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In article <17c9e4bd7c6b53cc$8511$1354752$c8d58268@news.newsdemon.com>,
 trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "The agitator, who hosts a show on social media called 
> >>>>>>> Crackhead Barney & Friends and is known for ambush interviews"
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "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.

> >>>>>> 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.
> 
> I used to hang out with a guy who owned guys

"That's surprising!" said no one.