Women's Stupid Questions

"Let me tell you something. If your girlfriend asks you what you would do if she was a worm or if she was a puddle of water or anything, stupid like that, you just tell her exactly what she wants to hear because she's never gonna be a worm. Tell her what she wants to hear, what is the point in actually bringing logic to something like that? She's gonna hurt her feelings"
"So are you saying that logic hurts women?"
"No. One time I asked the guy that I was seeing if he would still like me if I was a puddle of water. And he said, no"
"What?"
"And I got so sad, that hurts my feelings"
"Wait, so he's supposed to lie"
"I wanted him to say: I would put you in a mason jar and put you in my pocket and then take you everywhere and travel the world"
"So chat, what have we learned, guys?"
"That women are stupid?"

Western Women vs Passport Bros

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"Let me get this straight.

You have been telling men for years that you don't want them, that you don't need them, that they don't meet your standards, that they don't treat you right, that you can pay for your own hair, you can pay for your own nails, you can afford your own home, you can afford your own car.

Men are good for nothing. You're strong. You're independent.

But then you get mad when these men go to another country to actually find a woman that has the qualities that they are looking for in a wife.

Make it make sense.

I also want to talk about why this mindset that so many Western women have is actually extremely problematic.

Because not only are you putting down the men who are going overseas with pure intentions, you're also putting down the women from these other countries solely off of the fact that they were not brought up in a western culture because you're calling them uneducated, you're calling them poor, you're calling them weak, you're calling them vulnerable.

You're creating a superiority complex where you are at the top and women from all these other countries are at the bottom.

Now, let me tell you something. If you were really superior, the men would not be leaving and you would not be single."

If Europeans made street food the same way Indians do (ORIGINAL VIDEO)

For some reason people like to chop this video up when they share it, but here is the full version:

Keywords: European street food, Indian street food, street food in India, street food in Europe

Women in Tech

The full version of a clip shared by STUNNED @Cr7Godbrand:

trigger warning! Female CEO Tells Truth about feminist women in tech entryists

"Hi my name is Maema Wishova [sp]. I'd like to start with a short introduction about myself.

I'm a woman in IT, obviously. I'm a CEO of a quite profitable IT company. I'm a mother, as well, so you would say I went through quite a lot in the IT industry. So I have the experience and authority to talk about this topic.

Now what I want to say is that the whole talk about women in IT is usually a bad thing for us. Because basically what it says is, well it's okay to have lower income, it's okay to do, worse than boys in the IT industry because, well there's a world conspiracy against you, you know, people hate you, that's why. So that's why I'm against the whole talk.

Also I did some recruiting, because I have a company. And also I went to school that had like eight girls and 100 boys, so you know one quite used to being around a lot of boys.

The whole thing is, girls are usually quite lazy. They're just not that good programmers, sorry but that's true, honestly. They just don't want to get their hands dirty to do the job and when I tried to do some recruiting I intentionally wanted to recruit women and at the end I failed to do so, do you want to know why? Because most of those girls were usually just cheating, and they just, there were just not good programmers. At the end I had to recruit boys.

And that's why I think the whole talk about 'let's recruit more women' is bad, because at the end you're recruiting worse programmers. At the end your company is going to suffer, you gonna lose some money. I know it's trendy to talk about women in IT, but I think women should just start studying more and getting the job done. And I, honestly don't see girls staying up until late at their office and working that often. No. It's usually boys staying there. Why? I don't know.

So that's what I want to say, I think the whole lecture should be removed and I think it's just bullshit"

*Scattered applause that increases a bit*

Organiser [?] on stage: "Ok. Ok everyone has its own opinion I just want to say one thing, make one thing clear. The whole idea of this presentation is not the sentence: we should recruit more girls. No. We know there is an emerging ecosystem and each company should recruit the best program there. The whole idea of this kind of projects and communities is just to spread the word that hey, there is a project where you can really come and if you want to really learn, you can learn. Then, it is not our responsibility how people may want to just make use of what it's offered, we just want to make sure that there is people who are making a career here, they are overcoming the, err, *trails off*"

Related:

Ned on X

"In IT when CEOs use the terms “lazy” and “not willing to get their hands dirty” what they mean is the employee refuses to work 16 hour days for weeks at a time. Young male programmers are willing to work sweatshop hours because gaming has conditioned them. Young women have lives."

MemesKenya on X

"You think the recent advancements in AI and Robotics, the innovations like at Tesla, Starlink and OpenAI were realised with people working 2 hours a day and posting Tik toks the rest of the hours? You know why you're tweeting is because Elon expelled a lot of women from X?"

Feminist logic: men earn more money because they work harder than women, so we need to level the playing field for women by stopping men from working hard.

Is carbonara American?

"Carbonara is the most American pasta dish. We can pretty much say that is an American invention.

I mean, you can pick my Italian accent. I'm very much Italian. I'm not going crazy. I'm just saying the truth. Let me break it down for you.

So, we got to go back in Italy, in the 1940s during World War II. Cuz before 1940, nobody ever heard or wrote about this dish. The most widely accepted theory is that carbonara was born by the combination of US military rations and pasta. Those ration usually included powdered eggs and dried bacon.

The US soldier used to ask Italian cooks around the country to prepare some pasta with their rations. And that's how carbonara was unofficially born.

Talking official, the very first written recipe was in Chicago in 1952. The very first Italian recipe was just two years later in 1954 on La Cucina Italiana. Gruyere and curdled eggs. Yes, you heard me right. Groviera e uova rapprese.

But it gets even worse. In 1986, Gualtiero Marchesi, the greatest Italian chef ever, wrote his official recipe about carbonara, saying it, that it cannot be made with scrambled eggs. Carbonara needs to be a creamy sauce. That's why according to Gualtiero, cream is not just required, it's essential for the best result.

So how? We arrived to nowadays where Italians think that there is just one holy carbonara recipe which cannot be changed. Absolutely no cream, absolutely yes, guanciale, no bacon.

Well, I don't know. I don't know how we arrived to that. I know that I was born and raised in Italy for 24 years of my life. I used to believe that the carbonara was that and cannot be changed. It was holy. But you know, now opening my mind, studying a little bit more, I found out that it's not true.

A lot of things actually about what Italians believe about their cuisine, it's, are not correct. Now, I'm not saying that Italian cuisine is bullshit and it's not good. The nowadays recipe of carbonara is amazing. It's probably the best one. I don't know if just because I'm used to it, but it's incredible."

Related:

If carbonara is supposed to never have cream, explain the addition of cream in Gualtiero Marchesi's carbonara recipe? : r/ItalianFood

"There is no widely accepted story about the origin of carbonara but there's a widely accepted recipe and that one does not contain cream or garlic."

"Ironically, the oldest published Italian recipe for Carbonara... had garlic in it. No cream, but it did have a creamy sauce made with eggs.

There is no one 'correct' way to make Carbonara, unlike what modern Italian purists like to say. These are some of the oldest published recipes for it in Italy:

The first ever Italian recipe came out in 1954, which... used pancetta, along with spaghetti, eggs, Gruyère and garlic, printed in the magazine La Cucina Italiana. A year later it was published in the cookery book 'La Signora in Cucina', again with pancetta, and this time with Parmesan instead of Gruyère.

In 1960 we finally get to see guanciale, which most modern Italian food purists say is unchangeable, in 'La Grande Cucina', in a recipe that also includes CREAM.

My point with this is, unlike what Italian food purists claim, there is no singular 'correct' or 'traditional' recipe."

If carbonara is supposed to never have cream, explain the addition of cream in Gualtiero Marchesi's carbonara recipe? : r/ItalianFood

"In the 1970s and 80s, cream was a common ingredient in carbonara. As an example, the most famous Italian chef of that time, Gualtiero Marchesi, used cream in his recipe, but plenty of other people were...

cream was a common ingredient.

see eg https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2022/04/06/news/carbonara_la_ricetta_tom_cruise_gwyneth_paltrow_jamie_oliver-344223973/

where they describe a celebrity "Masterchef" of the 1960s, where a Roman actor, Renato Rascel, uses pancetta and cream rather than guanciale (and wins the silver medal) - gold going to a risotto dish.

