u/HadathaZochrot

For years, the World News sub had a mod known as Maxwellhill as one of its top mods for many many years, and as it turned out, that mod was actually the notorious child trafficker Ghislane Maxwell, who was basically the number two person to Jeffery Epstein. That sub has never experienced a reckoning or been made to atone for that attrocity. Under a different user name many years ago, I was also a mod of that sub during that time that Maxwellhill was at the height of their power. The degree to which that sub bent over backwards for her and catered to her every whim and fancy disgusted me then, before I even knew who she was, and it disgusts me even more now that this information is well known at this point. I made it a point during my time there as a mod to always fight against her power grabbing and her efforts to turn that sub into her own personal political soapbox. We constantly butted heads as she tried to post various rule-breaking posts of her own to the sub, and screamed at any other mod who tried to remove them.

The World News sub has never directly acknowledged this atrocity nor has it attempted to atone for this disgrace in any way whatsoever. The fact that they are still allowed to operate and have never taken responsibility for hosting as one of their top mods this criminal is beyond imagination to me. That sub really should have been shut down and reorganized after it was figured out who she was and that she was controlling that sub for so long.

The way that I see the media (and people on the left particularly) talk as if they are gunning for this Hantavirus pandemic thing to become a full fledged PANDEMIC is really shocking to me. They are doing everything to talk this up and hype it as if it is gonna be Coronvirus Part 2, with literally no evidence whatsoever that this is going to be the case. But it goes beyond just fearmongering in my opinion. The coverage very much makes me feel like that they WANT this happen. They WANT it to become a widespread outbreak.

I noticed this same thing before Corna happened. Back before then every time there were one of these scares, whether it was Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Sars, Ebola, etc, the media just leaned into the hysteria and over the top hyperbole as if they were gunning for this to become THE ONE! There is nothing rational about it. It is gratutious sensational doomering to an absurd level. And now, after Corona, they have the leftists onboard as well gunning for it. Some of these radicals want it to just be another lock down work from home utopia (that they long for), while others are straight up misanthropic dooming for a human extinction event. Either way, the coverage and the way this incident is being overblown and blasted into the stratosphere is crazy to watch. And when it all amount to nothing, which it will, there will be no apologies from the media or mea culpas for how absurd they were. They will just pretend as if they never acted that way and wait for the next potential viral scare to doomerize over.

First Cleopatra, now Helen of Troy, what is Hollywood's obsession with casting strong women of Greek descent as black? It seems to have reached an almost pathological level of absurdity that we are continuing to see this blackwashing of historical figures. It almost seems as a deliberate effort by Hollywod to change history in the minds of the viewers in order to achieve some warped idea of "restorative justice". Or moreso, I get the impression that those who champion such race-swapping feel that it imbues them with some magical aura of hyper-progressiveness that allows them to demonstrate how virtuous they are and how beholden to the sacred cow of "diversity".

As others in this thread have already mentioned, The Oddysey was a foundational story for Western Civilization for thousands of years now, being taught and read as a piece of our cultural history and historical identity. To simply shoehorn in some lazy diversity casting for the most cruical and important character in the whole story is pathetic and an insult to one of the most important stories in European history. There are lots of great stories in modern times and in history that involve black individuals that could be cast with excellent black actors, however, it just seems lazy for Hollywood to just refuse to produce those stories into movies and instead just lazily raceswap black actors into white characters. It seems like such a load of pandering nonsense on Hollywood's part and as if they do it for the publicity and controversy that they know will result from it.

And finally, what I find most absurd about the whole situation is that anytime someone tries to discuss this trend and examine it or comment on it in anyway other than GLOWINGLY POSITIVE, you immediately get a flurry of Redditors saying "Who cares, why does it matter" or "You're just a bigot" or "You're such a snowflake", in a deliberate attempt to shut down and quiet any discussion or examination of this unambiguous trend whatsoever, no matter how gratitously overt and deliberate it becomes. It makes it clear to me that if so much flak is being directed my way at even the mere attempt to discuss this trend, there absolutely is something much more politically motivated and maliciously calculated about it all that these attackers don't want examined. Like they say, "If you are getting hit by flak, you're probably close to the target".

