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I Liked It! It caught me by surprise.
"Stinger"
Hezbollah pagers explode across Lebanon, causing nearly 3,000 casualties, 9 dead
S01E05 Remember It
The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)
Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)
Andrew Bustamante
A Step Up
"Peeing in morse code"
Just one question...
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LOL, no doubt. Pretty sure it was something I watched, but I can't quite coalesce the memory enough to be sure, or to place it more squarely. Would really like to find it somewhere online, or at least have someone confirm if it is indeed a real thing.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
I have a strange memory of either Speed Buggy or a similar cartoon from that era, and would like to see if anyone else remembers this or if this was perhaps some strange child's dream masquerading as reality. The lead character, either Speed Buggy or a dog, finds a leg sticking out of the sand on a beach while they're searching for someone. He takes it - yes, just the leg - back to his companions, and he then leads them to where he found it. There, they find the person they were looking for and return the leg to her. Turns out she'd just been relaxing on the beach, partially covered in sand. Was I on acid when I was 6 years old? :) Did this actually happen in a Saturday morning cartoon?
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
ROFL! Smile Monsters, Inc.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
Okay, so after watching the entire season, it fell quite flat for me. I felt it started interesting enough, but suffered from its small budget and some pretty inane dialogue. A few of the changes, some probably needed to adapt it into something cogent, worked well enough, I think, and I liked the ending that can now possibly lead to something much larger in scope. But all in all, I found it to be barely passable and could have lived just fine not spending 8 hours on it. Also, Scott Speedman's incessantly dour woe-is-me acting irritates me.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
No, opposing racism, homophobia and woman-hating, etc. is just being a decent human being.
Considering oneself "woke" now refers to someone who sees social injustice where there is none, creating perceived victims out of thin air, where all so-called "whites" (a group that doesn't actually exist and is in fact comprised of an array of people as genetically and culturally diverse as each individual) are automatically guilty of causing "non-white" (another group that doesn't exist and that is just as diverse) failure simply by being born. i.e. "woke" now indicates those living in a made-up fantasy world that doesn't remotely reflect reality.
The original core premise of "wokeness" would be a good thing if it hadn't almost instantly devolved into a mass delusion and escalated so out of control that it threatened to end functional society on a global scale. We must stop grouping people by skin color. You know, that thing "Liberals" used to stand for (and <i>real</i> Liberals still are) and helped largely abolish while striving for equality of opportunity.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
Nicely done.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
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THIS
And I'll add a third factor:
A lot fewer people were suckered by all the ridiculous nonsense false narratives being spouted about Trump over the years.
People woke up and realized there truly was a "witch hunt" involving sweeping corruption and fraud that included nonsensical impeachments and baseless attempts of prosecution that incorporated widespread collateral damage to many innocent people. Instead of letting Trump hang himself with his own words, their TDS lured them into out-Trumping Trump. Instead of finding a much better Democrat candidate, they went with a cackling nincompoop who couldn't talk her way out of a paper bag. Instead of avoiding very anti-liberal policies and positions that eroded the foundation of the country economically and socially, they embraced these harmful notions. Instead of realizing they were turning off vast segments of the public, including crucial minority voting blocks, they became so complacently wrapped up in their blanket of deceit, duplicity and Sorros-funded assistance that they completely missed the HUGE red flags of big, traditionally liberal personalities like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Russell Brand, etc. turning against them.
And even now, I suspect many of them are still oblivious to what really happened, despite some out there spelling it out for them years ago. They not only lost, they lost against Trump. That's how far they've fallen. They have only themselves to blame.
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/610c414754ff2748039c7584/Dems-Admit-THEYRE-SCREWED-In-2022-Midterms.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
If only the Dems/Left had listened and wizened up instead of pushing further and further into lunacy until even the sleepers had had enough and pushed back. Could now perhaps be the turning point? Will the Left course-correct and steer back into the realm of centric logic and reason, away from corrupt corporations, media and foreign entities? Nah. I suspect not. But I hope I'm wrong.
Because a viable counterbalance is imperative.
It's now the Repub's to screw up. Will they blow it also? Even if not immediately, at some point in the future... probably. So to both sides of the aisle: learn to work together for Christ's sakes! Stop self-sabotaging by injecting nonsense into big bills that derails otherwise good ideas. Stop manufacturing stories and twisting each other's words into out of context absurdities. Reject lobbying and special interests. Stop benefitting from your power. Learn to <i>fucking</i> SERVE! You are NOT a ruling class. You're our servants. Start acting like it.
Finally, to "we the people", stop listening and buying into the words of those in power. Instead, try your best to...
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
I assume your aware season 2 is out now. It's actually 100 years later. I'm only 2 episodes in, but I like where they've taken it so far. It's a very different show now, with a couple of flashbacks to draw a line between the two seasons. Can only agree with you. Unlike many of the Korean shows, this one keeps the story tighter and doesn't get as ridiculous as most of them seem to, while providing a more fully fleshed out and grounded world for the more fantastical elements to take place in. I quite liked season 1, and so far I'm enjoying season 2.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
<blockquote>I thought that the protagonists in the original were too unrealistically passive.</blockquote>
Haven't seen this version yet, but I completely agree. I suspect that more passive reaction in the original may have been a commentary that more closely reflected the culture of the victims (that's my theory, anyway). Do that to an American, mess with our kids, and you'll get your ass beat. Having said that, it didn't need to be a happy ending. They very well could have fought back but still lost out in the end, or maybe only one surviving (if that's not what happens-again, I haven't seen it yet). To me that would be a more powerful ending, with only one surviving to exact cathartic retribution while just barely hanging onto life. That's how I'd write it, anyway.
In fact, that's how I'd write the original ending as well. I can't connect with characters who just sit there and let someone kill them, acting like sheep programmed for slaughter. For me it transformed the film into pure allegory that didn't reflect actual reality.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
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