Recent content by Agema

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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    Paul Tomas Anderson is very much Hollywood's Darling. I like plenty of his movies: this left me a little tepid. I'm not super-bothered by the age difference, for a number of reasons. Firstly, I think the age limit is a relatively blunt tool with a purpose of preventing exploitation. Although...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Thing You Watched (non-movies)

    I concur: Umbrella Academy episodes are generally somewhere between satisfactory and good. Overall, it's pretty good TV.
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    Anyone think that tv might be the better medium for video game adaptations over film?

    Depends on the computer game. Action games should be films, and RPGs should be TV series. You're not going to get to a happy place stretching the limited character and plot of the former beyond a couple of hours, nor condensing the depth of the latter into as little as a couple of hours...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    Well, Trump basically pissed on Kemp, other Republican officials, and kind of Georgia generally. I can imagine Kemp might decide for himself and his state "Fuck you, bud" and take Trump down.
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    Short of explicitly self-describing as a racist, a person could almost not try harder to make themselves look racist.
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    Whilst we're also dwelling on Trump's legal woes, I would also note that the State of Georgia is still pursuing Trump over interference in their election. I am possibly a little surprised (Republican state and all): but they seem to be quite tenacious about it, even if they're not generating...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    It's even more than that. The Ukrainian government wanted nothing to do it. The Ukrainian government thought that there was nothing to see (nor did the US government, outside of Trump's immediate circle). Secondly, it knew perfectly well it could be hugely damaging to get involved in US...
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    Ukraine

    Yes: if a population has freely voted in a goverment expressly (or sufficiently implicitly) for that policy. * * * Seanchaidh's stance here is utterly disingenuous. I don't believe for a minute Seanchaidh actually believes that a democratic government, upon winning an election, magically has...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    There is a substantial and consistent body of evidence from multiple sources that Trump and team were attempting to get Ukraine to investigate Biden. This faintly weak quibble about one official's statement is pretty much neither here nor there. This is what I meant back earlier with the 80:20...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    I am not being vague: the crime was abuse of power. It's what's on the article of impeachment. What you perhaps mean is what were the charges. Even then, you talk about Parnas like it means a shit: I simply refer you back to #181 and a few subsequent posts, because you are doing nothing but...
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    Indeed it will - at least for a long time. We might just hope that a lot of them are unfortunately lost due to imperfections in the system until it becomes more mature technology. Immortality is a fucking disaster in the making. Do we really want pretty much the same handful of billionaires...
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    Funny Events of the "Woke" world

    AirBnBs are effectively only viable for large-scale industry in tourist hotspots. Some picturesque towns and villages are almost terrifying when you look at the houses and see pretty much every second one has one of those key-safes indicating a rental. Then bear in mind a load of the others...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    If it was Jared that squealed on him, that's delicious. Jared got Trump to give him important jobs and pardon daddy, and then promptly repays Trump by dobbing him in to the FBI. But that's the thing about Trump: he insists on utter loyalty, but that's mostly just so that he can get away with...
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    Trump didn't take them out. He fixed up a deal with the mafia (who were well known to control the concrete business) to get his properties built with concrete. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910/
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    Mar-A-Lago Raid

    Donald Trump is nothing if not consistent. His improper ownership of government documents, his corrupt dealings over Ukraine, his dodgy actions over the links with Russia. And why stop there? Back in his business days swindling creditors, swindling contractors, fraudulent charities, fraudulent...