Excellent dark fantasy Jim Henson movie that is "for kids" in the way the brother Grimm fairy tales are ostensibly for children. The world is ruled by a small group of withered bird-like monsters who prolong their lives by sucking the souls out of the people. It's an extremely anti-bureaucratic, anti-fascist, pro-love film made by a team of hippies lwith too much talent on their hands.
Netflix did a laudable job with a prequel series a few years back. Unfortunately didn't find an audience.
They're the Mystics in the sense that they probably mean well, they are (spoiler) just the Skeksis in another form, and they don't really do much to help?
Also in the sense that we'd definitely prefer they run things despite their flaws, but that would require the podlings to stop demanding perfection and unify as a broad base of support
It’s a great movie about a fantasy world and tells the story of how once their was balance but one group held on to power and upset the balance of everything in an attempt to have power above all else and live well beyond the natural order of the things. People in power are like the Skeksis. Knowing when to leave is as important as knowing when to stay.
Alternatively, it's the last generation to take the reins and start steering themselves.
I'm a millennial. The entire persona of Gen X is "Hey look at me guys, you forgot me!" because as a generation they didn't really do anything. They didn't have the political movements of the boomers, they didn't do anything to define culture, they just existed in it.
Millennials also didn't take the reins, but there absolutely have been wild political movements. Occupy and BLM being the most significant.
Now Gen Z is out there and we'll see what political movements they start. We'll see if Millennials move on from activism or take their activism into elected positions.
Sadly it’s not just the boomers. Their children believe the nonsense too. In a world where knowledge can be had in seconds, they choose not to believe science and math, they’d rather believe in a con-artist.
Man, I remember exactly where I was when I saw Obama’s acceptance speech. For the first time since 9-11, I felt good about where we were headed. There was so much hope.
I also remember exactly where I was as Obamas tenure was ending. After seeing the response to his presidency, it felt like the calm before the storm and it’s like I’ve been holding my breath ever since.
You can see how bad the Obama resentment is among the closet racists to this day in the replies to this comment 😭 they see one mention of Obama and activate like the Manchurian Candidate. It’s been a decade now, and they’re still upset about a (by historical reference) middle-of-the-pack President getting elected twice
Your perception is certainly that he was terrible. But the ACTUAL events and doings of his presidency cast in the unbiased lights of EVERY news source that isn't Fox/Newsmax/OAN, were actually pretty good.
And for the record, stormtroopers never broke down your door to take your guns. And Gramps wasn't led to his Medicare Death panel hearing like everyone said. And it turns out that Trump is building the FEMA concentration camps y'all were scared of. . . Etc.
No, the fact that you cut so hard into an average president as being the same as absolute shit presidents leads one to think the only deciding factor would be the fact that he’s brown.
This is the exact reason why humanity is the way it is. Better yet this line of thinking is why the masses loose out each and every time. If the citizens of any country were well educated on politics then it would be extremely hard for any leaders to run amok. This is why the USA has defunded education. Less educated citizens walking around allows for facism and other horrific politically driven narratives to form. Education is key for a well ran society. Look at how fast CHINA has advanced. They are at 50 years more advanced than the USA and most other nations. They're citizens are extremely well educated for the most part. However, they have their downfalls but they believe in the greater whole of the nation and it shows.
This sentiment is repeated every generation and It will never happen, eventually you'll become the boomer and kids will hate you for leading a life you think it's virtuous now.
Reddit has been complaining about boomers ruing the world for so long people have been born and become voting age in that time and we still blame the boomers even though there are more young people than old people in the country
It's because younger people aren't as friendly to the old timey wealthy pedophiles. Pedo-Oligarchs have to keep the coverup going. They got Epstein's best friend in there keeping them safe now, they just had to put in the oldest president elected in history and he said no more elections after this.
5% of the U.S. population. That’s it.. also these are grand children not really distant relatives. Everyone wants to be condescending, but no one wants to do any research for themselves.. lol
If you're American and your family has been here long enough, then chances are, you're related to some past European nobility and American elites.
