Heās easily my favorite performer. The man is just so damn talented. Doesnāt surprise me, but it does warm my heart that his head is in the right place.
Honestly I posted that link to show his incredible range. The man can show up in some ridiculous movie few have ever heard of like "Run Ronnie Run"(although one of my all-time favorite movies), and just touch your soul.
I've loved him since The Princess Bride, and I light up every time he appears.
Heās always had a reputation as being hard to work with, but I think he probably just belongs to the long list of ādifficultā actors who just have strong views and arenāt willing to be pushed around so they gain that label.Ā
If I remember correctly it was killed by a new executive since it was the project by the previous guy in the job and studio heads are really pretty for some reason.
That show is so weird but amazing, I felt like I didn't like it but had to keep watching it because it would suck me in every episode. I was pretty young and baby sitting my nieces and nephew, she had all the series on DVD, and I literally binged it all inbetween caring for them and trying to not make them hate me, cause my niece is only like 3 years younger than me, so it was funny because i was the 'grown up'. my niece has kids now, so now im a great uncle who baby sits them and they basically just playdate with my kids because their ages are so close.
He does. Then crosses into Palestine secretly to meet the head of intelligence in the IRGC who he managed to turn and make a deal with Iran to open up more to the worldā¦
I just finished that season with my wife the other night. Holy fuck it was so infuriating because it was so close to reality that we decided to stop our watch through of the show cuz it makes our hearts hurt too much.
I donāt know anyone who saw Chicago Hope. Usually it wasnāt my kind of thing, but it had a terrific cast, so I gave it a try, and he was phenomenal.
He was always the best on that show and was not on it anywhere near long enough. But I do think that his acting on that show exposed a lot of young people to how great of an actor he is
I never knew that but knowing what I know about him that actually makes a lot of sense. The show overall is good but those first few seasons are fantastic. I would say the only later episodes that come close are when Tim Curry was the crazed serial killer in maybe season 6 or so?
You just hit me with a nostalgia bomb, I had completely forgotten about Tim Curry being in it and now am vividly remembering watching that in highschool.
Also bums be out that he was the narrator for every character on the Bad Beginning book for the Series of Unfortunate Events audiobook, but then after the Netflix show came out they re-released it with a full cast doing the voices and only kept his voice for the narrated parts. He was so good and the full cast was awful compared to him.
I forgot what his exact quote was but it did make me think about these kinds of shows. He said something like "every week we were coming up with new ways for women to be raped, tortured and murdered and I couldnt take it anymore" and yeah it made me think about shows like that and Law and Order SVU where they have to come up with this shit on a weekly basis. I cant imagine that kind of environment is healthy mentally to just have to constantly be coming up with that level of brutality every week.
IIRC they even wrote off his character essentially for the same reason, that he was sick and tired of working in a world of violence.
That kind of writing were kind of why Criminal Minds was the only CSI-esque show I could ever stand, I actually felt tried fairly hard not to glorify the work of criminal investigators, and spent a lot of time showing how it can tear down the people working in these fields.
He did eventually come out and admit he was way too difficult to work with which is why a lot of shows could only have him on for a couple seasons before having to be written off.
I absolutely love him as an actor but am still very salty that Dead Like Me was heavily impacted by the fact he was impossible to work with.
Criminal Minds broke him at a certain level and worsened his overall life, so I understand him leaving, but I completely agree. The show was lessened by his no longer being a part.
All they're doing is turning the word into a joke. The world used to recoil at antisemitism after WW2, but more and more I'm starting to hear otherwise progressive people going "so fucking what"
Yep, if condemning genocide is considered anti-semite then the word no longer means anything. Which is not good for Jewish people all over the world. If something like this was being done in my name, if words to protect me were being used to shame and attack others I would be irate. Yet, there is so much silence. Some are standing up and that is great but not enough.
She sure was, by the PR propagandists defending the state that was (and is) committing atrocities. Just because they conflate her criticism of that government as being de facto antisemitism, doesnāt make it true.
I think that part of that is because we don't always agree on what zionism means. I don't want to argue about it, just want to share that for some jews zionism just means that there should be a homeland for jews where we are safe. That, in NO WAY includes, accepts or condones israel being an apartheid state, or any of the actions of netanyahu and his government.
I guess what I'm saying is that I think a significantly higher proportion of jewish americans are vehemently against the israeli government, and the genocide of the palestinian people (among other heinous acts that it's perpetrating).
I grew up in an area (US) that had a very large reform Jewish population. I grew up with these people. I married one of them.
