aldomilyar
2d ago
I just watched the movie Sinners. Good movie, enjoyed the use of Folk motifs and generally cracking vibes and pace until the last 10 minutes or so.
I felt like the story they were telling didn't really need the bit with the Klan at the end, just seemed super detached from the rest of the movie. Would recommend the movie, all the same.
aldomilyar
5d ago
I think it's a transgression but I also feel like the consequences are a bit too hardcore for what's essentially masturbation. Dude's essentially been exiled from his life, whilst having hung out with some of the guys who are in the B Team orbit they're hardly above locker room behavior and a lot of that stuff is essentially Craig Jones' personal brand. His main media thing last year was a bunch of sexually charged stuff around Gabi Garcia/challenging her to do an Onlyfans shoot with him if he caught her in a particular submission that he actively went for and only relented when she essentially said 'I will let you break my leg instead of tapping since I don't want to play into the onlyfans thing' (https://youtube.com/watch?v=HID-Xi8hOUw&t=741) which IMO is way more of a consent issue than anything Rod did.
aldomilyar
5d ago
Niche Hobby Drama alert
In the sport of Brazilian Jiujitsu, there's been a recent drama in which a popular grappler called Jay Rodriguez has been kicked out of the B-Team (Most popular team in the sport despite not tending to actually win things) due to sexual impropriety. The original message said that he'd obtained illicit images of female training partners.
This was revealed a few days ago, and it has since been revealed that the alleged impropriety is that Jay Rod's Girlfriend discovered that he had been deepfaking nudes of female competitors he'd met on the mats. She then exposed this to the team upon finding out, but it's acted as a bit of a touchpoint for drama in the sport as a result. The original message made it sound like he'd been taking creepshots or sharing actual nudes. It's additionally attracted drama as the mouthpiece/defacto leader of the B Team is Craig Jones, who is by far the most charismatic person in the sport but also has a long history of putting out content which could be considered a bit sexually untowards. He had the famous intergender match last year against Gabi Garcia, has done a lot of travel blogging with ladyboys, massages and other broadly risque subjects and is generally a 'loose unit'. Now he's taking the moral high ground against Jay, which has created some controversy.
Personally I think that it's reasonable to kick Rod out once the deepfaking became public knowledge, but also the comms were handled poorly. BJJ sex scandals are more common than you'd expect, but typically tend to be more of the 'Brazilians versus the age of consent' age-old rivalry than something with such a modern tinge.
aldomilyar
5d ago
Yeah but the ones harboring the market dominant minorities tend to be anti-Chinese and, atleast in the case of Malaysia, also quite Anti-Jews
aldomilyar
5d ago
Isn't this stuff just reasonably common with Leftist handling of 'Oppressed groups', in which the oppression is centered and what the group actually believes/practices just doesn't really come up despite the fact they're some combination of borderline theocratic, hardline conservative and run contrary to woke culture. The point is they're the underdogs and therefore you root for them, not that the society where they hypothetically got on top would be significantly more repressive than the status quo.
aldomilyar
6d ago
Continuity of their states also probably impacts it. If Chinese Communism had fallen with the death of Mao he's probably viewed a lot differently versus now where he's definitely controversial but cannot be effectively completely nuked without undermining nation building.
aldomilyar
13d ago
It is kinda funny seeing all the equivocation of the Gamer Word with literal murder coming out of this.
aldomilyar
16d ago
Especially a topic where at this point the vast majority of people know the consequences of saying anything particularly taboo can be life-altering on a random vox pop.
aldomilyar
16d ago
Also the sea exploration one is a lot easier to trial-and-error, especially over a multi-generational timeframe. Not that the Polynesian navigators necessarily got purely lucky, but each exploration mission is far less costly on society.
aldomilyar
22d ago
Luckily there's a fuller article of what actually happened
https://dcwitness.org/prosecutors-call-defendant-a-clever-story-teller-in-homicide-trial/
'“I’m thinking I’m about to be shot…I know this man to be this type of person,” recounted Ruffin. Ruffin testified he punched Lee and then stabbed him with his pocket knife. '
The entire case here was that he was being intimidated by the stabbed party, believed that the stabbed party was armed with a firearm based on a series of previous encounters where the stabbed party had a gun on him.
'During closing arguments, Irving argued that Ruffin’s testimony only added additional details, not differences in his story. Irving asserted that Lee’s hand behind his back was a deadly threat of violence, and even if appearances were false, it was still self-defense because Ruffin believed Lee had a gun. “It doesn’t matter how many times he stabbed him, he did what he had to do to keep that gun from coming out,” said Irving.
The prosecution argued in closing that Ruffin did not act in self-defense because he was the initial aggressor. They added that there is no evidence that Lee had a gun and it is pure speculation by the defense. '
The only reason it was even somewhat possible to claim self defense in this situation was the presumption of a gun being involved. That was what the entire defense rested on, the tenet that the knife wielder was matching lethal force instead of massively escalating stakes for no reason.
aldomilyar
22d ago
It'd make them substantially weaker in terms of escalating to lethal force.
'Here is the guy who is mean to me occasionally and has not murdered me on previous iterations, TIME TO START SHIVVING' is not a defense.
aldomilyar
23d ago
There's a pretty big difference in the plausible threat between a random guy charging you in the middle of an active riot and/or protest versus 'I have sat down in the wrong team's section of an athletics carnival with a plethora of people around and somebody has laid hands on me whilst trying to move me away'.
