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Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent
Jared writes "Michael Moore was afraid the Feds might sieze his new documentary Sicko, a scathing indictment of the US health-care system, because part of it was filmed in Cuba despite the US embargo. So he stashed a copy of the film in Canada just to be safe. He might as well not have bothered — the film has shown up on BitTorrent and P2P networks everywhere. So it's safe now."
Michael Moore is a businessman catering to a niche market of rabid idelogues. Anyone who thinks he's anything beyond that is a bloody fool.
All his oh so controversial statements are just PR and advertising for his products. The political wonks go out and buy up his product and run home to masturbate endlessly to it.
And to be fair, same deal with Ann Coulter. Anyone who wastes a single moment arguing against her is wasting time.
But why does it have to be state funded? The think tanks and medical professional organizations of this world have publlished a bazillion papers on how to set up a fair and effective free market health care system. A lot of thought has gone into the issue. The reasons none of them get implemented is, as usual, fucking political jackassery.
The choice between what we have now and nationalized health care is a false dichotomy. There's many, many directions to go with this.
I'll also NEVER understand those so willing to put their health care in then hands of our dumbass government. That's just plain alien thinking to me.
You can stop there. Stay the frak out of our politics.
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The most important thing is that he's fat and his voice is a little whiny. If you can't see that and channel your rage accordingly, I feel sorry for you dirty hippies.
A near textbook quality ad hominem attack.
Thank you for your contribution, especially since all those stupid die-hard communists seem to think infant mortality in Cuba is less than that of the US.
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For instance:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worl
Michael Moore claimed that a military communications satellite is a fucking weapon of mass destruction. That's when I tuned out Bowling for Columbine, and decided to never waste money on his crap again. (When confronted about it, his "proof" that it was a WMD was the USAF logo painted on the side of a rocket.) Michael Moore hates America. Why should anyone listen to his American hating, Halliburton stock owning fat ass?
once again they are flooding the p2p networks with garbage in order to try and destroy it.
Michael Moore "forgot" to mention that the bank did a background check (had to by law?) to find out if he had a criminal history. The gun was handed over after that check.
The film made it appear as if everybody could walk into the bank, open an account and immediately take a rifle away. Technically Michael Moore did not lie, but the way he reported the proceedings was definitely misleading.
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He obviously honed his debating prowess from watching Fox News.
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Incidentally two big diseases that American Pharma couldn't give a rats about.
Remind me why it's bad they don't care?
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but his presence in the situation was very much not needed. People like to spark that same anti-gun pro-gun debate after every human tragedy with weapons and ignore the details of the tragedy itself.
I would argue the NRA is needed at a time like that. The anti-gun lobby certainly does so to push their view using emotional, factless arguments. Would you fault those that support the first amendment showing up whenever those that oppose it are appearing somewhere?
The fact of the matter is that everytime gun control laws are passed, crime in that area goes up, not down. The statistics are there.
That "don't need immediately" is unjustified. Who are you to say that my treatment is unneeded? It sounds like you want to limit my care by some arbitrary idea of your own. No, this is making people wait for treatment they need.
What we're doing is slightly less awful. People decide their own need. Money is the push-back which prevents people from demanding infinite care.
Don't imagine that there is a lovely solution to this problem. That's fantasy.
Moore completely changed the tone of Mr. Heston's speech given that day.
I haven't seen that movie or the speech in question, but what the hell does "changed the tone" mean? Hitler gave uplifting speeches to cheering Germans which hinted at genocide. If someone called out Hitler for such a speech, would "but you changed my tone" make any sense? "Oh sure, the meaning was that I wanted to kill all Jews, but the tone was much nicer."
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