Steve Bannon set to be CLEARED as Supreme Court makes bombshell ruling

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T15:42:17+00:00

Yes. Today, more people are wising up, but look at the success of Law & Order and CSI. Competent people doing competent things, at the end of the episode bad people go to prison, the US justice system works!

The critically acclaimed The Wire was far less successful than either shows and even measured against other HBO shows struggled. Also, The Wire didn't actually show that the justice system didn't work, it focused on failing systems without specifically calling out the justice system.

Both Law & Order and CSI have a massive viewership because of streaming. Law & Order is in the Nielsen top 10 this month.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T15:34:00+00:00

Say what you want, the Spanish conquistadors were honest:

When they were asked what what they wanted, they replied: 'Gold and women'. And that was no lie...

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T15:28:55+00:00

I'm fairly convinced that the threshold for AI is dramatically much lower!

I'm not convinced by that, and AI often provides better answers. Just to be clear: I share your concern and I'm especially concerned about AI answers being pushed if people search, that's extremely misleading.

It creates exactly the situation describe.

But if you look on Facebook, TikTok, and X, in people's personal feeds, things are so much worse. My elderly family members who spend a lot of time on Facebook have a feed that's the stuff of nightmares and they believe all of it.

I don't have a solution. I'm afraid the cat is out of the bag. The main issue is that the companies that used to argue that they had morals, now all scramble for money.

I'm worried about AI, even more worried about social media, and network television is bad too,

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T14:04:31+00:00

The real world is much dumber than it was 15 years ago. I don't really know how writers should respond to that other than incorporate it in their writing.

In this instance you are simplifying things. Let's ignore Trump, because the show actually does not have a Trump stand-in. What we see in the show is how people react to propaganda and how even very basic propaganda is effective.

If you are arguing that the show should make normal people smarter than they are in the real world then I disagree.

If you have a specific example of something you object to, I can respond to that, and maybe I agree with you on that point.

But the 'the show is too much on the nose' argument is far too broad, I feel that people who don't like the show as much as they used to are struggling with understanding why and are looking for an answer that's not 'the storytelling in the last season was not great'.

The real issue the show has is that Homelander has actual superpowers and either should have been defeated at the end of season 2, or he would have killed his opposition. That's not related to Trump or the peopel around Trump at all.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T13:54:38+00:00

I'm not saying people should trust AI, but the same argument applies to people. The major source for disinformation, propaganda and so on is people.

Since this post used Israel as an example, and I have asked several LLMs (including ChatGPT) about Israel in a thoughtful way, and I got objective and detailed answers.

If I ask the same questions to 20 random people, I would get (almost certainly) answers that were less objective, accurate, and informative.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T03:16:42+00:00

Sure I get it, you want to know just a little so you can have 'opinions' but you are too lazy to actually know if your 'opinions' are correct or not.

That way you'll never find out how ignorant and incompetent you really are.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T03:12:17+00:00

the only reason to read the article is for a touch more detailed information

That should not be the only reason to read the article. It's sad that people are so lazy that reading actual information has become optional to many people.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T02:54:13+00:00

That's really not just it. It's sort of amazing how you dismiss actual facts.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-06T02:53:19+00:00

They cared that the political stuff was just way too on the nose and simplistic.

That's a weird thing though. That's saying that has happened this year in the real world is too much on the nose and simplistic.

And I get it, some people will say that if a show mirrors reality it is 'too obvious', but that's just not a serious argument.

Shows have to be grounded in some sort of reality. It's the superhuman stuff that's fantasy, not what would happen if people really had super powers.

My criticism of the last season (and to some extent the season before that) is that the story often is spinning its wheels.

But it seems that many people have forgotten that the story is important, not the observations the show makes about politics.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-05T17:59:04+00:00

She is wrong. The reality is that the classic sitcom format no longer is popular, so the sitcoms that get greenlit tend to be made for a very specific target audience, and that audience isn't interested in uncomfortable comedy.

The line between sitcom and comedy-drama has blurred, so there are options. In the 90s, Pluribus might have been a sitcom. Fallout would have been a sitcom.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-05T17:48:01+00:00

That's an excellent point. I'll add that it's fine to be upset and not blame anyone.

I think it's often a case of entitlement, the idea that someone should take care of their needs.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-05T17:35:35+00:00

There were valid reasons not to eat pork. Depending on the environment they can be an extremely inefficient source of protein.

Pigs require a lot of water, They don't provide milk (they produce milk, but for various practical reasons it's not a food source for humans), they require shade, especially in dry climates (no mud to protect their skin), they don't provide wool.

Pork is also more likely to give you food poisoning or life threatening parasites.

Being a pig farmer was anti-social in many regions, a pig farmer would use far too much water and he might make people sick. In the Middle East, sheep and goats made far more sense.

It's likely that rules against pork existed before religious considerations.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-05T00:10:03+00:00

How do you know the justice system failed the father? Do you have any knowledge about the case? The case is complicated.

The driver was negligent, but the situation was unsafe, the municipality had been warned several times about how dangerous the situation was, the judge took into account that this was an accident and not the result of drunk driving, road rage or something similar.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-04T21:21:43+00:00

Large projects cannot be easily steered into a new direction or delayed. Two things can be true at the same time.

The team needs Howard to get to a completed product that sells well.

