The Sound of Freedom

[jimmyjazz 47205]

I'm laughing at the concept of a bunch of old white farts waiting for the previews to wrap up before taking their seats.

Edited August 6, 2023 by jimmyjazz

[elfenix 34751]

8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 movies start 30 minutes after the stated time and if you don't want stale popcorn, cold naoch, and your ice to have melted you won't get in your seat until 25+ minutes after the stated time. 

[Biff Tannen 46168]

1 hour ago, elfenix said:

 movies start 30 minutes after the stated time and if you don't want stale popcorn, cold naoch, and your ice to have melted you won't get in your seat until 25+ minutes after the stated time. 

And I believe they hold you in there for an additional 30 minutes at the end to watch all the credits and then force you to write a 2 page review as well.  Only for this movie though.  Because it's a cult.

[staboner 5084]

We've moved on from the Information Age and have landed on The Age of Projection, which I only kind of care about, but not too much. Just a little but cuz someone told me something closely related to this and I thought it was interesting to discuss further in an academic sense. 

[seven 1368]

I'm not trying to defend this stupid Qanon movie but checking attendance at a showing with the house lights on is regarded. There's still 30 minutes of ads and trailers after they dim the lights. 

 

Maybe that's just a regional thing, I don't live in Texas. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

2 hours ago, seven said:

I'm not trying to defend this stupid Qanon movie but checking attendance at a showing with the house lights on is regarded. There's still 30 minutes of ads and trailers after they dim the lights. 

 

Maybe that's just a regional thing, I don't live in Texas. 

Ни хрена?

[jimmyjazz 47205]

https://fb.watch/mfQ23YjxF2/

[Pato del Muerto 53505]

18 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

That makes sense

This is more disturbing

Cypress is a well-known aggy repository. 

[Cousin Strawberry 1273]

20 hours ago, seven said:

10 minutes before showtime is 40 minutes before the movie starts. No one is showing up that early at a theater with reserved seats 

I think this movie is for low IQ imbeciles but this is entirely correct.  If the movie time listed is 3:30, you have 25 minutes of previews and a reminder for the low IQ imbeciles that they shouldn't use their phone or talk during the movie.  Movie doesn't start until 3:55 or 4pm

[Biff Tannen 46168]

3 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

I think this movie is for low IQ imbeciles but this is entirely correct.  If the movie time listed is 3:30, you have 25 minutes of previews and a reminder for the low IQ imbeciles that they shouldn't use their phone or talk during the movie.  Movie doesn't start until 3:55 or 4pm

I went to two movies at alamo in the past week and I actually made note of the actual start time vs listed time for both. It was less than 10 minutes. 
 

Why are there two different posters on this site trying to bizarrely defend the astroturfing of this movie?

[Biff Tannen 46168]

After reading the other movie thread, maybe it’s only alamo that does it right?  I haven’t been to a non-alamo theater in probably a decade. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13731]

Some are arguing for the sake of arguing. Yes, there is evidence that some sold out theaters are fairly empty but we know many people have also seen this movie. Both can be true.  And yes some theaters may show 10 minutes of previews and others 20. I do think that 30 minutes of previews AFTER the stated start time is stretching the truth.

if you’re in a theater that is showing you 30 minutes of previews before a 90 minute movie, you should walk out.

[South Austin 53227]

So Milk Duds or Junior Mints?

[Celery Man 21098]

9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

After reading the other movie thread, maybe it’s only alamo that does it right?  I haven’t been to a non-alamo theater in probably a decade. 

alamo also takes their same "we'll throw you out" style stance on showing up late. admittedly it has never happened to me and I don't know if they really prevent you from going in to the theater (and I've been to the movies once, at the Alamo, in the past 3 years) but generally at the Alamo, be in the theater on time.

[Nivek 17415]

22 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So Milk Duds or Junior Mints?

Pizza with extra anchovies

[TheStoicPaisano 9953]

22 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So Milk Duds or Junior Mints?

JM, even with the jizz-like (so I’ve heard) middle.

the real play is Reese’s pieces at Target for $1.25.

[Captainant 28539]

12 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

alamo also takes their same "we'll throw you out" style stance on showing up late. admittedly it has never happened to me and I don't know if they really prevent you from going in to the theater (and I've been to the movies once, at the Alamo, in the past 3 years) but generally at the Alamo, be in the theater on time.

