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violence in the media wrote:...conservative persecution ... Just like Jesus.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
1) They might not be able to prove it.hyzmarca wrote:A lawsuit sends a strong message "the video is a lie and we can prove it's a lie." Defamation suits are an absolutely essentially part of a PR campaign in cases like this.Kaelik wrote:https://verdict.justia.com/2015/07/29/w ... ing-videos
TL;DR: They probably could be, but there are at least enough colorable issues to make it take a while and cost some money, and since right now Planned Parenthood needs to deal with the Public Relations issue, a suit is useless, and they are better off addressing it by pointing out how utterly stupid it is, and how it is deceptive editing.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
They're not the man. They're the exact opposite of the man. They're a somewhat underfunded nonprofit dedicated to providing vital health services to women and infants.Kaelik wrote: 1) They might not be able to prove it.
2) No it doesn't, the message sent by a lawsuit depends on who is suing whom. Planned Parenthood is still "the man" even when suing shitty assholes pretending to be citizen journalists, and therefore the message is hampered.
3) Suing brings publicity, nothing about publicity towards their abortion costs overlay or these videos is helpful.
This is pretty much a decision to be made by PR people. Are you a PR person? Are you sure that you know better than whomever works for PP?
Also, just as a point, they actually have to prove damages, and that would be fucking weird as fuck as an explanation.
They are being funded by the man. The man doesn't hurt them at all. The random asshole who is in no way associated with the government who released edited videos is not the man.hyzmarca wrote:They're not the man. They're the exact opposite of the man. They're a somewhat underfunded nonprofit dedicated to providing vital health services to women and infants.Kaelik wrote: 1) They might not be able to prove it.
2) No it doesn't, the message sent by a lawsuit depends on who is suing whom. Planned Parenthood is still "the man" even when suing shitty assholes pretending to be citizen journalists, and therefore the message is hampered.
3) Suing brings publicity, nothing about publicity towards their abortion costs overlay or these videos is helpful.
This is pretty much a decision to be made by PR people. Are you a PR person? Are you sure that you know better than whomever works for PP?
Also, just as a point, they actually have to prove damages, and that would be fucking weird as fuck as an explanation.
They're being persecuted by the man.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
Yeah. But if they don't sue, then the first question that the Fox News crowd will ask is "why don't they sue?" They take the lack of a lawsuit as proof that the accusations are true.Kaelik wrote:They are being funded by the man. The man doesn't hurt them at all. The random asshole who is in no way associated with the government who released edited videos is not the man.hyzmarca wrote:They're not the man. They're the exact opposite of the man. They're a somewhat underfunded nonprofit dedicated to providing vital health services to women and infants.Kaelik wrote: 1) They might not be able to prove it.
2) No it doesn't, the message sent by a lawsuit depends on who is suing whom. Planned Parenthood is still "the man" even when suing shitty assholes pretending to be citizen journalists, and therefore the message is hampered.
3) Suing brings publicity, nothing about publicity towards their abortion costs overlay or these videos is helpful.
This is pretty much a decision to be made by PR people. Are you a PR person? Are you sure that you know better than whomever works for PP?
Also, just as a point, they actually have to prove damages, and that would be fucking weird as fuck as an explanation.
They're being persecuted by the man.
Look, I know Planned Parenthood is a poor put upon organization that does good work. You know that. I know the people who released edited videos are colossall assholes who have shitty opinions because of Fox News. You know that too.
I am also a fucking pro abortion communist who knows that those videos are fake just from the watching them, because I'm not "neutral" with respect to any of this shit. Your statement that you personally see a government funded organization that kills little babies as the underdog when it sues a goodguy citizen journalist who is just trying to expose corruption is irrelevant.
Pointing out that the videos are edited or just ignoring them is probably just better for them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Could I trade in something that's less accurately described as a "car" and more accurately described "two tons of smoking metal crap abandoned in a Wal-Mart parking lot somewhere in Rural Iowa"? I'm serious, I don't know how reality works.erik wrote:While it would be exciting to use your car for a derby, that's not necessarily the most optimal course. Best to use it for a trade-in, knock a few thou off the price of a used car that someone else leased.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.