What happens if you have a Sinful Thought during “The Great Snatch”? Do you get un-Snatched? What if you immediately Repent? Do you get Snatched again? Will there be people bouncing back and forth indefinitely?

“Read The Fisherman Matthew”?

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You’re right, my comment was pretty condescending, I apologize. Your points are well-taken, thanks for giving me something to think about.

Well I’m glad you found a movie you like. But I gotta say, “the movie is bad because it was made bad on purpose” just seems like copium.

Since you’re interested in history: Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” also makes an anti-Great Man point about Napoleon, both in Tolstoy’s depiction of the Battle of Borodino, as well as in historical thoughts that are usually collected at the end of that novel. I don’t remember if Bondarchuk’s movie adaption of War and Peace retains that theme, but you can see it on youtube. The best Napoleon movie is arguably Waterloo which is somewhat critical of Napoleon. Likewise, the Napoleon miniseries has him act like kind of a doofus at times (and has an interesting depiction of the Napoleon-Josephine relationship).

I guess I’m just kind of bitter about this film because most of us in the US don’t have a lot of knowledge about European history since our teachers are underpaid, our academics are ridiculed, and because our historical movies and TV shows are generally ahistorical cartoonish BS like this one.

I heard from a relative that Pat ain’t there any more, he retired.

From reading the reviews and social media comments, it annoyed anyone with an interest in history.

If I were paid to promote this film, I’d say something like: you can tell from the previews and the theatrical release that there’s good cinematography, set design, costumes, etc. Well in the extended version there’s MORE of it. And then tacitly suggest that people play it in the background with the sound off while listening to classical music.

Scott spent over $100 million to piss off the French, which any Englishmen would love to do if given half a chance.

Got it. This movie is only really interesting if you’re from England.

Yeah Jordan Peele is a genius.

It wasn’t 9/11, it was the 2001 release of Slayer’s epic album God Hates Us All.

Demi Moore is pretty cool. Thoughts go out to Bruce Willis.

On !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee:

• Die Hard: https://lemmy.world/post/18064570
• A Few Good Men: https://lemmy.world/post/17139845

https://www.linerider.com/

I think the idea is that parts of the world will be like number 1 (with people in it), and other parts of the world like numbers 2 and 3.

That’s a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.

That’s very interesting… because in these memes, anything can be absurd except for the Saddam-9/11 link; in this way they tacitly propagate the lie that Saddam was connected to 9/11.

Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen memes about the absurdity of saying that immigrants are eating pets in Ohio. But if conservatives wanted to counteract that, they’d adopt the Saddam-9/11-meme approach: propagate memes that similarly involve absurdities but that tacitly assume that immigrants do eat pets in Ohio.

Maybe I’m thinking too much like a scientist. There’s probably already a principle something like: To spread a harmful lie, hide it in a harmless lie.

(edit: I don’t mean this as a criticism of you in particular, @fossilesque@mander.xyz ; on the contrary thank you for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest memes.)

so… I’m familiar with the meme, but connecting Saddam with 9/11 was a conservative take used to rush us into an unnecessary war, so… the intent of these memes is a little hard to interpret.

“Thoughts?”

hi I’m just a bystander, but here are a couple Lemmy summarizing bots:

• https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot
• https://github.com/tracyspacy/ai-tldr-bot-lemmy

I haven’t seen them in action in a while, I think they fell out of popularity.

That’s a great idea, I’ma try that from now on.

Hang in there fam, I’ve lived with my family several times throughout my life and don’t regret it.