Oh shit, really? Like some limited release thing, or like in a lot of theaters?

Yeah, it’s from 2011, there were three of them. IIRC they were all straight to DVD releases. nothing theatrical.

Looks like you can find them on Bitchute without the slightest hint of irony of a movie about capitalism being pirated and probably monetized on a conservative streaming platform.

Could be worse…

Oh no, wait- it literally can’t be worse than this.

Does “it broke containment” mean it didn’t have permissions to anything and still managed to delete all the files it could find?

Sure they have - Baby gets what Baby wants. If baby wants the objectives of a war to be Iran sends him a cool fire truck to play with, that’s how he defines “winning” the war that day.

The question isn’t if you’re useful to Lemmy or not. We don’t deserve to exert any weight on your heart with opinions and upvotes.

Are you doing something you think is worth your time, with or without external validation? Is this something you would do if you thought it was basically the internet version of putting messages in a bottle?

When you are old and on your death bed, what will the value of your reddit karma be? What is the value of it now?

Do things that matter to you. Do things that help you grow and be a better person.

I always vote, in every single election I can.

Doesn’t mean the US doesn’t also need like 30 different reforms and deserve better candidates.

Realistically, it’s likely that someone with money was denied access, and used their money to hire lobbyists to make this a political problem.

“We called ourselves the MOD Squad, short for Merchants of Death.”

Looks like Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms have a whole new set of friends.

it’s a metaphor, my friend. It’s not meant to be literal.

So you realize you chose your metaphor poorly and won’t admit it? Weird way to say that, but ok.

But we are stuck in this casino

WE are not stuck in the casino. YOU are stuck in the casino. That’s the point of the metaphor that made sense.

The vast majority of Vegas isn’t casinos or the Strip. Many millions of people live in Vegas who don’t gamble at all.

I’m not driving your metaphor into the ground, but just using it over and over because there’s numerous ways to show how free you could be if you just took a step back and saw your own situation for what it is.

Horse, here is water.

You’re sort of missing the point of the statement. Which would itself indicate it’s not a contradiction at all.

“Othering” people is making a blanket group an enemy. Humans do love to categorize things, and so the process of Othering based on arbitrary or immutable characteristics fits our known human biases well. It’s an easy way to manipulate humans.

“These people” refers not to an arbitrary categorization of people, but rather a specific group of individuals in power right now that are doing real harm to people.

If anything, you could call it a limitation of English as a language, or my poor choice of words, but the statement on its own clearly indicates that there’s no contradiction.

Here’s two real world examples that show you how accepting Evil Lite^tm is still accepting something evil, and is a foolish trap in which to get caught.

During the Vietnam war, many Buddhist monasteries declared neutrality and just wanted to be left alone to engage in a non-violent spiritual practice. The Americans, naturally, assumed the monks were part of the Vietcong. The Vietcong, naturally, assumed they were passing intel to the Americans. Both of those warring sides were 100% wrong.

When the Americans bombed some of those Buddhist monasteries, they simply got around to attacking the monks first. What you’re saying is that those monks who declared their own morals to center on non-violence should have given up their morals and dignity to take up a side and actively engage with that side. You would prefer they debase themselves before dying, rather than stand up for themselves before the same eventual end.

There is a saying associated with the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide: I yo uza kwimenya nanje ukamenya ntuba waranyishe. It translates to “If you knew me, and knew yourself, you would not have killed me.” It’s a phrase of forgiveness, which highlights the fact of the genocide that many people killed friends, neighbors, even relatives and spouses, because of the fervor of non-thinking and being swept up in the brutality. Not because it’s something they felt like doing for years.

It seems like you think you’re better than other people because you’ve been lured to stand on lies and BS that others have piled up for you. And from which they will let you fall and be replaced by someone else when you’re no longer useful. Like how Trump views his base. If you really knew who you are, you would see how easily these groups want to manipulate you into fighting your friends, neighbors, and relatives for their benefit. You would see how being forced, and pressuring people to change who they are to choose a side, is not the moral equivalency of “yeah, but they’re [label], tho.” The MAGA folks have their labels for you and me, too - baby killers and whatever for supporting womens’ rights. They genuinely think we are trying to institutionalize infanticide. Look at how deep the wedge goes.

I’m talking to you and only you right now onewomancareteam@sh.itjust.works - this isn’t some “who wins the internet” argument. Downvote this, I don’t care. I’m taking time and asking you to consider what you’re giving up, how much stress you absorb, how many relationships you’ve seen fizzle, because someone else is telling you you can only be one thing or another. Be something else. Be whatever you want. Be you. Fight fascists all day long without care for their labels, follow their actions without labels. FWIW, when push comes to shove, I’m this kind of out there weirdo politically, which makes me a shitty Buddhist. But I know who I am, and when people try and take that away from me, it riles me up.

