@CitizenAmedia I heard about this, it happened during World War 11
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@JSPtheSecond
I wish I had a deep quote I could steal from someone so I can sound smart and stuff.
Salt Lake City, UT เข้าร่วม Ekim 2015
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It's always kinda frustrating knowing that I will go on podcasts with 1,000 viewers/listeners having done more comprehensive prep than national political figures do for debates and campaign speeches.
Bitcoin Teddy@Bitcoin_Teddy
AOC says "rivers were on fire" because of corporations like Deloitte "pouring chemicals" into waterways. Deloitte is an accounting, consulting, and tax services firm. No idea what she's talking about.
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@AgoraSignal @CriticalDragon1 @K_Niemietz Value is subjective though, so everything he says is not actually true
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@CriticalDragon1 @K_Niemietz Stop deflecting and answer my point. Accusing Marx of being wrong when we are living in a capitalist hellscape. Everything he writes about is true. The current crisis only proves it.
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Reality can debunk Marx, though.
Battlement 🇱🇰@BattlementLK
You can't debunk Marx because you can't debunk reality.
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It is bad. And everything you mentioned from the OT is actually not bad or is nowhere close to as bad as, say, Luke's portrayal (fans of TLJ do not understand Lukes character, his arc, or what an arc is in general).
The OT has flaws, sure, but they are dwarfed by the ST, especially TLJ.
Stop suggesting craftsmanship in storytelling is just subjective, it's not
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@TheUnaButters Lukes phantom kick in ROTJ ,Vader Obi duels choreography from ANH, Vader becoming Lukes father in whatever draft of ESB it was , Leia becoming Lukes sister last minute and crammed into some BS Dagobah POV scene was all good though? They all have flaws. Doesnt make it bad
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10 years on and all the strongest supports of TLJ talk about is
-Haters suck
-The throne room fight scene good
-Lightspeed kamakazee pretty
Think if it was such a great movie there would be more to praise
Flora Gois ✦@plaeguinha
The Last Jedi is the second best Star Wars movie, but unbearable fans won't accept it until the movie becomes "Nostalgia" and Luke's hero's journey is beautiful.
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@as_per_ushe @kane I hate to be pedantic but that's not necessarily true. Krotopkin and Bakunin were both communists. Then there are anarchists like Molinari, Spooner, and Warren who were either pro capitalist or had pro capitalist leanings.
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@kane Our guy could be an anarchist, an enemy of both capitalism and communism. In that case he has my total unwavering support. 🫡
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American socialists: “capitalism sucks because I have to work”
Actual socialist law: “not working is asocial and punishable by 2 years of prison”
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN
I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.
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@JackMal94371989 @SCShipyards I imagine all those things are fleshed out in the EU, we see his journey. We didn't get that in TLJ
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@SCShipyards Luke hero journey in the films is consistent with the EU : all you did not get was his heart break over Mara , getting kicked out of the Republic government , a vengeance mission, but he still ends up in seclusion.
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The Last Jedi was always the worst of the Sequel Trilogy, which is the worst of the three Trilogies.
And that's still the case.
Furthermore, Luke's "hero's journey" was an absolute rug-pull and it's pathetic people are still simping for it.
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Flora Gois ✦@plaeguinha
The Last Jedi is the second best Star Wars movie, but unbearable fans won't accept it until the movie becomes "Nostalgia" and Luke's hero's journey is beautiful.
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@Ash1138 @SCShipyards He either means it being subversive or that Luke's portrayal was a complete 180 from Luke's established character in the OT.
Either way, he's correct. It was subversive, but that doesn't make it good, obviously, and the movie deconstructed Lukes character from the OT.
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@SCShipyards It wasn't a rug pull. What are you talking about?
Did you even watch the film or just watch the endless black pills feed you your opinion?
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@mircallaexe Sydney was in a racist ad saying other races are inferior to white people as opposed to an ad that suggested she just has good genes in general? Which ad?
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ünlü erkekler tecavüzcü arkadaşlarına bile destek çıkarken, Sydney ırkçı bir reklamda oynadı diye dizideki bütün kadın oyuncular onunla samimiyeti kesti. yani erkeklerin politik bilinci de ahlaki değerleri de eksiktir
Pop Base@PopBase
Alexa Demie, Zendaya, Hunter Schafer and Maude Apatow for Cassie & Nate’s wedding.
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@MikeJCzapla @HannahDCox No, I don't think that is true.
I am defining capitalism as private ownership of the means of production.
I am defining socialism as worker/collective/state ownership of the means of production
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Anti-capitalists always act like they’re on some sort of moral crusade when at the end of the day what they’re really after is slaves - they just haven’t admitted it to themselves.
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas
Then go make art and be in your garden. Nobody is stopping you. If you say "but then how will I pay rent and eat!", then your actual complaint is you want stuff to be handed to you for free. Which means *others* have to work to provide for you, and not make art or be in gardens.
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@CrticaConstru20 @CptAncapistan @RTSG_Main yet you can't point to a single instance of your free market nonsense ever working
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People aren’t libertarians because they don’t want to eat Donkey meat like those in Argentina.
Jordan Howard@Skwerilleee
The fact that everyone is not just naturally a libertarian is something I have a really hard time understanding. Like what gives so many people the compulsion to want to control other people's lives? Can't wrap my head around where the desire to do that even comes from..
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Then go make art and be in your garden. Nobody is stopping you.
If you say "but then how will I pay rent and eat!", then your actual complaint is you want stuff to be handed to you for free. Which means *others* have to work to provide for you, and not make art or be in gardens.
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN
I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.
