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6ix, you define yourself by your resentments.

And yes, I mean “resentments” rather than “grievances.” Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you’re being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you, at some level, envy, such as Hollywood, Disney, James Cameron.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, “owning the libs.” In context, “owning” doesn’t mean defeating progressive policies, say by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally — making them look weak and foolish, making their Disney movies (Avatar 2 and plain old Avatar) look like failures.

And does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected by Walt Disney and Hollywood was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”?

I’m not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth: It really did happen, and it hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump’s trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn’t seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. (James Cameron is a Canadian. Avatar 2 was filmed in New Zealand. Disney is in California, the state viscerally hated by Trump and his voters.) “The world is laughing at us” was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump’s own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you’re so smart? Well, we’ll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Haha! I just read the article that you plagiarized here. Give me a minute. I'll find it.





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Ah... There it is.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/07/paul-krugman-republica
ns-are-making-the-us-small/

It's written by your boy Krugman too. I knew it wouldn't take long before he'd make an ass out of himself after showing he might have a redemption arc.

Let's see exactly what you stole from Krugman's article for your own here...

(Feel free, everyone, to compare the underlined paragraphs to Second's post above)

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Like many liberals, I'm feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude: taking some pleasure in the self-destruction of the American right.

There has never been a spectacle like the chaos we've seen in the House of Representatives this week. It had been a century since a speaker wasn't chosen on the first ballot. The last time that happened, there was an actual substantive dispute: Republican progressives (they existed back then) demanded, and eventually received, procedural reforms that they hoped would favor their agenda.

This time, there has been no significant dispute about policy; Kevin McCarthy and his opponents agree on key policy issues like investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and depriving the Internal Revenue Service of the resources it needs to go after wealthy tax cheats. Long after he tried to appease his opponents by surrendering his dignity, the voting went on.

While the spectacle has been amazing and, yes, entertaining, neither I nor many other liberals are experiencing the kind of glee Republicans would be feeling if the parties' roles were reversed.

Liberals want the U.S. government to function, which means that we need a duly constituted House of Representatives, even if it's run by people we don't like. I don't think there are many on the U.S. left (such as it is) who define themselves the way so many on the right do: by their resentments.

Yes, I mean "resentments" rather than "grievances." Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you're being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you envy.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, "owning the libs." In context, "owning" doesn't mean defeating progressive policies, such as by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally--making them look weak and foolish.

I won't claim that liberals are immune to such sentiments. But liberals have never seemed remotely as interested in humiliating conservatives as conservatives are in humiliating liberals. And a substantial part of what has been going on in the House seems to be that some Republicans who expected to own the libs after a red wave election have acted out their disappointment by owning Kevin McCarthy instead.

Does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about "economic anxiety"?

I'm not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth. It really did happen, and hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump's trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn't seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump's anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. "The world is laughing at us" was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump's own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you're so smart? Well, we'll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The irony is that the MAGA movement has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of sinister globalists (if any exist) in making America the opposite of great. Right now the world really is laughing at us, although it's terrified, too. America is still the essential nation on multiple fronts. When the world's greatest economic and military power seemingly can't even get a functioning government up and running, the risks are global.

Even with a speaker in place, how likely is it that the people we've been watching the past few days will agree to raise the debt ceiling, even if failing to do so creates a huge financial crisis? And there may be many other risks requiring emergency congressional action even before we get to that point.

The world is laughing even harder at Republicans, both the ultraright refuseniks and the spineless careerists like McCarthy who helped empower the crazies. For what shall it profit a man if he shall lose his own soul and still not gain enough votes to become speaker of the House?

I'm not sure what we are in store for, nor is anyone else. One thing is sure, however: America is already less great than it was when Nancy Pelosi ran the House, and it's shrinking by the day.

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HOLY SHIT, DUDE.

As your Professor in the School of Hard knocks, you get an "F" for plagiarism.


See... I told you I read media from both sides. Maybe you should try it yourself instead of LITERALLY writing exactly what other people write, and apparently program your brain with.


I recommend that you just shut the fuck up and take the BIG FUCKING "L" now.

Before somebody starts doing some digging and finding out just how often you rip off other people's articles and pretend that they're your thoughts.

Oh... wait. They are your thoughts. They're just not Second Originals.