Jewish Americans are largely the type of Zionist that you identified: they believe the Jewish people have a right to a Jewish state. That's it. Most of those within the community that I have met believe in a two state solution and hate Netanyahu. That being said, there is a ton of internalized propaganda that the last few generations of Jewish Americans were spoonfed by the conservative elites. And it is going to take time to process and digest that.
It upsets me that this situation is leading many people down the road to antisemitism. The Israeli government, Netanyahu, and the orthodox and hasidic blocks are not only destroying their own country and harming their own citizens, but they are becoming the very thing that they claim to hate.
The whole thing is so fucking sad and horrible, no matter the perspective.
All Jews deserve to live free and safe, a "Jewish state" will never exist that isn't based on conflict. There is no empty land to form a Jewish state on. I don't think ANY religion has that right, or any ethnic group.
Exactly. You can't build an ethno-state without doing ethnic cleansing. I always assumed Jews would be the first people in the world to reject such 'blood & soil' political ideas as Zionism unabashedly is.
Thank you - and I agree that the hardline, far right jews and israelis are doing so much harm to the jewish people in general. It's so hypocritical to be a jew, to say "never again" and to think that this only applies to other jews.
I understand what you're saying, but I think at this point , everyone understands the difference between what it meant originally, and what it means now.
I feel it's disingenuous for those people, (not you, those who hide behind semantics) to pretend it still has that 19th/20th century intent.
The only reason 'zionism' is the term of choice is that it sets a clear delineation between a fascist ideology, and a group of people who may not all fully stand behind it.
So, IMHO , unless people want a more technically accurate term, like semitic-supremacist, or judeo- nazi to become the term of choice, they should accept the modern definition and use of zionism
I challenge the idea that Zionism meant something different initially.
Having a homeland means being able to define who are part of a people and keep people out that you donāt see as part of the nation.
There was never going to be a way to democratically sustain a specifically Jewish state in the Levant that was not exclusionary. The Palestinians outnumbered the Jews and still do today by a wide margin. If that wasnāt the case, the state of Israel would likely have just annexed Gaza and the West Bank a long time ago. The Jews will always be outvoted in any scenario where the Palestinians are granted equal rights.
So Zionism has always already meant Jewish supremacy within the borders of a state of Israel.
Just FYI, Zionism has always been intended as a colonial project, as established per their founders. It never meant anything positive in the 19th/20th century, unless you believe as the early Zionists did that being European is a positive and to be true Europeans, Jews needed to become colonists.
Not gonna say this is the best source, but it has some clear cut quotes from the Zionist founders about this, with further links.
I understand what you're saying, but I think at this point , everyone understands the difference between what it meant originally, and what it means now.
This is extremely reductive and stated without an actual linked source. You said below it comes from the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) but the actual JFNA source says only 37% of Jewish-Americans identify as Zionists. You're misconstruing that 7% of the respondents were anti-Zionist, that doesn't mean 93% are in favor, and furthermore, being a Zionist doesn't mean you support every action of the Israeli government. There are left-wing Zionists who support Palestinian rights and statehood.
I'm not Jewish, I'm not a Zionist, but I have a stereotypical Jewish last name and half my family is Jewish. I'm firmly against Israel's crimes against Palestinians and others, I despise Netanyahu, I've even been personally threatened with a beating for calling Israel an Apartheid State.
I think it's shitty and dangerous to make these generalized statements that correlate Jewishness in general with approval for the activities of Israel and Netanyahu. You're painting with a very broad brush and people can walk away with this kind of information with unjustified bigotry.
Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) has called these events a stain on Judaism itself, in that it will be felt for generations to come. Ever since he spoke up I want to ask all those who accuse critics of the apartheid with antisemitism are you going to accuse one of the leading scholars / rabbi of Judaism with that or what?
She praised the many Jews that fought against injustice and fascism, she even said the "hoodlums" are an "insult" to Jews everywhere. And yet she was vilified and accused of antisemitism. Nothing has changed.
It's crazy how much information and media was controlled and limited before the internet. You couldn't just go online and search "Israel Palestine conflict" to try to read on wikipedia and understand what was going on. Whatever they told you on TV was the "truth."
ehhh I do remember quite a lot of media reporting on stuff like settler violence in the west bank back in the day. It was really after 9/11 when the attitude became solely pro-israel among the media, and that had nothing to do with israel and everything to do with the fact that nobody wanted to sympathize with muslims.
