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YaketySass posted:Ancient civs had "Jews control the world" conspiracy theories? Those are the ones with biblical or historical records of persecution of Jews, but I don't think the Protocols type poo poo caught on until the 19th century or thereabouts, no
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YaketySass posted:Ancient civs had "Jews control the world" conspiracy theories? wouldn't you start asking questions after everybody you know loses their firstborn son and work force and the ocean drowns your country's army?
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Oct 24, 2022 21:19
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antisemitism has lead to a lot of horrible atrocities but i think we can all agree that the average nazi screed isnt half as odious as that letter is
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Oct 24, 2022 21:20
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YaketySass posted:Ancient civs had "Jews control the world" conspiracy theories? Yeah somebody did a big effort post about it here once but it's the origin of the idea that your political enemies are coming to eat your kids
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Oct 24, 2022 21:20
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Malleum posted:antisemitism has lead to a lot of horrible atrocities but i think we can all agree that the average nazi screed isnt half as odious as that letter is idk man Mein kampf was pretty cringey
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Oct 24, 2022 21:22
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Yeah somebody did a big effort post about it here once but it's the origin of the idea that your political enemies are coming to eat your kids The one from the book of Exodus (which is of course ahistorical) was the pretty standard "this immigrant group is getting too big, what if they turn on us???" bogeyman story
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christmas boots posted:idk man Mein kampf was pretty cringey hitler is an outlier and should not be counted
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Oct 24, 2022 21:24
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loquacius posted:The one from the book of Exodus (which is of course ahistorical) was the pretty standard "this immigrant group is getting too big, what if they turn on us???" bogeyman story You mean the part that was made up wholesale by Canaanites who wanted to justify to themselves why their better than their neighbors?
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Oct 24, 2022 21:28
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War and Pieces posted:You mean the part that was made up wholesale by Canaanites who wanted to justify to themselves why their better than their neighbors? yeah that one that was the one being referenced
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Oct 24, 2022 21:31
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Yeah somebody did a big effort post about it here once but it's the origin of the idea that your political enemies are coming to eat your kids the form it took in late-antiquity/middle ages/Renaissance/etc Europe&SWANA was necessarily different but yeah this poo poo has been going on for a long time, often for the same reason as contemporary cases (give the plebs someone else to blame for conditions being terrible, then the ruling class confiscate all their wealth/has their debit disappear). it's maybe the only thing in history where you can say the Christian monarchs/church weren't that bad compared to what came later
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Oct 24, 2022 21:58
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I've mostly gotten sick of Marvel, but I kind of want to see Ant-Man 3. https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1584575500311154688?s=20&t=AB6MUndV4Mqx7bQd6ey04A
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Oct 24, 2022 22:24
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loquacius posted:Emma Stone's birth name is Emily Stone but she couldn't use that as her actress name because they already had an Emily Stone who beat her to it so she had to use Emma instead which is funny in a different way IMO
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Oct 24, 2022 22:50
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FFT posted:Michael J Fox's middle name is Andrew He should legally have to change it to Jandrew
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Oct 24, 2022 22:51
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MacheteZombie posted:Munsters looks so cheap and the trailer turned me off the flick. He did rebuild the Munsters house and street though which is cool as hell. Gunna try to watch it before the end of the month. I grew up like 30 miles away from a 100% faithful replication of the Munster's mansion that was filled with original TV props. They ran tours and a haunted house out of it every Halloween. It probably made it real easy to rebuild the mansion when there was an already existing template built by obsessives who have been doing a frame by frame analysis for decades
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Oct 24, 2022 22:56
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Nichael posted:I've mostly gotten sick of Marvel, but I kind of want to see Ant-Man 3. The preview looks good. Plus I was informed by other more culture warrior connected goons that it has 2 problematic actors.
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Oct 24, 2022 22:57
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Nix Panicus posted:I grew up like 30 miles away from a 100% faithful replication of the Munster's mansion that was filled with original TV props. They ran tours and a haunted house out of it every Halloween. It probably made it real easy to rebuild the mansion when there was an already existing template built by obsessives who have been doing a frame by frame analysis for decades RZ is also that obsessed with Munsters, he probably didn't need reference material
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Oct 24, 2022 23:09
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In a few years we'll have had twenty years of Marvel cinematic universe movies, yeuch
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Oct 24, 2022 23:15
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Nichael posted:I've mostly gotten sick of Marvel, but I kind of want to see Ant-Man 3. Ive tuned out most Marvel things but this looks mildly interesting. Maybe Paul Rudd snark is just more endearing and easier to stomach than Hemsworth snark
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Oct 24, 2022 23:54
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Justin Tyme posted:In a few years we'll have had twenty years of Marvel cinematic universe movies, yeuch And only one Munsters movie during that entire time. Shameful.
