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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Matt the Bruins in Batwoman   
    If that audience score is accurate, then Batwoman's ratings will totally tank and it won't come back after winter break.  OTH, if the low audience score is just the work of sad boys deliberating trying to tank the show because it is about a lesbian superhero, then the ratings will likely stay decent by CW standards and the show will carry on.  Time will tell. 
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Armory in Batwoman   
    If that audience score is accurate, then Batwoman's ratings will totally tank and it won't come back after winter break.  OTH, if the low audience score is just the work of sad boys deliberating trying to tank the show because it is about a lesbian superhero, then the ratings will likely stay decent by CW standards and the show will carry on.  Time will tell. 
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Lord Liaden in Batwoman   
    If that audience score is accurate, then Batwoman's ratings will totally tank and it won't come back after winter break.  OTH, if the low audience score is just the work of sad boys deliberating trying to tank the show because it is about a lesbian superhero, then the ratings will likely stay decent by CW standards and the show will carry on.  Time will tell. 
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    Ranxerox reacted to death tribble in In other news...   
    Sandy Hook parent awarded $450,000 for defamation
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50074652
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from ScottishFox in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Walking away from allies and leaving them to be slaughtered ... is just incredibly messed up.
     
    Looking outward to the world and at times taking up international burdens has increased US strength and made the world a better and safer place.  I know it doesn't seem  that way when you watch news, but the last 70 years have been some of the most peaceful years the world has ever seen.  Unfortunately, peace is not considered very news worthy.  When a dictator looks at a vulnerable neighboring country and decides not to invade out concerns over how the US or NATO might react, this generates no headlines.  Yet, we know by looking at the numbers that countries invading their neighbors plummeted during the American Century.  This has created an international environment where both the US and the world have flourished.
     
    If America First becomes our doctrine going forward and not just an aberration of the Trump administration,  mark my words, the US and world as a whole will suffer as a result of our inaction.
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    Ranxerox reacted to zslane in Batwoman   
    I'm going to withhold judgment until after I've seen a few more episodes. I mean, until she's got the red hair flowing from the cowl and the red bat logo on the chest, she's not yet really Batwoman in my view.
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    Ranxerox reacted to Doc Democracy in Batwoman   
    Absolutely.  Obviously being in a superheroic world, there is leeway to introduce fantastical elements.
     
    I think the Gothic backdrop provides for something that visually lifts it out of typical police procedural, the superhero world allows for elements of colour in contrast to that Gothic world.  It would need a responsible attitude to villains like Joker. If you make Joker casually homicidal then you raise stakes about killing him, if you use him as a challenge to Batman's ingenuity then you have puzzles with high stakes IF Batman cannot deliver.  In Dark Knight Batman fails to stop either of the explosions set up by the Joker.  In this series he should find a way for noone to die and possibly prevent both explosions.
     
    I want my superheroes to start being not only heroic, but superheroic. 
     
    Doc
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Twilight in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    I am not so sure.  They are doing a lot of recasting right now, and Leto's Joker was not well received.  I think they could easily bring someone new into the role.  Though, ultimately I get the impression that Margo Robbie is calling the shots on BOP and the Joker will likely be played by whoever she wants in the role.  Maybe they will get Keira Knightley, I hear she has range.*
     
     
     
    * - just j/k, it is a Deadpool reference
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Matt the Bruins in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    As a long time, comic book reading fan of Harley Quinn,  I totally recognize the character in the trailer.  The "J-man" is a drug that she occasionally relapses into, but in most of her comics, she is her own sociopathic gal.  Also, in the comics, she is no stranger to female empowerment storylines.  They were a big part of Gotham Sirens and certainly have been common in the Jimmy Palmiotti/Amanda Connor run.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from zslane in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    I am not so sure.  They are doing a lot of recasting right now, and Leto's Joker was not well received.  I think they could easily bring someone new into the role.  Though, ultimately I get the impression that Margo Robbie is calling the shots on BOP and the Joker will likely be played by whoever she wants in the role.  Maybe they will get Keira Knightley, I hear she has range.*
     
     
     