Using this logic if say Nikola Jokic got confused during an NBA Playoffs Final game today and sat down on the Clippers Bench, prompting Kawhi Leonard to shove him whilst trying to get him to leave, it would be fine for Jokic to escalate to lethal force and shiv Kawhi in front of America? Your argument tracks if it's a one-on-one unprompted interaction in a dark alleyway with uncapped potential consequences for losing, but is pretty blatantly insane in this circumstance unless you think the local track meet participants were going to form a lynch mob.
aldomilyar
23d ago
Even there there's a fair bit of listless whataboutism in those responses, even attempting to No True Scotsman the people donating to the GSG and saying it's ze Russians, the Kochs and secret false flag conservatives.
aldomilyar
23d ago
I get that but like I'd give more of a pass to a kid called Zion Williamson born the year he got drafted than I'd give to one born the year of Zion's retirement.
aldomilyar
23d ago
If it was one-on-one in a dark alleyway and prime Mike Tyson is coming at me, I may pull a knife to attempt to de-escalate. But Karmelo Anthony was the one trespassing to begin with, with no real threat of any meaningful physical harm beyond his removal from the premises, and he chose to massively escalate the situation by pulling a knife and then to actually use the knife.
aldomilyar
23d ago
I think there's a difference between 'I would pull a knife in order to deter an attacker' which is excessive in the vast majority of interactions but may be the quickest way to defuse something and 'I would actively stab an attacker who's shown no overtures towards violence beyond wanting to remove me from a tent'.
Was Karmelo Anthony under any realistic lethal peril beyond 'yaddayadda he trips whilst being defenestrated from the tent and has a massive coronary heart attack'? Like if this was just 'a bouncer put his hand on a patron who then pulled a knife and then stabbed the bouncer to death' it would be the most open-shut murder case possible. Even trying to defend Karmelo is tiresome. It's essentially impossible to do in good faith.
aldomilyar
24d ago
Honestly the Karmelo Anthony is insanely blackpilling to me. The whole thing should be so abundantly open-shut and it's being presented as an issue due to a combination of race issues and a childlike understanding of what happened with Rittenhouse.
Spontaneously stabbing somebody to death since they told you to move from a seat in an area that you obviously didn't belong in is something that prettymuch any society in human history would condemn you to immediate death for. Yet Karmelo's being compared to Rosa Parks of all people? Genuinely insane.
aldomilyar
24d ago
Dude's 17 which means he was born/name selected in 2008 when Carmelo Anthony was more exciting up-and-comer than his full legacy playing out.
aldomilyar
25d ago
Polymarket you can get some decent liquidity going, but it depends on exactly what you're talking about.
Domestic stuff, particularly previous generation, is a mess of taxes and tiny maxbets yeah.
aldomilyar
29d ago
Don't think that's necessarily Google trying to turn the agenda. Carmelo pronounced with a Hard C been notable for decades at this point and K probably fairly common misspelling.
aldomilyar
30d ago
Sideline but the amount of 'Rittenhouse was found to be acting in self defense therefore Murder by anybody left/POC-aligned that I find morally justified is apparently not a crime' thinking from the Left side of the aisle you see lately is insane. I've seen legitimate direct comparisons of Karmelo Anthony shivving somebody to Rosa Parks on the timeline in recent weeks.
aldomilyar
30d ago
My CHA is not high enough to charm randos at events into doing things for me
I don't think this is necessarily the best way to perceive it. For me it's more like 'pick up enough random weak links into people doing stuff broadly related to your personal industry and in future you'll be able to refer 'oh I randomly ran into a guy who needs Niche A subniche C services and I remember running into another guy who provides those a few months ago I can interlink them' and have people do the same for you. Moreso than assuming direct control of random passerbys to directly build your career.
aldomilyar
30d ago
Submit to Musk's impregnation ultimatum or he'll financially pummel you?
I feel like it's a little bit different when he's essentially been the one to give Fong a platform to make money through his attention and whatever jury-rigging they did to the X algorithim to pay her 5-figures a week. It's not like she had an independent business that he's arbitrarily crushing.
aldomilyar
30d ago
Yes but the notional balances of retirees accounts has gone down which is a great evil, whilst all these other evils were good for the amount of 0's on the spreadsheet and could be justified by magical thinking in other spreadsheets about fungibility of human labor.
I just felt like it should have been brought into the vampire climax somehow and felt like it just kinda weirdly floated above the rest of the movie just to tick the 'racial oppression themes' mentioned box moreso than really contributing to the plot perse. Also like the only two real white person interactions of the movie are 'The Local Klan is ready to go on 24 hours notice for the grave crime of selling an old barn' and 'Old drunkard's friend is mass lynched for the crime of having $20' which is a pretty insane setup.
If it had tied into the vampire plot with say the Vampiric mulatto woman going to the local town and making up a rape or something to galvanize the Klan into action to get the vampires into the barn I'd buy that, or if it somehow tied into the source of the Chicago money with organized crime contacts using the Klan to try and get revenge. Otherwise it's just a child's understanding of the South where mass lynchings were a daily occurence in every locality.
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