Ugo Tognazzi (another actor, and famous gourmet)) instead shows off his amazing carbonara recipe served in New York in 1964:,,

mezzo chilo di pasta, per la precisione spaghettini. E poi, 6 uova (3 intere, 3 solo tuorli), pecorino (ma appena 30 grammi) e parmigiano (100 g). Poi un etto e mezzo di bacon (proprio così, bacon), un etto di prosciutto crudo, grasso e magro, 50 g di burro, un bicchiere di panna, e poi peperoncino, cognac o brandy. In quanto alla preparazione: sbattere uova, formaggi, panna, sale e pepe in una terrina, mentre in padella si soffrigge il bacon al quale poi viene aggiunto il prosciutto. Gli spaghettini, al dente, vanno conditi con il burro e poi con la salsa, il soffritto e, tocco finale, con il Cognac."

"then why do you think the resistance to not having cream in carbonara today come from"

"ts a general pushback to 80s italian cuisine, which had cream in everything.

the idea is that its cheating to get the creaminess from cream rather than egg, and it dilutes the flavour

similarly, modern italian risotto aims to achieve 'creaminess' with a minimum of butter, by emulsifying(?) the risotto with a shaking motion"

If carbonara is supposed to never have cream, explain the addition of cream in Gualtiero Marchesi's carbonara recipe? : r/ItalianFood

"It's a crystallization that happened in response to the internet, where italians discovered that another group of people claiming to be italian started to make " traditional " recipes"

When A Liberal Woman Wants A History Book

"Hi."
"Hi."
"I'm looking for a book on the Magna Carta - that centers black and brown voices."
"This feels like a trick."
"No, I'm looking for a book on one of the most important political events in Western history that centers black and brown folks."
Okay. A, I can tell you said folks with an X there. Uh, B, none of those books really exist because there weren't a lot of black and brown people in 1200s England.
"Okay. Well, I'm sure you have a whole section dedicated to the history of white penises."
"There is a shelf. Yes. Uh, I'll tell you what. I will uh look in the system and see what I can find for you."
"Great."
"Okay. The best I can do is this. It's an autobiography of a 19th century former Georgia slave named Magnus Carter. Uh, entitled Going to Heaven Won't Make Up for What You People Did to Me. Oh god.
"That sounds great. I actually will take a copy of that. But you're telling me you don't have anything on the Magna Carta that centers black and brown and indigenous voices?"
"Indigenous? Yeah, absolutely. Actually, if you go over to that section, there is nothing but books about how the Magna Carta affected indigenous people."
"Okay, great. Thank you so much."
"She is not going to be happy when she finds out what color the people indigenous to England are."

The African Concept of Time

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 "What if I told you that for many African societies, the concept of the future doesn't exist and that instead of time moving forwards, time actually moves backwards. 

This was the work of John Mbiti, one of Kenya's and Africa's greatest philosophers. And in 1969, he wrote something that completely reimagines the way we think of African time. 

Mbiti says, "Time is a two-dimensional phenomenon with a long past, vibrant present, and virtually no future." 

Using Swahili words, he describes the two dimensions of time. The first one being sasa, the now, the recent past and the immediate future which can be experienced. The second dimension is zamani. Zamani is the vast endless past where all events eventually go on to live forever. 

But the future? In African thought, it barely exists because time is made up of events. Time has to be experienced in order to be real. 

So because we can't conceptualize events tied to the distant future because they haven't been experienced yet, then therefore the future cannot constitute part of time. And this is why according to Mbiti African languages (at least the East African Bantu languages that he studied) don't have a word to describe the distant future. 

In African time according to Mbiti, events create time. Seasons, ceremonies, a conversation: those moments produce time, and people produce as much time as they need. 

An example that Mbiti uses from the communities that he studied is that a year is measured based on four seasons. Two dry seasons, two wet seasons. So a year is only over when those four seasons have taken place. So a year could take 365 days, 390 days. It doesn't matter the number of days in a year. What matters is that the four seasons have taken place. 

And this is in contrast to the Western view towards time where time is a commodity, something that can be spent, saved, wasted or lost. 

And according to Mbiti, this is why if foreigners come to Africa and they see people uh sitting under a tree, they would remark that, okay this, why are these people wasting so much time? But in African thought that sitting under a tree, it's not wasting time. It's either waiting for time or producing time 

For me, I think this western idea of time as a commodity is what drives this western obsession of 'progress', 'development' and some promised future. And this difference shapes everything from politics, economics to how we live our daily lives. 

Because in African thought, the golden age isn't in the future. It's actually in the zamani. According to Mbiti, the future is only a shadow until it comes to the present and then it flows into the zamani. So in that way time moves backwards. We are not the ones who move forward into time. 

So of course wrote Mbiti this from a theological point of view because he was trying to explain the nature of African religion. But my main takeaway from the parts of the book that I've read is that unlike western cultures and religions with end of the world myths, African time has no end. 

Seasons, years, birth, marriage, death, it's all a cycle.

Asante kwa kutazama, tafakari hayo and I'll see you in the next video."

 

Clearly, colonialism, racism and white supremacy are why Africa and/or black people lag behind in terms of 'progress' and 'development'.

Comments:

Bartleby on X - "“We cannot conceptualize events in the future because they have not been experienced yet”
This explains so much"
EJ on X - "lindynap Its crazy because like. Squirrels do it."

Dating women made me understand men

"So as you may remember, I came out as bisexual last year. And since then, I have been dating women.

And what I found very fascinating is that the more I date women, the more I find myself understanding heterosexual men.

Let me explain.

Exhibit A: I was on a first date with a girl, who asked me out by the way. This is relevant, because when the check came, she never once made a move to pay. Not even like the fake "let me reach for my purse" move. And though I don't mind paying on a date, part of me felt like, you know, the offer would have been nice.

I was also a little taken aback that she didn't even say thank you. AND I never heard from her again. It really made me feel like she just asked me out so she could have a free dinner.

And the moment I thought that, I was like, "Oh my god. I sound like all of my guy friends right now."

And my argument against why guys should pay for dates has always been like, Look, girls take hours to get ready. Our investment is looking really nice for you. Makeup, clothes — that costs money too. But we were both girls in this situation. We both took hours to get ready. So I definitely felt slighted.

Exhibit B: On another day, I went back to a girl's house and I ended up making friends with her cat. That's not a pun. I'm talking about her literal actual animal. And she said: Wow! My cat never likes anyone. I better go out and buy a wedding dress.

[record scratch] [laughing] [laughing distorts] [awkward laugh] [laughing continues to distort]

And again, I felt like I got some serious perspective. I have been guilty of making these kinds of jokes on dates with men. I never really thought anything of it. I was just being silly! But then when I was on the receiving end of it, I suddenly understood the panic.

And finally, Exhibit C. One girl invited me back into her house and her specific words were: Do you... Wanna come in and make out?

Obviously, I'm like, yeah, you're really pretty. I want to press my face to yours.

But then when we got there, we both just sat on the couch and she talked 'til like... 3 a.m. And I was like yo girl, I gotta wake up at like 6 a.m. I was told there would be kisses here, there are no kisses, And like look, I don't want to sound like an asshole. Like I don't mind talking, I love talking. But she could have said: Do you wanna come in and just talk? And I would have had totally different expectations for the evening, you know?

Finally I started falling asleep and I was like, Hey, I gotta go and I gave her one kiss and... and left. And I felt sad that the amount of kisses promised did not equal the amount of kisses delivered.

And once again, I felt like a dude who was upset that I did not receive the expected physical kisses I was promised.