Listen, I love Harry Potter just as much as everyone else, but the problem was that the creators of the film took WAAAY too many liberties with how they portrayed the chaste and respectable character of Dobby. It is completely uncalled for the degree to which they sexualized him and made him so damn sexxy. The way the burlap fabric is depicted as wrapping around his taught little frame, and they made it hang off him SOOO short, like he was some bimbo wearing a tube-top as a skirt to a beer kegger, showing his slender gams like he wanted to get fcked by the quarterback. So unnecessarily gratuitous and disrespectful to the noble character that Dobby is. And while yes, JK Rwling did describe him as having big ears and eyes, the film goes out of its way to make Dobby basically eye-fck every single character he interacts with, while representing his voluptuous bouncy ears as if they were size D knockers, inviting the audience to motor boat them.

This shameful, and admittedly crass, desecration of Dobby by the filmmakers was a complete distraction the entire series of films and when Dobby wasn't on screen, I could tell that the director wanted me to be thinking about him the entire time. Shame on you Warner Brothers for treating our proud and virtuous Dobby as if he were some back-alley h00ker looking for the next gl0ryhole.

In The Boys tv show, it is unambiguous the political messaging that is being attempted through the characterization of Homelander specifically, and Soldier Boy to a lesser extent. They are the bad guys and they represent things and do things that we are meant to understand as bad. This is done to a very heavyhanded degree. The problem with this messaging is that Homelander is by far the most interesting and entertaining part of the entire show. It is fun and exciting to watch him and he is charismatic, well developed and hugely intriguing. It is clear that the writers have put forward the most effort in developing his character. He's probably one of the main reasons people even watch the show. This puts things in an awkward situation for the shows messaging, as we are meant to NOT like him because he is being represented as the "bad guy", with many contemporary political messages being wrapped up in his actions and portrayals. The writers are telling us he's the bad guy in every way imaginable and that we should hate everything about him, but he's fleshed out to such an impressive degree and played so excellently by Anthony Starr that we can't help but enjoy every moment he is on the screen. Soldier Boy, while not as engaging as Homelander, is also fun to watch and played very well by Jensen Ackles. To me, this situation kinda subverts the intention of the writers to hate them while we enjoy them so much.

Meanwhile, Starlight, the unquestionable "good guy" of the show, is sadly kinda boring. Despite all their efforts, she's really not that interesting, no where near as charismatic and no where near as fun to watch on screen. This effect results in not identifying as much with her "righteousness" and makes us less interested in the things she is doing and saying. I can promise you, NO ONE is watching The Boys to see what Starlight does every week. Hughie, her love interest and fellow good guy, is also really not that interesting. He's kind of a wet blanket and rarely ever brings riveting moments to the screen that make me say "YEAH, give me more Hughie!". He's not a bad character, but just nowhere near as interesting as others. Even Billy Butcher, who is a "good guy", but kinda really a bad guy, is only ever interesting in his struggle to be a bad guy in order to do "good" things, like defeat Homelander. He's the most interesting "good guy", but really, at the end of the day, not that good.

Overall, the political messaging of the show is extremely on the nose, with the writers making it very apparent in the things they are trying to say to us, yet, I feel all of these messages are muddled if not outright falling on their face because of how good the "bad guys" are and how bad the "good guy" is. If this show is attempting to have a moral compass or communicate a coherent political message, it is wildly inconsistent and all over the place.

Over the last century or so, the movement of exotic species around the world has been the biggest ecological destroyer of habitats and species around the world, most specifically via globalist trade networks which introduce and spread invasive species around the world. Looking just at the United States, the decimation of some of our most important keystone tree species was the result of the accidential importation of insects and pathogens, such as the American Chestnut, the American Elm, Eastern Hemlock, Ash tress, among others. Literally billions of trees were wiped out as a result of these invasive pests brought over by irresponsible global trade practices. Then there are the invasive species that have destroyed multiple other ecosystems across the US, such as Asian Carp, Zebra mussels, Asian longhorned beetles, etc, These were all brought over to the US via global trade and have caused untold ecological destruction, and continue to. Numerous others countries around the world have their own invasive species and pathogens which have caused similar ecological destruction.

However, while it is certainly a recognized problem, it receives minimal attention when compared to other more trendy environmental topics. If environmentalists were at all serious about protecting the environment, preserving native species/ecosystems and preventing mass ecological destruction, they would be talking about this topic much more pervasively and seriously. The impact that globalism itself has had on the environment rarely gets mentioned in such terms, pointing to it as one of the most responsible vectors of ecological destruction. In fact, most of the time, those who claim to care about the environment often champion and support globalism and its practices. I personally really find it hard to take environmental advocates seriously until they come out full force against global trade practices, insisting that it either be fully stopped or drastically overhauled in an extremely serious manner. The movement of invasive species around the world via globalism is seriously killing this planet.

