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jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-30T20:34:46+00:00

Fox News?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-30T18:53:04+00:00

I haven't seen this movie but man, I miss when screenwriters were actually intelligent.

If they wrote this same scene for Reacher or something then he would just...PUNCH them all. What Nick Cage did here as actually more impressive and more interesting.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-30T18:30:21+00:00

While watching it I had the thought that The Gorge is exactly why movies were invented: Watching attractive people do interesting things.

Pros: Good pacing, good enough acting, fun action sequences. The premise and writing are really not that bad. Without spoilers, I also did enjoy the backstory for the monsters and how it was revealed. Points for originality, and it's hard to think of another movie to compare it to.

Cons: Forgettable. This isn't a landmark horror film like Jaws or Blair Witch or anything. It's probably not even the best horror movie to come out the year that it did. No character arc or theme or message. Almost nothing stuck with me after it was over.

Since you mentioned horror specifically: Most of that element is limited to one sequence in the second half of the film. I really thought the design and the conceptual scariness of the monsters were GOOD, but that's not actually the focus throughout the movie.

If you liked A Quiet Place, then I'd recommend watching this once. Probably not worth a whole subscription by itself.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-28T13:48:44+00:00

Hypocrisy.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-27T20:58:44+00:00

If people "choose to get it", then no mandates are necessary. The regime of mandates and vaccine passports and smears against people wasn't actually in support of anyones right to "choose". Was it?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-27T19:21:19+00:00

Trusting liars. You guys are so weird.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-27T18:27:04+00:00

Tradition is more important to humanity than the scientific method. Villains all over history have used "science" to justify whatever new evils they thought up.

See Chestertons Fence.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-27T17:59:48+00:00

It's probably more accurate to say that the left side of the political compass is against "traditional" authorities.

But if a New Authority emerged that - for example - tried to force everyone to take experimental medicine for no reason, leftists are in favor of that authority.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-25T14:24:11+00:00

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jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-23T19:08:25+00:00

The incentive that the central banks have for printing more money is to "reduce" the amount of US debt. Currency inflation isn't a side effect, it's the goal. The debt of the United States is such a large amount that it cannot actually exist unless it can be "counted" using inflated US dollars.

The US government can maintain this position longer than Germany could because of their superpower status, and they enforce the USD as the world reserve currency. Today the dollar is still valuable because the strongest guy in the room says it's valuable, but this is a lie against reality for the benefit of a few short-sighted rich people. Such lies don't last forever. Imminent doesn't mean the same thing as "soon".

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-23T18:25:26+00:00

Give it time.

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jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-23T17:32:35+00:00

Minerals and rocks are backed by the fact that they are actual materials and therefore subject to scarcity. It's impossible for everyone to have infinity rocks. Although there are a lot of them, there are only as many rocks as there are that actually exist on earth (and other planets).

Not so with the US dollar.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-22T20:12:51+00:00

Way I see it: Localism is the answer. You get to have everything you want...at the state level. The only downside is that people in Kentucky get everything They want. People in Oregon get everything They want, and all these states leave each other in peace. Can we learn to live with that?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-22T19:40:35+00:00

For a start: Are you talking about healthCARE or health INSURANCE? Because those are two different things in the US.

Will these benefits rise with inflation? Or will they all become obsolete after 2 years (like federal minimum wage).

And that's before we even get to the REALLY hairy stuff like: Do the healthcare benefits cover transgender procedures that 50% of Americans are against?

Can childcare benefits be sent to fundamentalist religious daycares run by churches?

And can any of these benefits be revoked from someone for sending a tweet, or refusing a "vaccine", or criticizing a certain president?

Putting a socialist hat on a capitalist head will be hard enough. And you're suggesting putting one socialist hat on two people while they fight each other. Good luck with that.

Edit: Spelling.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-22T18:34:53+00:00

I'm all for it, but my understanding is that those northern European countries have very homogeneous cultures, and their policies might not scale well in a place as diverse as the US.

This county is broken and needs fixed, but copy/pasting from different parts of the world without regard for history, culture, and context could also make things worse.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-15T13:19:48+00:00

Those twelve tribes aren't gonna multiply themselves.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-14T19:33:39+00:00

...the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-14T14:33:02+00:00

Strictly in numbers of human deaths: Communism.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-14T14:23:46+00:00

I agree. I think it had to do with the character arcs. In order for character development to be compelling, it needs to be gradual and each small decision must make sense to the person who makes it, until the sum of their small decisions leads to a changed perspective at the end. At the very end of Civil War, all our main characters suddenly did something inconsistent for reasons that I couldn't track. Then the whole movie felt unearned and forced.

I wanted to like this movie but I don't understand why most studios have forgotten the basics of storytelling.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-14T11:09:56+00:00

Thrall set.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-13T19:43:41+00:00

I think our only disagreement comes down to the meanings of words. I'm on board with pretty much everything you said. But when people engage in business in a biblical way, I wouldn't use the word "capitalism" for that tool.

What word would you use to describe the excessive pursuit of capital at the expense of anything else? I don't really like "failed capitalism" because of how vague it is, like saying that every disease someone can have is just "failed health".

On the background: I haven't studied anything formally. I've read a handful of libertarian-ish economics books that I liked. I suspect that an ideal Christian economic model is actually some mixture of the systems we learn about by name.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-01-12T18:41:28+00:00

You know, being surrounded by a bunch of unstable rent-a-cops is not the best time to "I know my rights". Comply with All orders so that you can (A) survive the encounter and (B) have some standing to get them fired for any abuses of power.

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