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Hardly surprising. The Vatican is part of the gang which hates da joos.

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... since Vatican 2 and Nostra Aetate, this can't be further from the truth. The Catholic Church has literally rewritten their stance on Judaism in the last 70 years.

Oh, FFS. It wasn't Massie that changed, it was Trump.
Massie, love him or hate him, has been consistent in his values. It's Trump who changed, completely, during his second term, flopping on the Epstein files release and dragging us into another war. Massie didn't want to accept AIPAC money, and it was AIPAC money that smothered his campaign.

Shapiro doesn't give a wet damn about American concerns or its consituents.

"Whatever, I don't care, I just want to play my Okama Gamesphere.'

Gary Cole.



Funny in The Brady Bunch movies, Office Space, and Dodgeball, tragic in The Joneses, and dramatic where needed. Highly underrated.

The curve isn't "would you go after the 25 year old teacher now," it's, "would 17 year old you go after it?"

And yes, 17 year old me would not be able to turn that down.

Just watched the I'm Chevy Chase, and You're Not documentary on HBO.

Chase was a weird, unusual, oddball. Other actors either loved him or loathed him, and directors universally hated working with him. Don't see how he had the relative staying power that he did, into the early 90s.

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Being a great employee of a company doesn't entitle you to own part of the company. Their ridiculous salaries are based, in part, on revenue sharing, so I don't know what exactly he should be complain about when he's worth almost half a billion dollars.

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I hear you, and don't disagree in general. Curry does have a point, in that the Warriors were an absolute also-ran outpost. Since he's been there, they are rhe most valuable asset in the league. He's largely responsible for that. Has he been paid, handsomely? Yes. Of course. If this were a different industry, and Curry invented things to help Apple, for example, he'd likely have a hand in the IP/patent world, and would have a stake in the unique value he brought to the company - if nothing else in the form of significant stock options. Both parties are correct.

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Shoot, forgot all about Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

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Another one to add was Ted's Montana Grill. Bison-related steakhouse with operations across the southeast. He was an avowed advocate for the American West, and the bison in particular. By making it a foodstuff, and reintroducing bison to the American diet, he ultimately did tremendous conservation for bison as a whole.

Legend.

One of his best properties was ultimately one that got lost in the shuffle of the regional broadcast networks. Turner South was a fantastic concept, and a great channel with some interesting original programming in the early 2000s.

Classic wrestling with Dusty Rhodes, Junkin' about random southern flea markets, and 3day Weekend were all a ton of fun to watch.

Turner was a very interesting guy. Came across like a drunk buffoon, but he was crazy sly like a fox. Saw things no one else could see. For better or worse, created the 24hr news cycle.

One of his main/major regrets was the doomed AOL/Time Warner merger. He lost his shirt in that, and control over all of his properties. He recovered, of course, but man, that was one of the more disastrous mergers in the history of the country.

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, The Force Awakens wasn't any good either. People just give it slack because it was the first new one in a long time, and the next two were bad also. That entire convoluted storyline was terrible and needs to be deleted.

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Agreed. This was the only sequel, or any Disney property, really, that I watched. It's a dogshit movie. There's no point. No plot. It's the same story as A New Hope, but with less interesting characters. I checked out of Star Wars after The Force Awakens. I loathe that movie.

The thing is, there could have been an interesting story with Rey/Ren. The rebels are trying to figure out that governance is a shite load harder than rebellion. Lots of infighting and factions and smugglers and essentially the Wild West with the death of the Empire.

Rey doesn't know what she's doing, and thus becomes seduced by the darkside, because she has no serious tutor. She goes full Sith because she doesn't have assistance. Ren goes the opposite, as he encounters more of his family history and lore, and connects with Anakin's ghost or whatever. Invert the Hero's Journey, and see what happens to Rey as she becomes a dark, murderous beast. But that wouldn't GirlBoss, so, Disney couldn't do it.