I love how it's easy for people to believe that crises actors will happily pretend to be a 12 year old school shooting victim, but the idea of a "newscorp" that would manufacture outrage by presenting "both sides fair and balanced" is just off the table. The POTUS is an actor, but randos on the news, that makes money from engagement of this very kind, has to be real enough for me to melt over. Cuz that's very validating.
Anyway, glad we are all too smart for that and instead spend our energy on these precious moments to love I stead of getting down in the nasty to one up the nastys.
Your first statement is true. Your second statement is true, but it stops short. And I don't think you mean to. You of course know or at least had a hunch that there are many many more rings than just the "elite" ones, right? Of course. You aren't stupid. And you don't shy away from the truth. That being this evil isn't so easy and comfy as being just super rich people you have nothing to do with they live in a different world "out there" some where else. You know that the . 01, or 0.001, or even the 1% isn't doing the majority of the things that hurt children. It isn't so easy, and it isn't so obvious. We know that a Hollywood movie doesn't even come close to the banality of this evil. The victims of pedophiles in this very board weren't raped by Tom Hanks. Or The POTUS. It's easy to want to punish your sworn enemy. You were gonna anyway! But what about the other 2/3 in your community. Have you looked at the registry of your neighborhood? It takes about 3.5 minutes. Can you spare it for the children?
Nobody. Absolutely nobody disagrees with that. If you have been convinced that there are any real contingent of people that don't believe that on its face, you are gullible. . There is $ to be made if they successfully capture and puppeteer your ass into believing there is. Kind of an outrage placeholder if you will. Look at that shit spread.
I can't stand the q influencers that make those podcasts. That's who gets called our "leaders" and they sound like lunatics and they make it easy for the MSM, that we want to listen to us mind you, to take pit shots and keep us sounding like "unserious" malcontents, or grievance voters or whatever my fucking Dad calls us. Man those guys do make bank on those supplements and signifiers.
I don't know. But I went to two of them in Texas a year ago with my MIL and we met several chill anons.
It's called being captured. Don't get caught. Especially by hate and the misery spreaders.
It ONLY and ALWAYS comes down to matter of perspective.
When you find yourself at a red light, thinking that you know the first thing about other people's inner state of mind, or assume they are ignorant, and blissfully so and you draw any sort of comparison to yourself and have pity either for yourself or the person you are mind reading brother, you are lost and have got the wrong idea about what's really goin down.
Oh yeah. Surrounded by our loved ones, and walking with JC? Very lonely.
The worst war of all time and as soldiers we do get some anxiety from time to time. Kek
The Buddhists have something this anon/anyone could use. They practice Awakening on the daily and have been. 40k view. Realizing attachment is suffering. Understanding you will die. Everyone will die. Literally everyone, even liberals and the immigrants. Nobody gets out alive. That's a huge red pill that everyone is or has already taken. Normal person or not. And not everyone has it as easy as us. We get to go through this "confusion" kek, knowing we already won. Also knowing only good stuff will happen to us. Because we know that the bad stuff is actually good stuff all in our favor. So even though we are acting worried and sort of approximating fear and pain, that really we know the future and how everything ends. We aren't supposed to, of course. But we do and in that way OP is right. We aren't really living. Because that would include a whole half!! of the shit we don't have to acknowledge. Some people have to and can't just turn off the computer after a long hard day of suffering in fear and hunger. Which is nice. Being a winner that deserves even more riches and still we hunger for blood! We deserve to witness the suffering of people we have been told deserve it. Sounds crass, but we aren't snowflakes, we do what must be done. Easy street. It ain't hard to sleep knowing how righteous we are.
Exactly. I think we as a society can do better.
Because #metoo is over. A movement about protecting children from Priests and coaches, sick friends and family, needs to last.
Taken was a good franchise that made a lot of money. I don't see why this one wouldn't follow the same formula. If I was the producer, I would encourage the idea that they are trying to stop people from seeing the movie. I would help people feel like those people that post a Ukraine flag in the Facebook profile pic. So that people feel like they are a hero by spending money on a movie ticket. So that if you haven't spent the money to buy a ticket, then you will feel self conscious about it. Make them believe that seeing it more than once is correlated with how good of a person you are. Simple, but effective.
This is something that the left agrees with us on. This should be the focus.
But people get captured by hate and grievances, and THATS were the game is lost. Right at the beginning. Because of a WEAKNESS, that is easy to exploit.
That they are actors?
It's a movie. Relax. Enjoy.
Cheapens the charge if everyone that offends is painted with it. Remember #metoo
I do wish she quoted the Judge verbatim. Wish she didn't feel the need to appear airbrushed with soft lighting. It doesn't read as authentic or strong.
Damn these people love to whip up a click frenzy.
If people try to make it all about adrenochrome and Hillary Clinton, and big scary celebrities, instead of accepting the less headline ready stories, they will be failing the children.
This is what many anons don't get. It's part of why they aren't getting the results they think they should be getting. If everyone just started by actually looking after themselves and their own and their neighbors, instead of being obsessed with movies and codes and Hollywood and elites, if everyone would do the HARD work of being compassionate instead of the EASY "work" of talking about who you hate so bad, or how badly you'd torture a bad guy, or how mad you are at Oprah Winfrey...
I get it. It's fun to virtue signal. I bet Ballard never had to virtue signal though. He was a real one.
Gotcha. I'm a snob when it comes to women. Haha. Also I a big dope.
I loved her very hard back in the day.
Philosophy and helping people understand the history of and evolution of epistemology and concepts that take some guidance to arrive at, is a very important and worthwhile part of the traditional college experience.
4 year college experience isn't just about classes. It can be an amazing and awesome time of life that isn't like any other. I wish everyone could have the experiences that so many people get from going to a 4 year out of State (or out of town at least) . And I acknowledge that it's mostly for very privileged kids, and that not everyone is a reader or can make use of Kant or feels good feeding their mind. But it makes me sad to think about how many things we are letting go the way of the Dodo that kids and young adults used to enjoy. Rites of passage etc.
People that aren't lonely and desperate such that they'd "fall in love" with someone "instantly", because they look good doing their job?
But just fyi, I also fell in love with her instantly. But it was waaay back when I first saw and heard her on 60 minutes. I'm a sucker for educated and very insightful, intellectual, and strong women.
Name checks out.
No doubt.