ABigGuy4U
20m ago
I think we sometimes read to much into occasional invocations of lifeboat ethics (like the Inuit ice floe retirement home) or stone-age incidents of war crimes. There are Paleolithic graves that archeologists have found of obviously disabled people who were clearly cared for their whole lives.
ABigGuy4U
31m ago
It is already the case that half of all people are not net tax payers.
But those people still have value. They might be a net negative to you but they still have value. They use EBT funds to buy products that circulate the economy. They buy crack and fentanyl that funds the CIA. They can be whipped up by demagogues to riot in support of current thing. In extremis, you can draft them and use them as meat waves on the European steppe. Two percent of the entire male population of America is in prison, Burgerland would have penal battalions coming out their asses.
That’s a totally different scenario to them literally having no economic or military or political value at all.
ABigGuy4U
2hr ago
To be fair, Plauche’s own statements characterize it entirely as an emotional reaction of a wronged father, and he never tried to make the argument that it was about the insufficiency of the justice system.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Do you really need a jet engine for loitering munition? At that point it’s just a cruise missile.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
But why not after? In fact, right at the height of the Atheism vs. Faith flame wars, the left was busy trying to insinuate that the FBI had Lennon killed.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Why did the left never make any serious attempt to characterize the assassination of John Lennon as an act of evangelical Christian terrorism? It kind of seems like it would have been a pretty easy propaganda win.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
incredibly racist in favor of anyone who's dark skinned or from a different culture/religion, or against them, as you say.
As in they implicitly assume third worlders to be subhumans who aren’t responsible for their own behavior.
ABigGuy4U
20d ago
It’s a palliative to ease old man boomer’s passing and convince him to hate his children while malevolent forces clean out the till. The younger generations then get the opposite message about how they should do nothing and just seethe in impotent rage at old man boomer because it’s all his fault (it isn’t).
ABigGuy4U
20d ago
The boilermaker is the perfect cocktail. It cracks the meta of alcohol usage. It rapidly spikes your blood alcohol in a way that feels good, but one or two aren’t going to keep you from going to work in the morning. Perfect for the two-hour evening drinking session of the working man.
I saw Young Washington (2026) recently. To be honest I didn’t have high expectations going in and was expecting a rather dreary after-school special. I was pleasantly surprised. It’s actually a pretty tight action thriller/family drama anchored by good performances from the whole cast. Would recommend to anyone who liked The Revenant (2015), The Patriot (2000), Barry Lyndon (1975) or Boats (2003).
Nobody wants an un-sentimental look at the Holocaust because it would be ugly and horrible and difficult to score political points off of. It’s the same dynamic for war movies, right down to the ill-recieved A24 release.
ABigGuy4U
24d ago
Yes but that sounds more like a “@Skulldrinker’s boorish friend problem” and less of a “me problem”.
You see how everyone reacted to The Zone of Interest trying to portray the Holocaust as actual murder. No one liked it. Murder is pretty disrespectful and dehumanizing to the victim, no matter how gingerly it’s portrayed. And all murders are at bottom the same, which offends people, because they don’t like that this particular murder reminded them other murders that they like better. It reminds me of a quote from Raymond Chandler:
“If the mystery novel is at all realistic (which it very seldom is) it is written in a certain spirit of detachment; otherwise nobody but a psychopath would want to write it or read it.”
So must be the same with Holocaust narratives.
ABigGuy4U
24d ago
Well like I said, it’s a James Bond movie, so a certain level of eye-rolling CIA military-industrial-complex propaganda is just the cost of entry. The old Sean Connery ones were just as bad, you just don’t notice the subversion because it was the last generation’s brainwashing program, and theirs was a bit different.
ABigGuy4U
27d ago
This guy clearly doesn’t know much about the sordid history of American Indian reservations, or he wouldn’t be jumping to make this argument. Apartheid state might actually be better.
ABigGuy4U
27d ago
Just like how there was a massive moral panic about human cloning, and then the second it became possible there was sudden total radio silence. :^) I’m sure they aren’t doing anything in secret though.
ABigGuy4U
28d ago
She’s ironically got a better case there. If the kid was trying to steal her property, she was arguably using a reasonable amount of force to prevent that (yelling and scolding). Where she gets into trouble is continuing the altercation past where the threat of theft has passed.
ABigGuy4U
28d ago
I don’t hate all turn based combat. This one just seems to be very heavy on the RNG in a way that seems to flatten out all my inputs. It reminds me a lot of my bette noir, Civilization III.
ABigGuy4U
28d ago
ABigGuy4U
28d ago
Tenet is very underrated. It’s basically Nolan’s take on a James Bond film. In terms of woke politics, everyone should just be glad that the film didn’t present anything even remotely close to real historically accurate Grecian sexual and social dynamics.
Like the Illiad before it (Troy 2004), Odyssey 2026 is really mostly about the GWOT and 20 years of playing in the sandbox. Yet again, Burgerland had to destroy the village in order to save it, and consequently is now Le Sad. Regarding the supernatural elements, I thought he handled the gods pretty well. I especially liked how well Best Girl’s character worked on both a supernatural and a prosaic level. Where he really flopped was the creatures and the monsters. Nolan has zero sense of wonder, that’s what really hobbled the last act of Oppenheimer. The nuclear bomb is about as close to the overt presence of the supernatural as you can get in the 21st century, and he went and made it a lame ejaculation joke.
@StJohnOfPatmos
I won’t go into detail on this topic lest I get banned, but you completely missed the extremely obvious ^^^propoganda throughline^^^ of Ayy’s Gambit OH SORRY I mean Queen’s Gambit, we don’t use racial slurs on the Motte, no sir.
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