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Post by K1power on Feb 13, 2024 15:34:26 GMT 1
While the "Jews rule the World" trope is not one I subscribe to and indeed leans a bit too far into the direction of anti-semitism and/or conspiracy theory ideology, I also don't think it's entirely unfair to say people of Jewish decent have a disproportionate amount of influence in many branches of industry and politics. While Biden may not have Jewish roots, that doesn't mean he isn't trying to keep his 'friends' happy that do. Him being POTUS does not mean his decisions are made unilaterally.
Also, I think the ship of not alienating Muslims has long sailed with both his actions and quotes like "I'm a Zionist". Just speaking from my own personal bubble/anekdotal evidence here, but I have a bunch of Muslim friends (non-American ones to be fair) and they generally feel like Biden is just as big a piece of shit as Trump. I personally wouldn't go that far, because IMO leaning left is inherently better than leaning right, but I do generally sympathize with their reasoning and perspective/grievances.
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Post by bol on Feb 14, 2024 0:11:47 GMT 1
I think complacency is a factor why the Biden government still supports Israel in their actions, despite criticising their demolition of Gaza a bit for the public. The weapons industry (and other defence services) likes the relationship with Israel, the Israel-lobby around AIPAC can be aggressive and some higher ups probably also view Israel as a traditional geopolitical ally.
Maybe Biden and his people thought, they just better won't open the can of worms to not support the actions of the Netanjahu government. Also the Hamas terror gave them at start some reason to support (though it became quickly clear the Netanjahu government is using that attack for a larger campaign). They probably don't care for the Palestinians much and possibly also thought this would be a quick bombardment. A longer military campaign is obviously more in the interest of Netanjahu (who could this way also stabilise his government) than of Biden, who doesn't has the courage to change course (yet) though.
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Post by Fox on Feb 14, 2024 5:29:49 GMT 1
Check out Al-Jazeera's documentary on the Jewish lobby. People conspire, to think otherwise is naïve, as is dismissing this fact because its a trope.
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Post by K1power on Mar 8, 2024 8:03:47 GMT 1
Akira Toriyama, creator of 'Dragon Ball,' dies at 68Just found out about this an hour ago and it really shook me up. Even 25 years after being introduced to it, DragonBall remains my favorite thing in fiction ever. RIP Toriyama-san and thanks for brightening up my life with your work.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 11, 2024 4:08:00 GMT 1
Part of the reason why I stopped posting is obviously the Gaza stuff. Way too much to handle, too frustrating to even rant about as I see foolishness absolutely everywhere, and you'd understand if you know a bit about my history with the region.
So, I actually watched the Oscars for the first time in years, and boy was it good. It was good. Kimmel was good, the structure was good.
Firstly Maestro didn't win shit. Hooray! Nerves of those people making such a fucking lazy, masturbatory dickweed of a movie while we have already watched Tar (which was brilliant unlike this tripe, of course). I think I've said that I would rather focus on good things about a film than crucify it with gratuitously strong words, but fuck that. It's such a tremendously fucking horrible film.
Look, I'm talking about an "academy" who has almost routinely given cookies to horse manure like Shakespeare in Love, so you never know. Many of those people don't even watch the films, for real. One that I've been friends with for the longest time doesn't for example. He's a musical guy, and it's not too much to say that he hates movies. He just goes with the flow, as he says. He has kept voting for stinkers naturally. I mean, he loves Miss Saigon. What else would you expect from such a philistine, racist prick?
And Poor Things. Not nearly as offensive, insulting as Maestro, but not my cup of tea. Too self-indulgent, typical of so many magic realism-ish works, especially non-Latin American ones.
So, of course Lily Gladstone was robbed, and if I were THE academy, I would be torn between Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest. But that was not going to happen, and even the latter winning the international and Glazer given a chance to speak was a small surprise, so I can take Oppenheimer pretty much sweeping it if that means fewer cookies for Mestro and Poor Things. I had some beef with the film, but it is objectively a good one, one of Nolan's best.
2023 was a pretty good year for movies in hindsight. Barbie was cool. Anatomy of a Fall was absolutely fantastic; It's just that The Zone of Interest is a milestone film, and that we have to be simply awestruck by the fact that Scorsese made one of his best films at that age.
Oh, and the best actor in 2023 in actuality was of course Sandra Hüller, by far, bar none. Cillian Murphy "deserves" it - Emma Stone? Who? - but we all know who actually stole the show in 2023.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 11, 2024 4:18:21 GMT 1
And, yes, R.I.P. Toriyama sensei.
