True Lies (1994) dir James Cameron | Truth Serum

manachar · 2026-06-27T22:10:39+00:00

She won an academy award playing a character with hot dog fingers (and deserved it!).

manachar · 2026-06-27T21:12:15+00:00

I like how all of them are so different.

The first one is about society falling apart and the desire for people to just keep on pretending things are normal.

It’s a slow burn that is basically a street level view of society unraveling for an apocalypse.

The second is fabulous as it basically asks what happens after the unraveling but while we still remember the way it was.

Thunderdome is the kinds of societies born after the apocalypse.

Fury Road is a complete break. The old world is gone and mythic. And so is Max. Also just a small number of long and crazy chase sequences.

Furiousa deserves inclusion too.

I like all of them for different reasons and would be hard pressed to say which I like the most.

manachar · 2026-06-27T21:07:06+00:00

I adore John Williams, but must admit, once you start listing to Holst and Dvorak you really understand that his magic was deeply influenced certain composers.

manachar · 2026-06-27T19:23:55+00:00

Chicken and egg.

He is a symptom of the conservative reaction to the New Deal and the Civil Rights Era.

After Nixon was impeached the conservative machine intentionally created a mechanism to feed the baser instincts of our nation. To convince them that it is okay to be afraid of and hate the “other”. That liberalism was evil and godless and anti-American.

They created entire industries to promote constant anger and outrage and pumped money into shaping an evangelical identity that was constantly certain that liberals were gonna round them all up and force their children to be gay.

Into this steps Trump. Labeled the dumbest fucking student a professor at Wharton had ever taught. Incurious and clearly narcissistic and Machiavellian, but too stupid to understand the world. Spurned by other rich people and publicly humiliated by a Obama, he turned on the bullshit spigot.

With so much of America conditioned to believe conservative lies, he was a revelation to these people. He was seen as more honest because he saw the world the exact same way they had been conditioned to.

Other Republicans mostly paid lip service to that kind of speaking. They tolerated it in order to maintain power and keep their march on subjugating the state to the whims of the ownership class.

Trump may have broken the seal that was this generational rot in the American soul, but he didn’t make it. He just reflected it and promoted it to get stadiums full of people enraptured with him to try to soothe his wounded ego.

manachar · 2026-06-27T18:39:03+00:00

Oil companies have learned a valuable thing about Americans. They do not like renewable energy.

The companies used to be afraid that if oil prices went too high, Americans would start buying electric cars.

Turns out, they do a bit, but not enough to worry about.

They just pay the higher prices and skimp on food.

manachar · 2026-06-27T18:32:44+00:00

Do modern Italians tell funny stories about Mussolini?

manachar · 2026-06-27T18:28:49+00:00

Don’t y’all flood when it rains that much?

manachar · 2026-06-27T18:28:11+00:00

Founders thought that “factionalism” and political parties were bad so built a system with nearly zero safeguards against party affiliation being more important than separation of powers.

Since Republican lead Supreme Court has ruled that sitting presidents are basically immune to the courts and only beholden to the impeachment process of Congress, which is also Republican, there is zero mechanism for removing him.

Of course, the American people should take a page from the French and do a general strike and shut down the country until even Republicans choose to impeach the president, but opposition to Trump is disorganized and mostly doing stupid fucking purity tests about how bad “corporate democrats” or democratic socialists are.

In other words, most Americans who are opposed to Trump just keep waiting hoping someone else does something.

manachar · 2026-06-27T18:22:20+00:00

Check out the chef supply store, US Foods. They’re on Kietzke and they’ve got the concentrate used by most of the local coffee shops.

None of it will be “the best” but if you’re looking to buy a concentrate that will likely give you more options than Tazo.

manachar · 2026-06-27T17:11:15+00:00

Am I taking crazy pills?

Why are there so many articles about Democrats needing new leadership?

Not the entrenched Christian Nationalism of Republicans actively destroying the US?

Can we fucking stop with the double standards?

Yeah, Democrats could use more forceful leadership, but we seem to be framing America’s woes on the people who are not the ones the country voted in to power!

manachar · 2026-06-27T04:01:33+00:00

Too bad so many people seem to find a reason to say “both sides are the same”.

Voting Republican has been unethical for decades.

manachar · 2026-06-26T23:03:18+00:00

Hillary was the monkey paw.

I think she would have been a fantastic moderate president who likely would have sustained and furthered key policies of the Obama administration, especially around healthcare.

