sorry. i will dumb it down for you. im trying to get you to express an original thought for once. does not matter if it is politics or movies or anything else about the CuLtUrE you are so plugged into. i truly am sorry if you dont understand that very simple thing. i wont bother anymore. continue droning on with whatever opinion you just read about and feel the need to make a post for. you really are a very weird and lost cause...
You're the one who came into a thread about Trump and decided to ignore the subject under discussion in favor of complaining that my opinions aren't original enough for you, but I'm the weird one? Look, I really don't want to fight, so I'll play along - and this is wildly off-topic, but you're the mod and you started it, so whatever - I have never, not even once, gotten my opinion on a piece of media from critics or someone else. The idea that I parrot the critical consensus on a show or movie is just one of those "everybody knows" factoids that have no support in actual evidence but have still somehow been fossilized into public opinion. It's like how "everybody knows" that Elizabeth Warren lied about being Native American to get herself jobs and scholarships, despite the fact that there's zero evidence of her ever actually doing that. Or how "everybody knows" that Joe Biden invented a gangster named "Corn Pop" in a senior moment, despite the fact that there's ample evidence of Corn Pop being a very real former gangster whom Biden really did know. Or how "everybody knows" that tort lawyers regularly victimize innocent corporations with ridiculous lawsuits over nonsense and win millions, despite the fact that 99.9% of the outrageous lawsuits people cite are completely fabricated and
the one case they cite that really did happen was actually an entirely valid case of corporate negligence leading to injury. I'm interested in how well movies do critically, and I occasionally share articles about shows or movies that I think are thoughtful or raise good points. I don't get my opinions from either. I've deviated from the critical consensus numerous times in my own reviews, and in every review I've written, I'm confident that at least some of the points I've raised are
so unique to me that I don't think any mainstream critics have even coincidentally brought them up in their own reviews. To cite
my most recent review, for example, I think I'm alone in my criticism of the character of Hawkgirl. As far as I can tell - and of course I haven't read every review of the movie - pretty much everyone else loves Hawkgirl, either because they're drooling over how hot she is or cheering "yas queen" over a scene that I strongly disliked because of how inappropriately it was framed.
As for politics, the case against me is even more feeble than it is with movies. Like, why even single me out? There are a bunch of us who have been consistently critical of Trump throughout this whole thread, and I don't think I'm more easily swayed by the media than any of the others. As it happens, I've been quite consistent in giving my own opinion regardless of what others in the thread or in the media were saying, and in numerous cases I've deviated from their consensus. Just recently, to give one example, I
pushed back against the trivial story of Trump seemingly cheating at golf when the entire political media and others in the thread were eagerly treating it as the scandal
du jour. In fact, what apparently set you off on this tangent was you either misreading or not reading at all
a post of mine where you evidently assumed that I was simply repeating a call to release the Epstein files, but which anyone who reads it can see isn't actually about that at all, and is instead me criticizing the tendency of Trump to prepare to blame a subordinate for one of his scandals instead of standing behind his people like a good leader. That's another original Saddam thought, by the way. I've definitely read criticism of Trump for blaming his subordinates for things he should have taken responsibility for, but as far as I know, nobody else has taken note of the way Trump
prepares to blame something on one of his subordinates before the scandal breaks, which is absolutely what he's doing whenever he says something along the lines of "That's
x's department/decision. I don't know anything about that."
It's honestly a little embarrassing writing something like this to defend myself. But again, I don't want to fight, so I did it for you. I hope you're happy with it.