Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:11:16 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: The Alec Baldwin Left Hook Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <1144903136.735583756.202196.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 63 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:11:08 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3372 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c9c635ee6a5ecb$8440$1354752$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3752 On 4/25/24 12:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 23, 2024 at 3:35:52 PM PDT, "super70s" > wrote: > >> 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". Great point, it's not like the insurrectionists did that when they had that "ruckus" at the Capitol, amirite? No balls alert. > 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". > > 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. > > >