Wish i had mod points.

No, the West wont' get it until the UK has an Islamic radical as PM, and the US a radical Islamic president.

The West won't get it until there's minarets in every city and town, calling you to prayer.

And by then it'll be too late.

The Left has managed to weaponize "Racist!" and "Islamophobe!" to the point where people are cowed into not speaking up and taking action.

We're thinking it.. but we're not saying it. Much. Yet.

It's time to say it, and say it loud enough that those with fingers in their ears and heads in the sand can hear us.

You went to a theater, the theater had uniformed ushers ready to eject miscreants. There were curtains, not ads, covering the screen when not in use.

The sound was crisp, the picture clear.

People dressed fairly nice, and were polite.

Now, movies are like flying cattle-class in a low-cost airline. Pajamas, flipflops, and everyone's lighting up the theater with their retardophones.

Then there's the software. Hollyweird has shat on every tentpole property they have. They've reduced Star Wars to lesbian Force witches, they've reduced Star Trek to pew-pew idiocy

Ralph Broke The Internet was so bad, after the first one being so good, that I swore Disney off. I will only buy opened, used blu-rays of theirs now. I refuse to buy new from them.

Maybe the bigwigs oughta fix the presentation issue and also start realizing that if you make movies for the 80% of us, it'll sell. But when you make movies squarely aimed at a very small segment of the population, don't come crying with Pikachu face that "Waaah, no one's watching our movies!"

Make shit we want to watch and we'll watch. Pitch shit at a niche audience, enjoy the niche returns. Simple math.

Wish i had modpoints. Very helpful. Gracias.

This is all consequence of 50 years of Death to America, and kowtowing to those who say it.

If you burn my flag, spout you want me dead, and then take concrete steps to make it so, why should you be let into my country? Why? Because not doing so is Islamophobia?

Fucking ridiculous.

By extension, if your country (Most of europe, maybe all of it) is comfy with allowing muslim radicals to settle in and then start with the Death to America why shouldn't we scrutinize incomers from that country? UK, FR, GER, I"m speaking directly to you.

You people behave like the last 50 years didn't exist. Well, they did exist, still exist, and no amount of "buh buh buh that's raaaacist!" will stop it.

Only getting rid of those who constantly yell "Death to America!" will bring peace. Anything short of that will just bring pieces, because Islam is the religion of Pieces being scattered everywhere by sword and semtex.

Europe has been the #1 aider and abetter of all these raghead groups raising a ruckus. Time for their reckoning, too.

Besides, the instant things get too hot you'll come crawling back to us to help you, because Europe's armies are and always have been a shamble, and the UK even worse. i don't care what you did in the days of Charlemagne, i care about what you've done since we bailed you out twice in one century. Europe has become a comfortable bed for the worst of the radicals. You've taken victory and wwii and pissed it away by embracing the muslim rabble.

Kindly shut the fuck up and fuck off. i'm so fucking tired of all the pro-islam, pro-arab, pro-palestininan lipflapping coming from gasbag Europe and being exported to the US and forced down our throats by our own schools and media.

Wish Reagan would've dealt with Ayatalloah Assaholah back in the day. No one had the courage to do it, now it's done, and Europe's losing their minds over it. GOOOOOOOD! I love seeing it!

Europe is completely invaded and co-opted by Islam, and the US is next. Yell at me all you want, hide all you want from it, when you hear prayer calls from minarets in your town THEN you'll get it, and by then it'll far too late.

Ever feel "safety" is a Trojan Horse, used by governments to curtail your rights, track you, and / or just make your life a bit more complicated?

"it's for your own good.'

That's what my "mother" used to say before she'd make with the belt and try to "correct" me.

Governments' the same way. "It's for your own good" while over-complicating your car and simultaneously draining your wallet. And now, with added privacy loss for your embiggenment!

We need a Restoration. A movement to lead us back to Common Sense. This rulebook is getting impossible. Pretty soon we'll be forced into self-driving pods and forced to wear body airbags.

Oh, and just today, I found I can't buy corded blinds anymore. Now the bedroom blinds won't be like the blinds in the rest of the house. Yet more government intrusion into my space. Yay, Big Gov't! Protect me from myself! Wlaaaaaaah! I NEED GOVERNMENT TO KEEP ME SAFE, WAAAAH!

