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minor muppetz

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Regardless of how difficult copying was, or how uncommon it was back then for anybody to have two VCRs, the chances of piracy would be the same whether the videos were for purchase or just for rent.

Anybody know if there were any video releases that have only been available for rent and never (eventually) for sale?
 

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Y'know, Faux News is a channel specifically for Republicans to boast about how great they are while spreading propaganda and lies about Democrats . . . so how come there's not a channel specifically for Democrats to do the same to Republicans?
 

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Y'know, Faux News is a channel specifically for Republicans to boast about how great they are while spreading propaganda and lies about Democrats . . . so how come there's not a channel specifically for Democrats to do the same to Republicans?
Well there's MSNBC which is basically the polar opposite of FOX News.
 

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Y'know, Faux News is a channel specifically for Republicans to boast about how great they are while spreading propaganda and lies about Democrats . . . so how come there's not a channel specifically for Democrats to do the same to Republicans?
Because Democrats and liberals aren't as marketable. Sure, MSNBC was mentioned, but it's never going to have the sheer influence of Fox and Fox Business (which is somehow more conservative). I've been saying this for years, anti-Bush books went straight into the humor section of a book store while anti-Obama books were always in the news section. That's partially because there's no editorial section in book sellers, to be fair.

Look. A left wing talk radio station went belly up during the Bush years. The right still listens to the same carnival barkers who couldn't stop talking about how great the Iraq war is and some that still are. There is a mark bias. Not to say their isn't somewhere a left bias, it's just going to be in the form of ranting in entertainment. To which those who watch biased news channels, listen to bias radio, and read biased literature will whine about how movies and TV shows don't agree with them and act like they're the victims.

That said, there are some shows that are more even handed and go after both sides, but mainly focus on unreasonable arch conservative beliefs.

And of course, they're comedy shows. And, unlike Fox News, younger left of center types don't watch these to keep informed. They watch it to keep sane. Jon Stewart left the game just in time. You can tell even he had enough by the time he decided to leave. In other words, he got pretty darn angry.
 

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Pizza Steve for the pizza & Amethyst for the purple thing in cloak.
 

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Who are the sunglasses-wearing pizza, the slob lizard, everyone in the second row (sans Finn and Jake), and the lavender thing in the white cloak?
The purple one is Amethyst from "Steven Universe', the lizard and the pizza are both from Uncle Grandpa.
 
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