voice. No profanity, just serious business Brockmire the whole way through. Also, watching the tail end of the "hearings" tonight, it struck me. This is Frank Grimes' attempt to "shame" Homer done in real life on live television. And it'll have the same result. You can't shame people who have no shame.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Also, watching the tail end of the "hearings" tonight, it struck me. This is Frank Grimes' attempt to "shame" Homer done in real life on live television. Yeah this is where I am, although I wish I wasn't. I don't want to be a doomer but it's getting really hard. All the Twitter libs going "OMG wow boom gotem 🙌🔥🍿" make me feel crazy. No you don't gotem. The architects are still in loving Congress and/or making bank on cable TV, with a whole industrial-scale apologist campaign backing them up. I'll believe this matters when Big People (TM) are getting perp walked.
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Jun 10, 2022 07:09
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This sounds stupid, but the guy knows more about law than I do.quote:But in the merger agreement, there are also covenants, promises that Musk and Twitter make to each other about what they will do going forward, between the signing of the merger agreement and the closing. If Twitter breaches a representation, Musk still has to close unless the breach causes a material adverse effect. But if Twitter breaches a covenant, Musk can walk away: He doesn’t have to close unless Twitter “shall have performed or complied, in all material respects, with its obligations required under this Agreement.” There is no MAE requirement: You just have to comply with the covenants. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-06/elon-has-a-new-bot-excuse
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Ken Burns’ Vietnam, and The Civil War are seminal works in the documentary world. I had to start drinking to finish the Vietnam documentary, my dad refused to watch it
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Jun 10, 2022 11:24
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Willy Wonka sends his regards… https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1535007007924551680?s=20&t=5lUPQ_F51awAW1Er167a-A
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Jun 10, 2022 12:57
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Hershey is like right *there* and I had no idea there was an M&M plant in E-town until this morning.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Hershey is like right *there* and I had no idea there was an M&M plant in E-town until this morning. Turns it was actually just Ted Cruz trying to gently caress the green M&M again.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Willy Wonka sends his regards… "Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of OSHA violations."
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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview/quote:Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo said. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat. Okay my dude, you can go to your grave believing you are not a coward but that's just factually wrong
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Jun 10, 2022 13:34
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I'm still thinking they shot kids and are on a cover-up. Zero proof of that, just this rear end in a top hat-on-the-internet's opinion.
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Jun 10, 2022 13:43
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview/
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Jun 10, 2022 13:51
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stealie72 posted:"listen, only 3.8% of the kids died, so that's pretty good. I don't know why you're so mad" is a HELL of a take. Lol that’s xcom numbers
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stealie72 posted:3.8% of the kids They say that for cops it’s ten times worse. Google “40% of cops” for more.
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Jun 10, 2022 15:27
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40 year high for inflation, we did it! Very glad The Economy is just so so so strong and awesome, means no biggie when we need to give Ukraine another few tens of billions in a couple months maffew buildings fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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A.o.D. posted:Burns' Civil War is excellent, but no piece of media has ever made me feel as much anger as his Vietnam War series, and for all the right reasons. The interviews they do with Marlantes are great. You can tell that guy is powered by nuclear rage over what he went thru.
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Jun 10, 2022 17:58
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maffew buildings posted:40 year high for inflation, we did it! The Economy has nothing to do with the welfare of you or I. The implication that it does is one of the greatest lies we're told in order to make our society work.
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Jun 10, 2022 18:06
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A.o.D. posted:The Economy has nothing to do with the welfare of you or I. The implication that it does is one of the greatest lies we're told in order to make our society work. Ofc it has something to do with us.its the excuse our overlords use to pay us jack and/or poo poo
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RFC2324 posted:Ofc it has something to do with us.its the excuse our overlords use to pay us jack and/or poo poo You're still getting excuses?
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Jun 10, 2022 18:23
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A.o.D. posted:The Economy has nothing to do with the welfare of you or I. The implication that it does is one of the greatest lies we're told in order to make our society work. The Economy as a monolithic entity was invented during the Great Depression to simplify policy effects into Number Go Up or Number Go Down.
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Jun 10, 2022 18:30
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The only silver lining to the financial turmoil to come will be the collective Bitbro realization that "oh wow, I shouldn't have hodled." 
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Jun 10, 2022 19:15
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It's the future. There will be no realization
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A.o.D. posted:The Economy has nothing to do with the welfare of you or I. The implication that it does is one of the greatest lies we're told in order to make our society work. drat you mean inflation has nothing to do with the economy? it's one big hosed up ecosystem and yes this poo poo does impact our lives when prices increase
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Truth Social swingin' the banhammer: https://twitter.com/TravisAllen02/status/1535076335579971584 
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's the future. There will be no realization Corollary: It's the realization there will be no future.
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Jun 10, 2022 20:37
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Discussion Quorum posted:Yeah this is where I am, although I wish I wasn't. I don't want to be a doomer but it's getting really hard. And the Sorkinite Liberals who always lament about how "it's such a shame that we don't have a Jeb Bartlett."  Weird how those same people never mention Jimmy Smits' Santos character - I wonder why THAT is, hmmmmmm... >.> THEN GO OUT AND FIND/DEVELOP ONE. HE/SHE/THEY ARE OUT THERE. But no, there's no such thing as "development" anymore. You either "luck" into it, are *born* into it, or are ~bought~ into it. The only political "natural development" that's allowed nowadays is what's *allowed* to happen, not what's actually possible.
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maffew buildings posted:drat you mean inflation has nothing to do with the economy? it's one big hosed up ecosystem and yes this poo poo does impact our lives when prices increase Hmm, yes, my point was definitely that we're unaffected by it. Good catch.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:And the Sorkinite Liberals who always lament about how "it's such a shame that we don't have a Jeb Bartlett." Santos was Obama, that worked out great.
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The “Moderate Republican” Vilnick was supposed to win, but then Obama started looking good so they reworked the plot at the last minute and threw in the nuclear plant crisis to hand the election to Santos.
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Platystemon posted:The “Moderate Republican” Vilnick was supposed to win, but then Obama started looking good so they reworked the plot at the last minute and threw in the nuclear plant crisis to hand the election to Santos. Uhhh, Obama hadn’t even given his big nationally televised speech at the DNC when the last episodes of the West Wing were aired let alone filmed or wrote. Unless that’s the joke and I’m an unfunny joke killer.. 
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It was a long time ago, O.K.? I’m remembering the late rewrite correctly, but its cause was the death of John Spencer, who played Leo, Bartlett’s chief of staff and Santos’ running mate.
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Platystemon posted:It was a long time ago, O.K.? Oh, dude. I know. I had an obsession with the show when it was new, and own all the DVD’s, with commentary. And have watched all of it at least 10 times in the past 5 years alone. I know West Wing. I have a core set of shows that I rewatch over and over, I’m told by people paid to be smarter than me that it’s a coping thing- Because I like the familiar and known or some poo poo. Anyway, I’m a fan of the show even if I’m not a lanyard class succ lib, exactly. Tommy Schlamme and Sorkin banging out a show acted by Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, and Allison Janney?! I’m in. All in. Could be a baby shark sequel in a 10 part 11 minute episode format on Tubi+ and I’d pay loving Tubi for the right to watch it if those folks are involved.
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Jun 11, 2022 03:35
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Feeling pretty good about living car-free in a walkable/rollable neighborhood right about now.
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That episode where Bartlett pledges to nominate a conservative AND liberal supreme court justice is the best insight into Sorkin's "politics is a thing to make me sound intelligent at cocktail parties, gently caress material outcomes" ideology.
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