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Oh, I've known for years that SECOND doesn't write his own stuff. He used to post very long posts with no links and no quotes that clearly weren't his. Then he started to use the quote format on some stuff but try to pass off other stuff as "his". But the content and writing style were too self-contradictory and diverse to be coming from one person. I think he doesn't even READ what he posts, or give it a moment's thought. If he did, his posts would be a lot more coherent. He's just throwing crap against the wall for trolling purposes. Yanno, just to wind people up.

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In his recent book "Thank You for Your Servitude", my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarized his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: “We’re just waiting for him to die.” As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration.

Ha! Good luck with that. Consider this:

• Donald Trump has a Filet-O-Fish–centered diet, exercises only by playing golf, and employs some of the least trustworthy-seeming doctors to have ever been associated with the medical profession.

• He did not take the threat of COVID seriously at all and actually got COVID himself just before the last election.

• He’s 76 years old.

• He nonetheless recovered fully from COVID and has had no known health problems since. He looks fine. (He looks less frail than the Democrats’ likely 2024 nominee, for one.)

Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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‘Barbie,’ and why conservatives keep losing the culture war

The only person who didn’t enjoy the experience was my wife. She grew up with Barbie as, I imagine, most women today have. The movie’s left-wing message upset her. When asked by the kids why she didn’t like it, she replied, “It was a movie about Barbie made by someone who hates Barbie.”

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Well, at least he pointed out that his wife is the one who wears the pants in the family. I would have loved to have seen her elaboration on this point of view. What sort of Barbie were they expecting to see, if they didn't know it was Greta Gerwig Divorce movie?

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Apparently Greta Gerwig the writer/director of Barbie knows what sells tickets:

Top 2023 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office

Rank Movie Worldwide Box Office
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,356,699,911
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 $845,303,497
3 Barbie $816,822,894
4 Fast X $719,379,825

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2023

Movie Comparison: Barbie (2023) vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
shows that Barbie could surpass the #1 movie Super Mario Bros.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Barbie-(2023)/Su
per-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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The man-hating harpy finally cracked the code and figured out how to get normies to pay for their brainwashing.

Good for her. Fuck those kids up, groomer.

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Trump has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country and especially movies to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. (And our movies.) And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society. A majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what they want it to be, including at the movies.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Trump may constitute a unique threat to America’s democratic traditions. But he has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Whether Trump is convicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election or not, voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society.

Those other Republican leaders may not attempt to overturn an election as brazenly as Trump did with the conduct Smith catalogs in his indictment. But, as Wilentz told me, for the foreseeable future, they are likely to pursue other means “toward the same end: that majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what you wanted it to be.”

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Some of our greatest literary works have portrayed the positive effects on an individual of a close encounter with death.

Tolstoy’s War and Peace provides an excellent illustration of how death may instigate a radical personal change. Pierre, the protagonist, feels deadened by the meaningless, empty life of the Russian aristocracy. A lost soul, he stumbles through the first nine hundred pages of the novel searching for some purpose in life. The pivotal point of the book occurs when Pierre is captured by Napoleon’s troops and sentenced to death by firing squad. Sixth in line, he watches the execution of the five men in front of him and prepares to die — only, at the last moment, to be unexpectedly reprieved. The experience transforms Pierre, who then spends the remaining three hundred pages of the novel living his life zestfully and purposefully. He is able to give himself fully in his relationships to others, to be keenly aware of his natural surroundings, to discover a task in life that has meaning for him, and to dedicate himself to it.

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Oh. And by the way...

If anybody was wondering where Second plagiarized "his" insight from, you can thank Irvin D. Yalom.

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December 4th, 2023 from the "As Palestinians pushes for statehood, Israel finds itself more isolated" thread:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=49739&mid=11845
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Some of our greatest literary works have portrayed the positive effects on an individual of a close encounter with death.

Tolstoy’s War and Peace provides an excellent illustration of how death may instigate a radical personal change. Pierre, the protagonist, feels deadened by the meaningless, empty life of the Russian aristocracy. A lost soul, he stumbles through the first nine hundred pages of the novel searching for some purpose in life. The pivotal point of the book occurs when Pierre is captured by Napoleon’s troops and sentenced to death by firing squad. Sixth in line, he watches the execution of the five men in front of him and prepares to die — only, at the last moment, to be unexpectedly reprieved. The experience transforms Pierre, who then spends the remaining three hundred pages of the novel living his life zestfully and purposefully. He is able to give himself fully in his relationships to others, to be keenly aware of his natural surroundings, to discover a task in life that has meaning for him, and to dedicate himself to it.

