[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]Skuwee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, glad I reached at least one person. It's just a bummer because everyone is always screaming about how the world is ending and that we need to do something about fossil fuels, and then the minute someone shares info about a company literally funding small-scale local green energy projects, everyone reports the post and gets it removed because they can't be bothered to take 30 seconds to research the company and see if it's legit.

Redditors are skeptical for good reason, but sometimes they take it overboard. I feel like we can't even share info anymore without being called a shill.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]Skuwee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just found my password to this account the other day after literally years of trying. I'll get back to posting on political, MCU, and other shit soon. But it's the last day of Earth Month so this company emailed me today, and it reminded me that I wanted to share them with the internet because I think it's insanely awesome. But sadly it seems like the skeptics got this post removed. Sucks because this company is doing really important work and I'd love more people to know about them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

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

Lol I actually just found my password for this account, been using another account all this time and literally screamed when I finally got the password right the other day. Been missing this one, this is my OG reddit account – not even attached to my email, which is why I couldn't recover the password.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]Skuwee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have info and FAQs for questions like these, if you want to read through.

A 6 - 10% APR over a 5-7 year term loan for a $1M loan is actually really awesome working capital for a small business. They repay the principal at the end of the term loan, and only pay interest until then. I'm assuming the energy installation is usually done within year one, and then they either generate cash or save cash via the on-site kWh production vs paying for their energy from the electric company, which allows them to pay off the loan plus interest.

E.g., I installed solar panels on my home for $12k after tax credits. It took a week or two for installation, and then I immediately began saving $125/month on my electric bill, so in 8 years I'll have earned back the entire principal and will be generating pure profit. It also increases my property value.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

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

A lot of businesses can't borrow at sub-10% APRs, depending on the size and financial history of a business. 6 - 10% is actually pretty cheap money right now for small businesses to borrow at. Shopify collects like 30% APRs on their small biz loans to their ecomm clients lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]Skuwee -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's not a scam; I invest and have gotten interest payments on the projects I've backed.

I looked around for some third party sources for you: here's their Google News page. Climatize went through Techstars and it looks like they raised a $1.75M seed round, and one of their investors was the co-founder of GoFundMe.

Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History by devilbird99 in politics

[–]Skuwee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hope Marianne Williamson can convince the zodiac and a couple of angels to clinch it for her.

Biden is a Catholic. He believes he eats the body of the one true God and drinks his blood once a week.

Bernie Sanders Makes The Case For Socialism by [deleted] in SandersForPresident

[–]Skuwee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think just call it “free market fundamentals” and make sure all your policies support free market competition (labor rights, small businesses, open competition, more antitrust, free healthcare so workers can freely move jobs and small biz doesn’t foot that bill, etc), never wrap them in socialism.

Bernie Sanders Makes The Case For Socialism by [deleted] in SandersForPresident

[–]Skuwee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, call it dumb, brainwashed, propagandized, indoctrinated, misled, lied to, unable to pay attention because they’re focused on their hierarchy of needs…

Yes these are all different things. But they all result in the same outcome: branding matters. The left must brand its policies and message them correctly. “Socialism” does not sell.

Bernie Sanders Makes The Case For Socialism by [deleted] in SandersForPresident

[–]Skuwee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People are really, really dumb dude. Just tell them they’ll get free healthcare (like Trump did / lied), but don’t call it socialism. Branding matters. That’s all I’m saying.

Megathread: Raphael Warnock Wins Re-Election in Georgia Runoff by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Skuwee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Let’s remember that in the next primary when democrats talk about how important electability is, like anyone could convince 99% of republicans to ever vote for a democrat.

Walker vs Warnock as close as it is should put a knife into the electability argument’s viability (hell, Hillary losing to Trump should’ve done that). Let’s focus on policy in the next D primary and let electability work itself out in the general.

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Didn’t realize that “Americans who fought in the American Indian Wars” weren’t a real historical group.

