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CubicleGangster said:
Yeah Namond was a dummy and a wimp. Would never survive the game. He got to benefit from it though thanks to his dad's ill gotten wealth then when shit was starting to get real for him he got pulled out and put on a good path to life. Felt the writers did this on purpose just as a way to show how some people just get lucky.
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I'm sure it was done that way. The fact that Simon and Burns were a newspaper journalist that was on the east side (Simon) and a homicide detective (Burns) is why so much of The Wire is real.

essie said:
I completely disagree because the most interesting cinema has a fraction of the budget that television does.
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And a fraction of the release reach too. When I talk film I'm talking the usual shit that you see Red band trailers for cause that's what 90% of the population will see.

essie said:
I don't mean to say people like Omar don't exist just that I thought he stood out on the show, not in an entirely bad way but it was distracting to me.
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I think he was intentionally written that way.


It's done to be a stark contrast and a bit of a Noire film throwback as a contrast to the rest of the show.
 
Jack V Savage said:
It would have to be someone she knows. It just seems to come down to whether you're already inclined to distrust her, I guess.



Huh? I suspect some kind of psychological issue here. But, no, I'm talking about how presenting suspicion of certain biases as super serious character attacks makes it harder to discuss and identify those biases (and how people cannot be consistent with their standards of evidence because the ultra-high one demanded for people one wishes to shield can't really be met consistently).
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It's just strange because it feels like accusations of sexism against any figure on the right are largely met with at least outward sympathy but the second a woman issues a challenge to a sacred cow like Bernie we have to launch a 1,000 think-pieces about the dangers of our attacks. To me it just signals the issue isn't sexism but rather partisanship, spiking the football against people you don't like because you don't like them not because they are capable of sexism.
 
Rebelfett said:
I have/ will never MOCK a decision like that by a consenting adult. I just didn't know that you offered that as currency
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Lol, well I was mostly teasing but it can be a motivating force and for all the shit I have put up with here I don't feel guilty.
 
essie said:
If you are interested in plot then yes television is a competition to cinema but speaking about visual storytelling and art it isn't really a comparison.
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Another fan of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets I see
 
Gregolian said:
I'm sure it was done that way. The fact that Simon and Burns were a newspaper journalist that was on the east side (Simon) and a homicide detective (Burns) is why so much of The Wire is real.


And a fraction of the release reach too. When I talk film I'm talking the usual shit that you see Red band trailers for cause that's what 90% of the population will see.


I think he was intentionally written that way.


It's done to be a stark contrast and a bit of a Noire film throwback as a contrast to the rest of the show.
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You are comparing television that is created in an artist space to cinema that isn't. Of course the Wire is more interesting than Marvel but a more appropriate comparison there would be like the big bang theory.
 
essie said:
I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional] In fact, she’s my second choice! But here’s my concern about her. The people who support her are highly educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what. She’s bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party. We need to turn out disaffected working-class voters if we’re going to defeat Trump.

womp womp
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Similar to the point about the private conversation, that can be read in different ways by different well-meaning people, especially in an election season. I think the solution is generosity on both sides of it.
 
Jack V Savage said:
Huh? I suspect some kind of psychological issue here.
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You've moved from the underhanded choice to analogize me to SDW recklessly throwing racism accusations at others without proof or even the belief of proof (I'm certainly not one to do that), while decrying the implication of racism in one direction as indefensible, to the more outright villainous response that taking issue with that analogy implies a psychological issue on my part.
 
essie said:
You are comparing television that is created in an artist space to cinema that isn't. Of course the Wire is more interesting than Marvel but a more appropriate comparison there would be like the big bang theory.
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I can't think of a major motion picture release that is in the vein of stuff LIKE The Wire or Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul though is the thing.
 
Rebelfett said:
That's fair.
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To give full context in our big group chats we used to have here I was constantly crying about Trump like every day and it was known how miserable he made me. One of the users made a deal with me that if he wasn't reelected I would send him a foot pic and I said that day I would be so happy I would do it. I didn't mean to imply something nefarious or that I was coercing people into doing my biding I'm sorry.
 
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