Im_CIA

1 minute ago, RaTcHeT302 said:

 

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Ghost in The Shell SAC is actually pretty cool. It's like the Japanese Deus Ex.

In a cyber punk future where you can network your brain, a fringe government faction release a virus that radicalizes virgins in order to flair up tensions with the refugee community.  

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1 hour ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

Both of you acting Anime is a genre or something, and don't fully understand it, if at all.

I understand it enough. It's not a knock on anime, most of any medium of garbage. Including one pictured here

1 hour ago, BTGBullseye said:

Why is anime infecting everything? It's not that great.

Correct. There are a few outstanding series, but most of it is garbage. Much like everything else

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Ok, we've established that the vote by mail demographic is getting the short end of the stick.

Two caveats to that Ive covered already. 

1. The young, spry left leaning populace should have no qualms going to a booth since they have no problems ignoring the pandemic to go out and protest. You said some of them wore masks- great! They can wear masks when they cast their vote.

2. The elderly demographic, which absolutely must not get infected is truly losing out here- but as I pointed out, they tend to lean further right anyway. 

So again I'm asking, how is Trump stealing the election by running the post office out of town? As I see it, it hurts him just as much, unless of course he's counting on the left's weak resolve.  

Not really

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16 hours ago, BTGBullseye said:

I always captured the NOD bases so I could send their own stealth tanks against them.

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14 minutes ago, ScumCoder said:

This is a classic fallacy that I've seen hundreds of times before.

You (and people like you) do not realize the meta effect of science, i.e. its effect upon itself. The scientific progress does not only allow us to move from horses to internal combustion engines. It also allows us to more clearly see what's on the horizon - what we can and cannot expect from the future.

As times goes by, cases when reputable scientists make fundamentally wrong predictions or wave aside ideas that later become successful become exceedingly rare.

 

Thinking that just because scientists made bad forecasts a couple hundred years ago they are still as bad at making forecasts now is like thinking that because scientists could not make combustion engine a couple hundred years ago they still cannot make it now.

 

You can think of science and technology as of the Terra Incognita. As long as you had blank spaces on the world map, there was room for assumptions. You could assume that dragons or unicorns are real - you just did not discover where they live yet.

As Earth became more explored, this room was shrinking and shrinking, until there was none. Now pretty much every nook and cranny is painstakingly analyzed and photographed.

 

Saying that we will have Dark Energy reactors like in Half-Life 2 in the future and we just haven't researched them yet is like saying that dragons or unicorns are real and we just did not discover where they live yet.

Heh, "JUST another dark age". If we are considering billions of people dying and the lives of the rest deteriorating into utter misery a normal and acceptable future, then we have nothing to even worry about.

It's just that personally, I always despised the "after us the deluge" worldview.

Don't think I'm some kind science denier. Science doesn't make bad forecasts, it reaches the best conclusion based on current knowledge. The horseshit apocalypse was a 100% correct, but it couldn't account for outside variables skewing the results- that's virtually impossible to predict and outside scope of what science does. Which is fine, science is a tool, and measurements are only as good as the tool that you're using and science ever-changing.

Science *is* a tool, not way of life or mantra or a prophet, and shouldn't be used that way. In order to live, we need to consume, and science should only be used to facilitate that consumption. 

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1 hour ago, Mira said:

That's not a defense, that's just downplaying the issue. You can't seriously think that it'll just be people over 65 who will want to avoid polling places for fear of infection. I see you still haven't actually watched the video Kerdios posted which pointed out that two-thirds of voters who plan to show up at the voting booth are Trump voters while nearly three quarters of mail voters plan to vote for Biden, and you also didn't read the part where I said that the president merely being willing and able to sabotage the election process in order to improve his own chances is disgusting and disconcerting in and of itself. Whether it will be effective or not is irrelevant right now; this should not be acceptable.

 

Retreading old ground again, see

On 8/13/2020 at 5:39 PM, Im_CIA said:

If people want Trump out, they should vote him out. If they are skeptictal of the postal service, then they should vote in person.

 

There, all your grievances are solved. 

2 hours ago, Ross Scott said:

It was probably the high after having a video completed, it feels like a weight off my back when that happens.

