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'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google (cnet.com)
theodp writes: If you never got around to reading Dave Eggers' novel The Circle, the tale of a powerful tech company that bears a more-than-passing resemblance to Google (and has an Apple spaceship-like HQ) is coming to the big screen and the first trailer is out. The film has a release date of spring 2017, and stars Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Remember, sharing is caring!
I'll walk out after 15 mins. I really tried to like the book, but the hip references to modern tech felt absolutely kickable.. like watching a Sandra Bullock movie in a similar vein. Sorry. I'll pass.
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).
this already exists....
please educate your fellow workers :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu#Censorship
regards
John Jones
Tom Hanks is an asshole.
Trevor Moore, spreading Fake News before it got cool!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If it's from Hollywood, post 1968, then:
1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.
2. The hero will be a military person who goes rogue, a whistleblower, a leftwing politician, a leftwing lobbyist/staffer/lawyer/journalist/activist.
3. The evildoer will be motivated by money or political power.
4. The good outcome will be something leftwing, and the villain will be defeated in-part by some failing of his/her rightwing ideology.
5. Big government (except for the military), and/or globalist entities (like the UN) will be portrayed positively.
Somehow, Hollywood keeps pumping out the same basic drivel over and over and pretends that each such plot has some "shocking" element or plot twist, which it does not - this stuff it too predictable now to even be interesting and any variations tend to be very superficial.
Is the movie company full of ads?
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..The fuck is this supposed to mean? We're expected to shill for this movie because we're geeks? Disgusting.
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He couldn't act his way out of a nutsack
Stay strong, Mr. Hanky.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I would have loved to have been in that meeting.
2 hours? These days you are luck if a movie runs past an hour and a half.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
I know from context that you meant to write "always", but my mind interpreted that word as "walrus" ;)
Now how does that work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascism is what we today call the "alt-right" - right-populism. The greatest enemy of fascism is those who prefer, support and embrace diversity - what the alt-right calls "cucks". Fascists seek a return to the "good old days", some sort of lost "days of glory", where "traditional" values reigned, while simultaneously rejecting the globalism and the focus on
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Love me some Trevor Moore.
Little known fact; the movie title is an abbreviation from the original title "The Circlejerk".
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On Internet forums, especially if you're AC, "fascism" just means "zealousness". Like, "I hate the liberal fascists just as much as the conservative ones, and the Green Party fascists are the worst.".
No, what it means is that we have a troll here whose agenda is to tilt the entire exchange so that every political disposition is judged against the most strident example of the first-to-mind reductive cliche.
It's a war against subtlety. It's a war against moderates and it's a war against moderation—where "moderation" means the kind of people who think before speaking. It's a distributed, grassroots campaign to normalize the extremes through the implication that all stupidity is created equal. It's painting an f-washed world in which no person is angry or intense because they have a valid point to make about some aspect of society being not right. It's an exit ramp lowered to a swamp world where anger is a Halloween costume (Yoda, Darth Vader), rather than a tool (Martin Luther King, Jr).
That's what it means when 'fascism' becomes a trivialized wingnut stand-in for 'zealotry', a word which already has two boots firmly planted in labelling over listening. Add heels, click, and the world becomes corn-belt Kansas 24/7.
I do not believe the GP meant to indicate any support for the usage, just comment on what it was.
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).
They *are*. I have an idiot friend who makes the commute from SF to Facebook via bicycle daily. Only if it's raining does he load his bike on the rack on the bus, in the hopes that it will stop raining later, and he will be able to use the bike to go the other direction, the next time he needs to move from one to the other.
Of course... he's Australian, and they are all crazy. ;^)
Wait, that would be more like Yahoo!
Have gnu, will travel.
Yes, thank you for summarizing the situation from the liberal point of view.
I will try to give a view from the center.
Usually when someone says "fascism" in this context they really mean "totalitarianism". Essentially everyone conflates the Nazis, fascists and totalitarianism but it is clear that totalitarianism can be on any side of the political spectrum, it just has too many syllables.
So the current backlash, which got a demagogue (Trump) elected was, in my opinion, caused as a reaction against the leftist (or liberal if you wish) totalitarianism that has been on the rise recently. These groups have gone around dictating their view of the world and then actively gone on campaigns to deny platforms and ruin the livelihoods of people who do not conform.
As an example, equality in race is not enough. Even though laws have been passed that make it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race for housing, jobs, school and anything else, these groups insist that there is institutional racism and that the majority group has to accept that they have a "privilege" and atone for it. Any questioning of this on the part of the majority group is seen as additional evidence of racism and is termed "fragility". Further efforts are made to dehumanize the majority group and to negate what they have to say with statements, like "It's not possible to be racist against Whites".
Other examples exist, including Feminist claims that there is a rape culture in the West and other groups insisting that a failure to use their chosen pronouns is actual violence against them.
What all of these groups share is a totalitarian methodology that tries to control all discussion, dictate what is and isn't OK to talk about, and to enforce their world view through threats and intimidation.
You contradict yourself and even the references you posted from Wikipedia. I suggest liberal doses of psilocybin, and some time away from whatever you have been reading.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Yeah, I always love when a Hollywood movie tries to talk down to us plebs about how "eviil" some corporation(s) is/are, or how the "system" is holding down people.
They're some of the most over-paid, spoiled and "in an insulated echo chamber," people out there.
I especially love when they pull the 1% vs the 99% stuff.. many of them are in the 1%.
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You are correct. I don't support the usage. Just trying to warn Rei that 5 paragraphs on how fascism is incompatible with liberalism is not going to hit home with AC.