My wife and I saw Barbie at the Katy Alamo Drafthouse a couple weeks ago, and they had probably 15 or so minutes of previews after the "start" time on the ticket before they lowered the lights and ran their "STFU and put your phone up" videos

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

6 hours ago, Nivek said:

Pizza with extra anchovies

microwaved fish. I like to piss off everyone in the theater with my culinary choices

[tx ind 7057]

8 hours ago, South Austin said:

So Milk Duds or Junior Mints?

[Hookah Horns 3089]

On 7/11/2023 at 2:38 PM, wildcat09 said:

The Q-Anon Anonymous episode on Jim Caviezel is one of the most hilarious and batshit crazy things you will ever hear in your life.

Just listened to this and it was indeed hilarious, thanks. 

[Brisketexan 106899]

What I don't get is this delusional world "conservatives" have created where they, and they alone, are the world's crusaders against human trafficking and sex abuse.  I mean...I've known people actively involved in efforts to fight trafficking, to help women after they've been trafficked etc., for 20+ years.  Every one of them is firmly on the liberal side of the political spectrum (as you might expect from people involved in organizations focused on actually helping human beings).

This whole movement rests on a foundation NOT of "human trafficking and sex abuse is bad," but rather a fucking insane foundation that "Joe Biden and liberals and Oprah torture children for adenochrome and the liberal elite are kidnapping all the children in the world," so THEN human trafficking and sex abuse must be fought not just because, you know, we should help people, but "WE MUST STOP THE EVIL LIBERAL CABAL FROM DRINKING OUR CHILDREN'S BLOOD!!!"

Meanwhile, all the liberals, who have ALWAYS opposed things like trafficking people against their will, raping them, putting them into sex slavery, etc., are looking around confused AF going "I mean....yeah....sex trafficking is bad, always has been.  Welcome to the program, I guess.  But WTF are you even talking about?"

[elfenix 34751]

Some are arguing for the sake of arguing. Yes, there is evidence that some sold out theaters are fairly empty but we know many people have also seen this movie. Both can be true.  And yes some theaters may show 10 minutes of previews and others 20. I do think that 30 minutes of previews AFTER the stated start time is stretching the truth.
if you’re in a theater that is showing you 30 minutes of previews before a 90 minute movie, you should walk out.

AMC is easily 25 minutes of ads, including the ad for AMC. Last movie I didn't even leave the house until the stated time.

[BearSchlong 8241]

What I don't get is this delusional world "conservatives" have created where they, and they alone, are the world's crusaders against human trafficking and sex abuse.  I mean...I've known people actively involved in efforts to fight trafficking, to help women after they've been trafficked etc., for 20+ years.  Every one of them is firmly on the liberal side of the political spectrum (as you might expect from people involved in organizations focused on actually helping human beings).
This whole movement rests on a foundation NOT of "human trafficking and sex abuse is bad," but rather a fucking insane foundation that "Joe Biden and liberals and Oprah torture children for adenochrome and the liberal elite are kidnapping all the children in the world," so THEN human trafficking and sex abuse must be fought not just because, you know, we should help people, but "WE MUST STOP THE EVIL LIBERAL CABAL FROM DRINKING OUR CHILDREN'S BLOOD!!!"
Meanwhile, all the liberals, who have ALWAYS opposed things like trafficking people against their will, raping them, putting them into sex slavery, etc., are looking around confused AF going "I mean....yeah....sex trafficking is bad, always has been.  Welcome to the program, I guess.  But WTF are you even talking about?"

A few weeks ago one of my engineers offered to give me a lift from our corporate office to my hotel. It was a mile, so not terribly far - but once I cleared a place to sit in his hoarder-mobile he turned on some podcast where I first heard about adrenochrome. “Yeah, they scare little kids and harvest their adrenochrome and drink it!” I was so shocked by the notion and thankfully the drive was so short (just across the Dallas North tollway) that I didn’t explore his position on the matter. Other than I’m terrified of him.

Fundamentally, I’m simply naive. Thankfully this forum helps.

