Kulturkampf

[PhoenixDark]

Insanity. Looks like the movie should make a profit but the bigger picture is these guys bought the IP rights for 400mil. Two films are planned, the current one and a sequel coming next year. I don't see how the math works, even if they have many more films lined up.

Another weird example of taking incredibly popular, universally liked films or franchises and deciding to...make them appeal to more people in the weirdest ways imaginable...? Like, we're not talking about Warhammer 40k or some other niche thing that would indeed need some type of appeal to different or more casual groups of people. It's the Exorcist, brehs. People are gonna see it if the trailers look scary. I'm not even talking about adding a black family to the story - that's fine, makes sense, whatever. But why are there witch doctors and other non-Catholic figures in this film helping to combat evil. We don't need this to be a Captain Planet mixture of religions. It's Catholic horror shit.

[Tucker's Law]

Insanity. Looks like the movie should make a profit but the bigger picture is these guys bought the IP rights for 400mil. Two films are planned, the current one and a sequel coming next year. I don't see how the math works, even if they have many more films lined up.

Another weird example of taking incredibly popular, universally liked films or franchises and deciding to...make them appeal to more people in the weirdest ways imaginable...? Like, we're not talking about Warhammer 40k or some other niche thing that would indeed need some type of appeal to different or more casual groups of people. It's the Exorcist, brehs. People are gonna see it if the trailers look scary. I'm not even talking about adding a black family to the story - that's fine, makes sense, whatever. But why are there witch doctors and other non-Catholic figures in this film helping to combat evil. We don't need this to be a Captain Planet mixture of religions. It's Catholic horror shit.

Because Hollywood creatives are near-always superficial and stupid as well, above anything else.  They operate under the idiotic thought process of, "we have black people in the movie because we are 'inclusive', and also some witch doctors or voodoo priests so that our black audiences find it more relatable."  Nevermind that there's lots of black christians/catholics out there, presumably far more than there are that would associate with voodoo or a witch doctor 

[Uncle]

adding witch doctors to the exorcist is probably an apology tour for the racist(?) exorcist 2 with James Earl Jones where I think Pazuzu originated from "dark Africa" and tied in with their spiritualism somehow and made the priest a heretic for daring to interact with african spiritualism

[HaughtyFrank]

Insanity. Looks like the movie should make a profit but the bigger picture is these guys bought the IP rights for 400mil. Two films are planned, the current one and a sequel coming next year. I don't see how the math works, even if they have many more films lined up.

Another weird example of taking incredibly popular, universally liked films or franchises and deciding to...make them appeal to more people in the weirdest ways imaginable...? Like, we're not talking about Warhammer 40k or some other niche thing that would indeed need some type of appeal to different or more casual groups of people. It's the Exorcist, brehs. People are gonna see it if the trailers look scary. I'm not even talking about adding a black family to the story - that's fine, makes sense, whatever. But why are there witch doctors and other non-Catholic figures in this film helping to combat evil. We don't need this to be a Captain Planet mixture of religions. It's Catholic horror shit.

It really encapsulates how dumb the culture war is. First you got some clowns calling the movie woke because it dared to include a black kid who gets possessed and then the actual movie goes go dumb woke in a completely different way by shitting on the legacy of the first movie for no reason.

[HaughtyFrank]

You know I can understand why people have very strong positions regarding the Israel Palestine conflict but it is wild to see the same people who are very concerned about respecting pronouns and microagressions to unabashedly promote violence

[Nintex]

The opinion pieces from "the left" over the weekend read like badly translated Hitler speeches.
"A proud German Palestinian cornered beast has no choice but to attack the Polish Israeli agressors opressing Danzig Gaza."

And they effortlessly join the ranks of not just Hamas but also Iran.

I'm glad they've shown their true colors and they'll end up getting decimated as the majority of people in western nations do not support mass rape and slaughter at music festivals.

[benji]

You know I can understand why people have very strong positions regarding the Israel Palestine conflict but it is wild to see the same people who are very concerned about respecting pronouns and microagressions to unabashedly promote violence

I think they've always been pretty clear that language (and other) "violence" should be responded to with actual violence.

[benji]

[benji]

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I can't believe this.. Mia Khalifa, canceled, tell me it ain't so!

[benji]

Apparently she has a tattoo for the Lebanese Forces militia (it's not the political party's logo) that have killed Palestinians.

Tattoo: The inner side of Mia Khalifa’s left arm’s wrist has a tattoo of a cross which is a symbol of the Lebanese conservative Christian political party opposed to the Syrian Bashar Assad regime.

“Her father is a Lebanese Forces supporter, she says. She got the cross on her wrist two years ago, after the October 2012 Beirut bombing, in support of her father, “to show him, ‘I’m on your side.'”

Christian East Beirut was ringed by heavily fortified Palestinian camps and East Beirut became besieged by the PLO camps. This situation was remedied by the Kataeb Regulatory Forces (most notably the BG Squad that was led by Bachir) and their allied Christian militias as they besieged the Palestinian camps embedded in Christian East Beirut one at a time and brought them down. The first was on 18 January 1976 when the heavily fortified Karantina camp, located near the strategic Beirut Harbor, was invaded: About 1,000 PLO fighters and civilians were killed.[1] According to then-Washington Post-correspondent Jonathan Randal, "Many Lebanese Muslim men and boys were rounded up and separated from the women and children and massacred," while the women and young girls were violently raped and robbed.

