John Barston

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

There’s few things worse than hypocritical little cunts. There only really pedos, murderers and rapists

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

However overrepresented black and Hispanic men seem to be in crime statistics, the reality is much, much worse

They are actively mislabeling non-white offenders as white to cook the books

This happens way too often to simply be repeated mistakes

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Her name was Isabella Stroupe.

She was hog-tied to a bed with a tow strap and TORTURED for months inside an east Charlotte NC apartment.

Multiple broken bones.
St*b wounds.
R*ped repeatedly.

She was just 19 years old.

Her mother said she screamed and screamed when she found out... they tried to find her for months and never could.

Now she knew why.

Thomaz Hamilton, a violent repeat offender is charged with first-degree m*rder and first-degree r*pe.

..she was in that apartment for MONTHS being tortured

Say her name. Isabella Stroupe.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Smithsonian's "white supremacy" list:

✅ individualism, self-reliance
✅ nuclear family structures
✅ rational, linear thinking
✅ work before you play
✅ plan for the future
✅ protect property
✅ avoid conflicts
✅ manage time
✅ be polite

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

I asked Claude to map out European countries that don't prosecute their citizens for 'hatespeech' and Claude refused, arguing it will not help people evade hatespeech convictions.

How long before Claude will actively help governments prosecute users for thoughtcrimes?

[Zoomer @ZoomerHistorian]

Describing Andrew and Tristan Tate as 'White males' is quite something

This is their father, Emory Tate:

[High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth @LostHistory9]

More thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey now that I've slept on it:

It is the most pretentious, self fellating film I've seen in a long time.

It almost comes across as a film directed by someone who has watched a lot of Nolan films instead of Nolan himself.

You feel that runtime as well. I would rather marathon the Dark Knight trilogy than ever watch The Odyssey again. I've never been to prison before, but I have to imagine how I felt when I left the theater is what it feels like to get released from prison. I was in such a hurry to leave the theater that I spilled my soda on myself.

The only actor who seemed to actually have any passion for his role was Robert Pattinson. Everyone else seemed to be phoning in their performances. And don't get me started on Ellen Paige. The attempt at putting on a deep manly voice + her being a foot shorter than everyone else broke my immersion almost immediately.

Many cases of immersion breaking BTW. Travis Scott doing beat poetry and a Greece that looked racially more like Los Angeles than 12 century BC Greece took me out of the film.

Nolan tries to tie in the Odyssey to the historical Bronze Age Collapse, but it's weak as hell. Multiple references to the "People of the Sea" but we don't see them, or for that matter any kind of impact from their carnage. The characters just mention them here and there like they're an ever present threat but we don't actually see the impact of this threat at all.

Those are just a few more thoughts. I'm going to start working on a video tomorrow after work. I have SO MANY things to say about this film.

[Insane Frog @InsaneFrog]

Here is my detailed review of the Odyssey.

I am mainly judging this as a standalone movie, however I thought it would be appropriate to bring up the mythological source material whenever I noticed a clear downgrade worth contrasting. I avoided going too deep into nitpicks, even though this is definitely the kind of movie you could find something to complain about every few seconds.

One of the movie's biggest problems is just how bland it is. This is largely due to the lack of personality across the cast (aside from Robert Pattinson's character, Antinous). Odysseus especially came off as overly stoic and a much more reactive character than he should've been. This is a departure from the myth, which portrayed him as much more talkative and charismatic. While he still is portrayed as clever, this is done more through his actions than any dialogue or anything to do with Matt Damon's performance. Another issue is that the relationships between characters, especially Odysseus and his crew, are particularly poor. There's no chemistry or tension, it is genuinely just flat. Even beyond this though, the visuals are surprisingly uninteresting and tasteless outside of a few exceptions.

