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    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    4 hours ago, VirginDefiler said:

     

     

    i luv it when peeps say "im allowed to pretend, but you arent."

     

    Words to live by:

     

     

     

    2 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

    I mean if they're going to do this, may as well go all the way and change everything like they do.  I wonder how long he'd keep his social media, job applications, etc as this before he'd change them back.

    His point at the end is valid but let's not kid ourselves; it's rotisseried BS. 

    The Movie Thread: Wait? Not Everything is Marvel or DC!?

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    Watched "The Little Mermaid" with my wife this weekend. This is one of the better remakes that Disney has done. Halle Bailey earned the role and does well throughout the film. While it starts as a 1:1 remake, it slowly introduces changes that make a difference. This one feels like they honestly gave a damn and went beyond "how much money can we print"? From the vibrancy of the colors,  the casting in the film and the new additions, this one is solid all the way around. Not a movie that I'd rush to see, but if you want to check it out, it won't disappoint you. 

     

     

     

    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    https://twitter.com/maraculousness/status/1662090942721978368

    32 minutes ago, VirginDefiler said:

     

    damn this dude is extremely strong af

    Back in college there was a dude similar in stature and strong as hell. He was also a yoga practitioner. He stated always stated "muscle is a thing, that mind-muscle connection is where it's at". This is another example of this at work. 

    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    3 hours ago, Jion_Wansu said:

     

     

     

     

     

    The Gummi Bears theme always gave me Kenny Loggins vibes. 

     

    I'm biased, but I think the G1 intro as a whole is one of the better 80s themes. Explains the entire premise of the show, toyline, less than 1 minute, and has a pretty solid track. As a side, I hate how it seems like the G1 Transformers Intro is always captured from the Rhino DVD set with the dumbass sound effects. 

     

    How it's meant to be heard . . . 

     

     

    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    3 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

    while the parallels you referenced aren't necessarily 1:1, there are a lot more similarities than there are differences. I can link you to some books I've read that shed a lot of light on things if you're interested, but if not, I'll leave it at that.

    I don't mind being informed. The person's output was the deal, literal slavery was the owning of the person and everything that they created, thought, etc. There was no way out. I'm not negating that it wasn't a walk in the park. 

     

    1 hour ago, BB_Hoody said:

    Well with the indentured servants. There was an agreement. In exchange for passage on the ship to get to the new world. They would work for x amount of time. After which their debt is paid and were given land, or a lump sum of money.

    1 hour ago, BB_Hoody said:

    ACTUAL slaves? The agreement was with the chiefs of conquering African tribes. In which prisoners of war. Were sold to them as property. Thus you arrive a slave, work live and die a slave. And your children and grandchildren go on to suffer the same fate.

     

    Seems like in recent years this discussion has come up a lot more often.

     

    1 hour ago, Reticently said:

    Yeah- I've done some of my wife's genealogy for shits and giggles.  She has an ancestor who came over as an indentured servant not long after the Pilgrims, contract ended 2 years later and he ended up owning a big chunk of what's now Boston.  Big, big leap from that to "I even own your kids" slavery.

    This is an extreme come-up. 

    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    1 hour ago, Reticently said:

    Tbf, I'm pretty sure Docta knows that.  I think his larger point was just that most white people weren't actually slave owners, based on socioeconomic status if nothing else.

    I can agree with the take. I was referring to the statement that indentured servants as a nice way to say "slave". 

     

    Yes, most white people didn't own slaves.

    The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

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    Posted · Edited by OPTIMUS124

    2 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

    Actually only about 1 in 14 whites who were living here at the time were slaveowners. A large chunk of the white people who were brought over in the 16 and 1700s, especially Irish and English, came over as slaves, (ahem, indentured servants, which is just a nice way of saying "slave") themselves, and the Civil War was fought by lower classes that couldn't afford to pay their way out of having to serve like the wealthy boys could.

     

    It is absolutely not that. 

     

    https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/

     

    If you were an indentured servant, there was a path to freedom through cheap/free labor. You were "indentured" for a period of time and once the term (around six years) was up, you were considered a free person. African slaves were considered property, were in bondage and the owner had complete rights to them. They were not even regarded as human. 

     

    There are parallels, but it is not the same. 

     

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