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Oct 25, 2022 00:05
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Nix Panicus posted:Ive tuned out most Marvel things but this looks mildly interesting. Maybe Paul Rudd snark is just more endearing and easier to stomach than Hemsworth snark it's frustrating cause Rudd is actually funny and they put a weighted gi on him
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Oct 25, 2022 00:27
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MacheteZombie posted:Loomis is always full of poo poo. It's why I love him https://youtu.be/_RT68x-AZOQ
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Oct 25, 2022 00:30
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Nichael posted:I've mostly gotten sick of Marvel, but I kind of want to see Ant-Man 3. Sometimes I think my only comfort in life is knowing that Hasbro's lawyers are stopping Disney from using the word "Microverse" and you know what? Sometimes that is enough
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Oct 25, 2022 00:58
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Stairmaster posted:movies became pointless after predator was made. there is but only one summit.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm pretty sure there are some fun as heck movies in the 30-50% fresh range, possibly the most interesting ones thats where all the funny bad horror sequels end up
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Oct 25, 2022 01:56
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sitchensis posted:re-watched Poltergeist (1982). still slaps even after 40 years. early Spielberg is insanely good (I know he didnt direct, but he did the screenplay for poltergeist and his stink is all over it) Jaws, ET and Close Encounters have almost a documentary feel where characters seem incredibly real and unscripted. there's constant crosstalk, people seem wholly formed, and the kids are always doin weird kid poo poo. it's funny that he used to get accused of creating feel-good nostalgia, but these days our nostalgia pieces just mine Spielberg
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Oct 25, 2022 02:41
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Durf posted:early Spielberg is insanely good (I know he didnt direct, but he did the screenplay for poltergeist and his stink is all over it) Spielberg's stuff imo likes to specifically evoke people's relationships with the stuff they see in ways like nostalgia- wonder, terror, curiosity and confusion, the feeling of a kind encountering things for the first time. Jurassic Park is changed from a gimmicky techno-thriller to an almost allegorical showcase of how far humans go to create spectacle and wonder even if it ends up consuming them. (and see also how Nope is basically made out of Spielberg homages) Close Encounters and ET about the experience of the unknown and amazing that the idea of alien encounters represents. Of course that makes it all absolutely primed to tickle every one of the centres of the brain that create nostalgia, but can't blame the man for being good at his job.
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Stairmaster posted:slasher movies became pointless after predator was made. there is but only one summit. Insane take. The Predator punishes 0 teens for having sex or doing drugs.
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Oct 25, 2022 04:56
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Slashers are the most boomer genre.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Slashers are the most boomer genre. I always think of "beach movies" from the 60s as the most boomer possible movie genre. Slashers didn't really exist in any meaningful sense until Halloween in 1978 which is firmly into Gen-X territory.
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Oct 25, 2022 05:02
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And hey.. Gen-X also was very into slut-shaming.
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Oct 25, 2022 05:04
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the most boomer-rear end genre is "biker gangs"
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god there's so many awful movies from the sixties and seventies thats just about people on bikes harassing towns a close second place is the genre "people driving trucks and not a second thing"
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Oct 25, 2022 05:07
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DoombatINC posted:god there's so many awful movies from the sixties and seventies thats just about people on bikes harassing towns I mostly agree, but Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth is about nazi bikers harassing a town and that movie loving rules. It's from the 90s though. They must have learned some lessons.
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Durf posted:early Spielberg is insanely good (I know he didnt direct, but he did the screenplay for poltergeist and his stink is all over it) but yeah early spielberg is legit some good talent. his last good movie was probably Minority Report and since then has spent the last 2 decades being lazy and making garbage. kinda sad to see because his 70s-90s stuff was S-tier and post 2000s is just... ughhhhhhh
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Oct 25, 2022 05:39
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war horse has such a dumb fuckin' premise i never saw it
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Oct 25, 2022 05:44
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Rings of Prime, by far the most expensive TV show in history (465m for season 1, 250m for rights) ended only a week ago and its already been knocked out of the 1st spot on Prime Video by a new show called The Peripheral, something I don't think anyone knew existed a week ago.  Holy poo poo I can't wait to see these Nielson numbers in the coming weeks/months.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Though the funny part of the narrative is that I don't think I've ever heard anyone object to the idea that the rest of europe hosed Germany over a barrel while they had the leverage and went all shocked pikachu face when the country ended up a vengeful basket case, whether British, French or American. Nobody considers it remotely difficult to believe. its extremely funny how for maybe ten years the strategy for dealing with hitler was just to say ok hitler youre right now could you please stop being so angry now that ive just implied you have a good reason to be angry more on topic this is why ive never liked american history x and am not at all surprised that actual skinheads are fans of it given that it attempts to discredit nazism by using almost the exact same rhetorical strategy
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William Gibson stays winning
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DoombatINC posted:god there's so many awful movies from the sixties and seventies thats just about people on bikes harassing towns yeah people on bikes harassing towns is a pretty great genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8tU1tiuuQ
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Slashers are the most boomer genre. in the eighties there were a TON of movies about wardudes going back into Vietnam to set things right
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