@CynicalPublius Read the book. Trust me. It's better. Taking nothing away from the movie. Everything you said was spot on.
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So I watched Project Hail Mary last night and REALLY enjoyed it--I highly recommend.
(No, I have not read the book yet, but now I will.)
This is movie is apparently a box office smash.
What mystifies me is how Hollywood completely misses how most Americans yearn for this kind of story in their movies.
It's such an easy formula to follow:
1. Hero's journey.
2. Charismatic leading man (or woman).
3. Thoughtful plot and writing that make the viewer think.
4. No DEI, no political messaging of any kind.
5. Interpersonal story of love and sacrifice between the main characters.
6. High adventure.
7. Happy ending.
It's such an easy formula to follow, and it was once the norm in Hollywood.
How did they manage to lose sight of this and destroy their own industry?
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Tommy Robinson is a legend. One man just may have saved an empire from extinction.
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Hunter Biden on Elon Musk:
“You’ve got some motherf-cker who’s made over $251 billion being a United States citizen, that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the US”
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@AntiWokeMemes One is statistically 100% more likely to blow up. Nuns don't explode in crowded areas.
GIF
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Be completely honest...
What do you think about this?
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Jill Biden just posted this.
This is an actual happy family who cares about each other and loves each other.
These are good people who care about America and didn’t use it to enrich themselves.
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Dems: “If racial gerrymandering isn’t allowed by the Constitution, that’s both racist and authoritarian.”
RNC Research@RNCResearch
Ayanna Pressley calls President Trump and Supreme Court justices “co-conspirators in advancing authoritarianism” after Democrats’ racist gerrymandering was struck down.
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@CynicalPublius Any racial bias I may have picked up as a child and teenager was soundly and correctly beaten down at about 5 seconds into boot camp and followed on throughout my time in the Navy.I can either count on you to have my back or not.That's all it should be. Nothing more.Color blind.
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I believe America should be a post-racial society where we have put our historical legacy of racism entirely behind us and we judge all men and women by the quality of the life path they choose, and not based on immutable characteristics like skin color.
Democrats hate me for that.
That's because for Democrats, racism is power. That fact has never not been true since Andrew Jackson first founded that accursed party.
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@CynicalPublius Very well stated. You've been a fantastic follow and I'm glad I stumbled into your feed.
Thank you.
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"What about you, 007? Do you think we have enough disabled people to pull off this coup?"
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
''Bro just go read some books'' Meanwhile the newest James Bond book:
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Yeah, because banning backyard barbecues will save the planet or something.
Democrats are the Purveyors of Misery. No two ways about it.
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: LA mayor candidate Nithya Raman suggests banning backyard BBQs on certain days That’s definitely gonna go over well with Californians…
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> man stabs 18-year-old college student
> stabber says victim was racist
> UK police arrest victim for racial abuse
> victim bleeds to death in handcuffs
pagliacci the hated 🌝@Slatzism
“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist” its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now
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@SenJohnKennedy It should be forfeiture not withholding. That's skin in the game. Senators are not hurting financially. Make it happen. Or otherwise it's performative Government Theater.
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If senators are going to vote to shut down the government and prevent millions of federal workers from getting paid, they ought to have the same skin in the game.
My resolution passed the Senate today to ensure they do.
That's common sense.
kennedy.senate.gov/public/press-r…
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@catturd2 Masshole is reserved for those of us from and in the absolute dumpster fire that's Massachusetts. Please respect our culture and feelings at this time. J\K. We don't give the tiniest fuck about it. 🤔🤣
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I thought Masshole wanted transparency. What happened? 😂
Erikaaa@ErikaC47
‼️🤯 Thomas Massie is ALREADY hiding replies on his X social media accounts that are asking him about his inappropriate relationship with Cythina West! What is he trying to hide? 😱
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This is hard, kids. Real hard. Can you appreciate the touch on the controls necessary to be this smooth, this close?
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Hollywood pretension without dialogue. It’s amazing what these people think of themselves. 🤣
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@RealJamesWoods Until I see motherfuckers in handcuffs it's all bullshit.
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So why aren’t you arresting these people for treason? I don’t know which is more frustrating, to know that Democrats literally staged a coup against the President of the United States, or to know that the Federal Bureau of investigation can’t find a single person to indict.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
FBI Director Kash Patel talks about what he’s proved Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did “It took me 2 years of my life to prove the following, that a political party in the United States of America in the 21st century would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake unverified information. Funnel that to not just the intelligence community, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then take those package lies that they had paid for with campaign finance funds, and go into a secret surveillance court and illegally spy on your opponent to be the next president of the United States. I think that was 45 seconds. That took two years of my life. And what did we find out? The FISA court themselves came back and said these warrants were illegal, that the FBI did not provide evidence of exculpatory evidence and innocence, and that the FBI essentially lied in those applications.” It was a coup. It was literally treason and not a single people has been held accountable. Think about that ZERO accountability even when the FBI Director has proven evidence of treason This is where we are….
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The past three years were the hottest three years in recorded history.
The past eleven years were the hottest eleven years in recorded history.
Trump thinks climate change is a “hoax.” He is dangerously wrong.
We must break our addiction to fossil fuels and save the planet.
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@scottus1 @CynicalPublius New England states have entered the chat. Our district maps were drawn by a squirrel on meth. Not a single Republican representative from 6 states.
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@CynicalPublius Agree with all of this and the elation. But,... Not accurate that Virginia started all this really. Didn't Trump and Texas? Then Cali.
Also love the irony that they (VA) had an exemplary non-partisan commission process before and chose to run away from it.
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RE: Gerrymandering
In case you missed it, the Virginia Supreme Court just invalidated the gerrymandering plan that Governor Abigail "The White Witch" Spanberger got the Commonwealth's voters to approve via disinformation, illegal procedures, stealth and confusing/misleading ballot initiative language.
Which is actually incredibly humorous.
You see, the rabidly anti-democratic nature of that Virginia plan motivated red states to do something similar, except legal.
Then, coincidentally, the US Supreme Court said that race-based legislative districts are unlawful, so now Southern red states are doing what Virginia wanted to do, except they are doing it legally and eliminating those unconstitutional, race-based districts that have been in place for decades.
Today, Virginia, who started all this nonsense, got their whole scheme demolished while the other states--who did what they did largely in response to Virginia--have their new plans legally in place.
All of this might have locked in the House for the GOP in the mid-terms.
The irony is glorious and the schadenfreude is delicious.
In other words, the whole sequence of events is ***schadenfreudelicious***!
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Joe Biden screwed up a lot of things in 4 years. Some of his damage will last for years.
His failure to strengthen US AI dominance backfired so incredibly badly that it actually helped China build its own AI powerhouse.
Take a look at this article exposing Biden’s many missteps.
bit.ly/4tfOtx7
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