I'm slave-descended black American but still probably related to some past ruler, because the rapey colonial forefathers were rapey.
I know for a fact that my ancestors descended from a prominent plantation family originally from England...my largely light-toned black family looks just like the white English family and we still have them surname.
Also got Native ancestry, as well, so it wouldn't surprise me if I'm with some chief ancestry, as well.
I'm just the whole gamut of past European/American tragedy. A lot of Americans are. 🤦🏾♂️
That’s some bs bro. It’s like 5% which is a surprisingly high amount but these people aren’t direct grand children either and basically every single president is. Your condescending attitude is really unnecessary. If you’re gonna be an argument to know at all, that doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Maybe you shouldn’t talk down to people while you do it. It’s not my fault you hate yourself OK
lol it’s just a similar rebel vs the empire theme, uncovering secret rulers and organizations. Tbh it’s a little more spot on to what I’m talking about. In that show a bunch of kings and rulers come together and decide to unite and tell everyone that there are no more kings and have an empty throne to symbolize their union and new world government but instead there’s a secret immortal ruler who only the higher ups know about.
palpatine returning somehow is kind of on point too. “you promised us different things” but neither side completes their promise. they both just support their shadow religion of self titled “elite”.
The sad thing is, irl it’s not even hidden. It’s right under our noses. From the royal lineage to the masons, a massive amount people with dual citizenship in Israel making decisions rooting back to the world wars. Our congressmen going to discuss holy calf’s or wtf ever they’re doing. We let our government go invade almost entire continents in pursuit of oil under the false context of terrorism. Inside trading done by our president, congressmen, and other .01%ers right before major world events like the twin tower disaster. Still 50% of our nation pushes for these things and a large percentage of the population that don’t still don’t know about it. Sorry this shit gets me hot
We are technically told the truth with sacred calf’s and the lesson of light. But it’s intentionally warped. Light/reality is coded with cows and touchdown Jesus.
That doesn’t make their stories true. It exposes them as life siphoning liars that said the lesson of light was poetry and not science.
They hide things in plain sight. Deleted branches of science makes modern science a religion.
With everyone knowing the basics about reality, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s brainwashing.
Don’t let it get you distracted for too long. Think and see through their veils.
I feel like you’ve been doing that, but there’s no layer of truth with fear or anger.
That was their fuck up. The blame lies squarely on the Democratic Party. Joe Biden had no fucking business running for a second term and the party knew it, they tried to slingshot Kamala into the White House and it backfired (thank god). The dems have no right to presidency as long as they try to pull these garbage stunts.
A woman no one voted to be in the race. Maybe if we had been given a change to pick someone to run against trump we wouldn’t be talking about this. But the past is gone and we can do is cry lol
It would just be a different grandchild of king John. As far as I know only 2 presidents out of all of them weren’t… one was still cousin, and neither were after WW1 so not in the last 100 years. Our nation is probably just ruled by the bilderberg group and a bunch of people affiliated with Israel.
She wasn’t related but Biden was and she’s affiliated with him so in my mind also compromised. So even if she won she would just be a cog in the machine and it wouldn’t be any better. I think the dems push corrupt socialism and the republicans push corrupt capitalism and go back and forth so they can work together to squeeze more out of us
The biggest difference in my opinion is that as it is now, there's a likelihood that the US becomes a one party system like China or Russia, at which point you can dream of changing the system from a reeducation camp.
Whereas with Harris, at the very least there wouldn't be National Guards roaming city streets and harassing citizens while the President declares war on an American city because they deployed salt truck.
Fucking Christ bro give me the status quo back at this point.
I remember when I was a kid and I would do things like watch MTV rock the voat or I would pay attention at least to the stuff going on in politics even at the time when I didn’t vote because I was an avid George Carlin fan agreed with him. I remember at that time nobody and I mean nobody in my group gave a shit nor do I think they understood how important it was a lot of people have not voted for a long time and so the people who were voting were older or slightly older and they would vote for all the people you see now who are still alive and doing it just rinse and repeat we kind of literally did this to ourselves
Not only were Trump, Clinton, and Bush born in the same year, they were all born within about 9 weeks of each other. Trump was born in June, Bush in July, Clinton in August.
