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08-07-2019, 01:41 PM
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I have no idea who Mr. Horsey is, but he sure seems to dislike Mr. Shapiro.
Could you provide some context for me to understand what this has to do with anything? (Not everyone obsesses over the same things that you do.)
Could you provide some context for me to understand what this has to do with anything? (Not everyone obsesses over the same things that you do.)
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08-07-2019, 01:50 PM
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He's every liberal who cheers for antifa, and destruction, and violence, and hate, then claims Trump's rhetoric is inciting violence, all from the comfort of their moral high horse.
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08-07-2019, 02:25 PM
Depsite the blue supermajorities across the state, I'm kinda glad I don't have to deal with any of this **** in Hawaii... people just don't care. There's a horrible meth epidemic and the number of tourists who die here every year would SHOCK YOU, CLICK HERE OMG, but basically nobody gives a **** about anything that happens on the mainland. I'll assume Alaska is the same way.
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08-07-2019, 07:20 PM
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Funnily enough, Denmark's prime minister denied that they are a socialist country.
"I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."
Central economic planning is not a defining characteristic of socialism. John Stuart Mill, one of the early thinkers on the topic, described what he called "Market Socialism," in which traditional market forces (supply / demand) drive production and pricing at the local level, with these decisions being made by the individual entities involved, rather than by the state.
Anyway, here's a Hitler meme:
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08-08-2019, 12:10 AM
So when the state centralizes all industry and the value of their currency falls through the floor, people in rural areas revert to a trade/barter system and people in the cities stand in gov't bread lines.
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08-08-2019, 08:37 AM
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Dat Rhetoric Doh.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/movie-sh...0PBIE1umhj82Sw
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
August 7, 2019 Updated: August 7, 2019
A movie showing liberals stalking supporters of President Donald Trump is slated to be released in September but has lost an advertisement on ESPN in the wake of two mass shootings on Aug. 3 and Aug. 4.
The movie, “The Hunt,” from Universal Pictures, shows people hunting down “deplorables,” a term failed presidential contender Hillary Clinton used to describe supporters of Trump during the 2016 campaign.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/movie-sh...0PBIE1umhj82Sw
Movie Showing Elites Hunting Down Trump Supporters Slated to Hit Theaters in September
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
August 7, 2019 Updated: August 7, 2019
The movie, “The Hunt,” from Universal Pictures, shows people hunting down “deplorables,” a term failed presidential contender Hillary Clinton used to describe supporters of Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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08-08-2019, 09:02 AM
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Nowadays, you can simply order any kind of bread you want ahead of time from your phone, cruise up to the store after work, and have it brought out to you. No waiting, don't even have to leave your car.
And I think that, from a standpoint of community involvement, we're all poorer as a result.
#BreadLinesMatter
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08-08-2019, 09:26 AM
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Having watched the full trailer, this seems to be a film about rich people paying to hunt poor people for sport.
I see no obvious political motive, and attempting the politicize it seems a tad desperate / reach-y.
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08-08-2019, 10:53 AM
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depends.
the synopsis is:
but it keeps being described as:
also:
the synopsis is:
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen... for a very specific purpose... The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of globalist elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport. But the elites' master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters' game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman
but it keeps being described as:
A violent thriller in which blue-state elites hunt red-state “deplorables” for sport has been forced to pull some of its ads in the wake of US mass shootings as studio execs fear the tragedies will eclipse the ultra-dark satire.
“We pay for everything, so this country belongs to us,” one of the “hunters” says in a trailer still available online; they reportedly pick their “prey” based on social-justice sins like using racist language on social media.
“The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals,” THR’s Kim Masters wrote. “It features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey.”
According to the Hollywood trade publication, characters in the film refer to the victims as “deplorables,” which is what Hillary Clinton famously dubbed Trump supporters during the 2016 election. The report noted that a character asks, "Did anyone see what our ratf--ker-in-chief just did?"
“The Hunt” stars Betty Gilpin and Hillary Swank, who play characters who represent “opposite sides of the political divide,” according to Masters, who added that it was originally titled, “Red State vs. Blue State.”
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08-08-2019, 10:57 AM
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meanwhile:
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/tw...e-mitchs-home/
BUt TrUYmp IsI a voOLeLECNt SeXIsIT MONsTeNR THat We MUSt ERradCIate!
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A Twitter spokesperson said the @Team_Mitch account was “temporarily locked out of their account for a Tweet that violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety.”
McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, confirmed the account was locked this morning “for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell.” The video featured a clip from a recent protest outside McConnell’s home in Louisville, where participants reportedly donned clothing and held signs that read “Massacre Mitch.”
“This is a problem with the speech police in America today,” Golden said. “Twitter will allow the words ‘Massacre Mitch’ to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us.”
McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, confirmed the account was locked this morning “for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell.” The video featured a clip from a recent protest outside McConnell’s home in Louisville, where participants reportedly donned clothing and held signs that read “Massacre Mitch.”
“This is a problem with the speech police in America today,” Golden said. “Twitter will allow the words ‘Massacre Mitch’ to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us.”
BUt TrUYmp IsI a voOLeLECNt SeXIsIT MONsTeNR THat We MUSt ERradCIate!
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08-08-2019, 12:13 PM
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People ascribe political meaning to apolitical media all the time. Take "Bird Box" for instance. Some people saw it is a condemnation of how society tends to turn a blind eye to mental health issues. Others perceived the monster in the movie to be racism, which all of the white people put on blindfolds to ignore. Still others saw the blindfold as a metaphor for social media, which we use to shield ourselves from having to see the true evils of our society.
One of my personal favorites is that it's about the phenomenon of helicopter parenting. Natalie Reilly wrote:
Are our blindfolds the reason nobody cares about Syria? Or why Americans are no longer paying attention to the longest war in their history? Or that, despite the hammering of alarming statistics for over two decades, we still can’t quite grasp the idea that climate change is so dire we may only have two decades left? When Bullock’s character becomes pregnant, an obstetrician tells her: “Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
In this sense, Bird Box reflects a deeply insular, conservative and ultimately paranoid parenting philosophy. There is an invisible evil lurking in the world. One that knows our worst fears, only to exploit them like some all-knowing algorithm – such as global tech corporations harvesting all our personal information, or the government, or both. It knows us. Knows what we like and will turn that against us. In some ways, it already has – the Cambridge Analytica scandal is proof of that.
Are any of these interpretations things that the creators of Bird Box intended to convey? Who knows. Art is like that; people see in it what their beliefs tell them should be there.
In this sense, Bird Box reflects a deeply insular, conservative and ultimately paranoid parenting philosophy. There is an invisible evil lurking in the world. One that knows our worst fears, only to exploit them like some all-knowing algorithm – such as global tech corporations harvesting all our personal information, or the government, or both. It knows us. Knows what we like and will turn that against us. In some ways, it already has – the Cambridge Analytica scandal is proof of that.
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08-08-2019, 12:28 PM
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Hunting humans isn't very nice.
Maybe it would be easier for the left to see the problem if all of the people being hunted were black?
Or Hasidic Jews?
Or Mexicans?
Or women?
Or gays?
Maybe it would be easier for the left to see the problem if all of the people being hunted were black?
Or Hasidic Jews?
Or Mexicans?
Or women?
Or gays?
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08-08-2019, 01:07 PM
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I think we should make a movie about people from rural counties in the southern US kidnapping gay black Muslim women from liberal-arts colleges in the New England area as well as the northwest, and then hunting them in game preserves with AR-15 rifles equipped with bumpstocks.
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