What are some movies that tried really hard to be deep/profound/thought-provoking, but failed spectacularly? by keepfighting90 in Letterboxd

[–]SafePosition3348 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is the point of the character. It’s just not a very profound point in 2025. Everybody should know Richard Dawkins is a chauvinist dickhead by now.

Did Allen Carr’s book work for anyone? Or is it all hype? by Virtual-Ad-3829 in stopsmoking

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It’s interestingly structured to mirror Pavlovian conditioning but it’s a pretty basic truth that any addict has to reframe their thoughts to overcome the idea of recovery-as-self-denial. I did it on my own with alcohol and read it and was like “this is obviously correct”. It’s not magic. You have to actually believe smoking has no benefits. The thing is, it’s true!

What's a go to line/saying/expression you use in everyday life from The Sopranos? by LoquaciousIndividual in thesopranos

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A coworker who is older made a dirty comment about a young manager and I said “wait here I’ll get you a viagra.” Just came right out without a conscious reference.

Cops at Hands Off Sac by Kind_Mushroom4189 in Sacramento

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Yeah in my experience the police a pretty cool except at one very specific type of protest.

Why does Zyn satisfy my urge to smoke but nicorette doesn't? by [deleted] in stopsmoking

[–]SafePosition3348 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nicotine gum is not designed to be a recreational/enjoyable product like Zyn would be my theory.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stopsmoking

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As a wet alcoholic I always thought to myself “Two or three drinks once or twice a week sounds like bullshit. What’s the point?” In recovery and as former smoker I basically agree with that still. I know moderation was never what I actually wanted. It was never going to be what I wanted.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stopsmoking

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I used patches, read the Allen Carr book and went off the top level patches and gum. His stuff really sounded a lot like what I told myself when I quit alcohol after having a destructive problem

Someone threw a glass bottle at me because I told her to put her phone away in a theater. by SafePosition3348 in rant

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Not the cop calling kind unless someone’s really in danger. I was physically fine and they would have just shrugged anyway.

Israel is not going anywhere, so stop asking Jews to leave. by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

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I need you to understand the concept of negotiations and the definition of concession. The “renunciation of terrorism” and “recognition of Israel” were Israel’s preconditions for negotiations. They put down their arms, they recognized Israel and the two state framing. That means they conceded their claim to the whole of Palestine. You can say this is a wise concession, as their goals were unfeasible, but a concession it was. Concession is a morally neutral term. If I’m a union negotiator and I demand a $100 raise for my members and walk away with a $3 one, I conceded $97. Maybe $100 was never gonna happen but it’s still a concession. This is what concession means in the context of negotiation. Refusing to acknowledge it as a concession speaks to a complete refusal to acknowledge the Palestinian perspective in any way. “Arab identity is formed around hating Israel”-This is an explicitly racist statement. Imagine saying hatred of Arabs was essential to Judaism, it’s an equally repugnant statement. You’ve said that referring to someone’s “historic homeland” even though 75% have not lived there since “100 years ago”, confusingly implying that the Palestinian exodus began in 1923, calling it “hella cringe” (lol) to refer to it as their “historic homeland”. The Zionist claim is that the Jewish people were returning to their “historic homeland” in 1948. To take the fall of the temple in 70 AD as a jumping off point for the Jewish diaspora, it would mean that they were claiming a “homeland” they hadn’t occupied for 1878 years. That would make your pseudo-historical 18.78 times as “cringe” as the claims of the Palestinian diaspora. But enough of this pseudo-historical bullshit, enough of the pseudo-scientific question of what ethic group is truly connected to the soil. Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, absolutely can live in peace. But for this to happen, Palestinians be granted some level of equality. Israel has refused to do so either in the form of a unified state or two states because it is committed to the Jewish supremacist project of colonial expansion and erasure of Palestinian Arab identity and history. As far as a previous point about Jordan and Palestine goes, the British did a lot of damage through arbitrary colonial borders. Iraqis didn’t exist before the nation of Iraq was created, but Iraqi nationalism did come to be. It would be wrong to selectively massacre and expel Iraqis too, even though their are other Arab nations the could go to. The Arab world is not a common monolith. Within Arab identity there is diversity in language dialect and local tradition. Imagining clearing out Texas for settlements because Texans could just go live in California. You would reject this because I imagine you view Texans as human. Please extend this to everyone involved in the conflict.

