I think the anti- “thoughts and prayers” meme is more tired than the condolences people offer. Complaining about expressions of sympathy gets zero traction in trying to convince people of policy views.
But it’s Clint Eastwood, not exactly your typical liberal.
What’s Clint Eastwood got to do, got to do with it?
FTFY
I should probably comment on the Alex Jones article, as that’s kinda relevant to me.
The sad part is that it likely isn’t a sign of hypocrisy. If anything, he probably watches it because he hates trans people so much. Fetishizing what you hate is nothing new; it’s the main reason why people who fetishize trans women are some of the most dangerous individuals to deal with. They are attracted to our bodies, but hate who we are, and the conflicting emotions (especially if we do have sex with them) often leads to violence, if not murder.
You’re right, but I do think that there is hypocrisy inherent in fetishizing something that you hate. It’s similar to how Ted Haggard, the anti-gay Christian preacher, was having sex with male prostitutes regularly even though he was constantly demonizing gay people. It doesn’t mean that he hated gay people any less than he claimed to, it’s just that he was also a massive hypocrite which makes him all the more despicable. Same thing with J. Edgar Hoover persecuting and terrorizing gay Americans even though he was likely gay himself. Alex Jones watching and enjoying transgender porn even though he’s constantly demonizing and screaming about how unnatural and evil transgender people are makes him even more disgusting than he already is.
I think the anti- “thoughts and prayers” meme is more tired than the condolences people offer. Complaining about expressions of sympathy gets zero traction in trying to convince people of policy views.
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. Anyone blind enough to fail to grasp that access to guns is the problem here isn’t going to be convinced by me so I’m not even going to try.
Stupid people love that “argument”. I see morons on social media use it all the time.
It’s definitely more powerful than most of the original film. It just goes to show that one scene can’t make a movie, no matter how good it is. To be fair, though, I have to say that at least 80% of why that scene is so great is the score.
I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in so long but the scene where Anakin is alone in the council chamber and Padme is at their apartment and they stare out of their windows is probably the best scene of the whole PT. I know that in a lot of ways that’s a low bar, but I think it’s great and I’m being serious when I say that that scene is as well done as anything in the OT.
I know, I think it’s funny.
It isn’t literally doing nothing, but it accomplishes absolutely nothing tangible. Plus it insults people like me that don’t want your prayers. I don’t think you should make your decisions based on what assholes like me want, or what anyone else wants for that matter, but if your goal is compassion then you could consider how your offering of prayer might be the equivalent of the middle finger to some.
I think very few would consider it the equivalent of the middle finger, even if they did I would still pray for them.
In that case it actually would be the equivalent of the middle finger.
What I would not do is use it as an excuse to do nothing to solve the problem.
Yeah, that’s what all reasonable people are opposed to.
Hey, that’s a B average. I usually could only pull off a D- if I tried real hard.
Yeah, I don’t mind them. I know Duracell hates my posts, but I think his are okay.
If I needed bread to eat, I would thank the one that gave me bread, and curse the one that offered prayer instead.
Praying is great, but it was never meant as a replacement for doing things (except judgement, I know we are supposed to leave that to God).
Your first sentence is great. I don’t like the second one though. I hate prayer overall and would not call it great, and I’m incredibly judgmental. In my world, I am God.
I never called it a replacement. for doing things. However for us religious folks, prayer is not doing nothing.
It isn’t literally doing nothing, but it accomplishes absolutely nothing tangible. Plus it insults people like me that don’t want your prayers. I don’t think you should make your decisions based on what assholes like me want, or what anyone else wants for that matter, but if your goal is compassion then you could consider how your offering of prayer might be the equivalent of the middle finger to some.
Most of them aren’t too depraved.
Battlefield V’s preorders were a big-ass flop.
He said that the cat was dead a long time ago. He said something along the lines of “The cat is dead and so is the joke.”
I don’t care if anyone prays for them or not, I just don’t want them to publicly offer prayer, especially if they’re opposed to a real solution. The reason it’s so insulting is that the “thoughts and prayers” person is essentially saying that they’re opposed to actually doing anything that would’ve prevented this shooting in the first place, and the most they’re willing to do is offer a totally useless gesture.
Anyone that blames anything other than access to guns and offers “thoughts and prayers” needs to go fuck themselves.
It’s such a weird thing to say. I’ve never encountered anyone who thought that public school teachers were a special kind of evil in our society.
“alex jones, raging homophobe and republican conspiracy theorist, who got banned from youtube for anti-trans and anti-muslim hate speech accidentally opened his tabs of trans porn on his phone live on his show. This is ART.”
People like Jones that are constantly screaming about how evil others are for doing nothing other than engaging in consensual sex acts are almost always filled with that hatred because of their own desire to engage in those acts. It’s just like how J. Edgar Hoover was very likely a homosexual even though he was constantly persecuting innocent homosexual citizens when he was the director of the FBI. Every time you see one of these subhuman scumfucks like Alex Jones that makes it one of his goals to take rights away from innocent people, just remember the blatant hypocrisy that is driving him to do it.
Public school teachers are no different than anyone else. Some are good, most of them aren’t.
Well, it seems John McCain is not long for this world. That’s a shame, as he was one of the few Congressmen who appeared to have real integrity, and a voice of his own.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/24/politics/john-mccain-cancer-treatment/index.html
Him standing up to Trump in the final moments of his life earned him a lot of respect from liberals and leftists (including me), so I think he will be remembered a lot more positively than he would have had he not had the character to stand up to that man.
Even war injuries, which today are respected as an incredible sacrifice for the country, were viewed as making someone ‘crippled’ and therefore worthy of less respect. It was a fucked up world in many ways.
EDIT: To be fair to the show’s treatment of Pike, that episode wanted him to be completely debilitated to the point of living a miserable existence. If he weren’t in such rough shape then the episode would’ve been much less compelling.
What the flying fuck are you talking about? Antisemitism is less common on the right? I actually agree that a lot of people on the left are conflating their opposition to Israel with Jews in general, which is distressing, but you simply can not complain about how others are making claims that are supposedly without evidence and then do exactly what you’re complaining about. Antisemitism being less common on the right is something that you pulled out of thin air. That’s fucking absurd. Breitbart is a haven for alt-right filth. Most rightwing conspiracies involve Jewish control in some way. Holocaust denial is almost exclusively a rightwing phenomenon. The Trump administration put Steve Bannon in a prominent role at first.
We’ve given you concrete examples of how fringe, rightwing neoNazism is at least more common than you’re letting on, and you disregard all of those examples as not being good enough and then proceed to say something without any kind of evidence whatsoever. What the fuck?
EDIT: Give me some fucking examples of leftwing antisemite candidates. Give them to me, and I’ll actually condemn them, but I’ll also give you plenty more rightwing examples for each leftwing one you give me.
The idea that civil society is done and there’s a whole bunch of Hitlerites running around that need punching is not supported by the facts.
It’s really just an extension of how divisive and polarized American society has become. Both the left and the right so demonize each other, that to the right the left are filled with crazy oversensitive hippy tree-hugging [gay expletive]s; and to the left the right is filled with hate-mongering flag-worshiping gun-toting racist misogynist ignorant hillbillies.
One of those is significantly worse than the other.
Nativism and anti-immigrant positions do belong to Nazis and white supremacists.
Why must every song coming on the radio be about unrequited love?
Stairway to Heaven is one of the most played songs in radio history.