And I wanted to talk about this because I felt like this has really been expanding my perspective when it comes to dating. I finally understand a lot of the complaints my male friends have about dating that, I admit, I would usually dismiss. But now I really get it when they say:

"Dating is just so expensive, man."
"Sometimes I feel like that girl doesn't even like me for me."
"She just wants like, a boyfriend."
"I wish it were more socially expected to go dutch on the first few dates But you're like a jerk if you even suggest it."

And any experience that expands your compassion and understanding is one that I think is worthy of sharing...

I'm Anna Akana"

Karmelo Anthony and the Black Community - Brandon Tatum and Benny Johnson

People are donating to Carmelo Anthony because he is stopping white supremacy. Think I'm lying? Read it for yourself...

God bless this young man for committing murder. You see how demonic this is?...

Democrats just can't quit their love affair with criminals...

'If a white teen had killed a black teen, then anybody who donated to his GoFundMe would be fired from their job, would be publicly humiliated, would be shamed. Of course there wouldn't really be a GoFundMe that was set up, everybody would just say "Oh that's evil you can't just kill someone. You can't just murder someone in cold blood who's unarmed. We're against that. And so uh let's all move on and the process will play out and justice will be served uh hopefully".

What you have here is the rever-, the inverse of that. And if you go check, man, you want to talk about, you want to talk about a black pill, you go check the comments on the fundraiser. It it's just hatred against white people. And it's just all, I mean it's just like rewarding the guy for killing a white person. It's a really bad place to be in the country, like that's like, uh the precursor to race wars and new civil wars and like the actual fraying of society. It's uh it's bad man'

'This is this is this is this has been going on forever. It's just that what happens when you see racial conflict, the ugly head is reared up. Black people been feeling like this forever and I grew up in an all black neighborhood, we hated white people. I, I'm being honest, like we felt like when I was growing up, thank God I got saved and thank God I moved to a different environment and then it opened my understanding up to wait a minute this is not the way that we should be behaving but, if a black kid is wrong, we feel like it's justified because of slavery and Jim Crow and all that other stuff. And I'm not saying every black person is like this but there's a lot of black people as you can see.

Now I'll tell anybody to do the math and do the research on this. you will never see a white criminal who've committed a crime against a police officer, anybody else get a GoFundMe. We even see George Floyd look look at look at uh all these other people that were justifiably killed by the police, not George Floyd, but I'm saying some of these other individuals. They still got millions of dollars in GoFundMe raised. They still got all kinds of money being raised. It's because black people for some reason have this racial racial hatred towards white people that's ingrained in them, that's almost in their bloodline. And it only takes an incident to happen like this for it to come out of them because you look at the comments, look what they're saying.

But the people that are on the side of uh Metcalf, they're not it's not a racial thing. It's that the boy was killed. He died in his brother's arms. He was at a track meet under his own tent standing up for what was right, and he got murdered in cold blood. He was a A student he had a chance to go to college, he was on the football team *something*. That is why normal people are supporting him, but you will see this every time Benny, is, I don't know if, it's I don't know what is going to have it, have this change, I don't know if it's ever going to change in our society, but you're going to always see this underbelly of racism from the black community that comes up every single time these things happen, right or wrong.

The black kid was wrong. I see a lot of black people saying that he was wrong. But the majority of black people want to believe he was right. They want to believe the white kid was a bully. They want to believe these things. And it's not true and it's sad that this is a reality but I'm here to be the the negro whisperer, I'm telling you black people have this vitriolic behavior against whites and it's going to come out every time this happens, I promise"

Brandon Tatum on X

"Black kids kill black kids every day—and no one bats an eye. But one black kid kills a white kid, and suddenly it’s a civil rights movement.

"Always racism from black people when this happens. [Karmelo Anthony] was wrong. Never see a white criminal get a GoFundMe."

Thank you @bennyjohnson for having me on your show!"

The Failure of Starship Troopers The Movie as Anti-Fascist

Schwalbe⚡️ on X

Verhoeven did *intend* to make a movie that said "war makes fascists of us all" but he failed on every level because he doesn't understand fascism, war or how propaganda works.  

First, his film *forces* the audience to side with the Aryan-vibey, attractive youths against the mindless, hideous, alien bugs. The morally unambiguous, gore-filled spectacle is guilt-free and even Verhoeven's portrayal of military propaganda is more slapstick than surreal. 

The film doesn't subvert anything, at no point *during the watching* does one see the jingoism on display as excessive. No one feels bad for reveling in the slaughter of a genocidal, interplanetary swarm of vile insects. There's no moment where we see the bugs are "just like us" 

The "Mormon extremists" who illegally settled on a bug-controlled planet were intruding onto a bug *colony* that the bugs had *colonized*, the bugs are *colonizers*, ones that consume and eradicate the entire biosphere, not even for capitalism, but out of blind instinct. 

Second, the "fascist" elements are all surface level, the United Citizen Federation is a post-modern, neoliberal, limited democracy, it lacks a charismatic dictator, there's a council, merit-based citizenship, no racial or ethnic supremacy, no sign of rigid ideological extremism. 

Everyone is motivated by pragmatism, loyalty is secured through participation. They serve for civic duty, due to existential threat, or access to political combat (citizenship).

This explains the silly newsreels, as in such a system, there is little need for advanced propaganda 

Within the newsreel, this scene is played for laughs. Libtards hallucinate that this means there were child soldiers. The criticism that fascism = "propaganda that targets children" is equally incoherent.

I'm just going to share some easily searchable images here. 

The most basic metric for a functioning society is that it readies men to fight for and protect it. This is so deeply rooted that studies have found the understanding of war developmentally precedes that of peace by several years. Even then, peace is understood as absence of war.

Verhoeven unwittingly agrees. ST shows that social injustices such as oppression based on race, gender or class can be erased *through* the glorification of militaristic virtues. All who serve can become a citizen, and at no point does he show non-citizens being abused. 

The film depicts Johnny Rico's parents living comfortably as non-citizens, thriving economically and socially, even without political power. Rico's father views service as dangerous and unnecessary, showing the jingoistic yet generic propaganda has *failed* to colonize his mind. 

Verhoeven's main divergence from the source materials were these ham-fisted newsreels and they are the only component that *might* alienate the viewer from the Federation's cause, but, because they mostly exist in their own slapstick continuum, this never happens. 

Verhoeven has an angry norwooder say "The only good bug is a dead bug." Everyone watching agreed. This sentiment is now famous and lives forever in memes, recently resurging with the release of Helldivers II. Every single tactic Verhoeven tried failed. 

One of the most common, cheapest methods to get an audience to sympathize with *anything* is have a young, pretty woman cry for it. People instinctively accept the reactions of attractive people as their own, yet Verhoeven goes the opposite direction, having the actress retch. 

It's meant to be the future, but we see nothing nearly as sophisticated as Triumph of the Will, let alone the the OWI Bureau of Motion Pictures teaming up with Hollywood during WW2. This guy is supposed to be psychic, has this power been weaponized for propaganda? Apparently not 

Verhoeven is definitely unaware that one of the reasons the Allies won WW2 was that our propaganda was more insidious and sophisticated.

This is as far as the newsreels go toward "vilifying" bugs- children stomping them, a normal behavior that requires zero conditioning 

One newsreel shows children playing with guns with parental oversight. Verhoeven is assuming the audience has grown up in a coastal city and such a "bizarre" scene will make them uneasy. For the entire rest of the world, it's just a slapstick version of a very mundane experience 

At no point does he show a character being conditioned or having their critical faculties overwhelmed, the only emoting we see is the expected horror to the asteroid attack on Buenos Aires, and a reaction to a generic morale-boosting recruitment ad *after* they are in training. 

Rico is not convinced by Verhoeven's newsreels but by the teacher's speech. The teacher cites history, his experience and exhibits a sense of civic pride. There's no indication any of this is derived from a falsified history or brainwashing, the teacher's arguments are sound. 

