Saw it last night. The theater was packed, probably sold out too. When I bought my ticket there were maybe 5 seats remaining. By comparison my father and I went to Indiana Jones a few days ago and it was only half full for an 8pm Saturday showing.
Overall it's a great film. I think everyone needs to see it. And please donate tickets to their Pay it Forward campaign if you can. I don't have much I can spare for donations but I pitched in for 2 tickets. Perhaps don't spend any money on overpriced concessions snacks when you see it and use that money on donating tickets instead.
That would be something wouldn't it? I've showed him tons of different videos and articles I've found here over the years. He brushed most of it off, especially the 2020 election rigging stuff. I was pretty persistent about showing him research on the covid vax being harmful. He got the 2 dose vax and the first booster, but I think I got him to stop there. He does seem to at least be paying closer attention to things now so I'll take that for now. But when he said military is the only way it made me feel really good that he reached that conclusion on his own.
My dad also tunes me out and doesnt take me seriously. However every now and then he'll show me a glimpse of an awakening. Just last week we were watching something, probably a video or podcast I found here and made him watch, and he says out loud "it's almost like the military is the only way to fix all of this". Hope that you can get through to your dad. I know it hurts when it feels like they dont listen to you.
I had an 11 year old golden retriever who's health declined significantly after his 11th birthday. The breed is very prone to cancer and he did have some lumps, so I'm sure that's what it was. I took him in to get bloodwork done and have the vet give me an opinion on this nasty hacking cough that he had. The techs said they could do his vaccines at the same time and I allowed it.
Two weeks later I was putting my dog down after he went almost a week of barely eating and looking like he was struggling to breathe. I know I didnt lose too much time with my best friend, but even an extra couple weeks or months would have been worth his weight in gold to me.
I went in for a checkup a little under 2 years ago, I had gained some weight during the pandemic and the nurse was coming in hot about needing to get me up to date on vaccines, including tetanus and getting the covid shots. Told them no, even with my weight gain I dont have any other health problems and even if I did, I had covid once and beat it after a few days, so I wasnt afraid of it. They thought I was crazy. I finished the appointment and haven't gone back to that clinic.
Similar thing happened with me, came home and roommate plus 3 of his friends were talking about 2016 election. I dont enter the conversation and am just making something to eat in the background. Eventually they ask me who I'm voting for. I say, "I dunno guys, kind of thinking about voting Trump." Instantly the entire room turns on me. I felt it shift. Out come all the MSM talking points and ad hominem attacks against me.
I'd been starting to get out of the liberal end of the pool for awhile before that. The way everyone revered Obama when he was clearly a huge piece of shit was a warning sign to me.
I was out on this the second it was announced Tim Allen wouldn't do the voice and had been replaced with Disney yes-man Chris Evans. And I liked Chris Evans until supporting the woke mob became part of his Marvel contract.
It's pretty good. I watched it not too long ago after seeing it referenced here a lot and was not disappointed. The ideas hold up really well given its age, always appreciate stories that can stay relevant long after their time.
How would you be saving their lives? Their biggest complaint is they cant afford to support the baby, but that opinion is entirely rooted in not wanting to make financial sacrifices. They want to keep living a selfish lifestyle of indulging in whatever their vice of choice is. Alcohol, drugs, food, traveling, insert pop culture event here (concerts, music festivals, etc). Or they are chasing the feminist dream of proving they can be all that men can be and need the time to devote to their career. They can financially support the child, they just dont want to sacrifice.
Sure there's a handful of very rare situations where I'd have some understanding of a woman getting an abortion, but I still wouldn't support taking the baby's life from them.
And let's not leave out the simple fact that the real reason most young women support abortion is to fool around and not have any consequences. Pregnancy is a blessing to those who want it and a literal lesson in "fuck around and find out" to those who don't.
Sorry for your loss. Had to put my old dog down in February. I dont know what he was suffering from because I didnt want to pay exorbitant costs for the diagnosis. I paid a reasonable fee for bloodwork on him and the vet called to tell me the results looked good. He also got his annual vaccinations at that time too. Within a week he stopped eating and I knew what I had to do. With everything we know about vaccines now I wonder if I had told them no to the shots if he would still be here.
I try not to dwell on it. He was an 11 year old golden retriever and the breed gets cancer around 60% of the time, and his health and mobility were showing signs if decline over the past year or so. I just wonder if the shots accelerated it.
In other news I am getting a golden puppy next weekend and am very excited to start over with a new friend.
I mean it's not really 19 year olds saying that, hard to have your soul crushed by just 2 semesters of loans. It's the 25+ crowd that graduated and see the final price tag saying it. Not that it makes this meme any less valid just saying.
Yeah, sorry Aspie but your desperate bid to play devil's advocate is getting blown apart here. Have the people with sniffles you've seen also have trouble standing still, and did they look paranoid when they caught you noticing their sniffles, like Zelensky does when he looks into the camera here? I dont need a laptop full of photos of this guy chopping lines on the mirror and rolling up a $100 bill to prove it. This video is enough. You literally admit in your comment that you dont run with that kind of crowd.
"We're in the middle of a global pandemic" - No we're not. We're at what should be the ass end of a scheme to enact global communism under the guise of a pandemic, that has only been achieved through extreme gaslighting of the public via statistical manipulation from the medical industry. But that's none of my business 🐸☕
I'm not sure either. I know it's mostly political strategy to split the ticket in an attempt to lock up two states' electoral votes, but I don't know if there's anything in the Constitution that prohibits them being from the same state.
I am coming up on 8 years sober in November. Little more than 6 years from when I quit cigarettes too. It's hard, but the most important advice I can give you is - if this is something you want for yourself, you have to think of yourself as not an addict or a alcoholic anymore. It's hard because an addict will burden him or herself with shame and that can be just as heavy as the addiction itself. You made a mistake and went down a path that negatively impacted your life. But there is a path back to the original one and if you look for it, you will find it. Remember the things that used to make you happy and go back to them. You'll find yourself again, make new friends along the way and perhaps even mend things with old ones. You just have to want it for yourself. So many people go into recovery to make someone else happy, and every single one of them fail. They relapse, and the pain takes hold of them again. It's a cycle that is exceedingly hard to get out of. But trust me. If I can do it, so can you. There is nothing extraordinary about what I did other than want to be myself again. But the worst thing you can do early in recovery is think of yourself as not deserving happiness, or having to earn your place back. I did A LOT of things during my addiction that I'm not proud of, but after all this time I know that it was the addiction that influenced me. Take that away, and you become yourself again. I hope this helps. If you want to DM me about anything in particular you are struggling with I would be happy to talk to you about it.
Hopefully a film about teachers grooming kids to wake up more parents.