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Oh. And by the way...

If anybody was wondering where Second plagiarized "his" insight from, you can thank Irvin D. Yalom.

If you'd like to read more, you can read his book Existential Psychotherapy

The entire bit Second "wrote" can be found, word for word (minus a "14" and "*" for footnotes), on
page 33 in Chapter 2, titled "Life, Death and Anxiety".

https://books.google.com/books?id=nI7VDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT45&lpg=PT4
5&dq=%22%0D%0ATolstoy%E2%80%99s+War+and+Peace+provides+an+excellent+illustration+of+how+death%22&source=bl&ots=5bl2x7gL9r&sig=ACfU3U0F0GMB1RZiN-QggweuB57JZ1hPfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLnMjPnfaCAxWaAHkGHXITAA4Q6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22%20%20Tolstoy%E2%80%99s%20War%20and%20Peace%20provides%20an%20excellent%20illustration%20of%20how%20death%22&f=false


You're such a fucking idiot, dude.

Stop stealing shit.



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And, in a few posts, SECOND will entirely contradict himself, because these quotes (which he passes off as "his") are to him just meaningless crap to throw at us, since he's a troll, and a liar.

He posts a lot, and understands nothing.

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And, in a few posts, SECOND will entirely contradict himself, because these quotes (which he passes off as "his") are to him just meaningless crap to throw at us, since he's a troll, and a liar.

He posts a lot, and understands nothing.

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Yup.

He's a regular Intellectual.


A fuckin' dipshit.

And a pirate, a serial liar and a shameless plagiarist.

How is it so easy to spot when he's stealing somebody else's work?

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Since nearly everything these two do I am opposed to, they attack me. They cannot help themselves. Their primitive urges overpower them.

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Oh BTW SIX, I came to the realization that what SECOND does is, sooner or later, turn every thread into a discussion about himself. You may THINK he's virtue-signalling on a topic or bagging on "the other", but what he's doing is reminding HIMSELF how just how important he is and how much "better" he is than anyone else and how he's going to live forever.

But what does it say about anyone if they have to come to a no-account website and bang on endlessly, anonymously about how important/ perfect he is and how meaningless everyone else is, except that he gets no recognition in real life for who he TRULY is? Is he living a 100% lie, presenting himself to his family and the world as one kind of person, and only letting his real, dark self loose on an anonymous website? That would explain his constant inveterate lying: it's an essential part of his nature bc his image of himself demands it.

Anyway enuf of SECOND. Just thought I'd share.

SECOND:
If you are wondering why I am here it is because I have an intense hatred of thieves but it is problematic for me to publicly oppose thieves who have yet to be convicted of a crime.

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Here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak:

• He tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election.

• He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.

• He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.

• He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.

• He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.

• He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.

These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Who’s the real dictator here?
Author Kevin DrumPublished on December 11, 2023 – 3:06 pm13 Comments on Who’s the real dictator here?

The latest version of "No, you are" comes from Allysia Finley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, who says that Biden is the real dictator. Her evidence is the usual farrago of right-wing nonsense: Biden signed some executive orders she doesn't like; he put in place some protections from oil drilling that she doesn't like; he has border policies she doesn't like; and most laughably, a lunatic federal judge said he was bullying social media platforms, an allegation so ridiculous that even the Fifth Circuit largely overturned it. Oh, and Biden's Justice Department has gone after Donald Trump on "trumped up charges." Uh huh.

This is all nonsense. Some of it is just stuff Finley disagrees with while the rest is a figment of her imagination. Conversely, here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak:

He tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election.
He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.
He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.
He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.
He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.
He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.

These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.

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Wow!
Good catch, SIX!
SECOND is such a tool!

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Some people here like to pretend that they're psychologists and they know about psychology.

Then there's others that actually learn enough about people through their posting habits that they know when that person isn't actually the one writing what they're posting.

