Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "TheQuartering"
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Just on legalities:
1. Statutes of limitations were dropped, thus making the trial a kangaroo court. Court of public opinion, you can have your opinion and believe what you want in public opinion, but you need more than hearsay and gossip in a court of law, at least one that is fair and balanced and not swayed by the politics of the day right or left. You may call this delusional, but either we have a court based on the procedures of law, or we have the case where you can cheat the law and cheat even the innocent that are held on loose ties and false/tampered evidence, or people paid to give false witness. There are criminals let go due to bad procedure that ruined the evidence, and there are people sent to prison for false witnesses that managed to slip through the process. But we need the process to work out what is true, or possible beyond a reasonable doubt, otherwise, we could sentence innocent people to death or life in prison over gossip and slander paid to the highest bidder.
2. Cosby already had a trial, and he served time in prison. Unless a new case comes up, one where he commits a crime after being released from prison, he can't be tried again. It's called double jeopardy.
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Check out Dave Rubin and how he presents the Republican candidates on one of his recent live videos titled: Unexpected 2024 Announcement Just Shook Up the Race.
To cut to the short, with politics, you have to get past the theatre of it. For now, Trump is in the lead. There's still a question of if DeSantis will even run, but he would be the second in line if he did. And yes, the way he's playing things is working. For everyone knows that whoever runs against Trump is going to get hit pieces on them, and the more you're the target, the bigger the threat you are, because you're the most plausible alternative to Trump. DeSantis is definitely that.
But there are others running. Dave Rubin goes through a couple of them and explains how he sees them running as a good thing, even if it's obvious they likely aren't going to be in the top tier of potentially electable as Trump and DeSantis. For one, they can present a national messaging that is good, and appealing conservative principles, ideas, and the like that can, and ought to be adopted by the top tier, especially once the dust has cleared and either Trump or DeSantis winds up the GOP nominee. The other candidates right now speak on various voices among Republicans and conservatives regarding what's important, such as America first, the land of opportunity ideal, importance of the Constitution, free speech, gun rights, etc. Listening to them does not mean you're voting for them, and moreso, it can show you're not just a candidate cultists that's either Trump or DeSantis only, or I'm nor voting. You have to realize what an insane position that is, to be such a cult worshiper of any candidate.
But, anyways, just trying to give some perspective. Don't let the theatre politics get to you. It's not that much different than celebrity theatre, save you got crazies like Biden, who wants to bring back Obama's weaponizing the government against Democrat enemies, or the Clintons and their ever growing list of people that suddenly are no longer with us for having criminally damning information that could leas to their arrest, or anything else that would make their being in charge the next 4 to 8 years a hot mess. 😏👍
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This is different than, say, an all black school doing a production, and it's obvious they are filling a role, and not trying to claim it as historically accurate. Yet, the same would have to be true at a predominantly white school, if they did a play casting MLK Jr. as white, or an all white cast of roots because there were no black kids present to fill the roles. Yet, you know why such productions don't happen? Because we white folk would fear rioting, or otherwise labeled 'yahtzee' who-aight supreme pizzas disrespecting another race or culture, even if we mean no disrespect at all. When the woke crowd does it, they praise themselves, and tell us in snide, condescending remarks that it wasn't made for us. Yet they get mad if we don't watch what they already told is not for us? Why should we pay or support 'inclusion' that excludes us, and insults us, only expecting us to say, "Well, you don't see us rioting over it!" That is, if we even say anything with so many acting like they aren't allowed to speak - and maybe they aren't, lest to woke mob burns down their house, and the woke government jails them for not giving the mob the matches and lighters to do so. We can't have real discussions, nor have decent movies because of this BS.
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Tim's all over the place. Craps on his audience, talks of retiring, throws his journalist under the bus. Are you really sure you want to be on his show? It seems your gut instinct to back away and do other things may be for the better. You have a great show already, and between, Crowder, Brittany Venti, and Anna - That Star Wars Girl, among others you've helped and have a good relation with, who knows? Maybe you all can join up and make that truly alternate media that doesn't play the business as usual BA that DW, and even Timcast plays that claims to push against the grain if YouTube and big tech censorship while basically enforcing it through contract. I don't know how that sort of new media business will look, but it will be interesting to see it form and potentially revolutionize how we do business. Because the current way just plain sucks, and that's putting it mildly.