I am going back through watching the X Files now and I find it interesting watching it again that Scully's skepticism of what she sees as Mulder's outlandish ideas are nearly always proven to be wrong and misguided, and that Mulder was actually right the whole time, no matter how crazy his ideas were. I think the show would have been much more interesting and could have cultivated a more effective cultural conversation if Scully's skepticism was sometimes proven right and Mulder's crazy ideas were shown to be just that, crazy. Yes, I understand that Scully acted as the foil (naysayer) to every conspiracy theory that Mulder puts forward, but I just can't help but feel that Scully's character would have been more effective if her role didn't always amount to trying to shoot down Mulder's ideas (with him always being ultimately right and her always being ultimately wrong). It would have shown that, yes, some conspiracies out there do end up being true, but not ALL of them. I would enjoy seeing episodes where things that initially were suspected by Mulder to be alien/supernatural/etc, ended up having a completely reasonable and rational explanation that Scully was advocating for the entire episode, just to illustrate that Mulder is not ALWAYS right.

Particuarly in relation to the Hantavirus cruise ship hysteria going on right now, I am seeing a lot of doomers on Reddit saying things like how they hope this turns into some new deadly mass pandemic and that they hope it gets as worse as possible in order to destroy and kill all of humanity. They justify such thinking talking about how "evil" and "doomed" society is and that it needs to be cleansed by some mass casuality event in order to "purify" the earth. Ya know, pretty typical Reddit doomer stuff.

I was thinking how much this sort of thinking is akin to the absurd religious thinking of deranged Evangelical zealots who are constantly hoping that the Rapture happens soon so that the world can be cleansed of "evil" and "sin" in order to "purify" the earth for the second comming. Ya know, typical Evangelical nonsense. I think there is an interested crossover there where Reddit doomers are inadvertently adopting this pseudo-religious Evangelical "End of Days" mindset, thinking that they are gonna be something akin to a secularlized version of Kirk Cameron in that ridiculous "Left Behind" series.

I am going back through watching the X Files now and I find it interesting watching it again that Scully's skepticism of what she sees as Mulder's outlandish ideas are nearly always proven to be wrong and misguided, and that Mulder was actually right the whole time, no matter how crazy his ideas were. I think the show would have been much more interesting and could have cultivated a more effective cultural conversation if Scully's skepticism was sometimes proven right and Mulder's crazy ideas were shown to be just that, crazy. Yes, I understand that Scully acted as the foil (naysayer) to every conspiracy theory that Mulder puts forward, but I just can't help but feel that Scully's character would have been more effective if her role didn't always amount to trying to shoot down Mulder's ideas (with him always being ultimately right and her always being ultimately wrong). It would have shown that, yes, some conspiracies out there do end up being true, but not ALL of them. I would enjoy seeing episodes where things that initially were suspected by Mulder to be alien/supernatural/etc, ended up having a completely reasonable and rational explanation that Scully was advocating for the entire episode, just to illustrate that Mulder is not ALWAYS right.

I think that people should have the right to say whatever slut they want without having to fear any legal consequences for doing so. I don't care what "protected class" of people (or NOT protected class) any slur might be directed at, no slur being uttered or said by a person justifies putting them in jail for that insult. While this still seems to be largely true for the US, in many European countries, you can indeed be arrested by the authorities for uttering slurs, which is bonkers to me.

What's funny is I constantly seen on Reddit that whenever the discussion of the Freedom of Speech comes up (or something along those lines), I constantly see leftists throwing up the argument, "LOL, you guys just want to be able to say slurs". Which I find absurd in multiple ways. Firstly, the left has their own set of slurs they love to scream at people, so, they are essentially saying that they think their slurs should be allowed but other slurs should be made illegal to be said, which seems extremely authoritarian to me. Secondly, such statements are a weasley attempt to try to dismantle the foundations of the philosophy of free speech by asserting that the only reason people want it is so they can scream slurs. While I myself have no desire to go around screaming slurs, in the spirit of Voltaire, I will defend any person's legal right to be able to say any fucking slur they want against someone else who wants to make saying said slur a legally punishable offense that will land them in jail for saying a goddam word. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

Yes, if you scream slurs, there might be social or cultural consequences impacting you, but they should never ever invlove the law.