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pjwestin

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  • Sir Sean Connery was a selective actor

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  • I agree that he wouldn't have been right for either part, but I'm sure they still would have been very successful franchises. Also, he probably wouldn't have gotten either part (definitely not Gandalf), they were just approaching him about it. Producers on Batman (1989) were in talks with Bill Murray and Pierce Brosnan before they moved on to Michael Keaton, but it's pretty unlikely either one would have made it.

  • Sir Sean Connery was a selective actor

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  • With adult eyes, it's pretty bad. Also, it's an adaptation of a much better Alan Moore graphic novel.

  • Sir Sean Connery was a selective actor

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  • I heard this story, not sure if it's true, but I choose to believe it and will not hear any corrections; apparently, he was approached about Gandalf, but he turned it down because he didn't really understand it. Then he was approached about Dumbledore, but turned it down because he didn't really understand it. After seeing how those two franchises turned out, he said, "screw it, I'm taking the next role that I don’t get." That role was Alan Quartermaine in League of Extraordinary Gentleman. After that movie bombed he retired from acting altogether.

  • Who entered Epstein's jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts.

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  • Wonder how they snuck this by Bari Weiss.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • And your husband knows what he's doing on a skateboard. Learning at my age will destroy my knees and make me look like an idiot. Part of me will always want to know the thrill of zooming down a half-pipe, but it's just not worth it. Someone suggested longboarding, that might be fun, or maybe surfing.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Oof, that is my nightmare. I'm a runner, and so far I've never torn a ligament or anything, but as I get older I get more worried about it. I always stretch before and after each run, but I know any damage I do will take 10 times as long to heal as it did in my 20s, if it even does heal.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Oh, no, I agree that I'm primed for a midlife crisis, but it's way too late to start skateboarding. I'm in pretty good shape, eat fairly healthy, exercise regularly, etc., but I can't shake off an a injury like I did in my teens or twenties. I'm not risking permanently messing up my knees learning how to ollie.

  • What's one lifestyle or hobby you wish you got in to but never did?

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  • Skateboarding. I was into punk in middle/high-school, some of my friends were skateboarders, but I never bought a board. I'm pushing 40 now and it's way too late to start, even as a midlife crisis.

  • Trump unloads new 'instruction' to Kristi Noem to leave Dem cities alone 'unless they ask'

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  • "Please be aware that I have instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property."

    Well, they just gassed a bunch of peaceful protesters in Portland, including children, so I guess that part is true.

  • Vanilla Ice

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  • It would be naive to think race isn't a factor here, but documentation of the crime is also a huge portion of it as well. I have seen the murder of Renee Good from at least 3 different angles, and Alex Pretti from 4, including the exact moment they shot him in the back. There are certainly a lot of Americans that would be more likely to justify this if they had been PoC, but there was also a lot of national outrage over Eric Garner and George Floyd because of how heavily documented those murders were.

  • Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents

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  • True, but then again, there was that tow truck driver in LA who towed that ICE car, with flashing police lights, in the middle of a stop. I can't imagine someone getting away with that if it had been a normal LAPD stop.

  • Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents

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  • They had this grand plan to weaponize the DOJ, but no one stopped to ask, "wait, what if everyone on the jury fucking hates us?"

  • Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents

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  • Trick will be that pressing the murder charge would be federal since a federal agent dies in the line of official work (though illegal), which would give the president grounds to push for death.

    Federal prosecutors are having a real tough time getting juries to convict, and sometimes even indict, citizens accused of assaulting ICE and CBP agents. They have 30 cases against Chicago residents, and so far they're 0 for 15. They couldn't get a felony indictment for the sandwich-throwing guy in DC, so they went for a misdemeanor; he was aquitted despite clearly having done it. It is not at all clear to me that the feds could get a conviction for killing someone during what is, legally, a home invasion.

    (This is not an incitement of violence towards any federal agents, nor am I advocating for anyone to break any state or federal laws. To any FBI agents reading this, I think you're very smart and handsome.)

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  • After careful examination, I have determined it can't be set to Mr. Brightside.

  • Trump’s a T-Rex and ‘pathetic’ leaders need to confront him, rages California’s Newsom

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  • "You Europeans need to learn how to stand up to Trump and the far-right fascists! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my podcast, where I platform people like Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, rest his soul."

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that's always threatening to burst to the surface. I don't know much about Minneapolis, but if they're anything like the midwesterners I've known, they're kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • They've done two big, "operations," in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They're getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they've got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

  • ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

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  • Sure, ICE should be scared that someone might kill them, but a more interesting question is if a prosecutor could find 12 people in an ICE-occupied city that would convict someone of that killing.