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Captainant

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  1. I'm not claiming you did! Show me my words where I said that. You said: So I read that as you threatening to memory hole more shit in a "I'll fuckin do it again" way. Apologies for misreading that. And dude. You kidding me? It was more having a laugh at how pitch perfect the critique is and how good Lucas' vision was 50 years ago. You do know that Star Wars ('77) was modeled after the Vietnam War, right? The rebels were modeled after the VC, and America was the Empire. George Lucas himself said Star Wars is supposed to be anti-colonial https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/ That's pretty explicit and direct from the creator. Edit: Well, I'm not sure why you're taking slorch's word for my posts in the Andor thread. He's characterizing me as some zealot in the thread (and I'm pretty sure he just plain doesn't like me). I'm not. I'm contributing to the discussion and talking about the show and what's on screen. Go read it for yourself since you have such a strong opinion.
  2. You're setting a standard here that objective facts like meeting minutes that explicitly say WHY a critical warning was not delivered and reporting from the Associated Press is verboten outside of the Cloak Room? I don't disagree with a news thread being a news thread, but I don't see how what I'm posting there is anything but news. Yeah, it's pretty much all shitty news. Don't shoot the messenger.
  3. I'm literally getting better news updates from the CR thread. DT is great if you want more updates from Facebook posts and Mystic text chains. The transcripts and meeting minutes? The fact that the State of Texas had just validated their emergency planning two days prior? It's not that they're being an idiot, it's that they're politicizing the tragedy by refusing to look at the fucking causes for hundreds of people getting killed in the most flood prone valley in America. You're setting the Overton window at the point where asking "why our government approved a plan that gave zero warning to a camp full of children" is """PoLiTiCaL""". For real?
  4. Pretty shocking find from AP:
  5. Lol I thought the board was broken from so many posts disappearing so I posted in the borked thread, and he deleted that too! Classico
  6. wow-eeeeeee crashing out via your large language model is a pretty impressive feat
  7. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dune-3-title-imax-cameras-1236448953/ "Dune: Part 3", not Dune Messiah as previously thought. Still gonna be shot for IMAX though which will be allsome. What a wonderful time for a cautionary tale about messianic leaders backed by religious extremists
  8. this isn't even a political thing!!! It's just that we're so culturally fucked that even the MERE FUCKIN IDEA of climate change is inherently political and therefore, VERBOTEN! And rather than address the idiots who are reflexively claiming that objective facts are political, it's like he's getting mad that there's a confrontation about it at all. If you don't want people arguing with idiots on your board, don't make it culturally protected and tacitly endorsed to use "CR!!!" as a "get out of a losing argument for free" card.
  9. This is America. they're rolling into LA like it's fuckin Fallujah. DOD has confirmed US soldiers are being deployed domestically. Fuck the Posse Comitatus Act amirite? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-troops-ground-la-immigration-enforcement-operation-dod/story?id=123542308
  10. that's what the video caption said, at least
  11. "laws signed and proposed" is the same thing as "previous decisions made by people who are in charge". They're both public policy. By your yardstick here, should I be banned for citing meeting minutes when the county leadership decided to not invest in sirens? That's critical context to WHY this mass casualty event was primed and filled with children to sacrifice on the altar of MUH TAXES.
  12. fucking WHAT? The first thing that "John" says in response is "Obama's president."
  13. truly some "let them eat cake" shit, talking about gold leafing your furniture while childrens bodies are being picked out of trees in Texas.
  14. Here's the meeting minutes if you'd care to look, Jan 9 2017 with 11 days till losing out on the free money to build flood sirens. The discussion starts around page 65 or 70, and they ultimately decide to pursue a mobile alert "Code Red" service that could be triggered by the sheriff (on page 83) and would deliver alerts to mobile phones. They talk themselves out of using sirens.
  15. They didn't apply for the grant until after Obama left office, so they missed the $1M attached to that original emergency declaration. Later when they applied in 2017 once it was a different president, the money wasn't there. They were also given $5.4 million in 2021 - just dropped into their city bank account by the federal government for emergency preparation via ARPA, and they instead elected to build sidewalks and upgrade their cop, firefighter, and EMS radio system. I linked the meeting transcripts a few pages ago where they made these decisions.
  16. Dems cannibalize viable candidate over policy disagreement that general voters won't understand; news at 11! Shit nobody gets their exact policy implemented, but it's at least an indicator of what they think is important. Dems have been selling out in primaries for the boring wonks and then get smoked by people who are interesting and can actually speak like people
  17. This is the essence of my feelings as well. The (D)'s have been so far up their ass about policy for decades that they never stopped to realize that it's ALL over the average voter's head. They ain't gonna win elections by boring everyone to death and telling them to Pokemon Go to the polls! The democratic party leadership is so atrophied and calcified in place, it needs to be fucking cleaned out. None of these fucksticks have done anything worth a shit since trump got elected, and have been defecting in small numbers to enable his policy advances.
  18. As pointed out, the 2016 CC that turned down the grant because OBAMA was a seasoned NASA admin who commanded shuttle and ISS missions. Dude WAS smart, he's just a selfish fuck
  19. On that note, an open source product actually can deliver FSD to any modem car! It's got about the same quality as FSD, but it's only $1000
  20. The mayor of LA came out and confronted ICE agents sweeping a park for dark skinned people to arrest https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-operation-macarthur-park-july-7-2025 Now that ICE is better funded than the Marines, I imagine LA is going to get progrom'd. At least if the president's July 4th message about remigration is to be believed.
  21. I wonder how long before Maxwell files for release since she never had a client list
  22. BAW GAWD THAT'S BLACKLABS MUSIC
  23. Aw fuck lol. Goddamnit. Posting with a flu is a bad idea. I'm gonna blame autocorrect lol But seriously, what the fuck is going on?
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