The pacing is also quite bad, with the introduction taking way too long (around 30 minutes) before anything actually happens, all to set up the situation around Odysseus's wife and the suitors. After that point, the events feel more like bottle episodes than a continuous story with threads tying into each other. The original myth also shares some of these issues to a lesser extent, but even it tries to have some set up and payoff to tie different "episodes" together.

The first of these episodes is the cyclops encounter. This part completely butchered the source material in multiple ways. In the movie when they get trapped by the cyclops, they end up ultimately defeating it by waiting until it goes to sleep and poking its eye out. I was baffled the first time I watched this because it just seemed so stupid. It turns out in the original myth the cyclops actually was a character who could talk, and Odysseus defeated it by getting it blackout drunk and then poking its eye out. This makes so much more sense than the cyclops literally lying down to sleep right next to them with its guard down and letting them walk up and poke its eye out. What's worse, you can't even make the excuse that in this version the cyclops is just a dumb monster who doesn't view the soldiers as greater threats than his sheep, because after this he ends up talking in order to plead Poseidon to curse them just like in the original myth. This means that he is an intelligent being, but also somehow extremely stupid. I have no idea why this scene was constructed so poorly, it lacks all the personality from the myth while being utterly retarded at the same time.

The next episode in their adventure is the island with the giants, and there are plenty of nitpicks to make about this such as the child giant wearing armor for some reason, the fight scene being laughably bad with the soldiers being trapped by a few sticks, the giants feel slow and lumbering, and it isn't even clear what the giants' motivations are or what kind of civilization they have. In the original myth they were cannibal barbarians so it made perfect sense why they would attack the soldiers. Their appearance and portrayal in this movie raise more questions than answers. It's a classic Nolan example of style over substance.

The Circe encounter has some strengths, such as the visuals around her transforming the men into pigs. However, one of the stupidest moments in the movie happens here as well. Prior to the men getting turned into pigs, they have ample reason to be suspicious. Firstly they see plenty of tame animals such as lions around the island which should raise some alarms, but what is truly unforgivable is that right before they enter her house to eat they literally can see that there is discarded armor from a previous troop of soldiers lying right next to the house. One of the men even looks at this and just ignores it. This is an unbelievably bright red flag that the movie specifically draws attention to, which the soldiers are shown to be aware of, but they literally just ignore it and fall into a trap. This is unbelievably lazy writing, it could've been excusable if the armor was like in a pit somewhere and only the audience was shown it, but the fact that the soldiers saw it and ignored it is so stupid.

Another issue with this part that annoyed me is that the men are starving, and Odysseus goes hunting alone, and there's this thing in the movie that wasn't in the original myth where Odysseus is an honorable hunter who strums his bow to make noise to scare animals before he shoots them. As stupid as this is on its face, it's particularly stupid here because his men are starving and threatening to mutiny against him and he still does this stupid thing with his bow. Moments like this show just how little care was actually put into constructing the smaller moments of this movie. Anyway, when he does shoot the animal it transforms, revealing that it was a human all along. When Odysseus finally confronts Circe, there is the first instance in this movie where Odysseus gets lectured by someone. None of this was in the original and it feels extremely out of place every time it happens in this movie. It all feels like an attempt to tear him down as a character.

Next up, they speak to the dead. At the beginning of the movie, Ellen Page's character, Sinon, was killed outside the Trojan horse while Odysseus and his men were waiting inside. Sinon is not from the Odyssey, but he was introduced in later retellings as a character who tells the Trojans that the horse is an offering to Athena. However unlike in the actual myth, Sinon is killed by the Trojans at the start of the movie. This is all so that at this point in the story, where Odysseus and his men are speaking to the dead, Sinon can return and give Odysseus a lecture about Odysseus 'lying' to Sinon and deceiving him into unwittingly engaging in a suicide mission. This is unbelievably retarded. Unlike in the myth, Sinon is unaware that the men are within the Trojan horse, Odysseus keeps this from him. This is stupid on many levels, first of all it doesn't make any sense for the Trojans to kill Sinon, this doesn't happen in the myth because it doesn't even make sense. Secondly, why didn't Odysseus tell him? Thirdly, why does Sinon blame Odysseus for his death and feel like he has the moral high ground to lecture his commander over this. Odysseus has surely given orders which have resulted in the death of countless of his own men, why is this shown as some unique situation? All this is such a forced and lazy way to try to tie in some central theme to the movie. I suppose it is fitting that Ellen Page's character died on a suicide mission though.

