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Re: Game Of Thrones
« on: January 04, 2014, 10:27:33 PM »
I've only ready the books, is it a loyal adaptation of the books?
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2014, 04:17:39 PM »
The US beats out bastions of Democracy Cuba and Russia in incarceration rates!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2014, 11:49:28 AM »
True, the US incarceration rate is still lower than Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union.  But something is terribly wrong if you have to invoke Hitler and Stalin to make your numbers look good.   Even as a pro-gun control person I don't think the reason America has so many people in prison can be the loose gun laws.  

I've only visited America, it wouldn't be on my top 10 places to live, but I think the incarceration rate is more likely due to unsettled race issues than anything else.

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True, we can afford them.
And our lenient rules involving weapons purchasing don't always promote civility.

Come to think of it, we probably have a higher murder rate than those two countries.
And I would still rather be here (in fact, as of late, Colorado sounds nice).
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2014, 09:52:42 PM »
To be fair we have race issues as well, but with an empty centre we can just sort of lose Black people there.  America doesn't have that so they have to imprison their Blacks.  But in the end it's the same thing, we're both going to end up paying for it at some point.
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Re: Game Of Thrones
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2014, 02:52:21 AM »
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Not trying to be a spoil sport here but outright racism probably won't go down well here. There are better ways of phrasing your opinions.

It's sarcasm, what we do and did to Aboriginal peoples here was and is appalling, much of it is hidden by distance.  Few people have been back in the wilds of the Northern Territory to see it.  American has a similar appalling heritage, their prison system is full of Black males.  It 's a way to put a tag on them that allows discrimination.  If they have a criminal record you can refuse to hire them, refuse to rent to them and in many states take away their right to vote.  

Both countries have some bad karma that will come back to them.
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