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Cassius Clay

My condolences

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Goddamn nobody has any ideas? Am I the only mothafucka left in this bitch? Guess I can start talking shit about everyone. *cups hands around mouth* BRUCE IS A HO ASS BITCH!

(reminder to elaborate on different
types authenticit...trump/charisma/Ali)

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Unjust power teaches us via gaslighting to associate truth and harm. Because truth threatens them. Speaking truth to them is "harm", but the real harm they commit is "true"...valid/fair/just/natural. That's how you can have an entire industry functioning with an "open secret...

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To elaborate on the toxic "truth hurts" mentality I mentioned earlier. I can imagine someone like Trump invoking it to justify cruelty. Does he really believe it or is it empty justification? When it comes to narcissists, you can never really tell what they believe. The ends always justify...

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So, it should be obvious that I see fascism as a kind of collective narcissism, right? I think a core idea I'm trying to flesh out is that mass shooters/narcissists/fascists are not so different from "normal" people. People reflexively use the mental illness label to otherize and individua...

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You guys remember that asshole gogo? He had a lot of the qualities I've described here. Half the board thought he was just "quirky" and harmless, but that's because he was extremely manipulative. He pretended to be open to progressivism for a while, but last I heard he had gone full reacti...

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Being extremely self-critical(yet lacking in self-awareness) is another piece of the puzzle. Dylan's mother says her son was very self-critical. Elliot Rodger seemed very self-critical...yet delusional. It's like they are extremely hard on themselves over petty things, yet lack introspection and res...

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@anakin You also made a good point about the Orlando shooter. But to put it a different way: they scapegoat innocents for the self-hate/shame they feel. And don't take responsibility for the fact that much of their self-hate comes from not being true to themselves...then go on a wild goose chase try...

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To clarify something: I don't mean to suggest truth/authenticity is necessarily at odds with external comfort/validation/power. That might lead to the false/self-harming idea that something that's painful must be true/valid/necessary ("truth hurts" mentality). And pain itself does not equa...

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Good point about privilege protecting you from having to make decisions that compromise your principles/values(I think it's more accurate to say it shields you from dealing with the consequences of the compromise that's been made...so you get to have your cake and eat it too). And the irony is that ...

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https://www.booksie.com/content/bill-pa ... /version/1

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National Review: Lord of the Rings Slammed for Perpetuating Racism through Depiction of Orcs.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/ ... n-of-orcs/

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I think I need to get into criminal psychology or something cuz I'm fascinated by this shit. I almost studied psychology in school but a scholarship program I was in wouldn't let recipients major in any "soft sciences". Some thoughts I've been trying to flesh out: Some of the things I'm go...

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https://twitter.com/DarcyCarden/status/ ... 86273?s=19

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Saw Triangle and I see why you guys keep recommending it. Really hard to talk about without spoiling it. My first impression was that it felt like a subpar b-movie (but one that wasn't self-aware)...it exceeded my expectations by the second half. The internal logic of the film was surprisingly consi...

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I've been looking up mass shooters from the past few decades and it's wild how many of them held some kind of toxic, supremacist belief. Even one of the Columbine shooters had nazi shit in his journals. And obviously narcissistic misanthropes would be drawn to fascistic/authoritarian beliefs, but it...

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Irresponsible ejaculations

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BruceSmith78 wrote:And Gendo hasn't slept in 72 hours.

I don't think we'll be hearing from him in a while.

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Why would pointing to Cho and Mateen suggest there is no link between mass shootings and white supremacy? Would it make sense to point out female mass shooters to counter the idea that there is a link between toxic masculinity and mass shooting? Hmmm? I'm implying there's an obvious pattern, phe_de....

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Happy Birthday, Gendo jr

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It's infuriating that an obvious link between mass shooters, right-wing/fascistic/chauvinist attitudes, and zero-sum/narcissitc mentalities isn't taken seriously enough...until it's too fucking late. Wasn't the guy that committed the worst mass shooting in the world a straight up nazi? Dafuq is goin...

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Watched a rom com on netflix called 'Set it up'. Surprisingly entertaining. Taye Diggs as a douchebag boss was funny as shit. I used to think I hated romantic comedies but I realize it was that we were so oversaturated with them...just like we are with superhero movies now(I'm so goddamned sick of s...

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And I realize that I despise the coddling of "economically anxious" racist whites because their energy is very similar to the energy of aggrieved mass shooters: angry they didn't get everything they were implicitly promised by society and so they lash out at innocent people...it's the ment...

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[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=XdhIYWb3XVU&t=2368s[/youtube] Since white nationalism has become more mainstream, the link between white supremacy/toxic masculinity and mass shootings has become more apparent. People have known this for years but aren't listened to...women have been pointin...