[benji]

All rocket launches look the same.

[Uncle]

[TylenolJones]

[benji]

[Nintex]

LMAO the Extinction Rebellion climate activist group is teasing on X that they're going to work together with other 'activist communities' strongly hinting they'll take part in the pro-Hamas protests planned this weekend. Fucking hell, they're gonna link their climate shit with the slaughter of Israeli babies.

[benji]

The fascists caused some of the brave women to delete their tweets.

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[Eric Cartman]

LMAO the Extinction Rebellion climate activist group is teasing on X that they're going to work together with other 'activist communities' strongly hinting they'll take part in the pro-Hamas protests planned this weekend. Fucking hell, they're gonna link their climate shit with the slaughter of Israeli babies.

Dunno if this reply should go in the conspiracy theories thread, but Just Stop Oil, who have single handedly done more to push people into an anti-environmental stance in my country than anyone else with their shenanigans, are in fact running on and funded by Big Oil money and when pressed by journalists if maybe pissing off the public is counter productive to their message rather than, say, using that money for lobbying or targeting actual polluters not people on their way to get chemotherapy always fall back on ends justifies the means rhetoric.

[benji]

That's pretty old practice, for example, "anti-war" rallies generally attract every nutty "left" group and they all have to agree on everything for "solidarity" purposes. There was a great website back during the Iraq War protests that would compile all the crazy signs and groups completely unassociated with the Iraq War at these. Climate change was one of the major things that displaced the Communists from positions of prominence at anti-war/anti-Israel/etc. protests.

edit: Google wasn't entirely much help at this due to its increasing desire to strike words from inquires and only search recent pages but I managed to find it and it's somehow still up: https://www.zombietime.com/

[Uncle]

The fascists caused some of the brave women to delete their tweets.

this seems relatively consistent, "everyone wants me dead and I even hate myself so I'll just die" as a worldview

I fly into a defensive rage if people don't respect my pronouns highlights it better

construct your jokes properly

[Uncle]

"hold internally consistent beliefs for one second" challenge

[RetiredSkunk]

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-air-canada-grounds-pilot-who-allegedly-wore-pro-palestinian-colours

[Nintex]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1711916507226054664?t=v1SphGC6JjiD3z3nd0Qe7A&s=19[/tweet]

[HaughtyFrank]

The amount of college groups and academics who have voiced tacit and not so tacit support for Hamas is pretty crazy. I wonder if there's a moment where the people running these universities wonder what they invited

On X, formerly known as Twitter, this was Sarah Shahid, freelancer for Now Toronto and Spring magazine: “What a glorious Saturday. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” At Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, assistant professor of social work Dr. Jessica Hutchison had this advice for conscientious Canadians: “I hope your upcoming acknowledgements will include support for Palestinians who are taking their land back from settler colonizers.”

To mark the occasion of the bloodiest day Israelis have endured in a half a century as the rocket barrage rained down on Israeli civilians, Nick Reimer, president of the faculty union at the University of Sydney in Australia, cautioned against anger and revulsion at the atrocities: “No progressive should feel the need to publicly condemn any choices by the Palestinian resistance.”

The union representing teaching assistants and part-time instructors at McMaster University, CUPE local 3906, expressed similar delight, “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance,” and cited the “solid commitment to a conviction or cause” lauded by Ghassan Kanafani, a key leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at the time of the PFLP’s May 1972 Lod Airport massacre.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-progressives-celebrate-israel-war

Breaking down barriers is great. Breaking down barriers with the intent to massacre 1000 civilians isn't. It shouldn't be so hard.

[Nintex]

They're all fucked in the head. Now that Biden has confirmed these reports (the man looked to be in disbelief and at the verge of tears) still crickets from the left wing groups about the fact that they've cheered on the killing and beheading of babies.

Instead they simply double down on joining the protests Hamas has called for this weekend.
Protests to cheer on the beheading of babies because reasons. 

I know a couple of progressives who are deep into the climate and diversity stuff but even they are shocked by this and don't understand what their political leaders are doing and why they are siding with Hamas. Especially because Hamas has said that they 'fooled' everyone in making them think they were concerned with the governance of the population of Gaza when all they really wanted to do was to attack and murder Jews in Israel.

[benji]

Especially because Hamas has said that they 'fooled' everyone in making them think they were concerned with the governance of the population of Gaza when all they really wanted to do was to attack and murder Jews in Israel.

Is this not the same thing? They can't do the former until the oppressors are no longer oppressing them.

[HaughtyFrank]

[TylenolJones]

Now professional sports players are saying ‘death to isreal’ using coded messages. 

[benji]

Norm lives:

[Polident]

Side effect of this conflict is seeing some amazing whiplash. Like people who banged the “actions have consequences” drum in response to the silly cancel culture discussion, now facing consequences for their actions and going “no mas… mercy.” And, naturally, the reverse where some are for cancel culture. Sorry, accountability culture. Slice of vindictiveness there. No morals or consistency. After this learning experience, will they come away changed? Unlikely.

They all are a little crazy. Driving a truck around with the faces and names of students who signed the pro hamas letter. Diabolical shit. A professor of religion and ethics talking about killing Jews. The fuck happened to colleges.