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#21

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - Today at 01:01:08 AM

Those both suggest a symmetry that I don't believe exists.

We can all be dicks, some more than others, but I don't think theres an asymmetry when we devolve to bitch fests. We're all equally powerful and powerless. I mean I guess you can carve out Jacob and Baron, but they're pretty chill all things considered.

#22

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 12:36:06 AM

Those both suggest a symmetry that I don't believe exists.

#23

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Syt - Today at 12:03:15 AM

Most Languish threads be like:

More like:

#24

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Last post by Syt - November 08, 2025, 11:50:49 PM

What about recognizing the outcome? Let's say the Dems take the House or Senate - what if Trump/Vance says those elections were fraudulent and refuses to have them sworn in (or swears in GOP candidates instead) ?

[seizing voting machines]

#25

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Last post by Tonitrus - November 08, 2025, 08:26:17 PM

That's the bigger question. I could easily see FBI agents seizing voting machines due to "suspicions of fraud." The backlash would be ferocious, but the MAGAts wouldn't care so long as the Republicans retained control of the House.

The ones that aren't Dominion Liberty Vote anyway... 

#26

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Last post by Tonitrus - November 08, 2025, 08:21:27 PM

You don't often make good points, but when you finally do, you hit it right on the nose.

This post does not seem to live up to the standard of discourse you like to hold other posters to.

I mean, it was kind of funny but it was also the kind of personal attack you frame as bullying when directed at posters you agree with.

Languish is no place for that kind of self reflection

Most Languish threads be like:

#27

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Josephus - November 08, 2025, 06:20:18 PM

The Midnight Club, S1. I liked it, I think it's very well made.

Frankenstein. Not a good movie, I might finish it later but it wasn't interesting enough to finish in one sitting. Apart from severe general blandness, my biggest objection is that they make Frankenstein a simple Reanimator who assembles pre-owned body parts. The whole point of the book is that Frankenstein creates life, and that the Creature confronts his Creator. Book Frankenstein uses body parts in his R&D to understand how the body works, but he doesn't use them for production.

saw Frankenstein last night; and found it pretty slow.

I also thought the Midnight Club was boring.

#28

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - November 08, 2025, 06:19:49 PM

Battleship era firing control computers are cool.

Indeed, and they came early.  Ford (not that Ford) fire control computers came out in 1917. The British had a complete system (directors, rangefinders, computers, gun laying instructions) by war's end.

Yes, us digital folk forget there were once analogue computers.

IIRC the last time I was on HMS Belfast, I saw a rather nifty one.

edit:
found a photo of it:

#29

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Zoupa - November 08, 2025, 05:53:08 PM

You don't often make good points, but when you finally do, you hit it right on the nose.

This post does not seem to live up to the standard of discourse you like to hold other posters to.

I mean, it was kind of funny but it was also the kind of personal attack you frame as bullying when directed at posters you agree with.

I don't have Yi's patience to turn the other cheek perpetually.  Zoupa has cussed me out unprovoked repeatedly, to the point that I don't engage in any kind of discourse with him anymore, but I indulged to respond in kind just this one time.  I don't consider it bullying, because for one it was a single post by a single poster, not a campaign of harassment by a clique.

You know what would help, though?  If you directed these kinds of posts at the posters you agree with.  You've had a few opportunities just in the last day in this thread, but it was only my post where you decided to talk about the tone.  Or is your stance that cussing out people is fine, as long as it's done by people who don't speak out against it?

Someone got their feefee hurt 

#30

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by grumbler - November 08, 2025, 05:48:16 PM

Gerrymandering is one thing - it's kind of how the US has been rolling for a while I think. Unless the current attempts are of a new magnitude?

I don't think that we have had between-census gerrymandering (bar a few cases forced by lawsuits) before. No president of the US has ever before demanded that members of his party redistrict their states because the president was terrified of the potential results of a midterm. Trump absolutely will be impeached if the Democrats regain control of the House.

The thing I'm concerned about is systematic voter disenfranchisement, messing with voting machines, and brazen fraud. Will the Trumpists attempt something obvious? Will the US stand for it?

That's the bigger question. I could easily see FBI agents seizing voting machines due to "suspicions of fraud." The backlash would be ferocious, but the MAGAts wouldn't care so long as the Republicans retained control of the House.