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@jeremyblackmouth3323 - That's the point of rehab for most professionals. Teachers may wind up taking sensitivity training or straight up rehab as a way shield their career as well, not to mention the schools trying to bury bad press by saying they are taking corrective measures, if the behavior of the teacher gets the attention of the press. There is probably some intention of rehabilitation, or reprogramming, as the point of it is to get the person back in line with what they want or expect. This can be, say a teacher called LGBTQ+ incorporation into teaching BS and is adamant not to do so in her classroom. Said teacher may get sensitivity training or have to go to some sort of conference or rehab to 'correct' her thinking, or else be fired. While actors don't have that direct sort of force, they do get canceled, as has happened with Will Smith and many of his upcoming projects indefinitely on hold or flat out canceled from. So not only does he have to pay a bunch of money for rehab, he also is taken out of lining potential work, which is crippled because no one wants to touch him while his brand is considered toxic. So he pretty much has to pay up to try and salvage his career. That's true for any professional that winds up in trouble, and the boss says, get rehab or pack your bags and get out.
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@jeremyblackmouth3323 - There's plenty of people in an ordinary workplace that have managed to 'do a Depp', so to speak, where you can't believe they didn't get fired for all the crazy things they've done in the past, and even more so surprised what finally does get them fired, especially if it seems a rather tame offense in comparison to all the previous ones. The main difference between celebrities and the rest of us working stiffs is their dirty laundry is out in the open. But even that's becoming less of a gap since social media and stupid people being stupid enough to share their stupid actions online. And that even goes back to MySpace, when law enforcement would check out videos people recorded of fights and vandalism they were doing. Your problem seems to be about their earnings, and supposedly they can buy back their brand. Yet, who of us cost anyone millions of dollars if we screw up at work? You yourself stated that the producers can lose millions when a celebrity screws up and becomes unavailable because of a scandal. We lose our job, there thousands more to look for, and we can move to where no one knows us and start over. There are far fewer jobs in Hollywood, and the competition is cut throat. But, you know, you could always try getting a gig in Hollywood for yourself. If it's so easy, why not go and start booking auditions and start making some of that easy money yourself?
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Don't worry so much. You didn't force me to unsub from Tim Pool. This is about the 3rd time I've un-subbed from him in the past 10 years for being a javkass. He sometimes needs his ego burst. You had nothing to do with Crowder and the DW, other than help spotlight an issue with entertainment business contracts that will always be there for as long as the industry does its business in the way it does. EB did herself in, and we need to expose grifters that manipulate social media, regardless politics.PV sounds like it was a time bomb waiting to go off, just by the personalities and technicalities that have been aired.
There is certainly tension right now, especially with DeSantis v Trump. But maybe we do need a shake up. The left gave up a lot of their soul to unify under Biden, despite for decades of knowing his corruption. Our battles on the right are with bad principles on the left and right. We know there are RINOs out there who will sell our country to China for a larger stock portfolio, that want the Ukraine war to go on to keep money flowing for the military industrial complex, regardless what's good for America, or even the world. We see it on how they refuse to take the Ohio disaster seriously. So we need James out there to uncover the corruption without fear that his board of directors will shove him under the bus for fear of the political whales mad that he's getting too close to the source. Also neither should we keep from exposing the cons and grifts. It isn't the same as a purity spiral, because the principles and standards do not move to the whims and will of the politics or agenda. That's why we can't galvanize or unite just for the sake of uniting. If there's a legitimate issue, we need to cover it and resolve it as best we can. We can forgive, but not put issues under the rug. It's part of the checks and balances that help us speak truth to power.
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They forget that most of what makes Thor is Loki. Loki is like Joker is for Batman. But, outside a TV series, you can't really do a Thor v. Loki movie, save maybe once a decade. Maybe a trilogy if you have a story ark you can build up and end in three movies. But even there, a trilogy is roughly a generational film, like LOTR, with the books, the animated movies, and the live action trilogies comprising fans across nearly a century and three modern human generations - Boomers, Gen-X, and Millennials. Maybe Gen Z is ready for Hobbits, or maybe they are still trying to figure out who they are, after the past three generations have confused them to the point that they hardly know what gender they are. So who knows what the new generation even wants, or if they would rather be left alone now.
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As for blaming the internet, I see it more as the internet is more of a snapshot as to where we are as a society. People have done stupid stuff for a long time. We could blame shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, or more recently Fail Army. Gawker could be among the list, saved for they were successfully sued out of business, never mind their attempted comeback. Yet, people were doing stupid pranks and stunts long before the camera was accessible to most people. Never mind the slapstick of the Three Stooges, or Charlie Chapman, who was among the first to disavow their Nazi related comedy content.
