SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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What did Last Jedi actually do?

I always feel like I saw a different movie than everyone else, both the people that liked it and the people that disliked it. What I saw was the plotlines of both ESB and ROTJ thrown into a blender, with the entire point of those plotlines removed. There was absolutely nothing in that movie that was original. It was the most misogynistic movie in all of Star Wars, Rey doesn't actually do anything, so I don't know why the incels hate it. I felt like Disney gave in to those idiots and relegated Rey to a support role in that movie.

Sure they probably tried to cram in too much action adventure into RoS to compensate for the fact that TLJ had no meaningful action in it. Or do you think they backpedalled by making Rey the main character again? That was obviously the intent at the end of TFA, so it was TLJ that screwed that up by making women at best an afterthought and at worst an obstacle for the men to overcome. Most misogynistic portrayal of women in Star Wars, they had to do a big marketing campaign to convince everyone the women in the movie were strong before it was released. I guess it worked.

I really liked the movies JJ Abrams made and enjoyed Solo well enough.

To me the biggest problem is when they take themselves too seriously. Rogue One was trying to be Saving Private Ryan. Last Jedi was trying to be Citizen Kane. They seem like half-assed versions of better movies with the toys I played with as a kid in the mix so that prevents me from taking them seriously.

JJ Abrams made some fun movies that had some interesting things going on in the subtext. Which are the only ones besides the OT that did that.

The lore was terrible. Anakin Skywalker is the biggest Mary Sue of all time. Lucas thought it would be more emotional to show a child being taken away from his mother, so suddenly the Jedi go around the galaxy doing blood tests and taking children from their mothers. In the next one, he wanted a Romeo and Juliet plotline so suddenly the Jedi are celibate monks.

Because there was criticism after Episode I about Naboo being a monarchy, Lucas made it so Naboo elected 15 year old children to run their planet. That's some great world building!

Padme went from have a successful career of running a planet (at 15 years old) to being a Senator, but decides to become a tradwife because I guess she was impressed by Anakin's pro-fascist veiws and how he massacred a bunch of people?

The Jedi went from being knights the were guardians of peace and justice to a fucked up cult that abducts children to train them to fight in some holy war. Not too different from the First Order in the ST, because that kind of shit is what villains do.

The Prequels didn't explain shit about what was going on, there was a Trade Federation that was blockading trade, then there was separatist group that for some reason the Republic wouldn't just let separate. Better clone up some more slaves to send into the meatgrinder to destroy these separatists!

The Jedi and the Republic actually were evil when you think about implications of indoctrinating children to fight in holy wars and using clones that had no choice other than to be cannon fodder in whatever war they're told to fight in. But those are things you're just not supposed to think about because it's a children's movie... but with a school massacre.

The Prequels were accidentally pro-fascist movies. The Sequel Trilogy (at least the ones made by JJ Abrams) actually went into the emotional reasons why people are drawn to fascism (which is way more relevant to the audience than fictional politcal machinations) and has the main character reject it. The message that fascism is bad and should be opposed wasn't received all that well by people that grew up thinking indoctrinating children was something the good guys do. It bothered people that there was a message that ancestry doesn't determine who you are. It bothered people that there was a massive proliferation of super weapons in Star Wars paralleling the proliferation of nuclear weapons in our world.

The Sequel Trilogy brought up many things that are uncomfortable to think about and Prequel fans were upset by them. It was better when Star Wars was about cool clone troopers (slaves) being led into battle by the cool "sky guy" (who committed genocide) fighting the "bad guys" because they don't like the awesome religious cult that indoctrinates children to fight in wars! That's what Star Wars is supposed to be!

It was a Star Wars movie for wet blankets. No fun allowed in this action adventure movie!

Your comment is exactly why electoral reform can't happen now. When all of the people pushing for changes in the elections really just want to make it so their party will win (or some other party will lose), it's obvious to everyone the push for electoral reform isn't being done in good faith, so it's not all that different from vote rigging.

It's possible that the CPC might split and if that were to happen, then there might be a broad support for electoral reform. Unless that happens, it's just a bunch of lefties trying to rig the system so the Conservatives can't win.

And trust me I'm no Conservative, I can just understand what electoral reform sounds like to anyone outside of the lefty bubble.

Also proportional representation is just straight up a bad system. It only looks good from the perspective of a spreadsheet, it's terrible when you consider power dynamics. But that shitty system is constantly sucking up all of the attention so people pushing for electoral reform are pushing for a system most people don't want. Stop trying to make proportional representation happen in Canada, it's not going to happen.

Look at the polling. When asked which party people preferred (ignoring leadership) the CPC had way more support than when leadership is considered.

Did you notice the CPC ads in the last week and a half didn't have PP in them? It's obvious to everyone (including CPC strategists) that PP drug down the CPC. If the CPC didn't even have a leader, they would've won. But PP led them to defeat.

But I'm not a Conservative, so if half of the CPC wants to remain faithful to PP, I'll get out my popcorn and enjoy the CPC civil war that'll happen if PP refuses to step aside.

Ranked choice doesn't make sense in a proportional representation system.

The left has to get their shit together before that can happen. Right now the left cares more about purity tests over being effective.

