Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Late Night with Seth Meyers"
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I love your point, but the US has been fascist as long as I've been following politics, and definitely before that things were even worse. How anyone can look at 50s US and not say 'yeah, that's extreme fascism' boggles the mind. It even spawned a revolution of sorts, so great was the disaffection with the inane restrictions of the 'Golden Age', and we all know damn well things weren't perfect for non-whites back then. Fascism has a long, storied history in the US, and if you even scratch the surface of most libertarians, you quickly find their philosophies in practice tend to be 'freedom for me', rather than 'freedom for all', and libertarians are a relatively harmless form. Even the founding fathers were lying when they claimed to love freedom, instead embracing quite heartily all the fruits to be had of slavery.
The US is a country that has long fallen for it's own propaganda (note, like all fascist leaning countries, the US has a very large, prominent propaganda wing in the media). Ever notice how preachy kids shows are these days? Well, they always were, you just didn't notice what they were preaching, IE GI Joe and all manner of war fantasy, trying to get kids to adopt a conflict based mind-set, an 'us and them' mindset to be easier to manipulate as adults. Ever notice how preachy movies used to be back in the olden days? Well guess what, they still preach, they are just subtle about it now. Pretty much every studio movie is propaganda, even if it isn't directly government created. You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a mainstream US movie that doesn't embrace conflict and violence, it is seemingly intrinsic to US art. Pacifism, communism, socialism and many other things have been extensively demonized by the US media until the people utterly embraced what they were given.
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Yeah, he might 'do his own stunts' but how many millions has Hollywood spent trying to make him not look elfin in stature compared to his woman costars? Also his stupid contract made it impossible for the Mummy reboot to work, wasting even more of the precious good will that Brendan Frasier gave up his youth for, making that one of the few series' that you can honestly compare to Indiana Jones and not be joking around. Was The Mummy as good as Indiana Jones? Nope, but it was even more fun sometimes, despite having wildly worse special effects than even that funky melting scene from Raiders. Indiana Jones was like going to a nice restaurant and ordering a decent meal (but the restaurant is weirdly racist in subtle (and in the one movie, not even a little subtle) ways), watching The Mummy 1 and 2 was like going to one of those mid-range places, it's better quality stuff than fast food, but it's not as pretentious as the fancy (and kinda racist) place, and you save a bundle. The Mummy was a much more 'safe' movie I'd argue, taking far fewer chances and making the villains sidekick 'look like a Jewish stereotype' was weird even at the time. Anyways, still bitter that we don't have a thriving 'monster movie' universe that we could complain was becoming 'too corporate/too safe/too woke', depending on what your bugbear issue is, and it's mostly tom cruise's fault... at least we'll always have The League of Extraordinary Gentleman to show us what could have been?
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Not to be rude, but the nepo babies issue isn't even mostly about famous people, it's about how *all of the well-paid jobs go to people with connections*, it's a bit of an absurd complaint because it's how it's 'always been' but it's also awful and has literally killed untold millions just in the 20th century's World Wars, most militaries in the world assigned ranks based on connections, not on competence, and this resulted in militaries that appeared to be functional forces but were more or less useless on the battlefield and cost millions of lives doing brilliant things like trying to take machine gun protected bunkers by crossing a mud-filled stretch of hell in broad daylight with plenty of warning for the ensconced opposition to be ready. Nepotism is one of our worst traits when we're outside the family unit, and most humanity has been living in larger communities for thousands of years, but we still fall for the whole 'well, he's related to someone so maybe he's 'like them'' argument over and over. Nepotism literally kills.
I'm a nepo baby too, but my connections meant I got to do farm work as a young child until I managed to work my way up to construction (the hard, brutal kind). If you don't want to live long it's a decent life, but yeah, most people get their start in the work world via connections, some never have to go beyond that, the issue here is that some people are born with connections that are really useful, and others like me have connections that will put them in an early grave potentially. If you can't see a difference between getting to be a CEO because of family, or being the guy loading the cement mixer with 50kg bags, then I despair for our collective future.
