OT: Sens Lounge LXXXVI | Poutine on the Ritz
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I was there last summer. Stayed at a decent townhouse I found on Air BnB. Within an hour of being there we saw cops in the alley way behind the house, both of them carrying huge rifles. There were a bunch of kids hanging around coming up to them and acting normal,me were weirded out by the scene. Cops waited for about 45 minutes until some guys came down the alley way and the cops raised their rifles, had the guys turn their backs with their hands up and walk backwards towards them to be cuffed.
Washington DC is a weird place.
PeterSidorkiewicz
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Well it's own citizens can't vote on DC issues so yeah, DC is a weird place. It would be like if the city of Ottawa had to have their budget passed through congress every year and you had no voting rights on any Ottawa related issues or programs.
DrunkUncleDenis
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Ya I was gonna say. I have some catch up reading to do now. Follow my lead fellas, have a mimosa or 5.
PoutineSp00nZ
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That kind of stuff drives me nuts, I get that abortion is a divisive issue, but **** its not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Same with gay marriage in the states. Hell legalizing pot would have a bigger societal impact, and thats not exactly a massive issue either.
Nac Mac Feegle
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No kidding.
Making something like weed, abortion, or gay marriage illegal doesn't make those actions (or people) suddenly disappear. People are going to do all that stuff and love who they fall in love with no matter what.
So what's the point of spending so many resources and getting folks all angry at one another for something that will never change? Why intentionally polarize the population like that? What's the point?
Why not spend all that energy to make the country a better place for everyone? Put that money into better education, or better infrastructure (roads, better waste and pollution controls), or invest into creating jobs. Can you imagine what this country would look like today if all the money invested into the "war on drugs" went into education instead? We'd be so much better off as a nation.
PoutineSp00nZ
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin has some pretty awesome material about all this stuff. Here's a link, I'd post the video but its littered with f-bombs, being Carlin and all, so I think it goes against the website policy.
But i really think he hits the nail on the head in a lot of ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98
Nac Mac Feegle
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Critical thinking is definitely a lost art. And I know why...people with wealth and power don't like being questioned.
It's such a shame. We could ALL be living in a freaking paradise right now. All of us. Every person. Every country. All over the Earth. We have the knowledge. We have the science. We have the hands available to get it done. But we don't have the power to do it....and those that do, don't want to share that control, or the benefits of that control, with anyone else.
DylanSensFan
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Carlin is/was brilliant. I think the premise we can take from this video is stop paying attention to the mainstream media and go with your gut.
Or for instance: Who owns Steven Harper
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Do Make Say Think
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Carlin was very funny but this tendency of bringing up his comedy acts to make a point is alarming
When he started to get more political/preachy near the end of his career, like in that clip, he falls flat on his face
When he started to get more political/preachy near the end of his career, like in that clip, he falls flat on his face
PoutineSp00nZ
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I couldn't disagree more. I think Carlin in his last HBO special, from which this is taken, is one of his strongest performances.
He could make valid points involving serious issues in a simple, hilarious way. Nobody today comes close to that, except for some bits Louis CK sneaks into his routine.
like this for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5h4enjrHw
That right there is an absolutely brilliantly constructed bit.
Do Make Say Think
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That Louis C.K. clip is hardly comparable to the one just posted where Carlin goes on a rant about how big business rules America
I did not mean to imply that Carlin was not funny at the end, just that he got much more preachy on political issues later on and when he went on those rants it was mostly awful
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