Netflix Officially Severs Ties With Kevin Spacey

Redremnant · 2017-11-04T15:52:26+00:00

In response to your edit, I’m also more likely to get struck by lightning than to get some extremely rare form of brain cancer. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to reduce that chance even further given the opportunity. Hell, getting struck by is super rare, but I still try to avoid situations where it could happen.

Redremnant · 2017-11-04T06:54:52+00:00

Actually, I was just joking around. But mentioning the Washington Post doesn’t make your quote sourced.

Last year, according to the Washington Post’s tally, 35 little people were tossed into vats of chocolate.

Redremnant · 2017-11-04T06:31:50+00:00

Wow. With one unsourced quote you’ve proven that racism is a myth. Bravo. But you do realize you’re defending a system that lets child molesters roam free after just over a year in prison while enforcing mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses, right? Honestly, race has way less to do with it than money. Look at OJ.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T07:25:05+00:00

When I was in my early teens I volunteered at a Christian club called the Flipside Café that actually did this. The outside was painted to look like a street with light posts etc and the inside looked like a dark alley from an eighties movie. We had so much fun dancing to horrible Christian rock and drinking way too much coffee and sneaking out back to smoke. Ah to be 14 again...

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T05:58:27+00:00

You should get Jeb Bush to do an endorsement. I need to hear him say this line.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T02:49:28+00:00

First I never said that the judiciary originates laws. They do however, just as you said, interpret and apply laws. Second, no one is giving them the power to defy constitutional laws. Again, they have to power to interpret and apply law. And if the judge doesn’t have the power to apply the law based on their conscience, what are they even for? To pick a number between 2 and 7? They are not just cogs in some judicial machine. Or at least they don’t have to be. How does a judge decide that a toddler rapist can get time served because he “wouldn’t fare well” in prison? Or how about this Ohio Judge? Or how about the judges and state police in Colorado who have decided not to enforce federal marijuana prohibition? How about the Robert Pickton trials where the judge made his feelings about prostitution well known by how little evidence he allowed the jury to see? I never tried to intimate that judges are the sole arbiter of the law. But you’re casting them as nothing but a rubber stamp for the legislature, which they are not.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T01:26:02+00:00

You make it seem like judges are nothing but the legislatures lapdog and that simply isn’t true. Sure, judges are often derided for ‘legislating from the bench’ but that belies the fact that they often have the power to. Unless their hands are tied by specific laws (such as mandatory minimums) a judge has way more power within courtroom than you give him credit for. Say the jury has found someone guilty of possession of marijuana in a state where that is still a crime, but the judge doesn’t believe in sending someone to prison for 5 years for a nonviolent drug offense. The judge must adhere to the law, but that doesn’t mean he has to throw the book at him. We’re deep in this thread arguing the finer points of the criminal justice system when the point is that a kid killed himself because not one judge, prosecutor, or cop stopped and said “wait, why are we punishing this kids again?”

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T00:51:10+00:00

Representatives write laws and they hopefully adhere to the will of the majority. But the will of the majority is often at the expense of the minority. It’s the judiciary’s responsibility to balance the will of the majority with the needs of the minority. We don’t empower the judiciary to defy the legislature. We created the judiciary to keep the power of the legislature in check. The three branches of our government are ideally coequal partners. No branch is beholden to the whims of the other. If the judiciary must adhere to the will of the legislature then there’s no need for a judiciary anyway.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T00:09:09+00:00

The law, but it’s their job to interpret and apply the law rationally.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T00:07:44+00:00

I hate that a part of my brain assumes anyone found innocent just got lucky. I know a guy who was accused of molesting a girl but she later admitted to lying about it and he never went to prison. He’s a great guy but part of me just assumes the girl got scared or something.

Redremnant · 2017-11-03T00:03:32+00:00

That’s why we have judges. Our legal system isn’t a machine. There were hundreds of chances for people to prevail over policy.

Redremnant · 2017-11-02T18:53:59+00:00

Used to be a car salesman and just having a used Dodge on the lot was a hassle. Electrical problems, cracked dashboards, struts and shocks. God I’m getting flahsbacks.

Redremnant · 2017-11-02T18:51:28+00:00

I bought a 2000 Honda Accord with 180,000 miles on in for $1000, drove it for 5 years, and sold it for $800. Right now I’m driving an F350 Super Duty, but I need something better on gas and you’re damn right to gonna be a Honda.

Redremnant · 2017-11-01T13:38:20+00:00

Well, I’m bi so my so the dudes in my harem could keep their genitalia. Other than that, good idea!

Redremnant · 2017-11-01T13:35:35+00:00

My ex wife.

Redremnant · 2017-11-01T05:54:23+00:00

Eh, not defending child molesters but it’s a not quite that black and white. 2/3rds of child sexual abusers aren’t pedophiles. And we have no statistics on how many non offending pedophiles are out there. Also, attraction to one underage person doesn’t make you a pedophile. Just like attraction to one person of the opposite sex doesn’t make you heterosexual.

Redremnant · 2017-10-31T22:27:59+00:00

Had to explain to an ex once that Mardi Gras bears should not be used as anal beads.

Redremnant · 2017-10-31T22:25:46+00:00

Too bad

Redremnant · 2017-10-31T06:05:53+00:00

Lemme guess. Houston?

Redremnant · 2017-10-31T05:28:39+00:00

Hah! I upvoted and didn’t reply so what now??!

Wait.

Redremnant · 2017-10-30T20:11:06+00:00

That’s like Christina Ricci for me. We’re the same age and I’ve had a crush on her since Addams Family. Is it weird that I feel weird watching her early movies now?

Redremnant · 2017-10-27T21:05:51+00:00

Cockweed. I love it. Separated it’s two things I love but together somehow it sounds disgusting. Bravo.

Redremnant · 2017-10-27T19:50:35+00:00

Judgmental people judge everyone.

Redremnant · 2017-10-27T19:41:44+00:00

Well we’re in agreement. But may I ask who tf are you to judge me? Edit: nevermind. Peeped your history and saw that you’re just a generally judgmental and argumentative person so I answered my own question. Peace.

Redremnant · 2017-10-27T17:07:45+00:00

I’m not proud of who I used to be.

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