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DC Tom replied to /dev/null's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
No, Mr. WEO's tougher than that. Judging by the thread Foxx linked, @wppete needs a diaper change. I can't even call him an idiot. He'd have to ditch the persecution complex to rise to the level of "***** idiot." -
NE fans are hating life right now. Lookie here...
DC Tom replied to Peace Frog's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Holy Jesus, you're a crybaby. -
The Impeachment Trial of President Donald J. Trump
DC Tom replied to Nanker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Well that's unpleasant - there's someone in that crushed Ford pickup. They lived, with minor injuries. Amazingly. -
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Let me guess...liberal snowflake melted? -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
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Ruthless People. Keep Bill Pullman's character. -
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He had a meltdown and I didn't get to contribute? God dammit, you idiots couldn't page me or something? -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
No, you have to keep Kline, somehow. Just for the sex scene with Miss Piggy, which would be even more hilarious than it already is. I don't think you can keep just one actor from A Fish Called Wanda, honestly. Same with Young Frankenstein - how do you choose between Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Teri Garr? -
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What the hell happened? Did someone threaten a spearing contest? -
It's actually green. With envy. Of yours sense of humor. [/sarcasm]
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The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency
DC Tom replied to Nanker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Of course, Trump HAS denounced it. Apparently, he just hasn't denounced it enough. -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
No. That part's perfect for Fozzie Bear. The Usual Suspects. Keep Agent Kujian. Furthermore, cast Kermit as Keyser Soze (obviously). Beaker as Fenster, Professor Honeydew as McManus, and Animal as Hockney. -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Predator. Keep Billy the Indian. -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Ocean's Eleven. Keep Danny Ocean. Edit: actually, keep none of them. I want to see that redone as Kermit's Eleven. -
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DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Showgirls. Keep Gina Gershon's character. Heat. Keep Chris Shiherlis. Castaway. Keep Helen Hunt. A Hard Day's Night. Keep John Lennon. Goldfinger. Keep Odd Job. -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Die Hard Keep Holly McClane. Braveheart Keep the Irishman -
Pick a movie. Keep one actor.
DC Tom replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Space Jam. Keep Bugs Bunny. -
Not just economic, but in terms of a violent social revolution. The disagreement between abolitionists and large slaveholders was...not cordial (as Bleeding Kansas demonstrates), but certainly not apocalyptic, until John Brown was interviewed after Harper's Ferry, and northeastern abolitionists found his call for a violent revolution in the South resonated with them. That, and the resulting Republican victory in the Presidency, terrified the South like nothing before. To the Southern aristocracy, secession was a necessary defensive step, because they had every expectation they'd be killed in a race war, because they were explicitly told so by sources such as Harper's Weekly and the New York Tribune.
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He was insulting to minorities once. Good riddance.
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Why'd it take 50 years to start building statues to George Washington, or 30-40 for most of the statues of Lincoln, or 50-80 years for the Gettysburg memorials to be set up? Why is the timing of only Confederate statues significant, when statues to Confederate and Union figures were going up all over the country at the same time? I mean, it took 135 years to put up a statue to Confederate general James Longstreet and Confederate soldiers of the 11th Mississippi at Gettysburg. If the timing of statuary is definitive, why are Confederate memorials going up in US National parks during the Clinton administration?
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And there's your problem. "Community leaders" frequently do not represent the community. The antebellum South, for example, was run by a landed aristocracy that was not representative of the community at large. Likewise, the abolitionist North was limited largely to New England, and not representative of the Union at large, which is why four slave states remained in the Union, and why slavery wasn't abolished in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation but remained legal in the Union until the end of the war (and why captured slaves in the South remained slaves in Union hands.)