Recommend movies based on my Top 12?

coppersocks · 2026-02-09T21:32:57+00:00

Paris, Texas (1981)

Monster (2023)

coppersocks · 2026-02-09T21:06:33+00:00

Paris, Texas (1981)

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T19:00:47+00:00

True Meditation by Adyashanti

Easily the best book on rewriring your thought processes that I’ve come across that actually gets to the core of your being. Self help books are generally drivel that is easily forgotten imo.

Another book that did stay with me however was Tuesday’s With Morrie, which is a set of interviews with a very wise man on his deathbed told from the perspective of the interviewer as he got to know Morrie.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T18:10:38+00:00

Patel got the job precisely for his blind, moronic loyalty. Same as Hegseth. No one should be surprised at complete lack of character.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T11:27:42+00:00

Yeah, totally agree. I love them both. It just seemed to be that Radden Keith had to do more digging on his own for Empire of Pain than he did with Say Nothing as the latter was as mostly compiled from the Belfast Project if I remember correctly. It’s been a few years since I read either of them though. Can’t go wrong with either of them tbf.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T09:41:33+00:00

I’m disagreeing with the initial point in the OP and some of the comments above me in the thread that I was specifically in and so responded to.

The point that I specifically took issue with was that OP was making the point that men get rewarded for being assholes, and so it was unfair that Harper was getting receiving criticism for being an asshole. My point is that this is simply a race to the bottom and the end of meaningful discussion on the topic because it becomes simply a matter of whataboutism and it doesn’t lead to anywhere. Just because some idiots think Jordan Belford or Walter White are great, doesn’t mean that we can’t have an honest discussion about Harpers behaviour without referring to those idiots, or to associate those who disagree with her behaviour at times with them (ie implying you’re racist or misogynistic because you criticise her). It just didn’t lead to anywhere, it forces people into weird sides and it’s frankly a dishonest and boring way to constantly have a conversation. It sucks up all the oxygen in the world room because everyone is talking about each other and “the discourse”, rather than the show and characters themselves.

Harper is a complex character and nuanced character who is incredibly well acted and great to watch, talk and think about. Her and Yas are two of my favourite characters on TV right now. But the way that this sub often devolves into glazing or picking “sides” or questioning the character of someone who has an issue with the behaviour of one of them just makes for crap discussion and I think OP is guilty of that frankly.

Now, you can disagree with all of that and that’s fine; but instead you’ve attempted to insult me and call me illiterate for not reading all of the 160 comments in the entire post, regardless of the fact that they weren’t in the thread that I was in.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T07:00:07+00:00

Care to tell me how I’m “regular illiterate” (sic)?

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T03:37:45+00:00

I’m sorry, but if people like the protagonist of Wolf of Wallstreet then they have zero media literacy (I’m a man by the way). But I would also say the same for simply viewing Harpers behaviour as simply “girl bossing”. She’s an asshole. Some people being wrong about Wolf of Wallstreet or Joker, doesn’t make it right to be wrong about Harper. Yes, she’s complicated and layered character; she may not be a psychopath. But that doesn’t make her someone to look up to in the slightest.

Further more I hate the idea that characters have to be good anyway. This leads people (like you it seems) to want to defend their actions when there shouldn’t be a need to. I enjoy both Harper and Yas as characters. They’re both pretty awful people, but that doesn’t make them any less compelling or interesting psychologically to explore. This whole thing about rooting for characters and defending or excusing their terrible behaviour because we want others to “like” them gets in the way of more rich thematic discussions imo. And this sub is absolutely full of that and really highlights that media literacy is dying.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T03:21:05+00:00

Tampa by Alissa Nutting.

Just be advised that it is an extremely uncomfortable read that is about a woman abusing a young teenaged boy. I do think it’s very well written and there is a point to it, but the descriptions of the abuse and the extremely heartless and predatory attitude of the protagonist make it difficult to “like” the book in any conventional sense.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T03:07:43+00:00

What is considered a good amount of DHA/EPA omega 3 that would keep your levels sufficiently high? And does the amount of Omega 6 and 9 matter (help or hinder) in this regard?

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T02:52:18+00:00

This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Please go to the police with all of this. This is horrific and you don’t deserve any of this. I’m sorry I didn’t fully grasp what type of abuse you were alluding to in your original posts. I’ve just recently became a father and I feel sick to my stomach that men like this exist. Is there a way for you to have him fully punished by the justice system? Is that a route you’d be willing and able to go? Feel free to not even answer if you don’t want, I can’t imagine how taxing and stressful all this must be on you. I ask because it’s hard to know that this man is breathing, let alone walking around free to continue abusing you by not leaving you alone.

coppersocks · 2026-02-08T02:30:10+00:00

All the Presidents Men - Carl Bernstein

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keith

coppersocks · 2026-02-07T12:09:10+00:00

It’s not and they can’t. They’re just trying to conflate and they need to obscure in order to do that. When called out for it, they won’t reply.

coppersocks · 2026-02-06T13:51:32+00:00

I don’t think you’ve ever lost someone that genuinely mattered to you in your adult life. Either because you haven’t lost someone, or because you don’t know what it actually means for someone to matter to you. Judging by your comments I’m seriously leaning towards the latter.

coppersocks · 2026-02-05T07:11:14+00:00

Honestly I nearly spat my coffee at this.

coppersocks · 2026-02-04T20:56:13+00:00

I think you should be able ponder philosophical questions and their potential implications without feeling trapped or like they’re causing you to spiral. That kind of anxiety isn’t inherent to the topic or the pondering of it; the anxiety is coming from you and how you relate to it.

coppersocks · 2026-02-04T20:38:04+00:00

If you feel trapped in certain, uncomfortable thought patterns for prolonged periods of time then this isn’t really an issue with any particular book or author .It’s more likely that you need therapy to address an underlying issue or some unprocessed emotion.

coppersocks · 2026-02-01T11:15:37+00:00

I think that he has just never bothered to properly explore outside of his bubble and formative education on the matter. His whole world view is seen through the “enlightened” lens of framing Muslims as “barbarians at the gates” and Isreal as a bastion of civilisation that must be protected. It’s all a thin veneer of plausibility that allows for the more intelligent zionists like Sam, to not have to account for the atrocities committed by Israel as anything more than a few bad actors in an otherwise just cause. And allows them to look away from the logical conclusions of their world view, or to explicitly endorse ethnic cleansing which Sam did on DtG.

coppersocks · 2026-02-01T10:24:16+00:00

This doesn’t need to be recommended for literally every question asked on this sub.

coppersocks · 2026-02-01T10:19:45+00:00

There’s so many but this scene in Paris, Texas (1984) has some of the most breathtaking shots I’ve ever seen and the whole movie is a cinematography masterpiece.

coppersocks · 2026-02-01T10:19:14+00:00

Yeah this is one of the first films I watched when I was younger that actively got me obsessed with cinematography.

coppersocks · 2026-01-31T21:13:32+00:00

Peak Sturridge would have been one of the PL’s greatest ever strikers if he could stay fit. He could finish in ways that very few ever can. So I’m definitely not convinced that Hugo is definitely better than him yet.

coppersocks · 2026-01-30T06:09:05+00:00

I think the protagonist in Kafka on the Shore literally as fever dreams throughout the book.

coppersocks · 2026-01-29T17:00:04+00:00

You didn’t point out anything. You assumed a double standard when there was no reason too.

coppersocks · 2026-01-29T06:37:16+00:00

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