[arizonaconservativegal]

Can we maybe start toning down the hyperbolic and vitriolizing rhetoric now? Because calling a man worse than Hitler for eight years has clearly done nothing good for the country. I'm not saying that caused this but it definitely didn't help. And we all got fucking lucky that Trump seems to be okay. If he'd been killed, I don't want to think about what might have happened. We're sitting in a fucking powder keg and we all need to cool off before this blows.

[generallemarc]

If you're one of the ones saying that Biden needs to be investigated/impeached because "his rhetoric caused this", you are part of the problem and are also using the exact same line the Dems did when they tried to pin January 6th on Trump. If you're one of the ones saying that Trump himself is somehow responsible for this, you are part of the problem and also should get your head examined.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

@generallemarc man I love you but this isn't the same thing. Biden called half the US that voted for Trump "maga extremists", and has told people that Trump is a threat to this country and it's "democracy". That's propagation of fear. And he's far from the only one to do it. Requesting an investigation isn't remotely the same thing as 8 years dehumanizing the other side.

[generallemarc]

Trump's side has spent the same amount of time saying rather similar things. Remember #stopthesteal? Remember the multiple lawsuits to stop votes from being certified based on "hey, if we assume guilt and then do a bunch of digging maybe we'll find something?" Remember Trump's insistence that Pence had powers he straight-up, objectively did not have? There's already a member of Congress blaming Biden for this-granted, he's a first-termer with a habit of saying provocative shit on social media because apparently he wants to be the conservative AOC, but that's still a problem. And he doesn't mean it like you mean it, he's saying straight up that Biden ought to be investigated; he was the one I was using for my example ^^^.

Refusing to recognize the results of a free and fair election used to be exclusive to the Democrats, but Trump decided that anything they could do he could do better, and that goes for this whole campaign. None of what I'm saying should be taken as a defense or excusing of Biden and, let's be real here, the Hasan-watching, DSA-supporting, Ilhan Omar-idolizing woke mob that he tacitly allows and enables to keep going after the right because they've brainwashed themselves into being perpetually loyal to him, the man they believe is complicit in genocide, because Orange Man Bad. But none of what they've done has much bearing, if any, on what bad elements on the right have also done. They don't cancel out and if one is worse than the other that other doesn't magically stop being a problem. That's the left's way of thinking, not ours.

And all of this is true regardless of if the shooter is a card-carrying DSA member or a crazy guy off his meds. Bad behavior doesn't cancel out other bad behavior, even at extreme levels like this. And this wouldn't be the first politically-motivated attack on a politician this election round. Remember, Paul Pelosi's attacker was a far-right nutjob, but that doesn't magically make all Republicans attempted murderers in the making. I'm sorry for rambling so much(it is 4:30 am and I've been titrating off my meds for over a month), but I feel like I need to make this as clear as I can before things devolve into everyone calling everyone else a Nazi or a terrorist or whatever.

[generallemarc]

Fullmetal Alchemist actors returning in Daemons of the Shadow Realm

Colleen Clinkenbeard: Easily the most obvious and well-known. She was Lieutenant Hawkeye in both 03 and Brotherhood and is Left in YnT(can't find a better abbreviation)

Kent Williams: The other big one, he was Father himself in Brotherhood and is Gonzo Kagemori in YnT. Interestingly, he was also in the 03 FMA, playing the evil alchemist Majhal who served as a villain of the week, attempting to use spirit attachment to bind the souls of girls in his village to a life-size doll of his dead wife.

Jerry Jewll: Barry the Chopper in both FMA's and Jin Kagemori in YnT. Hopefully the voice direction won't completely misuse his talents like One Piece did.

Wendy Powell: A surprise return given that she tends not to do many roles and much of those she does are smaller ones, but she was Envy in both FMA's and Granny Yahama in YnT.

Austin Tindle: He's Asuma Kagemori in YnT and was an extra in the Sacred Star of Milos movie, which I've decided doesn't exist and is just a mass hallucination but on the off chance it's actually real I'm including him anyway.

These are all the ones I've got now, but the season's not over even in Japanese, so we could end up seeing more, and we darn well better. If Travis Willingham and Chris Sabat don't show up I'm starting a peasant rebellion.

