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If people want the government to stop lying to them, the first step is to cultivate a society that doesn’t demand being lied to. I am not saying that to absolve government, but at the same time, there is likely a selection bias in political viability toward being rather selective with the truth (if not outright lying).

Covid, at the outset was…[Read more]

Is critical drinker meant to be parody/ satire?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
The only reason such a law doesn’t pass and would get overturned is because some of us still still respect Inalienable Indiviual Rights and won’t let the enemies of these Rights have a chance.

Nah. It’s because your legal system biases toward a pretty liberal interpretation of the first amendment and would be unlikely to…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If it involves any kind of Government sanction or punishment, it is a distinction without difference to the one getting the sanction or punishment.

Discriminatory harassment should remain unlawful.

Little Punks who go on “Feelz Over Realz” will not make such a differentiation, and for the accused, the pro…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
If it involves any kind of Government sanction or punishment, it is a distinction without difference to the one getting the sanction or punishment.

Discriminatory harassment should remain unlawful.

Little Punks who go on “Feelz Over Realz” will not make such a differentiation, and for the accused, the process of mak…

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Unseen wrote:

Autumn wrote:

Unseen wrote:
I know if the biography of Nelson Mandela had George Clooney in the lead role, I’d find it an eye-rolling embarrassment as a white person, and there’d be a clamor.

I literally just addressed this. come back to me when you learn to read. And honestly, I don’t care how I sound to you. I don’t respect you.

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PopeBeanie wrote:
I wonder if the terrible trend of “liberals making conservatives angry enough to destroy democracy and minorities” might beget a terrible trend of “authoritarians making the populous angry enough to destroy government buildings and their autocratic occupants”? Everyone grab your guns and ammo. Buy more, if necessary. Hey clueles…

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Unseen wrote:
I know if the biography of Nelson Mandela had George Clooney in the lead role, I’d find it an eye-rolling embarrassment as a white person, and there’d be a clamor.

I literally just addressed this. come back to me when you learn to read. And honestly, I don’t care how I sound to you. I don’t respect you.

Unseen wrote:
One thing these wokeist extremists forget when asking “Why can’t a gay character be played by an actual gay actor?” is how many gay and lesbian actors have been playing heteros throughout the years. Were there no hetero actors available to play those parts?

It’s a question that’s been both asked and answered countless times. We we…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Yes, the white privilege thing is hard to figure. It absolutely exists on a broad scale. However, for individuals it’s often way more subtle. Let’s say I have a heavily christian engineering manager. Who gets the privilege, the white “gothy”, atheist engineer or the black, active-christian engineer? That’s real life.

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A lot of people seem to make fuzzy distinctions between something being unlawful and being criminal. Even the article itself flips between ‘criminal’ and ‘illegal’. Many people here in Canada think misgendering is criminal (conservative and progressive alike), but it’s not. It’s not even illegal, though discriminatory harassment is under certain…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Autumn wrote:
To what extent is this really happening?

I couldn’t tell you. But I saw a movie last week where the white men just started shooting the (good) Asian and middle Eastern men, for no reason at all. It didn’t make any sense. It was a clumsy caricature.

I don’t doubt it exists. I think the distinguishing factor bec…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
That’s off the table now and instead movies are going to school me on diversity and how strong and smart women are and how dumb and useless I am.

I’m all for diversity in movies. The traditional movie cast wasn’t very diverse. But painting white men as inherently stupid and evil doesn’t do anyone any favours…

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Unseen wrote:

@autumn I haven’t engaged in that tangent and I have no interest in it. I’ve pretty expressly stayed on the topic of movies and deliberately only engaged the issue of attractiveness that far.

As often happens, topics go off onto sidebar discussions. You’ve denied Robert’s discussion about what women find attractive in men, which g…

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Unseen wrote:
Pay attention. We aren’t only talking about cinema. We’re talking about what women find attractive in men.

I am aware, but I haven’t engaged in that tangent and I have no interest in it. I’ve pretty expressly stayed on the topic of movies and deliberately only engaged the issue of attractiveness that far.

.LOL You come off as pol…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
The scheme of which you spoke involves some kind of nebulous “healing” of violent offenders that can “go wrong” and by your own admission above,

No.

you have no data about it, yet you accuse those who discount the alternative scheme as having “not exactly a rational approach” and being “incipient.”

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_Robert_ wrote:
As if the leading movie stars are not above average in attractiveness.

They don’t have to be. Obviously there is money to be made off it, but if we’re talking movie quality, this is a vapid criterion for most (but not all) film to be judged by.

If you’re going to moan about the quality/ enjoyability of woke films but the end…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Autumn, I don’t think I’m alone in wondering what you find attractive in men or even if you are attracted to men.

What does that have to do with cinema?

I mean, other than complete and total congruity with your rather highly politicized way of looking at the world.

I don’t have a highly politicized way of looking at the world; I hav…[Read more]

What men and women find aesthetically pleasing is only so relevant to cinema. It’s also undoubtedly shaped by cultural bias. When we talk about viable acting careers, many leading men have been short, albeit with handsome faces. Granted, in the days of Tom Cruise a lot of effort was made to have them appear taller, but when we look at someone like…[Read more]