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@biskitz86913 Polanski was not just away, he was playing away. There is evidence he was having an affair with another woman in Europe at the time.
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@Maya220100 In some senses yes. In one way he has done a Kubrick and left the States for good (although as a bona fiide American, Kubrick's relationship with the US was quite different)... Polanski is a European, and I think he is more comfortable in France, but from a commercial POV, he probably misses the ability to film in the USA for various reasons... It's something of a handicap. (I suspect he prefers France to Poland though.) I think there has been a lot of hypocrisy over Polanski. There are people in Hollywood who do that kind of thing all the time, no one lays a finger on most of them because they're American. Weinstein get thrown to the wolves, but why just him? What about the rest? Even with the murder and Satanism allegations, again there are probably worse things still happening in Hollywood. And I'm sure most Satanists in Hollywood do not advertise their membership (other than the frequent anti-Christian propaganda we see onscreen).
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@biskitz86913 He spent much of his time in Europe, especially France. It wasn't unusual for him. But I think it did dawn on him that he could have just as easily been a victim of such an attack himself. A lot of celebs had remarkably little security by today's standards
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@Maya220100 I think Weinstein has the same issue as Polanski, he's been behind some very successful films... And when that happens, you create envy. Removing Weinatein frees up space for non-Weinstein projects to get Oscars, and also provided a scapegoat (as well as buying time to allow others to destroy any evidence of their own misdemeanours.)
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@robbybee70 What's wrong with opposing a binary political system? It is the source of many of America's problems. Debate is stifled by whataboutery.
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@robbybee70 The way things are going you will have a one party state soon and government permission needed to cross the road.
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@aremedyfrosty It hasn't been "covered up" - he hasn't even been allowed to enter the USA for decades, and it was common knowledge before #metoo
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@Maya220100 Didn't exactly give him much help... He couldn't re-enter the USA a few years later.
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@jimjudge8877 Oh here we go, what? I'm not really interested in your edgy posturing or "normality" signalling. Something has really got into that man, you can see it in his eyes, it is like an alien personality. You can question where it came from, and your answer will be mundane, but there is still something there, whether a fragmented secondary personality/alter, or something else, which overrides the primary or native one. I suspect your further responses will be as boring as your first.
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Hippies were awful though. Many of the original ones ended up with massive drug problems and riddled with sежυαllγ τгапsміттеδ diseases, and into grim forms of оссυlтιsм. In fact, my father worked with some of the fall out from the hippie movement in the late sixties, early seventies and some of them were severely рћџскеδ υρ ρεορle.
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@mippim8765 The hippies were useful for popularising the drug trade and doctors did the rest, doping the population. There is some good hippie music but also some awful stuff, some of it unlistenable.
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@christopherfanelli8821 No, I'm seeing what I don't want to see, that was the whole point. I don't know which of the 137 comments above you were replying to (because YouTube has no tree system in replies.) There is a lot of anti-Christian propaganda in mass media, outside of specific Christian media itself (which is a kind of ghetto/sealed system). One of these is that in recent years, it is very uncommon to see rounded Christian characters - they are often negative caricatures with little resemblance to most of their real life counterparts I encounter. For example, you will rarely see uncloseted gay Christians on screen, or gay friendly churches. Even though gay marriages happened in churches for years before governments got round to it. You won't see Christians who are tolerant and kind, even though I regularly meet such people. You won't see ecumenicalism on screen 99% of the time either. This is a contrast to the past where such people did appear in films. Clergy especially tend to be represented as terrible hypocrites and monsters. Usually with their hand in the till. Now, I know what you're going to say here. I do not support those clergy who have done terrible things to children or whatever... and no, I am not a Roman Catholic (before you try that argument on me) but I had to point out to someone recently that the majority of such incidents occur in state run schools and state "care" (whatever you call it in your part of the world)... the governments of this world are more responsible for it in some way than any other entity. You can see other more subtle examples of it elsewhere. Some of it is stupid like "Lucifer" pushing a cool idea of the Devil, who is so misunderstood, but ends up taking over heaven, because obviously he must be better than God? You can see it in throwaway comments that characters make too numerous to mention. One bizarre notion that crops up in science fiction is that finding intelligent life off Earth would completely destroy Christianity.... why would it? It's an issue which theologians have discussed for hundreds of years. The culture shock is unlikely to be purely religious either. That's just off the top of my head.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 Black magic practice is real, whether you think it works is another matter. The practice isn't just playing around with candles, but animal abцsе and worse.
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@B_hind_The_Curtain Yeah, Jimmy Savile, Epstein and all their weird connections to high ranking people and royals is completely made up. Must just be Quanon. Nothing to see here, keep moving.
