untorquer

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on Heckin lost cause · c/flippanarchy · 3 pts · 5h

What works in one place may or may not work in another. What worked at one time may not function today.

In order to find out, the local nuance needs to be taken into account while engaging in experimentation.

on Accurate · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 15h

I think in The Matrix the fact that he stands out as a little different and inconsistent adds significantly to the allegory of the movie. I really don't think the main character in a 90's movie about the trans experience calls for someone who blends in.

That said he doesn't stand out all that much. For example, Sandler would be, while i think hilarious(at the time), a completely narrative breaking choice. On the other side, DiCaprio would have "acted" well but broken it as badly by following the assignment too well(as not to do so at all).

The fact that it's a means of further monetizing the drug thereby increasing profits and that they intentionally abandoned the trials means the choice wasn't even just business. It's just hate.

on Accurate · c/lemmyshitpost · 23 pts · 18h

I don't get it.

He's been the perfect choice for every major role he's done and been iconic for it. Everything from matrix to bill and teds to cyberpunk would have been worse with any other actor.

Just because he's admittedly less flexible doesn't mean he's bad at it.

"Any movement (of intolerance)... ... must be outside the law." Is what I'm getting at.

When you create legal structure around that idea, you create a cudgel for the state to use on its citizens.

Protesting genocide in palestine isn't antiemetic, yet people are getting locked away as terrorists on the basis of "anti-discrimination" law.

The first amendment is in direct opposition to the argument of this comic, if for no other reason than that single line of text.

Legalizing tolerance is a method co-opt a liberal regime into fascism.

Take anti-semitism laws in germany and protesting the Israeli genocide of palestinians for example.

Or the UK...

A counter example, Ireland.

I found it sympathetic tbh.

I can't see how discouraging engagement on a free and open alternative promotes the goals of most lemmy instances. I get that some want a small isolated and difficult to reach communities but the mainstream statement is usually along the lines of displacing commercial media by means of providing a welcoming alterative.