Post a video, present me a POV!

Let's see...30 British tourists (among others) massacred in Tunisia earlier this week?....
annviersary of the London 7/7 bombings coming up soon?...

PERFECT TIME TO RELEASE THIS TRAILER DERP DERP!

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complexmath wrote:
FiveIron wrote:

Hillary Clinton came out with a response to the recent supreme court ruling.

Or maybe her 2004 speech was the one where she was bowing to perceived popular opinion. Or maybe she just changed her mind?

you can see in my spoiler that i was joking, I know this is old but it's still odd how she has a completely different view then she did as late as 2013.

Because when people change their views, it's personal growth, but when politicians do it it's perfidious hypocrisy...

double post.

yeah pretty much. for example, most politicians running for president make themselves seem more conservative/liberal when they run for the republican/democratic nomination and then try to make themselves appear more moderate once they are running for president. standard operating procedure.

I usually draw the line with saying one thing in public, then doing another in private (or a similar unexpected, unexplained shift in policy). So I might call out politicians that change positions over time, but it's not unreasonable if the reasons are clear. But I really hate the moralists who practice the sins they condemn; those are the ones who need to be more honest with themselves.

Robear wrote:

Because when people change their views, it's personal growth, but when politicians do it it's perfidious hypocrisy...

More like you can't tell one way or another. Also personal perspective changes don't have the same capability to affect non-politicians' power, prestige, and attendant wealth.

[quote="pyxistyx"]Let's see...30 British tourists (among others) massacred in Tunisia earlier this week?....
annviersary of the London 7/7 bombings coming up soon?...

PERFECT TIME TO RELEASE THIS TRAILER DERP DERP!

What starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The only hope of stopping it rests on the shoulders of the President of the United States

Oh it's that plot......again.

Jesus guys are you ever going to learn to get over your inferiority complex?

I could argue with his lack of script and overuse of bad language. I mean his point is true. I think on reflection most people would agree that as a whole society is tougher on minorities but he could use examples rather that just expecting people to watch Roots again.

For some reason I am reminded of this:

Jim Carey falls down a lot

BadKen wrote:

For some reason I am reminded of this:

I gotta watch Heathers again, if only to see how it stands up to time.

Sweet. It's on Netflix.

Heathers is God. Let's go get a slushie.

I take it you posted that to argue over how unfunny it was...?

There's a pretty killer Cosby joke at the end. Larry Wilmore devoted most of an episode to killer Cosby jokes, though.

We need Eddie Murphy to bust out his Cosby impression again. (NSFW)

That's a hell of a post, Jayhawker. Thanks for sharing it. I know it's an argue thread, but man...I don't have anything to argue here.

Damn.

How is this different from an anti-abortion group opening up an abortion clinic and then showing patients videos of aborted fetuses?

I agree with the "be careful what you ask for" message about gun ownership, but not the means of delivering it.

BadKen wrote:

How is this different from an anti-abortion group opening up an abortion clinic and then showing patients videos of aborted fetuses?

I agree with the "be careful what you ask for" message about gun ownership, but not the means of delivering it.

Well, an abortion is a medical procedure and buying a gun is a transaction, so I'd say there's a pretty big difference between those two. Women seeking abortion are also, generally speaking I'd say, more emotionally invested in their body than someone buying a gun.

If you wanted a more proper analogy maybe someone opening up a vegan restaurant but describing the natural habitats destroyed by those growing the fruits, vegetables, and spices/herbs? Which would be a dick move but not much more.

BadKen wrote:

I agree with the "be careful what you ask for" message about gun ownership, but not the means of delivering it.

Why not?

The people in the video were willing to buy a gun largely for emotional reasons: they thought it would make them safe, they support the 2nd amendment (whatever the f*ck that really means to them), etc.

Trying to dissuade them by quoting dry statistics isn't going to work because that's a rational appeal. When those people are handling the gun and feeling all powerful because of it they aren't receptive at all to the reality of things: that that gun is going to make them and everyone living with them significantly more at risk.

So, instead, you tell them that the gun was used by a kid who shot his baby brother. That bit of emotional reality gut punches them and gets the message across far more powerfully quoting an academic paper.

Ask a real estate agent about how they sell a house where a murder has occurred... Or look at states which tried to make filming slaughterhouses and animal farms illegal... Knowing the history of something can often change the way someone looks at it.

Why you should eat bugs

The only bugs I'll eat are enormous and live in the ocean. You can keep all the creepy little dirt bugs, thankyouverymuch.

complexmath wrote:

The only bugs I'll eat are enormous and live in the ocean. You can keep all the creepy little dirt bugs, thankyouverymuch.

I've found myself craving a crawfish boil recently, which, in a land-locked western desert state, is not the easiest craving to fulfill.