ABigGuy4U
22hr ago
I’m sorry, I actually had meant to reply to another poster, and I was mostly trying got vent my spleen. The incident you described does sound much more like the type of incident one would think of as a hate crime.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Don’t get me started. Here’s 90 percent of “hate crimes”:
- An African American homeless man and a Hispanic homeless man get in a shoving match over who gets this particular corner of skid row for their cardboard box.
- During the fight, the African American man calls the one tramp a “spic” and the Hispanic man calls the other tramp a “nigger”
- Now this misdemeanor bum fight is a federal hate crime and both the poor bastards are facing five years in federal prison instead of the three days in jail they deserve.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
The did the this with Omar Mateen in Orlando, trying to make it out like some homophobic hate crime rather than an Islamist terrorist attack. Meanwhile we have notes indicating by that his original target was Disney World, and testimony from the bartender about Mateen bufuddedly asking him five minutes before the shooting about why there don’t seem to be any women in the club.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
They’re using the lady-boy geek show to distract you from what’s really going on.
- The USS Lincoln is stationed in in the Persian Gulf.
- The ceasefire with Iran breaks down.
- There are multiple days of fighting with the IRGC.
- The IRGC claims they hit an American carrier with multiple ballistic missiles and severely damaged it.
- Suddenly the USS Lincoln just has to haul ass out of the gulf, and the toilets are so shitty that we need evacuate the ENTIRE CREW just to perform the “maintenance.”
- Uhh…uhhh… LOOK EVERYONE shitty toilets and ladyboy cock yuk yuk! Pay no attention to the actual aircraft carrier!
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Well, I mean an abusive childhood background is pretty textbook for any kind of serial killer or spree killer. Getting three for three might be a bit rote but it’s not unrealistic. I’ve never read the book though.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Which concepts tend to get you confused? Cell biology, the complicated biochem stuff, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, Punnet squares?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I’m not trolling, I don’t joke about dead children. As for improbable and inflammatory, I don’t see how it’s worse than anything else MSNBC has decided is heresy.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
The Waltons were a liberal bette noire for decades. So were oil magnates, back when they were moving fast and breaking things.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Hollebeq talks about this, and how the sexual revolution was the social equivalent of post-Soviet shock therapy, creating oligarchs out of a few and paupers out of many.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
She’s an MKULTRA victim, like most mass shooters. Notice how like most mass shootings this is perfectly engineered to push some malevolent political or social angle.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
East Palestine, OH
Where absolutely NOTHING weird has ever happened before.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
The algorithm knows that if it gives you peaceful content at night you’ll fall asleep and stop scrolling. So it gives you rage bait to jolt you awake.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
I’m sorry, history does or does not bear the thesis out? I think there may be a typo.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Plenty of noob directors have been fumbling existing franchises with no problem recently, despite the risk of backlash.
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
ABigGuy4U
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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.
Unfortunately I’ve developed a pretty serious working and social life addiction lately that has spiraled out of control, and it’s starting to affect my normal healthy routines like day drinking, binge masturbating, and shitposting on a Singaporean Harry Potter fan-fiction message board.
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