[Pancho 46312]

On 8/5/2023 at 9:04 PM, elfenix said:

 movies start 30 minutes after the stated time and if you don't want stale popcorn, cold naoch, and your ice to have melted you won't get in your seat until 25+ minutes after the stated time. 

No previews last 30 minutes. He just completely made that up.

[Stilicho 1422]

2 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

A few weeks ago one of my engineers offered to give me a lift from our corporate office to my hotel. It was a mile, so not terribly far - but once I cleared a place to sit in his hoarder-mobile he turned on some podcast where I first heard about adrenochrome. “Yeah, they scare little kids and harvest their adrenochrome and drink it!” I was so shocked by the notion and thankfully the drive was so short (just across the Dallas North tollway) that I didn’t explore his position on the matter. Other than I’m terrified of him.

Fundamentally, I’m simply naive. Thankfully this forum helps.

Adrenochrome.

From Fear and Loathing and the guy making that call in the film was a fucking joke with a giant cowboy hat as well.

They lack the imagination to even come up with new conspiracies. Within the next year, some shitheel will take to some social media outlet warning against kryptonite, gamma rays, and dilithium crystal consumption and thousands of fucking idiots will roll around and smear shit all over themselves in response.

It's weaponized willful ignorance, maybe the death rattle of what we've known as American democracy (trying out these Brisket-words). Whatever comes after this will necessarily be different. At least 40%ish of this country isn't going to stop being bigoted shitheels of the first order just because they lose some elections. They'll start blowing up buildings again. 

[safe sex 12010]

Never forget that a not-insignificant portion of people who consider themselves to be conservative believe that there are school districts installing litter boxes for kids who "identify as cats."

It's too late.

[seven 1368]

10 hours ago, Pancho said:

No previews last 30 minutes. He just completely made that up.

More like 10 minutes of coka cola commercials and 20 minutes of actual previews. 

[Nivek 17415]

Coka? Ok commie.

[Cousin Strawberry 1273]

22 hours ago, elfenix said:

On 8/7/2023 at 6:41 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Some are arguing for the sake of arguing. Yes, there is evidence that some sold out theaters are fairly empty but we know many people have also seen this movie. Both can be true.  And yes some theaters may show 10 minutes of previews and others 20. I do think that 30 minutes of previews AFTER the stated start time is stretching the truth.
if you’re in a theater that is showing you 30 minutes of previews before a 90 minute movie, you should walk out.

AMC is easily 25 minutes of ads, including the ad for AMC. Last movie I didn't even leave the house until the stated time.

This^^^

The last 3 movies I have seen were at AMC or Regal theaters.  The new Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones and Spiderverse all started 25 minutes after the listed start time.

I dont know why this is a big deal.  

 

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

2 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

I dont know why this is a big deal. 

Because it's 100% being astroturfed while purporting to shed light on the child trafficking crisis, it might be helping fund it. that's why it's a big deal. and those defending it are suspect.

[Zepol87 9341]

On 8/6/2023 at 10:24 PM, Biff Tannen said:

After reading the other movie thread, maybe it’s only alamo that does it right?  I haven’t been to a non-alamo theater in probably a decade. 

Not really. Not sure where the fuck you guys are going to movies but I have been to AMC, Cinemark, and Cinepolis more than a few times this year and never had an issue with anything, it is Surly so yea pretty normal for this crowd to shit on that I guess. Alamo does it best I won't argue that and I miss it though. Fuck this movie however

[DixonHur 11959]

Because of course...

Trafficking Survivors and Advocates Are Being Harassed by Sound of Freedom Fans

It's a great article.  

Spoiler

A few weeks ago, Kat Wehunt held a training for new volunteers at the Formation Project, a nonprofit that provides specialized services for people in Charleston, South Carolina, who have experienced human trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation. Each new group of volunteers need training so that Wehunt can get them up to speed on best practices, and it’s usually a fairly routine process.  

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This time, though, something different happened: Wehunt found herself in the midst of an unusual argument with a potential volunteer. 

The training typically starts with a discussion of the industry’s “myths and misconceptions and what trafficking actually looks like in our neighborhood in Charleston,” said Wehunt, who founded the nonprofit in 2019 and serves as its executive director. But some of the latest crop of potential volunteers had recently signed up after seeing Sound of Freedom, the surprise blockbuster film based on the purported work of Tim Ballard, the founder of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad. 

