Vertigo is often considered his best, but it’s one of my least favorite among his best. Rear Window is my favorite movie, and I like The Man Who Knew Too Much, Lifeboat, and Stranger on a Train a lot, too. I’ve heard that someone is working on a remake of Strangers on a Train.
I’m not saying those people aren’t important, I’m saying they shouldn’t be the highest priority when deciding which issues to highlight during a presidential campaign. Sure, transpeople need our support, but their issue personally affects a far smaller segment of the population than an issue like healthcare, which affects literally EVERYBODY.
The First Rule of Politics is Get Elected, and that means highlighting the issues that will bring you the most votes. Once elected, then you can do whatever you want to help whoever you want. If you are one of those people who needs that sort of support (not just transfolk), then focus more on what it will take to get your advocates into power, instead of just using the campaign to highlight your own personal issues. Get your people elected, and then pressure them to help you.
This is what politics is, and why it often gets smarmy in practice, but that’s the game. If you want to win, you have to play it.
Despite the opposition, you are correct. We need to focus on issues that will win elections, not issues that affect a miniscule minority. The best help for those people is a government that will support them, so they have to understand that getting out of the way, and allowing their supporters to get elected is the best thing they can do.
If transgender people and their supporters want action, then stop demanding that the focus be on them, and support other Democratic issues that will lead to getting elected. THEN they can advocate for their rights with people who will actually listen.
This is the beginning of countless sci-fi stories. According to the TV and movies I’ve seen, this will lead to customizing fetuses, mostly for intelligence, and then the question becomes does society accept those people as their leaders (Brave New World) or criminalize their gene-enhanced intellect (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)?
If you want to watch some old movies that are genuinely special, look up the movies that Alfred Hitchcock made in the 40s and 50s, both color and B&W. I’m especially fond of the bunch he did at the end of the 50s - The Man Who Knew Too Much, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, and my favorite movie of all time, Rear Window. A few other really interesting ones are Strangers On A Train, Lifeboat, Dial M for Murder, Notorious, Rebecca, etc.
Absolutely mind-blowing, they’re so good. His stuff from the 30s and the 60s is okay, but his middle period was incredible.
This is going to be the threat that EVERY employee will hear over the next several years, whenever they ask for any sort of a raise, promotion, etc. “Just be glad we don’t replace you with AI.”
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YOU are what’s wrong with America, and the world.
He doesn’t, but he takes advice from trade expert Peter Navarro, who has written many books, crediting the groundbreaking work on trade and tariffs by renowned expert Ron Varo (Navarro).
Yep, Trump’s trade expert’s best source for information is just making it up himself. It’s all just imaginary, wishful thinking. Stupid people think they can just wish their fantasies into reality.
Thanks for asking, I’ve been wondering, too.
Russia has been continuously at war with America since 1917.
And rammed the ramparts… .
I’m tired of this being treated like some complex puzzle, where every proposed solution only seems to create more problems. It’s actually very simple. HEY PUTIN: Stop shooting. GTFO of Ukraine. Return the Ukrainian people you’ve kidnapped. It’s just that easy!
This reminds me of when they first sent that innocent guy to El Salvador. The dictators of both ES and US were sitting side by side on the Oval Office, being asked by the “media” if they could send the guy back. Each dictator blamed it on the other one - while they were sitting side by side!
All they had to do was say, I’ll send him back if you’ll take him, and the other could say we’ll take him back if you’ll send him, and the guy could have been back with his family in a few hours.
Instead, they both acted like it was totally out of their hands. Do these dipshits actually run their countries, or not?
It’s a Muslim nation. Ask other Muslim nations, and you’ll see similar numbers.
Whatever, still not a country.
I’ve needed to email my birth certificate a few times, so I could probably find it in my emails.
I’ve got a good friend from Venezuela who got her citizenship last December. She thinks that makes her safe, but I worry about her. These people don’t even respect birthright citizenship, they aren’t going to respect new citizens, especially from a nation they’ve decided to demonize.
Basically, if you were born somewhere else, they want you out.
Palestine isn’t a country, or you can bet it would have been on the list.
"I hate that guy!”
Transpeople and their supporters are falling into a trap set by the MAGA Nazis. They know that by constantly forcing the issue to the forefront, it forces Democrats to defend it, and it not only costs votes and makes them look extreme, but it keeps them from discussing issues that will earn them votes.
FIRST Rule of Politics - Get Elected. If it doesn’t get you elected, doesn’t attract votes, a campaign has to be ruthless and talk about something else. This is important: It doesn’t mean you don’t have support, it means that other issues are stronger vote attractors, and that’s what counts in an election. Vote for the candidate/party that is more likely to be sympathetic to your cause, even if they don’t talk about it, and you know that isn’t going to be Republicans. But don’t withhold your vote from a Dem candidate just because they didn’t make your specific issue their top priority. It doesn’t mean it isn’t important to them, it just means that other things are more likely to get votes. You certainly aren’t going to get what you want from MAGA Nazis.
I’m not a neo-liberal, I’m not even a Democrat, I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent for nearly 50 years. I have a son with numerous trans friends whom I love and respect. I am way on your side. But this a WAR, and to achieve your objectives, sometimes you have to sneak up on the enemy. Running directly into the line of fire is not the way to win.
Your real battle is with health care. We need to have universal health care in this country, and when we finally do, there is going to be a war over things with a sexual/gender component like contraception, abortion, and trans health. Fight for health care first, and then you can fight to be included in that, and that will get you much of what you really need most.