yesman

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yesman,

Fog of War (2003) is just heartstopping for anyone interested in 20th Century American history. www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Grizzly Man (2005) is mesmerizing all the way through despite it’s quirky protagonist and predictable conclusion.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/

yesman,

I use Winamp on my PC.

First of all, it respects albums. Other players like VLC and Fubar2000 would order the songs alphabetically; it’s annoying. Also in the “artist” list “The Beatles” comes right after “Beasty Boys” the way God intended.

Second it has an “always on top” feature so you can easily control it while gaming.

Winamp was made for people who listen to music the way I do. You know, old people.

yesman,

You value human rights so much you’d strip them from certain people?

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.

yesman,

Neat. Put the embassy in Jerusalem.

yesman,

It’s not fair to say that Zionist lobby controls US policy. There are plenty of examples when US interests conflicted with Israel and the US crossed it’s ally. (Suez Canal crisis, arms sales to SArabia, Iran nuke deal)

The problem is that the US has no interest in the Palestinian cause. There’s no political or strategic advantage to a free and sovereign Palestine. This has started to change recently with younger Democratic voters demanding a policy change. And we’ve seen direct policy shifts after the Michigan and Wisconsin primary protests. If there is a political cost to supporting the occupation, American presidents will change.

Lastly, I don’t think it’s accurate to assume that Jewish contributors to the Democratic party are necessarily Zionist. Even the article you site gives many domestic reasons why an American Jew would favor the Democrats.

yesman,

Sure a neutral definition of propaganda will encompass any type of public message.

In popular usage, it means nefarious and deceptive messaging for wicked purposes.

juxtaposing the two meanings, especially to argue that one is more “correct” is just semantics.

yesman,

Team America WP is like fight club or Starship Troopers, except it’s progressives who tend to miss the message completely.

Sure, the first 5 min lampoons arrogant, ignorant, and destructive military adventurism. But everybody forgets that the movie resolves when this same adventurism saves the world from irrational evil enabled by weak Western leftists.

The overt message of the movie is both extremes are bad and at the end of the day we have to accept that the status-quo is what keeps us safe. Team America Enlightened Centrism more like it.

yesman,

This is a bad take. Software updates that fix life threatening defects are as serious as any recall.

It’s motivated reasoning. Either the people making this argument are Tesla owners, simps, or shareholders and are trying to protect the phantasmagorical value of the company.

Saying “my car’s drive-by-wire software gets more firmware updates than my printer” is not a flex.

yesman,

All these files are backed up in /System32 folder

yesman,

Fire-hose propaganda is not for people who pay attention to current events. It’s kinda like those scam emails with the bad grammar: they’re trying to filter away the tuned-in to get to their core audience.

yesman,

I can’t understand the reasoning. If you think abortion is murder, how can it be pro-life to say “don’t worry, your murder is just a short bus-ride away”. And if you’re pro-choice, how can it be acceptable to say “don’t worry, your rights are just a short bus ride away”.

It’s like the statement was engineered to aggravate pro-choice and pro-life.

yesman,

It’s ironic because denying that Satan has followers would be considered blasphemy in many Christian denominations.

yesman,

Reading through these comments it seems that many lemmings have wildly optimistic ideals about ethics in the “true crime” genre of documentaries.

Even for sincere documentarians, presenting unvarnished history accurately and completely is an impossibility. For the bad-faith actors, you’d be amazed at how much is outright staged or otherwise faked. The only rule is that it be entertaining.

As far as “true crime”, the question of “should we even make this” is pretty ethically fraught. True crime is cheap, popular, and stuffed to the brim with hacks and bad faith actors.

yesman,

OJ spent more time in Al Cowling’s Bronco than Liz did at No10.

yesman,

The B25’s service life is closer to the introduction of the A10 than the F22 or F35.

yesman,

Wave tried that in a small town

yesman,

Modernized A7V

yesman,

US economic numbers don’t align with lived experience. China: Hold my Baijiu.

yesman,

I love the corporations vs. individuals climate debate. On the one hand, you’ve got those who count on the public’s willpower to make massive lifestyle changes. On the other, you’ve got those who think the government can weather lobbying and public outrage and force big corpos to cut emissions (which will also mean massive lifestyle changes)

Or we can just wait until the climate catastrophe destroys our way of living.

I don’t think the system works.

yesman,

The mistake is not in painting rural politics as racist, it’s in inferring that suburban and urban politics are not. This goes all the way back to the founding. Northern and urban whites need the redneck Klansman (and his slaver great-granddad) to feel better about their own stake in maintaining a permanent racial underclass.

From the “Great Migration”, Northern and Western States created a patchwork of policy that officially and informally enforced racial segregation that the Confederate States could only envy. That segregation persists to this day. Notice how integration in blue States required “forced bussing” implying the literal distance between races.

The whole reason suburbs exist was a government largess in cheap loans for houses connected to the city by interstate highways. Minorities and women were excluded from the loans while the interstates plowed great polluted holes in the neighborhoods where they could live. This period of “white flight” cemented the idea that cities were the locus of crime, disorder, and filth. The privileged could maintain connection to urban economies while living (and paying taxes) in “the country”. (it also married us forever to car culture)

In America, geography is race.

yesman,

OJ’s trial goes beyond his innocence or guilt. His trial was racially charged and cannot be understood outside this context. I don’t think those who celebrated his acquittal believed in his innocence as much as they saw it a victory that a black man used his privilege and resources to escape justice the way so many white criminals had in the past. Not justice, but equality, American style.

For white America, it came as quite a shock that a rich black celebrity could leverage race tensions to escape accountability. This was such a singular event it resonates 30years later. If you’re black, you don’t need a long memory to see justice betrayed behind some racist bullshit.

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