[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Part of me feels like this take is cynical just for the sake of being cynical, but then I remember that I watched the movie around the time that it came out, before it became 'the best movie of all time'. It got good reviews at the time, but it definitely didn't get that kind of praise out of the gate.

I remember that TBS would play it non-stop, and thinking about that now, it's probably a huge reason why this film got voted to that spot on IMDB. For me, I just watched a movie that I thought was pretty good ,worth re-watching, and years later when I heard 'it's been voted as......' , I thought 'yeah, I guess I could kind of see why it would get that vote'.

But if it's always been hyped to you as the greatest film of all time before you watched it.... I could also understand you asking what the big deal is.

As far as performances go, Freeman and Robbins aren't where the magic is. They're fine in their lead roles, but nobody ever says 'oooh Robbins was so good in that!'. It's the character actors that give this film it's shine.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago

It's hard to beat an operation with state funding.

Tell me you got a pigpoop without actually telling me you got a pigpoop , lib.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 24 points 5 days ago

Oh yeah, well Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says "nuh-uh!". Checkmate leftists!

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War Boys for Kamala (hexbear.net)
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..... I mean, it obviously worked for RBG.

The libs actually tried to market a workout routine designed to keep an octogenarian alive long enough to be replaced by any Democrat president, because she insisted on staying on long enough to have a successor chosen by a woman president since a successor chosen by a black president wasn't good enough.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

It's very easy to dispell this. ..... It's not hidden knowledge that liberalism has been the primary enemy of fascism........ I could respond with pages of reasoning and sources.

Or how about just one?

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

How DARE Putler™ reiterate the ceasefire conditions that haven't changed since the start of the conflict!

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 101 points 2 months ago

"He typically smoked crack every 20 minutes."

Anybody who is smoking crack is smoking it every 20 minutes.

Until they're out of crack

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:Krugman (hexbear.net)
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How do we not already have an emoji feature America's Premier Economist™ ?

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Thick Beanie in 90+ degree weather that clashes loudly with a suit that you shouldn't be pairing with any beanie in the first place. blue-check

Suit either poorly fitted or not tailored to fit at all. blue-check

Ultra Casual suede loafers that also clash loudly blue-check

Buttoned up bottom button chefs-kiss

Best of all, Tim has this look that betrays that in his own he's absolutely slaying it with this look. I'd put money on a bet that the suit is probably from some over hyped designer brand (likely Armani because ...... Tim).

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

I love the answers that are like 'just shitty market timing'. Because apparently, there is a right time to spend six figures on a car. $86K is still too much, this bozo has more hurt in store yet if he's obsessed with resale value.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 54 points 8 months ago

Yeah, at 30 you should be ready to graduate to all of the capeless suburban dad fantasy schlock like Reacher, the Equalizer or CIA Jim in the Clancy bullshit.

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🦀 Charlie Munger dead at 99 🦀 (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Rest in Piss, Chuck!! 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

What Hamas did was far, far worse than killing people in gas chambers

what-the-hell

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 62 points 11 months ago

I'm as far from a Musk fan as you can get, but this whole narrative of him causing serious damage to the Ukrainian effort because of Starlink smells like western media establishing a fall guy to point to for when the effort ultimately fails. The US gov has subsidized ALL of his businesses so heavily, if Starlink were really that valuable to the operation, they would have forced his hand one way or the other. I was equally as skeptical when they touted Starlinks value in the very beginning of the dispute.

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In a 'TrueUnpopularOpinion' post titled 'I'm pro choice but y'all do a horrible job of understanding the pro life position'. The comments are full of brain worms, but the winner of the Galaxy brain award has to be this specimen, who claims that Pro-Choicers have been fire-bombing Pregnancy Care clinics in response to the Supreme Court decision.

Except if you follow the link, there is one case someone spray painting graffiti on a clinic in Florida: “If abortions aren’t safe than neither are you,”. This act isn't defensible IMO, but if you go down through the rest of the list, EVERY ONE is an example of (mostly actual) violence or blockades against health care providers who offer abortion or adjacent services. 10 occurrences from the list are acts against Planned Parenthood clinics.

Link

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( heartbreaking ) ^2^

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