Have a good day, and sorry my earlier comment was probably extra spicy. I was probably being a dick.

So foolish to think this way.

The longer we sit here and make it about the “other” is another day/year/decade that these people play us and stay in power.

Oof, friend, you’re going there? As someone that grew up near Vegas, let’s go.

It’s really more like:

Goes to Vegas. Knows the house always fucking wins. Went to dealers school and used to work on slot machines (for the sake of your analogy, this would be my degrees in political science and experience working with politicians and adjacent to politics, ugh)

Friends say let’s go out! Sure, of course, it’s expected others will want this even though you tell them the house always wins. Friend says: “The Bellagio is the BEST, I always win when I’m there! You’re an idiot if you go to the Luxor! Their decks don’t have any sevens!” OK, sure - both owned by MGM Group, so your money still goes to the same place. Still hangs with friends while understanding the context. Still gambles with money I expect to lose on solid bets or when the feeling is good. Occasionally wins and occasionally doesn’t. Occasionally, rarely, even gets comped a drink. Doesn’t NOT gamble like a prude.

Meanwhile, you’re down $5K and still making the case about why only fools gamble at the Luxor, why it’s hotel points and perks are the worst, something about the worst of capitalism, etc. etc. and talking up how much money you spend at the Bellagio because it’s hotel’s points system makes the most sense, why you buy expensive shit from the Bellagio mall as a slam on the Luxor, and something something free bottles of water in the room when you get to diamond silver medallion status! Yeah, buddy. Sure. OK, whatever you say. It’s your right to spend your money how you want to spend your money, but maybe telling me how to spend mine isn’t going over well.

To me, this is how you sound.

Your genuine inability to understand that is why Dems will always abuse you, guilt you for your for money, and field, at best, plastic centrist candidates that are stuffed suits kept alive by tubes full of money pumped into them by lobbyists. If everyone in the country registered to vote outside of a party and either of them had to earn votes, things would change. But your fear prevents you from seeing that.

Fun fact: “Interdependent” isn’t a political party. It’s the lack thereof. I’m not beholden to vote for an independent any more than I am anyone else.

It seems like you missed the point of not registering with a political party.

If you’re not even willing to vote against the fascists

Saying I want more options than fascists and fascist-enablers isn’t not being willing to vote. Tell me which party our old friend Bernie Sanders is part of and maybe you’ll see what’s possible.

However, it’s insulting to dictate my actions and force me to accept the Democratic party as anything remotely resembling scavengers who enable Republicans to do whatever they want in hopes they fuck up so they can pick up seats as the “other guys.” Which is what they do when they’re not fucking up and just whiffing reasonable opportunities because they are driven by money and billionaires just as much as the Republicans.

I’m asking you to use your brain

My friend, look at how brainwashed you are to lick Dem boots because you think they’re tastier than some oversized Florsheim shoes. I’m asking you to get off your knees and get everyone’s boots out of your mouth.

As a lifelong Independent, this post can F all the way off.

Yes, this is my civil, indoor voice.

Don’t you MFing tell me not to have opinions and free will, and that I should change who I am so I don’t make a bunch of establishment Dems that genuinely don’t care if I’m alive or dead have bad feels. Maybe the Dems should Fing field people that don’t gobble billionaire scroat like they invented it.

And Democrats can maybe, just once in a while, not happily fundraise and capitulate and do the policy strategy version of pump and dump schemes around the central point of “hey, we’re not the Nazis, we’re the mildly annoying guys that whimper when Nazis do Nazi shit, but do eventually give them everything they want. So it’s Nazi shit FAST or Nazi shit less fast with some of us around :D”

“Both sides suck” posts should encourage anyone with guts to see how much of the country wants a god damned set of independent candidates or even, (shudder) another MFing option between Shibag A and XXXL Shitbag B. People need to shed the chains of both parties and run at the local level. Give both sides a fucking scare.

Oh no, it was very specific and hard to cram all the words in to the time. Typical Sora is that it’s either screaming or long pauses.

It was used almost exclusively for slop and slop-based ads or videos that shouldn’t be slop. I was on there yesterday and some account had 2 videos of a woman in front of a plain wall talking for 15 seconds about tax implications for investments. A real human could have filed it with an iphone in 3 minutes.

But now that’s Google and Grok’s problems, I guess.

Clearly no one is responsible enough to hold the “Holy Land” by themselves, and the God of Abraham lets each religion come and take it over and lose it all the time, so no one is actually the favorite. “Ohh, you’re my favorite- NOW SUFFER!!!” WTF kind of abusive relationship is this?

I suggest we take the King Solomon route and wall off Jerusalem and say no one can go there until everyone sorts out their differences and play nice with each other. Maybe if we’re lucky, in 20,000 generations people will forget what was there, since that will happen before religious nuts cooperate on anything.