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I lost some interest in it after the major thing that happened(you know the thing I'm talking about)...and I didn't even watch the last season. Still plan to finish it some day. This scene from Miller's Crossing is one of the greatest abuses of the Tommy gun I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/w...

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@Rax I love how those movies get really campy with Tommy gun-usage. Have you seen Boardwalk Empire? @Bruce I remember people saying that about Hanks, but I kinda felt like that's why it works. He's a reluctant, self-hating gangster(an orphan, groomed to be a hitman by the man who adopted him - like ...

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Oh, The invitation is a good one. And I need to watch Triangle. I think Logan Lucky is a bit of a hidden gem. Not underrated in it's reviews, but underseen. It surprised me. Road to Perdition is a well-made mob movie that's kind of an homage to those old depression-era gangster movies. It's criminal...

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Logan Lucky

Road to Perdition (any movie that involves male characters that love each other but can't/won't communicate - whether father/son or brother/brother - is my shit).

A river runs through it

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Trivia: 1) I was one of those annoying kids that was good at everything I tried (for example: I didn't start playing basketball until I was like 13 but in a couple years I caught up to the kids who'd been playing they're whole lives)....and for some reason this led me to believe I would make a good ...

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Still processing.

76 percent of white women voted against Abrams lol. Beto and Gillum lost to dumbass Republicans that ran terrible campaigns. This unholy country never had any hope.

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Laws/courts enforce the system. The type of private property/ownership laws we in the US facilate capitalist exploitation of workers. You don't have to be capitalist...but our society/laws funnel everything in that direction. And when you think about how much influence the rich have on our laws, you...

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But in a capitalist system, you are incentivized to be as exploitative as you can get away with. You literally have people(investors) sitting on their asses taking massive amounts of "value" from people breaking their backs. And the workers can't do anything about it because they don't own...

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Well the way capitalist society determines the "importance" of a job is already based on flawed "meritocracy"....and it's really just a glorification of hierarchy. Like I don't believe a "manager" automatically deserves a higher salary...which is the standard in our soc...

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Since no one is the sole owner he/she won't have the power to fire people willy nilly. Capitalism is authoritarian. Yet we've been propagandized to believe it's the ultimate form of democratic freedom. In other news, I just had a convo with my very strict Catholic grandmother and she is convinced Tr...

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IMDB says I joined in 2010. I don't think I started posting until later. Cash and I disliked each other pretty much immediately, iirc. He was my arch-nemesis ever since and we only started warming up a bit fairly recently when we took turns making fun of stupid people on the RFS board. For a while ...

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Do you know who was being subtweeted there? A lot of the "economic anxiety" analysis coming from the left sounds like fascist apologetics and it's frightening. There is a relationship between economic anxiety and racism...but a lot of leftists seem naive to the nature of that relationship ...

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Capitalist propraganda has really done a number on us all.

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I think there are folks over there that still regularly spy on this board(hi marv and vegas

), so Cine was prolly thinking it would have gotten out anyway...and might as well take control of the narrative.

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It's really cool to see some of the long lost posters come back to digitally pay their respects...so to speak. Cash was a major part of what remained of this little community and I'm really now feeling his absence...knowing he's not coming back. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that I won...

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Y'see. There's a moral there. You should be more like me. Fiscally right wing. I'm socially very liberal - but when it comes to the money, I can't tear myself away from believing that if you earn it you should get to keep a big chunk of it. You don't catch us arguing over the minutiae of socialism ...

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Also, there are basic needs that should be treated as fundamental human rights regardless of how much value one creates.

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It's basically a left twitter version of this:

[youtube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=ECZP2IceKiA[/youtube]

Entertaining, but important. And if we don't resolve this issue, so we can organize more effectively, we're all going to fucking die.

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It's really cool to see some of the long lost posters come back to digitally pay their respects...so to speak.

Cash was a major part of what remained of this little community and I'm really now feeling his absence...knowing he's not coming back.

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...has been having an insane and crucial debate for the last few days and it's been marvelous. The fight started with Benjamin Dixon and Briahna Joy(both black socialists)...who are friends/respect each other...but have some philosophical differences regarding race/class coalition-building. The diff...

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I was afraid this news was coming. I really liked Brandon...hope his niece and her kid(kids?) are okay.

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Could have been better but still really liked it. And people should support ambitious horror attempts like this so they make more. The villain/evil forces orchestrating some secret plan(with an unsettling level of commitment and obsession) that isn't fully uncovered/understood by our protagonists un...

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Also this:

https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/10506 ... 38785?s=19

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Fair enough

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It's possible my bubble just had different talking points. I definitely heard many different people making the emphatic point that this election was so important because the next president would pick 1-3 SCOTUS members. I definitely saw a lot of that too. I'm still thinking it wasn't emphasized wit...

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