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If it weren't for double standards....
If it weren't for double standards....
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That's more than a little far-fetched.
You're right that it would be taken differently if it was a white man who directed it, however the world we live in is very delicate when it comes to issues like source of material, information etc. Mainstream media might be going through the motions but the indies are certainly having their say.
It might be a good story but I don't have any real interest in watching 11 year old dance troupe girls prancing about, or it being shown to me what I already see in the society I live in, which is that children are increasingly sexualised. However, if you scroll through reviews it's a mixture of "brilliant, only mildly uncomfortable to watch", "boring", or "child sexual exploitation!". I'm willing to bet that the majority of the latter are from people who haven't seen it and are voicing their displeasure, which is up to them. It's not a review though.
I've noticed over the years that some Euro films can get close to the bone with issues of children and sex, although usually they are played by older actors. I suppose you could get 16 year olds to play 11 year olds but in the end there will also be criticism for the portrayal if the material is graphic. It's not 18 playing 15, it's a different age group to tell this story - kids are already well sexualised / having sex in Europe by 15. Also, it's one thing to have children dancing around provocatively, but to think a child in their underwear or dance costumes is sexual, that is a different mindset. In this age of social media and TikTok with kids dancing around, Instagram with tens of thousands of perverts following underage girls, this now has the spotlight on an issue and it makes people uncomfortable and upset.
Still, my initial comment to it was why are some forms of clear child sexualisation acceptable yet others bring about such a response. Is it the wider audience? I think the poster was deliberate, all press is good press. You can't put a bunch of pre-teen girls in sexual poses and then put "CUTIES" underneath it and think that this isn't going to draw interest. The director said she had no say in it, but I bet she isn't as upset with the marketer as she makes out.
You're right that it would be taken differently if it was a white man who directed it, however the world we live in is very delicate when it comes to issues like source of material, information etc. Mainstream media might be going through the motions but the indies are certainly having their say.
It might be a good story but I don't have any real interest in watching 11 year old dance troupe girls prancing about, or it being shown to me what I already see in the society I live in, which is that children are increasingly sexualised. However, if you scroll through reviews it's a mixture of "brilliant, only mildly uncomfortable to watch", "boring", or "child sexual exploitation!". I'm willing to bet that the majority of the latter are from people who haven't seen it and are voicing their displeasure, which is up to them. It's not a review though.
I've noticed over the years that some Euro films can get close to the bone with issues of children and sex, although usually they are played by older actors. I suppose you could get 16 year olds to play 11 year olds but in the end there will also be criticism for the portrayal if the material is graphic. It's not 18 playing 15, it's a different age group to tell this story - kids are already well sexualised / having sex in Europe by 15. Also, it's one thing to have children dancing around provocatively, but to think a child in their underwear or dance costumes is sexual, that is a different mindset. In this age of social media and TikTok with kids dancing around, Instagram with tens of thousands of perverts following underage girls, this now has the spotlight on an issue and it makes people uncomfortable and upset.
Still, my initial comment to it was why are some forms of clear child sexualisation acceptable yet others bring about such a response. Is it the wider audience? I think the poster was deliberate, all press is good press. You can't put a bunch of pre-teen girls in sexual poses and then put "CUTIES" underneath it and think that this isn't going to draw interest. The director said she had no say in it, but I bet she isn't as upset with the marketer as she makes out.
Euthanasia. All autistic children should be shot.
When it comes to so-called liberals, I often thought Minnesota had some of the better ones at the state level.
That is my brother's police beat in a nutshell.
Um, last I checked, SF's Chinatown was part of the US and didn't require passport controls and a customs office to enter or leave.
That's becoming harder and harder to argue against from an outside view.
Endless wars was a thing. One of the good things Trump has been behind, IMO.
But saying 200k would have died regardless is a small step from saying we all will eventually die regardless, so why the big deal about 9/11?
As I said 7 months ago, pandemics reflect the cultures they infect. The US has a lot of f'ed up things about its individualistic culture that would have made COVID a disaster regardless of who was president. But Trump basically poured gasoline on the fire instead of trying to create fire breaks. So yeah, culpability is there.
There's no reason my sh*thole socialist country should be running circles around the US's health and welfare systems under COVID, but it is. It's way safer here, and I spent yesterday afternoon eating some amazing seafood by the ocean in a restaurant. I talk to people back home near SF and they have barely left the house in the past week. And none of this was because the locals here prioritized the economic crisis over public health, so Americans would be wise to do some soul searching about how badly they f'ed this one up,
The bigger challenge is that the world is going to likely experience more interconnected disruptions like this in the future ... whether due to climate, disease, supply chain disruption, etc. If you don't get this things working now, it's only going to get worse in the future. American individualism is still part of that problem ... with its head buried in the sand thinking that individual responsibility is the cure to all the world's ills when it is clearly not. You can decry it as socialism all you want. but without some functional systems of collective action there is now the great specter of collective failure, and that's what the US has to confront in its global survival for the future.
There are few good choices anymore. Nassim Taleb talks about this in how the extremists always win:
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
We need mechanisms to keep that in check, because it's creating a gaping void about anyone who represents sanity anymore.
Unprecedented fires in Cali and Australia, runaway glacier melt in Greenland, rising sea levels covering islands and flooding cities, more powerful hurricanes, longer droughts. This is fine.
Whether you believe in the boogieman or not, the status quo and its current trendline should make everyone nervous. You could come up with a conspiracy theory and blame aliens, I don't care. But sitting on our hands and pretending it isn't happening and that we shouldn't do anything about what actually is happening is a bit suicidal.
