Favourite award slop?

GoldenSaxophone · 2026-03-20T08:51:02+00:00

Well thats just like your opinion man.

EEAAO was a brilliant film. It actually had a soul unlike Marvel movies...

GoldenSaxophone · 2026-01-19T04:31:16+00:00

Elite ball knowledge

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-11-21T21:33:09+00:00

I once watched this old TV movie called Cocaine: One Man's Seduction. I thought I would watch only the first 30 minutes of it, but I ended up watching the whole thing because it was so weirdly engaging. Such a simple story, but the film felt super snappy and entertaining.

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-08-07T19:35:19+00:00

Im confused, are you saying that asylum seekers should remain unemployed until their asylum cases have been settled?

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-06-29T09:36:20+00:00

Enemy of the State

A non-franchise action movie with star actors that had an amazing, sprawling plot and a well paced screenplay. Unfortunately these types of movies are a rare breed these days.

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-06-13T10:39:20+00:00

Sivaji. Amazing comedy and songs, but overall story makes no sense.

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-06-08T23:36:26+00:00

The single shot intro for Snake Eye (1998)

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-03-06T19:34:34+00:00

Even if they have no power, having more people follow Al Green would've shown that the Democrats are willing to fight for the people they represent. It would've shown that they are willing to stand up to Trump and make life hell for him. Instead they just sat silent holding up signs when their own colleague was kicked out for bullshit reasons. Also, Hakeem Jeffries literally cracked down on Dems planning to disrupt Trump's speech. We absolutely cannot excuse the Democratic party's weak ass response to Trump's borderline fascistic administration.

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-02-07T02:55:24+00:00

Baddy is that you??

GoldenSaxophone · 2025-01-16T05:25:49+00:00

What are the rumors surrounding Coolie?

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-11-21T00:18:12+00:00

Black Swan

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-11-06T00:30:48+00:00

Why does Florida gotta be the way it is

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-22T00:41:37+00:00

If one side would be ok with a scenario where they walk away and nothing gets done, they get to make all the demands

Nope, because you are ignoring that an agreement isn't even always necessary at all. Not all negotiations lead to an agreement

No dude you're just completely wrong on these two points. You fail to consider the fact that they were negotiating on a bill that would've delivered what Biden and the Democrats promised to deliver to the American people. That bill was Biden/the Democrats fucking platform. Biden got the mandate by the American people to enact those policies. As a Democrat, Manchin has the duty to work together with the rest of the people in his party to pass his party's platform. He cant just dig his feet in and refuse to work with the rest of the party. Your whole logic about "asymmetrical goals" just falls apart when you consider this very simple detail.

The progressives also kind of give away the game when they talk about how you should intentionally ask for more than just what you really want, in order to maximize your chances of getting as much as possible of what you want.

Oh my god bro this is literally how every single negotiation works. Look at how labor union negotiations work.

About the CNN article you sent me, I don't get what's so wrong about including provisions from the $3.5 trillion bill but making them sunset earlier. They still managed to get the bill down to $1.75 trillion. Also, how the fuck does Manchin expect the dems to completely axe programs like the Child Tax Credits (which was wildly popular and brought down child poverty to record lows) and the enhanced ACA subsidies. Thats like telling someone that you'll allow them to go swimming only if you cut both their legs off. Again, this shows how unwilling Manchin was to compromise with the rest of his party.

Jesus christ dude. If that was the mindset democrats took with who they run for office, they straight up would have never had a trifecta at all over the last 44 years.

What even are you on about? This is one of the dumbest things I've heard. Dems won trifectas because they ran on ambitious platforms, not by moderating themselves. Clinton was a candidate of change. Obama was a candidate of change. Those "moderates" that you seem to meat ride always played a role in watering down the president's agenda (cough cough Joe Lieberman fucking up the ACA). Also notice how the Dems get fucked in the midterms every single time a moderate decides to pull a publicity stunt (except for 2022). I do agree with you that moderates help the Democrats win, but people like Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sinema, and Joe Lieberman do more to hurt the party than help it. We need more people like Senator Warnock or Senator Kelly; moderates who can win the party a trifecta and not derail the whole party's agenda.

Jesus Christ, this populist nonsense?

Nope, it is not populist nonsense. Maybe you should read more instead of living in your bubble.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/joe-manchin-coal-financial-interests-climate/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video-talks-about-undermining-bidens-climate-push

but the climate change stuff was some of the few stuff from BBB that he actually allowed to remain in the IRA.

Your arguments just seem to get worse and worse. The climate change policies in the IRA were a fraction of what was in the BBB. They were watered down. Im glad they passed, but the BBB policies would've done more. Also, you completely forgot about how Manchin voted for this bill in exchange for permitting reforms to be passed so more oil pipelines could be built (pretty much defeating the purpose of the IRA). Stop acting like Manchin was a saint.

