Ranting Thread

[Zen Bard]

Okay, I'm goin' in!

This is to all the people in the good ol' U.S. of A who have that "Liberal vs. Conservative" mentality.

You are part of the problem!

The country's divided enough as it is along racial and class lines without you idiots creating yet another split along artificial political lines.

Three things:

One: There is NO SUCH THING as a "Liberal" or "Conservative" in this context. Those words are adjectives meant to be used in conjunction with other ideologies. A conservative view means one adheres more strictly with the principles of said ideology whereas liberal means one interprets it a bit more loosely. As such, it is possible to be a "Conservative Democrat" or a "Liberal Republican".

Two: The Democrat and Republican Parties DO NOT STAND for anything! Their ideologies are strictly dictated by which ever special interest groups contributed to the politicians election funds. This isn't tin-foil hat conspiracy theory. This is the way Washington works. A group of people finances a candidates election campaign and in exchange, that candidate votes a certain way on specific issues. For example, the reason the Republicans are so anti-Climate change and Pro-guns is that their biggest backers are the Koch Brothers (big oil) and the NRA.

Three: Your politicians DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about you! So stop acting as if once "your guy" gets elected Congressman/Senator/President everything is going to miraculously improve. The only thing the politicians care about is maintaining power. They don't care about the country. They only care about how many of their people they can get to occupy all the Big Chairs on Capitol Hill.

Aaaah. Thanks! That felt good!

 

[Parasondox]

Some would rather want a division in society, unite among us all. It's always "Us vs Them" and the debates and outrage are endless. I have been called stupid and foolish for wanting more respect and love in the world and I find that funny and a sad to be honest.

Make love and not war. Fear should never win.

I'll just shut my mouth now.

 

[ecoho]

ok two things
1. if you cant read or speak English BRING A FUCKING TRANSLATOR WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO OUT! I swear I get yelled at in Spanish, hindu, several different dialects of Russian, and Arabic at least twice a day because they cant read a sign that say shit is still cooking or it has pork in it.

2. if someone asks you nicely to move your car because its a traffic hazard don't wait for you fucking food at the fast-food place before moving it! I mean seriously people are really stupid about parking in front of no parking signs were semi's go through at high speeds, at this point im just waiting for one of them to get hit and spattered all over the pavement.

 

[Zen Bard]

Okay, I'm goin' in!

This is to all the people in the good ol' U.S. of A who have that "Liberal vs. Conservative" mentality.

You are part of the problem!

The country's divided enough as it is along racial and class lines without you idiots creating yet another split along artificial political lines.

Three things:

One: There is NO SUCH THING as a "Liberal" or "Conservative" in this context. Those words are adjectives meant to be used in conjunction with other ideologies. A conservative view means one adheres more strictly with the principles of said ideology whereas liberal means one interprets it a bit more loosely. As such, it is possible to be a "Conservative Democrat" or a "Liberal Republican".

Two: The Democrat and Republican Parties DO NOT STAND for anything! Their ideologies are strictly dictated by which ever special interest groups contributed to the politicians election funds. This isn't tin-foil hat conspiracy theory. This is the way Washington works. A group of people finances a candidates election campaign and in exchange, that candidate votes a certain way on specific issues. For example, the reason the Republicans are so anti-Climate change and Pro-guns is that their biggest backers are the Koch Brothers (big oil) and the NRA.

Three: Your politicians DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about you! So stop acting as if once "your guy" gets elected Congressman/Senator/President everything is going to miraculously improve. The only thing the politicians care about is maintaining power. They don't care about the country. They only care about how many of their people they can get to occupy all the Big Chairs on Capitol Hill.

Aaaah. Thanks! That felt good!

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

Why do you think that is? Because the so called "religious right" has as much sway as the NRA. And let's face it...their ignorance knows no bounds.

But I stand by my statement. There are no "NeoCons" or "Libutards"...just assholes with influence and an agenda.

 

[FPLOON]

Oh glob... I just realized that Ronald Reagan was the first televised presidential nominee to say "We can make America great again"...

My mom, my grandmother, and I had an in-dept discussion about the current state of black mentality... Before I could tell you that we are all black as an "necessary" asterisk to the potential mindset that usually would come from a blatant statement like that, we clearly were approaching this conversation from our respected generations, thus leading to some rant-feeling statements without any side really learning anything new, let alone anything that could be consider "old" in or out of context...

I REALLY should have seen the movie Spice World sooner in my life!

My friend thinks I'm only making money so that I can save up and buy more video games or anime DVDs/Blu-Rays when I'm actually saving money so that by the time my health insurance expires alongside my back account "level", I'll be ready for that shit...

Ever since I started meditating, I've been getting twice as horny... and not only do I not like that, but it kinda scares me when it happens...

