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fauxgnaws 7 points ago +7 / -0

Mid-80s is coincidentally when the last two studios, United Artists (Weintraub) and Disney (Eisner), were taken over by a certain tribe.

Although UA, the original non-tribe studio and main holdout, struggled against this for the next decade or so they eventually fell and are now under tribe-run MGM.

Again just a coincidence though...

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

The courts rule on your actions (what you do), not your being (what you are). Now go back and look at this original comment: Gizmo would do evil, not be evil.

It's unbelievable to me that you have no concept of this difference.

Most children learn this concept before 8 years old.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

No, you're are morally to blame for everything that's ever gone wrong in your life as if you chose and intended it to happen.

That's way dark, man.

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fauxgnaws -1 points ago +1 / -2

If your only criteria is it's not fiction then Project Veritas / OMG and vlogs are documentaries - but they're not, they're investigative reporting or candid camera.

This is what Walsh did, a collection of Project Veritas videos arranged in a narrative.

You can pretend that's a documentary, but when your definition includes Jersey Shore you've made it so encompassing it's worthless.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Then you're a very evil person, since you've made mistakes and lots of them.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nope. A simple error in judgement or mistake doesn't make one evil.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you kill a baby while on LSD because you think they're a demon you've done evil, but you're not evil because you wouldn't normally do that.

Gizmo wouldn't do evil things if he was in control of his faculties, but if he eats after midnight he wouldn't be.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

But it WILL be something.

In a month they'll lose control over the FBI, intelligence, the military, medicine. They'll lose apparent control of Congress. The picks are already made so they'd have to take out Trump and Vance and that might even make it worse for them.

If there's not some kind of extreme event maybe the country is actually saved (or on reprieve) after all.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +4 / -2

Any 5 of them? It's not even a documentary, it's a narrative journey.

Departure on adventure, trials, climax, return.

Documentaries don't have these things.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

Before these long-form 'everyman' podcasts there wasn't really anything you could show to somebody who thought Trump was a dozen-adjective literally Hitler. Clips, rallies - nothing convincing and they'd only see the most distorted excerpts anyway.

But after the podcast tour you have this singular thing you can point to, Rogan or Theo Von or another, where he's personable and asked honest questions normal people have, with no deceptive editing, where you can say go watch this and it'll change your mind about Trump.

It's a metaphorical pin you can point to and say "oh you don't think you're a bubble? well then this pin can't hurt you". They'll either have their bubble popped or retreat in fear from it.

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fauxgnaws 7 points ago +9 / -2

It shouldn't be awarded in even a neutral Oscars.

It's a relevant and important movie, eye-opening for some, but it's not good and certainly not great.

The entire problem with the Oscars is they would give an oscar to a "He is racist" movie about how Matt Walsh is racist.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Blacks will also feel pressured to assimilate to Japanese culture more than other Asians, although some of them will have a harder time doing it.

Like that youtuber guy whatever his name is.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

Maybe just crosspost to KotakuInActionToo?

I don't know any of these other mods, I'm just a simple karma farmer.

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fauxgnaws 6 points ago +6 / -0

I don't think the Feds could mandate a DNA test, but I bet they could sue states for denying a father's civil rights / due process by making him pay for a child that's not his. Basically make it so each state has to put it into their laws.

Hell it should be covered under 8th's no cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +3 / -2

Even more so, a 6' white guy is going to assimilate more than any Asian because it's immediately obvious he's not Japanese and is judged constantly.

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fauxgnaws 15 points ago +15 / -0

I think you could argue against the Feds requiring a paternity test on privacy or state's rights, maybe some other grounds.

But what it should be anyway is a requirement to get child support.

It's functionally the same thing because if they're married the father can just have the test done, or if he has custody (lol), or if the divorced mother with custody refuses then it's not his.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

More like they attempted to 41% themselves after the election and just got out of observation at the ward.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

This number is whether you get any news from reddit, not how much.

Probably the conservatives just see the front page and see a few news stories that way, whereas most of the liberals are jerking off to r/politics all day.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's from Pew Research so it's a poll. They no doubt asked "do you get the news on X? YouTube? Reddit?" and what politics you are.

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fauxgnaws 21 points ago +21 / -0

In a normal case it'd be kind of ridiculous to dither about "rape" vs rape-like "sexual abuse", but a newsman like Slopalopoulos knows full well the case and verdict is total bullshit so even saying "convicted of sexual abuse" is slanderous.

For him to then purposely spin the verdict as worse is at least double-bullshit.

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fauxgnaws 6 points ago +6 / -0

It was on the trending torrents so I checked it out already.

Completely pedestrian and uninspired. Boring dialog, mindless action scene, boring dialog...

I'd rather watch a let's play from the olden times.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

Muslims are about 10% of the population of France and commit a majority of the crimes. They do a better job than blacks in the US.

Exactly what I'm talking about when I say "you just can't conceive of how so". They're not even in the same category.

Based on? Greater wealth? I'm not sure that is true, but I'll concede that anyway.

Ironically, because of the same problem that drags all our aggregates down: our doctors and hospitals have to deal with so much crazy shit you'd scarcely believe that the institutions and people end up being superior just by trial by fire, and capacity to deal with it.

It's the same reason why Americans have never really gotten soft like Europeans have, not as extremely anyway, because we've always had this burden keeping us from pretending that utopia and harmony are possible.

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fauxgnaws 6 points ago +6 / -0

I mean, go right ahead and subtract FIFTY SIX percent from your homicide rate, ... But I despise this special pleading from Americans.

Blacks are a special case though. Try as you might, you just can't conceive of how so.

I see you are particularly triggered by the life expectancy claim.

It's way more complicated than just "our number big", it's calculated differently by each country and there's wars, natural disasters, disease, drugs, rural vs urban and all kinds of things that affect a country's life expectancy differently from others; you can hardly live in EU and have it take an hour to get to hospital for your heart attack.

If you have two people choosing the same lifestyle, one in EU and one in US, the one in US will live longer.

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fauxgnaws 13 points ago +13 / -0

Homicide rate in the US is a bit lower than Europe if just a few of the black areas of Chicago, Baltimore, and a couple more are excluded - not even all black areas, just a handful.

It's pretty much that way for any metric, like schools or life expectancy or whatever. Exclude the blacks from the stats and America is freakin' amazing.

India is low on homicide for a brown country probably because of all the fennel making them into pussies.

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