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The title of this movie is racist and triggering.

If you can find it, Fury is excellent. Never seen it on dvd though. It comes on TMC every once in a blue moon.

I'm a right wing conservative: Rand is terrible, both in terms of artistic merit and sophomoric dogma disguised as "philosophy". It's ok, though, because for a lot of young people, the Ayn Rand phase is a stopping point on the way to becoming a conservative.

The best (and by that I mean worst) thing about Atlas Shrugged is that there are these reptititive, rambling radio addresses that are hundreds of pages long that are about how the common man is filth, and the idea is that people are supposed to be sitting there in rapt attention for then many hours that it would take

Pulp - A Little Soul. I've been saying for a while that every dad-to-be should listen to this song and think long and hard about how they don't want to say this to their kid one day. Just a devastating song.

Yeah I've about had it with white people. We've lost even the most basic survival instinct and probably deserve to go extinct.

"Wow, racist much?" Lol do you talk like this in real life?

So your contention is that this innocent group of people got a completely spurious reputation for theft and fraud for no reason at all, then suffered economic disadvantage because of this reputation and, as a result, developed a culture of…theft and fraud? That's absurd.

I'm using "usury" in the classic sense; lending money for interest; and not the legal sense of charging excessive interest. Like I said, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with charging interest but people in the middle ages did, which is why jews were hated for it.

I feel compelled, as with most things, to employ Occam's razor: the rhetoric around gypsies has always focused on their criminality and fraud. Lo and behold, they do practice crime and fraud in large numbers. If jews today could be demonstrably proven to drink the blood of christian babies in their demonic rituals,

well you said it, not me. But I would note that jews have very low crime rates despite experiencing a lot of "marginalization"

Yes they are related, but in the opposite way you imply. You think they were just "oppressed" because they were such great folks?

Why wouldnt anyone want a band of itinerant thieves and scam artists roving through their land? We should adapt to them!

*fingers in ears* LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU EVERYONE IS THE SAME!

Nice, but it's disappointing to see that the accent isn't real.

The children are our future.

This site is basically always like this now. I blame the big exodus from a couple of years ago. I think they replaced the whole staff with millenials.

So who else is crushing on the (former) Finnish PM?

This thread is just painful to read for those of us who are lactose intolerant :{

I'm a christian but most christian pop culture is terrible. Of course most secular pop culture is also terrible. The reason is that for the most part it's cynically marketed towards christians instead of having anything really to say about faith. The Apostle is a great counter example, as is another Robert Duvall