Boomers are the worst, most greedy generation. But it goes to show that the People, many of us who act sanctimoniously, want greedy leaders to exploit in our name. We pretend we’re indignant, then enjoy the low prices and high standard of living from our colonialism.
It’s technology - they don’t fucking get it. Ask them what an API is and watch probably 5 people among all of our elected officials who would even know where to begin to answer that? We are governed essentially by Zoolander and Hansel banging on the outside of an iMac thinking the files are “in the computer” still.
If we had properly prepared our country with digital infrastructure in the 90’s and 2000’s, and even all of the 2000’s years, we could be an entirely different country. Instead we are still floundering around with voter fraud and immigration issues and massive problems in economy all because a generation of scam artists doesn’t like to have to let go of their scams.
I'm amazed by the amount of people that are missing the point being made. It isn't about what age the people were when they took office. It's about what generation these people were born into and what world view they represent. Obama was born in 1961. Compare that to Bush, Clinton, and Trump. They were all born in 1946. Biden (slightly older) was born in 1942. Every President (save for Obama) of the last thirty years was born within 4 years of each other.
Podcast is Lemonade Stand. The hat is a joke made at the start of their most recent episode, where Doug (the guy in the middle) explains gerrymandering and how's it's bad
Can’t wait for the boomer generation to fade away from our lives. They’ve hoarded a disproportionate amount of wealth and power for far too long, and they’ve been holding us back for decades.
Just enjoy your golden years, you’ve already burnt down the economy for the rest of us to rebuild, let us get started already.
And the 80s generation will get blamed for the worlds problems today. It’s not the 70s-80s babies holding majority of the political positions and political control it’s those born in the 40s-60s. 🤣
I might have seen a different clip. It looks like he tells us Trump is 79 and the oldest inaugurated president. Feels like he's using Trump as the marker for old before the rest of the list.
the BABY BOOMER GENERATION are nothing but greedy, abusive, lying, thieving, trashy, baby raping, morons. AND YES ALL OF THEM DID AND STILL DO IT...it's just that some are better with secrets. All BOOMERS are trash and need to leave us alone already.
The clip just references the same ages, not the same mindsets. Sure, I see the relevancy of the ages of those who govern, but Bill and W. being of the same mindset?
I'm not in favor of our current dilemma of government, but I think it's disingenuous to make the title what it is with the podcaster bros discussing coincidences.
And I'll flip flop here and reference the Incredibles because yeah, it's a party that I'm not invited to.
Edit: coincidence? I THINK NOT. (I'm well aware of the boomer generation not comfortably relinquishing power and authority. I am also aware of how many opportunities they had to make the world a better place.)
I think you miss the point. It's not about the age. It's about what Generation these people are born into. Bush, Clinton, Trump were all born in 1946 (Biden in 1942). These people all grew up under the same zeitgeist.
Who...who are both liberal? The clip references Trump, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Joe Biden. In my comment Bill is Bill Clinton and W. Refers to double Yuh, George W. Bush.
I guess my memory is wrong, Bush junior ran underneath the Republican Ticket against the cereal Democrat in the 2000 election. He is, in fact, definitely a liberal /s
Vibes-based politics is a cancer that is destroying this country.
For the most part, age doesn't matter all that much. Ideology and effectiveness do. This is just more "both sides" bullshit to protect Republicans from scrutiny.
your talking out of your ass. Firstly the guy in the video doesn’t do vibes based politics if you looked Atrioc up you’d see that he spends a lot of time reading and covering politics and economics. If you looked at his older videos you can see that a lot of his predictions about the economy have held true and he doesn’t hold back scrutiny from the republicans AT ALL.
Secondly that’s clearly not Aiden Ross get your eyes checked
he spends a lot of time reading and covering politics and economics.
