[–] 1 point 3 months ago

Or tell a crazy person you think there'll be someone who is going to try to assinate the president and no one believes you on a forum. Drip feed it so you get him to go exactly where you want. .

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The more time you have to prepare to fight fascism the better. The point is to never give them anything for free. Especially when it costs you nothing. The more ground we deny to the fascists gives more room for resistance to grow.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yes but the 100 mile rule does not apply to air ports. The exception stops at the point of entry and domestic flights are exempt from the border exceptions because people do not go through customs.

    § 287.1 Definitions. (a)

    (1) External boundary. The term external boundary, as used in section 287(a)(3) of the Act, means the land boundaries and the territorial sea of the United States extending 12 nautical miles from the baselines of the United States determined in accordance with international law.

    (2) Reasonable distance. The term reasonable distance, as used in section 287(a) (3) of the Act, means within 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States or any shorter distance which may be fixed by the chief patrol agent for CBP, or the special agent in charge for ICE, or, so far as the power to board and search aircraft is concerned any distance fixed pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Just because TLJ had new ideas does not mean they were good. And when you compare that does not stop people from trying new things. Andor is radically different Star wars. Comparing two second movies in a trilogy to each other to analyze structure is a valid comparison.

    "Nothing will replicate the feelings had watching beloved movies for the first time, and expecting anything to match that is just an excuse to be dismissive of it." Expecting a movie can not match the feelings of watching a beloved movie is just an excuse not to judge it.

    Also saying stop using hypotheticals when you say above "even a subpar writer could have..." Is contradictory.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    If you mean in the instance of the rule of law yes. But the theory that the president is making is that as the head of the exec he should be able to control the exec. including independent boards and committees. So to answer the original question they will say the difference is the supreme Court is the judicial branch.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Didn't stop the founding fathers, the Vietnamese, the mujahideen etc... Resistance, is very effective. Occupation takes a lot of money and manpower, much more than the occupied need to muster. The Taliban would pay a kid to fire a mosin rifle So resistance, is very effective. American firebase then run. The base would spend way more time, money, and resources at that point trying to find who did it and stop it.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    Hard disagree on the character arcs. Luke's arc was terrible. He is completely different than he was at the end of return, and thats ok if you can show how it happened. But it wasn't really shown just told. The flash back scene with kylo just shows the culmination of this supposed change. We take the guy who would not kill the most evil man when everyone is telling him to because he thinks he can be redeemed, and then go to yeah I had a bad vision I thought we should kill this kid. That's a jarring change.

    If they wanted to set kylo up as the bad guy, the character arc needed more work.

    I think red letter put it best on the character arcs poes arc was to learn to blindly obey authority. Finns arc was that nothing he did matters at all and that you should not sacrifice yourself in war.

    And I think there is an argument to make that the rRse of Skywalker is in part bad because TLJ was badly written as a middle film. It took payoffs that arguably should be in the final film for itself in an attempt to be different and new. It does not really continue the plot for a third film. The whole movie seemed to jump from moment to moment Rian thought would be cool and did not consider really how to get there. That's why there are all these consistency issues in lore/suspension of disbelief, theme, tone. If we are building a staircase and in the middle we take the parts for the end of the staircase to try and now make it a spiral staircase I don't care how pretty it looks or impressive the craftsman ship it does not get me to where I need to go.

    I think Rian swung for the fences and I appreciate the attempt but he struck out.

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