Sinon is not portrayed as some elite Greek warrior. He was a boy whom the villain of the film, Antinous, paid to take his place in the war, portraying him as somewhat cowardly. This didn't happen in the myth, but this isn't the worst addition, it gives Antinous much more presence in the story. Even though there are no scenes where Sinon fights, it's still unforgivable to cast a mentally ill woman as a man regardless. She doesn't pull off the role in a convincing way at all, but that is hardly a surprise. Between her frail and short physique and her horrific helium voice, anyone who pretends like her presence in this film isn't an abomination isn't being honest. What manages to be worse is Sinon's actual role in the story though, as essentially it is just another shoehorned way to tear down Odysseus's character with yet another scene where he is getting lectured by a woman.

Next comes the sequence with the sirens, the whirlpool, then the Scylla. The biggest problem with the sequence is that in the myth it was described that they had no choice but to take this route, presumably because of obstructions, but in the movie the sea is far too wide open so it feels extremely forced that they have to go this way. Another casualty of Nolan's dumb ass commitments of not using CGI. After that comes the island full of cattle, which (in addition to being Nolan's way of giving a cameo to his fanboys) a prophecy warned Odysseus that his men would die if they ate the cattle. This part is also butchered, because in the myth they were forced to stay on this island because of storms, which led to starvation and desperation which pressured the men into eating the cattle. In the movie the skies are completely clear and there's literally no reason why they shouldn't be sailing onward. This whole sequence also feels like it is way too rushed, which is especially painful since the movie wasted 30 minutes at the beginning setting up something which could've been explained in a few flashbacks. Once again it's just another example of a complete lack of attention to detail as to what makes the story actually compelling.

The Calypso part is also a travesty. After his ship gets destroyed by Zeus' storm and his men die, he gets stranded on an island alone, and it is revealed that the mysterious scenes that have been strung out throughout the movie were of him being kept on this island by a nymph named Calypso for the past seven years. In the movie, he has amnesia, and she has allowed him to live with her in ignorance for the past seven years as her lover. This is drastically different from the myth, because in the myth Odysseus was fully aware of who he was all this time and was in agony that she wouldn't let him return home. She pretty much raped him for seven years while he wanted nothing more than to return to his wife. The movie does something unbelievably stupid here where out of absolutely nowhere Calypso suggests that Odysseus didn't really want to return home. This is probably the biggest thematic shift from the actual Odyssey, and the biggest insult to the source material. Odysseus was never in conflict as to whether or not he wanted to return home, that's pretty much his entire goal. He occasionally gets slightly distracted but his resolve to return to his home is never subject to debate. This change is baffling, first of all there's nothing even in the movie to support this notion that he doesn't want to return home. Secondly, this is used as almost an excuse for Calypso to rape this amnesiac for the past seven years. Like she says this in a way which is meant to justify why she didn't restore his memory all this time. This also is another example of the movie stripping Odysseus of an opportunity to actually show any emotion. As I've said Matt Damon's performance is extremely stiff, and this would've been a prime opportunity to give him some scenes where he could be experiencing genuine pain at being kept away from his wife and son all this time, just like in the myth.

On another note, I was expecting that the scene where Ellen Page sodomizes Tom Holland with her trooncock while Travis Scott lays down a beat for Lupita Nyong'o to twerk to would be overly woke, but to my surprise, it was done quite tastefully with a surprising amount of class and respect for the spirit of the original Greek poem. I think Homer would be proud.