Other than that, I did not cry at the funeral!!

 

[Leg End]

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

Both sides do that. One wants to labelled as freaks, the other wants you disarmed and be their trophy to flaunt.

Pick neither and tell both to eat shit.

Before I could tell you that we are all black as an "necessary" asterisk to the potential mindset that usually would come from a blatant statement like that, we clearly were approaching this conversation from our respected generations, thus leading to some rant-feeling statements without any side really learning anything new, let alone anything that could be consider "old" in or out of context...

I'm replying solely to say, you're black? Not a Wii U Controller?

 

[Saltyk]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I hate everyone for hating the Warcraft movie. I want it to succeed for the hopes of a better sequals since Warcraft lore and stories got way better later on than the beginnings of the First War.

But I hate the movie itself for having such a mediocre team of people making the movie.

Duncan Jones? A unproven unknown who made only 2 small indie movies that only film geeks care about.

The actors playing the humans are so uncaring and miscast they needed popular and proven actors to ACT these charcaters, and oh everyone points to the guy in Vikings even though that is all he made, we don't know how wide his acting range is. And most of them were so silent liek they were whispering I could not here what they are saying.

The Screenwriter that wrote with Duncan, Charles Leavitt, has only made a handful of mediocre films:

Sunchaser (1996)
The Mighty (1998)
K-PAX (2001)
Blood Diamond (2006)
The Express (2008)
Seventh Son (2014)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)


The composer Ramin Djawadi of Game of Thrones has made a soundtrack that no way lives up to the great soundtrack of the actual games:


Compared to the actual games:



Funnily enough the Editor of this movie is Paul Hirsch who made everyone's favorite Star Wars film, the Empire Strikes Back so that explains the climax of the movie cutting between 2 epic climaxs, "The Human/Orc Battle and the 2 main humans dealing with Medivh"

It's not a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD movie, But the problem is that it could have been so much better and it just does not live up to Warcraft enough, it needed to be 4 hours long Lord of the Rings extended cut style, it needed better actors for the Humans I mean fuck the World of Warcraft games had a human character that was voiced by the actor that played Theoden from Lord of the Rings.

I just hope either Blizzard themselves takes the helm to make a better movie or they learn from their mistakes to make it better, because they better not fuck up the Lich King story if the end up making more sequals.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I have a lot to rant about. A whole hell of a lot. But I'm tired now and just want it all to go away. For people to be understanding and not fearful. I just watched Spotlight also, that certainly isn't the greatest faith builder in humanity. The real horror in life is the greed and selfishness and downright sociopathic behaviour of so many humans. It's getting real tiring and whatever the hell is going to happen with the US now that Hilary is pretty much garunteed to lose to the passionate mob mentality of trump's cult following. A conservative leadership election in the UK that is like being presented with a selection of stale, rancid turds to go with your ice-cream while there are perfectly good chocolate flakes in sight. Why can't we have the chocolate flakes? I can see them right there! But no...rancid stale turds we must endure. Except you don't even get to pick, though it hardly matters. I couldn't pick one, unless they were in the crosshairs of my high-powered sniper rifle. Argh, no...violence bad. But these people are worse. There are just not enough kittens to overcome this despair. Must focus on smaller things. Argh! No...they're even worse! Such a bad situation. Must find humour before it all collapses inward again.

Some would rather want a division in society, unite among us all. It's always "Us vs Them" and the debates and outrage are endless. I have been called stupid and foolish for wanting more respect and love in the world and I find that funny and a sad to be honest.

Make love and not war. Fear should never win.

I'll just shut my mouth now.

I agree, but they keep arresting me every time I try. Fuckers. No, bad bear! Must stay with luurve!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

That doesn't stop one side from currently actively attempting to harm LGBT people, and the other making some vague attempts to prevent this, though. Whether this is due to conviction or from self-interest doesn't affect the results of this.

 

[Saelune]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

 

[Saltyk]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

That doesn't stop one side from currently actively attempting to harm LGBT people, and the other making some vague attempts to prevent this, though. Whether this is due to conviction or from self-interest doesn't affect the results of this.

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

The thing is that I don't think she is pro gay marriage at all. Even now. I think she is against it personally, but supports it publicly because that is the party line and the majority of Americans support it. Considering she was against it before, despite Democrats in general supporting it, I think that means she was saying how she truly feels. Maybe I'm wrong, but there really are plenty of other reasons to dislike her. That would just be one more thing on the pile.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Certainly, yes.

OTOH, I have the advantage of giving qualified support to politicians, I can say I like them better than the alternative, or that they are correct on certain issues. If I was a member of a political party I sorta have to play follow the leader and hope they are somewhat palatable.