Rico's comment in the dissection scene "They're just bugs" foreshadows the horrific carnage of bug warfare, but it also stands as yet another unintended explanation for the lack of that most problematic type of "fascist" propaganda, the demonizing or "dehumanizing" of the enemy 

There's no need for it, *just show the bugs*, and here is where Starship Troopers as even aesthetically fascistic falls apart. Almost all post-WW2 anti-fascist conditioning centers around the image of the misjudged Jew or minority, yet Verhoeven doesn't seem to understand this  

He understands "war = fascism" he literally said this in a DVD commentary- "War makes fascists of us all."

By this definition, every tribe, race, nation, troop of chimpanzees, the state of Israel, the U.N. and the human species itself is fascist, rendering the word meaningless. 

 

This demonstrates, by itself, that the "deeper meaning" of Starship Troopers is that Paul Verhoeven does not know the meanings of words, especially "war" and "fascism," but knows how to make stuff look cool, and might be developmentally disabled. 

 

This is the *perfect* kind of guy for directing your 80s-90s style action movie. You get maybe a superficial gesture of deeper meaning, but the "rule of cool," and the crude sensibilities of a ten year old boy are driving the project.  

This thread is an argument for bringing back the Paul Verhoeven-type Hollywood libtard. The non-dysgenic, manchild that can't help but make pro-fascist films because they like cool stuff.

Verhoeven represents the ideal amount of dumb degeneracy needed to make good action sci fi 

This is the best proof that Verhoeven failed to counter the spirit of Heinlein, who wrote Starship Troopers in a fit of rage at nuclear disarmament.

The remake is happening because libs have been totally defeated in the "media literacy" discourse.

Former ICJ President on whether Israel and accusations of Genocide in Gaza

Terrorism supporters have very poor comprehension skills, so they keep claiming that the International Court of Justice has found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

In reality, the ICJ found something quite different.

Joan Donoghue, former ICJ President (who was President when they issued the ruling) explains:

Stephen Sackur (BBC HARDtalk): Would it be fair to say, and I'm no lawyer, and many people watching and listening will not be lawyers, but would it be fair to say that the key point that you made your initial order and ruling upon, was whether or not there was a plausible case that should be taken on by the court, of genocide in the case of Israel's actions, in Gaza after October 7. And you quite clearly decided that there was a plausible case. Is it right to say that's at the heart of what you decided?

Joan Donoghue: You know, I'm glad I have a chance to address that, because the Court's, um, test for deciding whether, uh to impose measures, uses the idea of plausibility. But the test is the plausibility of the rights that are asserted by the applicant, in this case South Africa. So the court decided that, the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide, and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the court. Um, it then looked at at the facts as well but it did not decide, and this is uh uh something where I'm correcting what's often said, uh in the media. It didn't decide that the claim of genocide was plausible. Um, it did, it did emphasize in, in the order um that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide, but it, the shorthand that often appears, which is that there's a plausible case of genocide isn't what the court, uh decided.

Brigitte Gabriel on Palestinian Terrorism

"Hello. I'm Brigitte Gabriel.

Since the massacre in Israel I've had a lot of debates with people who say, Israel is making this up. There was no killing of pregnant women, rape, burning people or chopping people up. It's all AI generated.

So today I want to talk about another massacre perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists in the Moore [sp?] Lebanon, in January of 1976, 48 years ago.

Palestinian terrorists slaughtered Christians in Lebanon in 1976 before AI, and before the internet. Palestinians surrounded the city and began slaughtering Christians. Father Mansour Labaky, a Christian Maronite priest who survived the massacre said 'It was an apocalypse. They slaughtered everyone in their path: men, women and children. They would walk into a bomb shelter, find a mother and a father hiding with a baby. They would tie one leg of the baby to the mother and another leg to the father and pull the parents apart, splitting the child in half.'

Just like on October 7th, they slid pregnant women's belly open in front of their husbands, pulled the baby out and crushed it in front of the father and the kids. They killed fathers in front of their children and cut off their genitals and put it in their mouth. They raped women and young girls.

The last lady that worked for me in Lebanon, I hired her to take care of her. She was mentally disturbed because they walked into her bomb shelter, tied her to a chair, put her son's head on her lap and made her slaughter her own son, then raped her two daughters in front of her. She. Went. Crazy.

Nothing has changed. Same people, same ideology. Doing the slaughtering under different names. The PLO, Hamas. It's the same people: full of hate, full of rage, full of revenge.

The Palestinians cause problems everywhere they go. We took them in and they destroyed Lebanon, Paris of the Middle East.

People are afraid to talk about the Palestinian massacres in Lebanon, except in private Christian conversations, because of threats and because it would 'harm the Palestinian cause', a cause that has been milked by Arab leaders for years.

Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent civilians is a legitimate tactics, tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.

I receive emails from Lebanese Christians all over the world, thanking me for speaking up, and saying I can't believe how courageous you are. Evil dwells when good people remain silent, when good people keep their mouth shut in the face of barbarism, either either out of apathy or because they don't want to attract attention. You should speak up against evil. Maybe you will be the spark that will ignite millions of people to stand up and stop evil in its track.

Stand with me as I speak up and help me magnify my voice *request for donations*

Victims of the Moore [sp?] Massacre, we will never forget you. Victims of October 7th Massacre, we will never forget you. 2 million Armenians massacred in Turkey and the Yazidis in Iraq, we will never forget you. Victims of the Holocaust, we we will never forget you. Palestinian innocent children who were killed because your own leaders sacrificed you, we will never forget you.

Speak up, stand up, raise your voice and join me. Now is the time and we are the voice.

Thank you"

Links - 28th July 2024 (Star Wars: The Acolyte)

V for Viennetta on X - "There's something a little off about this new Disney cut! 🤔 @Nerdrotics @LadyGravemaster @KenobiStig"
"If you only knew the power of mAnNnyYy" - YouTube

Meme - "Jedi Master: Dies by fruit knife
Random girl: Impaled by lightsaber, flesh wound."
*The Acolyte's Master Indara vs Ahsoka's Sabine Wren*

Why Does Every Star Wars Villain Have A Helmet Now? - "in the last decade things have changed. Star Wars has tried to cash in on our collective nostalgia with a new trilogy of films and a slew of TV series that are far too numerous for any person to have seen them all...   What’s worse than the quantity of these shows is how they trade solely in that nostalgia. Nearly every series forgoes a satisfying conclusion in lieu of bringing back a familiar face from some other show or movie. There’s no catharsis, no real endings. Every show is just a sizzle reel for the next one, context for the wider universe...   There are exceptions, of course. The first season of The Mandalorian was just Din Djarin doing stuff. It was great. Then Luke Skywalker turned up. Ironically, Andor was excellent too. The Star Wars show that’s specifically a prequel to a movie that cashed in on a single line of the original film is more original and interesting than nearly every original idea that Lucasfilm has tried to make stick in the past ten years.  This is why I was excited for The Acolyte. I was hoping for another Star Wars show that was wholly original, separate from the wider universe. I don’t want every protagonist to be a Skywalker or impact the fate of the universe. I want some people just to save their friends or their mum. But The Acolyte fell into another trap that modern Star Wars has fallen into: The Curse of the Helmet.  Every Star Wars villain wears a helmet now. Kylo Ren kicked off the trend, but he had fair reasons. The narrative metaphor of trying to erase all traces of Ben Solo, face included, is strong. He’s also trying to ape his grandfather, Darth Vader. The Force Awakens dealt so strongly in nostalgia that it rehashed the plot of the original movie practically beat for beat, but I didn’t mind Ren’s helmet.  His followers, however, were a different story. Aside from the fact that the Knights of Ren were ruined by the hotswapping directors with seemingly no communication between them, why did they have helmets? Because their boss does? Because they were meant to be fleshed out with proper actors with real faces in later films but the idea was scrapped in favour of Palpatine returning?  Sadly, The Acolyte’s villain wears a helmet. And not just any helmet, a real goofy number with… teeth? There’s a reason for The Stranger’s helmet – it’s entirely created in order to create the big reveal of the Sith lord’s true identity as that bloke from that shop in the episode before. However, I think there’s another reason.   How has Star Wars made all its money? Hint: it’s not through movies. It’s through toys and merchandise. Why did they make a baby Yoda? To sell baby Yoda toys. Why is there always a new droid companion to every protagonist? To sell new droid companion toys. Why is every villain wearing a helmet? To sell toy helmets.  This has the knock-on effect of making The Stranger toys cheaper, too. Back in the ‘70s, Lucasfilm could probably get away with paying Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford a few quid for the rights to slap their likeness on a plastic doll, but these days actors will charge a (deserved) premium. Popping a helmet on a character means you have to pay them less (and often nothing) to make toys of their character. It also makes it easier to find actors to play them at the Star Wars theme parks. There’s a reason Kylo Ren stalks around Galaxy’s Edge, rather than Ben Solo."