"woe is me, think of the poors" -- the author

It's just virtue-signalling, nothing you've not heard of before. Writers think if they throw in a bit of poor-appeal or disadvantaged-appeal or whatever-the-struggle-of-the-day-is appeal, readers will pay more attention or feel better.

ORLY? Then how come a small band of zealots were able to topple the Shah and install themselves as government in 1979? It all started with little protests here and there, like the brainwashed vapid Palestinian-loving privileged white kids here protesting for what they perceive is the latest outrage, the latest slight caused by US and Israel, prodded by their brainwashed teachers.

All the kiddies helped them do it. They wanted it, they got it, and and now you say they're secular?

Their actions proved otherwise for the past 40-something years.

So which is it? The minority, according to you, got power by revolution? Or did They the People help them do it?

Can't have it both ways.

You mean, the Dept. of Education, established 1979 by Jimmy Carter?

Yea, a fat lotta good that did. Look at the current electorate. Drooling leftard Palestinian-loving commie Sharia-wishing bootlickers on one side, and senile Christian zealots on the other.

We're practically seeing the results of 40+ years of Leftist bias in public education and higher education, and Rightist bias in private / catholic / christian education. And even that's no guaranteed, there are plenty of Leftist churches to go around.

Holy war / Civil war, before this decade is out, in the US, UK and France, at minimum.

The Left's problem is they're even more revolting than the Christian Right, and that's saying something.

Everyone was so busy being amazed that no one paused to think "maybe this is a destructive force that shouldn't escape the lab."

Reap what you sow, suckers.

I'll celebrate AI when it displaces CIOs instead of Regular People.

Up until that day, a pox on it, and all who are pushing it as hard as Pet Rocks.

There's a line, and we're either dangerously close to going over it -- or already have somewhere in the last three years.

The Era of Machines is rising.

This is just so dystopian it is bothersome. I don't think it'll be something as cheerful and (allegedly) helpful as C3PO, it's gonna be much darker.

Or maybe it'll go a different way - back in the stone age, I was married to a boricua girl. If she'd call a complex after a move from base to base, and they heard her accent, no deal, no vacancies. I'd call a few minutes later with my best Chuck Yeager, and sure we got vacancies, come on right on down.

Happened more than once, too.

Surely machines would be immune to such bias, right? Right?

Nice, but not what was being discussed. The discussion is wires. Cables.

Will planar cans beat dynamic? I'm sure they do.

Do horn speakers beat cones? Yes, yes they do (two sets of Klipsch at this house.)

Will a Sumiko hand-made cart beat a mass-produced Audio-Technica? Probably. But by what margin?

Does $10,000 dollar speaker cables beat 14ga. zipcord? Doubt it.

MRI won't tell you your ever-present shoulder and back and neck pains are caused by forever assuming a physical defensive posture, itself coming from old PTSD.

That problem lies in the mind, not the body.

It's easy, fooling audiophiles. I am one, but the guerilla kind that builds his own stuff from time to time, not one of the "believers" in shaatki stones, magic bricks and such.

I do have a friend who is such a believer. He's also quite deaf in the upper ranges, he's 20 years older than me and has a lifetime of abusing his hearing.

If you'd take 14ga lamp zipcord, put a fancy jacket on it, fancy connectors, ship it in a velvet-lined wooden box, price it at $2000 / meter, and you'll sell tons.

I should do that. So much stupid out there with mad, mad money.

Who let China into WTO with "Most Preferred Status?"

It wasn't Tricky Dicky.

It was Billy Bob Clinton.

Nixon opened the door, but Billy Bob Clinton took the door off the hinges.

Wherever you're getting your talking points from is failing you miserably.. you should really return all the yuan they're paying you to shit all over this site.

Manufacturing in the US didn't crater 'til after China was let into WTO. Fact.

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Now. Would you care to re-assess your statement, or are you gonna be a bitter clinger and hug your pillow stuffed with yuan?

Toxic empathy at work, yet again.

Bad results, yet again.

The very definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over, and still get the same, shitty results.