I personally don't find what this guy and his crew did as funny, but most pranks are cheesy/stupid setups that, in the back of my mind, I hope backfires on the pranksters. So yeah, I love when the Roadrunner speeds past a bundle of dynamite that's set to go off, but doesn't until Coyote goes to investigate what went wrong. So yeah, unless what causes it to happen is a tragic murder! I'll laugh when the guy in the video messes around with the wrong person and his prank backfires on him, especially if he finally serves jail time.
The one thing I'm not going to do is blame the internet. The internet wasn't around to document that. If anything, the internet makes it easier to bust criminals that are stupid enough to film and upload their crimes. Or, with more and more security cameras with live streams, it makes it that much harder to deny a crime's existence, at least for as long as it remains accessible on the internet. If anything, the things law enforcement step in to intervene on as a crime tells you a lot about the state of both politics and law enforcement. Even in the example of the person and his crew talked about in the video. The only time he got serious backlash was when he targeted Jewish people. Otherwise, his threats and harassment were not even a slap on the wrist when the targets were white people, even regardless if they were women. That's a document of piss poor, politically correct driven law enforcement, that basically says white people don't matter, you can do whatever you want to them, even threaten to kill them. Hell, maybe white homicide is ignored because the police are perfectly fine with that as well. Who knows? But it's to that point where such questions aren't just a patter of 'far right' or 'white supremacist' conspiracy theories, but well documented realities that are being posted as 'pranks' that prove how far a black person can go when the target isn't a protected class, and this is done by an all black crew of their own free will.
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Really, this is gaming on the level of casinos. Only thing is, casinos do have a chance for a payout, even though, in the end, the house always wins. Because this is akin to gambling, games that do this sort of micro transaction, or pay to play style, ought to be regulated like casinos/gambling. Should crack down on free to play micro-transactions that target kids under 18.
However, simulations like Second Life are an example of micro-transactions that can be done in a better way. For one, it is an actual inworld economy where the people in the world can create their own products and put them up for sale on the Marketplace, as well as sell them in world, either at simulated malls, or at one's own store. People can also manage virtual land by buying a full sim and renting out parcels. The point being that it isn't just an economy to serve Linden Labs, who are kind of like the central bank, but one that the users of the game can participate in.
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Spot on here! Seriously, I miss game magazines that had level maps and would hint at hidden areas, and not just spoil them. Having a bestiary, weapons and armor guide, potions catalogue, or a class tree were great meta products you could have in a game's companion guide. The instruction manual should just have enough info to help you start the game, which would be a great reason to read a game's PDF manual, whith questions of what to do after reason for interaction in a game's forums. Why game magazines went away from actually informing about how to play games, I don't understand. Most gamers want to know what to do in their favorite games, not all this toxic woke garbage. But, then again, I'm 43. So what do I know about what kids these days like or don't like. And with all the social grooming going on, do these kids even know what they want?
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Catholics and Protestants alike believe in original sin. The Catholic view is that it is a wound on human nature, and thus something that can be healed through salvation. Protestants vary on what is believed and is dependent on their religious tradition, be it Lutheran, Calvinist, Baptist, etc., and the actual views today may not be the same as their founders. For example Martin Luther believed that humans were dung that are merely covered over in salvation by God's saving grace. That might shock a few modern Lutherans, while more traditional Lutherans would consider it hyperbolic and intending to stress the need to rely on God's grace for salvation, and not one's own works. I do agree with the basic premise, that critical race theory is similar to a cult of a religion, however I disagree with the comparison to original sin while misinforming on the Catholic doctrine of it. While it is true that original sin has been passed on to humanity since the first sin of Adam and Eve, this belief is not exclusive to Catholics, and is often maintained in more rigorous views among Protestant Christians. But yes, the problem with critical race theory is that it is utilizing a spiritual/religious narrative in order to condemn a certain race as being unforgiven and with no redeeming value. It might of been crass for Luther to say humans are dung, but he at least merited the possibility of salvation through God's grace. Critical race theory seems more like Calvinism, in that all people of color are the saved ones that are of the elect, and thus are above reproach, while white people are forever damned with no chance of being saved.