I've probably only scratched the surface of the amount of things Second has posted that he lifted directly off of other people and passed off as his own, but sometimes when the mood strikes, Second posts something that rings all the bells and I've got a few minutes to look into it I'll find it and add it to this thread. It's actually very easy to do. Even when Second makes just the tiniest bit of effort to change a few things up it's not hard to find where he's lifting the material from.

Most of the time I completely ignore whatever he's posting, so a lot of it is going to get missed. If he didn't keep quote-replying me and then posting bullshit not even related to what he quoted, I probably wouldn't catch him doing it all the time.

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I did not know that, but let's just say it comes as no surprise.

We're living in a world of "who you know" and "what boxes you tick off" these days.

Being smarter than the average bear can lead to some humorous things like catching fakers and cheaters faking and cheating to an audience of half a dozen, but IRL these days I'm usually the dumbest guy in the room as far as anyone else knows.



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I did not know that, but let's just say it comes as no surprise.

We're living in a world of "who you know" and "what boxes you tick off" these days.

Being smarter than the average bear can lead to some humorous things like catching fakers and cheaters faking and cheating to an audience of half a dozen, but IRL these days I'm usually the dumbest guy in the room as far as anyone else knows.

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While Gay was still in engulfed in her Hamas/antisemitism controversy, a seemingly new story broke. Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet published “Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?” documenting instances of plagiarism in Gay’s 1998 PhD dissertation at Harvard. A day later, Aaron Sibarium writing in the Washington Free Beacon documented her plagiarism in four journal articles published between 1993 and 2017. Harvard was not caught unaware. It had a polished excuse ready and waiting — waiting because Gay had learned at least some of what was coming back in October, and Harvard had appointed a special committee to “examine” the evidence.

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The cover-up committee explained that Gay was guilty of no more than a “few instances of inadequate citation.” That could happen. In my second paragraph in this essay I paraphrased Shakespeare where he has Hamlet pondering whether “to be or not to be,” by taking arms against a sea of troubles. I assumed anyone reading a Spectator article would catch it and a citation would have been ridiculously pedantic. Was that Gay’s situation?

Not hardly. Gay made a practice of lifting whole paragraphs and changing up a few words or phrases. Where the source she has copied has a mid-paragraph phrase “which is one description of bias,” Gay amends it to “which is one way to think about bias.” In another case, the source paragraph refers to “the torture and assassination of a black worker, Robson Silveira da Luz” which Gay rewrites as the “beating death of black worker, Robson Silveira da Luz.” The importance of these tiny changes is that show that, proof positive, Gay was not just leaving out citations to her sources but actively modifying the content.

What, you may well ask, is the point of making such tiny changes or, as she does elsewhere, rearranging the order of some phrases? The point I assume is to disguise the theft — to make it a little harder for a computer or a reader somewhat familiar with the material to recognize that the words have been twice-born.

Also, I’ve been involved with investigations of numerous cases of plagiarism over my career and I’m familiar with the pattern. Plagiarists often engage in such slight modification of the texts they steal. This must be partly a psychological matter: a way the plagiarist can tell herself that she didn’t “really” plagiarize because she changed things around.

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President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting has become increasingly incoherent; after mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi a few weeks back, he has now once again appeared to confuse Biden with Barack Obama.

But not to worry: Trump recently assured an audience, “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.”

Oh?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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3/5/2024: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65372&mid=11889
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Second copies and pastes word for word another dumb shit opinion from one of his two go-to idiots. This time it was Paul Krugman again...

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Imagine a second-born son who rises to prominence in the wake of his older brother’s death. Considered dashing in his youth, this son is a narcissist who at last has his father's eye. The son spends more lavishly than the father ever imagined, has a series of loveless marriages that are more for show, rises to lead his country, and becomes a fat, ill-tempered old man who feels no limit on his power and strikes fear in his subordinates... This is Henry VIII, of course. Who did you think I was describing?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Now you're just copying sourceless memes, huh?

You make this far too easy.

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6ix is Trumptard so I replied to him with another quote without the URL:

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Now you're just copying sourceless memes, huh?

You make this far too easy.

