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Of course not... I was making a joke. Since Wallace died in 2012, it seems like that era of people wouldn’t remember him or his guests as well, and the youts, they are more open to political ideas. If you’re between 20 and 40 and you have any inclination to watch, you won’t be disappointed.
Don’t care—that’s my answer to your question.
The term “Christian” means nothing in 2020. There are Evangelicals, Mormons, Baptists... all practicing, what is, essentially, a different religion.
Evangelicals are the weakest of them all, by any measure except sheer numbers. They talk a lot but they DO very little that is and of their specific form of Christianity.
I’m not an atheist, and I don’t have anything personal against religion, but it’s absolutely on the decline (for better or worse).
Don’t care—that’s my answer to your question.
Each have an unbelievable number of crimes (with a preponderance of evidence) that they can be charges with as civilians. So if those two pedophiles are “meeting for lunch” it’ll probably be a favor granted by an equally corrupt prison guard.
Nice job. That’s awesome he reached out like that. :)
I would guess Benzedrine. But I could be wrong.
She has unique facial expressions, like all of us, including you. But she’s really good at using them to effect.
She’s, IMHO, a beautiful person, and partially because of her uniqueness and charisma. She is objectively beautiful as well—but that doesn’t mean much in Hollywood.
There’s a documentary (that I didn’t see mentioned in any comments) called California Typewriter. It’s really well made, super interesting, and it has a few interviews with Hanks, who explains his fascination with typewriters. There are some other surprising public figures who like them too.
I don’t understand what’s not interesting about them... Maybe you don’t want to use or own one, but the correspondence it produces couldn’t be more different from an email. Or an inkjet-printed, Word-processed computer file.
I only know her work from the series Euphoria, which I’ve watched twice, and I think she’s a truly incredible talent.
I don’t watch TV series, and on the rare occasion I do, it’s absolutely only once through.
What does, “Stop trying to make her happen,” even mean? She’s really young, and if she takes her time doing work that fits her, I don’t see why she isn’t entitled to a job?
But hey, I’m a 40 year-old white guy, what do I know?
Nothing about this guy is cool anymore. Just creepy. Art and life sodomizing each other in such a pathetic fashion.
What’s strangest to me is how there seems to be such a sharp divide between a relatively small segment of people who’ve pursued a rough understanding of what Trump is actually doing (and what he’s done) vs. the majority of the population that seems to see Trump mainly as a phenomenon divorced from history and what is factually going on in Washington.
Too many people seem to see Trump as a political litmus test to apply to others, or a point of reference from which to judge others (I’m speaking equally about both sides).
It shouldn’t matter what party you belong to if the President (any president!) is clearly acting in ways that run counter to our country’s most important and valuable principles—such as freedom, political accountability via checks and balances, and a commitment to an ethical code.
I believe that people who voted for Trump in good faith have a responsibility to re-evaluate their decision and hold themselves accountable to reality as it exists. In a sense, the strength to own up to being misled and the courage to stand up for the truth. But I strongly believe that those who’ve been able to keep their eye on the ball politically also have a duty to their fellow citizens who were led astray in good faith —and who’ve had a change of mind— to grant them their full support and understanding. Demonizing “the other” or “the other side” is precisely what was encouraged by outside forces in order to divide and conquer public opinion in the U.S., thus effectively turning its citizenry against each other. We need to come back together as united American citizens. Simply by giving each other the benefit of the doubt (and the patience it takes to understand another human being’s point of view) we can make enormous progress.
Yeah, it’s a very unique movie. It’s rare that a filmmaker(s) can get close enough to their subjects to witness these types “day-to-day” behaviors in anyone, much less a group of people that knows they’re breaking the law—along with everything else that accompanies addiction, too.
I didn’t remember writing my little review above, which leads to the worst kind of criticism, the “I know what they’re trying to say, but I’d word it better.” I think I was also a little critical of the movie’s approach, because just recently I was meaning to watch this again. Not something I do very often.
If this were 800-900 A.D., a wall might seriously work. But once a drug is small enough, potent enough and cheap enough, there’s little society can do. Look at the horrors we’re still reaping from the way we handled the “crack epidemic” in the 80’s. We destroyed a part of society trying to fix it. That could easily happen again. The only efforts that matter, IMHO, have to do with preventitive help, as in, What’s causing people to turn to drugs? Working on that is 10X more effective that treating the symptoms.
People generally will not pick a drug over their own life (even if things are only “mostly okay, most of the time”). Drugs like Fentanyl and Carfentanil look more threatening than this new meth to me. But communities and families are stronger than any drug’s reach, in general, IMHO.
I wasn’t a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch at all going into this— in fact he annoyed me incredibly— but after watching the series I am now a fan, and I must admit that he has a tremendous amount of skill.
I don’t think he could figure out how to open it in his state of mind. Showing an open window the next morning was probably meant to illicit a kind of irony or a strange fate.
You might want to remove your post’s title, since it’s nothing but spoilers. If I hadn’t finished the series yet, I wouldn’t have been thrilled to read it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haha. Yeah, just a little bit...
What made this documentary good, however, was its fairly observational point of view. Of course it highlighted points that the administration was proud of, but it also didn’t spare the viewer some of the less attractive pieces of the machinery at work.
It’s a short doc that I hope anyone from any political party could watch without becoming “triggered.”
I read things like this and I wonder, What difference does it make? Isn’t the ultimate conclusion always: “We’re screwed!” and, The government is evil!”?
I’ve never once found conspiratorial speculation useful in any practical sense, psychologically or otherwise. The conclusion is always some form of “SEE SHEEPLE! THEY REALLY ARE OUT TO GET US!”
So what if there was a mole as you suggest? What will that actually lead to? If you said, “Nothing of any consequence,” you’d be right. The last two years in America, politically, has been one insane big-tent circus of lies, deception (and people profiting off of all this dysfunction in one way or another). Short of joining a grassroots organization that takes actual, real action that addresses whatever it is you’re concerned about, there is nothing anyone can do about the insanity. Purely talking about it, or trying to convince people that your theories are right, will only lead to more insanity. People seem hellbent on driving themselves nuts these days.
Thanks for the links. Someone was quoted on Indiewire as saying practically calmly the whole cast of Vanderpump Rules is on Adderall. I don’t know a thing about that show but it just made me shudder. What this doc said about every generation getting the drug it deserves— it does make me wonder about the state of our culture.
It’s nice that you noticed, and that it bothers you— because it’s fkn ridiculous— but this has always been the case with Hollywood’s lowbrow tentpole pop-action shïtflicks.
I remember watching Anne Hathaway “kick ass” in Intersteller, and even with every trick in the book, watching the kinked broomstick handles she has for arms and legs *knock out* grown men, it was enough to destroy all suspension of disbelief I had to that point.
Whenever a woman fights someone in an action movie, it always turns into a preposterous flurry of twig-like limbs and super quick editing, which sends humans many times her size flying through the air. (Partially cuz the woman has got to be a “skinny hot chick” with massive breasts.) So dumb. Past the age of 12, I don’t think it’s possible to enjoy movies like this and have any respect for yourself. 😂
You guys are both idiots. 😂