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Post by K1power on Mar 11, 2024 8:43:15 GMT 1
Welcome back, misc.
Not much of an Oscars guy, but I tend to watch some of their nominees/winners as long as they align with my interests.
Haven't watched a lot of films last year, but out of the ones I did see The Creator and Godzilla - Minus One were probably my favorites. Usually not the types of film to get nominated for anything other than special effects / make up.
Still have Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon on my list, though.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 12, 2024 2:56:37 GMT 1
Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest is a bone-chilling "holocaust" film, and you should check it out if you haven't. Watch it at a place where the sound system is good as the ambient sound is the main protagonist of this film. It seriously fucked me up at the deepest level, and I still haven't recovered from it. His previous film, Under the Skin, starring Scarlet Johansson, did absolutely nothing for me even though I got what he was trying to do, but in this one his style works tremendously well. I mean, "well" in the most disturbing way.
As for Killers of the Flower Moon, it's a wonderful Scorsese crime movie, but unlike Goodfellas, the bad guys do truly evil, biblically evil things in this one. Like you wish God actually punished them by Himself. So it kinda hits you even harder than his previous crime movies.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 12, 2024 3:19:22 GMT 1
Argh. Yet another lazy-ass article written by a lazy dumbass. ‘I express purely through my songs and silhouette’: Ado, the platinum-selling pop star with a secret identitywww.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/11/ado-platinum-selling-pop-star-secret-identity-troxy-londonIf I got a penny every time some lazy-ass British writer wrote a stupid article about anything Japanese, I would be able to afford to buy a shed or something. I mean, not much, but please, please, please. Like: "It hit a raw nerve in Japan, where social pressure to conform is extreme, and Ado was branded the voice of non-conformist gen Z.""On Gira Gira, she sings “when God drew my face he used his left hand”, but later finds empowerment in refusing to fit in with the demands of judgmental society""Ado typifies Japan’s gen Z: a more individualist and progressive group than millennials, they are trying to defy endless recession and collapsing birth rates."What a bunch of horseshit. None of the above have anything to do with Ado. What the hell is "the voice of non-conformist gen Z?" It only exists in the writer's mind who knew what he wanted to say way before he even actually talked to Ado, obviously. Look, a female singer singing "fuck all that shit" is a well-established genre in Japanese pop music, and it existed even when Japan was literally - albeit nominally - the richest country in the world. Ado is just the latest one, an exceptionally good one at that. I've never heard of Gen Z in Japan "more individualist and progressive than millennials" either. Like, who? The writer provides no explanation, presumably because there's none. I've heard the opposite statement far more often (which I don't really agree with either), and most of those "Gen Z" artists are produced overwhelmingly by millennials or even older. Who do you think writes songs for Ado, BABYMETAL, etc.? And that tripe about "endless recession and collapsing birth rates." What a fucking lazy cliche geyzer. No, that has nothing to do with Ado either. Pray tell, if you are asking a young pop/rock singer/rapper about their generation, would you expect them to go, "Oh, we are pretty happy and optimistic, so that hopefulness naturally runs through our music, I guess." Come on. Seriously? This kind of crap is simply disrespectful to the singer. Ado is a phenomenal singer, probably one of the best in the world now, and you pretty much sucker-punch her with your lazy false predisposition about the recession-ridden Japanese society with the extreme pressure for conformity or whatever crap you have on your mind about your fantasy land. Right, she said her generation in Japan weren't happy! Hooray! That's soooo Japanese and totally different from Billie Eilish, right? There's a lot more to discuss about Ado than this amateur sociology crap. I'm sick of these amateur cliche machines making asinine comments on Japan/Korea/wherever else. It's cringe-worthy especially when Brits do it for some reason. I don't know why. You tell me. Their American counterparts are usually a lot more tolerable.
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Post by bol on Mar 13, 2024 21:12:02 GMT 1
Good to see you back with us, misc
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Post by gols on Mar 13, 2024 23:29:32 GMT 1
Welcome back miscmisc. Was getting worried about you there Of the Oscar nominations, I have seen Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon. Barbie was fun but I'm a sucker for an epic so I preferred the other two. Killers probably the best of them, although I had a few issues with how the narrative was paced (I felt like Scorsese was struggling to fit the story in, even with the 3½ hr runtime).
On the subject of films misc, I watched Cure a few months back. A bit too on the 'deliberately obtuse' side for me to really enjoy, although it was definitely worth watching.
