Whoops.

Yes - and, again, this makes sense because there is a wrong and a revenge. The Swiss did not oppress African Americans. Americans did.

Here's the problem with this: the Swiss never did anything to African Americans, really. The reasons Django and Basterds work is because they...well, the premise makes sense.

It's more like this, I think. Special effects are special effects so we're suspending disbelief, but in an image like this one from Gone with the Wind, our brains simply aren't processing that it's not possible on its own because we're swept up in the drama of what the image is conveying.

Looper at least goes out of its way to say, "Don't think about it. We try to avoid problems. Things get more complex than we can understand when there are problems. That's why we try to minimize them." Handwaving of the best kind.

We know Ozymandias couldn't kill Dr. Manhattan. It's just that at the end he tries.

Hear hear.

Again, I think you're missing LeResteCesteDuVice's point - while the government does not, generally, confiscate these things, the government totally can if it sees justification. The gun lobby is under the paranoid suspicion that the government will, for some reason, use registration as an opportunity to find reasons…

I think, if Creationism is taught, we should get all the other creation stories into the textbooks, too. Your Big Bang is bullshit - the Earth is on a turtle.

I mean the government needs far less justification to take your car away. I think LeResteCestDuVice's point was that Americans won't go for it, not that it's not a sane thing that we already have to do for other things, like pets and children.

Well...they CAN be.

"Hey, do you remember the nonsense that erupted earlier this when latent racists were furious to find out that the beloved Hunger Games character Rue, the little tribute from District 11, was revealed in the movie to not be porcelain white?"

I think the problem is that these aren't two sides of this argument, because it's not a proper argument. The issue of the media's inundation with violence isn't an argument that really even addresses the question of gun control. They're separate, and *both* should be examined, but not one at the expense of the other.…

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Yep.

I see what your saying. I just don't think Ozymandias did.

Right. But if suddenly he starts destroying cities, it also fits with their profile of him as pretty unknowable and beyond humanity and thus not really predictable. And then he disappears.

I wouldn't say there's a load of evidence for that.

I think we know what kept it from passing.