[generallemarc]

Update: So far they're matching Jerry Jewell's voice to his character. This sounds nuts to worry about, but for those who aren't One Piece fans imagine a character who needed the level of crazy of Barry the Chopper but got barely more than the level of crazy of Jin. And if that sounds like an incredibly obvious fuckup it's even worse than you think, because there's a MASSIVE connection between the FMA dubs and that of OP(most of the Straw Hats' actors were in one or the other, if not both) so these are people who really, REALLY ought to know this man's range.

And fortunately, Daemons of the Shadow Realm actually does have people who know it, because his Jin performance is excellent. Although I do hope he does have a couple moments like Nedzu in FMA where he gets to cut loose, because his crazy voice...I mean, y'all saw FMA, I don't need to say anything else.

[generallemarc]

Ok, but why aren't we getting an answer for why the Kagemoris massacred the villagers?

I'm seeing alot of people complain that that wasn't the very first thing Yuru asked, and I agree. It's like it didn't even happen, like the only thing they did was try and kidnap him and reveal that his Asa was a fake. Wtf is going on here? Is there ever an explanation? I'll take spoilers if I have to, I just can't keep going on with this disconnect where suddenly the Kagemoris get all these funny and cute moments with Yuru after they murdered all his friends.

[generallemarc]

Daemons of the Shadow Realm is really bringing back memories of early FMA when you had no idea who to trust

Dera and Hana are genuinely kind people, but as village retainers they're part of the operation that was deceiving Yuru for a decade to make sure he never left. The Kagemori Clan act like normal people around each other, even showing kindness like Dera and Hana, but they slaughtered villagers like it was nothing, as though they weren't even human. Asa claims to want to save Yuru, only to then give the order for the Kagemori soldiers to wipe out every villager but him in the same breath, seemingly not even understanding his horror at how casually she's ordering this massacre. Either this is something like Wendy's backstory in Fairy Tail and the entire village's population are all spirits or something...wait, no, that's impossible, Yuru's mother was a hiker who got lost, she couldn't exactly have babies with a ghost. Nope, no easy answers here. Wouldn't want any from an Arakawa manga in any case.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The Demonization of Male Ambition

We’ve spent decades treating male ambition not as a force that built civilization, but as a problem to be solved. It’s time to stop.

[emmaubler]

It's ridiculous to treat ambition and success as a zero-sum game, as if girls can't possibly succeed unless boys are forcefully subdued.

[sentimentalslut]

man the public defender discourse pisses me off so bad. yeah. yeah I do think that every single person deserves representation. yeah that includes people who *have* committed rape and murder and abuse. when I say every single person I mean every single person. if your idea of justice excludes one person it excludes everyone. next question

[sentimentalslut]

“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to sexual assault?” i’m saying I have.

“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to domestic violence?” i’m saying i have.

"so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to child abuse?" i'm saying i have.

and i am saying i have given each and every one of those clients the same level of professionalism, effort, and zealous advocacy i have given my clients who are victims of the same. that is how due process works, and every person is guaranteed it.

i have nothing but respect and admiration for my colleagues in the public interest sector who represent those who have committed and/or been accused any and all crimes, no matter how "morally reprehensible" others may find them.

public defenders are among the best, brightest, and most selfless attorneys out there. they are on the front lines of combating the carceral state and protecting the rights of every day people. get it straight in your heads. thanks.

[brainscrems]

Being a public defender is one of the most essential and under-recognized jobs someone can do to help maintain our democracy. Fuck absolutely anyone and everyone who goes after them. If you’re against public defenders you are fighting for fascism. There’s nothing more to say on the matter.

[bethany81707]

[generallemarc]

And just like that, a parody comic series has done more of value than the movie it was parodying. And its two sequels.

[sentimentalslut]

man the public defender discourse pisses me off so bad. yeah. yeah I do think that every single person deserves representation. yeah that includes people who *have* committed rape and murder and abuse. when I say every single person I mean every single person. if your idea of justice excludes one person it excludes everyone. next question

[sentimentalslut]

“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to sexual assault?” i’m saying I have.

“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to domestic violence?” i’m saying i have.

"so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to child abuse?" i'm saying i have.

and i am saying i have given each and every one of those clients the same level of professionalism, effort, and zealous advocacy i have given my clients who are victims of the same. that is how due process works, and every person is guaranteed it.

i have nothing but respect and admiration for my colleagues in the public interest sector who represent those who have committed and/or been accused any and all crimes, no matter how "morally reprehensible" others may find them.

public defenders are among the best, brightest, and most selfless attorneys out there. they are on the front lines of combating the carceral state and protecting the rights of every day people. get it straight in your heads. thanks.