 

Actually only one person responded, then disappeared on me.  I may end up having to do this myself.  I absolutely can't afford to offer thousands for this unfortunately.  That would be closer to the entire budget for the movie.

In the name of Kane

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 you don't really have a defense for the administration's kneecapping of the postal service

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You're doing a lot of beating around the bush just to avoid admitting that you don't really have a defense for the administration's kneecapping of the postal service

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Let's assume that the majority of the protestors were below 65. Even if the elderly didn't directly get infected, the whole clamp down on mass gatherings was to stop the spread, which will eventually permeate across all demographics if left unchecked.  IN other words, Grandpa doesn't get corona because he goes to ragers, he gets it from his grandkids. 

But let's spin this a different way.

Past age 65, there is a noticeable uptick in Republican support. If Trump has a dubious plan for keeping geriatrics from the ballot box, then it's actually in the Democrats' pragmatic best interest to support him in that endevour

 

I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you

2 hours ago, Annie said:

One group of protestors refused to follow CDC guidelines and were protesting against safety guidelines, whereas the OTHER group of protestors made an EFFORT. I wrote 3 paragraphs, you can do better than 2 sentences waving away everything I wrote to instead accuse me of something I didn't do.

The costal elite wore masks, the rest formed a writhing hot mass of disease that's hell bent on turning all cities into the RoboCop post apocalypse.  Sure, anyone can cherry pick the ideal Nobel Savage on both sides, but the truth is the grassroots left is just as dumb as cross burning Bubba Jo in his trailer park. 

On 8/13/2020 at 10:45 PM, Annie said:

I'll address the BLM protests first, because I feel like a lot of people forgot what happened just a couple of weeks prior. Remember operation gridlock, when a bunch of conservatives, libertarians, alt-righters, and other such fine and well-adjusted individuals blocked traffic and surrounded government buildings, armed to the teeth, NOT practicing any form of social distancing or wearing masks, all to protest coronavirus lockdown? Compare that to the BLM protests, where at least those participating are practicing social distancing where possible and reminding others to do the same, nearly everyone involved is wearing masks, the thing they're protesting is police brutality and not how oppressive slowing the spread of a deadly virus is,  and they're also not carrying firearms. A lot of right wing media outlets tried to claim (among other similar myths) that leftists were hypocritical for flooding the streets in protest and that this caused an increase of covid cases when the evidence actually shows that areas affected by the protest didn't see a notable increase in cases due to them.

 

Now, as for the scope and affect of the virus, I'd just like to say that coronavirus is about as politically charged a topic as any other. There are lots of non-negotiable things out there that people think are up for debate, this is where people have trouble separating fact from opinion. Lots of people, for example, will claim the earth is flat. This is a politically charged topic and lots of people will say, for example, that it's "just their opinion" that the earth is flat when what they're saying is actually factually incorrect. This is the first example I mentioned because it's really easy to get on-board with flat-earthers being wrong. What about LGBT rights though, and transgender rights in particular? Anti-trans rhetoric is popular to the point where I'd say it's basically just the default position for anyone who lives in the U.K. and calls themselves a feminist, and yet most of it is at best based off of decades-old obsolete research and misinterpreted and misrepresented statistics, and at worst based off of outright lies and misinformation, or irrational fear. It's the same thing with anti-vax rhetoric, holocaust denial, the general practice of linking certain forms of media with certain different behaviors (video games with violence, for example.)

What I'm getting at with this is that coronavirus is no different. It's not trans people who politicize transgender issues, it's not round earthers who politicize the shape of the planet, it's not pro-vaxxers who politicize immunization, and it's not the doctors and public health and safety officials who so heavily politicized coronavirus prevention. It's the people denying that masks work, ignoring social distancing guidelines, and coming up with wild conspiracy theories about Dr. Fauci that make coronavirus such a politically charged topic. It was an inevitability that the virus would affect the political climate but it wasn't the left who went off the deep end in absolute defiance of common sense rather than just putting a mask on and staying at home where necessary.

 

As for once again asking people to visit polling locations to vote out Trump, again- you're missing the point.

No, you can't claim to be a champion of science and then handwave away blatant violations of CDC guidelines through the halo effect and "at least it's not wrong think". You either have mass gathering, or you don't. Providing leniency because of ingroup/outgroup mentality destroys credibility. 

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