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It's a difficult topic because it's a matter of circumstance and association. This is at the heart of real racism and bigotry is the us v. them mentality. I don't think it fair to blame it all on mental illness. It might have a little to do with processing information and not having the sort of filters that most people do, but the issues Kanye has with the entertainment industry run deeper than who he currently blames for his issues. That said, we should have a more open discussion about the Holocaust and the 'Yahtzees' because there are a lot of things happening in our own culture that parallel with what happened then. A lot of our current industries made money off of that regime, even benefited from some of the tech and science that built many things things we commonly use today. We also have to understand the ties there were to the eugenetics program of the regime and how that has effected the development of genetics as we know it today. Then there's Albert Einstein who was by birth Jewish, but did not practice the religion, and even turned down the offer to be president of modern Israel. There are so many intriguing aspects of that era of history, and where we are currently about these matters doe a disservice to the lessons we should have learned regarding how such a genocidal regime could exist, then play a blind eye to the genocidal tendencies if the communist nations, of which we can't speak a lot about because it's 'bad for business', just like what our companies probably knew about the Holocaust would have been bad for business for them to speak out about then. This is why we need to talk about it open and honestly, for otherwise we are just as bad as those that looked the other way when it was a certain German regime doing the atrocities.
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@brazwen - It's what I meant to type in the first place. Autocorrect is a thing, you know? The point was toward George Orwell's 1984. If you really want to be a nit pick about it then it really ought to be nineteen eighty-four, as the 1949 1st edition, and almost every other edition ever since has done. Sure, there are variations on capitalization, be it just the nineteen, as in the 1962 Penguin reprint, or the nineteen, eighty, and four, as has been done since the 1969 modern series cover. The only cover of the Penguin publishings that actually has 1984 in numerics, though as graffiti over the title that spells out the numbers, is in the 2009 publishing of the Modern Series redesign by Jim Stoddart. But originally, the first edition was without capitalization as nineteen eighty-four. That's if you really want to be a technical nit-pic about it, anyways. 😝😏
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And if you really want to show that you're not racist, go read actual slave narratives, or research the Civil Rights era. In both instances, it was Democrats fighting hard to keep control of the plantation, be it the literal ones that held slaves, or the political one that to this day still uses race baiting and fear tactics to keep people of color voting for them. Yet what has BIpig Tech, neo-liberal Dems done other than maintain the status quo of high crime, high taxes, high poverty, and turned their cities into crap? They don't care about people of color, save for keeping control over them to keep power. But sure, a black mermaid is really going to change all that. Nope, they just toying with you like a fish on a hook!
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As for whether pixels = $$$, well, consider how much it cost even to buy Atari and NES games back in the day. The popular games went for between $25 to $30 for Atari 4-bit cartridges, and $45 to $50 for 8-bit NES carts. Before this in arcades, the games were made simple for short, addictive game play, to push as many quarters into the machine by as many arcade gamers as possible. Heck, many of the commercials for Atari and NES games were all about how addictive the game play was, while also claiming to be family entertainment.
Beyond that, being able to modify or power up your character in a game has always been an appealing element. For the arcade, it added an extra element to keep you engaged and plucking down more quarters. At home, it was to keep the game play from getting too mundane. The microtransaction, pay to play aspect can be bad, especially when the game is built on the only way to finish the game, or to have fun with it is in having to pay for better optimizations. Having an option to be able to beat a game without having to buy stuff, or to be able to earn it, as in the old RP monster grinding, that would be a better option. But, really, pay to play has, in a sense, been around since as long as people have been trying to buy their way into Heaven. Not saying it's right, but that's part of free will. Even so, regulating the choice for moral and ethical issues is the very reason that we have laws. Otherwise, it's a lawless society where anything goes.
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Accept the BS? Sorry, but this smack by Will Smith has been the best thing to happen to the Oscars whose ratings would have tanked without it. No one would be talking about the Oscars right now if this BS didn't happen. Trying to take a reasonable man argument here is just playing into it more. We went through a whole 'summer of love' in 2020 where people had done worse than smack someone and got away with it. There are still people getting randomly attacked in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, not to mention Chicago's continuous black on black shooting crime spree, and very few of them are brought to justice.
Whether Will Smith's career will be over for smacking Chris Rock is mostly dependent on Will Smith. Jim Carrey, who may or may not have led to one of his girlfriends to commit suicide has no room to talk on this whatsoever. He's as much a scum bag as any of these Hollywood elites are. For all we know, Carrey might be among the vampire child molesting cult that is said to rule Hollywood. Will Smith, is no victim, nor saint here, but among all those who want to be outraged by his sin, none of them could cast the first stone. But it still hits Will the hardest because he was supposed to be one of the good guys. He probably still could come back, but why? Hollywood is a toxic environment. The entertainment business as a whole is full of some of the worse scum on the earth. Anyone who wants any shred of sanity would be a fool for going into it, and would be wise to jump ship out of it.
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