If they posted the whole movie in one post they’d have to pay a residual to the cast & writer & director. By breaking it into short chunks, even still posting it all, they can abuse a contract loophole intended for playing clips on talk shows.
@severalproblems The X above his head also doesn't match any other X on the whole image
The next numerals are blurred and heavily obscured but I grant that could be some kind of artistic choice
@BimboNihilism Uwe Boll (with the proviso that he's offered to have a fight with previous critics, until he saw the critic [and realized he was an....I want to say MMA guy? IIRC])
@DaveandDaf They do, they just become scientists in the same way that Engineers for 9/11 truth are engineers and Andy Wakefield is a doctor
Education and delusion/profit seeking aren't mutually exclusive, unfortunately and in fact are somewhat correlated
@BeatTheCult Typically recorded, yes, but white people are also; the majority of the population; the most likely to be believed by newspapers and etc; most likely to be far from urban centers where the story makes sense
From there, it becomes a self fulfilling delusion, passed thru generatio
@yuriposting Its why we have scholars of religion and teachers, who aren't nessecarily religious themselves, but have made it their buisness to know this stuff
@yuriposting What should matter is for a Paladin. Because that's on the sharp end of religion, so to speak
Ask one of the crusaders trying to turn Scandinavia Christian about the Norse gods, and they'd probably be pretty good at identifying and comparing vs the catholic or orthodox
@SAMOYEDCORE@Solidarity_Star Because sometimes the teacher is right about what the author is trying to say
Like, it's a stupid post. But how else do you represent "most of the time your teacher is talking nonsense, but in a minority of cases, they're right" visually?