When Odysseus finally leaves the island and makes it home, the movie starts to finally get a bit better. Finally Odysseus is a proactive character who takes on a disguise, saves his son from assassination, and comes up with a plan to deal with the suitors. The movie actually becomes compelling for a little while, but this is ruined when there are more flashbacks about Troy which fundamentally butcher his character. In the original Odysseus has zero remorse over his contributions to the sacking of Troy, in fact he is proud of it. However in the movie, he is characterized as feeling deeply remorseful over it. Not only does this completely mischaracterize Odysseus's portrayal in the myth, but it makes what happens next feel unbelievably stupid. Quite jarringly, right after trying to portray Odysseus as regretful for the carnage he was responsible for in the war, the movie continues on with the events of the actual Odyssey and he slaughters countless of his wife's suitors. To be clear, some of these suitors are portrayed as villainous as they tried to assassinate his son, but doubtless many of them simply believe him to be dead and wish to marry his widow. His violent actions here are completely aligned with the Odysseus from the myth, but they are completely out of place for this suddenly remorseful and regretful Odysseus who is one second lamenting his actions in the war and the next second going on a mass shooting spree with his bow.

Additionally, the fight choreography for the scene is quite laughable. He practically hip fires his bow at the countless people who surround him but refuse to actually charge him initially. Eventually they do charge him and get him pinned to the ground, but then somehow he takes the upper hand again and fights off like 5-10 people single-handedly. The myth was similarly outrageous, but the fact that the movie shows this in detail without attempting to make this even slightly believable is idiotic. This scene just looks bad when put on screen, it might've been wiser to not even try to show this because it's kind of ridiculous to attempt to show a small number of men killing over 100 men in a tight space, even though the suitors weren't armed. The movie ends with another departure from the myth, where Odysseus lets his son rule while he goes off into exile or something like that. I don't really have a strong opinion about this, seems kind of arbitrary.

There's one really bad scene which I feel like I need to mention. When Odysseus's son is talking to his mother about dealing with the suitors, and his mother suddenly spirals into a feminist tirade about how it's unfair that she can't inherit the throne because she's a woman. She claims that she is more qualified than anyone because she "sat on the throne for the past 20 years" which to no surprise is not accurate to the source material at all. More retarded feminist revisionism that is spiteful to the source material.

Overall this movie is a disaster. I have no idea where the $250 million budget went, feels like a money laundering scheme. It doesn't feel like a blockbuster at all, feels more like an indie movie. Even outside of the atrocious casting decisions, such as casting a woman as a man, an ugly black woman as one of the most beautiful women on earth, countless non-white extras and side characters as Greeks, the movie is still just plain bad. Frankly, nothing of value was even lost by turning this into a humiliation ritual. I won't pretend that every second of this movie is unbearable, I've already noted a few things that were all right such as Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Antinous, and a few moments where something visually interesting was happening or the pace picked up. However overwhelmingly this is just a really lame movie. It fails as an entertaining blockbuster, it fails as a suspenseful drama, it fails at delivering some kind of deeper meaning. The only thing it really succeeds at is being a humiliation ritual, but it is a humiliation ritual that is attached to very subpar art. It remains to be seen whether or not it will be financially successful, but it will doubtless be forgotten sooner rather than later. I'm sure the go to defense for this movie will be "muh themes" but the themes are objectively stupid and poorly communicated at that.

Good luck finding the one or two minor details I got slightly wrong somewhere which you can use to completely invalidate every single one of my arguments.

[The Noticer @NoticerNews]

Police have released new images of an African person of interest who was chased off by a pack of dogs after allegedly trying to sexually assault two women in Melbourne.

https://t.co/xbILwxLv3M

[Freyja. Missing Children Advocate🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @FreyjaBakke]

A remorseless Sudanese refugee has been jailed for stabbing another African man 14 times in Melbourne.