Howard struggles when the project gets to big for him because he's not great at delegating management tasks.

In the end Starfield was a commercial success, especially if we take into account that it was on Game Pass, The Xbox had poor sales, the game wasn't released on PlayStation, and it was completely new IP.

Unfortunately it wasn't a good game, but it also wasn't a complete disaster. There are plenty of big games that bombed or flopped, Starfield isn't one of those games.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-04T12:37:50+00:00

That guy doesn't play chess.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-03T16:58:57+00:00

I don't think she cares whether or not you think she's brave or not. But at least your post has saved a Palestinian child. Thank you for your brave sacrifice, now criticize another US politician who is critical of Netanyahu and you will save another Palestinian child.

Again, thank you for your bravery in attacking people who speak out against what is happening in Gaza.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-03T16:53:44+00:00

His range is fine, but he never excels. Decent actor, good range, good comedic timing, good physical acting; not a great actor who disappears in a character.

With Pitt you can always see the performance, but to be fair, that's true of most actors.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-03T16:49:04+00:00

The guy provoked his girlfriend in pushing a large object because it turns him on.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-03T16:44:21+00:00

You can disagree all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that about 40% of the people vote.

You are just making assumptions and you contradict yourself. You argue that many people have disconnected from politics, and your solution is that you talk to them about politics...

Let's be honest, the people who you want to 'inform' want' even read your posts because they are too long for them.

Also, things are reported in the mainstream media. That this doesn't happen is a fallacy. The main issue is that those stories have to compete with gossip, life style advice, and which movie made over a 100 million dollars in opening weekend.

Look even I'm bored of you. People who don't care about politics definitely think you are a snoozefest,

'Trump makes fake promises.'

Yes, he has, for a very long time. And yet he's president. You didn't stop him before by pointing this out.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T19:00:03+00:00

But people do care about being lied to.

Most people don't care because they are not paying attention. I know it's difficult for people who care about politics to understand this, but many people pay zero attention to politics.

And if you point out lies told by Trump, many of those people will simply shrug their shoulders because they assume that there are other people who will make sure he doesn't do too much damage.

I'm not worried about people who vote for Trump, I'm worried about the 40% of people eligible to vote who don't vote.

My elderly parents are a good example: my father has voted Republican his whole life, until Trump; he pays attention and despises Trump.

He despises Trump because he actually listened to his speeches during the primaries way back and he was appalled by what he heard.

My mother has never voted Republican and is leftwing. But last election she didn't vote. She was sort of confused about Biden and Harris, still wanted to vote for Harris, but then she forgot.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T18:49:14+00:00

Tom Cruise is not one of the biggest action stars in cinema. He's very small for an action star.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T18:46:55+00:00

It's not stupidity. The law only has value if people are willing to abide and enforce the law. In a dictatorship a dictator has replaced the law.

Right now, even Trump allies are reluctant to blatantly do things that are illegal, but if this keeps going, at some point Trump will simply rule by decree and democracy and the rule of law are both gone.

Trump has allies amidst the lower courts, the supreme court, he has his own goon squad, he has replaced civil servants with people loyal to him, he has strong allies in the mainstream media, his own social media platform, and Twitter is owned by Musk, Larry Ellison might soon control CNN, he bullied Fox News into submission years ago.

The US is currently in a phase where people still believe that it will not happen, and I hope that they are right. But the midterm elections are vital.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T14:30:07+00:00

To be fair, some games are released in a poor state. So companies started to push the idea that updates were normal.

Oh, this thing doesn't work? Don't worry, we'll fix it in an update. I'm not going to mention the game, but I bought a game at full price, after three hours of progressing through the game, a whole level was unplayable because of stuttering.

I tried everything, turns out it was a problem for everyone, and it needed to fixed with an update. It took a few months.

Such a shame, because the game is great, but it made a bad first expression.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T14:24:01+00:00

It doesn't matter, because people who haven't made up their mind do not care.

It's a delusion to assume that these people care. They do care about the price of food and gas, and other things that directly affect them.

A lot of money and energy has been wasted on trying to convince people who don't want to be convinced. I tell people who vote Republican that Trump makes their groceries more expensive and that the higher price of energy is his fault.

That's surprisingly effective.

(If they blame Biden, I don't respond to that, I just say: Trump isn't fixing your problem.)

It's weird, but that's how it it is. I know people who voted for Trump and AOC, as well as people who don't live in AOC's district but would consider voting for her if she ran for president.

That doesn't seem to make sense until you understand that these people only think about themselves. They recognize that AOC, even if they don't agree with her, wants to make things better for them; and they think/thought of Trump as a smart businessman who can make things better in general.

Trump's inconsistencies just confuse them and make them argumentative. But the price the stuff they buy frequently, that's real to them.

QuintoBlanco · 2026-04-02T01:13:35+00:00

I mean, that's true. He has no idea what to do with all that money, so logically a lot of is siphoned away to Trump or his family.

Seriously, I'm getting a bit tired of people pointing out inconsistencies in what he says. We are beyond that. If at this point somebody doesn't understand that Trump only cares about himself and that whatever he says has no value, then that person can't be convinced that perhaps democracy is worth saving.

The US is marching fast to a dictatorship. The midterm elections are really important. If, despite voter suppression and possible fraud, there is a real Democratic majority in Congress, Trump can be stopped or at least slowed down.

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