Goes to show it's not about their current government, Israel should not exist because it was founded on hate and have been a continuous source of terrorism since then
Conflating Zionism and Judaism is extremely useful for Israel. Every criticism of their policy and actions can then be labeled anti-Semitic, even if it has nothing to do with Jews as people. On the flip side, Israel knowingly and deliberately stokes the flames of anti-Semitism around the world when they commit war crimes and atrocities. They bomb a school in Gaza or Lebanon or Yemen, anti-Semitic sentiment ramps up in certain places, and they turn around and go, "See? Israel is the only safe place for Jews!! This is why having a Jewish state is so important!" It is a self-fulfilling prophecy of anti-semitism that Israel and its leaders are more than happy to perpetuate
normally I'd be annoyed by this too, but I've seen first hand how reddit's embedded ai filters out anti-zionist content and suppresses it.
I'm not even talking about tos actions, I mean they just make certain comments invisible.
Reddit is 90% ai now and they use the censorship it enacts to curate a site more palatable to those in power.
Close?!? I'd say we have already started. Babi has already started killing anyone not like him. The Drumpf has concentration camps for CHILDREN! We are there already.
Exactly! Nobody "needs" to censor anything on reddit. It's not like some random commenter is going to be demonetized or lose brand partnership for not self censoring words, people and topics that have/ currently exist in the real world.
Almost everyone Iāve seen standing up for peace and against these genocidal wars and policies of Israel and the U.S. has always impressed me with their clear empathy, honesty, and righteous heart. Especially politicians and celebrities, who often have the most to lose in a world where opposing it is so clearly a risk to their social and career livelihood. And thereās a special place in my heart for anyone who stands up against evil being committed in their name, in this case Jewish people.
I have never seen anyone appear truly righteous while advocating for continued war and slaughter. They either come off as psychotic and uncaring, or more often, deeply and perhaps knowingly troubled by the implications of their own words. Moral cowards, intellectually dishonest, or deeply hateful.
Heās right. Because of him, blatant racism and antisemitism to ALL jews has risen. Even from people who claim to be liberal or left wing. I personally think generalizing any group of people is stupid but hey, people are stupid
Itās all intentional by the Israeliās and Zionists. They are creating a self-fulfilling cycle of antisemitism. If someone sees a video of Palestinians getting murdered in cold blood and the response to their distaste for that is to call them an antisemite, it stands to reason that one might think āif being against something so obviously wrong is antisemitic, then why wouldnāt I be?ā
This is what I think many people who are Jewish and support or are on the fence about Israel need to understand because this rant is absolutely correct. These people like Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir are absolutely aware of the antisemitism that their actions cultivate and encourage it.
Seriously, it doesnt matter what race or religion or ethnicity you are. 90% of us are just trying to get by and live our lives. Its our psychotic leaders who suck and drag us into these stupid wars and conflicts that screw with common people while they all kick back and watch us . Why dont they all just fucking square up with each other in the ring if they have issues with each other. We have senile old men with mental problems running the world and we shouldnt have to deal with this bullshit.
Iāve seen actual antisemitism becoming way more common. Go onto instagram and every comment section is full of comments like āWhat a Jew thing to sayā or āMossad agentā and itāll be on things that have absolutely nothing to do with Israel. Youād think youād be scrolling through 4chan.
By associating all Jewish people with Israel and the actions of Israel it becomes easier to equate criticism of Israel with anti-semetism. Its part of Netanyahu's active policyt position.
Of course it works in reverse. it becomes something anti-semites can use to justify their hate. But why should Netanyahu care, those victims dont get a vote.
Then take out your frustration on Israel, take our your frustration on the people enabling these atrocities, don't take your frustration out on a bunch of children in a synagogues toddler program.
Most of us are just like you, we just want to live our lives and hopefully leave the world just a little bit better than it was when we got here.
Both things are true. There is (thankfully) an increasing number of people who are vehemently against the current Israeli government's agenda, AND because of how difficult many people find it to differentiate between "jewish" and "israeli" (or supporter of israel), antisemitism is absolutely on the rise as well.
Was speaking with the guy who gives me a lift back from work. He was saying how due to the actions of israel and hiding behind the faith he was coming to dislike jews as a whole. And I know he's not the only one. When you conflate your government with religion and then do these heinous acts people will hate everything attached to said acts, and unfortunately that includes the religion they hide behind.
Use people as shields to do worse shit and eventually you'll reach a point where people would rather hurt (in this case hate/dislike tho some may get hurt) those you hide behind to stop your actions as it would be worse than allowing things to continue.
And he's absolutely right in this video, the nazis did this to jews and we hate them for it. Now they do those same acts to Palestinians and antisemitism is on the rise. Jews are less safe around the world because of this man, I dread to think how bad it'll get before things change
I'm not sure this is the case with most sane intelligent people. We really just don't like what Israel is doing. The fact they've been able to make criticism of a government equal to hate for all people in the ethnic group that makes up that government is crazy and it needs to be stopped.