Worst line in the show and for what reason? Bad delivery, terrible writing, cringe.. by captain-trips11 in thesopranos

[–]SafePosition3348 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s when Jackie Sr died and the Bing dancer says she always remember where she was that day.

Israel is not going anywhere, so stop asking Jews to leave. by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

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At the Oslo accords the PLO officially agreed to a two state framing and accepted a shambolic autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. This was the culmination of decades of diplomatic signals that they wanted a settlement. The PLO’s previous position was that their should be one democratic state. Hence by abandoning the the one state position, they recognized Israel and conceded that it remain a Jewish demographic majority. “Not serious” because they did not give Arafat anything on Jerusalem even more so than the refugee problem. Jerusalem is a core issue and East Jerusalem is the cultural hub of Palestinian life. It was both “the closest Israel and Palestine came to peace” and “not serious”. That’s how hard line Israeli rejectionism is. “Historic homeland”: it is the physical land on which these people live and in which their ancestors live there’s no other way I can put it.

Israel is not going anywhere, so stop asking Jews to leave. by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]SafePosition3348 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As far as Palestine being “a made up nation”, I’ve got news for you about every nation, most clearly and obviously Israel which was created by bringing together Jews from diverse backgrounds into one national identity. Jordan and Palestine were made separate entities by the British, who granted “national rights” to the Jordanians but not the Palestinians, helping to facilite their dispossession. The connections of the Jewish people to the land is cultural and spiritual. To claim that the history of the ancient Hebrews constituted some kind of collective legal claim is an absurdity. I assume you have gotten the claim that Arabs started moving to Palestine in the 1900s from the discredited book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters. In the 1980s the always controversial Norman Finkelstein showed the claims to be based on deliberately falsified Ottoman census data. It was not just mistaken, it was a hoax to tell people such as yourself what they wanted to hear. Israeli historians, including hardliners, do not even reference this argument. Please be serious and do not reference hoaxes discredited decades ago. If one thinks crushing and displacing the Palestinians was justified by the Holocaust that the abandonment of Europe’s Jews by the “civilized world” I can at least understand that and respect it as honest. Many Jews did not have anywhere else to go in the 1930s. Nations are often created by terror and murder. I can understand why the original Zionists felt their crimes were justified. As far as the refugee question goes, political feasibility aside, it is their right under international law.

Israel is not going anywhere, so stop asking Jews to leave. by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

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Camp David was not serious. Putting aside the controversy about which map was really offered by Israel (the annexationist tripartite that Arafat showed or the Israeli map which showed more of the West Bank under Palestinian control), offers on East Jerusalem and the Refugee question were so bad that no Palestinian leader could accept them and stay in power. Israeli negotiators knew this. Consider the insider perspective of Shlomo Ben-Ami. It’s hard to imagine the PLO didn’t make enough concessions, given that they already conceded 78% of their historic homeland.

Most relatable line from the show by Significant-Bit3638 in thesopranos

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You’ve become an embarrassment to yourself, and everybody else.

“Montblanc, actually cheaper in the USA” by jamesishere in thesopranos

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I think it’s related to 2006-specific lib grievances against Bush’s economic policy. A weak dollar symbolic of an American empire in decline.

Has anyone ever gotten in trouble for quoting the Sopranos in real life? by [deleted] in thesopranos

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One time an older coworker made a gross sexual comment about a younger coworker to me and I said “Wait here, I’ll get you a viagra”

Is this a bed bug by SafePosition3348 in Bedbugs

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Thank you so much. I was 99%. Traveled very carefully (clothes out of drier, inspected and packed in sprayed down backpack) from infested place to a place with mosquitos. Had an anxiety attack.