One potential volunteer simply didn’t buy Wehunt’s matter-of-fact descriptions of how sex trafficking often occurs, and the two started to argue, according to Wehunt, with the volunteer insisting that people were frequently trafficked after being kidnapped, which, in reality, is an exceedingly rare occurrence, according to the available global data.

“Those things I’m sure do happen,” Wehunt told Motherboard. “But it’s not representative of the majority, especially in our neighborhoods.” 

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As a survivor of familial sex trafficking herself, Wehunt would know. But like other trafficking survivors who now work in anti-trafficking spaces, she’s seeing a direct impact on her work as a result of Sound of Freedom, which – in lurid detail –  depicts children who are kidnapped by strangers and sold into commercial sexual exploitation. (The film ends with the Ballard character canoeing into the jungle alone to rescue a little girl, fighting her trafficker in hand-to-hand combat and ultimately killing him. As Vice News has outlined in a series of stories, Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad, or OUR, have frequently misrepresented their work; former “operators” who accompanied OUR on international missions describe some of them as bumbling and amateurish.)

The film has awakened the passions of a broad swath of the right-wing and conspiratorial world. Religious influencers, QAnon fans, and a huge group of people who defy easy categorization have all thrown their support behind the movie. And while fans of the film have insisted that it’s “raising awareness” of a global problem, experts in trafficking, including people who have experienced it themselves, are finding that it’s contributing to serious and harmful misinformation about what trafficking looks like and what survivors need to recover. Since its release, survivors who have criticized the film have been frequently accused of being “pedophiles” or “groomers” – the kinds of people by whom they themselves were once victimized. (Sean Wolfington, a producer for the film who contacted Motherboard to object to our coverage of the film, did not respond to two requests for comment for this story.)  

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“If I share anything publicly that’s opposing the film I get a lot of name-calling, a lot of lashing back,” Jose Lewis Alfaro, a sex and labor trafficking survivor who now works as a consultant and lived experience expert on trafficking issues, said. “It’s just really interesting to me how people are more than willing to hear a wealthy rich man’s superhero story, and aren’t willing to trust and listen to those who have actually lived through it.”

“It’s not awareness. This movie is full of assumptions,” said Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman, the chair at the United Nations’ fund for victims of human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, “and a dangerous portrayal of what trafficking is.” 

Piraino-Guzman, himself a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, has been critical of OUR’s work in the past, and the film, he said, furthers the same issues he’s called out before. 

“We’ve been fighting for 20 years for the appropriate ways to talk about trafficking, the ways we should be centering survivors, in order for us to be moving forward in a way that’s evidence based, not assumptions based.”

“To me this movie is a vanity project,” he said. “It’s all about Tim Ballard and this fake persona that he’s created for himself.”

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But, he added, there’s nothing new about the kind of narrative the film promotes. In recent decades, the mainstream societal conversation about trafficking seems to have gotten stuck, according to Piraino-Guzman.

“We have been here in this very spot in the anti-trafficking movement for over 20 years,” he told Motherboard. “We’ve been fighting for 20 years for the appropriate ways to talk about trafficking, the ways we should be centering survivors, in order for us to be moving forward in a way that’s evidence based, not assumptions based.” 

Alfaro, the trafficking survivor and consultant, has spoken frequently about how he was trafficked by a man who took him in after his family kicked him out as a teenager for being gay.  “He came across the right person at the right time and that was me,” he said. (Alfaro’s abuser is now serving 30 years in prison for trafficking at least four teenage boys through a “massage” business he ran out of his home.) 

The backlash he’s received for criticizing the film is an extension of what he’s already experienced, Alfaro said; men and LGBTQ trafficking survivors often face skepticism when speaking about the abuse they endured, and a particularly brutal variety of victim-blaming and homophobia. 

“People have told me ‘You weren't trafficked, you wanted it, you probably liked it because you’re gay,’” he said. “Horrible things like that. I’m seeing the same thing happening speaking out about his film. People are telling me, ‘you’re a trafficker, you're a predator.’ These are all QAnon conspiracy theories, and people are saying that to people who don’t agree with the film. It’s like, do you even know what I’ve experienced in my lifetime?”  

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Other survivors say they’ve faced the same kind of harassment, with heavy emotional consequences.

