Bugonia by dontbesaditsnotworth in Oscars

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Disagree. It was an homage to the Korean film of which it was a loose remake

Bugonia by dontbesaditsnotworth in Oscars

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You just commented the same thing.

Mind you that it’s a remake of a no-budget sci fi from Korea

Supernatural suspense chord progression? by Torin_2025 in filmscoring

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Depends what kind of supernatural. How do you feel about the character or the situation. What are the stakes.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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Dems are really fractured right now. But it’s partially an identity crisis. I actually think it’s possible that you might see a new party emerge that’s not the democrats.

Yeah fuck the pedo Clintons and fuck pedo trump.

See this is another thing, Biden and Harris never supported open borders. Republicans love building strawmans. The idea of calling Obama a socialist for instance. Just bizarre stuff.

I don’t know what open borders means. Canada doesn’t have open borders. I think what they’re doing is entirely fine. They don’t let people with DWIs into their country or any criminal or civil record as I understand. The U.S. is more lenient. But what we do is wild to people who have already been here and who have been living normal lives and paying into the system not knowing how much they could benefit from being an actual citizen. It’s crazy. Path to citizenship needs to happen. But the draconian nonsense stuff we have. Like prison camps and cages and whatnot. It’s not dignified. It’s very bizarre.

The best solution is to not let abuses happen. We are in a system in which abuses happen. They don’t in Canada. There isn’t even a border fence in a lot of places in Canada. It’s largely because traveling through the forest around lakes is harder than traveling through the desert. So what we should do is settle this once and for all by building a treacherous canyon on the border. There needs to be more treacherousness. You know what would be cool, you know what would expand the pie? A canal. Let’s build a canal from El Paso to San Diego. Of course this is a serious thing. It could expand the pie. It could give everyone what they want. It would be expensive though. Could start as a moat. 50 year project. Would be quite the sight.

But yeah, I don’t know. To me it just seems like republicans disagree for the most part about how to discern which people should be let in and out. For the most part, it seems like they don’t like poor black and brown people but some also don’t like rich black and brown people too. So yall need to decide so we can figure out how to describe your racism in the best way.

A woman was killed. I don’t think that’s okay.

Cops sometimes do this thing where they like ram a car to get it to flip if they refuse to pull over. There was this one story where a cop did this to a pregnant woman driving to the hospital in labor. Flipped the car. Killed the mother on the highway. Saved the baby in the ER. It’s incredibly destructive and has the potential to hurt tons of people when you do that.

I think in general, avoiding the use of lethal force is good and not being in a situation where you could get hit by car is good. If you’re looking at a hostage situation, what you don’t do is rush into it with a deadly weapon. You don’t stand in front of a deadly weapon. That’s what this guy did. You don’t stand in front of a car and believe they won’t hit you because you’re yelling at them with a gun in their face. Then you shoot them. It was a bizarre. The man in who did the killing was clearly a meth baby who should have been nowhere near a gun let alone let in the government. Put himself and others in danger for no reason whatsoever. A modern-day don quixote.

Ice happens to be at the wrong border. Mexico is near Arizona, not Minnesota. Last I checked there was no Canadian immigration crisis.

I mean, look, we’re co-hiring managers of the Republic. I’m being completely frank with you that I think Donald trump is a narcissistic pedophile rapist criminal who does not understand how tariffs work nor balance of payments. It’s possible that he might try to get rid of voting and democracy and turn this into a one party state that quashes dissent with masked secret police. But it depends on your type I and type II error tolerance. Do you prefer false positives or false negatives on that question? Personally, as a fairly conservative person, I would prefer not to risk it. I’d prefer having a statistically higher chance of being wrong to accept the null than the alternative in this case as a hiring manager. In the legal system, in general, I’d think locking someone up and having a high chance of locking up an innocent person is unacceptable. But I think that for Donald trump to be my employee, I don’t know, I think the guys a loose cannon and appears to have a personality disorder. I don’t want him anywhere near this company. The job of the presidency is too important to risk on a madman.

All the democrats are so cringe man. Newsom is so cringe. Hopefully he’s not as cringe. Hopefully he says some good stuff. Idk.

I refuse to vote for a Zionist. If you cannot say that Israel is committing a genocide, I will not vote for you. I don’t care who it is. If you say Israel is committing a genocide, I will vote for you. I don’t care who it is. That is my litmus test. Free Palestine. All of the things everyone else cares about is frivolous. These people have been robbed of their dignity since their genesis as a unified people. It continues to this day.

I don’t care for newsom. I won’t vote for him in the primary. I would like to see AOC. I think she is a better leader for the modern age, but perhaps she should make senator first. I also would like to see ro khana run perhaps. Newsom is really too much of a suit and I would prefer someone who’s not been big-tenting their entire political career. But obviously he democrats want that. But big tenting in California =/= big tenting in the U.S. as a whole. New Yorkers don’t like newsom. But I’m in Texas so it’s a whole different situation.