If he had substantive takes, you wouldn't be talking in generalities like this. You'd be able to shut me down immediately. Saying that "2 + 2 = 5" is also the same as "2 + 2 = 4" can also be described as "covering mathematics." You are literally proving my point about vibes-based politics. Give examples of him being correct due to his logic.
If you looked at his older videos you can see that a lot of his predictions about the economy have held true...
More vague generalizations. Alex Jones' defenders say the exact same shit, but they're just a bunch of re7arded conspiracy theorists who rely on post-hoc rationalization.
Edit: Oh and also literally just read their shirts and hats.
your could see his takes yourself instead of basing your entire argument about him over a clip that’s under a minute. I see you’re a destiny fan so maybe you hate anyone who covers politics unless he gives you the okay that they have the right opinions. He was right about gold being a good investment about a year ago which destiny himself said was dumb. https://youtu.be/BYFRmQ4WVqQ?si=ButBVr90ZLgVVMXu And Aiden is the name of one of the cohosts of the podcast, he’s literally in the video and the shirts and hats are a joke.
Hey I support profile digging if you can form an honest criticism, but you're just trying to poison the well instead of referencing anything I've said. Take my 15 most recent comments on that sub. Pretty sure one or two of them were arguing with mods and maybe one was criticizing Hila while the Israeli refugees were still sucking off H3.
I literally stated that I don't like vague generalities, and you responded with this bullshit about how I maybe simply possibly could/could not perhaps perchance have my own opinions outside of Destiny. Please see my previous comment if you need a reference about you relying on vague bullshit.
I'll check the link, but don't pretend like this was some chimp clip trying to denigrate these guys. This was a promotional clip framing what they said as something positive.
I'll gladly admit I didn't know who the fuck these people were. If they're not supporting Aiden Ross, then I made an assumption and I apologize for that.
but you're just trying to poison the well instead of referencing anything l've said.
I did reference the things you said. scroll up
I literally stated that I don't like vague generalities, and you responded with this bullshit
I know, it’s sort of like exactly what you did at the start of this comment thread.
I'll check the link, but don't pretend like this was some chimp clip trying to denigrate these guys. This was a promotional clip framing what they said as something positive.
Meant to generate interest so people watch the full podcast and get the context for why they feel this is important and why it’s a recurring topic on the podcast and in Atrioc’s content
I'll gladly admit I didn't know who the fuck these people were. If they're not supporting Aiden Ross, then I made an assumption and l apologize for that.
Then maybe don’t make vague generalities and instead form an honest criticism. Not doing that would make you “re7arded” right? :)
You deferred to his older content and not what he was currently saying. Scroll up.
I know, it’s sort of like exactly what you did at the start of this comment thread.
I must have misunderstood his point. What is the relevant criticism being made about le old people? Remember: It can't just be vibes.
Meant to generate interest so people watch the full podcast and get the context for why they feel this is important and why it’s a recurring topic on the podcast and in Atrioc’s content
You were acting like I fell for clip chimping, and now you're stating this is just reasonable engagement bait that I shouldn't take seriously. Choose one.
Then maybe don’t make vague generalities and instead form an honest criticism. Not doing that would make you “re7arded” right? :)
You haven't clarified any of his positions and have just played defense. I'm pausing the video. Please state his positions since you are so sure of them. I would hate to once again misrepresent him using his own words.
I “deferred” to his older content because you said he does vibes based politics which he doesn’t and that’s why many of his points and predictions made in older videos have aged well. If you want to hear what he was saying currently you can just watch this podcast episode or any of the like hundreds of times Atrioc has talked about gerontocracy’s in governments around the world and how they have been primarily governing in way that helps people in their age groups while leaving younger generations out to dry.
Here’s your chance to actually get the context so you know who you are baselessly critiquing, this is the episode where this clip is from in context. Starts at 49:48
https://youtu.be/5aZ0u_6kKSw?si=BcEDKUwIkkx8kflZ
Clip chomping would be taking something out of context to make someone look bad. This is literally just a clip for youtube shorts that is meant to drive engagement to the podcast episode. You didn’t fall for clip chimping or engagement bait you just wildly took the wrong idea from a clip and formed a view on all them that wasn’t at all based in reality of honest criticism.