 

[Saltyk]

Fair enough. However, that doesn't mean EVERYONE that belongs to a group feels that same way. Plenty of people support those people for other reasons while opposing some things those people do. I highly doubt you agree 100% with any politician that you support. More likely you agree with 60-70% of the things they do/say.

Certainly, yes.

OTOH, I have the advantage of giving qualified support to politicians, I can say I like them better than the alternative, or that they are correct on certain issues. If I was a member of a political party I sorta have to play follow the leader and hope they are somewhat palatable.

Then it seems we agree. Good to have a reasonable conversation on this sort of subject.

 

[Saelune]

Snip

Tell you what, I'll stop thinking like that the day that one of those sides stops actively trying to rob me and my LGBT brethren of our rights.

Sound good to you?

So I take it you're not voting for Hillary? She was against Gay Marriage when her party was for it. There's really only two explanations for that. She is against it personally or she was pandering to popular opinion. Niether is really that good.

And I know more Republican voters who support gay marriage than oppose it (literally one guy I know may oppose it). And those people have always supported it, even when Hillary was against it.

The world isn't black and white, or red and blue in this case. It's purple.

Hillary isn't going to try to repeal the Supreme Court's ruling for federal gay marriage. Do I like that she wasn't pro-LGBT from the start? Sure. But there is a difference between someone saying it just so people like her, versus people who adamantly believe it and fight tooth and nail to discriminate against LGBT people.

The thing is that I don't think she is pro gay marriage at all. Even now. I think she is against it personally, but supports it publicly because that is the party line and the majority of Americans support it. Considering she was against it before, despite Democrats in general supporting it, I think that means she was saying how she truly feels. Maybe I'm wrong, but there really are plenty of other reasons to dislike her. That would just be one more thing on the pile.

Again, its what she does and intend to do that is my concern (same with Trump). Id rather be around someone who simply wishes my life sucked, versus someone who actively tries to make me miserable. Id love a better choice than Hillary, but we don't have one right now, atleast not within realistic, in-system methods. The alternatives are either unrealistic (third party victory) or cost a lot more blood-shed than I am comfortable with.

I will take Hillary who, while clearly someone who panders for votes instead of following her personal beliefs, is atleast pandering in my direction.

People who criticize Hillary, and in fact every president/potential president forget the context of this or that. On her own Hillary is pretty scummy, but compared to the alternatives, not so much. Same when people criticize Obama for things he did in office, that I'm pretty damn sure anyone elected would have done. For good or ill, most presidents don't immediately over-turn everything the previous one did.

 

[Hawki]

Fine, I'll let it out...

Rant 1

Screw politics. I'm done, I'm out. We've had yet another hung parliment in Australia. We've had one of the longest, yet most boring election campaigns. We've got the rise of the far right here again, and Pauline "xenophobic twat" Hanson is back in the Senate. The "Nick Xenophon Team" might as well be the new Palmer United, a cult of politicians based more around their leader than actual policy. The Greens are well on their way to irrelevancy. All this in the midst of under-employment, inaction on climate change, and horrendous treatment of refuges on Manus and Nauru. And I wouldn't mind so much if voting wasn't compulsory here - that way I wouldn't have to stand in line for over 10 minutes, watching people give out flyers, and thinking "damn, those sausages smell good."

Australia! Our political system is screwed, but god damn we make a good sausage!

Rant 2

People at the library! If you want to return books, put them in the return chute! The one marked returns! I'm trying to process loans, renewals, fines, and everything else! If you want to renew specific books, just bring those books! Don't just dump the whole pile and force me to put them in the returns area when there's a bloody chute!

(Actually, that doesn't happen nearly as often as I make it out to be, but yes, it does get irritating)

Rant 3

So, Neil Blokamp's Alien fanfiction film is set to supersede Alien 3. And even if I didn't like Alien 3 and consider it an underrated, solid film, I'd still go...no. Just no. Regardless of how well you like something or not, it's pretentious at best, and insulting at worst to just say "I'm going to do it my way, and better this time!" Y'know, at least Colonial Marines brought Hicks back in a way that actually worked in the context of the universe. Not a move I approve of, but this? Far as I can tell, Blokamp's view is "nup, never happened, now come see my fanfiction." This being from someone who writes fanfic, true, but I'm not demanding money from people to read it.

Rant 4

The Ghostbusters reboot. Please...stop...whining. I get it, you don't like it. I get it, your childhood's been "ruined" (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI) I get it, the question of whether the reaction is sexist or not has overshadowed (and likely will overshadow) any critical debate of whether the film actually works on its own merits. But please...stop...whining. I'm just so tired of it. There's a reason why this is "rant 4" rather than "rant 1," because this kind of thing is barely worth ranting about.