2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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Did not know they made a movie. Weird that they changed the actress for it.
Kristy Swanson was Buffy in the original film.
Well, they changed the actress for the TV show, to be precise.
Kristy Swanson was big enough that she was never going to do the TV show. I am with @slyadams on this. Who's next, Alicia Silverstone? These were crushes that launched a thousand err.. ships.
Don't know about next, but as a huge No Ex fan Janine Turner was a personal letdown for me.
What do Kirk Cameron, Scott Baio, and James Woods, and Jon Voight have to say about this ?
As long as no one asks who Christina Applegate is, we should be fine.
1) Unreal that that man is half of Angelina Jolie's genetics.
2) Is he morphing into a crap version of Christopher Walken?
We can throw JLH and Neve Campbell (Wild Things
) in there too. I know this is a thread derailment, but ain't nothing on topic going to be happy or positive today.Who is Christina Applegate? And why not?
BURN IT WITH FIRE
Who is Christina Applegate? And why not?
Kelly Bundy!
#nottherealBuffy
haha... why? At least she seems to be anti Trump
That’s what I’m talking about.
You're going to have to expand on what technicalities you’re using here because the answer is clearly a lot.
There's nothing exceptional about the US checks and balances even if that's a nice narrative. They're entirely dependent on the loyalties of those in position of power. You're talking about a situation where Trump just individually refuses to leave but that's not the same thing as a power takeover where Trump say replaces the Secret Service Director or illegally puts in place a new loyal head of Homeland Security.
Now again I'm not saying it's going to happen I'm saying it could given all the right ingredients are there.
Edit: I went back and found the piece the atheltic did prior to the election. It's a bit scary how dead on it is to be honest.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
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haha... why? At least she seems to be anti Trump
I was referring to you, but you redeemed yourself below.
JLH - beautiful woman, shitty actress.
Speaking of bad acting (and call back o my Wild Things mention above), nothing will ever "top" Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist in the bond movie. Nothing. Like ever.
Not going to lie... I feel there actually may be a hint of civil war coming if this persists
Particularly like the idea that the Democrats are competent enough to rig the presidency but too incompetent to also rig the senate.
Yes, its called free speech, even on privately owned social media, you curtail it at your peril.
When people post points of view or things others disagree with the recipient can either close down their in-box, switch off altogether, or respond with their own point of view. If you ban people you don't like you finish up with 'echo chambers'.
This true, but I am not sure what point you are making, unless it is they wish twitter to become an 'echo chamber'?
No, they are not. It was George Soros's manipulation of the UK currency markets in the face of euro-zone markets in the early 1990's which more or less showed the flaw for a single country currency that could not be aligned with the Euro-zone. At that point it became clear Britain had to jettison the pound Sterling if it were to ever have parity with the EU on currency. No British politician, even Blair, would risk that. The road to Brexit started soon after this, taking hold initially in the Tory party, who quite ridiculously found themselves on the side of Tony Benn and at the that time of a renegade left-wing Labour politician, called Jeremy Corbyn!
What a nutjob! It's unreal how so many people seem to not only support Trump, but almost worship him. Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid.
On another note, have everyone just stopped counting since the networks called it? Somehow AZ, GA and NC still haven't been called.
Yeah, the Gravy Seals will mobilise. God help America then...
I'm not saying the US is exceptional, he wouldn't get away with that in any of the developed democracies. I think you greatly underestimate the will of the people in such countries. Trump can try to put in place a loyal director of the Secret Service (who reports to the Secretary of the Treasury), but that person legally loses that position on January 20 if Biden appoints a new one and you come down to: who will the people on the ground follow. This is where I'm saying I strongly believe the people on the ground would follow the line of power to the elected President. Polling shows that even the majority of Republican voters believe Biden has won, Trump would have very little real support indeed.
Again, I cannot think of a single example of a leader of a developed democracy achieving what you're suggesting, but in fairness to you, no-one has ever really tried. My belief is it would come crashing down around Trump in a matter of hours.
It IS Trump. Someone added Trumps voice to an existing piece of video. It’s two pieces of real media, spliced together.
His daughter must be cringing watching this. It reads like a low grade 1960s Charlton Heston film rant.
But surely there has to be standards? Let's say Trump decided he didn't like you and found out your name/address and began to tweet that you are <insert vile thing here> with no proof. By your argument you would be perfectly fine with that staying up and would tell Twitter to leave it up if they wanted to take it down.
The current theory is that they just didn't have time to rig the other races, so could only do the Presidential. Even though it is literally on the same ballot.
James Woods is another. It's really weird as I'm sure both of them were fairly left wing back in the 70's. I think the arrival of social media has mentally broken some people. Either that or somebody somewhere has some serious kompramat on them.
Please God. Make it stop.
He didn't 'manipulate' it, which implies malfeasance, he merely profited from it, betting against Norman Lamont's unsustainable defence of sterling in international currency markets. Sorry if that doesn't fit with your antisemitic narrative.
I think we discussed this yesterday, but you raise an interesting point, but there is also a counter point. Its possible, and it has demonstrably happened (Brexit) where a well organised, long term misinformation campaign can indoctrinate a large section of the populace. If you target and spend 10 years telling people the things they want to hear, it will permeate and you can start to steer them. It comes the point where they no longer follow the message but the messenger (e.g. you can see Fox News will flip its position 180 degrees depending on who is in the White House and their viewers will agree with them). This basically means 'free speech' can be used to create a political militia that you can bend to your will. This kind of action has only been possible since the advent of the web, most notably open social media. 20 years ago this would just be some people shouting on a street corner, you could never achieve critical mass for your views to get hold.
The question is, what can be done about this? In an ideal world you could fight this misinformation with information, but that's not how humans work. The most obvious solution is that you don't curtail their free speech, you merely remove their ability to have a huge platform. They have no right to it, they can still say what they like, but THEY have to do the work to get their opinions out there. This means, by definition, the views have to be reasonable to enough people that it grows organically.
Agree. It was amusing for a while, now it is just getting scary.
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