ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Thank you it’s a good start. I’m trying to study what the rhetoric is and how it escalates. I suspect any modern genocide of any kind is going to look a lot more like Rwanda's crowd-sourced massacres than Aktion Reinhard.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Well you see what a thankless task it ended up being for Lucas. And it would have been even worse for an outside director if they fumbled it. It would have been worse than Kathleen Kennedy heat. It’s a lot of pressure.
Also IIRC there’s some union issues as well. Lucasfilm was bypassing SAG and the DGA and it would have been dicey for Spielberg to effectively cross the picket line. That’s why he didn’t direct Return of the Jedi, but I can’t remember if it was still a problem by ‘98.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
-Dr. “Grace” (heh) is the only man who can save humanity
-After some initial reluctance in a pastoral garden area he is nabbed by soldiers and crucified along with two other scientists.
-In the underworld, he meets Rocky. Literally made out of dirt of like Adam. Also rocks are used as a spiritually significant metaphor throughout the bible: raising up new children of Abraham from these rocks, on this rock I will build my church, I will replace your heart of stone with a heart of flesh, etc etc.
Rocky is screwed. Rocky’s entire people are screwed. He’s trying to find the truth but there’s things about the universe that he just can’t understand without Grace showing him.
-the whole middle act is Rocky learning to live a life like Grace, even though as a sentient rock he will never really be able to competently follow his example.
-This culminates with Rocky’s death, both a metaphor for the death of the old man and being born again, and the literal physical martyrdom of the saints.
-Rocky awakes out of the underworld a new heaven and a new earth. Even though he lost his life for Dr Grace’s sake he saved it. And now he gets to stay with Grace forever.
It’s about as subtle as a rock.
story written by an atheist
So is Steven King, but he still wrote the Stand
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Are there any archives or translations of the broadcasts that Hutu supremacist radio stations were playing in the lead up to and during the Rwandan genocide?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Lucas spent the better part of 20 years trying to get someone else on board to direct another Star Wars trilogy. He was lobbying Steven Spielberg especially hard in the mid-90s. Spielberg finally told him, in the nicest possible way, that if Lucas wanted it done so badly he should fuck off and do it himself. So he did. It’s not like he was overprotective of his baby, no one else wanted it.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I’m inclined to forgive Project Hail Mary for that given the that it’s a giant Jesus allegory.
It could get ugly fast. It was always rumored that N.O.M.A.A.M. never fully decommissioned their arms stockpiles after the Black Friday Agreement. That said, the group has never been that effective since their leader Caliph al-Bundi was killed in a drone strike in 1997.
To seriously answer your question, this is just the same social dissolution ratfucking that was inflicted on black America from the 60s to the 90s. And in the hood, simping ain’t pimping.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
As you can probably guess from my many, many schizo posts on here, I love Under the Silver Lake. It’s one of my favorite movies.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
"Beloved, believe not every spirit..." - Even if you are directly contacted by something higher, there’s no trustworthy way, from mere human perspective, to check its credentials, whether it is God or even genuinely stands for God.
A difficult problem, to be sure. On an unrelated note, do you have any thoughts on whether Jesus Christ came in the flesh, or only in spirit?
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
If you normally eat an unhealthy fiberless diet, a large serving of beans is going to hit a lot harder.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I think it’s just a joke about how servile Russians can be in the face of hierarchical authority, and how superstitious they are. It’s like how the whole jam-boy thing got so far because it sounds like the kind of hilariously unjust and vaguely weird stuff colonial authorities often did.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
I think a mature civilization would conduct a large-scale military purge after losing a war to some quasi-literate goatherders with AKs and flip-flops backed by nobody after spending over $2 trillion on the war.
Kek you would think so, but they don’t call Afghanistan “the Graveyard of Empires” for nothing.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
China wants to LARP as Burgerland in WWII, and enter the war after everyone is already exhausted from fighting each other for years. Iran isn’t even going to really get started until after midterms in November.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
There’s a good chance you would see significant ground combat in Vietnam, Korea, or any of the island nations of Southeast Asia, plus your regular island-hopping to secure supply lines and airfields. Probably would be a lot of ground fighting with India too, but I imagine the Indians could mostly handle that themselves.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
500 tomahawks a year is terrible too. That’s five months of Russian-level Ukraine war expenditure or about four hours of a war with China.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
It was only won if America was the British Empire and could run a colonial police occupation for the next 80 years.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
There’s also the whole scandal with Lockheed trying to prevent Ukraine from producing their own PATRIOT systems, because Lockheed knows the Ukrainians could do it for one tenth the cost.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
On a literal level yes, he made a deal with the devil and got screwed. I’m talking about thematically.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
It’s a bit tinfoil hat, but I suspect many of them are completely sheep-dipped actors.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
If I was in that car with my girlfriend, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood not in that automobile cabin and then me saying, “OK, we're going to Applebee’s honey, I know it’s that time of the month, don't worry.”
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Myth Busters is full of shit. Hathcock used a fifty caliber Browning machine gun that he had modified into a sniper rifle. The bullet is the size of a man’s thumb, it could easily penetrate the layered glass of a rifle scope. They didn’t even bother to research that so they used a 30-06 round for the test.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
I think the vast majority of anecdotes you hear from actors are probably made up.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Not just the Cold War angle as a whole. I mean the insidious messaging that making pacts with strange extra-terrestrial creatures was worth it in order to win the twilight struggle. That’s horse shit. Eisenhower’s treaty document with the Pleadians (still in a vault underneath Edwards Air Force Base) is no less a “contract with hell” than the pre-reconstruction constitution that William Garrison burned.
And of course it’s Netflix, so there’s three, count ‘em three inter-species “love scenes”. They’re trying to normalize those alien harlots stealing our human boys. You just know she’s sucking out their brains too, that’s how she got so good at chess.
Sure now they do, when movie franchises are basically just brands like Coke or Lays Potato Chips.
But this was in 1997. Star Wars was practically a religion back then. And even with the mixed critical reception of the commercialized Return of the Jedi, Star Wars still had a lot of left over art movie cred. It was just a lot more respectable back then, it was closer to The Godfather or Apocalypse Now not Transformers or The Fast and the Furious
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