“When fans of the QAnon movie called me a pedophile because I dared to criticize how the film did not hire any survivors to help write the script or consult, I spent an hour crying,” said Sabra Boyd, a journalist, consultant, and child labor and sex trafficking survivor. (Some critics have accused the film of sounding QAnon-esque talking points, an accusation both the producers and Ballard have objected to. Caviezel, who plays Ballard, has frequently promoted conspiracy theories linked to QAnon.) 

“I can't comprehend saying that, especially not to a child trafficking survivor. I don't understand why fans of the movie would rather listen to Tim Ballard than actual trafficking survivors,” Boyd said. “But the problem is that solutions to human trafficking and child trafficking are not exciting like an action movie.” 

Alfaro worries about the effects of calling trafficking survivors “pedophiles,” beyond just the emotional impact it has on them individually. 

“You’re making them feel like they don’t even want to talk about this issue anymore,” he said. “There’s a lot of harm that happens with that and ultimately we have nothing to blame but these overly sensational depictions.” 

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Dr. Beth Bowman is the founder of the Restoring Ivy Collective, which, like many other survivor-led organizations, offers practical services for survivors, including support groups and referrals for housing and case management. 

Bowman bluntly said that many people in the anti-trafficking world are “pissed” about the film.

“It’s a sensationalized story that you only get trafficked if you’re taken by bad men in a white van,” Bowman said. Like other survivors, she was disturbed by the racialized undertones of the film, in which every villain is Latino and the hero is a lone white man. “It’s this awful ‘white versus the world’ narrative that just isn’t true. Most of the time people aren’t kidnapped. There’s poverty and abuse involved, for instance, an uncle is the trafficker. They aren’t typically that far from their families.” People who buy into the narratives promoted by the film and by some anti-trafficking groups, Bowman said, seem to have a vested interest in believing trafficking happens elsewhere, in exoticized far-away situations, and never at home. “They believe there’s a moral or ethnic or socioeconomic or national shield around them and their kids.” 

“I will not watch the movie out of respect for survivors and the movement. It’s harmful and it takes us back many years of work.”

“I’m going to be honest,” said Rafael Bautista, another labor trafficking expert who’s also a survivor. “I will not watch the movie out of respect for survivors and the movement. It’s harmful and it takes us back many years of work.” He’s struggled to get people to care about labor trafficking, even when it involves children, he said, pointing specifically to the thousands of migrant children whose whereabouts are unknown after they entered the United States as unaccompanied minors, and who may be victims of labor exploitation. He worries that because they’re looking for scenarios of international kidnapping and literal bondage depicted in films like Sound of Freedom and Taken, people may miss more common signs of trafficking at home – in nail salons, agricultural settings, or among domestic workers.

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“If we don’t fix our home,” he said, “it’s impossible to fix somewhere else.”  

“The harassment, said Chris Ash, has affected survivors’ mental health” Ash is the survivor Leadership Program Manager at The National Survivor Network, meaning their work involves interacting with trafficking survivors who now work in anti-trafficking spaces.  

“We see people who step back, who stop speaking out,” Ash said. “We lose their voice, their insights. It makes it harder for them to do their work. We also see people who keep speaking out anyway but have legitimate threats to their safety, fears around doxxing and harassment.” 

The creators of Sound of Freedom have not hidden their desire to use their audience’s concern to boost their ticket sales. At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard, appears in a special PSA to urge people to buy more tickets to the film. Some people working in the anti-trafficking space have tried to figure out how to speak to people who might have seen the film in hopes of nudging them in a more productive direction. 

“What does helping look like to you?” asks Blair Hopkins, the executive director of SWOP Behind Bars, which advocates for sex workers and trafficking survivors who are currently incarcerated or working on re-entry after getting out. “I would for sure tell someone the answer is not to buy more tickets to movies.” 

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“If they’re fired up and want to help,” Hopkins added, “the first thing I'd tell them is listen to sex workers. They know what exploitation in their trade looks like and how to prevent it. There are experts in those ranks.” 

Other survivors urge viewers of the film to stop talking about “rescue,” a term that can be disempowering and infantilizing for trafficking survivors who, more often than not, have to get themselves out of difficult situations. 

