@FlashMobOfOne I admire him as an artist. I think he's one of the greatest artists in history.It's one thing to be great in film and comedy today, with 100+ years of examples to crib from, it's another thing to essentially pull the art form from the ether yourself. Chaplin didn't really have anybody to imitate, his comedy was all from his own mind, and it's still referenced a century later (and hilarious). An honest to god genius who wasn't appreciated in his own time.
@FlashMobOfOne@FlashMobOfOne The great dictator is the best movie Chaplin ever made, and ironically, his speech at the end is probably the apex of his entire career. His speech, ad libbed in the context of the movie, is genuinely stirring. I love Chaplin's movies so much, he was a great man.
@jeffowski gotta love it when people who live in a shack out in the middle of nowhere earning pennies a day are being accused of committing fraud because they count every inch they do literal work at as their office by people bemoaning how unfair the system is.
@jeffowski Some humanist. "Oh, you're committing fraud against the IRS by counting your entire house as an office." Take your scare tactics bullshit off my screen.
@BlackAzizAnansi My sister and brother in law have forever changed how I look at them because of Covid. We were at my aunts funeral, who had died from covid right in the smack of the pandemic, and someone was mentioning that the local HS baseball team had come down with covid, and they both replied "Good." Good, because they couldn't wait till everyone got covid, and realized it was "just the flu." Said outloud, at my aunts funeral, next to her kids, when she died from covid.
@BlackAzizAnansi Like, I can't look at my sister as anything but a cultist at this point. She's ruined her entire image as someone knowledgeable or bright to me. I can't say enough how disappointing it is, at a core level. It's something she can never take back, I will always forever realize that my sister is kind of a fucking moron, you know?
And i love my sister a lot. We were close growing up. Trump did this to her. Once trump enter politics, she nose dived into fox news. And now here we are
@BlackAzizAnansi You want an example of how far gone my sister is now? The school year after lock down ended, she got her kids vaccinated for everything *EXCEPT* covid. Bragged about them getting their flu shots and shit.
My best friend has known her for 30 years. He called her out on it. "So wait, you got your kids a flu shot, because you were worried about them getting the flu? But not the covid vaccine, because it's harmless. But you say it's "just like the flu?" So... what?"