ShrimperDan

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Well, his last guest before Saban was Candace Owens, so there's that.

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Somehow more gross than Mamdani

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Think of the green knight poem as a “how to” guide for how chivalrous knights to behave.

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Well our modern definition of chivalry wasn't really the one used back in the days of actual knights and legends. Its changed a lot over the years actually and could mean a lot of different and sometimes contradictory things.... how we define it (essentially virtuous and duty-bound), it could mean that a man was just a good soldier, or a good horseman, or loyal to his woman, or even that he was a bit of a womanizer. The original poem was more about a man's honor or his word, his character when people aren't looking, than it was "chivalry" as we know it.

The movie kind of poo-poos the point the poem tried to make. But granted to make a movie out of it you do have to add some material because basically the poem goes "Green Knight shows up, Gawain takes a little off the top, then its a year later and he is at the lord's estate" with nothing at all there about the journey. Within the confines of what the movie is trying to do it does make sense that Gawain isn't honorable though...Gawain in the original story was already a famous knight by that point I believe, in this one he is using The Green Knight as kind of his "launchpad" for his career and he is very much not "knightly" at that point but becomes so at the end.

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He didn’t direct the original one, which honestly is probably why it’s such a classic. Denis gave it a huge visual style bump that I don’t think he can really bring to the table and according to the production into, he spent a lot of time cutting out the fat of the original Sicario script. The original script was a lot more tell than show and included a lot of voice over monologues

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I feel like Sheridan's stuff gets worse the more leash you give him. And by 'leash' I don't necessarily mean creative control. He is incredible on the initial ideas for stories, characters, settings, etc but when it comes to expanding those with any depth the results are very mixed.

The Bats of Winter

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There has always been a lot of progressive types in Texas.

Texas has never been as conservative as people want to beleive and its not because of hispanics.

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Don't read this as an argument for illegal immigration because I think it should be at 0 permanently, but if you're going to have a huge influx of people coming into your country we are lucky that the vast majority come from a population that is overwhelmingly Christian/Catholic and who value the institution of the family. If we had a bunch of Muslim countries to the south of us we would be completed fricked.

As far as Texas goes, Austin and other large cities have been getting an influx of people for years now and they aren't what you think of when we imagine a typical Texan. Would not surprise me at all if these polls turn out to be accurate and Talarico wins.

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If true, 21$ instead of 101$ is too substantial to ignore. I know Tesla is starting to crank out electric big rigs

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And the cost will likely go down.

They have added the equivalent of Germany's entire powergrid to their generation capabilities every year for several years now, and the share of renewables of total power generation continues to climb.

Hope he doesn't have a brother named Nick

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That's it. Everything above that you are attempting to be patronizing about is something I said to you first.

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I don't think I'm attempting, I'm pretty good at it when people don't know what they are talking about.

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We only differ in that Trump is (quite obviously) not a conservative, yet you insist that he is.

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Another weird comment since my "in theory and marketing material" comment (which you didn't understand, shocker there) strongly implies that I don't think he is all that conservative, much less 'insist that he is".

I have to give flowers to Mizzou fans. I read a story where some of y'all recently visited some terminally ill kids at a children's hospital.

"I'll never forget the sad, defeated look in their eyes" said the kids of the Mizzou fans.

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That's because you're fixated on speaking for people instead of speaking for conservatism itself.

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Weird since my point was clearly and specifically that no one can speak for the group we were discussing :rotflmao:

The OP asked a question about why you don't hear about X from conservatives. I said its because its not like we have some spokesperson.

Hope that can get you caught up with what was actually going on here before you come back with another incoherent rant. What an extremely simplistic and outright ignorant view on conservatism.

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I guess you're kind of a moron, then. What does being president have to do with speaking for conservatives? Jimmy Carter was a "literal president." Joe Biden. Obama. Anybody who thinks any of those guys needs to be speaking for all conservatives because they were "literal presidents" is stupid.

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None of those guys you laid out were conservatives. Trump, at least in theory and marketing material, is.

I guess I'll have to baby step you through any point I make since you seem to lack much, if any, cognitive function to deduce that being a president alone doesn't make you qualified to speak for conservatives, but being a conservative president in theory would be the spokesman for the ideology in terms of anyone with any actual power. And again, I said I don't think even a conservative president can do that.

I want to like it because she seems like a really cool person with a passion for stuff like this, but unfortunately it just looks very bad.