“We don’t ‘rescue’ each other or ourselves,” said Ashante Taylorcox, the founder and executive director of You Are More Than, a survivor-led organization which focuses on marginalized survivors, including people of color and queer people. “We figure out our next steps beyond the commercial sex industry.” 

Taylorcox focuses on the long-term. “We support them to build economic wealth,” she said, for example, by providing support when survivors are working on life goals like going back to school, offering free counseling services, and having a wellness fund to help them access mental healthcare resources; Taylorcox’s organization also invests in survivor-led small businesses. The first step, Taylorcox said, is often crisis management. “But oftentimes people will stop at the ‘rescue’ and think that’s enough.” 

Some of the survivors are working to find alternate ways to educate the public. Sabra Boyd, the journalist and trafficking survivor, said the realities of the trafficking world do not fit seamlessly into a box office narrative, which have made it difficult to receive the same publicity handed out to Ballard and Sound of Freedom. 

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“I am working with other trafficking survivors around the world to compile and vote on a list of survivor-vetted and approved movies and documentaries about human trafficking that are accurate and survivor-centered depictions,” she said. “It has been a very difficult challenge because most survivors don't have money or Hollywood connections to produce films.” 

Thus far, Sound of Freedom has grossed over $155 million at the box office. The amount of money the film – and OUR – has made is almost unreal to the survivors doing anti-trafficking work, who often struggle to fundraise for things as small as the cost of a bus ticket for a client. 

“All I can say is that legitimate organizations are really struggling,” Chris Ash said. If the money went to smaller organizations, they add, “it wouldn’t fund Rambo operations, it would fund the kind of support that survivors need.” It’s a running joke, Ash said, that survivor leaders use the mobile payment service Cashapp to send each other the same $20 “back and forth for lunch money because we’re struggling.” The support that Sound of Freedom fans have decided to put elsewhere, Ash said, “could really make a big impact.” 

Boyd added that much of the work needed to improve circumstances for people at risk of trafficking might prove “too boring to make into an action movie for QAnon fans,” including, she said, “providing housing, improving immigration policies, universal basic income to decrease poverty, access to healthcare and education, mutual aid, foster care reform, reparations, restitution, systemic racism, poverty, financial abuse and identity theft, legal aid, the ways our carceral and legal systems ignore the needs of victims, addressing the number of law enforcement officers who are traffickers or abusers.”

Other survivors and people working in the anti-trafficking space also have concrete tips for people who have seen the film and want to “help,” they tell Motherboard.  

“It keeps the right people in this work,” she said. “Not everyone is meant to be in this space. The people that are doing it for the right reasons, it’ll keep them around longer.”

“We have very real and tangible needs,” said Kat Wehunt, the founder of the Formation Project. Every Tuesday, they hold a dinner for survivors, and they’ve had trouble with transportation and childcare for the people who attend. They’ve also frequently needed people to do things like go through their clothing closet, do administrative work, and sort donations. The work is “a little less sexy” than many think, Wehunt said, but the benefit is that it can keep truly dedicated people involved and weed out those who are not. “It keeps the right people in this work,” she said. “Not everyone is meant to be in this space. The people that are doing it for the right reasons, it’ll keep them around longer.” 

“First of all, recognize that while this may be new to you, it’s not new at all,” said Chris Ash of the National Survivor Network. Connect, they say, “to the people who are already in the fight. Find people who are already doing this. Learn from them. They know what it actually looks like. If you want to help fight trafficking, find out what they need. It may not be sexy. They may need you to come in and do some filing, because nobody can get to it. They may want you to do something not glamorous. Not everybody has the skill set to be on the front lines.” 

 

 

 

[mchookem 16768]

absolutely INFURIATING

[Biff Tannen 46168]

So we can all agree that this particular movie is supported by child molesters and rapists and all movie theaters besides Alamo don't understand how to have a rational amount of previews, yes?

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9953]

8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

So we can all agree that this particular movie is supported by child molesters and rapists and all movie theaters besides Alamo don't understand how to have a rational amount of previews, yes?

 

 

[G650 14437]

I didn't realize this many people still went to movie theaters.

[Ghost of LL 15698]

13 minutes ago, G650 said:

I didn't realize this many people still went to movie theaters.

Fucking movie-theater popcorn is like crack to me.