[brainscrems]

Being a public defender is one of the most essential and under-recognized jobs someone can do to help maintain our democracy. Fuck absolutely anyone and everyone who goes after them. If you’re against public defenders you are fighting for fascism. There’s nothing more to say on the matter.

[porcupine-girl]

Pretty much anytime people are trying to smear an ex-lawyer politician by saying "they represented murderers/pedophiles/whatever," what they really mean is "they were a public defender and made sure the system treated everyone fairly, which is the only way a judicial system can ever actually dispense justice." Sounds like someone we need more of in government.

[impulsivelycontentious]

Depriving the guilty of the best representation they can have is depriving the innocent of that, too, because THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE TRIAL and we're not assuming people are guilty. Even people who confessed, no, because sometimes people give false confessions.

Ir doesn't matter, the justice system is adversarial and we shouldn't presume guilt.

[uncahier]

You could be falsely accused of a terrible crime. Would you not want robust legal representation? Even if you didn’t have the means to pay for a lawyer yourself?

[delicatefury]

Once more, courts don’t stop at the district level. There’s the two levels of appellate courts above them. And the federal Supreme Court if it ends up being a constitutional issue. Cases don’t always end at the guilty verdict.

The most common appeal is “ineffective assistance of counsel” (IAOC). IAOC is when your attorney did such a bad job defending you that your trial was constitutionally unfair. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984).

If a defendant wins an IAOC appeal, they get a new trial.

Usually, though, they still have to prove that they might have been found not-guilty if their attorney hadn’t screwed up (in legal speak, we say the attorney created prejudice against their own client). However, if the attorney screws up badly enough, it doesn’t matter how obvious the guilt is, they still get a new trial.

And now you’ve got an even longer time since the original crime and witnesses who might not want to testify again or are unavailable for other reasons or are dead. It is harder to prove guilt at a second trial because of that and the new defense attorney now knows all the weaknesses of the state’s case and can exploit them.

Do you know what prevents successful IAOC claims? Good public defenders.

[enriquemzn262]

And so, Harrier service in the US comes to an end, after their final flight with the Marines today, leaving Italy and Spain as the last remaining Harrier operators in the world.

At its peak, the Harrier was flown by America, Britain, India, Spain, Thailand and Italy, the most successful VTOL combat jet of the Cold War.

[jlongbone]

🚨URGENT 🚨

[generallemarc]

Fullmetal Alchemist actors returning in Daemons of the Shadow Realm

Colleen Clinkenbeard: Easily the most obvious and well-known. She was Lieutenant Hawkeye in both 03 and Brotherhood and is Left in YnT(can't find a better abbreviation)

Kent Williams: The other big one, he was Father himself in Brotherhood and is Gonzo Kagemori in YnT. Interestingly, he was also in the 03 FMA, playing the evil alchemist Majhal who served as a villain of the week, attempting to use spirit attachment to bind the souls of girls in his village to a life-size doll of his dead wife.

Jerry Jewll: Barry the Chopper in both FMA's and Jin Kagemori in YnT. Hopefully the voice direction won't completely misuse his talents like One Piece did.

Wendy Powell: A surprise return given that she tends not to do many roles and much of those she does are smaller ones, but she was Envy in both FMA's and Granny Yahama in YnT.

Austin Tindle: He's Asuma Kagemori in YnT and was an extra in the Sacred Star of Milos movie, which I've decided doesn't exist and is just a mass hallucination but on the off chance it's actually real I'm including him anyway.

These are all the ones I've got now, but the season's not over even in Japanese, so we could end up seeing more, and we darn well better. If Travis Willingham and Chris Sabat don't show up I'm starting a peasant rebellion.

[generallemarc]

Pragmata needs to launch Grace Saif's career into orbit

I liked Malos more than Manana, I was way, way more excited for David Menkin as Hugh than Grace Saif as Diana. And then the game systematically rewrote my priorities to doing just about anything to make sure nothing bad could ever happen to Diana ever again, almost solely through Ms. Saif's performance. Anyone who's played more than 10 minutes of Pragmata knows how vital making you care about Diana is to this game actually working-if it ever faltered in that, it'd all fall apart until it could fix that one central element. And if this small child character was annoying, like so many other small child characters in games are, it would basically destroy the game entirely. But she's not. She's a pure ray of sunshine who we would all die for, and even with the best character writing in the world(which she did have), this lives and dies on voice acting. And Grace Saif went up to the plate and hit nothing but home runs for hour after hour of dialogue.