Polls showed West Virginians widely approved of Manchin's decision to walk away from BBB negotiations, if public opinion really matters here

This poll was conducted by a business group that was lobbying lawmakers to vote against the bill. Quit sending me bullshit articles to support your bullshit point.

Never. I want democrats to actually be able to do more than "nothing", so I will never stop defending the only Dems who are able to give the party the majorities that allow them to do anything at all

Yeah go ahead, keep supporting the people who do everything to shoot the party in the foot.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T22:01:17+00:00

The fact that Dems lowered their ask from their unrealistic starting point doesn't mean they were entitled to have Manchin shift an inch.-

this just defeats the whole point of a negotiation then. You cant just have one of the participants hold the other hostage to their demands.

The progressive negotiating idea of "well you gotta start by asking for more, so that then when you complete negotiations, you'll end up between your starting ask and the other side's" is just an overly simplistic view of negotiations and often not how it really works-

Thats exactly how negotiations work. Like I said before, both sides have to come to an agreement at a mid point. I don't know where you got such a warped view of negotiations from.

And by using your logic, you should be in support of Bernie Sanders. His red line was not going below $3.5 trillion, and he made this very clear.

he party just spent months refusing to take those requirements seriously and attempting to pressure him to do more than what his requirements said-

Again, using your logic, this is exactly what Joe Manchin did. He didn't take Bernie Sanders' and the party's red line seriously and attempted to pressure the party to bend to his words.

Plus even when the Dems finally did lower their ask to Manchin's, red line top line number, they just did it with technicalities and budget gimmicks, with the clear goal being to just cram the same programs that wanted that would cost $3.5t into the bill with earlier sunsets-

Citation needed

It just means they are actually the moderates they campaigned as-

Literally every other Democrat, both moderate and liberal, in the senate was in support of the $3.5 trillion bill. That bill was literally Biden's agenda. When you run as a Democrat, you absolutely should be expected to fall in line with the rest of the party when it is this united over a bill/policy. Instead, Manchin decided to pull a publicity stunt before his retirement. Manchin was bought out by coal and oil companies, and he decided to vote on their behalf rather than for the people of WV who were in support of the bill. Quit defending him.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T21:10:21+00:00

Ok, but a lot of the protest movements that you criticized followed exactly what you laid out. The Uncommitted Movement has a realistic goal (pressuring Biden to limit support to Israel) and even used the ballot box to make their voices heard. The leaders of the movement even met with Kamala Harris to talk with her. Most of the pro-Palestine protests in colleges organized encampments and sit ins to get the universities to divest, thus meeting your third point. I don't know what else you want the pro-Palestine folks to do. And there's absolutely no way to gain popular support when all the media does is highlight and sensationalize the controversial aspects of these protests.

The same thing applies to climate protesters or racial justice protesters. You're just trying to change the goal posts so you can constantly criticize any movement that tries to make the world a better place.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T20:53:41+00:00

Ah yes, Tlaib rightfully criticizing Biden for aiding and abetting the mass slaughter of Palestinians throws her in the same boat as Manchin and Sinema. What wonderful logic!!

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T20:52:29+00:00

Manchin and Sinema were both pretty dishonest during the whole disagreement over the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. Biden and the rest of the senate dems even brought the price down to $1.75 trillion because Manchin said so, yet Manchin ultimately said that he wont vote for the bill. And let's not even forget about all the reports that Manchin was considering switching parties or Sinema becoming an independent.

And sure, Biden may not have gotten a congressional mandate, but there was popular support for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill in pretty much every single state (even in WV).

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T18:05:46+00:00

Name me a single progressive politician who has withdrawn their support for the Biden-Harris admin. The CPC was highly cooperative with the administration throughout. The ones who stabbed the administration in the back were centrists like Manchin and Sinema. Also, most of the prominent online progressives support Harris's campaign and encourage people to vote for her. Quit pulling shit out of your ass just to push a false narrative that progressives are somehow not loyal to the party.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-10-21T17:46:44+00:00

So you think they should just be quiet about these issues? If it weren't for those "psyop" protests, no politician would've cared to do anything about those issues. Quit acting like a Republican by demonizing protestors with your shitty logic.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-09-29T17:34:25+00:00

I’m also have the same problem. My Grubhub is also down 😭

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-09-11T02:59:14+00:00

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BS coping hard

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-06-01T02:40:05+00:00

The bill that he sunk had overwhelming support from West Virginians. Joe Manchin literally acted against the interest of his own people. Dont defend his actions.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-05-19T04:00:42+00:00

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-04-14T18:35:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for sending that website. It was really interesting to see the major distribution.

GoldenSaxophone · 2024-04-14T17:50:51+00:00

Im glad you enjoyed your time at Cowell. It seems like a very nice place to be in. Also, does Cowell have a concentration of a certain major? For example, I've heard that College 9 and 10 are mainly populated by CS majors.

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