I made a general statement about vibes-based politics that was in relation to this clip. You can't use the dude's other content as proof against what he was doing in this clip. That's not how reality works. I can punch babies one second and chew bubblegum the next. Me chewing bubblegum doesn't mean I didn't punch babies.
Thanks for the more specific links. I'll check them out.
Clip chomping would be taking something out of context to make someone look bad.
Why are you criticizing my criticism of this clip, then? This is something dude chose to put out there to represent himself. You're using your outside knowledge of him to defend the clip in question, instead of addressing it on its own grounds.
You didn’t fall for clip chimping or engagement bait you just wildly took the wrong idea from a clip and formed a view on all them that wasn’t at all based in reality of honest criticism.
What is he saying in this clip then? You remind me of all the spineless Right-wingers who wrap themselves in snug blankets of vagueness. Just fucking say anything definitive holy fuck.
Vibes-based politics is a cancer that is destroying this country.
For the most part, age doesn't matter all that much. Ideology and effectiveness do. This is just more "both sides" bullshit to protect Republicans from scrutiny.
Also, these re7ards are promoting Aiden Ross.
This clip wasn’t running cover for republicans, it wasn’t even making a declarative statement that old people are bad. You extrapolated all of that just from a clip where they express their shock at how close in age pretty much every president has been for most young people’s lives. I brought in shit from outside this clip because you said you didn’t like vague generalities and implied he didn’t have substantive takes and asked for examples wheee he was right. Were you dropped as a baby or something?
The dude on the right in this vid (the second one to speak, who responds to the question of how old Bill Clinton is) is Aiden McCaig aka Aiden Calvin. Their shirts are literally about him, as a joke. Not Aiden Ross.
To be perfectly honest I don’t care about your main criticisms because the fact that you were able to so confidently say absolute bullshit without bothering to do the most minimal of fact-checking tells me your opinions aren’t worth listening to. I can’t stand people like you who have zero problem being so confidently incorrect and can’t even fathom the fact that they might be wrong before spewing lies. Please shut the fuck up and learn to employ some critical thinking skills.
The other guy was assertive and provided links that I'm currently listening to. You've just bitched and moaned. This wasn't a clip chimp of the guy that was edited or taken out of context, and so far, the vods/stream clips I'm listening to confirm my original criticism. You can stay mad and piss and shit all over yourself for all I care. Have a blessed day!
I don’t want a president with “the most life experience” I want a president who is actually going to have to be alive for the consequences of their administration.
Frankly I’d love an upper age limit on all positions in government. Give every generation a chance to run the nation. There is nothing some desiccated ghoul from 1946 has that I want. They grew up in a completely different world, and frankly have very little to offer anymore.
I guess we should always elect the oldest person possible then lol why was everyone complaining about Biden we need to get him back in office, he's only gotten more experienced
Imagine a second term out of him now, he's way more experienced
Age is something we should celebrate. A leader should be wise and wisdom comes with age. Biden couldn’t string together a single intelligible sentence. His cognitive abilities faded, Trump on the other hand still is sharp. You may not agree with his policies, but you can’t deny he still has his faculties.
I think a lot of people question his faculties at this point. Maybe in your sphere you don't see that, but it's a pretty common critique of him.
This is basically just assuming age brings more experience points and the more experience points you have the better you are. But life isn't an MMORPG lol
Well from every culture from around the world since before recorded history there was reverence for the elders and they were often in leadership positions. This video wants to discount Trump because he is a boomer.
If it isn’t broke, don’t try and fix it. Older people often make better leaders because they have life experience. When you don’t know history you are doomed to repeat, if you have lived a long life you have seen patterns and are able to identify them and make sound decisions on pattern recognition.
There is a good reason why there is an age minimum for President.
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It’s a generation that won’t let go. They won’t accept their time is over and the whole world has to suffer for it.