Meme - Star Wars: Gamers: "Occupational Safety and Health Administration"
"Disney: We need a name for the protagonist of The Acolyte.
Kathleen Kennedy: Say no more *Osha*"

Meme - "If YOU ARE TELLING A STORY ABOUT SOMETHING YOU KNEW AND YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT YOU ARE NOT A WITNESS, YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLICE" - DL HUGHLY *Leslye Headland with Harvey Weinstein*
It should be "DL HUGHLEY". But this only applies when it pushes the left wing agenda

Star Wars: The Acolyte Subverts Fan Expectations and Not in a Good Way - "Indara's death is devasting and plays into a trope that is not a good one. Master Indara was at the forefront of a lot of the marketing for The Acolyte. This was partially because Carrie-Ann Moss was one of the biggest stars in the cast list and partially because fans assumed that Indara was going to be a significant part of the plot. This has followed a modern trope of using big-name actors as a marketing tool, only to immediately kill them or remove them from the project. This most famously happened with 2014's Godzilla when Bryan Cranston was marketed as the star of the film, only to be killed in the early moments of the movie. It also happened with She-Hulk, when Daredevil was used to market the show, only to be in one episode. This strategy leaves many fans feeling deceived and upset that the actors were used purely to stoke fan excitement for the movie or TV show. It creates distrust between the audience and the show's creators."

‘The Acolyte’ Star Manny Jacinto: 12 Facts About The Star Wars Actor - "Audiences have been praising Jacinto’s performance in The Acolyte, with many commenting on his incredible range, onscreen charisma and, um, muscular arms."

‘The Acolyte’ Shows The Seductive Power Of The Dark Side - "A running joke about Star Wars is that the Dark Side is deeply unappealing — traditionally, young Jedi are manipulated by disfigured, decrepit old men, the kind of guys you wouldn’t sit next to on the subway.  The fact that almost every advocate for the Dark Side has been horribly mutilated should be something of a red flag, yet the Sith always find new recruits... The Acolyte depicts its Dark Side “influencer” as charismatic and seductive."
According to the author, being against bad writing makes you "reactionary"

‘The Acolyte’ Episode 6 Recap And Review: These Short Episodes Were A Big Mistake - "I’m just not loving anything about the twin plotline. I think it’s by far the weakest link in this series, and it’s the central storyline so that’s problematic.   (The other big issue with this show is one that I’ve had with Star Wars for a long time now: The gradual decline of the Jedi as a cool, mysterious order of badasses into a stuffy, rather bland bureaucracy).   The second pupil/master subplot follows Mae and Sol (Lee Jung-jae) as they escape Khoftar and she tries to dig into what really happened when she and her sister were girls. The show has been dragging that mystery out far, far too long and continues to do so here. It’s quite annoying since it’s not an actual mystery that needs to be solved. Sol just has to tell Mae and/or Osha (and the audience) what happened. He continues to delay doing that so that the mystery is dragged out onscreen...   Ultimately, not much happens this episode and then it ends. I’m left feeling completely underwhelmed. I think the episode lengths are a big problem here. Either they need to be longer and meatier, or Disney should have released them three at a time or all at once (I don’t like the binge model, but I think this show might have benefited from it). Almost every episode this season has ended too soon and each time it’s felt kind of rushed and sudden. This episode—following the show’s most action-packed and deadly—lost whatever momentum and sense of urgency we’d picked up last week. It’s all a bit jarring...   We have just two episodes remaining and frankly I don’t know how this ends in a satisfying way unless both those episodes are a lot longer and the story starts moving. If the season ends with an irritating cliffhanger, don’t say I didn’t warn you. This show has a lot of potential but I can’t help but feel it’s pretty half-baked in its current state. It needed a lot more time in the oven."

Meme - "STAR WARS. THE BLACK SERIES. Only at Walmart. Star Wars: The Acolyte. The Stranger *naked Qimir*"

Meme - Austin Medeiros @austin_medz: "My reaction to Episode 7 *stunned witches (from Episode 7)*"

Meme - "STAR WARS. THE ACOLYTE. JUST TWO STRONG FEMALES USING THE FORCE TO MAKE A CHILD * Jenna Sativa and Shyla Jennings*"

StarWarsTheory on X - "Osha and Mae meet at the bridge, and by far the most amazing writing of the show, Sol struggles to use the force to hold the bridge with the sisters, instead of just, oh you know, use the force to hold the little girls in the air, instead of the super heavy metal bridges that are creaking, implying he's holding them up.  And then when he fails to do that simple task, he lets go of Mae, and saves Osha, by letting go of the bridges with the force, only to scream and run to Osha as she falls to her death to grab her physically with his arm outstretched, when he could have simply just used the force to save her, heck, save both.  This is the worst writing of anything I’ve ever seen.  $180M"

Erik 'daibo' Kain on X - "There's this entire sect of Star Wars fans who, whenever anything is changed for the worse (like adding a hip hop song in the credits of The Acolyte) ask "WHY ARE STAR WARS FANS SO MAD AT THIS IT'S GREAT I LOVE THIS SONG THEIR [sic] SO TOXIC".   It's this really hostile, really stubborn refusal to even try to understand why it might bother a lot of fans who grew up on John Williams scores and a very distinct aesthetic that we hope to preserve. Yet somehow old-school fans of the franchise are the bad guys.
The angry replies to this tweet are pure gold. From accusations of racism, to people telling me to "just not watch" to gross misrepresentation of what I'm saying, each and every one proves my point better than I could have without them. Thank you."
If you don't shut up and consume, you're "toxic". But if you harass people who refuse to consume quietly, you are a good person

Valliant Renegade on X - "The Acolyte was said to make us question the Jedi’s moral high ground and smear the lines of good and evil.   BUT…. The writing however was SO BAD in achieving that end that Episode 7 actually showed why the Jedi’s actions were JUSTIFIED, which therefore renders the entire rest of the attempted “mystery” story arc utterly POINTLESS.  It’s unreal what a MESS this show is."
Archer Bird 🇺🇸 on X - "They basically tried to paint the Jedi as a cop who shot a poc reaching for their glove box at a traffic stop. Except they made the Jedi look entirely reasonable for their actions."
Valliant Renegade on X - "Not a glovebox. Reaching for a GUN."