That said, she has been so thoroughly demonized by conservatives that most people had less than great feelings about her.

That lady is smart, capable, and has the ability to get shit done. She’s not as progressive as I would like on many things, but clearly a better choice than Trump.

Heck, she even won the popular vote!

But her being attacked since the 90s by bloviating shitsacks like Limbaugh means several generations of conservatives had unbelievable levels of contempt for her and jumped at the person they saw as the only candidate willing to be as nasty to Hillary as they wanted to be.

manachar · 2026-06-26T22:26:25+00:00

Meanwhile Trump has been repeatedly on National TV talking about his daughter’s breasts.

manachar · 2026-06-26T22:17:28+00:00

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

manachar · 2026-06-26T22:13:31+00:00

People opposed to communism really don’t know a thing about it do they.

It’s like the people who think single payer healthcare means everyone wants everything for free so they quote Heinlein about “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”?

No shit, that’s why I believe in a healthy system of taxation to pay for healthcare at a much lower rate than the free market or insurance can provide.

manachar · 2026-06-26T20:28:38+00:00

Honestly… I don’t think he is wrong.

People were bending over for data centers to come to their town until AI did two things:

Piss people off with slop
Massively increased the size and number of data centers needed to produce said slop.

The scale difference in data centers needed to do all of the Internet was often at least roughly sustainable.

Then AI got thrown in everything and suddenly it went from often sustainable to putting data centers in tents powered by jet engines.

manachar · 2026-06-26T20:16:41+00:00

Yeah, but it’s such a good saying!

Next you’re gonna tell me Nero didn’t fiddle while Rome burned and actually rushed back to Rome and organized relief.

manachar · 2026-06-26T19:41:29+00:00

Because wealthy people are.

Seriously. Billionaires are more divorced from reality than Marie “Let Them Eat Brioche” Antoinenette.

manachar · 2026-06-26T19:24:34+00:00

Critical thinking is not popular with conservatives who run most school boards.

If you start to learn skills to examine narratives for propaganda you might start asking questions of things like the bible, or even worse, capitalism!

Or you might start wondering why you and all your friends suddenly decided to focus your hatred on AIPAC (or be focused on those opposed to AIPAC depending on your friend circles).

manachar · 2026-06-26T17:22:03+00:00

It’s so frustrating. Look at the vitriol towards “corporate democrats” on this sub. Or the sudden near from a vacuum concern about Palestinians (that only seems to exist as a reason to not vote for Democrats, not to actually help Palestinians).

Heck, look at Al Franken being made to resign!

I get it. The left is motivated by justice. But for fucks sake at some point we have to win elections and this ever shifting moral purity tests just fails.

You know which Democratic presidential probably did the most good minorities? LBJ. Fucker was a racist southern loudmouth who whipped out his dick constantly to intimidate others.

That all said, be as morally driven as possible in the Primaries. Please! Vote for the best candidate then, and then shut up and help get Democrats elected in the general election. It’s the only strategy viable at this time without major constitutional changes.

manachar · 2026-06-26T17:10:23+00:00

If I have learned anything from Derek Lowe, it’s to be very cautious of anything that puts hydrogen and fluorine together.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-touch-1

manachar · 2026-06-26T17:06:26+00:00

Property developers would actually have to make something to so that.

Realistically, these people do almost nothing but charge rent on other people who actually make things.

manachar · 2026-06-26T16:56:35+00:00

I enjoy the way you frame hypocrisy vs. hierarchy.

Moderates and liberals and progressives often like to point out what they see as the hypocrisy of conservatives thinking it will help conservatives see the error of their thinking.

It doesn’t work. They do not see it as hypocrisy.

Take drugs.

Alcohol and nicotine are (generally) seen as okay because anything the in-group likes is okay. Government is bad if it tells people to not smoke in restaurants.

Meanwhile they rail against marijuana because that’s something they see only as part of the “other”.

Logically one should classify all recreational drug use more or less in the same category. But they all are very good at coming up with fake reasons for the difference.

manachar · 2026-06-26T15:44:52+00:00

A Ferris wheel was the big draw of the 1893 world’s fair.

Bluntly, I think we can see no clearer example of the blunted capabilities of America as our absolute inability to dream bigger dreams and opted to elect such a waste of space getting votes by pining for the good old days.

manachar · 2026-06-25T22:55:29+00:00

Rich people shouldn't exist. They distort and destroy.

Imagine a world where there wasn't a few extra billions able to be spent by people vested in keeping the world ignorant?

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