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@CaptainSeamus Manson was very sick - watch some interviews with him, the man is one of the most convincing case of demonic possession I've ever seen.
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@sdprz7893 A lot of London is pretty bad. Ugly, dirty and slummy. Either overpriced or under gangs.
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@Mellowmushrooms124 "literally almost all art has violence and pornography" - Well that isn't true in any "literal" sense, since many artworks do not have this at all.
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@UncleSamSiam "should be put to death" - Only problem is that people get falsely accused and framed all the time. There was a famous case in the UK where a man (Evans) was executed for murdering his pregnant wife - Evans was a fantasist and a liar so the case was cut and dried. Only it wasn't. It turned out years later their landlord (Christie) who rented them their apartment, was a serial killer with a number of women buried in his garden and in the walls of his home. This came to light when neighbours complained of the smell. Christie was an ex-policeman and Evans was an illiterate criminal type so no one suspected Christie of murdering Evans' wife. Even worse, Evans had signed a "confession" which he wouldn't have been able to read and had obviously been written in British police-speak. The case got turned into a film starring John Hurt (Alien) and Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park). The fact an innocent man had been hanged while his mass murdering landlord wasn't even investigated caused shockwaves and led to the abolition of the death penalty.
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@dontayecason7137 Weinstein, maybe Polanski, was a sacrificial lamb. His films got many awards and getting him out of the way meant those could be spread among other people. So why him and not others? By the way, not just nineties films... more recently the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper owe a lot of their careers to him. JLaw has had little, if anything, to say on the subject. Many people think HW schagged her. Probably. Some point just after "Winter's Bone" no doubt. Like Polanski, I think Weinstein was good at the technical/artistic side of things. Both of them made some great films, but fail as human beings... I'm reminded of Phil Spector too, an excellent music producer who made some of the sixties best records but who used to threaten people with guns and has had brushes with the law.
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@marianapgar4409 He is clearly a womaniser, and not just with цпdегаgегs. Not sure what the attraction is, other than power, he is notoriously short, and not particularly handsome. Maybe he is charming in person.
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@TonyCon-tana We wouldn't hear any of it.
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Most of what happens is hidden from us, or at least hard to find. Some of that is by design, some of it just to do with the sheer volume of it. Look around the world and you will see a lot of governments promoting the same policies, even when they are unpopular. Even different parties doing it, and both supposed left and right. Money buys a lot of willing people.
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He's also a very good director. It is odd but talent and evil often go hand in hand.
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@danishaffer6099 Tarantino left an interesting detail in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - the hero is called Dalton, just like Polanski's lawyer on the later case.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 Led Zeppelin are still considered rock gods, yet they were involved in this and black magic.
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@tsunamitube3351 Whoever made that image is a bit loopy themselves. I don't know how you can guess any age from that and then trying to connect it to body angle is just bizarre. (As is toe fетіsн) Plus you're encouraging people into LSD which рћџх many people up for life and don't pretend otherwise. And we know who was involved in its creation.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 It's already been written about in the book "Hammer of the Gods" back in the eighties, one of the girls has given interviews (and sees nothing wrong with what happened)... and even nowadays Page has a partner who is twenty something but looks about fifteen so his tastes haven't changed. Failing that, you can just read a few of their obvious lyrics about sснооl gігls or look at the cover of that album I just mentioned. Certainly as strong a case against Page as Polanski. Pete Townsend of the Who narrowly avoided jail for downloading such content (but how?), and Gary Glіттег actually did do time for it. I suppose GG didn't have money of the other two.
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@Emcostanza A lot of things don't make sense at the local/small scale level, and that's just how corrupt human nature is.
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@Joe Dirté Jeff Lynne backed by the Queen. 🙄 I don't think so. Elton John on the other hand, nothing remotely decent since the early seventies and even then his best stuff was not that great. I wouldn't call Jeff Lynne a national treasure. Most folk under forty in the UK have never heard of him.
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@Joe Dirté The only way that Rogan and Crowley look alike is baldness.
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@dr.doofenshmirtz9695 I don't, we're all living in a dictatorship now worldwide. Haven't you noticed? In many countries you now need government permission to go into a cinema or restaurant now and it's only going to get worse as long as people enable it. The Hippie legacy is overromanticised and largely BS (especially the sex and drug lore), but at least some of the pot and VD addled hippies stood for some kind of liberty their grandchildren seem to oppose.
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Who needs terrorism when you can hold conferences to discuss how to change the entire world?
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@marianapgar4409 Roman was also over in Europe having an adulterous affair.
