Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:31:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <1144903136.735583756.202196.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:31:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="714d914e677a5aab4636658c5ef3ed1b"; logging-data="3288733"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+199kIvL0P90mzNVXk4ZiVXROyEjYqLjI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:toPAkv4kq8IdB370G2/Tn5jAYPk= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3757 BTR1701 wrote: >Apr 23, 2024 at 3:35:52 PM PDT, super70s : >>On 2024-04-23 17:04:10 +0000, anim8rfsk said: >>>BTR1701 wrote: >>>>For once I'm on Alec's side. This girl deserved a Baldwin Shot to the jaw. >>>https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1782537868654592000/pu/vid/avc1/320x568/fUPEunTyWUNbP57L.mp4?tag=12 >>>https://apple.news/A9M48T4LsTYOCvCmG3eY14Q >>>"The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called Crackhead Barney & >>>Friends and is known for ambush interviews" >>They showed it on TMZ Live, from "why did you shoot that girl" to "say >>Free Palestine...say it just once"? >>She's gonna ambush the wrong person one of these days, probably from >>her own hood. >What is it with this thing protesters do these days where they demand their >target repeat a phrase? They did this to Occasional-Cortex and now Alec >Baldwin-- in both cases they wanted them to recite "Free Palestine". Because during the George Floyd killing protests, they got various chiefs of police to take a knee and repeat "Black Lives Matter!" It's worked in the past and they don't have an original thought. >Even if Baldwin doesn't believe it, she wants him to just say it. If >you're a normal person and you watch that, you think, what value is >there in making him say it? >Let's say you succeed and he says the phrase. He's only saying it because >you have hectored and harassed him into saying it and he figures you'll >go away if he does. He's only saying it because you won't shut up, not >because he believes it. You haven't changed his mind or anything. He's >just repeating a phrase that you have assigned to him. What do you get >out of that? What does that accomplish? What's the point? >They did this during the BLM Summer of Love riots, too. They'd burst into >restaurants and surround white people eating dinner and demand that they say >"black lives matter". Dear ghod >Leftists seem to take this approach on every issue, in every situation. It >seems intellectually adjacent to the pronoun stuff with the troons. You *must* >say the words they want regardless of whether you believe them or not. >Not only don't they care if you actually believe the words, they almost >*prefer* that you not believe them. Because that shows their power over you. >If you believed the words, then they haven't really exercised any power over >you, but if they can make you say shit you don't believe in because they've >scared or intimidated you into doing so, then they have bright line evidence >of the power they wield. Well, yeah. It's always clear that they are demanding appeasement.