I burn garbage in my room on cold days, and leave the chest freezer open on hot days.

I eat burgers to keep cows from farting.

That's what socks are for anyway.

Ftfy

Why masturbate if you have a dog?

To relieve sexual tension.

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As long as it's your dog consent is basically guaranteed.

I don’t think humans should penetrate dogs sexually.

Bro your dog wants it.

Necessities like food, housing, healthcare, and power can and does outpace what would benefit consumers. I don't trust the market to correct itself when it comes to things with a built-in clientele.

It wouldn't outpace it, but revising our power infrastructure to use solar instead of coal, gas, etc. would still generate problematic amounts of emissions.

Agreed. It'd be difficult, but it'd be worth it.

re: the energy conversation. This is a pretty decent analysis of American energy. It seems like a general historical overview.

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2...ecksandbalance

Why?

Apathy

It's not like they're going to diddle him.

I won't try to guess your motivation behind these statements, but from over here it feels like the most callous calculation I could hear in 2020.


Only in the fiction where Obama "wasn't much different" than Trump can you excuse what's gone on in the past almost 4 years. I'm not going to rehash old arguments, but there's a level of detachment you need to have to not understand the gutting of American society that's going on here.

In my view, you can only believe Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Trump are the same when you stay on the surface and don't get into the details.

lol

Sorry that the truth doesn’t fit their political outline. Fewer people is the ONLY way. It’s some incredible **** that anyone who has ever been outside doesn’t understand this.

This reminds me of the people who complain about how famous the Kardashians are without realizing that they're the only ones who care enough about the family to sustain their fame.

I doubt the film will have much impact, Moore isn't relevant anymore and I'm pretty sure he's widely recognized to be more concerned with an entertaining product than accuracy.

What film has he made that wasn’t totally dead on?

Michael Moore filmography

It's a symptom of the format more than Moore himself though. Dude's an entertainer first and foremost.

I’ve only seen 4 of them but they were all great.

Given the set-up, I had to post my favorite Michael Moore take-down. [won't let me pick the starting point so jump to 4:42]

Elf, my dear man. When you take whacks at someone, they're going to compare you to him. Make sure you're going to have that fight on your home court.

As for a doc. maker needing to have an opinion. Disagree. I think it's a presentation of facts.

Just because Chomsky opposed NATO bombing doesn’t mean he supported Slobodan Milošević.

That's the ideal for sure. The issue is that documentaries are movies or series, so people approach them with a preconception that they're going to be watching something entertaining and cinematic. The cinematic playbook is built around evoking emotions, which leads to many documentaries spending a lot of time clipping their facts to make them more snippy and introducing suspense/conflict/etc. in the editing room to evoke the intended response that the unedited interviews and other material just doesn't muster. Audiences reward this, so these are the documentaries that studios will take a chance on funding. Emotions are great for persuasion, so activists use that cinematic pathos as a tool to spread awareness for their message, often successfully when it reaches the intended audience despite how accurate the facts presented are. Combine those two and you have a field so dominated by documentarians looking to enforce their opinion that it seems like the rule. Seems like series can get away with being a little (emphasis on little) more fact-based since they only need to hold the audience's attention for an episodic amount of time.

I prefer meta-analyses.

Every word spoken or written comes with an agenda. There’s no such thing as just putting out the facts.

Sometimes you say weird things.

Nah.

It's just like...what even is reality?

Brotha knows what's up.

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...d3&oe=5ED1E24E

Trump supporters don't give a sh*t about the rights of African Americans but when they align to their ideals all of a sudden it's a validation. Pffft.

Maybe that guy feels as though the Democratic Party takes his vote for granted. He has to choose between an old man who wants to lower his taxes versus an old man who wants to raise his taxes. They both have dementia. Who do you think he's gonna pick without telling his buddies come November?

Maybe he also kidnaps children and uses them to feed him baby bird sandwiches.

You know, as long as we're making up narratives.

Ironic.

What'd I make up? Trump called Kaepernick a "son of a bitch" for kneeling during the anthem and his supporters wielded signs and protested the NFL for months. Did we forget that happened?

Anteater is obviously just being a blind partisan with his "budwudabowt" brilliance per usual, but the sentiment that the DNC doesn't care about African Americans despite what it says in the brochure is definitely a real sentiment that some African Americans hold.

I think Ant thinks I'm a democrat or something. Those old f*cks suck too. I'm pretty much anti-old f*ck.

Let's see what someone else has to say about that. :love:



And as far as the actual record goes....

First Step Act. Economic Opportunity Zones. Two major things that seemingly benefit African-Americans exclusively. All supported and passed by him. Do you disagree that those two things also occurred?