Nonsense. North Korean movies have famously been pretty good.

I mean, fingers crossed.

Republicans have a long and storied history of fighting unfairly. And this will definitely put the fear of God in them

If you’ve got standards, sure.

But “Paddington 2 is just as good as Tron 3” leaves me questioning your rubric.

Right has the far better perspective.

Two compelling critiques of the latest Zootopia film.

First time he’s been right about something in a long while

I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

It’s not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

Sure. But the cameras exist. You can use them for other stuff.

Hateful Eight was filmed in 70mm, and while it wasn’t Tarantino’s best work it certainly looked nice.

It’s not even innovation, per say. It’s just Big Number Go Up.

Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That’s some fucking innovation.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume.

Honestly a little surprised the IMAX guys didn’t start churning out 4k+ content given that they’ve been in the business forever.

But I guess “IMAX in your living room” isn’t as sexy when the screen is 60" rather than 60’

You clearly don’t know shit about history

You got banned from Reddit, didn’t you?

Aurora isn’t really anti-google as it’s merely a different front end for Play (that you can use anonymously).

You could say the same about Piped, which is just an alt front end for YouTube.

None of these alternatives seem to tackle the networking effect of the root Google services. None of them address durability, either. Proton VPN launched in 2017, Google’s been around since 1998. Microsoft’s been around since 1975. IBM’s been around since 1911.

If you don’t mind rebasing your entire digital profile every five or ten years, these alternatives are fine. But most people don’t want to ditch a 20 year old email address or fiddle with a brand new OS, when enshitification can be right around the corner for any of these services in another few years.

Ffs, I’d just finished putting the shine on my PLEX server before they shit the bed.

Interesting to make the parallel of the inept, corrupt and teetering late-Qing dynasty to the modern CCP

I know you’re trying to win an argument here and not engage with the history at all.

But surely you can see the difference between a government that crumbles in the face of a reactionary Christian cult and one that gets our way ahead of the problem.

China is not the USA. There are a million reasons organized religion wouldn’t work as a political vector there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in China between the Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of Taiping-controlled Nanjing—which they had renamed Tianjing “heavenly capital”—in 1864. The last rebel forces were defeated in August 1871. Estimates of the conflict’s death toll range between 20 million and 30 million people, representing 5–10% of China’s population at that time.

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The uprising was led by Hong Xiuquan, an ethnic Hakka who proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus Christ. Hong sought the religious conversion of the Han people to his syncretic version of Christianity, as well as the political overthrow of the Qing dynasty, and a general transformation of the mechanisms of state.

A company with a $3.2T market share. The game is made up and the points don’t matter.

Tipping point. Their reputation is complete trash. People only subscribe to Comcast as a last resort.

just for comparison.

They’re both wearing heavy coats in cold weather.

Drumpf is a fucking nazis

He’s an American fascist doing American fascism in America. He’s a fucking Reagan Democrat. He should be called that, because it’s a term Americans clearly understand. Whereas, “Nazi” has become a pejorative for anyone with politics you don’t like, with the subtle connotation that you’re an evil foreigner.

at best, you could say that he’s in good company with Reagan also recycling some of hitler’s rhetoric

Reagan was emulating Eisenhower, another notorious American fascist.

Bovino absolutely dresses like a Nazis.

He dresses like a SWAT officer, which has it’s own fascist history.

Trump himself was recycling Hitler’s rhetoric in his ‘16 campaigns.

He was recycling Reagan’s rhetoric, right down to the MAGA slogan.

But Americans can’t handling hearing that Reagan was a fascist. So liberals have to stretch the truth and claim it was Hitler’s

Even if we assume the law is written as a good faith civic regulation and not a tool to discourage religious support networks and competing power structures to the ccp, what can it possibly achieve?

If you’re suspicious or hostile to Evangelical Christianity, there’s no reason to believe this can’t be both.

Christianity as an entry point for KMT nationalism has been a problem in China since the Revolution.

do these people have the right to organize and operate their communities in a way that suites them or not?

Are you a sovereign citizen? No, organizations don’t just get to write their own laws because they call themselves a church.

And further, does that punishment look to fit the crime?

Ask the Branch Davidians. In this case, Yayang Network repeatedly and notoriously violated these laws, escalated rhetoric when they were delicensed, and are now actively agitating for a full church lead revolt.

After the riots in Hong Kong - heavily influenced by Trump aligned evangelicals - and the violent insurgencies in the United States lead by like minded Evangelical conservatives, I’m not sure how trying to serve a couple of guys with an arrest warrant is an overreaction.

Why do you have a such a visceral reaction

I’d call it a logical reaction.

I’d also be curious to know what you’d have them do differently.

So far, the liberal response is “do nothing and hope they stop”. And we all know how that worked out for the Americans.

Point is many Christians claim Christianity wasn’t part of Nazism

Many Christians were in the resistance movement. Many Christians were in the death camps. Your Christianity didn’t define your political alignment back then any more than it does now.

Anyone claiming Hitler wasn’t Catholic is full of shit. He worked hand-in-glove with the sitting Pope and agitated within the German church on explicit anti-communist grounds. But the schism was never religious. It was always economic. Nazism is a policy of ethnic social supremacy, enacted to secure land and capital for a racialized in-group of Teutonic people. Polish Catholics, French Catholics, Dutch Protestants, Ukrainian Orthodox… none of these people were spared.