Gatluak Gatluak, 34, fled Australia as a child but returned to Africa to fight in the Sudanese civil war, and now claims he was "retraumatised" there.

https://t.co/dIPS2jtkHV

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Jon Bernthal has praised Lupita Nyong’o’s performance as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, saying he couldn’t imagine anyone else in the role.

Speaking about her casting, Bernthal said:

“For me, there’s no one else in the world who could have done that, who comes with a level of beauty both inside and out that you believe somebody would go to war for… I’m just so glad it was her.”

They are laughing at us at this point

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

MEN commit crimes at 4x the rate of WOMEN.

Governments & Feminists are very focused on this statistic.

But which men?

I have another statistic for you.

3rd world men- Africans, Middle Eastern Men, Indians & Pakistani men etc.. commit violent crimes at & sexual offences at 5-10x the rate of WHITE MEN in the West.

Then WHY is the target of our Government’s & Feminist’s WHITE men that are the LEAST likely racial group to harm girls & women?

Why do ONLY some statistics matter & not others that highlight the biggest threat to girls & women in the West?

Rational, logical, common sense, intelligent, decent Women need to take control of the Women’s Rights Movement in the West.

One of the biggest dangers to girls & women right now is radical feminists.

I stand with good men & decent women.

[The Noticer @NoticerNews]

A "transgender" Thai immigrant chef with HIV has avoided jail for sexually assaulting another man in Melbourne after a judge decided prison would be "onerous" for him because he claims to be a woman.

https://t.co/TCOxdavT7Y

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The Pasig River in the Philippines was rated the world's most polluted river only 5 years ago.

The Pasig is a crucial 25.2-kilometre waterway in the Philippines that bisects Metro Manila, connecting Laguna de Bay to Manila Bay. There were some efforts to clean up the river, but in 2021 it was more of a sewer than a river, carrying 172 metric tons of plastic waste to the oceans every day.

Each year the river was full blocked by 63,000 metric tons of industrial and household waste.

Historically, the Pasig has been a river of decaying filth and had overtaken the Yangtze as the world's biggest source of plastic waste. The Philippines still contributes to global riverine plastic (according to some studies). Asia is still the dominant source of 80-86% of the world's river pollution.

Factories exploit the waterways by dumping millions of litres of waste into the river and at one point the Pasig River was declared biologically dead. Small informal communities had sprung up along its banks. Household sewage and solid waste contributed 60-65% of all rubbish.

Studies from 2017 until 2025 show 80–95% of ocean-bound plastic waste was from 10 to 20 key rivers in the Philippines, Pakistan, Malaysia, India, Africa Indonesia and China. Many still have floating garbage with surfaces obscured by plastic bottles, bags, styrofoam, and household waste.

Most of this ocean catastrophe occur in tropical, coastal and urban areas and have inadequate waste and sewage collection systems. They include the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl (China), Nile, Niger (Africa) and the Amur (a sub arctic river in Russia/China).

Many rivers in Asia are in the top 50-100 most polluted waterways on earth.

[Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet]

When they say "diversity," they just mean as few white people as possible.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: 8 men in South Wales have been charged with rape gang offences

Shafaq Mohammed
Syed Mohammed Ashan Taqvi
Mohammed Sheikh
Abdul Hannan
Sheikh Mohammed Tahir Ullah
Aminur Rahman Chowdhury
Shakeel Babur
Murad Ali

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

I want an America so homogenous that blondes and brunettes are fighting

[John Barston @john_barston]

@NatCon2022 Makes sense since that's where shit goes.

[Oldspeak Bookshop 📚 @oldspeak_books]

Thank you very much for ordering from me, Graham.

Jo x

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

> victim was a 93 yr old
> had just finished her birthday party
> was dropped off at her senior facility
> the murderer was dating her daughter
> 5’5 290lbs middle aged man
> he got in to the facility
> had been watching “older adult porn” multiple times a day
> sexually abused and strangled her
> they found her naked dead on the floor
> lawyer is posting cringe boomerslop memes for saving his life

What is happening to our country, man