I really wonder if we need to rethink this. Like there has to be ways to use the ridiculousness of identity politics against itself as a weapon.
Clamping down on political dissent is a dicey precedent. Not that clamping down on religion is ok either, but certainly staging religious gathering indoors vs outdoors is nuts. And it's not like every other type of event or gathering hasn't already moved online. Who's to say practicing your religion in a group is any more special than attending Burning Man or the Electronic Entertainment Expo conference for your business?
I'm not seeing that here. There's a bewilderment, a bit of shock and horror, but also a sadness and disappointment too. And a resignation of watching an empire fall... something they have experience with here.
That is one of the most Murican things I've ever seen. Guy sets up a security cam on a political poster in his yard, guy urinates it, and guy films himself firing a gun at him. That says everything about Murica.
I am calling b.s. on this long con. It is politically incorrect, but nobody short of a few Ethiopian tribes are indigenous. Or native. We as a species have invaded the entire planet and totally different ecosystems. There isn't this "finders keepers" or "first dibs" rule, like some seem to suggest. It's arrogant and ignorant of humanity's history of colonization and tribal warfare and the many winners and losers over history.
Maybe he got SIM-jacked too: (202) UR-FIRED
I still have to take issue with this data as a binary representation of events. It doesn't allow for the subtlety that you can have a peaceful protest where bored teens join in because they want to throw rocks and loot under cover of political activism, which happens a ton.
You mean like college sports?
Speaking of Vancouver, I did get a kick out of these...
When it comes to so-called liberals, I often thought Minnesota had some of the better ones at the state level.
That is my brother's police beat in a nutshell.
A whole month after this, Pelosi visited SF's Chinatown and was urging people to come patronize shops and restaurants while calling Trump racist for the travel ban he had enacted. 
Are we going to pretend now she didn't know? Only Trump did?
At least Trump actually took solid action in enacting a travel ban.
Are we going to pretend now she didn't know? Only Trump did?At least Trump actually took solid action in enacting a travel ban.
That's becoming harder and harder to argue against from an outside view.
Endless wars was a thing. One of the good things Trump has been behind, IMO.
But saying 200k would have died regardless is a small step from saying we all will eventually die regardless, so why the big deal about 9/11?
As I said 7 months ago, pandemics reflect the cultures they infect. The US has a lot of f'ed up things about its individualistic culture that would have made COVID a disaster regardless of who was president. But Trump basically poured gasoline on the fire instead of trying to create fire breaks. So yeah, culpability is there.
There's no reason my sh*thole socialist country should be running circles around the US's health and welfare systems under COVID, but it is. It's way safer here, and I spent yesterday afternoon eating some amazing seafood by the ocean in a restaurant. I talk to people back home near SF and they have barely left the house in the past week. And none of this was because the locals here prioritized the economic crisis over public health, so Americans would be wise to do some soul searching about how badly they f'ed this one up,
The bigger challenge is that the world is going to likely experience more interconnected disruptions like this in the future ... whether due to climate, disease, supply chain disruption, etc. If you don't get this things working now, it's only going to get worse in the future. American individualism is still part of that problem ... with its head buried in the sand thinking that individual responsibility is the cure to all the world's ills when it is clearly not. You can decry it as socialism all you want. but without some functional systems of collective action there is now the great specter of collective failure, and that's what the US has to confront in its global survival for the future.
There are few good choices anymore. Nassim Taleb talks about this in how the extremists always win:
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
We need mechanisms to keep that in check, because it's creating a gaping void about anyone who represents sanity anymore.
Speaking of Obama...
Whether you believe in the boogieman or not, the status quo and its current trendline should make everyone nervous. You could come up with a conspiracy theory and blame aliens, I don't care. But sitting on our hands and pretending it isn't happening and that we shouldn't do anything about what actually is happening is a bit suicidal.
I really wonder if we need to rethink this. Like there has to be ways to use the ridiculousness of identity politics against itself as a weapon.
Clamping down on political dissent is a dicey precedent. Not that clamping down on religion is ok either, but certainly staging religious gathering indoors vs outdoors is nuts. And it's not like every other type of event or gathering hasn't already moved online. Who's to say practicing your religion in a group is any more special than attending Burning Man or the Electronic Entertainment Expo conference for your business?
I'm not seeing that here. There's a bewilderment, a bit of shock and horror, but also a sadness and disappointment too. And a resignation of watching an empire fall... something they have experience with here.
I love that they have a security camera watching their Trump sign. Priorities.
I am calling b.s. on this long con. It is politically incorrect, but nobody short of a few Ethiopian tribes are indigenous. Or native. We as a species have invaded the entire planet and totally different ecosystems. There isn't this "finders keepers" or "first dibs" rule, like some seem to suggest. It's arrogant and ignorant of humanity's history of colonization and tribal warfare and the many winners and losers over history.
Maybe he got SIM-jacked too: (202) UR-FIRED
I still have to take issue with this data as a binary representation of events. It doesn't allow for the subtlety that you can have a peaceful protest where bored teens join in because they want to throw rocks and loot under cover of political activism, which happens a ton.
You mean like college sports?
Speaking of Vancouver, I did get a kick out of these...
Since you probably won't find much coverage on the regular news:
https://www.redstate.com/shipwrecke...lebrating-shooting-of-two-la-deputy-sheriffs/
https://www.redstate.com/shipwrecke...lebrating-shooting-of-two-la-deputy-sheriffs/