‘The Acolyte’ Episode 8 Recap And Review: A Dreadful Season Finale And The Cameos Can’t Save It - "The Acolyte was a mess from start to finish and Tuesday night’s jumbled season finale only strengthens my belief that this was a show that needed about three more drafts before going to production. Everything about this show is rough and messy, and the two very fun cameos in the finale (which we’ll discuss below) can’t save it from itself... I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that Osha goes to the Dark Side this episode, and that Mae—by dint of losing her memory—goes over to the good guys. After all, Osha was wearing black by this point and Mae was all in white. How subtle! Then again, it’s hard to tell who the good guys are anymore, or who the bad guys are, because The Acolyte is just so angsty and edgy. It’s Star Wars for adults! Or something. Let’s be real, subverting expectations and deconstructing the Jedi is just so 2017.   The Acolyte seems hellbent on portraying the Jedi in the worst possible light and I might be able to accept this if it were just the coverup at the end when Vernestra somewhat bizarrely pins all the killings on Sol when she goes before the Senate tribunal. But this show wants very badly for us to think that what the Jedi did on Brendok is some horrific crime, when I’m right there with Sol: He was trying to protect children from what very much appeared to be a terrifying Dark Side witch cult. Of course, when Osha and Mae confront Sol after he does a little lightsaber ballet with The Stranger, they don’t bother to get his side of the story and he doesn’t bother to tell it beyond “I did the right thing. I was trying to protect you.” I guess there was no room in the script for Osha to ask “Why?” and for him to say “Well she turned into a freaky smoke monster and started to evaporate your sister so I did what anyone would do and acted in self-defense.” I will say that I was pretty darn surprised when Osha force-choked Sol to death Vader-style, though it’s so out of left field that it comes across as incredibly goofy rather than disturbing. I was probably already annoyed when, moments earlier, the Sith and Mae exchange banter copy/pasted right out of Return of the Jedi.  “Feel your anger,” Qimir says, sounding woefully less scary and intimidating than Palpatine. “This is the source of your pain. Strike him down and your journey will be complete.”... The problem with all of this isn’t merely how derivative it is—though that is a good chunk of what I find irksome—but how poorly it’s executed. Disney and the show’s creators promised us something new, something different, something unique. On all counts, they failed.  Hey look, we’re in the High Republic, 100 years before the Skywalker saga! But let’s just do the same Jedi stuff as before, right down to paraphrasing famous snippets of dialogue, only this time we’ll make the Sith look more sympathetic and the Jedi seem conniving and awful. For reasons.   Vernestra is genuine villain material at this point. Everyone theorized that she was the Sith’s Jedi Master last week and everyone was right. She senses him on Brendok and he sense her, quickly putting on his mind-control-blocking helmet. She covers everything up, most likely to cover up her own crimes or failings, though it’s not really clear yet (the episode ends with a bunch of loose ends, so we basically need a Season 2 to get any kind of closure, but I can’t say I think a second season would be good for Star Wars as a whole).  In any case, she takes her concerns to this fuzzy fella, and I just can’t wait for Leslye Headland and crew to “deconstruct” Yoda some more. What Star Wars needs more of is a corrupt Yoda who helps coverup Jedi crimes and frames dead Jedi Masters for things they didn’t actually do. Fun!... If we do get a Season 2 and this story does lead to explaining Anakin’s origins, I’ll be pretty annoyed. I’ve been discussing this a lot lately, but I just don’t think we need to explain everything. We don’t need origin stories for everything. Or backstories. We don’t need to fill in all the details. We don’t need midichlorians. We don’t need to show so much of the Jedi to the point they’re no longer cool or mysterious.  Finally, I’m incredibly letdown by the big emotional apex of this episode. When Osha kills Sol—because she’s apparently so powerful she can kill a Jedi Master with ease—she has next to no expression on her face. It’s basically the one expression Mae and Osha wear on their faces throughout the entire show, unchanging. I hate to say this, but it’s just not great acting.   We needed her to be seething with hatred at this point. We needed her to rage, to drip her hatred all over the ground, to become hate itself, ruinous and feral. Instead, she sort of looks like she’s concentrating hard, but not even that hard. Many of this show’s problems come down to the script and direction, but this moment really showed how lacking some of the acting has been also. You can get away with a good script and bad acting or good acting and a bad script but both? That’s a problem...
The Jedi on Brendok look like LARPers. They’re just goofy. Vernestra tells them to set up a perimeter but then they all just follow Bazil instead. Okay dummies.
The one Senator who came to Vernestra to tell her he mistrusts the Jedi Order makes a lot of sense given how utterly awful the Jedi are in this show, but this just perpetuates one of the biggest mistakes the House of Mouse has made since acquiring Lucasfilm: Making the Jedi suck. This is not how you sell cool Star Wars toys, Bob Iger...
I alluded to this above, but who is this show actually for exactly? It’s not smart or adult enough to be Star Wars For Grownups the way Andor is. But it’s not fun or upbeat enough to be Star Wars For Kids. So then who is it for? Consultants? People who have a sort of vague appreciation of Star Wars ever since they caught Rise Of Skywalker on at a friend’s dorm room shindig? I just don’t know who this is for. Not dads and not kids, and frankly those are the two big demographics when it comes to Star Wars, no matter how you spin things...
Why couldn’t Mae just go with Qimir and Osha? Wouldn’t that be an easier solution than wiping her memory and allowing the Jedi to capture her? What if they manage to restore her memory?
Another point I’m curious about. If we’re supposed to sympathize with the Sith, does that mean we ought to sympathize with the product of the Sith lords’ long centuries of planning? The Galactic Empire is the end-result of everything the Sith stand for, and it’s a direct analogue for fascism in our world right down to the Nazi uniforms. I thought The Acolyte was supposed to be some paean to progressivism, but now I’m wondering if I’ve just been missing the alt-right subtext"
Self-defense is evil and contemptible, because good guys aren't allowed to defend themselves if people could get hurt. Which is left wing logic they apply in the real world, after all. The good guys are actually bad and the bad guys are actually good

‘The Acolyte’ Season 2? The Good News And Bad News - "we have a number of third party analytics firms estimating that The Acolyte is likely the lowest-viewed Star Wars show Disney has produced, below even Andor, which was the least-watched before this"
Clearly, review bombing is the reason why audience ratings are low

Why ‘The Acolyte’ Season 2 Looks Increasingly Unlikely - "Estimates of the cost of The Acolyte put it at $180 million for what are effectively eight, thirty minute episodes. That’s an absolutely wild amount of money for a Star Wars thing that is nowhere near theaters, but rather the sixth Disney live-action Star Wars series instead. And while I think the show has a solid aesthetic, no, it does not look like a $180 million production, and you have to wonder where much of that money went.   Then there’s viewership, where if it was a breakout smash hit, it might be worth spending that for another season. But it’s just not there, based on what we know. Disney does not give out official numbers but Nielsen says its premiere was half the viewership of Ahsoka and 75% lower than The Mandalorian. Reportedly, it’s the second-least watched show, also behind The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan. I cannot imagine it surged in popularity from there."
From a supporter of the show, no less. When I read this article he hadn't given his thoughts on the shit finale, which was the worst episode of a mediocre show

The Acolyte Fans are Confused at [SPOILER] Switching Sides in the Finale - "Despite Sol seemingly trying to get his point across to Mae on why he had to bring her and her twin sister Osha to the council, the former decides to make her timely escape by stealing one of the ships on board.  On Sol's attempt to get Mae back on the main ride, he ends up tempted to shoot down her ship. This is when Bazil is shown agitated in the background.  He opens up the engine's system to hack into Sol's drive and then sabotages the ship's missiles. Even the Jedi Master is dumbfounded in his seat. So, what gives?  Generally speaking, it was uncharacteristic to see Bazil switch sides when all The Acolyte has been showing is that he is a part of the Jedi team.  When he knew it wasn't Osha who boarded with Sol, he kept her away from stealing or manipulating anything from their place."

