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@devstuff2576

Ай бұрын

no offense but this video is just stupid. it's a movie about some dude doing something about human trafficking. how it you all triggered into that rant you make in the end of the video is hilarious.

@hughmac13

Ай бұрын

You're a fantastic writer and critic.

@muggsyaxton8085

Ай бұрын

@hughmac13 I like that she pinned an ad while her audience whines about the evils of free market economics.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

@@muggsyaxton8085 you’re right, in the future I’ll reconsider buying food and paying my rent

@muggsyaxton8085

Ай бұрын

@themorbidzoo well, you seem fine with using the free market to improve your bottom line. Which is great. The free market system has lifted millions out of poverty. But, like an ungrateful andl spoiled child, many of your viewers attack it. I find vapid and intellectually lazy people to be quite interesting.

In the words of Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

@brandontrammel4581

Ай бұрын

Straight facts

@bob7975

Ай бұрын

Because Marx was right about the only thing he needed to be right about, the nature and trajectory of capitalism. This has been well-known for decades, but we can't be allowed to talk about it.

@ethanduncan1646

Ай бұрын

Well. You can starve as the commies did like they have and continue to do under the few suriving juntas. Marx is an outdated idiot and his internet shill brigades are naive and harmful.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

Ай бұрын

​@@bob7975 Yet people are talking about it.

@hippieash2799

Ай бұрын

@@ChucksSEADnDEADnot enough tbh

I investigated child abuse, most often sexual abuse, for over a decade. I worked a fair number of trafficking cases. One of the most tiring parts of the job was listening to people perform their morality and outrage when they found out what I did for a living. I found this entire analysis vindicating and cathartic. Thank you, sincerely, for taking such time and care to explore the hollowness of Sound's soul and why our culture is such fertile ground for this delusion.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thanks for doing the (actual) work

@viridianacortes9642

Ай бұрын

Dude. Yes! I have a coworker that is obsessed with this film. He never stops taking about it. It’s frustrating that I can’t outright tell him the movie and how it portrays trafficking is a lie.

@adambazso9207

Ай бұрын

​@@viridianacortes9642Maybe he is insane or religiously deranged.

@Jonsan

Ай бұрын

I was probably about a year into the work before the reality that I was in no way the protagonist of the story went from conceptual to true understanding. The video commentary about lack of curiosity is such a a great insight into the fundamental element of the good-guy-with-a-gun solution.

@tng514

Ай бұрын

@@viridianacortes9642 Why can't you?

The biggest clickbait of this movie is they loudly promoted and said that it would expose all the elites and dark secrets of celebrities. Im still waiting

@macias7125

Ай бұрын

when did they say they would? lmao the elites are exposing themselves

@erenjaeger1738

27 күн бұрын

It doesXD. Cia is involved with child trafficking

@BirdsandGhibliFan

23 күн бұрын

@@macias7125 Conservative influencers and AI bots making clickbait videos on KZread and TikTok? Those are the ones claiming that the movie was exposing something. Or, you mean to tell me you haven’t seen those videos?

@gr-8166

Күн бұрын

Idk what you’re talking about, the movie was advertised by the actor Jim Caviezel as an awareness flick. I’m from Bolivia where many children from families we know of were also kidnapped, something this movie subliminally shows the first minutes into the flick. It’s a large issue that once Trump mentioned the term Coyotes people mocked the idea and said how stupid it is to blame the animals for transporting children…. If anything it actually made South American human trafficking more noticeable for Americans who otherwise only think of Mexico…

It was fun trolling people in social media comment sections by saying, “I liked _The Sound of Freedom_ better when it was called _Taken_ and starred Liam Neeson.” 😅 Good times.

@whatwhatwhat1432

Ай бұрын

Stunning and Brave. I bet everyone claps when you show up.

@CBright7831

Ай бұрын

@@whatwhatwhat1432 - I get a standing ovation. Tell me what it feels like when you finally get one.

@macias7125

Ай бұрын

how? they're pretty much the same thing

@bradenharris8718

26 күн бұрын

You’re so hilarious. Wow. You probably just stole it from another comment. The problem is you thought it was funny enough to steal and repeat a bunch of times.

@whatwhatwhat1432

26 күн бұрын

@@CBright7831 From 14 people on KZread 👊

As much as I hate the term virtue signalling, filming a random child in public to show people on TikTok that you care about human trafficking is surely the textbook definition

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

If there's one thing progressives are known for more than conservatives is that its virtue signaling.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

Ай бұрын

What happened?

@yohei72

Ай бұрын

I hear you about "virtue signalling." Like "fake news" and "deep state," it's a formerly legitimate and useful term that's been poisoned by overuse and misuse by the right.

