Comments on: How can we create a polemical film that viscerally convinces people to Believe Experts?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:57:33 +0000

Pete: “Every time our elites do something you don’t understand, and you think they’ve made a mistake, it turns out that they ended up gathering more money and power for themselves. Oopsie.”

Just like when your bank makes accounting errors, strangely the mistakes are always in the bank’s favor.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:33:38 +0000

“They’re too stupid to be as evil as you credit them.”

Every time our elites do something you don’t understand, and you think they’ve made a mistake, it turns out that they ended up gathering more money and power for themselves. Oopsie.

This wouldn’t be the case if they were just stupid.

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:36:54 +0000

Appears to me the whole thing is based on government paid myth makers who spout nonsense and tell everyone that most people do the same when…they don’t.

They have been doing this a long time now to confuse any and all issues and discombobulate the minds of the public.

By: The Cominator

The Cominator — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:52:19 +0000

” I would bet that they come off as extremely charming, sharp, and disarming in person.”

Joe Biden and the ghosts of McCain and Ted Kennedy have entered the chat.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:16:36 +0000

Faze, the general selling the snacks was the cleverest, funniest, and most memorable part of the movie, but was it really so keenly observed? I’m a loser, so I’ve never hung around with the great and the good, but it strikes me as implausible that someone so highly placed would be so immediately, pointlessly, and transparently petty and dishonest. I have no doubt our leaders are scum, but they’ve climbed to the top of a very slippery pole, out-competing hundreds or thousands of rivals to seize their place. I would bet that they come off as extremely charming, sharp, and disarming in person. The problem is, portraying a character as personally charming, sharp, and disarming is likely to leave the audience sympathizing with him, no matter how destructive and stupid his behavior is supposed to be, so instead we get a silly caricature.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:48:44 +0000

“They’re too stupid to be as evil as you credit them” sums our elites.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:47:17 +0000

Don’t look Up is The Death of Stalin for our times.

There is no Zhukov, because we don’t do manhood anymore, but it is very incisive. It will not give you leftist cooties, it will give you some laughs and one of many money lines “they’re too stupid to be as evil as you credit them” about the elites.

You won’t get cooties, and it’s harshest barbs are not at all for the working class but for the political slime who exploit them and the oligarchs.

The actual part of not looking up is a few minutes at most of the movie.

By: Covfefe Anon

Covfefe Anon — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:52:24 +0000

Typical bullshit misdirection from Scott — “here’s something that we all do,” when he’s describing something that his side does over and over, where he can provide zero examples of the other side doing it.

“Oh, but this weird quirk of human nature is so mysterious!”

By: Faze

Faze — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:13:33 +0000

Contaminated NEET, the peripheral stuff: the waiting room outside the Oval Office; the general who sells the snacks; the interactions in the green room before the morning talk show; the families;etc.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 20:53:53 +0000

I saw it. I was not impressed. What are the keen observations you had in mind?