[generallemarc]

Bruh, I'm so spoiled for dubs right now

All these legends getting released all at once has me too indecisive to pick! Witch Hat Atelier, Demons of the Shadow Realm, Golden Kamuy's finale, and after that delay now Akane-Banashi too? With Abby Trott as the protag!? Any one of these would be the season's best normally, and here we've got all three at once. Almost makes up for Toei not dubbing Elbaf because they're morons.

[generallemarc]

Christian/Jewish theological buffs, am I missing something in regards to 1 Samuel 15 and the destruction of Amalek?

My translation is the New American Bible revised version, and its footnotes can sometimes be a bit imprecise. At this point and several others it points out that the sacred authors often phrased things as "the Lord said etc etc" when it was actually just a prophet saying it and not a literal proclamation from God, because prophets were seen as being constantly speaking for God and thus there was no difference, as they saw it, between "the Lord said to Israel" and "Samuel said to Israel", for example. This is highlighted in 1 Samuel 15:3 regarding what appears to be a command by God to kill literally everyone in Amalek, man woman and child; the footnote brings back up the substitution of "the Lord" for the prophet in question, pointing out that the supposed command from God was just how semi-nomadic tribes in the region operated at that time(which seems like they wanted to say it was a retroactive justification but weren't allowed to) and that God would never command the slaughter of the innocent.

All well and good, but there then seems to be a contradiction a few verses later, where Samuel rebukes Saul for not destroying livestock and other valuables, as "God" had supposedly told him to destroy absolutely everything. This seems like a textbook case of a prophet abusing their authority, pre-David no less, as Samuel is now saying that God is upset that Saul didn't obey a command that wasn't actually from Him. But the footnotes seem to now operate under the idea that the Lord really had chosen to strip Saul of the crown because of this incident, which makes them contradict themselves on the same page, or at least it seems like it. Am I missing something here? Any theological perspective with knowledge of the text is appreciated, Christian or otherwise. I believe that Samuel is a single book in the Tanakh as opposed to two, if there's any confusion on my numbering.

[judaismandsuch]

That is not a view I have ever heard, and is honestly pretty surprising to me?

The closest Jewish view is that, on occasion, it might say 'The Lord said to Israel' and mean 'The Lord said to Samuel to say to Israel', but that does not at all seem to be the view espoused in your translation.

A prophet claiming to have a message from G-d that they made up in its entirety would make them a false prophet, and subject to punishment, regardless of any 'true' prophecies they had in the past.

And, as @jewishgay4il said: This is not the first time the destruction of Amalek comes up. It is commanded by G-d in the 5 books of Moses, so it clearly isn't something that Samuel made up. (Exodous 17:14 'blot out all rememberance of Amalek' kinda implies the kids as well).

So there really isn't a Jewish perspective on this 'contradiction' because there is no contradiction.

And I am kinda curious as to why your translation created one/espouses the view that a prophet would just claim they were speaking for G-d when they weren't?

[generallemarc]

It's possible I'm misreading at least one of these footnotes-despite orginiating from 1970 at the earliest they can often read like they were written decades earlier, and when dealing with such nuanced topics and having to also give context for translations from ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek and languages that're thousands of years old, another layer to sift through can quite possibly cause more misunderstandings even as it tries to solve them.

I'm also, on reading my original post back, definitely attributing more malice to Samuel than either the book or the footnotes do. He's never described as making this up, but I concluded that that would have to be the case in order to explain the disconnect. But that's my conclusion, or rather supposition, not the book's or the commentator's.

It is commanded by G-d in the 5 books of Moses,

I do remember the commentator's notes on this, as they mentioned that this was going to come back in 1 Samuel. Since the dates of authorship of the Old Testament, particularly the older books, are impossible to pin down, a theory put forward, though not fully endorsed, was that parts like these could have been back-filled, to oversimplify things. And in Genesis there were already alot of short passages of the "and this is why this place has this name" variety, with some of them seeming to contradict what those figures were already doing in the overall progression, so it wouldn't be the first time that the idea of something not being quite as literal as the text would imply is brought up.

