Account de-putinizzato. Lontano cugino di Clint. Quello che abbiamo imparato dalla Storia รจ che non abbiamo imparato niente dalla Storia (G. W. F. Hegel).
@Corriere La vostra ipocrisia รจ tanto responsabile quanto il latente razzismo nel provocare reazioni esasperate e distruttive quando questi fatti accadono. Ormai temo che il vostro giornale non recupererร mai piรน l'autorevolezza che una volta aveva.
A Hollywood studio once fired a young actor, reportedly for talking too slowly and for an Adam's apple that stuck out too far. He went on to become one of the biggest stars who ever lived. His name is Clint Eastwood, and he turns 96 today.
The way Burt Reynolds told it for years, the studio also complained about a chipped tooth Eastwood would not fix. Reynolds got cut the same year. When he asked why, they told him he could not act, so he turned to Eastwood and said you are the one in trouble, because I can learn to act, but you will never lose that Adam's apple.
Then the slow-talking kid with the bad tooth took off. First a TV western called Rawhide. Then three cheap westerns shot in Italy by an unknown director named Sergio Leone, and suddenly he was famous all over the world. Then Dirty Harry, the tough cop, turned him into a giant. He could have spent the rest of his life just being a movie star and collecting the checks.
He started directing instead, in 1971. While every other big name in Hollywood kept asking for more money and more time, Eastwood went the other way. He built one loyal crew and his own company, then made one film after another, quickly and well under budget, with almost no drama on set. He shoots most scenes in one take. He does not yell action, and he never yells cut. Matt Damon once said you have to beg him just to get a second take, because Eastwood moves on the moment he has what he wants. He shot Million Dollar Baby, which won Best Picture, in 37 days.
It worked. He won Best Director and Best Picture twice, for Unforgiven and for Million Dollar Baby, a club only a few directors have ever joined, like Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg. He wrote some of the music for his own films. He even served a term as the elected mayor of his small California town. And he never stopped: his 40th film came at 94, a courtroom thriller, shot the same quiet way as all the rest.
When he won that second directing Oscar back in 2005, he was 74, the oldest person ever to win it. His mother was sitting in the audience. She was 96. He looked out at the whole room and thanked her, simply, for her genes.
Today, Clint Eastwood turns 96.
Linguistic prescription is authoritarian. Itโs one of the things trans activists have used, with enormous success. Seeking to control what people are allowed to say is a hallmark of cults and totalitarian regimes.
I do not subscribe to the post modern ideas that changing language changes reality, that redefining something alters its nature, that our conception of a thing is of more importance than observable facts about the thing itself. To me, this kind of thinking is a dead end full of people pontificating and obfuscating, enjoying the sounds of their own voices while the world burns outside.
Some gender critical people seem to think that demanding we all use correct sex pronouns will return the world to sanity. This is an attempt to make the tail wag the dog. You cannot fight linguistic prescription with more linguistic prescription, and no rights campaign can succeed if its adherents are more interested in creating a purity spiral than allowing the smallest space for nuance or for the complexities of human nature and feelings.
@ninabecks1@SkyTG24 Il problema di costei รจ che ha aspettato fino fino al 7 ottobre per accorgersene. ร da tanti anni che @SkyTG24 riporta le notizie in modo discutibile, privilegiando le loro opinioni sui meri fatti.
@nonexpedit E io intanto continuo a stupirmi di vedere Severgnini frequentare questi ambienti. Una gran brutta fine per qualcuno che consideravo intelligente e spiritoso.
@worldernest@melancholia59 Finalmente X ha cancellato l'account di qualcuno che se lo meritava. Con la precedente gestione, ti poteva capitare se sbagliavi i pronomi, poi potevi insultare chi volevi.
Sono anni che leggo su X previsioni, spesso espresse con tono anche arrogante, che poi sono smentite dai fatti. Per fortuna ogni tanto qualcuno ci becca (๐). Forse si tratta solo di usare bene la logica, basarsi sui fatti e non essere accecati dai soliti pregiudizi ideologici.
Qualche settimana fa avevo detto che
a) L'attacco americano all'Iran sarebbe avvenuto durante un fine settimana
b) che l'obiettivo principale sarebbe stato l'uccisione di Khamenei
c) che sarebbe avvenuto quando l'intelligence avrebbe dato indicazioni sul rifugio della guida suprema.
Scrivo questo non per vantarmi di chissร che;
lo scrivo per dimostrare che essere professori di sociologia del terrorismo e stare tutti i giorni in tv non rende esperti.
Specie se si sparano previsioni cinofalliche per soddisfare i propri desideri invece di usare la logica