I wouldn’t worry about it.

Do you think there might be some sort of corruption in the gun trade?

Is that even possible?

I thought guns were supposed to keep you safe.

Tennessee’s child labor law allows children as young as 14 to work.

Prisoners are legal slaves and can be compelled to work.

I guess we have Trump’s solution to replacing all the jobs after expelling all the immigrants.

I’m pretty sure presidential campaigns are about courting everyone you can possibly court that even has a slim chance of voting for you.

Or what’s the point?

Yes. AOC is definitely very weak. There’s no chance she will be re-elected in a district where she got… *checks* 70.6% of the vote last time. This is totally going to sink her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York#District_14

Because people who hold focus groups can predict that a MAGA comedian is going to call Puerto Rico a trash island at Trump’s big rally a few days before election day?

How can they do that?

They are useful for evaluating a movie’s actual quality.

Sometimes. When they don’t get brigaded. Movies that star women and minorities or, heaven forbid, queer people bizarrely tend to have much lower scores on the IMDB than movies that star heteronormative white men.

They don’t have to win over “MAGA undecided,” whatever that means.

They just have to convince people who weren’t planning on voting to vote.

You’re right. It’s just whataboutism. The fact of the matter is that AOC and all of the Democrats hate Arabs. Unlike Republicans, who love them and all other minorities.

MAGA 2024!

Currently- Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times), Justin Chang (L.A. Times) and J. Hoberman (Village Voice), although admittedly these days since I just sail the high seas most of the time, I often just go by the description and turn it off if I don’t like what I’m watching.

I used to know older critics better though. I was usually able to figure out whether or not a movie was worth watching by paying attention to Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael (if she liked it, I probably wouldn’t).

But if Bad Bunny is any indication, a lot of Puerto Ricans off the island and in the States won’t vote for Trump because of Tony Hinchcliffe.

I honestly don’t find any number rating especially useful.

What I have found useful is to follow 3 or 4 specific movie critics, get to know their opinions and contrast them with my own. We’re never going to agree on every movie, but at least I’ll know why they liked or didn’t like it as a way to figure out if it’s worth my time.

I explained my logic

So you have no evidence for your claims. Gotcha. Not interested in faith-based discussions. Sorry I bothered you.

I said her campaign got screwed over by someone, not that she did it intentionally

Sorry, my mistake.

That’s a bold claim. Prove it. I want to see hard evidence that her campaign was intentionally screwed over by someone.

Sounds like your point, again, is that I’m a pedophile but I’m hiding that. Something you originally said you weren’t calling me.

Make up your mind. Am I a pedophile or not? If I am, please report me to the Lemmy administrators. If not, I’m really not interested in your point because I have never excused pedophilia and I never will and anyone who did in 2005 should be ashamed of themselves. You included.

No, this was deliberate.

That’s a bold claim. Prove it. I want to see hard evidence that AOC’s campaign would deliberately antagonize her Arabic-speaking voters.

IMD ratings are stupid. I almost never see a rating even as high as 9 for anything no matter how much people love a movie or consider it one of the greatest ever made:

Citizen Kane: 8.3
The Maltese Falcon: 7.9
Star Wars: 8.6
No Country for Old Men: 8.2
The Shining: 8.4
Lawrence of Arabia: 8.3
Psycho: 8.5

Here’s a few 9s.

Schindler’s List: 9.0
The Godfather: 9.2
The Shawshank Redemption: 9.3

That’s how rare it is. Even The Shawshank Redemption couldn’t get a 10.

Edit: Whooosh for me on the joke. And I love This is Spinal Tap too. I love it so much I sat through the terrible 4-hour rough cut on the Internet Archive.

The original We was a reference to ‘we as a society

You had many opportunities to clarify that before now. Your refusal to do so makes me think that’s not what you meant.

Also, jokes are supposed to be funny.

and they don’t respect the Arabic community enough to consult with them.

Or maybe they didn’t have the time because you need to get things to a printer on a deadline and there’s an election in less than a week.

You’re acting like this is some sort of bigotry when AOC is so obviously not a bigot and has shown every sign of genuinely caring about her district.