@greg_travis @misfitpatriot_ Says a man who "loves his truck and tractor." You're pretending.
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Patrick
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What the left doesn’t seem to understand that Trump does, is that millions of Americans love shit like this. He’s not pandering to the elite, he’s acknowledging the blue collar, hard working, dirt biking, UFC watching, forgotten men and women who make up the majority of this country.
Drive 30 miles outside of any deep blue shithole city in America and you could throw a rock in any direction at someone who watches motocross.
Trump isn’t putting on America 250 for people who go to the fuckin opera, he’s putting on America 250 for the working class.
Chef Anthony Thomas@ChefAnthonyDC
One day I hope MAGA supporters can ADMIT if Barack Hussien Obama had done anything remotely close to this, we’d still be hearing about it today
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Movies where the TITLE role actor is not the LEAD role actor.
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Anyone who was mad that Fury Road was centered around Furiosa and not Max, has either, never seen a Mad Max film, or is pretending to have never seen one, because Mad Max is not really about Max. It’s a series of campfire tales being told by the people he saves, about their encounters with him. Hell, most of the first film, the one that bares his name, is about his partner, Goose, and the villain, Toecutter
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@Stretchedwiener @TheCinesthetic It's definitely supposed to be satisfying, THEN regrettable. Not simply shameful. The audience is supposed to live *through* the temptation and ramifications, to more fully appreciate where the characters are coming from and how they differ.
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@TheCinesthetic Apologies, but if you think that's "satisfying" then you've sorely missed the point of the scene. It's shameful.
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One of the most satisfying moments in WITNESS (1985) is watching a local punk mistake John Book for an ordinary Amish man. Harrison Ford lets the misunderstanding breathe just long enough before correcting it the hard way.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What are the best “you don’t know who you’re messing with” scenes in movie history?
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@tylerblack32 @JGBriggsPhD @jessesingal So, then, advocacy. Right?
(An advocate thinks so. A non-advocate thinks "get better evidence.")
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@JGBriggsPhD @jessesingal right but we're not getting better evidence than that, in the mean time, we are successfully treating kids with regret/distress rates better than any medical procedure i'm aware of. so, you know. as it goes.
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Some amazing researchers from my home province - and a team that cares deeply about trans kids in BC (all of whom I know are excellent clinicians).
They safely and helpfully treat kids in BC, and this publication shows that detransition is a very rare outcome indeed.
Jack Turban MD 🧠@jack_turban
A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. jahonline.org/article/S1054-…
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@REM__BEN Nasıl yok?Konu hız ve hareket ise cisimler içinde bulunduğu kendinden büyük cisimlerin hareketi ile sınırlıdır.
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@kevinnbass @peterboghossian Define many. Because you avoided "most" for a reason.
If your def is indistinguishable from "few" then you also avoided "few" for a reason.
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Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.
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@theCTwelve @bloodwealthsoil @Devon_Eriksen_ @ChoochSkookum Then again, one shouldn't assert that if one doesn't know.
And you don't know. So there's one place to stop.
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@bloodwealthsoil @Devon_Eriksen_ @ChoochSkookum Sure, but where does it stop? It's gotta stop somewhere, or else its just turtles all the way down.
Necessary Being doesn't dawdle with the middle bit. It just says that, ultimately, there is a Necessary Being and that (with a bit more philosophy) It is also the First Cause.
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Polytheists are funny because they dont realize the existence of multiple gods requires a singular Creator God. Otherwise who created them?
It shows they stopped short in their thought process
All roads lead to a singular Creator.
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Sometimes the calmest person in the room is the one quietly preventing disaster.
While everyone said “it’s fine,” she stepped up and saved the moment.
Responsibility speaks louder than arguments ever will. 🚤
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If you could only save one Sergio Leone spaghetti western from the 60s, which would it be?
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@conor64 @megbasham The base chose someone who didn't hate them and want another goddamn war like every other GOP hack had the last 20 years, what are you on about?
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Wrong lesson. Republican voters chose Trump because they were tired of feeling like their leadership had no interest in beating the Democrats. They were tired of feeling like even when they won, they lost.
This shellacking tonight didn’t happen because of Trump. His candidates have lost before. It happened because the base is tired of settling for representation content with losing slowly.
Chris Cillizza@ChrisCillizza
Here’s the story of the night: Donald Trump remains the king of the Republican Party. If he wants you gone, he gets rid of you. Just ask the 6 Indiana Republican state senators who just lost because they didn’t support Trump’s desire to redistrict the state.
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Peter Stormare only gets a few minutes as Lucifer in Constantine (2005), but that entrance completely elevates the film’s climax.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s the best example of an actor showing up for one small scene and completely stealing the entire movie?
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@phillip74066581 @TheCinesthetic Has anyone ever tried to convince anyone that Highlander II was good?
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@TheCinesthetic Highlander II , completely ruins the vibe of the setting...aliens was a terrible choice
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What is a movie no one will ever convince you is good?
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@TheCinesthetic If you think Evil Dead II is broadly remembered but Three Men and a Baby is not...then you're in a bit of a genre-specific bubble.
Three Men was a broadly accessible, PG comedy that pretty much *everyone* at least liked. Many of whom would never even want to watch Evil Dead II.
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Three Men and a Baby was the biggest movie of 1987, bigger than Lethal Weapon, Predator, RoboCop, Evil Dead II, and The Lost Boys. That year’s box office really moved differently.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Which films from the past were box-office hits when they were released but are now rarely mentioned or remembered?
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@TheCinesthetic Last Crusade gets overshadowed by Raiders because Last Crusade is a shadow of Raiders.
Riffing on something is not the same thing as creating it.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) gets overshadowed by Raiders, but this is Spielberg refining the formula, sharper pacing, cleaner set pieces, and Connery’s presence flipping Indy into something more playful and human.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Trilogies where the 3rd movie is the best
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Films that flopped at the box office but are actually great.
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@BarneysRubble0 Every advance must explain what's been explained prior, as well or better than prior...or else its not an advance.
So weinstein advances nothing.
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People reacting negatively are misunderstanding Mr. Weinstein. He is trying to spur us past the old framework. Every advance in physics must make a breach of the prior framework. In moments of stasis you need heretical, provocative language like this or you'll never change.
Camus@newstart_2024
“Einstein is the problem.” Eric Weinstein didn’t mince words on Triggernometry. If general relativity holds, we’re trapped on one fragile planet. Even terraforming the Moon and Mars only gives us three reachable spheres — nowhere near enough diversification for long-term survival. A single catastrophe could wipe us all out because we all share the same atmosphere. The only real escape, he argues, is cracking physics beyond Einstein so we can get very far, very fast. Otherwise we’re stuck playing cosmic Russian roulette. It’s a sobering wake-up call about how dangerously misaligned our priorities have become.
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@TheCinesthetic Every Bond movie after From Russia with Love parodies Bond to varying extents.
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What is a parody that was done so well that most people to this day don't realize it was a parody?
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@Hamzythacreator no such thing as gravity....it's a theory that's never been roven. It's mass vs density. A rock will drop down because the density is great than air. A ballon has less density than air so it floats. If gravity is so powerful that it can hold the ocean and yet let's you walk.
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@ATRightMovies Robert Duvall and you know it too. You might have a favorite over Duvall to add as well, but you also know you'd make room for your favorite + Duvall by cutting two already shown.
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