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  1. Antacular
    No they don't, but it certainly puts things in perspective. There's a billion and one things to enumerate about the shittiness regarding America. Gender equality isn't really one of them. At least not to the point that it warrants discussion on a topic like mass shootings. What BL88 said. Saying "gee, this one guy is terrible, I hate that guy" doesn't mean that a response of "WELL GO BE FRIENDS WITH HITLER THEN, IF YOU HATE THAT GUY SO MUCH" makes any damn sense. Once again: 1. Don't just say "asinine!" and run off, EXPLAIN your points. 2. It's not like we don't have PLENTY of "legitimate" outlets for American psychopaths to channel their violent tendencies. Law enforcement, the military, various shady mercenary and private security outfits, non-serial-killing criminal activities, combat sports, bar/street fights, hunting, losing yourself in the fantasy of proxy violence in the entertainment media... the list goes on and on. I've explained my points sufficiently. But to put another way: you criticize gender values in U.S. as one of the reasons why these mass shootings take place, yet it other places of the world where gender equity is a four-lettered term, these acts don't take place. So clearly there's something else afoot. All of those professions you listed operate legally, someone with a real itchy trigger finger isn't going to take the time to fill out all those forms, they want to act immediately on their impulse to kill. Going a rebel group in the Caucuses is such an outlet, not signing up for Blackwater's six month training program.
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    RE: Russia, that's because there's plenty of pockets of insurgency and whatnot across the continents for would-be murderers to channel their violent tendencies. Psycopathy isn't a condition solely imputed onto Americans, but the way its carried out is. I'm all for "blame America first," but these are asinine points.
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    Go ask a school girl in Nigeria or a mother in Saudi Arabia or an only female child in China how "messed up" they think our "gender-values system" is.
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    I'd say there's 2 specific reasons why: First, Americans love violence. Many chalk this up to the days of manifest destiny, the rugged, gung-ho frontiersmen days of fighting injuns and the Alamo and yeehaaaw~~! which has survived up until the present day. IMO the affection we have for violence is on account of the American public conscious (unlike the rest of the West) hasn't, for all intents of purposes, been the victim of massive death and warfare since 1812. You could say that Pearl Harbor or 9/11 counts, but really, they're completely different experiences than, say, the London Blitzkrieg or watching a whole Panzer division march into Warsaw or trenchwarfare across Alsaac-Lorraine. In short, we've never been the VICTIMS, so violence is glorified because it seems both A) so distant, and B) justified more often than it isn't. Second reason is simply the gun culture and ease of access to firearms. Of course you have mass murderers in other countries, but in China or UK, for example, knife violence far surpasses there far surpasses knife violence in the US. The difference being is that the body count and ability to stop a murderer with a knife is infinitely easier than stopping one with a firearm. Psychos exist in every society, the dichotomy is the means of executing their thoughts.
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    ^ No.
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    And this maybe one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
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    Given its box office take, I suspect they'll have the ca$h moneyz required for such a purchase. Which needs to be done. NEEDS.
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    So besides the obvious Mothra foreshadowing, given that the company established to study Godzilla was called "Monarch," is it safe to say King Ghidorah is likely for the sequel?
  9. Antacular
    The final moments of the second MUTOs life is this generations "Rosebud." Perhaps the finest scene in all of cinematic history.
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    I saw his youtube greatest hits, IDK what world you live in where that's normalcy.
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    Ticker: AMCX
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    Reading the article, the guy uses Netflix as a model for determining potential network subscribers. I suspect that was the reasoning behind all the bullish analyst reports that came out over the past several months that put a 1Yr price target in the $25-$30 range: they all used Netflix as the basis for their judgments, not realizing the relevant barometer wasn't other online content providers (Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, etc which provide all different genres of content), but rather WWEs own audience numbers. This whole fiasco has done nothing but reaffirm my strong held belief of "only invest in what you know."
  13. Antacular
    Or you could just unfriend them.
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    WWE got a mention in this weeks Barron's via Mario Cibelli, a hedge fund manager who is obviously not of the "value investing" pedigree, although his original boss (and genius) Mario Gabelli is.Cibelli bought at $11 watched it hit $31, and then bought more once it crashed back down to $11 again. He said he expects it to hit $22 again in 2016, and by then the network should have ATLEAST 2M subscribers. That's right, this guy is betting on 2/3 of the entire Raw audience and 2x the highest grossing WrestleMania ever pulled will buy the network. Unfuckingbelievable.
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    Haven't seen DOFP yet so feel free to spoil what needs to be spoiled to answer this, but how is the old guard (Stewart, McKellen, etc) "done?" Is the X-Men universe now taking place in the 1970s-ish New Class time? Or does Wolverine bring the New Class into the future/old guard time period of 2010ish?
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    But I don't wanna be Jana
  17. Antacular
    Are the DVDs actually up on the network, or do they just use the same interview clips patched together as "original programming?"
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    Ugggggghhhhhhhhghghuggghhhughhhghuggghhh
  19. Antacular
    Fireballing Butterfly = so weak.
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    I already see where this is heading....
  22. Antacular
    GO. AWAY.
  23. Antacular
    Clonez. Or, rather, an updated version of
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    Either all those pissed off people are still going or Bay is cloning motherfuckers in his basement because this shit is still going to make a cool billy
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    But at least Gibson had the foresight to pay for the rights to Passion in local currency. You know how expensive the going exchange rate for thirty pieces of silver is?
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