caze
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The Neon Demon was pretty terrible, went in expecting style over substance and it delivered. Some really nice photography, and Cliff Martinez's synthy score was great, but it was interminably dull for the first 2/3rds of the movie, the ending was kind of fun though, pretty demented.
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Blake Lively was an odd casting choice for Cafe Society, seemed out of place in a Woody Allen film. She wasn't actually that bad though, but didn't have a huge amount to do.
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nope, you're almost entirely wrong. maybe you should actually read up on the history of the word, the various scholarly interpretations of it, and the varied and valid criticism of the term as it applies to actual bigotry shown towards Muslims. ironically the very first use of the word was by "Alphonse Étienne Dinet and Algerian intellectual Sliman ben Ibrahim in their 1918 biography of Islam's prophet Muhammad", and it referred to "a fear of Islam by liberal Muslims and Muslim feminists, rather than a fear or dislike/hatred of Muslims by non-Muslims". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia#History_of_the_term from the very name itself it should be obvious that the term relates to the ideology of Islam, not to individual Muslims. the term is now widely abused (not just in the media, but in academia as well), and is used to describe people who both criticise Islam (for whatever reason, whether such criticism is valid or not), and also people who are simply racist or bigoted towards Muslim people. such a misuse of the term only serves to malign the former with guilt by association, it's a dishonest and cowardly tactic used to avoid tackling the legitimate criticism the Islamic world needs to deal with. Murray et al do not represent the flip side of what you suggest, though I'm glad you at least acknowledge it exists, they're merely pointing out that the 'wishy washy liberals' spend a lot of time attempting to discredit valid criticism with false accusations of bigotry, they've never to my knowledge claimed anti-muslim bigotry can 'hardly even be said to exist', such a claim seems patently ludicrous and you'll really need to back that up if you want me to take you seriously. Even though I dislike him I can agree with this. But it can also be a dangerous thing. One thing is for certain. If Trump wins, I expect it will be fun to watch what happens. unsurprisingly I think you have a terrible definition of what 'fun' entails.
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Cafe Society - not one of his better films of recent years, but not one of his worst. nothing particularly interesting happens in it, it's occasionally amusing, Jessie Eisenberg continues to annoy the fuck out of me, such an unlikeable actor.
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I can't take Hugh Laurie seriously in anything because of Blackadder. I still thought it was decent enough though.
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watched The Night Manager over the last few nights, pretty good. seemed like a very high budget for a BBC show, the bit where they were demonstrating all the ordinance was a lol.
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his arguments against the existence of Islamophobia are far from pathetic, in fact they're entirely accurate. he quite clearly doesn't try and put forward the case that there doesn't exist any racism/bigotry towards muslims, simply that there really is very little irrational fear of islam amongst the usual suspects in the public sphere who are most frequently being accused of it, and that there is quite a lot of justified fear of certain forms of islam (of which he is acutely aware as a gay man). fundamentally 'Islamophobia' was an invention of Islamists as a means for fostering useful idiocy amongst western leftists, and it's been incredibly successful sadly. also, while he does call himself a neoconservative, his definition is quite a bit different from the american version, just as British conservatism in general is different from the American kind I suppose. but still, that's another area where I disagree with him, as I have little time for any kind of conservatism.
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yeah I like Murray, though disagree with him on a lot of stuff, especially immigration.
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Source? I'm putting his current shilling for Trump and Putin down as pro-bono shilling due to simple bitterness for the State Department and Obama in general.
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I wouldnt trust the polls. it's because Hillary doesn't have a lot of plans and seems to have health issues if you don't trust the polls, then what are you basing your opinion on? she doesn't have health issues we know about, she had a case of pneumonia, which seems to have passed.
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is that the basis of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5O0ztGRY6Y
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Assange released another batch of Clinton emails the other day, they had absolutely nothing of note in them, I think he's ran out of damaging material. if the election was held today Clinton would win. Trump has had a good couple of weeks, but he hasn't even managed to get back to his highest polling period of the campaign, just after the RNC. I think since then a lot of people have made up their mind on him, the undecideds are a lot fewer now, and he's probably reached the limit of his support.