    * - just j/k, it is a Deadpool reference
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Duke Bushido in In other news...   
    Also, policemen of color seem to be a bit more vulnerable to successful prosecution than their white colleagues. 
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    Ranxerox reacted to Cygnia in In other news...   
    She didn't have a clean record
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Old Man in In other news...   
    Also, policemen of color seem to be a bit more vulnerable to successful prosecution than their white colleagues. 
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Twilight in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    As a long time, comic book reading fan of Harley Quinn,  I totally recognize the character in the trailer.  The "J-man" is a drug that she occasionally relapses into, but in most of her comics, she is her own sociopathic gal.  Also, in the comics, she is no stranger to female empowerment storylines.  They were a big part of Gotham Sirens and certainly have been common in the Jimmy Palmiotti/Amanda Connor run.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Cygnia in In other news...   
    Also, policemen of color seem to be a bit more vulnerable to successful prosecution than their white colleagues. 
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from slikmar in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    As a long time, comic book reading fan of Harley Quinn,  I totally recognize the character in the trailer.  The "J-man" is a drug that she occasionally relapses into, but in most of her comics, she is her own sociopathic gal.  Also, in the comics, she is no stranger to female empowerment storylines.  They were a big part of Gotham Sirens and certainly have been common in the Jimmy Palmiotti/Amanda Connor run.
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    Ranxerox reacted to Dr.Device in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I don't see how anyone can look at the call summary released by the White House and not see enough evidence to impeach. The president of the United States conditioned giving id to an ally, aid that had been voted for a approved, on that ally performing a political favor for the president. Not for the country, but for the president. 
     
    That's a violation of campaign laws, and even if it weren't, it's a clear abuse of power that calls for impeachment and removal from office.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Ternaugh in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I hate responding to people who can't respond back, but he raises a couple of points that I feel need response. 
     
    That Russian mouthpieces should have started spreading nasty stories about Biden back in May, means nothing except that back in May Russia was already aware that Biden was Trump's likely 2020 rival.  They were just feeding an anti-Biden conspiracy theory that they hoped would take root and damage his ability to call Trump on corruption in 2020 election.
     
    As for the Zelensky's statements during the phone call, the whistleblower's complaint alleged that Zelensky had already been informed that he had to "play ball" on the investigating Biden just to get to have that phone call with Trump.  So of course he was aware of Biden's investigation situation.  That is how he got to be on the phone with Trump in the first place.  Trump never should have mentioned Biden by name.  His people had already let Zelensky know what he wanted.  His bringing it up him self in front of a room full of witnesses was just trademark Trump stupidity.
     
     
    When you are already holding someone's head underwater,  you don't have to issue threats.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Cygnia in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I hate responding to people who can't respond back, but he raises a couple of points that I feel need response. 
     
    That Russian mouthpieces should have started spreading nasty stories about Biden back in May, means nothing except that back in May Russia was already aware that Biden was Trump's likely 2020 rival.  They were just feeding an anti-Biden conspiracy theory that they hoped would take root and damage his ability to call Trump on corruption in 2020 election.
     
    As for the Zelensky's statements during the phone call, the whistleblower's complaint alleged that Zelensky had already been informed that he had to "play ball" on the investigating Biden just to get to have that phone call with Trump.  So of course he was aware of Biden's investigation situation.  That is how he got to be on the phone with Trump in the first place.  Trump never should have mentioned Biden by name.  His people had already let Zelensky know what he wanted.  His bringing it up him self in front of a room full of witnesses was just trademark Trump stupidity.
     
     
    When you are already holding someone's head underwater,  you don't have to issue threats.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from TrickstaPriest in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Fair enough. I will edit my post.
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Cygnia in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Your linked news source, 112 UA, is owned by Taras Kozak . Mr Kozak is a member Ukrainskiy Soyuz, a group known for it's pro-Russian (and anti-Semitic) views.
     
    You are not doing your case any favors by citing conspiracy theorist like Soloman and pro-Russian TV stations. 
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    Ranxerox reacted to megaplayboy in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I stopped reading after "by John Solomon".  He's a widely discredited hack.  
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    Ranxerox reacted to Cygnia in In other news...   
    Meet the Publishers of Blaft, South India's Renegade Pulp Fiction Press
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    Ranxerox got a reaction from Cygnia in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Can you cite a source for this statement?  Everything that I have read has said the exact opposite.
     
     
    https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/462660-five-things-to-know-about-the-whistleblower-complaint
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    Ranxerox reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I remember when I was in graduate school, having an instructor who was a German immigrant, and a teenager when the Nazis came to power. He said he used to listen to Hitler's speeches on the radio, and thought them compelling and inspirational; but when listening to recordings of them decades later, they sounded to him like rambling, incoherent nonsense.
     
    Listening is an active function -- to a large extent we hear what we want to hear. We can learn to hear with a more critical and dispassionate ear, but never completely escape our subjectivity. Donald Trump isn't smart, knowledgeable, or articulate, but he has a grifter's instinct for where people are vulnerable and exploitable. He found such a niche in the American public consciousness, and continues to sell that fraction of Americans what they're already inclined to believe.
     
    One day, with time and distance, many of them will realize they were conned; but for others their egos will never let them admit it.
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