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@marianapgar4409 I have heard it said before that Sharon wanted a divorce and that is convincing. (It is also close to some of the stories told about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love). I'm not convinced Roman is responsible, although I believe he could be utterly ruthless. Roman had seen terrible things in his youth, but I don't think he was ever quite the same after this. Probably in the back of his mind, despite whatever feelings he did or didn't have for her, he knew someone could have done that to him. You've probably heard something about his childhood. He was a Jewish boy but had to pose as Catholic to survive WW2, and you had to be tough to do so. A teenage girl once tried to report him when she found out he was circumcised. But I think during his early adulthood he developed some of his misogynist and womanising tendencies.
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@derekboyt3383 There is also the Royal Mail's own tube line. They had a mini version for transporting post. That won't have been filled in.
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@mrsugar2352 Free at point of use. It still has to be paid for by someone.
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@Mellowmushrooms124 Doesn't have to be amoral (some great works are very moral), but often two very separate things. I think inner conflicts drive these people artistically.
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@Mellowmushrooms124 That's a completely wrong take, and that is indirectly based on Theodor Adorno's interpretation that art must disturb and alienate one from capitalist society. A lot of art does, but the idea that it usually does is just false. There are plenty of good films, paintings, books and music that do not disturb even at the subconscious level. It is easier to make an impression through shock, but it doesn't need to be done that way.
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@rajboss7943 When you push drugs, you're no different from the alphabet agencies.
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@Mellowmushrooms124 p.s. Propaganda is as likely to make you uncomfortable as it is often there to make you hate something.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 What isn't real? Which comment are you referring to? If you mean Led Zeppelin, then yes that was real and happened a number of times. It was exposed in the eighties and they never sued. Jimmy Page is one sick puppy who has never been held to account.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 If you are referring to some film or other I mentioned then I would point you to the beginning of Nicholas Mosley's autobiography in which he says a lot of autobiography is fiction and a lot of fiction is autobiography. It is not a binary, black & white issue. The same applies to Hollywood and novels. People can reveal details of real life incidents and people in fiction that they couldn't in biographies, because they would be sued. In written fiction, it is known as the "roman à clef" (no pun intended) - which is where someone describes real life people and changes the names and a few details to avoid legal action. And as Mosley says, when people come to write their autobiographies they try and make themselves look better, include fictional events and hide things.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 Now you're backtracking... The left hand path is a personal rather than a collective effort and in some forms that involves exploiting others for personal game. The fact is Jimmy Page did this on multiple cases to several сћіlδгеп, and even hid one of them because he knew her age. The cover of Houses of the Holy and some of the lyrics of their songs prove they were nonces. "All religions hurt people" A massive generalisation not really backed up by your list. Soccer acts as a proxy for religion, but it is ridiculous to blame all football fans for the behaviour of certain groups, even though a toxic culture has crept in. So you can play it both ways. Jimmy Page on the other hand saw sick ceremonies as part of his development.
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@winstonsmiththx1138 There was a girl who was passed around, probably more than one. Steve Tyler even adopted one, so he knew what he was doing. Bands used these encounters as a big part of their songwriting inspiration. Polanski claims consent occurred and the adult woman has since said she forgives him. This is no different from Page's scenario, except perhaps that in Polanski's native Poland and his adopted France said act would be legal, unlike the UK or USA. But in both cases, in the parts of the USA that Polanski and Page committed their acts, it was illegal and no legal consent could be given.
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@Mellowmushrooms124 What is and isn't true art is subjective. Yes, there are those who try and use shock value, but in some cases thst's a cheap stunt "you can't censor... art" Most cultures have. The idea that the artist is a completely independent agent is actually a very recent and often a western one. In most cultures, artists work under someone's patronage... In fact this is true even in the west still, where many make their living off very rich people and/or the State.
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@aitortilla5128 What awful thing did Clint Eastwood do other than refusing to be a Democrat shill?
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@Стефан369 No, the collapse of French imperial power in the 40s and 50s, and the rise of Mao caused the Vietnam War.
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@Jim_Harwood Yeah, Charles Manson was doing it with Columbo. Must be true, a friend of a friend was fixing the plumbing in their lovenest and Peter Falk [explicit content]... His other eye was out on the table and Manson was pleasuring himself on Falk's empty eye socket.
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@jimjudge8877 Damaged by what though? Some people say his mind was fried by drugs, or he dissociated due to something awful he had done to him or even by him. I don't have any problem with possession. He resembles one of those witchdoctors who never got rid of whatever it is they were channelling. Same effect, a new personality replaces the old and dominates it. Either from inside or outside. He might as well be an otherworldly demon for some of the things he did. He has even seduced some people into believing his ideas (bizarrely he gets one or two things right, but evil philosophies often do )
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@JoesVinylShow1980 Yeah right. You know that there are a wide variety of Satanists out there, and that the LaVeyans and Temple of Satan types are only the media darlings who publicise themselves, plenty don't? Many are underground, not atheist and don't seek attentiin.
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