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Absolutely not at all. Was stuck listening to Fox the other day on a service run, they were having some rando from some moving company down there talking about the work they'd be prepping for and everything, idk, not important. But, bust out laughing as he closed out his segment with "thank god we've got DeSantis."

What a wild timeline we live in, to think that this stunt is more likely to gain political supporters than it is to lose them...

Slightly better than their previous assessment of "people are making too much money."

I don't normally make these leaps.. and it's maybe extreme hyperbole and/or slippery slope, and prooooobably too far fetched.. and entirely too Godwin's Law, but. Is this seeming almost like a precursor to just setting up their own Auschwitz? Just, seeing how far they can get away with rounding up and shipping out their undesirables. Like. How long before we stop seeing them being visibly moved for political stunts and they just quietly move them to internment.. Is it too wild to think there could be the tiniest shred of plausibility to that? They may even be entirely too stupid to recognize the connection (tho some will see it and be gleeful). Just. Seeming like they're maybe just a few tiny steps closer to that outcome than anyone should be comfortable with.

I'm just finding it hilarious how he can invoke "Hillary's emails" for anything. Someone needs to mash up an "Aliens" meme with him using that response.

Soo, like... besides obviously everyone that set this whole mess up.. were, like, the bus drivers and everyone in on this too? Just wondering if there was some party of this that may have been complicit but not as aware.. idk, just something about getting on board with the human trafficking seems almost a different kind of evil than the groups responsible for organizing it?

Pro lifers: "We have to protect every fetus, all life is sacred Also pro lifers:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillows-mike-lindell-says-fbi-seized-his-cellphone-at-hardees We can hope there's not so many national secrets involved in this one..

I'd wager that, much like the burning of fossil fuels that kicked off this whole mess, any attempts to reinject carbon back into the ground where it will be inaccessible will also have long lasting and far reaching consequences beyond what we are capable of foreseeing.

When all the arguments against forgiveness kinda boil down to "no, poor people need to stay poor and stupid," kinda not a great look.

Why does it need to be reduced to charcoal? Otherwise, yeah, carbon sequestration is the only viable answer. Trying to quantify any product's carbon footprint is a fool's errand. Reducing emissions, carbon credits, planting trees, etc etc, none of it answers the root of the issue, which is an abundance of carbon previously inaccessible now added to the biosphere. Problem is, carbon sequestration is itself a pretty ridiculous idea, taking into consideration the scale it would need to be implemented on to have a significant impact.

What's the point of having his lawyers cite some established precedent when we've already determined, by his own appointed judges, that established precedent can be thrown out on a whim?

Or just dead and buried. In a fresh grave. On his own property....

Fascists are awful quick to cry fascism when they are the target. We've been over this before. You don't fight fascism by playing nice with them.

Imagine if daycare teachers could follow that logic. Kid smacks teacher, teacher gets to retaliate.

Are we still waiting to see what comes of this?

I think either option is viable. One maintains the "weekly thread' tradition, the other follows the format most anything else uses. And I bring this all up because I do actually (occasionally) participate in the threads. I'm just not into the "live play by play reaction" format. There's no real discussion to foster since the threads are abandoned so quickly. But, hard to say if that's a result of the individual episode thread format, or simply users that don't come around much outside of Saturday night. Or just, y'know, there only being like five people that talk about anything to begin with..

In this case, I'd agree, keeping it off would be required. There'd be more getting moved to replace all the self-deletion every week, no change in volume. Also helps that there's the big "Episode Discussion Archive" at the top, should be fairly intuitive for anyone that might wonder where all the old/missing threads disappeared to even if no redirects are provided. It's a satisfactory alternative, but I'll still hold the position that persistent show discussion threads would provide a better quality environment for the hypothetical "new users" that we're hoping to attract. Admittedly, I suppose one flaw in that is the notion of spoilers... At least the individual episode threads tend to keep broad/future discussions to a minimum. Usually.

Additional point, now that I see someone has gone through and done some archiving: This doesn't really resolve the issue of individual episode threads crowding out anything else in the folder. The "moved thread" placeholder is still taking up exactly the same space as the thread left alone. Maybe you can make an argument about it being clearer which threads aren't Toonami/episode discussion related, where you can see views/replies and such, amid a sea of blank space. Hell, you could probably even get away with a compromise of sorts, for the long runners at least, and have individual arc threads if folks really wanted to break up discussion so much. Like, do we really need separate threads for every Naruto filler episode? Can we not just get away with a "filler arc" thread?

The same argument could be used against the entire restructure. I'm just proposing an improvement. One that would ultimately have a greater positive impact than negative.

Eh, ain't a club member, I'm just here throwing out a general board user perspective. But, admittedly, I'm also biased against the idea of individual threads to begin with. Even still, I do genuinely believe consolidated threads would generally be a better quality environment. Bizarrely, the idea of individual threads works better for the comedy shows, with self-contained episodes, rather than the ongoing story of most anime. And yet, even the ASC folks new single episode threads was a silly idea. Like I said, didn't figure the idea would be palatable to the users that only ever come for Toonami discussion, and that's fair. Absolutely they ought to probably have a little more weight in that consideration. Still, throwing it out there since the restructure is as good a time as any to lay that tradition to rest. It's just not worth hanging on to anymore.

Tradition is never a good reason to not consider alternatives. It's tradition because at the start we actually discussed things, and it wasn't just a glorified reaction play-by-play thread. It's tradition because folks used to put in effort to spruce up the top post, with actual competition, not just for "first" but also for "best." Shit, there's been weeks where some threads just don't even get made until after an episode starts cuz nobody cares enough to make them. There's only a handful of users that still actively participate, so they're the same ones making the threads every week anyway. The whole "post the thread at midnight Friday" thing is entirely outmoded, since there's no longer any real pre-discussion. In conclusion, times change, the forum has shrunk, the tradition should be retired.

Ok, just gonna throw this out there, probably wouldn't be entirely palatable for those affected, but... In the interest of restructuring and consolidation, and with all of [as] + Toonami crammed into one folder now, I'd propose having all of the Toonami episode discussion threads merged into one weekly Toonami thread. Either that, or one general discussion thread per show. The "Episode discussion archive" folder thing was maybe a nice idea, but entirely too much work and upkeep to continually move old threads over, which seems like it hasn't even been touched since the merger. The threads are all always immediately abandoned as soon as the episode is over, which is itself a limitation on the concept of the threads, preventing any meaningful ongoing discussion. And, as expected, all the episode discussion threads just generally drown out anything else going on in the folder. No other [as] show discussion has ever had or needed individual episode discussion threads, Toonami threads should adapt to a similar format.

I've lived through one live-action CN era... I can probably do it again... Those were dark days.