Really, Mark Carney is what a conservative used to be. These days people who identify as "conservative" are internet weirdos that stress over "wokeness" and whichever conspiracy theory is popular on the internet on that day.

I can get a Whopper Meal (includes fries and a drink) for $8.50CAD ($6.13 in fashy bucks) with a coupon or on Whopper Wednesdays.

If you're gonna be an elitist about ground beef of all things, you deserve to get scammed for $17.

If it was really about minerals and oil, why did Trump put a tariff on these things?

It's not like Canada was refusing to sell minerals to the US. Everyone was totally fine with selling them. It was Trump that decided "we don't need anything" from Canada.

An attempt to annex Canada won't make these things cheaper. You have to pay people to extract minerals from under the ground. In fact a lot of Canadians might refuse to mine those resources after and invasion and those sites would be a prime target for sabotage.

So tariffs make oil and minerals more expensive. Invasion makes them even more expensive and makes the supply chain incredibly unreliable. If it were really about minerals, then the US would just continue to do as it always has: just buy them.

Sure I'll grant you Trump is dumb enough to think that invading a friendly country might somehow make the resources cheaper to extract from the ground, he doesn't have a solid concept of paying workers after all. But if that's the case he's still stupid and he's lying when he says the US doesn't need anything from Canada, and also lying when he says it'll make the US look good on the map.

Not sure why people want to assume Trump is lying when he says dumb shit and further assume he has some other motive that might seem reasonable, but is also dumb shit.

It's not about defense, that's bullshit. When JD Vance went to Greenland for a photo op where did he go? To a military base. Which country is running that military base?

Before Trump, the US already had the ability to have as much military presence in the Arctic as they wanted, because of NATO. He's actually weakening US strength in the Arctic with all of this bullshit.

Why are we guessing at reasonable motives for this? He's already said why he wants to do this. He wants to change the map. He things having Canada and Greenland as part of US will make the map look nicer. First thing he did was to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. His motive is to redraw the map, but has no understanding of what that involved. Because he's an idiot that doesn't understand how anything works.

Look at his history, he doesn't really understand the concept of people consenting to what he wants. So he looks at the map and decides he wants it to look different and doesn't see any reason why that isn't going to happen. Because he doesn't understand the concept of needing Canada and Greenland to consent to these changes. Because he's and idiot... and a rapist.

So, it Depends?

But how do you feel about special characters?

He's history's greatest monster!

It's impossible to know, the economy is complex. Even your example of flour may be affected. Many things aren't done by hand, and if a machine used in producing flour needs parts that's sourced from China, there could be a problem that disrupts production. Many things from China comes by ship there's already been a significant drop in shipping from there. Remember it takes more than a month for a ship to cross the Pacific, and from there it may need to go by rail to where you are. If you live towards the east coast, it will take longer, and if there's disruptions at the Panama Canal, there could be even more of a delay.

Shipping was busy before the tarrifs, companies were frontloading and warehouses are full. But if people start panic buying, that'll empt the warehouses really quick and it could be months before anything new gets shipped in and who knows what the prices will be?

Some stuff that's made in China might be fine if no one panic buys is. Some things made in USA there may be shortages or massive price increases because they need materials from other countries to manufacture them.

So the generic prepper stuff is pretty much the best anyone can offer you. Make sure you have a month's supply of everything you need, more if possible. You'd need to know the specifics of every industry's material needs and also know what people might panic buy to be able to be more specific than that.

This is why Trump's broad tariffs are insane, it's just pure economic chaos that's going to hurt Americans more than it will hurt anyone else in the world.

Trump breathes... while sending people to death camps; Why won’t you die already you old creep?

FTFY

I saw Major Johnstone, the Harvard Professor who is here to lay the bases of an American History. We discussed the right name of the war. I said that we called it now The War, but that this could not last. The Napoleonic War was The Great War. To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche. I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.

-- Charles à Court Repington, September 10, 1918 (with emphasis added)

Historical revisionism happens when someone ignores history because they want to win an argument. Which is what you just did. Which is particularly ridiculous given you were just using that as an analogy to make some other point. But the fact is, that while most people called it "The Great War" while it was ongoing, historians started calling it the "First World War" before the war had ended.

One quick point: the USA is currently absurd in reality. Attempting to to use absurd hypotheticals to point out something wrong is not an effective way of arguing anything now, if it ever was.

I've noticed Americans tend to make abhorrent statements and if called out for it they just say "it was only a joke!" Your abhorrent statements followed by "it was just argumentum ad absurdism!" doesn't seem all too different to me.

Canadians are not going to fix your problems. We were your allies and so we did our best to help the US because that's what allies do. But you make us an enemy then our only goal will be to destroy the USA, not fix its problems. THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHERE CANADA IS THE 51ST STATE. There are scenarios where we are your ally and there are scenarios where we are your enemy. Those are your only choices.

Y'all need to stop having fantasies and understand the reality the problems your country has created and understand you are responsible for fixing those problems. Clean up your own mess FFS.

You come here asking neurodivergents a question and you only give five options?

All of these options are terrible. You should feel ashamed, OP.