And yes--I have a problem.

[Brisketexan 106899]

Fucking movie-theater popcorn is like crack to me.
And yes--I have a problem.

“A” problem?

[Hmbre97 6337]

I saw a car in Georgetown yesterday afternoon that had a big vinyl sticker that took up 75% of the back window of their car with this. These chucklefucks just can't help themselves with being obnoxious.

 

[hayden_horn 11402]

7 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

I saw a car in Georgetown yesterday afternoon that had a big vinyl sticker that took up 75% of the back window of their car with this. These chucklefucks just can't help themselves with being obnoxious.

 

it's this sort of thing that's so off-putting. 

like, they want to fight you because you are for child trafficking. they feel like they have to be all up in everyone's face about it.

meanwhile, people are fucking dying to get here. But whatever.

[C-Man 27779]

1 hour ago, G650 said:

I didn't realize this many people still went to movie theaters.

 

1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

Fucking movie-theater popcorn is like crack to me.

And yes--I have a problem.

I haven't been to movie theater since before the pandemic. My wife just doesn't like movies much in the first place and also doesn't like seeing them at the theater at all. The last movie I saw at the theater was Guy Ritchie's movie that I can't recall the name of -- the one where they're growing massive quantities of weed. I was pretty drunk at the show.

And, yes, GoLL there is something about movie-theater popcorn. I'll eat an entire large back of that shit and make a serious dent before the movie even starts. (Trader Joe's Movie Theater style popcorn is pretty good, especially if you melt some butter and drizzle on the top.)

[safe sex 12010]

You are allowed to go to a theatre, purchase a tub of popcorn, and leave without buying a movie ticket.

[BearSchlong 8241]

Not gonna spoiler the long cat VICE article that Dixon quoted, but on the example of labor exploitation at nail salons that is mentioned, the real question is, do I take a large bucket of popcorn with me to eat while I watch someone of Asian decent give me a pedicure?

If that is labor exploitation then every woman and some men I know are guilty of supporting it.

[Upgrayedd 5893]

1 minute ago, BearSchlong said:

Not gonna spoiler the long cat VICE article that Dixon quoted, but on the example of labor exploitation at nail salons that is mentioned, the real question is, do I take a large bucket of popcorn with me to eat while I watch someone give me a pedicure?

You don’t already do this?  

[Nice Guy Eddie 13731]

2 hours ago, Hmbre97 said:

I saw a car in Georgetown yesterday afternoon that had a big vinyl sticker that took up 75% of the back window of their car with this. These chucklefucks just can't help themselves with being obnoxious.

 

What is up with some people gravitating to car signs and flags? It's probably not far removed from how people identify with a sports team and it's extremely important to them that you are acutely aware of that as well. 

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13 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

What is up with some people gravitating to car signs and flags? It's probably not far removed from how people identify with a sports team and it's extremely important to them that you are acutely aware of that as well. 

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15 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

What is up with some people gravitating to car signs and flags? It's probably not far removed from how people identify with a sports team and it's extremely important to them that you are acutely aware of that as well. 

I was on the way down to my parent's ranch a few weeks ago to start helping out with my dad's funeral. I was kind of still in shock over dad's death and my mom's freaked out phone call urging me to get down there and was driving in a daze if sorts.

I was almost through Seguin when I spied a small maroon hatchback with a giant homemade rear window sticker which said "FUCK Joe and the hoe!!!"

I was grateful for the break it gave me to think about something other than death and funerals.

I also thought it was disrespectful to the office of the VP to not capitalize "Hoe".

He had some other stickers too, but did not get a good look at them, so not sure if aggy.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13731]

The best part of people publicly advertising their ignorance and lack of class, is that you don’t need to waste time identifying those characteristics. They shove it in your face. Reminds me when I see a confederate flag, I know that person is a loser.

[tigol 2482]

The best part of people publicly advertising their ignorance and lack of class, is that you don’t need to waste time identifying those characteristics. They shove it in your face. Reminds me when I see a confederate flag, I know that person is a loser.

It really sucks when they are family members.

I can’t disown them and I can’t be polite in their company. I absolutely dread visiting.

[Biff Tannen 46168]

1 hour ago, tigol said:

I can’t disown them

I mean, you could.