What did Democrats do wrong?

What did Democrats do wrong?

  • Didn't fight inflation enough.

    Votes: 12 15.2%

  • Didn't fight illegal immigration enough.

    Votes: 22 27.8%

  • Too much focus on abortion.

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Too much transgender stuff.

    Votes: 28 35.4%

  • America not ready for Progressive women leader.

    Votes: 26 32.9%

  • Should have kept Joe.

    Votes: 3 3.8%

  • Not enough focus on new jobs.

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Nothing, Trump cheated & played dirty!

    Votes: 14 17.7%

  • Didn't stop Gaza War.

    Votes: 8 10.1%

  • I can be Agent M.

    Votes: 6 7.6%
  • Total voters
    79
Hercules56 said:
Trump loves Birth of a Nation? Got any evidence?
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Trump very well could. Even though its content is quite controversial, it is still considered a pivotal piece of cinema, and changed the way we think about movies entirely. For people who are serious film buffs, it's a major step in cinema.

And Gone with the Wind was a fantastic movie in its own right. It's outdated absolutely, and the thematic content is definitely uncomfortable... but that doesn't make it a bad movie. There are TONS of movies that are unacceptably racist or sexist nowadays, but are still amazingly good movies for their time. Seriously - Blade Runner is an absolute masterpiece... despite the outright rape involved.
 
Emily's Cat said:
Trump very well could. Even though its content is quite controversial, it is still considered a pivotal piece of cinema, and changed the way we think about movies entirely. For people who are serious film buffs, it's a major step in cinema.
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Trump has movies edited down to just "the good scenes." I'm going to call bull ◊◊◊◊ on his being a film buff
 
thaiboxerken said:
I suppose you have evidence to support your claim that more than 50% of them support violence against Israeli civilians. Can you share that evidence with us?
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They make it very clear that they support All Acts of "resistance". Thousands of them marched in times square the day after October 7th, to show their support for the acts of "resistance".
 
Resume said:
Trump has movies edited down to just "the good scenes." I'm going to call bull ◊◊◊◊ on his being a film buff
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Entirely possible. I didn't assert that Trump was a film buff, only that Birth of a Nation is considered to be a pretty fundamentally pivotal film, and that in and of itself, it could be a good movie. I've never actually seen it.
 
Emily's Cat said:
Entirely possible. I didn't assert that Trump was a film buff, only that Birth of a Nation is considered to be a pretty fundamentally pivotal film, and that in and of itself, it could be a good movie. I've never actually seen it.
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It is an apologia for the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the necessity of curbing the rise of "uppity negroes".
 
Emily's Cat said:
Trump very well could. Even though its content is quite controversial, it is still considered a pivotal piece of cinema, and changed the way we think about movies entirely. For people who are serious film buffs, it's a major step in cinema.
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It is more than "quite controversial". It may be considered to be an aesthetic masterpiece by some people, but it is no coincidence that Roger Ebert compared it to the Nazi film Triumph of the Will.
Emily's Cat said:
And Gone with the Wind was a fantastic movie in its own right. It's outdated absolutely, and the thematic content is definitely uncomfortable... but that doesn't make it a bad movie. There are TONS of movies that are unacceptably racist or sexist nowadays, but are still amazingly good movies for their time. Seriously - Blade Runner is an absolute masterpiece... despite the outright rape involved.
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Yes, if you're a racist, Gone with the Wind is fantastic.

As for Blade Runner, you appear to have misunderstood the rape scene. Listen to Sean Young explain it:

There is nothing wrong with a rape scene in a movie. There is one (well, there are actually two, but ...) in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, my favorite rape scene, because it shows the rapist as a rapist and the victim as a victim and does so for what feels like much too toe-curlingly long (and without being too graphic). Any somewhat normal person watching that scene will feel as disgusted with Noodles as his driver obviously is.
It's one of the greatest movies of all times, and one of the things that makes it great is that there is no reason to come up with excuses for it being a good movie by claiming that it was good for its time.

In Blade Runner, Deckard rapes, yes, but Deckard is not supposed to be a good guy. He is an ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊. He is a killer of replicants - replicants like Rachel ... and himself.
 
Donal said:
And as distasteful as those chants might be, they don't all target all Jews.
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To be clear, you seem to be saying that when someone chants "Globalize the Intifada" they actually don't mean to encourage terror attacks on synagogues in Europe and the Americas? If so, I'm very skeptical whether the attackers themselves take the same view on the question of whether they are acting in support of the Palestinian cause.

ETA: ◊◊◊◊ I just realized this isn't that thread.
 
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