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@MikeJCzapla @HannahDCox I have an idea about freedom and the market and hate socialism, both can be true
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@HannahDCox Defining is the problem. It depends entirely on POV.
People get attached to words and those people are then controlled.
Capitalists in general have very little idea about freedom or the market, they just hate socialism. That's the identifying factor. Same with socialists.
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@SandyResolver @ProbablyDrunk3 @CptAncapistan I don't know what capitalism is so I'll call it feudalism, because I don't know what that is either
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@ProbablyDrunk3 @CptAncapistan Your system is designed to accumulate power in the hands of the few. You're just inventing baseline for feudalism.
I doubt you know what feudalism is though.
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Locks comments so communism haters can’t define communism.
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@WillRicci @DominguezHills So you're telling me this is the inevitable outcome of math and loving Friedman over the Austrian school. I knew it
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I attended the same school as the alleged WHCA shooter — @DominguezHills. A decade before him & different department. But same institution.
Fall 2013. Poly sci paper arguing America was uniquely tolerant because of federalism, assimilation, and ordered liberty.
The professor called it a “rant” and gave me a 50.
I was furious and had no recourse. A sympathetic faculty member told me so.
The grade wasn’t one professor — it was the institution itself.
Next assignment: write how Obamacare would lower medical costs. I knew it wouldn’t. I wrote it anyway.
Very next semester I changed my major to economics and transferred to @CSULB. At least econ had to deal with incentives, trade-offs, and reality.
But the political science department there was worse.
I learned quickly that academia is not interested in teaching you how to think, instead they teach you what to think.
Will Ricciardella@WillRicci
The WHCA alleged shooter wasn’t some nut job lurking on the fringes of society, forgotten by the system. He was well-educated, credentialed, employed, and institutionally formed. That’s what makes this so disturbing. At first glance, this doesn’t look like a breakdown of the system, it looks more like a product of it. Academia, media, and politics helped build the moral permission structure. Let that sink in.
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@JimothyShondell @DanFriedman81 Because the Mandalorian only had one good season and Ahsoka wasn't good at all. I assume that's why they "moan".
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@DanFriedman81 So why do people moan about Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni making Star Wars then? Cos those two fil your bill perfectly.
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Rian Johnson didn’t want to make a Star Wars movie, he wanted to make a Rian Johnson movie. That’s great. People enjoy “Knives Out.”
But the guy you want on Star Wars is a talented filmmaker with a strong vision who has loved Star Wars since he was a kid in the exact way that the most devoted fans love Star Wars. You need a Peter Jackson. I can’t believe there isn’t a guy like that.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Mark Hamill on what he told Last Jedi director Rian Johnson after reading the script: "I pretty much fundamentally disagree with every choice you've made for this character. Now, having said that, I have gotten it off my chest, and my job now is to take what you've created and do my best to realize your vision." If the actor who played Luke for 40 years didn't recognize him, should the film have been rewritten?
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@classicdiaz91 @its_JustTurk @x0Starlight Yes absolutely because the sequel trilogy erases all his progress from the OT, all the lessons he learned
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So basically I was right to say the Last Jedi is awesome and one of the best Star Wars movies
Alec Lafavore@Alafavore
It’s simple: High Critic + High Audience = crowd pleaser / franchise tentpole Low Critic + High Audience = a movie for children, beloved by adults Low Critic + Low Audience = real sicko shit High Critic + Low Audience = the good stuff
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A story (or in this context a film) taken as a whole, cannot be "great" if it isn't overwhelmingly great in the details. Plenty of series and movies can be "good" and worth watching over and over if they only have a fun plot and decent technical craft, but the acting is weak; or if the acting is incredible, but the direction and editing aren't the best; or if the special effects are insane but the story is lackluster, etc. But to be a truly "great" film, it must be firing on all cylinders.
Craftsmanship wise it isn't an absolutely gorgeous movie or firing on all cylinders. Sure, the visuals and special effects are good but the writing is terrible. The character development is bad. And the choreography in the throne room is mediocre.
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@herpaderp_ @nurlowe_swints @NosrabNeb @x0Starlight No. I don't like it but also it's storytelling is poorly crafted. Both can be true. It is objectively not a good film and there is a lot I don't like about it. I know what I said.
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@JSPtheSecond @nurlowe_swints @NosrabNeb @x0Starlight Saying TLJ is "poorly crafted" gives the game away. You dont like it or parts of it. That's fine. But it's an objectively beautiful film
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@Lytherian You do realize that his and your ancestors have basically nothing to do with him and you, right?
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it’s probably because your ancestors were on the ship hope that helps
Mac 🍃@ihymacc
I don’t think I will ever understand this particular scene…
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@nurlowe_swints @NosrabNeb @x0Starlight To clarify, I hate neither. But they are both still very poorly crafted. That doesn't mean you can't like them or be moved by them.
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@JSPtheSecond @NosrabNeb @x0Starlight From my pov it just feels like this whenever I see someone hating Last Jedi and Acolyte. They're flawed but I feel more moved and impacted by them than most of any Star Wars (besides Andor, that's peak)
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@plaeguinha I know. And you read my comment I clarify which is the second best. TLJ is the worst SW movie made with the exception of the Holiday Special, maybe
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@JSPtheSecond Em momento algum eu disse que TLJ era o melhor filme de Star Wars.
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The Last Jedi is the second best Star Wars movie, but unbearable fans won't accept it until the movie becomes "Nostalgia" and Luke's hero's journey is beautiful.
Starlight 💫 (twitch.tv/x0starlight)@x0Starlight
So basically I was right to say the Last Jedi is awesome and one of the best Star Wars movies
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