”A celebration of the New York Knicks’ NBA championship turned tragic on Saturday in Canoga Park when Los Angeles police officers responding to a call about a screaming woman shot and killed the family dog, authorities and witnesses said.”
First sentence of the article that you didn’t read before deep-throating the boot would tell you the whole story, the what, when, where, why, and how. One click, one sentence, a second or two to read.
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Counter argument- “half of all life removed at random” isn’t “half of all life planet to planet”. Maybe all our flora survived and another lost the balance. You could theoretically have a planet that lost absolutely nothing but several others were wiped out entirely to balance that.
Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas II: Home for the Holidays
It’s not like he’s do anything better, or anything other than sequels these days.
If you like this design, check out the designs by their last partner. Helped their multibillion dollar corporation make record profits! And in the end, isn’t that what it’s all about? Blindly supporting which ever titan of capitalism panders to your worldview, as if wearing over-priced shoes constructed with third world sweatshop labor is Marxist because the designer posed for his profile pic in a CCCP shirt?
There’s nothing “relatively minor” about prioritizing the quality of life of another living being that is not in a position to make choices about it’s living situation or have a means of leaving that situation, double that when the people inflicting the harm could easily take accountability and rectify their behavior if their peers would demand it of them. We’ll eventually get around to violence and destruction so if we’re going down that path might as well get some revenge on the dog beaters, factory farmers, animal testers, and trophy hunters while we’re taking down the bigots, fascists, and capitalists.
So accustomed to tweets as communication you can’t stay focused past three sentences and so failed by the education system you think less than a thousand words constitutes a dissertation? We’re cooked because we’ve rewarded low effort, low value, low comprehension zingers over putting effort into articulating the back and forth of debates. You’re not ignorant, you can read, you can debate; do it or don’t.
Llms can’t even do math.
Neither can a substantial amount of high school graduates in the US. Corporate is just hedging their bets that AI does slightly closer to accurate math and that meat machines are cheaper for physical labor than having to build robots. Besides, math is unimportant to capitalism. A company that loses billions a year is still worth investing trillions in.
No. I get that it’s easier in the digital age to watch to a live stream and parrot the opinions you’ve adopted as if they’re your own, but if you want to have a stake in this movement and a say in what comes next you’re going to need to learn to read, debate, and engage. If you aren’t going to put in the effort here I have no reason to believe you’ll put in the effort when it actually matters.
50yrs later and still went out winning her game of thrones on her own terms.
I don’t recall any smoking. Not nearly as crazy violent as 300 (are we fighting, fucking, or both) and not nearly as crazy ex-gf who spent the last few hundred years plotting her revenge as she was in Dark Shadows. I’d put it squarely in an average outing with Eva- capable woman stuck in a period/system that doesn’t actually appreciate her capability even if it can’t deny it, she’s aware she’s smart and attractive and uses that to her advantage as she can, but she’s also more broken inside than she lets on.
This has made me realize it would be hilarious to watch her invert her typical characters and be the small town girl who moved the the big city where she got overworked and broken hearted only to come home for a Hallmark Christmas and find she always had what she needed waiting for her in a flannel clad handyman with a beat-up pick-up truck and slice of pie at the diner. The twist ending is that she’s actually nuts and this was all a ruse to burn her town to the ground.
A two-part French remake of The Three Musketeers that came out a couple of years ago. Never got a wide release in the States but if you’re a fan of the story and period pieces it’s one of the best interpretations IMO.
Don’t forget the propensity for violence before/during/after said sexual misadventures and doing it all while goth coded. She’s made of a career of characters you can “fix” but also want to ruin your life.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Instead of grizzled badass he’s the kindly janitor that still gets brutally murdered by Michael. He’s still playing a version of Danny Trejo, the director just reframed how the audience viewed him.
You’d need a good investigation into the nature/nurture situation of adopted children. I grew up in an abusive adopted home and only discovered my biological family in my 30s; they were not abusive to the kids they had later in life. It’s been an interesting journey because I rejected my adoptive parents, their morality, their religion, their politics, and their worldview decades ago, but when I met my biological family it was like walking into the home I’d never known I was missing out on. We have uncanny similarities, senses of humor, social/political views, and atheism. Outwardly, you’d look at me and my family and think “became a product of the environment they were raised in”, except I got there without any of the nurture of their home.
Toppling that one isn’t going to be as rewarding as watching other monuments to dictators get torn down. Instead of the satisfactory “clunk” of a ton of metal we’ll just get the “pfft” of value brand gold spray paint and McDonald’s wrappers turned into paper mache. Probably some pilfered state secrets, nuclear codes, and love letters to Jeff in there as well.
Neither because I don’t know which leg you’re standing on. You bounce back and forth between accusations and judgements with emotionally driven but contradictory replies.
You’re keen on destroying a common cause in favor of some unrelated shit because mUh mOrElS.
