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#611 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 169 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:monkeychow wrote:Why is there no centre and why is there no moderate left? That's my 2c anyway.
For the same reason there is no center or moderates in a war. All you have is two extremes fighting each other. There is no room or need for anything else. You are watching a society in the process of disintegration. The dichotomy will only continue to get more extreme until one side emerges victorious. And that side is looking to be the extreme left. On the political level they have already won.
I'm curious as to why you think the extreme left have already won politically?
Personally, I know that if I have to choose between the extremes, I will pick the left. That's if all I have to choose from are those two options.
I have nothing in common with the far right...they have nothing to offer me. They can't even articulate a point clearly and much of their belief system revolves around the idea that there's a man in the sky watching you. If you can believe that, you can believe anything.
It does seem as though the only way to motivate the extreme right is by feeding in the conspiracies and the false information. Also, I think it's interesting to see who votes for what...Trump, in many ways, could be the last gasp of the far right. When he baby boomers completely die off...who is gonna buy this shit anymore?
The biggest criticisms of the left come from social issues...the trans stuff, the LGBQT stuff...the abortion stuff...the right want to control people with archaic ideologies and that only emboldens them to want to rebel more.
Whether they hold power or not everybody has to play by their rules. What you can say, what you can do is all determined by the leftist intelligentsia. They dominate the school books and the universities and the media. The right is constantly giving ground just to be allowed to play.
If we went back a 100 years an extreme leftist would be a communist. An extreme rightist would be a nazi. That's an example of how much the balance of power has changed. What they call Trumpers today would be considered traitors to the old right because of their adoption of so many leftist ideas. This is clearly a situation where the left will conquer all unless something extraordinary happens. Trump was the first time in years that the right had any reason to celebrate and in the end they achieved nothing for it. If you look at America in 2000 and America today it is clearly a nation dominated by leftist ideas.
I see the LGBT stuff as a way to exercise power. The more craziness they can force you to accept, the more power the people doing it can claim to have.
#612 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 169 weeks ago
Why is there no centre and why is there no moderate left? That's my 2c anyway.
For the same reason there is no center or moderates in a war. All you have is two extremes fighting each other. There is no room or need for anything else. You are watching a society in the process of disintegration. The dichotomy will only continue to get more extreme until one side emerges victorious. And that side is looking to be the extreme left. On the political level they have already won.
#613 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 169 weeks ago
Is it another cut or just a HD release?
#614 Re: Guns N' Roses » 30 years of UYI » 169 weeks ago
The band never really whoring themselves out is one of the few bonuses to all the inactivity.
Back then they were all so concerned about being real and to a certain extent they've kept that up.
#615 Re: Guns N' Roses » What is your favorite song on CD? » 169 weeks ago
I don't want to but I think I have to say If The World.
#616 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 169 weeks ago
I saw some tv girl being shamed yesterday because her body was healthy looking and she was assaulted by fat chicks claiming she was promoting a "utopian body image". I mean, she was not all that pretty either, just a typical fit body for a young girl who doesn't live at McDonalds. Movies, if not made by these people, have to cater to them.
Coherence (2013)
This movie cost like 50k to make. A year or two back I used this site called "Find a movie" to check out movies from the last 20 years. I watched a few dozens of those highest rated and at the end my conclusion was that a handful of them were okay, decent entertainment but nothing more. There was just one movie I really liked and that was Coherence.
It's about a comet passing by one night, and while it does so one house with a dinner party experiences multiple realities (the whole movie is basically shot inside a living room). Acting is not great but not terrible either. Plot is pretty riveting and the ending decent. Very impressive considering what it cost to make. But that's where we are now. A movie made for pennies has more creativity and quality than a 200 million dollar picture.
#617 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash confirms “one or two” new songs by June » 170 weeks ago
That being I love AFD through UYI and a good bit of Chinese but bread and butter will always be 87-91
Agree, there is nothing that is going to match those 4 years. Even if we never got a new song it wouldn't matter all that much because golden age can not be repeated.
I asked this question on some forum a while back: "why do bands lose their creativity in mature age?". Incredibly the responses acted like they didn't know what the hell I was talking about. As if that was not a thing at all.
Spud from Trainspotting put it well: Once you lose it you can never get it back.
#618 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 170 weeks ago
Zach Snyder I do like and if he was given freedom to make something it would undoubtedly be good. I worry a little about his form though, or perhaps it is a symptom of less freedom in the process.
Dawn of the Dead - Great debut
300 - Great follow up
Watchmen - One of my favorite superhero movies, one of the few that is really good.
Superman - Mediocre
Batman vs Superman - Mediocre but with some very good parts
Justice League - Mediocre - One good scene imo.
#619 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 170 weeks ago
In a sense it's better that way. If you're going to lose a tooth, better it happens quick. On the other hand we're losing a lot of teeth here.
#620 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 170 weeks ago
Been watching the Obi Wan series.
The type of movie where some random dad or uncle gets in trouble and they have to fight some bad guys who are way over their league but they manage to defeat them anyways.
In this series, Obi Wan is that random dad. Never held a lightsaber before, doesn't know anything about the Force. Without the indispensable backup of a ten year old girl he would not have completed his mission.
You gotta wonder if the writers sit down and bluntly suggests how to humiliate a legacy character as much as possible. And then build a show around that idea. This show also tells me there must be a ton of good actors out there who for some reason are not getting hired. Or maybe I'm wrong? Maybe this is who we are as a society now and this is the best we have to offer. I can't think of any other reason why big productions have such lousy writing, directing and acting. Like, where are all the pro's working?
