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  1. Americans have guns, Germans have cars.

    I wish this was a joke, but the parallels are too eerily similar at this point. Whenever gun restructions or even bans are even mentioned in the US, the right riles up behind the "second amendment, mah freedums" talking point. Whenever a general speed limit is mentioned in Germany, there is a...
  2. Anti-Semitism

    Because dem Jews have been secretly ruling ze world for millennia. They got their fingers in everything, they control the money. Everyone knows Muslims are dangerous so everyone is cautious of them anyways, and they're never being let anywhere near the higher levels of power in Western countries...
  3. The toy and packaging variation oddity, mystery and discovery thread

    Also, I did manage to find photos of Classic Aerialbot Fireflight in Canadian packaging! Like with Breakdown, I haven't been able to find any of his teammates. Also, there's that Chinese sticker again. Even weirder is the fact that Fireflight—and according to the cross-sell, his fellow...
  4. The toy and packaging variation oddity, mystery and discovery thread

    For comparison, here's a legit IGA Hound. Note how the worn stickers have the same paper-y quality to them:
  5. The toy and packaging variation oddity, mystery and discovery thread

    There's an odd version of G1 Hound with a painted red rear section/feet that has popped up several times since at least 2012. Two specimens hail from former Yugoslavia, but at least one sample comes from Germany. Specimen #1: Specimen #2: Specimen #3: The prevalent theory is that this is...
  6. Police behaving badly

    I can feel it coming in the air tonight... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/06/arizona-man-drowns-officers-watch
  7. Hasbro files trademarks for Maximal and Predacon faction insignias. Also: Extensive faction insignia trademark history.

    Duh. It was filed on the same day as the Autobot and Decepticon insignias (as well as the Armada Mini-Con insignia). I'm stupid.
  8. Hasbro files trademarks for Maximal and Predacon faction insignias. Also: Extensive faction insignia trademark history.

    Aaaaaand after I typed all of that, I just had another realization which requires a whole new section. More reasons why Hasbro didn't bother trademarking insignias prior to 2002: They were most likely sufficiently protected by copyright already. This is where it's important to understand the...
  9. Hasbro files trademarks for Maximal and Predacon faction insignias. Also: Extensive faction insignia trademark history.

    So these were recently filed by Hasbro. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97426253&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97426246&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch Obviously, those are for the upcoming "Rise of the Beasts" film. Which has led...
  10. What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    I'm sure "invading liberating Canada" has been on many a Republican's bucket list at least since 2003 or so...
  11. What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    Come on, which of you hasn't ever lied, stolen, committed tax fraud, arson or murder ever in their lives?
  12. Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

    Late stage capitalism. And yes, it was first coined by a German.
  13. UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    They'd rather have a war on their terms than a humiliating peace.
  14. Police behaving badly

    US police still has a lot to learn from Brazilian police. They show how excessive police brutality is really done. https://batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/shock-over-brazil-police-torture-executions-in-drug-raid.phtml...
  15. Police behaving badly

    Meanwhile, in Germany... A late night comedy show did an experiment and reported seven instances of hate speech (explicit threats of physical violence, swastikas and other explicit Nazi content, all of which is very obviously illegal under German law) to select police stations in all sixteen...
  16. 2022 Celebrity Death Thread

    So has Depeche Mode founding member and keyboardist Andy Fletcher. https://people.com/music/depeche-mode-keyboardist-andy-fletcher-dead-age-60-band-confirms/
  17. Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

    Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
  18. Deep Questions

    Whalephant.
  19. What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    Also, he apparently thinks being compared to Thanos is a compliment. But we already knew that. "I am inevitable" and all that. Also, let's not forget whom George Conway is married to.


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