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6ix is Trumptard so I replied to him with another quote without the URL:

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Originally posted by second:
Imagine a second-born son who rises to prominence in the wake of his older brother’s death. Considered dashing in his youth, this son is a narcissist who at last has his father's eye. The son spends more lavishly than the father ever imagined, has a series of loveless marriages that are more for show, rises to lead his country, and becomes a fat, ill-tempered old man who feels no limit on his power and strikes fear in his subordinates... This is Henry VIII, of course. Who did you think I was describing?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Now you're just copying sourceless memes, huh?


You make this far too easy.

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This thread is all about you and how you've never had an original thought in your head, buddy.

What? Did you think that by stealing the text of a meme image I wasn't going to be able to discover the source of your current "thought" of the day?

Nah, bitch. I knew the second that I read this that you weren't the author of it. It took me 15 seconds to find where you stole it from.

You're a fuckin' joke.



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This thread is all about you and how you've never had an original thought in your head, buddy.

What? Did you think that by stealing the text of a meme image I wasn't going to be able to discover the source of your current "thought" of the day?

Nah, bitch. I knew the second that I read this that you weren't the author of it. It took me 15 seconds to find where you stole it from.

You're a fuckin' joke.

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Second is a Serial Plagiarist that consistently gets caught stealing other people's written work.

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Trump is being prosecuted because . . . he broke a lot of laws

In the Wall Street Journal today, former judge Michael McConnell tries to explain to us Democrats why Republicans are sticking with Donald Trump despite all the court cases against him.

First he argues that the New York hush money case was bogus. Fair enough. It's an arguable point. But he also says this:

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Many Republicans who condemned his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and thought he should have been impeached and convicted for it now consider the legal crusade against Mr. Trump to be as threatening to democracy as what happened that day. Democrats need to understand why.

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This is odd. McConnell says lots of Republicans think Trump should have been convicted for his role in the January 6 insurrection, but later on he dismisses as "lawfare" the current federal case against Trump for his part in January 6. Why?

And it gets worse. Even McConnell has to admit that the classified documents case is sound:

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But here too, the odor of selective prosecution is hard to escape. Not only did Mrs. Clinton mishandle classified documents, so did Mr. Biden. In fact, he shared them with a ghostwriter after leaving the vice presidency. Special counsel Robert Hur determined that Mr. Biden’s actions were “willful” but declined to prosecute.

....Bottom line: Both candidates for president appear to have violated the same law; the one in power is excused and his opponent faces trial.

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This is the worst sort of deception. Trump is not being prosecuted for "mishandling" classified documents and McConnell knows it. As usual in Journal op-eds, what's important is what's left out.

Clinton and Biden both mishandled a small number of unimportant documents and cooperated completely with investigators. By contrast, Trump is being prosecuted because he took highly classified documents; he took lots of them; he refused to return them; he ignored subpoenas; and he aggressively tried to hide them even from an FBI search. McConnell knows this. So do the Journal's editorial page editors.

But they don't care. For the good of the cause, this all has to be forced into a narrative of "Democratic lawfare" instead of acknowledging it as the entirely predictable result of a president who happens to be a serious serial lawbreaker. I'm not sure why this has to be repeatedly explained to Republicans.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Stealing more idiotic opinions from Kevin Drum and passing them off as your own again today I see...

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Stealing more idiotic opinions from Kevin Drum and passing them off as your own again today I see...

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I'm not sure why this has to be repeatedly explained to Trumptards but Trump is being prosecuted because he took highly classified documents; he took lots of them; he refused to return them; he ignored subpoenas; and he aggressively tried to hide them even from an FBI search. His legal woes are the predictable result of being a convicted felon.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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That has nothing to do with this thread, stupid.

You are a serial plagiarist, and you continue to prove to everybody here that this is a fact.

Stop trying to put other people's stuff up here and pass it off as your own. Even a simple-minded fool like Kevin Drum is an infinitely better writer than you are. It is very easy to spot when you're stealing from other people.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

That has nothing to do with this thread, stupid.

You are a serial plagiarist, and you continue to prove to everybody here that this is a fact.

Stop trying to put other people's stuff up here and pass it off as your own. Even a simple-minded fool like Kevin Drum is an infinitely better writer than you are. It is very easy to spot when you're stealing from other people.

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6ixStringJack, you are angry because you want to protect Trump from the consequences of being a convicted criminal so you accuse Trump's accusers of also being criminals . . . plagiarists.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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