@MovieDweller I just thought - especially after working with CMQ - that he understood his role in cinema today was to stand for joy, adventure, dreams, and all of the goodness that film has imparted at its best. The commie film is a puzzling choice, and Hathaway couldn’t be worse casting here.
The fundamental failure of the Cofnas thesis re “wokeness” is to assume it’s an intellectual movement born of ideas, and which depends on the coherence of those ideas for its existence.
But it isn’t. It’s the tyrannical cry bullying strategy of ugly, stupid, resentful subpar cohorts, freaks, geeks and misfits, who want to steal your stuff and replace you.
There’s no way to “facts and logic” your way out of politically contesting the left & disempowering them to the maximum extent possible, every chance we get.
Debate will play no part in that process. Just like it played no part in their accruing the power they currently have. It’s just not how any of this works.
My philosophy has always been that I’m strong so I can help people, stick up for people & protect them to the extent that I can. Feels important to try to embody the values that you hold, irrespective of reciprocity. And yet it only occurred to me recently that literally the smallest gestures of friendship, loyalty or fraternity, make me melt completely, feels so nice when your friends stick up for you, or carve out a special spot for you and that kind of thing.
@Heminator I agree. It's just thoroughly "meh" on every level. I do not hate it, I do not love it, it's neither compelling nor unwatchable. It just is. As we say today, it's one of the movies of all time.
Deporting Ilhan Omar would be like landing an astronaut on the moon, in terms of the emotional and psychological inspiration it would have on the American people to see a foreigner Congresswoman deported. It would be like chains and shackles were broken from a sleeping giant.
You have a duty to God to become more competent, disciplined, and influential than you ever imagined yourself capable. You must become a weapon against evil.
Set Cofnas up with a ten million dollar grant to seed an independent research institute advancing the study of human biodiversity. Don't just make him whole: reward him for his bravery, place him permanently beyond the reach of the woketards, and give him the ability to foster the careers of other dissidents.
@JohnDemetry@jah2700 There's a reason Truffaut, in his book on Hitchcock, referred to the essence of cinema, the art of visual storytelling, as "les secrets de Griffith."
@martianwyrdlord The only difference is that today shows aren’t allowed to do the superficially edgy things that once were used as camouflage for woke - the sugar that helped the pill go down. Woke felt powerful enough to remove the mask, so bye-bye sweet candy shell, hello demonic carrion core.
@StagsFilm "Oliver's great mistake consisted in regarding all women as ladies without realizing that all ladies are women."
--George Santayana, The Last Puritan
@nathancofnas@jk_rowling It pays for people enthralled by what is in fact just a position flowing from her radical feminism to remember that she is and always has been a leftist. Hasn't changed, won't change.
Everyone accepts Jewish identity is real- that’s not in doubt. What I will not accept is the idea that this somehow ends with one people alone.
The English, Scots, Welsh and the Britons of Northern Ireland are peoples too, formed across millennia on these islands. The claim that British identity is purely civic is a very recent invention, barely a generation old, produced the moment large-scale change made that truth awkward. Our identity is also “ethnic, religious and cultural” Melanie.
It is faintly ridiculous that I must even spell this out in my own country. We have shown almost limitless tolerance, and that forbearance has been read as stupidity? The instant the native majority notices the transformation and seeks the same demographic security Israel claims for Jews, we are told it is ‘beyond the pale’- our very own ancient phrase of fairness thrown back at us as if we were the interlopers.
The sheer audacity is this- a woman who places her Jewish identity above all else calmly informs me that I have no identity of my own. It’s absurd beyond belief. One people’s continuity is justice- mine is extremism. No honest rule can work that way. We are entitled to remain majorities in the land our ancestors built and fought for.
The relentless campaign against the native British- from every quarter, foreign and domestic, the political class and its media allies- has to stop. No other nation on earth would tolerate such open bigotry directed at it’s own historic people in their own homeland.