Much of the greatness of that movie was due to Marcia and the other editors (whose names sadly escape me now).

Being a member of the ACLU and the NRA; it's more common than you think.

There's a good chance that other countries would refuse you admittance with a felony in your history.

You honestly think there's anywhere in the Western world, let alone the US, that doesn't fuck over men when it comes to their children and their babymommas? The position of the fucking may change, but the lack of lube is universal.

They voted for Reagan more than any other group in the US. Four times, IIRC....

10,000 rounds? Amateur...

I just finished it. Pretty fun. Not quite as good as Season 2, but solid. And infuriating last episode. I must have the movie or season 5 now.

Nope. I've spent years developing this persona. Changing it now would be artistically inconsistent.

he got 34% of the vote, resulting in more than a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Sounds like some serious gerrymandering to me.

It's not necessarily gerrymandering - If you're from the US, you're used to a 2 party system. In many countries, there are 4 or 5 parties that get a significant share of the vote. With a representative system, this leads to very skewed results, in some cases. In the UK (and we've only had 3 parties with a decent share for a while), we've had majority governments with about 34% of the vote relatively recently - it's not because of gerrymandering, it's because of representative democracy.

Besides, the word "democracy" these days is more than just a term for ancient Greek democracy. It includes rule of law, fair treatment of minorities, rules of conduct, and so on.

Yeah... that's not actually what the word means, though. If you include all that, it becomes a social contract (rules of conduct), and that's not what democracy is about at all. I personally am for some kind of democracy almost universally, but completely against universal rules of conduct. Also, the only major country close to a true democracy is Switzerland - everyone else is representation. There's no technical reason why we all can't get more democratic now.

That's not the difference.

Hitler and Stalin were both supported by the majority - and they were still dictators.

Hitler never got more than about 35% of the vote in free elections.

However, the last time the party that got into power in the UK got most of the votes cast was in the 70's, IIRC. Most people have voted for someone else in every election since, until the recent coalition (if you include both Tory and LibDem votes as a block).

Almost one fifth of people in Turkey live in Istanbul alone. I haven't had an in depth look at Turkish demographics, but this I find unbelievable on a whole load of levels : "Rural areas are not really developed, thickly populated and essentially exist in conditions that modern urban dweller would find atrocious, similar to those found in early 1900s. But to them, that is normal existence and all they know. Also to them islam is the way of life, like christianity was a way of life to farmers of late early 1900s in USA. These people will vote for islamic parties and they are in a clear majority in Turkey."

One of the heroes of Turkey is Ataturk, whose reforms have a very pro-secular basis.

Personally, I think most of those driving the resurgence of Islamic government in Turkey are similar to those pushing for the same in Western countries - middle or wealthy class, educated people.

Edit buttons don't work with moderation. If you reply to something stupid, then the original person edits out the stupid thing, your reply can become meaningless, offtopic, strawman, redundant, whatever. Lack of an edit button is a strength.

Following threads that are edited is almost impossible, too - you end up with a mishmash of unrelated comments sometimes.

Dragon's Lair and Kaboom FTW!

The ET movie had essentially nothing to do with the game. Seeing or not seeing it would in no way change your understanding of the game.