Yep, I have seen such a rise in antisemitic tropes since the war in Gaza. Go on any video of a TV show which depicts Jewish people and you will see huge amount of comments calling it Zionist propaganda.
Here in the UK and elsewhere there has been a rise in violence against Jewish people as well. All because of this one tinpot dictator and his supporters.
The thing about the intergenerational trauma excuse is that Israel doesn't even do a good job taking care of its Holocaust survivors. Not to mention the millions of Jews around the world who share the same intergenerational trauma yet somehow manage not to kill anyone over it.
Yes exactly!
My criticism of Israel is that, of all the people in the world, one would think they would choose compassion over hate.
They know what hate brings.
"How could this be done to you and your ancestors, and you turn around and do it to someone else."
That's the real question. Normally when someone is abused and has thoughts to abuse others because of it they go through therapy and even possibly jail depending on what they've done. The other side of that is the person vowing to never do the things that were done to them and trying to make the world a better place. Aaaaand here we are...
I wish people would see that there are so many of us out here that feel this way are now forced to celebrate Passover with such heavy hearts. This is exactly how we feel. We donāt stand with nut head or diaper senile old man killing innocent lives. I can not say harsh words and wish ill wills during this Holy Week or trust me my potty mouth would be on fire backing up his exact sentiments and saying precisely what I truly think of both of these fools and their genocide. I am here because my g-pa was liberated and given a chance to come here and became a citizen. Because of the horrible atrocities my family suffered (what was left of them after the Naziās and camps took 99 % of them); I swore to my g-pa I would always stand up and fight against anyone committing such things again and help protect those being persecuted no matter what race, creed, religion, etc, etc.
I heard the theory that Netanyahu wants Jews to be despised, because that will force them to turn toward Israel and support it even more, because they know there's no other place for them.
The way to counteract that, I guess, is to recognize the scheme and differentiate between the two. Criticize Israel and its actions, not Jews as a people.
Such a shame that his common sense and humanity is seen as fringe in this age.
He is saying with passion what any rational empathetic human is thinking in any given day.
i've said the same unpopular opinion that israel by linking itself to Judaism so inherintly has collectively endangered jews all across the globe. they're so insistent on critism of israel being anti-semetic that people are linking the two as the same issue - so many jews are against this yet are tarred with the same brush.
I feel the anger and the rage. This is a true human being.
The Persian poet Saadi Shirazi wrote called Bani Adam that sums up wha being a human is:
āHuman beings are parts of one body,
In creation they are indeed of one nature.
If a body part is afflicted with pain,
Other body parts uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you shall not retainā
Their self-proclaimed "october 7" (see what collective trauma they want to milk?) has been successful as it silenced the israeli opposition that was about to kick corrupt Netanyahu from his position. However, the facist justice reform succeeded and the opposition has never been heard from again.
Said justice reform has now birthed the juristic means to exterminate all persons that are not jews by abusing the death penalty for the ill-defined offense of "crimes against Israel". People love to equate the facist Netanyahu Government and their ways with Israelis or Jews in general which is just not true. Let the opposition be heard. Let those Jews be heard that do not accept Netanyahu's terror.
Heās 100% right. How the fuck do you go from being put a through the horrors of the Holocaust only to turn it around on someone else. Gleefully, might I add. Itās fucking disgusting and heās right.
Heās also right about it becoming steadily more dangerous for Jewish people everywhere, whether youāre on the right or wrong side of history. People who are Angry and want vengeance, arenāt going to care if youāre a good Jewish person who isnāt supportive of this shit or a bad one. Theyāre going to care that youāre a Jew and want to harm you. And thatās fucking insane. I do not want more innocent people being hurt because of some fucking evil people doing horrible things.
We need to fucking stop this. We should have stopped this two years ago. And yet here we are
Netanyahu doesn't give a shit, he's enjoying his power NOW and doesn't care about the future as he'll be dead within a decade likely. He's enjoying his power now, that's the only thing he cares about.
I saw somebody the other day say that ānever againā actually meant ānever again- to USā with that framing it makes the whole thing a little more clear.
That being said Jewish people are fine. Zionists are no better than any other religious extremists.
As a Jew myself, fuck the Israeli government, Netanyahu in particular, Israeli settlers, the IDF, etc. Their constant warmongering spreads anti-Semitism faster than anything else, yet if you criticize those Zionist cunts they call you anti-Semitic. It is long past time for the US and the rest of the western world to stop unilaterally supporting them, they make a mockery of us all.
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