That show wouldn’t work anymore, Colbert got out of that at the exact right time. No matter how ridiculous of a parody of the right wing he could come up with, the real life idiots would be saying and doing things even more ridiculous the next day.

Why am I now picturing a chain smoking Forrest Gump? “Life is like a pack of cigarettes, you never know what’s gonna blow up.”

Tankies are permanently stuck in backwards day. Left is right and right is left. They do this because they’re just fascists that don’t like to be associated with other fascists. So they call their fascist group “leftist”, but they hate democracy, liberalism, the jews, etc just as much as any other fascist.

I’ve heard a carwash will take them out.

Yeah it will be much worse since so many things people use are a lot more technologically advanced and therefore more complicated to replace. Like my grandfather was a young man in the 1930s and he used a horse for transportation. Didn’t have a landline phone much less a smartphone. Much easier to replace imports with domestic production when most people just needed food and maybe electricity.

Are people now willing to go back to that kind of a life even for a few years under the promise that things will be better someday? It’ll take at least two years (in most cases, closer to five) to build a factory to produce many of the products we have.

And who’s going to invest the billions of dollars needed to build the factories? Wealthy people under the belief Trump will keep the tariffs in place for years?

Yup. There’s a significant cost to having a war with a country you do a lot of trade with. You don’t want to pay that cost while having a war at the same time. That could lead to economic collapse. It could even result in your military lacking the resources need to execute the war.

But if you sever trade beforehand, pay the costs of that first, then once your economy has stabilized you can invade other countries without risking economic collapse.

As a child, I thought hammers were bad. Now that I’ve hit myself in the head with a hammer repeatedly, I’ve now confirmed that I was right all along.

Cool… if I ever need leather boots I’ll check out the ones from Germany or Japan then.

Do you think water boils at 212F at high altitudes? No matter which temperature scale is used, the “billions of people” living at high altitudes need to understand how pressure affects the boiling point of water.

I think the billions of people you imagine living on top of Mount Everest understand they may need to make adjustments to cooking instructions regardless of what temperature scale they’re using. If they don’t, using Fahrenheit won’t solve their problems.

It indicates you might be a psychopath.

It’s just a movie so it’s it’s not you’re definitely a psychopath, but if you were your politcal views will be determined by whatever benefits you without any regard for the well being of others.

Yeah I feel like Lucas didn’t really understand Star Wars. He had to follow a lot of studio notes for the first one and thought it made it terrible. Instead it was the most successful movie ever and he didn’t understand why. It was a smart move to get someone else to direct the next movie. Unfortunately because of his petty squabbles with the director’s guild he didn’t just keep on doing that and instead got a non-union director for RotJ (and ended up pretty much directing it himself anyway) and directed the prequels himself. He just saw it as a way to make money by selling toys in the end.

But the throne room stuff with Luke, Vader and the Emperor was pretty great. The action was fun in the Jabba part of the movie, but of course that didn’t have anything to do with the rest of the movie. Overall not a good movie, but pretty fun.

The big problem with Star Wars now is that because it’s so popular and makes so much money, people take it way more seriously than they should. Ultimately it became popular because it was fun action adventure movies, that can at times have interesting subtext. I think only JJ Abrams has made Star Wars movies like that, the rest are trying to do Saving Private Ryan in space or Citizen Kane in space, which results in a mediocre versions of those kinds of stories.

Marx had some interesting things to say about economics, but he was a complete bonehead about politics. The works of John Maynard Keynes supersedes everything Marx did on economics, so we’re just left with a boneheaded political ideology which is more of religious movement than anything else.

The word “Genocide” has been watered down a lot lately and that’s not a good thing. Calling everything genocide has an effect of normalizing it. Using it in a video game played by children, after those children grow up they hear the word and have the vibe of a video game level and don’t feel like genocide is anything important.

It’s a deprecated unit of measure. In a lot of forums like this one, there’s a lot of people that work in the technology field and we’re always annoyed by people that insist on sticking with something that’s deprecated because people invent rationalizations for why the thing they’re used to is better. I use Fahrenheit for cooking but I’m not telling people I do that because it’s better in some why, I know I’m using a deprecated unit of measure solely because I’m used to it.

I don’t live on the top of Mount Everest LOL.

I feel like it might’ve been a translation issue. Had the level actually made it into the game, someone probably would’ve realized that the name was a bit much for a video game about a blue hedgehog taking on an egg themed villain.

Public transit is a thing you know…

Also who gives a shit about what some bearded weirdo that died over a century ago thinks about problems involving things that didn’t exist in his lifetime? Marxism is like a weird cult now, an opiate that’s an obstacle for any positive change.

You feel like Fahrenheit is good enough because it’s what your used to. Just say that and it’s all good.

I use Celsius for weather because a) I’m used to it and b) where I live, knowing the temperature relevant to the freezing point of water is extremely relevant when considering the weather. You use Fahrenheit for the weather only because you’re used to it. There’s no benefit other than that.

I do use Fahrenheit for cooking, but not because it’s better in any way, but simply because I’m used to it. I know the effect setting the oven to 400, 350, 300, etc, will have. It’s not a better unit of measure, I’m just used to it, and in the context of using my oven, it’s not worthwhile to me to learn the equivalents in Celsius.

It’s ok to say you prefer something simply because that’s what you’re used to using. But Celsius is a better unit of measure, just you’re not used to it. You know what 70F, 80F, 90F, 100F feels like from experience, ie. you’re used to using that scale. It’s fine… just weird to say something is better simply because it’s what you’re accustomed to.

Agree 100% on Robocop.

With Starship Troopers, it all hinges on what you feel when Dizzy dies. Personally, I was legit angry at the bugs when that happened, and then had the realization of “oh… so that’s how fascist propaganda works.” I think it had to be on the nose a bit for the message to come across.

The movie ends with a guy in an SS uniform saying they’ve made the enemy afraid and everyone cheers, and still a lot of people didn’t get it. So it may not have been dumbed down enough for a lot of people to get the message.

Outside of Original Trilogy, the best Star Wars movies movies were the ones that JJ Abrams made.