DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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You're definitely not wrong, that show and Idiocracy also have some pretty dystopian alternatives.

Eventually all business entities will be Taco Bell!

To finish the quote on her CIA relationship, since context is important:

In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, published a report that Steinem and others put together on the Vienna Youth Festival and its attendees for the Independent Research Service.[112][113] Redstockings raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the CIA, which Steinem denied.[114] Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: "In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable."

Honestly I figured the context would clear things up, but the rest of the quote makes her come off as an apologist for an organization known to play as dirty as the KGB, and especially during that era. However just because something is funded by an entity such as the CIA doesn't always mean that the organization is part of, partner in, or even a willing partner with something like the CIA, same with the KGB or its descendants, espionage operates on leverage, and it all depends on what kind of hold you have over the "asset(s)".

There are always distinct character differences, like the two referenced in this post, also by no means does he only play weird characters, the guy has a 30 year acting career, however he may be getting typecast for the more bizarre roles these days, or maybe he's like Nick Cage, where he's more attracted to the weird roles these days, either way, I always enjoy the roles Waltz plays.

Christoph Waltz kills any role he's in, and the weirder and creepier the better.

There's a Prime series called The Consultant it's so creepy, weird, yet fantastic, and Waltz plays the titular character and when he shows up in the series he cranks the weird up to 11.

Love this for him, and wtf was he even doing there? Go back to DC and do your f'n job you stupid evangelical clout chaser, get tf out of our city.

Jodie Comer is going to be so good in something like this, she's fun to watch. Ralph Fiennes also always brings it.

Can't wait to see how the 28 Days Later world has progressed, or I guess, regressed.

Biden isn't the one sending storm troopers onto UT Austin's campus to crush pro-Palestinian protests, that would be the Republicans, remember on election day that both sides are absolutely not the same, and Trump sure as fuck does not care about Gaza or Palestine, or even Israel really if we're being honest here. (Well or anything else but himself)

My friend there are a shitload of wannabe Sharknado's out there, the studio that made Sharknado and similar studios treated that like a gold rush of shitty D level sci-fi movies.

Also tbf Sharknado is just the latest Tremors, which would just be the 90's version of something similar from the 50's, 60's, or 70's.

Of course he was, he's a skirt chasing country boy from Arkansas, however, he was at least compassionate enough to open some of those doors for our LGBTQ allies, DOMA was shitty legislation but after it's passing many other steps were made to help these folks.

I'm not sure how old you were in '96, but I was a Jr in Highschool at the time, most people still used "fag" and "homo" to joke around about stuff still. We only had two completely out gay dudes in my highschool, I was cool with both of them and knew them through some girls that we all were mutual friends with. At one point some of the more "white trash/racist kids that I'd already had a problem with started harassing these gay dudes pretty constantly and pretty aggressively and the girls we were mutual friends with got my friends and I to handle the situation for them, we out numbered the homophobes by quite a bit and they chose not to fight at that time.

Now mind you, this is on Long Island, just a short train ride to NYC, the Village, and Stonewall, and Pride parades happened each year at this point, so while there were only two out gay dudes in my school most likely many of us had a LGBTQ person we knew back then that was out. Now imagine how this situation would have gone down back in '96, in Arkansas, I can tell you exactly how it would go down based on my experiences living in Florida during the early 90's as well, but also by how it would go down even now in Arkansas.

So sure saying Clinton was as homophobic as the rest in 1996 is pretty much saying that water is wet, most people were ignorant, and even worse many of us still believed the HIV based homophobic conspiracy theories, because AIDS was a huge problem at the time.

When two become one!

Creed - Anything

WAY-OOH

Well, you see, bad things like poverty only happen to amoral people who aren't God fearing so if they're poor then they're bad people and they deserve mistreatment.

Exactly, this is the type of garbage the "prosperity gospel" preaches to these people, and it's disgusting and tries to elevate these people over others based on their stations in life, something that usually cannot be helped. The prosperity gospel is essentially class warfare distilled into religious brainwashing.

It's wild to me how these "God fearing Christians" basically want to put poor people into concentration camps, because that's just like Jesus would do. /s

Maybe if we had more public housing, better healthcare, that includes mental and dental, and easier and cheaper access to higher education and more affordable housing while being educated, it's not rocket science, sure we'll have people who choose the nomadic life but most of these homeless people have been pushed out of society by debt or by their health issues and the addictions that come from those health issues and poverty.

This belongs on the antique meme roadshow sub

“Hillary Clinton used a similar tactic against me when I ran for president in 2020, accusing me of being ‘groomed by the Russians’.”

I guess no need to be groomed by Russians when you've already been groomed by fanatical Christian Extremists so your values basically align with the current Russian regime's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gabbard:

Opposition to LGBT rightsedit

Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate took hold in Hawaii.[3] Between 1991 and 1996, Gabbard founded the organizations Stop Promoting Homosexuality Hawaii (renamed Stop Promoting Homosexuality International), Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, and the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.[10] Gabbard became well-known for his advocacy for Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998). This amendment, approved by voters 69.2%–28.6%,[11] gave the state legislature "the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples" under the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996.[12][3][13]

Mercenaries fight for money, these kidnappings and enslavements, along with the Russian conscription process in particular, are more along the lines of a slave army, since it's absolutely not voluntary for many of those people.

Wagner are the mercenaries they use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

Senior Russian soldiers basically rape and murder new conscripts as a training method:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina

This should have been a no brainer once these idiots started calling the Baltimore Mayor the "DEI mayor".

These racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and anti-Semitic/islamophobic assholes are always looking for a new dog whistle to use or a new popular thing to corrupt, or even seemingly innocent things to corrupt.

Fuck Nazis and all of their allies and enablers.

I guess you haven't seen all of the news reports and government outcry over Russia basically luring these guys to Russia then kidnapping Indian and Nepalese dudes and forcing them to fight, same with North Koreans, a whole bunch of South Americans, and several other Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_fighters_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Russian_side