Meme - "Watching The Acolyte for the plot. The plot:
EPISODE 4 *Jedi fighting*
EPISODE 5 *Masked Manny Jacinto*
EPISODE 5 *Manny Jacinto fighting*
EPISODE 6 *Topless Manny Jacinto*"

Meme - Paul Tassi @PaulTassi: "I don't care what anyone says. The last three episodes of this have established it as an incredibly solid piece of Star Wars content that absolutely is going to need a second season"
"@realswtheory said it's worse than the last Jedi"
Paul Tassi @PaulTassi: "cool he's an idiot"
StarWarsTheory: "I'm an idiot because I don't like a show? Please tell me more about how inclusive and tolerant you are."
Insulting people who disagree with you doesn't make you "toxic" - only refusing to simp for a big corporation does

Meme - Rachel Leishman @RachelLeishman: "Ohhhhhh Star Wars Theory decided to do a "reaction" video to my interview because if he isn't fucking gritting off of Star Wars, he's gifting off of women and sending his minions after them. Fuck off and go build some faulty lightsabers while crying on camera.
to be clear: I really don't give a fuck. anyone who resorts to calling a woman a "cow" because of a star wars show is literally pathetic. I just didn't understand why i've had to delete 100s of comments all of the sudden and it's because of this jagoff"
Johnny @JGColtsfan28: "He did not call you anything stop lying. And if people are harassing you, that's not ok. However, Theory has been diligent in literally every episode he has talked about the show telling his followers to be civil and respectful when they voice their opinions. He's not the problem"
John A. Douglas @BlkCrownAuthor: "She didn't even watch it to verify"
John Acevedo WY @johnnyjohrj...: "Did Theory diss you or insult you in any way in his video?"
Rachel Leishman @RachelLeishman: "I mean this with the utmost respect: do you think I watched that shit? All his "fans" have been leaving incredibly gross comments on my interview because of that he said so"

Meme - Celestial Gardevoir: "Disney Star Wars has confirmed that Lightsabers turn red if their user is filled with too many negative emotions. Like mood rings. So like....Anakin betraying the Jedi, killing Younglings, choking his pregnant wife and fighting Obi-Wan was all done gleefully i guess? ~Nation"
Jerry Dalton: "Just look at the raw rage, hate, fear and pure passion on her face. The storm of emotion swirling into explosive power. As she blankly stares at her weapon turning red. Cinematic"

Meme - Mae: "You killed my mother"
Sol: "Mae, you literally started a fire, the witches had their weapons drawn on us, and your mother was turning into a ghost demon! I striked her out of pure instinct! I thought she was trying to kill us and I feared for your safety. We never intended for things to end like that. All we wanted was a peaceful resolution, but the witches became hostile and made the situation worse! Still, I know I made a mistake, but that doesn't mean you can go on murder spree!"
Joseph Michael Terracina: "Don't forget, the lesbian space witch could have said at the very beginning that Osha could go with them rather than letting a situation escalate."

Why The Acolyte is the WORST of Star Wars | Video Essay - YouTube - "I even had people on my last video of The Acolyte say that I'm ruining this show for myself because I'm thinking about it too much like literally saying don't use your brain just sit there and consume otherwise it's your fault... Mae is a terribly written character and makes no sense. Her actions are just completely unjustifiable half the time. She changes her entire world philosophy on a moment's notice, like literally throws her life mission away when she betrays Qimir in episode 4 which was abrupt and dumb as hell in of itself but then backflips on that betrayal 10 minutes later by fighting the Jedi that she'd said she'd surrendered to and then she becomes bad again going undercover as her sister but then becomes good again because the script says so because Osha needs to be the bad one now... how almost every single character can be so poorly written is honestly impressive...  in the early episodes I was really enjoying the character of Sol but by the end I was just left scratching my head. This dude is crazy obsessed with Osha and it's never really explained beyond: I feel a connection... Osha kills Sol after he confesses to her that he killed her mother but instead of seeking any form of answer as to why, you know pretty important stuff, you'd think, Osha just chokes out the dude who was a father figure to her instead of you know asking one simple question that would have provided necessary context... Sol is dead just so we can pin everything on him so the Ki-Adi Mundi line in the Phantom Menace can somehow make a little bit of sense but oh wait it doesn't because Vernestra is seemingly about to tell Yoda all about it in the final shot of the show. It's just a complete disaster at this point... Bazil the little beaver thing cuts the chase off so Sol can't pursue Mae. Why he did this I have no idea. I have watched it back several times and it still doesn't make sense. There is literally no answer. There's barely even a slightly logical interpretation. This little rat thing pulls the wires out to stop the chase because reasons. The script says so. You could at least try and bullshit a reason but no... Qimir pretty much kills everyone that Osha knows and is friends with... within like legitimately one day she's standing on a beach with him basically holding hands after killing her father figure. Are we serious? Do we just not want to give these characters time to develop? Is is it that hard to do? Is it not deemed necessary by these writers? This is like Rey going from nobody to whooping everyone's ass in less than a week. The common denominator here is writing. Character arcs need time to develop especially when they are as drastic as what this show is trying to pull off. That's one of the perks of a TV show. You actually get the time to develop the characters... There is nothing here that warrants Torbin swearing a vow of silence and taking his own life. Like he swears silence and takes his own life because he got a little homesick and a Jedi he was with killed the evil witch lady that was disintegrating a child. Like what. Not to mention Aniseya's line after Sol stabs her is the biggest gaslighting moment I've ever seen... this show's story structure is all over the place. You begin as a murder mystery but basically all the characters are killed off around halfway through the show despite the fact we don't really know who they are at all. And in the third episode you introduce a perspective flashback that conveniently leaves key pieces of information out for no logical reason other than hiding the rest of the edit so you can reveal it later. And then in the penultimate episode you essentially retell the third episode again but with the parts you left out and provide answers that don't justify the actions we've seen from the characters prior. And then you spend the last episode attempting to wrap up the twin plot and actually give Osha something to do finally despite her literally being a passenger in a story in which it tries to revolve around her and her sister... it changed from episode to episode making the show feel like a disconnected blend of whatever the writers were feeling on that specific day and I think that's one of the biggest problems with this show. It tries to do a lot but excels at nothing... the twins offer nothing but problems in this show. It doesn't help that the actress playing these twins was really really bad. There's a lot of bad acting in this show in general to be honest but at least it might have had a little bit of focus as a result of dropping the twins out of the story... this show had 10 writers across its 8 episodes and it all just started to make sense. This show was one person's vision split across 10 writers varying from episode to episode. It's no wonder why this show feels all over the place... more often than not Star Wars has become a cameo simulator. Something that helps patch over the gaping cracks that is modern Star Wars writing... it's people like this that are the reason why Disney think they can keep serving up this slop and get away with it. Because they don't have standards. Because one cameo can erase all the bad writing that made the show suck in the first place...  notice how every single scene in the Jedi Temple is claustrophobic. No big sweeping wides, nothing. Every single shot is so contained and so claustrophobic. Compare that to the prequels and you'll notice a massive difference. They've shot these Jedi Temple, seems like they have no budget at all and I just ask why where did this money go? Say what you want about the prequels but at least you got a sense of the scale of the world and I think the Jedi Temple is a perfect comparison of why this is a problem. In The Acolyte you don't feel the money being pumped into this show...  there were moments where I was like, okay you've actually got a cool idea here, challenging the Jedi as being flawed. But you stop and realize and it's like wait we've already done this. Did you watch the prequels? Like who is this show? For what characters are we rooting for? It's not like it delivers on the profound nature of confusing the viewer on who the good guys are and who the bad guys are and where does it begin and end? Because the writing isn't smart enough to pull that kind of thing off... I wanted to like this show but this show is everything wrong with Star Wars and a whole new low for Star Wars under Disney"

300: Non-Binary Edition

(I couldn't find the first clip in the longer clips on the bgv_edits channel)

Leonidas: "You there. What are your pronouns?"

Soldier 1: "They/them, Sir"

Leonidas: "Hmm. And you! ArGAYdian. What are your pronouns?"

Argaydian: "Ze/Hir"

Leonidas in high voice: "Ze/Hir"

Leonidas: "You?"

Soldier 2: "Black woman"

Leonidas: "Are you serious? Spartans! How many genders?"

