Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:30:35 -0500
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On 4/26/24 11:25 AM, moviePig wrote:
> On 4/26/2024 4:40 AM, trotsky wrote:
>> On 4/25/24 1:53 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>> On 4/25/2024 12:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> On Apr 23, 2024 at 2:49:02 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>   On 4/23/2024 1:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.bowiecreators.com/project/crackhead-barney-and-friends-nyc-interview-fds-festival-performance-lausanne
>>>>>>>   "shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the 
>>>>>>> RUST movie
>>>>>>>   set in 2021 using a gun he did not know was loaded."
>>>>>>>   Nice to know they've made that determination.
>>>>>>>   "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or
>>>>>>>   redistributed."
>>>>>>   There's dissonance in a law that forbids him from striking her 
>>>>>> but says
>>>>>>   nothing about her emphatically asking for it.
>>>>> The article says he hit her phone, not her.
>>>>>
>>>>> But then the article also says he didn’t know the gun was loaded.
>>>>
>>>> Do you realize how much of an obnoxious, stupid, blithering, idiot 
>>>> scumbag you
>>>> have to be to make Alec Baldwin seem sympathetic; to create a video 
>>>> that makes
>>>> me feel sorry for Alec Baldwin? 'Cause usually when I watch an Alec 
>>>> Baldwin
>>>> video, the emotions I'm accustomed to feeling are irritation, 
>>>> revulsion,
>>>> scorn. I didn't think it was possible for someone to do or say 
>>>> anything that
>>>> would make me side with Alec Baldwin, but here we are.
>>>>
>>>> In any interaction with Alec Baldwin, you automatically get the 
>>>> benefit of the
>>>> doubt because you are not Alec Baldwin and he is. In order to 
>>>> squander that
>>>> advantage, you have to go out of your way to be as unpleasant as 
>>>> humanly
>>>> possible. And she managed to do it in less than a minute. I mean, 
>>>> really,
>>>> quite an achievement.
>>>
>>> It was almost reminiscent of BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE's finale, where 
>>> Michael Moore hounds gun-advocate Charlton Heston around his own 
>>> home. Later we learned that Heston was dealing with Alzheimer's, but 
>>> even on its own the scene undercuts any humane aspect to Moore's 
>>> message.
>>
>>
>> I mean really, you can convolute the fuck out of things but to whine 
>> about a fuckhead who smiles about people being required to pry the gun 
>> out of his "cold dead hands" (or skeletal bones, as the case may now 
>> be) vs the granddaddy of mass shootings is out of whack even by your 
>> standards.  How do you put two and two together and keep coming up 
>> with fifty million?
> 
> The point is that Moore's visible torture of a decrepit old man evoked 
> an instinctive viewer-response that transcended policy/politics.  It was 
> a simple failure of technique, costly to his persuasiveness.


Speak for yourself.  Just because you are sympathetic to an asshole 
doesn't mean the bulk of the audience was.  The reviewers weren't 
either.  The NRA transformed themselves into a bunch of sick fucks, and 
Heston was the head asshole before he did us the favor of dying.  Fuck 
you for even thinking that and being in full dipshit mode.  I used to 
hang out with a guy who owned guys and I remember watching this thing 
they showed kids with a character called Eddie Eagle, teaching kids 
about gun safety.  The NRA had merit then, that was back in the early 
90s.  Then they reinvented themselves into a lobbying organization so 
the gun industry could profit by selling more and more guns.  They are 
scum.  If you don't get this I feel sorry for you.