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I'm shocked there was any actual chicken tissue in your chicken bullion, buy cheaper and you won't have this problem I think (not so cheap that you're buying coloured salt/wheat flour blocks).
Also, tofu is way less weird than drinking milk/eating dairy, I'd feel really weird about explaining that one to an alien, maybe I'd have them drink some of the highly addictive yeast-waste I like to drink, people often love to converse while consuming yeast-waste! Surely some yeast-waste and bacteria-pooped-out-dairy would convince aliens that we're actually sane, that we're not monsters for harnessing life-forms as slaves and then treating them like they're soulless automata?
Yeah, just had a thought, how do vegans feel about alcohol or leavened bread? Both obviously use a life form that's definitely not a plant, which is pretty much slave labour only we eat the slave's poop? It's a weird relationship if you think about it too much, but I'm saying maybe vegans can't philosophically drink beer or eat bread, because you're abusing yeast, which isn't a plant? I used the Mediterranean diet to lose weight, a key element of which is eating a lot less meat, and that seemed to work pretty well to manage my weight, and as I pointed out to my sister recently; all of your worst meals were so bad because of meat being in them, thus meat doesn't really make it easier to cook, meat is actually incredibly easy to screw up and tastes godawful when you do. If you disagree, I challenge you to eat 1lb of fried chicken wings, then try to eat 1lb of boiled chicken wings (like right after, so you can still taste the fried chicken). Trust me, it's way easier to screw up meat than it is to screw up a potato or rice. Anyways, lots of vegan stuff is fine to eat, but I still eat a lot of cheese, and I generally crave eggs when I'm working hard, so I'm no vegan, but if people don't go out of their way to eat less meat, it's going to continue to be a huge problem, but I feel like if you're at least doing physically demanding work, you probably need some meat or you're going to suck at your job (dairy and eggs work too), thus office jocks need to stop eating meat all the time, save it for me!
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I feel like it's a really weird space where I feel like I can safely say hamas is a horrific organization, and yet it is also true that the IDF is objectively much worse, the scale of what they have done is incomprehensibly worse, this is nothing but genocide. Our children will not speak well of this period, and it's only just begun to unfold in the larger sphere I fear.
By no means did hamas begin this 'war' (it's not a war by any logical definition, this is nothing but a genocide at this point), this began when their was a sudden influx of non-natives in the region, AKA colonization. Why the hell can't we be honest about this? The west doesn't get to give away an already populated region because the west did genocide in Europe, that's not how reason works. Also, I want to see Bernie's hands clasping trump's baby paws... the working men have bigger hands, and the working man's champion (such as it is in America) has bigger hands than the champion of the 1%.
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I think I can explain the whole 'NY with axe crime!' thing, I think trump took Ambien while watching Gangs of New York, lost consciousness, and then work up during Law and Order, which was investigating a murder at a bodega, so it's an understandable misunderstanding. It could happen to anyone that old that uses that many prescription drugs to manage untreated mental health issues stemming from narcissism so bad it qualifies as psychosis.
Also, to Seth's writers, I think at this point Alanis has more or less won, the word irony has lost most of it's old meanings, and now mostly means what she said it means, and in a few more generations, especially if republicans keep sabotaging education, nobody will even remember the old technical uses that academics used to lord over the commoners. Also, you're all just jealous of how great of a singer/songwriter she is, and how lucky Canada was.
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You say your life is great, but did you weld up a 16lb ax head, complete with an edge you welded up with some cast iron and other add ins to make an extremely hard edge, then carved up a 4lb 5ft handle for the ax, and then over time learn to split wood with it efficiently, can you imagine the thrill of swinging an ax as hard so hard? Can you imagine the testosterone charge of feeling that power in your meaty hands, as they absorb significant shock? I can sing good enough to go pro, but can any pro singers say they can split wood with a 20lb ax they made from scratch? Note, if you're not built like an ox you'll probably break fingers trying to split wood with an ax like this, the shock is much worse than a 12lb hammer, it's more like a 30lb hammer. So, greatest thrill? Maybe, but there are some pretty great thrills if you dig deep in any field, maybe I'll take a swing at your field some day, see if it can compete with wood splitting and just singing in my barn.
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