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Post by K1power on Mar 16, 2024 23:30:24 GMT 1
Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest is a bone-chilling "holocaust" film, and you should check it out if you haven't. Watch it at a place where the sound system is good as the ambient sound is the main protagonist of this film. It seriously fucked me up at the deepest level, and I still haven't recovered from it. His previous film, Under the Skin, starring Scarlet Johansson, did absolutely nothing for me even though I got what he was trying to do, but in this one his style works tremendously well. I mean, "well" in the most disturbing way. As for Killers of the Flower Moon, it's a wonderful Scorsese crime movie, but unlike Goodfellas, the bad guys do truly evil, biblically evil things in this one. Like you wish God actually punished them by Himself. So it kinda hits you even harder than his previous crime movies. Just finished The Zone of Interest. You sure weren't kidding about the (background) noise being the main character here. It's pretty surreal, depressing and infuriating knowing that (a version of) this actually happened and that versions of this are still happening today. What adds to the insanity - to me at least - is that if you swap the war setting for something more mundane, it could have been a tale of any random corporate slave/workaholic. Unfortunately, one of the first things I came across looking the film up after watching was its executive producer being an apologist piece of shit for the current Gaza situation. It's like was he even paying attention at all? Anyway, it's an uncomfortable, but important film. Very well made. A24 has been attached to some solid looking projects as I'm also interested in The Iron Claw and the upcoming Civil War.
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Post by Kenshin (Banned) on Mar 17, 2024 6:17:52 GMT 1
I mean, we do realize that this has pretty much has become an anti-Semitic forum by now? Not a single word of the victims of this terrible attack by the Hamas. Not a single. Yet, we are exposed to his "Musllim Friends" and how they don't like BIden. Oopsy Daisy. The same guy that literally said that he "could do without Isreal" (or something to that extent).
How about you read a book?
The Jews, way before WW II., settled there. It was always the Arabs that didn't want a 2 states solution. Oh, you might want to read what happy things they say in the Koran. Or maybe not.
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Post by K1power on Mar 17, 2024 8:30:53 GMT 1
Ah yes, the racist troll coming in to tell the forum it's racist.
I guess all the Jews protesting their own government are anti-semitic too.
This could be a conflict between Koreans and Mexicans for all I care and I'd hold the exact same stance. This has never been about "picking my friends' side" or whatever you're turning it into, but about innocent civilians getting exterminated and the World watching.
It's pretty baffling to me how any reasonable human being who's been following this thread could come to the same conclusions you do. But you're obviously projecting your own issues - which you're blaming others for - onto the conversation.
It's sad to see you've turned into this vindictive child, but then perhaps it's always been there and I just didn't wanna see it. While we're in the process of telling each other what to do; if this is the extent of your contributions here, please save yourself from further embarrassment and stay away.
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Post by Kenshin (Banned) on Mar 17, 2024 15:09:14 GMT 1
Ah yes, the racist troll coming in to tell the forum it's racist. Ah yes, there is nothing more effective and powerful than to call your discussion partner a racist right off the bat, a troll even. Where would that even come from? Because I used to dare to criticize Muslims, actually just sharing things that are indeed happening in this world concerning this ridicilous hateful religion? Oh my. This said, don't you have enough to lament about this in the Netherlands right now? That's what you get in a democracy. The Israel government is far-right and corrupt as well. Protests are to be excepted. That doesn't mean that they're all against the counter-strike. Just like when the Polish government turned from right to left, but they're still doing pushbacks against refugees. That's just not true, and you know it (ignoring the geographical absurdity of this hypothesis). When you once said something along the lines of "if I could do without a state, it would be Israel", I was shocked a little, but kept my mouth shut, albeit this is the very rhetoric that anti-Semits use ("from the river to the sea"). Just use your imagination a little; imagine that the Netherlands would be invaded by these human beings, who did crimes that I'm afraid - and I'm not kidding - to even say out loud here. That they just would kill all these innocents and take hostages as well. Here's the bottom line: Israel has a right to exist! That's the fucking bottom line, and history, if you know anything about it, is on my side. However, Israel has been under constant attack, may it be rhetorical or physical, when people acutally have to die. If not now, when then? Again, just imagine they would do this to the Netherlands. Imagine your daughter was slain by these animals? Don't tell me you wouldn't want to go to war. Hamas is not just a little rebel group in Gaza. They own this place. They have police stations and shit. And if you're living among them, and you're cool with them launching rockets at Israel to hopefully kill some people while you're living in the dirt, because anti-Semitism, then maybe that's what is coming for you now. Sure, anti-Semitism will even grow now, that is even understandable. But who started the war? Who was always against a two state solution? Yep. And please, instead of calling each other children or so, we should rather have a serious discussion. Because that war and this topic is far too serious, and would deserve it.
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