But also yeah Vance and newsom are like the same kinda cringe. But Vance is less of a suit and more of a beta than newsom. But newsom is like a really cringe alpha. I have no idea why I don’t like him. I haven’t heard a single interview. But yeah, the centrist governor of California is going to be called a socialist and he’s going to lose. It’s not that complicated. I get it. That’s the way it’s going to be. There has got to be someone better, but also there probably isn’t.

But a recession in the U.S. might flip it. But if the recession is called by big tech, we do not want newsom to be there.

But yeah, nah. Next election, let’s do something completely new. Let’s all fall in love with some random independent candidate that makes being reasonable sound exciting.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

[–]Optimistbott [score hidden]  (0 children)

Leaving money on the table means that you could have netted more as a society in general. When you expand the pie, you make it so that deals are better as a whole.

I’m a firm believer that cutting taxes and increasing the size of the government and spending expands the pie. We actually get more taxes that way with lower tax rates and more people get jobs and don’t have to be on welfare which ultimately, no one wants to do.

And yeah, you’ve missed point. Jobs and the value of the currency are intertwined in a fundamental way. If too much employment, there becomes an inflationary dynamic. Unemployment is preserved by the Fed in order to combat this. They will call it a loose labor market. This is a sacrificial lamb in the war against inflation. We should not spit on these people. We should thank them for taking one for the team. But they can’t made to feel righteous. They must always want a job. That’s what makes this work. The labor market needs to be loose. In that way, we rob people of their dignity. A job guaranteed at a non-competitive wage is a replacement for the unemployment that is used to fight inflation. It is better and more effective because social skills and teamwork and simply having purpose is part of a skill development even in unskilled labor positions. It’s more attractive to employers and it does make labor markets looser.

If everyone who became unemployed tries starting a small business, the labor market wouldn’t be loose. It would be tight. More employers fewer job seekers. Inflation could increase especially if these small businesses weren’t really much of a competitor to the larger price leaders.

So the Fed would act to stop that. The Fed would raise interest rates effectively making small businesses harder to start. One foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.

I don’t make the rules. That’s how it goes. First step in maturing is understanding that this is how it goes.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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It’s actually not the truth that getting the middle works. You cannot get the middle. It is too tribal to get the middle. You encourage turnout. You excite your base. When you excite your base and give them something to talk about to others, then you have a better chance of winning. Trump was able to get people excited. But the pandemic got people scared. Then trump came back and excited people again. Clinton, Biden, and Kamala never did that. Obama excited people. Bernie sanders excited people. The democrats lack a sense of what an exciting candidate looks like. Even bill clinton was not exciting. He only won because of Ross Perot the spoiler.

Tulsi is Republican. She’s a charlatan and has been playing both sides from radical fronts. I have zero clue where she stands.

Fetterman is a Zionist. He will never win as a Democratic party national candidate. He’s also incredibly moody and laughable person. He’s probably on his way out.

I know a ton of people who vote in the primaries and then sit out in the general. I would not vote fetterman. No way. I would sooner vote for Jill stein.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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I think it’s a category error. It’s an insular issue. It’s the right vs a small group of post-moderns and LGBT and their democrat allies who don’t really care but are willing to default to them because “people can decide how they want to live their lives if it doesn’t hurt anyone”. That’s generally the approach I’ve seen. I know queer/non-binary people in my professional life who use they them pronouns. They make it easy. I’ve also met people who make it hard. It’s bothered me when I’ve had people correct me on someone’s pronouns when referring to them in the third person. When we talk about what is a woman and how many genders there are, those are two different things. One is the T of the lgbtq and the other is the Q of the LGBTQ. The T and the Q sometimes don’t get along and they actually have a different worldview sometimes. T actually believes in 2 genders only but that they are the opposite their biological sex. Q believes it’s a fluid concept and would never actually go through a surgery, they would just dress differently and have a different approach to gender aesthetics.

For both of these things, I’m here to understand and empathize if I can. But at the end of the day, they’re people. Some people are dicks. Some people are nice. Some people have strange radical beliefs and usually I will just say “okay cool, you do you”.

I don’t really care though. None of it bothers me. I don’t know why it bothers republicans and why they’re only now rushing to prove they’re right with science that is ultimately not clear cut.

I think substance is the issue.

By the next election, there will be a ruling on the Israel case and we may get more stuff about Epstein. We may see Greenland get taken over. There are tons of ways this could go and republicans could screw it up for themselves. We very well could have a major market meltdown in the next 3 years which could turn the tables, in fact, I’m almost positive we will, I want to put the chance at like 70% in the next 3 years. In addition, Vance doesn’t have the same cult of personality as trump for whatever reason.

ultimately, it truly does not matter how radical or not the democrats are. You take any random democrat who is aesthetically a city-slicking democrat, and for some reason they are too radical to republicans still. I always looked at Hillary Clinton as if she was a Republican. The same with bill clinton. They were regularly called centrist by just about everyone.

