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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Flow - 2024

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    This movie was fantastic.  Spirited Away meets Bambi meets Watership Down meets Apocalypse Now meets I don't know what the fuck.

    Emotional as hell.  I don't want to read  about it for fear of the explanation being something I can understand.  It felt like deja vu, and maybe mortality or immortality.

    No words.

  2. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    I may just be really Mexican, but it's actually crazy how broken the "American" family is especially with the elderly. Some of it is entitlement, but some of it is just cultural nonsense. I don't really think it's feasible or even economically advantageous to have elderly people living on their own, not in a shared family situation. The whole sell your house to go into a nursing home vs live in your house with one of your kids and then they take it over has always been so fucking bizarre to me. 

     

    I may be misreading, but what is your solution to the elderly nursing home v. live in their own house issue?

    (I think the hunter gatherers had the cleanest solution.  The dude who was around 30 who just followed everyone around and if someone couldn't keep up, they hit them over the head.)

  3. 31 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    It's become clear that Americans are too stupid to handle free speech responsibly. They need hand holding to keep from believing the dumbest of things. 

    That has to happen if this is ever going to return to any semblance of normalcy ever again. True free speech cannot work in the social media age. 

    Free speech a different issue than information pollution.  

  4. 35 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    What makes you think the finish line is at 8 years?

    Finish line is in 3.9 years.  

    I just think he'll pass away of natural causes in his sleep, peacefully, dreaming of grabbing.

  5. Missed a good opportunity for a Pulp Fiction reference when Spence saw Alex in the snow.

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    A TaunTaun showing up would have been as realistic.

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  6. The premise of this thread is important, but I think we are at a point where we just approach this as if Trump and his cult are the enemy of the country and we just have to accept that the folks who voted for him are beyond redemption.

    Anyone who comes around -- that's gravy.  And if they come around, they need to be treated like the prodigal son. 

    We need to laser focus on the enemies of the country who have power through money or political office.  We all bear the repercussions of allowing them to seize power.  I'm not getting much joy out of shaming the victims who were irresponsible with their votes. 

     

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    My trip to HEB to purchase a gallon of milk this afternoon is no exception: either I'm fuckin getting ripped off, or HEB is getting fucked. 

    You bought more than six gallons, didn't you?

     

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    For 10 years it's been "the democrats should do this, or that, or this...." when I think the problem is that it's really tough to counter telling shitty people that it's perfectly ok for them to be as shitty as they want. There is no "left" version of that. 

    This is a great point.  Maybe the only advice to give is is that they should approach all of their issues as if there are "no shitty people, just shitty ideas."  When one side has no shame, what is the value in belittling them?  There isn't really any satisfaction either. 

     

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  9. Saw a story on the uncertainty in the auto industry in Mexico and was pretty enraged.

    I love my country and I know what uniform I have to wear but I love other countries as much and I hate when this asshole needlessly fucks with them.

    Agree on the uncertainty.  Trump can change 180 degrees and he'll still be the hero to his cult.  Or not change and still be the hero.

  10. Spencer has really gone from being the cool dude that all the guys want to hang out with to being an insufferable grouch.  I guess Costner got the grouchy genes from him.

  11. On 3/31/2025 at 11:14 AM, BearSchlong said:

    See, I like Banner, for those reasons. He is actually my favorite character.

    I like the first ho, now dead, but the second one seems nice, too.

  12. Nosferatu (2024)

    Willem Dafoe always cracks me up. I keep wanting him to pause after saying something to someone and then adding:  "Eh, sonny"?

    The Lighthouse is the only Eggers flick I didn't get a kick out of.

  13. 21 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    Gavin Newsom is breaking from the party on trans in sports. Yes it's a fringe issue, but matters to our voter base which is largely comprised of mouth breathing trogolodytes.

     

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/gavin-newsom-breaks-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports-00215436

    This goes to the heart of what wildcat is arguing about accepting the framing of the GOP message.

    "Breaking from the party"? 

    I think if a recipient of federal funds or an entity engaged in interstate commerce can show that a trans athlete has an unfair biological advantage in an athletic event then they can ban the trans athlete form competing against non-trans athletes.  I'd even give them the relatively low "rational basis" test for their biological proof.  

    Is that "breaking from the party"?

     

  14. 13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Name one Democrat running for a statewide or national office who has ever made identity or social issues a cornerstone of their platform. 

    I'll take my lumps for injecting the term. 

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