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Post by Canuovea on Oct 14, 2016 18:15:23 GMT
Not a Christian Cult I think, but rather the local Rape Relief group. Now, that might go some distance to explaining their views on men too, because of course that is going to mean dealing with some horrid stuff.
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 14, 2016 20:03:52 GMT
Yeah Anita doesn't seem to concern herself too much with whether things are actually good or not.
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 19, 2016 17:53:14 GMT
So, just going to confront the elephant in the room and come out and say it...
Did anyone here actually see that new Ghostbusters film?
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Post by TempestFennac on Oct 19, 2016 18:27:47 GMT
Nope (to be fair I have very little interest in movies so I rarely see them).
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Post by StyxD on Oct 19, 2016 19:12:27 GMT
Wait, it was an elephant since when? As for me, you know the answer. I mean, I haven't seen Mad Max, what do you think?
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2016 19:39:20 GMT
Nope, haven't seen it either.
But then again, I don't see a lot of movies. I haven't even seen Zootopia yet and its on Netflix.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 19, 2016 19:40:21 GMT
I haven't seen Ghostbusters or Mad Max yet.
Cuz I'm a sexist pig.
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Post by Harkovast on Oct 19, 2016 22:52:19 GMT
Not seeing Ghostbusters makes you a sexist pig, not seeing mad max just means you have no taste in films because its AWESOME!!!
Canuovea go watch zooptopia! Its really good!
I just wondered because it became this weird big feminist issue. A lot of feminists were trying to make it into the new gamergate, and shaming poeple who said it didn't look very good. Obviously trying to shame people into wanting to see a movie was kind of a crazy marketing tactic from sony and the films giant budget and failure to get realeased in China turned it into a bomb.
I haven't seen the new ghostbusters either...so I guess we are all sexist pigs together now.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 20, 2016 3:02:02 GMT
Arrgh, wrong place.
But yeah, not liking Ghostbusters doesn't make you sexist. Not liking Ghostbusters just because women are the new Ghostbusters kinda does.
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Post by Horsie on Oct 20, 2016 7:38:02 GMT
I think my folks might have, or maybe part of it, I don't think they liked it.
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Post by Harkovast on Nov 4, 2016 23:03:33 GMT
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Post by StyxD on Nov 4, 2016 23:38:45 GMT
This is old news. Very old. Like "before those conspiracy nuts were formally in power".
The outlook is a little bit better now. At least on the surface. The latest attempt to completely ban abortion has mustered the biggest citizen protests since the fall of communism, so it was quickly canned. But the ruling party is in an uncomfortable position in this regard. On one hand, no one is happy with the complete ban (even though the current law is a joke) and they risk loosing even conservative voters over this. On the other hand, the radicals and the Church are demanding their due. "We're in power now, we must save those children at the long last".
The article seems also weirdly positive about homosexuality in communist times. It's wasn't penalized (it never changed, last time I checked), but the secret police was gathering information on homosexual activities as possible means of blackmailing the people involved. That method probably wouldn't fly nowadays (like, most people wouldn't give two shits).
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Post by Harkovast on Nov 5, 2016 0:04:44 GMT
Yeah its weird when people start harking back to communist times like it was some wonderful enlightened age. Other then the fact that if you disagreed you would be shipped away and not come back, it was wonderful!
People love to make the past into some golden age that never existed.
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Post by StyxD on Nov 5, 2016 9:17:05 GMT
I think that for western left it's more like wishful thinking. "Communism didn't work but it wasn't all bad for the people! It could be made work!" It's similar to how the West treats Russia, too (though that seems to be changing, thanks to Syria and Trump).
By the way, Polish conservatists actually adore communism, which is something that eludes the traditional rightist/leftist split (then again, it's similar in Russia, I think). It was mind blowing for an Interned-age (ie. dominated by USA culture) person like me. I guess it's because they grew up in that age; it seems mandatory to consider one's childhood a long-lost utopia to be a conservatist.
They already manufactured a fairy tale version of the past, where there is distinction between bad communism, equated with Stalin, genocide, repression of the Church and social engineering (read "homosexuality and gender theory"), and good communism, which was when everyone was miserable but the state was fair and there was no poverty and crime. In contrast to modern times, when some people are not miserable, which makes the still miserable people double miserable because it's not fair that others can be well off when they're being miserable. And also, the fall of communism was a ploy by the remnant of "bad communism" to make people miserable and also use EU instead of USSR to let Jews rule the world.
Yeah, a little known fact: in it's later stages, communism in Poland morphed in a super-patriotic, antisemitic and homophobic ideological hybrid. They don't teach about that in school.
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Post by Canuovea on Nov 5, 2016 10:22:40 GMT
Well, to be fair, Poland has a pretty bad history with the Jews.
...Not that Canada is particularly rosey when it comes to that subject either.
And its even worse in some places. Stalin? The Russian Orthodox Church has him as a fucking Saint.
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