You’re just as morally bankrupt as that which you criticize.
At one point you clap back that my morality is a hindrance, later I’m as morally bankrupt as is the thing I criticize, which is the thing you support. Which is it? My morals or lack thereof?
I’m tempted to believe that you didn’t mean to damn what I’m criticizing while you were damning me, but maybe you did, maybe it slipped out, or maybe it’s just a poor choice of words. Morality isn’t a universal constant, it’s shaped by people because it’s a human invention. White Christian nationalism is built on the idea of morality as a God-given baseline, by their values those who exercise their free will and reject that are morally bankrupt. People are free to adopt whatever morals they want and hold themselves to it, but that doesn’t allow them to take actions that negatively affect how others choose to live or hinder their self-actualization.
I know you’re going to stop being a destructive asshole.
But didn’t you also accuse me of sounding like a sociopath? Believing you “know” what a person is going to do is a mistake. You can develop a reasonable belief about what another person will probably do in given situation based off their past actions and what they tell you about their beliefs. But all humans can lie, all can deceive, all can panic, pure altruism is rare. Most will default to protecting themselves and their tribe in a worst case scenario; that’s trap of populism. It creates tribes but if the demagogue begins to crack, abuse their power, declines morally, or fails to deliver on promises, the tribe would rather sail into annihilation than risk replacing their captain because to do so would admit they’ve been played, compromised their own integrity, and might result in a captain that alters course.
Allyship is not friendship. I stated clearly in an earlier response that there’s plenty of leftists I recognize as allies in the fight that is in front of us, but it doesn’t mean I am your friend, believe you’re mine, nor that the process of deconstructing and building a new America is going to be some peachy keen utopian world healing event. Libertarians are a great example of this. They have been perfectly content to support Trumpism when they thought it would be treading on everyone else but themselves despite being warned “it doesn’t care enough about you as an individual to ensure your life isn’t destroyed as a byproduct”. Now they are beginning to trickle to the left’s doorstep looking for allies. Trusting them is situational. I’d trust one in a firefight against the Feds, but I wouldn’t trust one to be my ally long-term unless I saw some real personal growth along the way. They’ll go right back to “I got mine, fuck you” as soon as the threat to themselves is lifted and abandon the cause to hoard what they can. The French Resistance and Italian Partisans were coalitions of leftists and libertarians united to fight fascism. They managed to work together on common ground and a few pillars of shared morality, but they weren’t “friends” and didn’t all agree on the course forward once the Third Reich was consigned to history. You take what you can get when you can get it but it doesn’t mean you have to like it.
We self-govern through consensus built upon arguments, debates, and demands for personal accountability, not through suppressing our values and morals to adopt ideology. Leaders serve at the will of the people, not because they make the best speeches or promises, and while we should all demand a high standard of personal accountability out of each other, people who offer themselves as leaders should subject themselves to an even greater degree of self-awareness.
Go back to your cave.
Pull your head out of your ass. A decade of cheap comebacks telling MAGAts to “go back to wherever” didn’t do shit because people don’t live in isolation. We all live in society, we all participate in it. Wishing your opponents would be quite and disappear is a zero effort attitude and the longer you keep telling strangers on the internet to “go away”, the longer they have to spend recognizing you aren’t actually going to do anything to stop them while they build movements with real people and action. The Proud Boys became the J6ers became ICE while leftists built live stream followings. If you want to silence someone’s rhetoric and their ability to act on their beliefs, telling them to “go away” doesn’t make them go away. You have to draw the line of “it ends here” and accept the confrontation.
You’re just as morally bankrupt as that which you criticize.
Indeed. That’s what I wanted you to realize! That’s what the danger of populism, cults of personality, and idols are. We all have our moral deficiencies, what we think is important, our blind spots, our egos, and our failures.
I’m just going to tag you right now and call you out in the future every single time I see you do it.
Yes! Tag people and call them out. Demand your allies hold themselves accountable for their beliefs. That’s how society functions, when we govern ourselves through coalition and consensus rather than putting our movement in the hands of one slick individual whose shortcomings we overlook because winning is more important.
There’s a time and place to accept that your enemy has picked a path which the only response is to accept their terms, adopt their methods, and meet them with them with proportionate force.
The Nazis didn’t get stopped with political debates, populism, democracy, or appeals to morality. Not everybody who helped stop their hate was a pillar of morality. We’re not yet at the point we agree that the fight against MAGA warrants such a response, and while I personally think that’s delusional and a naive hope that democracy is still functioning, you can see throughout history the chaos, power grabs, and mad scrambles to claim power that occur when tyrants and their regimes fall. Planning to replace one team’s populist with your team’s is just reactionary escalation of the my team/your team game Democrats and Republicans played for decades, the root of what undermined our democracy until MAGA came along and cut the string of the pendulum.
Death by a thousand paper cuts it is.