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I read a lot of SF when I was growing up (the classics: dick, asimov, clarke, aldis, bester, heinlein, van vogt, lem, etc), but in the last 15 years or so have mostly avoided new stuff (last 'current' stuff I read was probably Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson or Kim Stanley Robinson many years ago now), generally sticking to regular fiction and nonfiction these days though. Still read the odd SF thing, either old stuff I never got around to back then, re-reads, or very occasionally new books (read a good few Charlie Stross books in the last few years, good stuff). There's no doubt a raft of good authors I'm not aware of, I don't really follow the awards or whatever.
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yeah. there was an incredible cloud outside my gaf today, just before a thunderstorm hit, the light in it was amazing, like it was being lit from inside the cloud. milky white with a blue tint. i was going to take a picture but then didn't bother. great story.
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Babylon 5 was a space station. smh.
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lol
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well I'm glad she did, because it allowed this picture to exist: scary orange men will haunt her dreams for a few years I reckon.
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presumably her mom wrote/helped her write it or something? so what?
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what letter?
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I like most spiders over here that live outside, not the kind that live in my house, giant house spiders completely gross me out and I have to kill them on sight. I find wee jumping spiders pretty cute, and like garden spiders too - they've got cool patterns on them.
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anyone who offers utopian political solutions to things is basically a dick, regardless of the form they take. I would definitely eat Fukushima apples though, nothing wrong with them.
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moved from the other thread where it didn't belong... no, you're the one mistaking who they are. oddly there are even some libertarians who seem to be supporting Trump (most of them are not dumb enough thankfully, and might spoil the election for the republicans by voting for Johnson in swing states instead), not realising he's the antithesis of a libertarian: he doesn't believe in the free market, he believes in protectionism, he loves eminent domain, wants to massively increase the military budget, doesn't want to decriminalize drugs, wants significant barriers to immigration, advocates committing war crimes (including deliberately bombing civilians, murdering the families of jihadists, and torturing people), wants to expand government surveillance programs, wanted Apple to cave to the FBI's requests to create backdoors for government uses, wants to beef up libel laws (mostly so he can sue people who point out what a cunt he is), panders to the social conservatives on every issue (I think he's probably fairly socially liberal in person - really he's an authoritarian big government Democrat, an ignorant, misogynistic, racist one - but as a president he won't, and can't, be socially liberal). a large section of his support comes from white supremacists and neo nazis, I really don't know how you could possibly fail to realise this. Clinton recently called half of his support deplorable, she was wrong, it was actually 42%: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Sep12.html#item-2. his running mate just the other day refused to call former leader of the KKK David Duke a deplorable individual. you're on the same side here as actual nazis.
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No it doesn't. The US has around 10 deaths from firearms for every 100k people. The UK has less than one (0.23) the highest rate in europe is Finland with just over 3 (Switzerland is in second at around 3), which isn't surprising as they both have the highest gun ownership in Europe. Those stats include suicides and accidental deaths though (which are reason enough to control guns better, ignoring crime), if you take them out of the equation the situation looks far worse for the US (Finland drops to 0.23 deaths by homicide for example, the UK to 0.06; while the US rate is still incredibly high at 3.4). White people account for about 40% of the homicide perpetrators in the US, 60% of which are caused by firearms (and the method of killing occurs at similar rates for everyone). So even if we just look at white Americans who murder people with guns, they do so at a rate 22 times greater than in the UK and nearly 6 times greater than Finland! But even if you were right, and you're not, what point are you trying to make? That it doesn't matter that gun murders are so high in the US because it mostly affects black people? That's pretty fucked up. stats I used: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_3_murder_offenders_by_age_sex_and_race_2012.xls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate http://www.vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu/sites/vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu/files/files/reports/firearms_and_violent_deaths_in_europe_web.pdf note not all data is from the same year, but all pretty recent and they don't change hugely year-on-year, and are not likely to be strongly correlated in different countries anyway.
