US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Eventide said:
I think we should do like, Roman gladiator-style colosseums or death race-style deadly car races. I wanna be entertained during the executions. And the winners can like, win their freedom maybe.
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It would make more sense to copy The Running Man for an idea like this. The Running Man is more in touch with modern pop culture than gladiators or death races, and we could just kill the winners afterwards. If the public found out we were killing the winners instead of letting them go, they probably wouldn't care.
 
Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
It would make more sense to copy The Running Man for an idea like this.
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Please don't give Trump any more ideas. There's already a (completely false and unfounded, but funny) rumor going around that he got the idea to reopen Alcatraz because he saw "Escape from Alcatraz" on WLRN (Palm Beach TV station) last Sunday.
Here's Subzero. Now... plain zero!
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Back when Arny was the undisputable king of action film sloppa. Love that film.
 
cans.wav said:
Agreed that wanting to blow a shit ton of money on renovating Alcatraz is retarded, it's a museum that's run down for a reason and it would be way cheaper to expand ADX Florence or build another supermax somewhere else if we really need more prison space for the worst of the worst. I wish he'd focus on shit that matters more often.
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I have a happy medium. Why not make Alcatraz into a modern prison and charge people admission to see the wildlife in its natural habitat?
 
quaawaa said:
Trump is reopening Alcatraz:
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Felons: Imprisoned, cold and miserable
San Fagsisco Tourism dollars: Gone.

This is the shit I voted like every election, third party for.

This is actually a terrible idea for a lot of reasons and I hope nothing comes from it other than a study that says "Completely unfeasible to reopen, the resupply alone..." but I also look forward to a lot of liberal sobing and MSNPC crying so I'm in favor of that part

Potatoherder said:
Trump just did a death blow to hollywood and did it by claiming to protect them. Disney films so much shit overseas.
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Now if we can just ban Chinese investment and if China launches counter tariffs so US movies aren't shown in china and thus film makers no longer have to kowtow to the CCP....
 
Ghostse said:
"Completely unfeasible to reopen, the resupply alone..."
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I think it would be a good way to subsidize local boating businesses. Make arrangements with them so on their off seasons they can still use their vessels to ferry cargo to and from the prison.
 
More AWS-8Q Than You said:
Europe executed somewhere between 1-2% of men in every generation for centuries. Turns out on a long enough timeline, getting rid of the most anti-social in your population does actually improve things. Not a conversation blank slaters want to have though.
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I feel like progress is set back when they kill off like 20% of their finest stock during the world wars though.
 
Coo Coo Bird said:
There was actually a deleted scene from the original movie where Luke's friend Biggs talks about the Empire nationalizing commerce and taking over farmland from private citizens.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O7J_IZ9agRII guess they edited it out because they thought people talking about economics in their space adventure movie was boring, but it's actually decent world building for why a normal citizen might resent the Empire.
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We removed it because the movie was too long, and it interrupted the flow of action too much. We were already spending too much time on Tatooine.

I didn’t need to use the political mumbo jumbo to explain why the Empire was bad. I accomplished this visually:

The very first scene is a giant fuck-all ship chasing a dinky little cruiser. You immediately knew who the bad guys were even if you didn’t read the scrolling text seconds before.

This is something very wrong with modern cinema. Disney would never give the good guys a small dinky ship to feel sorry for because that’s racist or something. In episodes VIII and IX the Resistance is never really shown to be vulnerable at any point. Sure, the script tries to tell the audience this, but they don’t really believe it. It doesn’t help that the films didn’t bother to even try to plausibly explain why the Galactic politics were the way they were in those movies. Disney took audiences seeing stormtroopers and saying to themselves ‘those are the bad guys’ for granted.
 
I hate all force users including both Jedi and sith.

Ideally the rebellion would be crushed and then the military would launch a coup which would see the arrest and execution of both the emperor and Vader.

Only then can we achieve national socialism free of the taint of wizardry.
 
Zorak Prison Pod said:
I hate all force users including both Jedi and sith.

Ideally the rebellion would be crushed and then the military would launch a coup which would see the arrest and execution of both the emperor and Vader.

Only then can we achieve national socialism free of the taint of wizardry.
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Total Midichlorian Death.
 
The Ugly One said:
Because the Nazis held that, as the Master Race chosen by the Will of History, they had the moral right to conquer any territory holding natural resources the Fuehrer deemed necessary to sustain the Folkish State, enslaving any people living there who were deemed useful, and either expelling or exterminating the rest. The Germans killed between 11 and 13 million civilians as part of their campaign to cleanse their Lebensraum. When Soviet troops rolled westward after Operation Bagration, they found countless towns and villages that had been completely depopulated by the Nazis, some of them resettled with Germans. In some case, the inhabitants had been moved to slave camps, and in others, they had been murdered.

I don't understand why modern Nazi sympathizers don't seem to have any awareness of the Lebensraum program at all, let alone how foundational slavery and genocide were to it. It's like being a hard core internet tradcath who's never heard about papal infallibility. They seem to think Hitler was a liberal with nationalistic tendencies who was just a bit too based for his own day.
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Because Hitler has been exaggerated into a modern, secular satan-figure by the powers-that-be, to the point where people start embracing him not because they actually understand what he wanted or represented, but because it’s edgy and pisses people off. It’s like LaVeyan satanists holding ‘black masses’ to trigger the Christians.
 
Ghostse said:
This is actually a terrible idea for a lot of reasons and I hope nothing comes from it other than a study that says "Completely unfeasible to reopen, the resupply alone..." but I also look forward to a lot of liberal sobing and MSNPC crying so I'm in favor of that part
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I'm waiting for a federal judge to rule that Trump does not have the authority to reopen Alcatraz.
 
George Lucas said:
We removed it because the movie was too long, and it interrupted the flow of action too much. We were already spending too much time on Tatooine.

I didn’t need to use the political mumbo jumbo to explain why the Empire was bad. I accomplished this visually:

The very first scene is a giant fuck-all ship chasing a dinky little cruiser. You immediately knew who the bad guys were even if you didn’t read the scrolling text seconds before.

This is something very wrong with modern cinema. Disney would never give the good guys a small dinky ship to feel sorry for because that’s racist or something. In episodes VIII and IX the Resistance is never really shown to be vulnerable at any point. Sure, the script tries to tell the audience this, but they don’t really believe it. It doesn’t help that the films didn’t bother to even try to plausibly explain why the Galactic politics were the way they were in those movies. Disney took audiences seeing stormtroopers and saying to themselves ‘those are the bad guys’ for granted.
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You forgot to mention your arguably greatest success
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Sneed Lurker said:
Trump should wall off Detroit and make it an open air prison like Gaza. There's no hope in bringing the city back to life anyway, and we could fit an unimaginable amount of violent criminals in that shithole.
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I think we should wall off Gary, Indiana and drop them there. I think we should try to rebuild Paris of the Mid-West.
 
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