Spartans: "Two!"

Queen Gorgo: "We can't let this nonsense spread any further, Spartan. You have to put things straight"

Narrator: "I will literally, put things straight, my love. He doesn't say it. There's no room for jokes when it's war. Bot in Sparta. No place to discuss some, mentally ill stuff"

Leonidas to Xerxes: "Let me guess. You must be, a woman?"

Xerxes: "Ladies, some help here. Let's debate, Leonidas. Let us reason together. Ask me any question you want"

Leonidas: "Well, I got one for you. What is a woman?"

Xerxes: "Oh, that's a very good question. An easy one too. Someone who feels like one. For example, today I feel like being a, mouse. Who are you to tell me that I'm not a mouse?"

Leonidas: "Well in that case I identify as the source of Truth and tell you that there are only two genders. Oh, yeah. I also identify as your king. Oh, a slap in the face"

Xerxes: "Have you not noticed the people to my right? My saviors *archers* Better known as the cancel culture. Ready to silence anyone that goes against our agenda. The world will never know you existed at all. So what were you saying again? I don't think they could hear you from up there. Leonidas, consider that you're talking to a woman."

Leonidas: "No, you're not. You are a man"

Xerxes: "You Greeks take pride in your logic. It's all just about perspective"

Leonidas: "It's not just a matter of perspective. It's biology."

Xerxes: "You will cut that off right now. Or you'll go home in an ambulance. You men are all the same. Before you there was this other guy. He was once known as the Top G. Just like you he kept running his mouth. He tried to escape the Matrix."

Leonidas: "Did he get canceled?"

Xerxes: "Well let's just say his head got canceled from his body. There is still hope for you. Join the rainbow and you'll be fine"

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"We're in the club"
"Having a conversation"
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"And then your eyes start to wander"
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"My breasts... are down here!"
"Every year in this country, women spend, like, 3 billion dollars on bras, so"
"Do you think think I'm wearing this bra because it's comfortable?"
"I want you to look at my tits"
"Look at my tits"
"Stare at my tits"
*Spanish*
"Why not?"
"Sure, there are times I wanna be taken seriously."
"Those times I don't wear this shirt"
"Meet my ladies. This is Gertude, and this is Stein"
"The nipples, are the eyes of the chest."
"Look me in the eyes. *opens top to reveal pixellated breasts* I dare you"
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Did Israel Steal Palestinian Land?

"In my years as a leftist activist I used to have an argument that I thought would end any pro-Israeli argument. It was an argument that to me made very clear why Palestinians were on the right side. And this argument was actually a picture. This argument was a series of maps. And we see these maps right now. They supposedly show us that through the years Israel is grabbing more and more land from the Palestinians... I would call it meme, but it's not just a meme, because this series of maps has appeared in reputable publications"... 

"This map is fundamentally dishonest. I think it's designed to fool people and create a narrative that is far from the truth... Is there such a thing as Palestinian land? Is there such a thing as Jewish land. And I think the answer to that is also no. There's land that's owned by individuals...  the fallacy of of dropping context... it's usually used by people who are trying to lie to you or deceive you or trick you in some way... what does the green represent? It is certainly not where people live because big parts of this area are unlivable at this time... the idea of this area as belonging exclusively and in for eternity to the Palestinians is an essential tenet of the Palestinian cause. It is not a claim that has that has existed before the cause in any meaningful way... the claims you hear from the different Palestinian factions, that is the default position that they take. That there is no speck of land that the Israelis can live on that is legitimately held by them... these small dots of white somehow comes and takes over like some sort of infection and that's, and I use that because there's often that kind of dehumanizing perspective that comes into the Palestinian narrative"... 

"For thousands of years that land, the whole of the land was part of Empires... there was no let's say Palestinian state"... 

"There is documented history of how the the incoming Jews acquired the land. Now we have most of that evidence. There might be cases where you could say the land was stolen, I don't think that's the predominant factor. What actually happened, and this is something I talk about in my book, what Justice demands America and the Israeli Palestinian conflict, we have reams of evidence of how the land was acquired through purchase, trade, exchange of value for value... that is part of what you would need to know in order to assess the claim that this map is pushing about stolen land"... 

"Partition plan... Israel says we are okay. So what is very important here is to notice that there would have been a Palestinian state if the Arabs at that point said okay, we get this deal. How did the Arabs react? They reacted by declaring war to Israel literally the day Israel declared its independence"... 

"This is a plan. This never came to fruition... foreign nations, neighboring, invaded with the goal, not to impose the UN plan and rescue it but the opposite. To completely overturn the idea of the UN plan"... 

"I actually think the the Israelis deserve to have a state because they were moving in the direction of a state that would have that, that did and does now enable people to live in freedom and prosper and build and produce. Whereas what I think would have been expected of the Palestinian state is the opposite, is what you see in all the neighboring regimes. Which is their authoritarian monarch, monarchies or theocracies and not at all conducive to human life"... 

"The goal was to throw the Jews to the sea and that's not an exaggeration. That was an actually recorded and then actually the official goal...  the wannabe conquering Arab armies did want, did not want to create a Palestinian State. They wanted to grab whatever they could for themselves. So what you see there called Palestine or what is today we call it the West Bank, was an area that was occupied by Jordan. And what did the Jordanian Army, actually that was the area of the Arab Legion fighting. What did they do there? Atrocities. They expelled every Jew and they destroyed the synagogues and did they then declare this part of land to be Palestine? Of course not. This was Jordan. And the Gaza on the left towards the, towards the sea, this was part of Egypt"... 

"The Jordanian regime governed what is known as the West Bank. The big green part. And the Egyptians controlled what is the Gaza Strip, and neither was particularly motivated to support Palestinian statehood as a goal. They actually were opposed to it. The Egyptians in particular were quite brutal about it... if you'd shown this map to them at the time, if this were a contemporary map, they would be outraged, because this is certainly not the picture that their, their fallen soldiers had fought to to conquer...  what is actually true of the green is, it is very densely populated. And it's in both cases. Whereas the white is not so. And so it's important to see that uh continual equivocation over within the map"... 

"It's a question of what you would do with the land politically. What kind of society would you build? And we've seen the kind of societies the Palestinian cause has tried to build"... 

"Remember in 1967 Israel is fighting a defensive war... Israel pleaded with Jordan: do not enter the war. So if Jordan had not entered the war, the West Bank would not be occupied territories. If Egypt had not planned to attack Israel the Gaza would not be an occupied territory"... 

"The Palestinian National Authority, the the Proto State, the beginnings of a state was a Failed State before it became completely sovereign. It was a dictatorial regime, it was stealing from its own people, it was carrying out and encouraging, fostering and paying for attacks on Israel from within its territory. So to the extent it had sovereignty it was anarchic in many ways between rival police forces... what Israel does in response to that is it starts clawing back authority. It starts bringing back its military. It starts to collaborate to make sure that doesn't completely implode and become a, a worse threat than it already is. So the the reason the Palestinian Authority isn't a solid green on this map is because it was not interested in becoming a state. It was interested in exploiting its own people and waging war on Israel... 

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have a civil war. Literally a civil war in Gaza and it was brutal. And if you think, if you think you know brutal, you need to go read about what they were doing to each other in the streets of Gaza... the truth is Israel made sacrificial steps towards enabling a Palestinian state. It blew up in its face and the consequence is that there are now two Palestinian States... it's the reality of two rival Palestinian states that would destroy each other if they had the means to do it. With, embedded within Israel. And so you can, I have sympathy for the Israelis not knowing how to solve this because they tried land for peace, it didn't work the way they thought it would but predictably it made things worse... 

Israel is has long been willing to trade land for peace... the Palestinians repeatedly reject those offers... they can't build a state when they're given the opportunity and billions of dollars in international aid to do so. It's not as if they're bootstrapping. Even with all that, even with all the the regional aid they don't do it because it's not their goal"