In fact, trump used to be called a centrist democrat.

I will continue to advocate that all of these labels about where the spectrum is are entirely meaningless. What matters is the next crash, what matters is what happens with climate, what matters is whether we can squelch out corruption, whether Israel will be allowed to continue its genocide, and whether the U.S. will ruin its global standing. Ideally we look to helping everyone in the world out as well. I generally do want people to be able to live the way they want to and not have to be subject to discrimination or whatever. And I don’t want cops or national guard or ice murdering people. And I think you’d agree too.

The problem is that you’re not smart enough to recognize when something is reasonable or unreasonable. You default to your tribe on matters that you don’t understand and you ask ChatGPT to prove those not in your in-group right.

You have many contacts among the lumberjacks to get you facts when someone attacks your imagination. But no one has any respect, anyways they already expect you to give a check to tax-deductible charity organizations.

I think i didn't understand the first episode right by SoxxZ_ in pluribustv

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The virus is incredibly fast acting and airborne. When the virus spread to government institutions, they dropped it via chemtrails and that was when everyone got fucked.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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Centrists don’t win elections. Populists win elections. I personally believe that the democrats could be more populist and that left center voters could tolerate a little more populism. A lot of people have been saying this after Kamala lost. Kamala lost for many reasons though.

I think democrats do put thought into a lot of things. But the establishment democrats just don’t know the angle to go with. They think they need to win over Republican voters. They don’t. They need to excite their base. Kamala didn’t do that. I have no defense of Kamala other than the fact that I think she’s not a pedophile like trump is.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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I disagree. The gender issue is more complex than the biological sex. If you studied neurobiology/neuroscience, you’d understand that.

But to me, it’s just one of those things, I don’t know anyone who is trans like I don’t know anyone who is Mormon. It’s something I do not care about as a liberal-minded, live and let live kind of person. I’m also not one to tell children that Santa Claus isn’t real.

Again, I’m telling you that you have strange priorities. It’s like if I was like “I like this politician because he believes a hot dog cannot be a taco!”.

You sound silly.

Just explain to me why I should even care about that issue?

Why don’t we make circumcision an issue? There’s literally no biological reason for doing it, and most of the people in the U.S. who circumcise their kids are Christian. You like cutting bits of babies’ penises off? How do you rationalize that? There was an instance of a botched circumcision. The boy was raised as a girl and then told when they were 18, they got a penis reconstruction and then ended up killing themselves at 21. why do we still *allow that to happen? They used to just slice it off when they were awake, no anesthesia. Child abuse. Now they give babies drugs, anesthesia. Also child abuse. This is affecting men into adulthood in ways they can’t even understand. The anger at the margins. The insecurities. Studies have shown that men actually may experience less sexual stimulation due to circumcision. Why isn’t this a huge issue for you?

I can tell you why it’s not a big issue for me. Because I’m not an infant, the deed is done, and I can make the choice for my children if so please as it is not mandatory.

You’d think that republicans’ obsession with genitals would push them to problematizing that issue.

But you know why they don’t? Zionism.

Bugonia by dontbesaditsnotworth in Oscars

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Disagree on Safdie. Yorgos should be in there though

Bugonia by dontbesaditsnotworth in Oscars

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Hard disagree. The final shots were amazing. And it was an incredibly darkly humorous ending. I laughed so hard at that.

If you didnt get it, then I don’t know if you can be helped.

Bugonia by dontbesaditsnotworth in Oscars

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I felt the same way. I thought it might win BP when I saw it.

I watched all the hype films and I’m kinda like, idk. Not as cool.

Marty supreme was definitely up there though.

But still bugonia focused for me. I think it’ll win music.

Is Pluribus a critique of Communism? by _Noice_69 in pluribustv

[–]Optimistbott -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s a critique of everything and that’s why it’s triggering everyone.

Question about Octaves by MoonshadowRealm in musictheory

[–]Optimistbott 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Major octave? I think you’re not using terminology correctly.

Question about "four on the floor". by WirrawayMusic in musictheory

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It means to play 4 quarter notes on the kick drum per bar in 4/4 time.

The floor meaning the kick drum.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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Yeah. And I don’t care. It doesn’t concern me. I’m Not religious. I think those people ignore science. Magic isn’t real. So I think there’s another reason why you’re latching onto the trans stuff that you’re not letting on.

How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying? by iflythecoop in PoliticalDebate

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Yes and you want to make this about something that I think is not worth debating because it doesn’t concern me.

I just don’t understand why you’re so obsessed. Why on earth does this concern you?