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andrewducker- Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics (funny)
- Amazing time-lapse footage of the Earth from the ISS.
- You can now buy Star Wars figures for characters that only appeared in deleted scenes
- I worry that we're going to find something like this hidden in our DNA
- 40,000 Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer Anders Breivik
- Sex, politics and religion in Iran
Golshifteh Farahani
- A couple of examples of human evolution
- UK Government extending open standards consultation - after it turned out the chair was working for Microsoft.
- You've always wanted a Dr Who dildo, right?
- How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre
- Catholic schools launch 'eurgh, benders' petition
If this wasn't basically true then I'd be a lot happier.
- Priests: We won’t break seal of confession to report sex abuse
- Google's "Zerg Rush" easter egg.
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Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics
Date: 2012-04-27 11:14 am (UTC)They both certainly started out as equally naive.
Re: Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics
Date: 2012-04-27 11:50 am (UTC)In fact, before you said that, I'd assumed the picture had been of Cersei: the "far away" doesn't apply, but the "using her children for political power" is far more accurate. After all, Dany starts over her head because she's a brutalised young teenager, but becomes experienced and competent as fast as she can, and cares about helping people more than power. Whereas Cersei probably had little choice but to seize power, but was too ambitious. And Palin seemed to have every opportunity to stay as governor, but closed her ears to any suggestion she was getting out of her depth and marched ahead as fast as possible.
Re: Game of Thrones as a metaphor for US politics
Date: 2012-04-27 06:12 pm (UTC)Cersei is arguably a much better parallel for Palin. The biggest difference is that Palin has ridden much less on the positions of father/spouse/son.
It really is eerie how closely the fiction can be matched to the Game of POTUS.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:31 am (UTC)Fix this!
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-28 08:15 pm (UTC)I doubt, however, that they'll do many more characters from Rogue Squadron books, although they'll have done a couple Wedge figures I suspect.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:17 am (UTC)I.e. if someone tells their shrink or their priest about something they have already done they are not required to report it, because it's something that can't be prevented.
However, if the person tells the priest or shrink about an act of violence or sexual abuse they plan to do in the future then they are required to report it because that could prevent it.
I think that's what the Biship is getting at when he says that they have no problem reporting things as long as they are not said in the confessional. For example, when I was a young Catholic boy I can remember telling a priest in confession that I was planning on cheating on a test. He stopped me cold and told me that I had to talk to him about it outside the confessional. I did so and he had no problem at all telling my dad what I'd said.
The confessional is for shit you've already done and having a shield for that makes sense - but the priests should get the molester the fuck out of the confessional booth when he's not confessing his sins but instead planning sins.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:39 am (UTC)I imagine the grey area would be someone confessing that they'd repeatedly done something illegal, such that the confessor will guess they probably will do it again whether they intend to or not.
Although I'm not sure if the furoror is over what the rules actually are, or rather over a suggestion (very true, but probably somewhat inflated by anti-catholic feeling) that many priests will overlook evidence about molestation which they wouldn't overlook about eg murder.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:42 am (UTC)It's only if you say you are going to murder someone that they will report it - and they still have to get you to say it outside the confessional booth (which wouldn't be that hard with someone very Catholic. You just have say "we need to talk about his in the rectory.)
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:32 am (UTC)I honestly assumed that was a link to one of the real news articles about the petition, just with a sarcastic headline on the link...
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:41 am (UTC)That's awesome, I love the punchline with the last pairing.
Stupid question, which is the politician paired with Tyrion?
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Date: 2012-04-27 12:05 pm (UTC)I could have explained who Colbert was and about his SuperPAC
I just looked it up now, but that doesn't seemed to have helped me understand it. It's a new legal dodge that lets candidates raise unlimited amounts of funding? Which is good, because it lets someone popular and non-traditional like Colbert get involved, but terrible because it means that even more so, the election will be decided by campaign contributions rather than votes? Which means Colbert is intending to do... something?
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Date: 2012-04-27 12:10 pm (UTC)I have no idea how much was actually raised, or what happened to the money. But it made for good TV.
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Date: 2012-04-27 01:13 pm (UTC)Someone who starts a major war motivated by revenge without any thought to what would happen if he actually won is clearly George W Bush.
The rest are pretty good though.
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Date: 2012-04-27 02:31 pm (UTC)I love the bit about Ed Stark/Al Gore going on about climate change, and Robert Baratheon/Bill Clinton is perfect!
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Date: 2012-04-27 02:48 pm (UTC)I thought of a couple:
Ed Milliband = Renly Baratheon: Betrayed his brother. Followers are naive and idealistic.
Alex Salmond = Mance Rayder: Wants to be King Beyond the Wall.
Gordon Brown = Stannis Baratheon: Should have been next in line, but nobody likes him.
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Date: 2012-04-27 03:12 pm (UTC)I hope.