moviefreakedmind

There’s a difference, but I am opposed to both of them still.

I think this is the first time anyone has ever told me to smile more, actually, so I haven’t given it much thought.

I’m also not trying to make a false equivalence between the left and right, because the right is by far the worst when it comes to lying about and shifting the subject away from gun control, but I found it disturbing that major outlets on the left have started doing the same thing.

DominicCobb said:

“Made up gender problems.” Classic.

In this case they are. If you are coopting the gun-control debate to make it about some other issue that it has nothing to do with gun violence, then you are “problematic”. I don’t understand why that’s hard to grasp, but go ahead and not actually address anything that I said. That’ll really convince me that you know what you’re talking about.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I just expect people to not degrade me by demanding that I alter my appearance for them.

When people tell you that you should smile more, they are not demanding that you alter your appearance for them. They are saying that they find your smiling face pleasant and request that you display it.

I smile when I feel like it, and if I don’t feel like smiling then I don’t smile.

It is easier to tolerate the general stresses of life when one is not hanging around people who grump. Having friends who are happy when you are around them helps ones mood.

I’m not grumpy in person, at least not all the time. I find it insulting and quite disgusting to expect someone to display a smile even if they aren’t happy or cheerful enough at the moment to do so on their own.

Collipso said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/police-on-the-scene-at-youtube-headquarters-with-reports-of-an-active-shooter-.html

Ok, so apparently a woman this time. 4 wounded from what I’ve read.

I haven’t posted anything about this in here (I don’t think), but I’ve noticed a disturbing trend amongst some liberals who have decided to shrug off the gun control issue and make mass shootings about gender. Michael Ian Black is an example and a number of liberal rags online have claimed that mass shootings are actually just the fault of “toxic masculinity” and other made-up gender problems. It’s dangerous because the right-wing is already trying to ignore the real issue, which is that guns are too easily available for anyone who wants one, and we can’t afford to have the left start bullshitting the issue too. When it comes to gun violence there are only two issues that need to be addressed. Issue number one: gun control. Issue number two: mental health. And those issues are in order of importance. Gun control is the main issue, and mental health is second. Anything else is just a horrible distraction from reality. Gun violence isn’t a result of toxic masculinity, or prayer being removed from schools, or government false-flags, or any kind of other conspiratorial nonsense. Anyone who distracts from gun control in this debate is completely unhelpful and is at least partially at fault for prolonging America’s gun violence problem.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cardinal-george-pell-sexual-abuse-charges-court-australia-melbourne-vatican-pope-francis-a8240821.html

This is an old article that I somehow missed last month. I would normally say some disparaging things about this man and then tear up a photo of him because he’s probably a child-rapist but then I realized that he’s a cardinal in the Catholic Church so I figured I should show him some respect and just pretend that nothing happened.

EDIT: I was asked recently by a now departed user named Warbler why I hate Pope Francis, and this is a great reason. This man has had multiple accusations of child molestation leveled against him for over a decade, yet Francis continued to allow him a high-ranking position in the Church. It’s even worse than Trump’s support of Roy Moore. The article also mentions his honoring and memorializing of an American Catholic official that covered up some aspects of the child-rape scandals. Pope Francis is an insult to the morals that I hold dear. I may respect his more liberal approach to the environment and stuff like that, but I can’t forgive him for this shit.

Republican admits his party “hates poor people.”

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-hate-poor-people-colorado-gop-group-apologizes-social-media-post-868290

I appreciate the honesty.

I just expect people to not degrade me by demanding that I alter my appearance for them.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

You’re not supposed to tell people to smile.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/08/dont-tell-women-to-smile/98906528/

Men are people too.

It’s not April Fools Day anymore.

You’re right.

You’re not supposed to tell people to smile.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/08/dont-tell-women-to-smile/98906528/

Some bitch told me I need to smile more.

DuracellEnergizer said:

stickydixon said:

TITLE

Paradise Lost

SYNOPSIS

Adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Add in the themes of modern Satanism - fighting for justice, freedom, and decency - and you have a movie that could be decent, with good morals, that probably wouldn’t do well in the box office.

I should read that sometime, but the length and Elizabethan English give me pause.

It’s not very long. You could read in a week or so. It’s a lot of pages but it’s line poetry.

Mine may not have been a psychiatrist, actually. I just call them all psychiatrists.

Well, I do. It warms my heart, typically.

I ask because I did once attempt to find a psychiatrist because I was pressured into it but he was fucking with me and playing mind games so I stopped trying to schedule an appointment. It seems to me like finding a counselor is like trying to get into Fight Club or something.

Sorry to hear it. If you don’t mind me asking, how exactly to you go about “going back” to a therapist?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/politics/justin-muzinich-treasury-department/index.html?sr=fbCNNp040218justin-muzinich-treasury-department0618PMStory&CNNPolitics=fb

More terrible decisions.

It was the most readily accessible example. I personally love endless negativity, and even I can’t handle the attitude toward these movies. And for the record, I’m talking about both sides. The lovers and haters.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The responses to people on this site who politely comment on things they don’t like about the Disney movies are as intense as the PT fanbase’s denunciation of people who didn’t like the prequels back in the day.

Just because you keep repeating this claim doesn’t make it true.

It was true before I said anything about it. It was obviously the case just after TFA came out.

I’ll also just remind you of your first post in this thread.

DominicCobb said:

Yeah, okay… holy fucking shit!

JEDIT: haha of course you guys hated it, what else should I have expected from this joyless site

The responses to people on this site who politely comment on things they don’t like about the Disney movies are as intense as the PT fanbase’s denunciation of people who didn’t like the prequels back in the day.

DominicCobb said:

I’m snarky in general, about all things. Hardly the only poster like that here (Jay and mfm come to mind). The idea that I’m rude about every criticism of the movie is absurd (especially when I myself don’t think it’s even close to perfect). I’ve barely debated the movie in here at all the last couple months because the arguments became circular and pointless. I’ve never succumbed to any name calling, generalizing, or even floated the mere possibility that if people didn’t like the movie they’re alt-right trolls.

It was adywan that brought up the alt-righters.

Fucking insane to me that I’m not allowed to defend a movie without being talked down to and generalized. The hypocrisy is stunning.

You talk to down to everyone else in the conversation so I don’t see why you’re complaining about being responded to the same way.

I came to that conclusion based on your rude dismissal of any and all criticisms of the films no matter how diplomatically phrased they are.

ChainsawAsh said:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/02/598820472/trump-official-wants-to-put-tight-leash-on-consumer-watchdog-agency

If they’re going to actually follow through with this, then they might as well just get rid of the agency altogether.

Yet another assault on our freedoms from the current regime.