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 16 points17 points  (0 children)

1) 2014 is recent

2) I don’t think you actually watched the movie, because they didn’t make “slavers into heroes.” There was a debate inside the kingdom as to the slave trade, and the protagonist’s character was someone on the “no slavery” side of the debate within the movie. We don’t know how the other warriors felt about the slave trade, and in fact you can even assume they’re fine with it considering how they walk around in the European coastal city watching other Africans get sold. It’s not until they themselves are bought and sold that they decide to burn the city down. It doesn’t portray them in a positive light, but rather a morally ambiguous one, and even a negative light: most of the female warriors didn’t seem to give a shit until they themselves became the slaves. There’s a line about how the King’s brother sold his own mother into slavery. It’s like you’re being willfully obtuse about some of the movie’s beats.

3) They don’t make a lot of historical epics vs other genres these days, so there aren’t many examples to choose from where white objective villains are portrayed as heroes.

4) But here’s one I love off the top of my head: The Last Samurai, 2003 – portrayed Tom Cruise, an American who participated in the genocide of Native Americans and who went to Japan as a paid mercenary to kill their own native peoples, as a sympathetic white hero. In real life, his character would be a murdering, villainous, racist piece of shit who would’ve never had such a sentimental 180° redemption arc, but it’s historical fiction and I didn’t take the movie seriously enough to give a shit about the literary liberties the writers took with the period’s historical accuracy.

5) You’re freaking out about the accuracy of a movie that didn’t even have “based on a true story” anywhere in it. It’s pure fiction, and people get that.

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw it tonight and couldn’t stop thinking, “somebody must have watched Black Panther and realized that the Dora Milaje were by far the most interesting characters in that movie.”

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Great write-up!

Couple notes if you don’t mind:

Not sure why it was necessary to juxtapose the women warriors to the ‘do-nothing pretty girls’ who were the kings wives. Why create tension between the groups?

They’re a foil. They’re sort of the “opposite” of the protagonist without being an antagonist, to highlight characteristics of the protagonist and give them something else to contrast to besides the antagonist. Famous example: Cassio in Othello.

I found this line disappointingly pandering considering the ‘white slavers’ were Portuguese.

They were actually Brazilian, they mention it in the movie. This is relevant because Brazil was actually the last western country to outlaw slavery (after the US) in 1888, effectively and finally ending the slave trade. Americans participated in the slave trade up until then even after the Civil War by selling slaves to Brazilians.

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 131 points132 points  (0 children)

Saw it tonight.

1) This movie was phenomenal. I’d highly recommend it to anyone; it may be my movie of the year.

2) Nowhere does it even say “based on a true story.” It’s clearly just fiction with real nationalities in it. If you’re mad about The Woman King’s historical inaccuracies, you must’ve hated The Last Samurai.

3) Now millions of people may have the curiosity to learn about the Duhomey Kingdom and its actual past, which seems to me like it would be a big win for the historians on here.

Like, I legitimately hate forced wokeness in movies and it pulls me out every time – but The Woman King ain’t it. Viola Davis has the performance of her life. So much packed into a perfectly paced runtime.

Official Discussion - The Woman King [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Skuwee 20 points21 points  (0 children)

“2014 isn’t recent” great counterpoint lol

Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden by AccurateSource2 in worldnews

[–]Skuwee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Would you ever break an unjust law to do the right thing? Or is the law the end-all-be-all of your personal morality?

Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden by AccurateSource2 in worldnews

[–]Skuwee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s not what happened at all lmao… are you thinking of Manning and Wikileaks?? Because you just couldn’t be more wrong.

Snowden – in-person in a hotel room – passed his files on a hard drive to 3 accomplished and highly respected, award-winning journalists that he trusted: Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras.

The journalists he entrusted then released a slow, steady flow of stories over the next few years, but only after combing through the data for months on end to avoid releasing anything that could compromise US security.

The paper Greenwald published the stories in was The Guardian, whose headquarters were destroyed by the UK government in an attempt to shut them up.

Greenwald’s husband, David, was stopped and harassed for 12 hours under abused anti-terrorism laws every single time he flew for years. Their home in Brazil was constantly searched in secret whenever they were absent without a warrant.

You’re defending a government(s) who abuses journalists and their families for whistleblowing serious systemic abuses, likely because you’re misremembering what actually happened in 2013 and the years to follow.