His intellectual and political journey over the last 5 years has been similar to my own, and, I am certain, many hundreds of thousands of others, if not more.
It's going to be a lot of fun watching guys who've been posting with ankle weights for 6+ years going up against communists who absolutely cannot abide the slightest disagreement and had total moderator invincibility.
Twitter now censoring
"Denying a violent event, such as Sandy Hook, the Holocaust, and the September 11th attacks"
-- which presumably includes anything contrary to the narrative of established powers.
He didn't miss the point of the book, he got it and completely ignored it.
Anyway, Sargon thought the humans were the good guys in the movie, not at all questioning the official story of aliens somehow shooting an entire asteroid all the way across a goddamn GALAXY with enough pinpoint accuracy to not only nail Earth, but bull's-eye a major city.
Complete Gulf of Tonkin bullshit. Excuse to send the non-elites off to die while the rich sit comfy and unchallenged. Just like real life.
Haley called. Wants that comet back, since apparently you can't accurately predict where things will be in a straight-line path in space over time when you know the physics variables involved and no outside forces are moving the objects in the interim.
He didn't miss the point of the book, he got it and completely ignored it.
Verhoeven self admittedly didn't read the book and instead had an assistant give him the cliff notes.
Regardless, the asteroid is not a government false flag - it's a bug attack. We are very obviously supposed to suspend our disbelief for the narrative convenience of the asteroid. How can I say this with certainty? Because it would have to be FTL to reach earth in an even remotely timely fashion.
FTL travel exists in this universe, but there is no mention of the asteroid being FTL, and an FTL asteroid impact would do a lot more than annihilate Buenos Aires. It's a world where space pilot is a common job, yet nobody asks 'how the hell did this asteroid go FTL, and why did it stop being FTL when it reached earth?' That's inconceivable, and because it's inconceivable, we can conclude that this is a narrative convenience, not some silent nudge-nudge wink-wink read-between-the-lines 'it was a false flag for the war economy!' boondoggle.
So we're accepting diabolus-ex-machinas as normal now.
How long was humanity at war with these damn bugs? Why would the bugs have any reason whatsoever to launch a rock at Earth?
Besides, I fully admitted in another comment that Verhoeven was ignoring the book. He intended the movie to be the biggest middle-finger possible to the book, in order to mock us.
And just like with Rorschach, it became beloved by the very people it was meant to mock. Which is totally fine.
Obviously Buenos Aires was destroyed. I'm saying the official in-universe news story doesn't fucking work. It would've been MORE believable had it just been a tragic coincidence.
Humans are also fucking idiots in this movie, without the epic writing of 40K to make up for it. Why fragile mobile infantry instead of bombarding the planet from orbit?
Also note the "We need soldiers!" PSA at the very end. Why do they suddenly have to say they need more soldiers? Because the humans are losing. Because they're idiots. It's spin-doctor crap. And Sargon completely missed it.
...What am I doing? Nobody's reading this far into the thread. It's just me at this point. This ain't worth it at all.
His intellectual and political journey over the last 5 years has been similar to my own, and, I am certain, many hundreds of thousands of others, if not more.
Interesting times are ahead.
if you're not red pilled as a teenager, you don't have a heart, if you're not black pilled as an adult, then you don't have a brain
Dead man walking
"abandoning" is a pretty strong word here.
I feel like you're talking about someone else.
It's going to be a lot of fun watching guys who've been posting with ankle weights for 6+ years going up against communists who absolutely cannot abide the slightest disagreement and had total moderator invincibility.
Life comes achu hard. Then, maybe, you get to change your robe.
and a clean pair of shorts
Now he and everyone else just need to become Christ-pilled.
They still haven't let me back
Someone let Carl know,
Twitter now censoring
"Denying a violent event, such as Sandy Hook, the Holocaust, and the September 11th attacks"
-- which presumably includes anything contrary to the narrative of established powers.
About that most censored historical event
Anti-establishment accounts, such as Donald Trump's, are still shadow-banned. Their messages are hidden from search.
The Twitter alternative most free by design is
ActivityPub federated microblogging
Remember when Sargon completely missed the point of the Starship Troopers movie?
No?
I remember when Paul Verhoeven completely missed the point of the book, though.
Precisely this.
Also, here
He didn't miss the point of the book, he got it and completely ignored it.
Anyway, Sargon thought the humans were the good guys in the movie, not at all questioning the official story of aliens somehow shooting an entire asteroid all the way across a goddamn GALAXY with enough pinpoint accuracy to not only nail Earth, but bull's-eye a major city.
Complete Gulf of Tonkin bullshit. Excuse to send the non-elites off to die while the rich sit comfy and unchallenged. Just like real life.
And Sargon completely missed it.
Except the elite don't run the world in starship troopers. (the book, granted I haven't seen much of the movie)
And a spacefaring race on that degree managing to throw a rock is not all that different than ICBMs nowadays.
An ICBM is guided. A rock is a rock.
Throw a piece of driveway gravel the length of a football field to bisect an ant when it lands. That's what they claim the bugs did.
In the movie. The movie is completely different from the book, on purpose.
Lead and copper are just metals, but we can get pretty precise with those. It's even easier in the vacuum of space.
Are they thrown, or guided with thrusters?
And that's just one solar system. This is tens of thousands of solar systems away.
Bullshit.
They just wanted to send people off to war to fuel the war economy.
Note that the BOOK is great. I'm talking solely about the movie here.
The movie did give us some great memes, though, can't deny that. "Would you like to know more?"
Haley called. Wants that comet back, since apparently you can't accurately predict where things will be in a straight-line path in space over time when you know the physics variables involved and no outside forces are moving the objects in the interim.
Verhoeven self admittedly didn't read the book and instead had an assistant give him the cliff notes.
Regardless, the asteroid is not a government false flag - it's a bug attack. We are very obviously supposed to suspend our disbelief for the narrative convenience of the asteroid. How can I say this with certainty? Because it would have to be FTL to reach earth in an even remotely timely fashion.
FTL travel exists in this universe, but there is no mention of the asteroid being FTL, and an FTL asteroid impact would do a lot more than annihilate Buenos Aires. It's a world where space pilot is a common job, yet nobody asks 'how the hell did this asteroid go FTL, and why did it stop being FTL when it reached earth?' That's inconceivable, and because it's inconceivable, we can conclude that this is a narrative convenience, not some silent nudge-nudge wink-wink read-between-the-lines 'it was a false flag for the war economy!' boondoggle.
So we're accepting diabolus-ex-machinas as normal now.
How long was humanity at war with these damn bugs? Why would the bugs have any reason whatsoever to launch a rock at Earth?
Besides, I fully admitted in another comment that Verhoeven was ignoring the book. He intended the movie to be the biggest middle-finger possible to the book, in order to mock us.
And just like with Rorschach, it became beloved by the very people it was meant to mock. Which is totally fine.
Obviously Buenos Aires was destroyed. I'm saying the official in-universe news story doesn't fucking work. It would've been MORE believable had it just been a tragic coincidence.
Humans are also fucking idiots in this movie, without the epic writing of 40K to make up for it. Why fragile mobile infantry instead of bombarding the planet from orbit?
Also note the "We need soldiers!" PSA at the very end. Why do they suddenly have to say they need more soldiers? Because the humans are losing. Because they're idiots. It's spin-doctor crap. And Sargon completely missed it.
...What am I doing? Nobody's reading this far into the thread. It's just me at this point. This ain't worth it at all.
Probably a lot of liberals feel trap by progressive commies.. just like conservatives trapped by neocons.