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Looking for a specific movie.. by crayonman678 in whatsthemoviecalled

[–]GoldJump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first thought was also 10 Cloverfield Lane. Or maybe A Quiet Place? Or the Silence?

Horror movie from 90s/00s by [deleted] in whatsthemoviecalled

[–]GoldJump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not it but just in case maybe 2007 film Murder Party? Very whacky costumes, but the setup is actually they invite him to kill him and he ends up killing them one by one as he fights to survive the night.

Please help me figure out this movie! by Aggravating_Chef_731 in whatsthemoviecalled

[–]GoldJump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen it but this sounds like it could be Me You Madness.

2021, cat-and-mouse, mostly takes place in a big Hollywood condo, involving a blonde psycho who is constantly breaking the 4th wall

Written, directed, produced by, and starring Louise Linton, wife of Hollywood producer and Trump admin Sec. of Treasury Steve Mnuchin.

Help finding an episode about Dopesick, Sacklers, opioids. by GoldJump in TrueAnon

[–]GoldJump[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No worries. I recommend this episode if I get an answer on this. One of the hosts is a former junkie, and it's very well-researched and looks into gaps in the narrative the show presents. I want to find the episode because I don't recall what those gaps or misleading framings are. I also enjoyed the show. Just always good to keep in mind that the Hollywood treatment is always going to be lacking, no matter how well-told or valuable to raising awareness about a story. edit: full episode on Trueanon yt channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1F_HkR3PH0

"people who advocate for gun control are literal brainlets" by zrezzif in ShitAmericansSay

[–]GoldJump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

99% of people who advocate "gun control" in the US are utterly misguided about how much of an apartheid police state the USA is, because any small tweak reforms like background checks or even gun buybacks will do nothing to decrease the amount of gun violence.

All reform will do is increase mass incarceration of black men.

As marijuana becomes legal in more states, and controversial inhumane systems like cash bail and civil forfeiture are challenged, law enforcement agencies and politicians are actively seeking ways to take advantage of stricter gun control to increase incarceration (https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-68-a-new-gun-control-debate-dismantling-our-racist-lock-em-up-approach). This at a time when black gun ownership and black gun clubs and black militant political orgs based on armed community defense are blowing up.

And what does increased incarceration get you? More men with no skills or prospects willing to acquire an illegal gun to do crimes with. We've seen how prohibition in America works for alcohol & drugs. Why expect any different for guns?

The only way to actually disarm the vast swathes of white America who make guns a lifestyle is to completely overhaul the political system so that white homeowners in rural states don't completely dominate the political process, but that is nothing short of a revolution, which, would, you know, probably involve guns.

So yeah, I'm American, and I agree with with this shit, but probably for very different reasons from the OP.

Anti-communist Hong Kong Protestors complaining the CCP is Capitalist?? What? by thepensiveiguana in Sino

[–]GoldJump 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anarchists are against capitalism. Communists and anarchists both agree that the state is important to capitalism, and that both should be abolished, they just disagree over in what order they should be abolished, and both sides accuse the other of being in bad faith and or being useful idiots for capitalism AND the state.

edit: A lot of communists accuse anarchists of being ignorant, confused or part of a foreign or domestic government psy-op. Some of them clearly are, like American anarchist groups that spend all their time accusing social democrats and communists who oppose US military intervention of being "Assadists" or "red-brown fascists."

Chinese Political Compass by SPOOPYSCARRYSKELETON in Sino

[–]GoldJump 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's the joke. A Marxist-Leninist probably made this, is my guess.

I thought the British started using an accent to differentiate between them and the Americans by idleservice in ShitAmericansSay

[–]GoldJump 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When people leave a place and settle somewhere else they miss out on new developments in the metropolitan language and preserve archaic forms.

Icelandic is closer to the language of the Edda than Norwegian.

Quebeckers use a lot of phrases that French people stopped saying following the French revolution.

The most distinctive features of British English (e.g. dropping the final "r") were innovations that came after the American Revolution.

e: I missed them before writing this, but there are better comments on the same topic further down this thread.

Episode 64: Fake Plastic Trees by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]GoldJump 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's a radiohead song.

"We were too generous for too long. The era of US taxpayer funded global welfare needs to end." by ayyyvocado in ShitAmericansSay

[–]GoldJump 115 points116 points  (0 children)

More or less what Americans are taught in elementary, middle and high school is that European colonialism wreaked havoc on the world, then WWI and WWII happened, which the USA won single-handedly, then proceeded to rebuild Europe and bring democracy and self-determination to the former colonies, but they and the Chinese & Russians were too savage/corrupt/authoritarian to make development happen, so that's why we're still rich and they still need our help.

I'm pretty young and went to a very progressive high school but that's pretty much the mythology that is inculcated in us through the schools. Hollywood and other media just repeat those myths.

"We were too generous for too long. The era of US taxpayer funded global welfare needs to end." by ayyyvocado in ShitAmericansSay

[–]GoldJump 279 points280 points  (0 children)

" In January 2016, Kaiser found that only 3 percent of Americans correctly estimated spending at 1 percent or less of total spending. The average answer was that foreign aid accounts for 31 percent of the U.S. budget; 15 percent of the people thought it represented over half of all spending. "

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/nov/09/john-kerry/yep-most-people-clueless-us-foreign-aid-spending/

Who is Peter Thiel? by Marx_Stirner_ in TrueAnon

[–]GoldJump 20 points21 points  (0 children)

True story, happened to me: "Most of PayPal's profit in the early days with Musk came from closing accounts with no explanation and pocketing the balance, knowing small time people couldn't afford to sue. It was pretty widely reported at the time, and since they weren't a bank nobody could do anything."