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I would but
you know :V

Why do you read threads from a forum you're banned from anyway?

Oxymoron wrote:It's originally a star wars fansite

I know some people around here (ok, most people around here) don't like SW anymore, but isn't comparing it to outright hackery like NCIS and SVU a bit much?

I read them when people post them here, same as a news article or whatever

Darksi4190 wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:It's originally a star wars fansite

I know some people around here (ok, most people around here) don't like SW anymore, but isn't comparing it to outright hackery like NCIS and SVU a bit much?

Depends on if you include the expanded universe and the various retcons and edits in what you consider to be "star wars".

why would you include that stuff though?

Why not ? It's as not if they talked only of the movies, or never passed an extensive amount time and efforts to analyze and gigatonize the EU.

It's canon wether you like it or not.

What if one neither likes nor dislikes it, they just don't give a shit?

Then you just don't give a shit.

well since I'm not really interested in gigatonning star wars, I'll just ignore the stuff I don't like/can't be arsed to read

Flagg wrote:It's canon wether you like it or not.

lololol

the EU doesn't really help with gigatonning anyway. Hence the "RARGH stupidz EU minimalism!!!!!" fad.

My point is that if you're debating it with someone you can't just say "waa I don't like the EU so I'm ignoring it".

well OK, you're right, but I didn't think we were talking about those kind of debates

I don't think we were talking about debates at all. Just judging the tastes of the unwashed masses.

Well SW sucks by and large.

Darksi4190 wrote:Can someone tell me why there are threads in OT on two of the worst shows on television? I mean come on people, NCIS and SVU?

I thought SDN had some taste

I;m waiting for a thread on this new show called Last Resort. Calling it garbage is kind.

Darksi4190 wrote:Can someone tell me why there are threads in OT on two of the worst shows on television? I mean come on people, NCIS and SVU?

I thought SDN had some taste

I like NCIS unironically.

i thought svu was coming to an end last year. didn't they let co-star christopher meloni go?

(i used to watch the show fairly regularly but not for a few years now, either the quality got worse or i got sick of it cuz i wasn't enjoying it much at all anymore)


edit: well i'm on the internet i could just check it myself. i guess they did let him go but it was cuz of a money dispute rather than the show ending. meh

Actors complaining about money always makes me laugh.

evilsoup wrote:what the fucking fuck did I just read
though that Jub fellow seems pretty ignorant, maybe explain why what he's saying is racist rather than smugly asserting that it is?
Crazy thought, I know

the amount of desire i have to spend more effort educating someone who thinks non-whites have an advantage over whites, that natives are just bumming a free ride, the government should renege on their agreements AGAIN because of convenience, etc etc is precisely zero

his acknowledgment that the government doesn't do enough, immediately followed by "cut them off and restrict their trade and movement" is so appalling i can't even respond to it

if someone came along and claimed "the holocaust wasn't so bad, just get over it" or claimed it was actually the jews' own fault there wouldn't be much of "gee guys why don't you just educate him instead of yelling at him"

someone who, when asked if they even understand what white privilege is, says "well haven't we EARNED that privilege by being smarter and harder working?" is not worth dealing with

and there was that time he said muslims are subhuman savages who need to be put down like dogs, denied the CONCEPT of their preservation and advancement of roman technologies, and blamed them for their "degeneration" of society

so fuck him

The only agreement I think my government should renege on is the one that lets a spanish firm own the 407 as the most expensive toll highway in the entire world (last I checked.)

Some dipshit sold it to them for a hundred million dollars to 'balance the books'. The previous administration spent a billion dollars building it.

That's fucking stupid.

I want a better solution for poor first nations people. Their lives are categorically awful and its a crying shame we haven't figured out how to better address the problems our ancestors have saddled them with.

I have to admit I used to think a bit like Jub--when I was like... 14... and knew literally nothing about any of the underlying issues...

If there is anything I think I should thank SDN for, its knocking enough sense into me to actually read about the issues and form my own opinion instead of just taking right-wing talking points. My entire family has done better for it. That's why I stuck around as long as I did. I hoped it'd get funny and sorta clever again, but it never did.

Jub is too dumb to even understand there are underlying issues, he just goes "lol poor, use drugs, and commit suicide, natives are so stupid"

It's not that we haven't figured out how to help the Nations, it's that we haven't even tried.

We can start with burning the Indian Act on the steps of Parliament.

Well, even though what we do with the reserves could be pretty easily seen as 'not trying' or even 'worse than nothing', it is something, which is why I say we need to do 'better'