And while the commentator, writing in 1970 and working directly for the Vatican, was likely unable to get away with saying this flat out, the footnote in 1 Samuel regarding Amalek quite explicitly stated that God has never condoned the slaughter of innocents, which to me is the commentator saying "I believe this part of the book is a historical account retroactively given divine intent". A view which I would agree with, tbh. I'm not done with 1 Samuel yet and there's of course tons more scholarship on this book and the wider Old Testament that offers insights I don't have yet, but from all I've read so far(started with Genesis and proceeded linearly) this does seem like a confounding of historical account with divine message in order to legitimize actions as being divinely ordained.

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[generallemarc]

No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.

[manfromberlin-blog]

Well no segregation was an invention of the democrat party (the switch never happened a grand dragon of the kkk remained a democrat and joe Biden eulogized him) . The democrats are pro communist and socialist so like all communists op is wrong about everything in the meme

[generallemarc]

Um...no. There indeed was no party switch, as both parties had liberal and conservative wings prior to the 70s/80s(LBJ started the realignment, Reagan finished it), but if they're all pro-communist then that word has no meaning. If half our political establishment supported communism our democracy would've died decades ago, and all it does to throw the word around like that is devalue it.

[manfromberlin-blog]

Name one member of either party that switched? It is a cope mechanism, I was 12 living in Berlin when I saw a man attempt to escape communism. Communism and socialism are authoritarian philosophical ideas that make everyone slaves to the state.

[generallemarc]

I never said it was a switch, it was a realignment. Voters shifting over a period of decades, not the liberals and conservatives magically swapping places like is often described. And I never said communism wasn't awful, I said we can't label everyone left-of-center as a communist or it devalues the term. How much has the word Nazi been devalued now that its common meaning is just "person I disagree with?" It's precisely because communism is so abominable that the word shouldn't be cheapened.

[generallemarc]

Christian/Jewish theological buffs, am I missing something in regards to 1 Samuel 15 and the destruction of Amalek?

My translation is the New American Bible revised version, and its footnotes can sometimes be a bit imprecise. At this point and several others it points out that the sacred authors often phrased things as "the Lord said etc etc" when it was actually just a prophet saying it and not a literal proclamation from God, because prophets were seen as being constantly speaking for God and thus there was no difference, as they saw it, between "the Lord said to Israel" and "Samuel said to Israel", for example. This is highlighted in 1 Samuel 15:3 regarding what appears to be a command by God to kill literally everyone in Amalek, man woman and child; the footnote brings back up the substitution of "the Lord" for the prophet in question, pointing out that the supposed command from God was just how semi-nomadic tribes in the region operated at that time(which seems like they wanted to say it was a retroactive justification but weren't allowed to) and that God would never command the slaughter of the innocent.

All well and good, but there then seems to be a contradiction a few verses later, where Samuel rebukes Saul for not destroying livestock and other valuables, as "God" had supposedly told him to destroy absolutely everything. This seems like a textbook case of a prophet abusing their authority, pre-David no less, as Samuel is now saying that God is upset that Saul didn't obey a command that wasn't actually from Him. But the footnotes seem to now operate under the idea that the Lord really had chosen to strip Saul of the crown because of this incident, which makes them contradict themselves on the same page, or at least it seems like it. Am I missing something here? Any theological perspective with knowledge of the text is appreciated, Christian or otherwise. I believe that Samuel is a single book in the Tanakh as opposed to two, if there's any confusion on my numbering.

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[generallemarc]

No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.

[manfromberlin-blog]

Well no segregation was an invention of the democrat party (the switch never happened a grand dragon of the kkk remained a democrat and joe Biden eulogized him) . The democrats are pro communist and socialist so like all communists op is wrong about everything in the meme

[generallemarc]

Um...no. There indeed was no party switch, as both parties had liberal and conservative wings prior to the 70s/80s(LBJ started the realignment, Reagan finished it), but if they're all pro-communist then that word has no meaning. If half our political establishment supported communism our democracy would've died decades ago, and all it does to throw the word around like that is devalue it.

[generallemarc]

It's like he's actively trying to go to jail

George Santos reported to prosecutors over suspicious Kalshi trades, AP source says

A prediction market reported U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State

This isn't even the first time a politician got busted for insider betting on themselves, and I don't just mean the one guy who bet a hundred bucks to spotlight the bullshit.