No sher, Shitlocks.

Actually a great point.

I was told I wasn’t a proper liberal because I disagreed (mildly) with some finer point of some 20-something’s view of what constituted free speech. Then got piled on by a bunch of other people trying to shame me on Twitter. The gist was that because I’m older, my “old fashioned” form of liberalism wasn’t valid,…

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.

I’m as leftist as they come (a proper European leftist, not one of your pant-wetting American “leftists”) and I agree there’s too much bullying and shaming on Twitter from the left. Too much “reframing” of peoples views. But I’d rather face that kind of abuse any day (which is just social pressure in the end) than the…

But isn’t that the definition of conservatism? Constantly being behind the social-change curve?

It’s amazing to me that your election lasted for two years, and yet half of you didn’t even bother to vote.

The popular vote citation is used to counter the idea that Hillary was unpopular. She won the popular vote - so she wasn’t unpopular.

I dunno. Was it because 3 million more people voted for her in the end?

Maybe they are in YOUR country.

There’s definitely a discussion, sure. But what is it? I’ve yet to hear anybody posit anything solid as an ethical issue in this scenario. My snap judgement is that a CGI character in a live action movie isn’t much different from a cartoon character in a cartoon like SW:R. Both are intended to look like the character…

You mean, like a cartoon? Isn’t that what we’re talking about in this case, a very very sophisticated cartoon. Nobody talked about ethics when Tarkin was in Star Wars: Rebels

What’s the difference between that and a cartoon? Rebels?

You could use this argument to justify any irrational law.

Doesn’t everything?

Interestingly, after the American Revolution, the English thought “we’re having a bit of what they’re having” and enacted the Reform Act (1832 I think), and from that point on the monarchy effectively became figureheads with little real power.

Claim to be.

Happy Christmas

Actually, Hans Zimmer DID get sued for using bits from MARS in the Gladiator soundtrack. The copyright was still live then, so it must have been in 1977. Williams got away with it, Zimmer didn’t.

I was quoting the copper, but yeah we do say Happy Christmas now I think about it.