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

@@yohei72 how has the right misused it? Most major news nowadays is fake to some extent and the 'deep state' (dunno what that even means exactly) is still alive and running.

@azure7304

Ай бұрын

i feel like it's almost crossing over from virtue signaling to exploiting a stranger who didn't consent to being online, who is also a child, for clout

My dad and step mom accused me of being a pedophile because I saw Barbie instead of this movie lmao

@speckbacon9881

Ай бұрын

Your dad and step mom are in the comment section 😏

@someguy7819

Ай бұрын

You should watch Schindler's List right this instance or youre literally Hitler

@user-ll3kc4kq2d

Ай бұрын

You should watch and enjoy Black Panther right now or you are racist.

@Overseer2579

Ай бұрын

That’s already an insane thing to accuse someone of because they watched Barbie, but even more so from your own family. Shame on your dad and step mom

@ngotemna8875

Ай бұрын

​@@someguy7819 Me, reading this comment and not watching Schindler's List this very moment: Ah sheeet, here we go again

It really says something about how little these people care about trafficking/CSA that these types of stories always seem to end with the victim back home, usually with their family, when anyone with PTSD can tell you that surviving the actual thing is only the start. It takes time to recover, and a lot of people who are abused as kids go on to be abused in different ways as adults. But these people don't care about adults. They don't even actually care about the kids. The idea of childhood innocence is what needs to be protected, and if you aren't innocent, if you didn't fight back, if you weren't kidnapped out of your home, if you were queer, if you said yes to anything even if you didn't understand it, well, you weren't innocent so they don't need to care.

@Monarch_Prime

Ай бұрын

Aint ever about being good, just about protecting some vague ideal of purity for these people.

@Saibellus

Ай бұрын

its funny, bc theres an old SVU episode that managed to handle this concept with more grace and intellect than this whole movie. in it, a girl who was kidnapped as a child and kept prisoner for years acts cold and distant from her parents when shes found. she has no memories of her childhood with them and doesnt recognize beloved toys. she isnt comfortable around them and even confesses to sometimes missing her captor. its ugly and sad, and the parents are coached through accepting that even though their dream of having their daughter back isnt going the way they wanted, they need to respect her boundaries. specialists help them understand that she is going to need time and patience to recover, and what THEY think of as love and concern looks completely alien to her. in the end the parents discard her childhood toy, accepting that the ideal of an instantly healed child they want isnt realistic, and that its only hurting all of them to cling to it. instead they move on to getting to know this new version of their daughter and learning to be happy together. its a very profound look at how sometimes, the trauma of another can feel hurtful to us, because we just cannot understand the world through their eyes anymore. how abuse completely warps our ideas of whats normal, and how kids deserve autonomy and room to express their pain too. its honestly amazing how the daily wire could fail so acutely to capture even a sliver of the nuance of a daytime tv show from 25 fucking years ago.

@ravendreaming3966

Ай бұрын

@@SaibellusThat sounds surprisingly well done. Wouldn't have axpected that from SVU.

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

How are you extrapolating all of this? I think you hate the other side and you're just making all this stuff up to have a reason to hate them. You don't any of this, real men who've spent half their lives fighting sex trafficking were an integral part in this movie. How can you say those men don't care about child trafficking?

@user-up5gp1gx2p

Ай бұрын

That is so true

"imagine making a movie about child trafficking and thinking it's possible to stay out of politics" THANK YOU. I have family members who are like this, I love them and I love spending time with them but it gets so awkward so quickly b/c of how hard they actively try to not discuss or acknowledge "politics." It's such a weird way to think, that if you just ignore something it doesn't affect you.

@Lovefortea448

Ай бұрын

Yeah like trafficking is rooted in capitalism if you really think about it

@michaelcome9447

Ай бұрын

@@Lovefortea448 Yes, apparently every bad thing that has ever happened is rooted in capitalism...

@tytro1124

Ай бұрын

@@michaelcome9447Don't make this political.

@michaelcome9447

Ай бұрын

@@tytro1124 Is that sarcasm?

@tytro1124

Ай бұрын

@@michaelcome9447 kzread.info/dash/bejne/iX1ppJmjfLrAhcY.htmlsi=_5u7TkR-C44xn6hh

This essay is _wayyy_ too smart to hold the attention of the average Sound of Freedom fan for longer than a few minutes.

@cheesezee86

Ай бұрын

If they could read, they would be very upset.

@adambazso9207

Ай бұрын

​@@cheesezee86😂😂😂😂

@paigekutz8539

Ай бұрын

I know this is tongue in cheek but you'd be surprised sometimes who believes what and why. 😊 worth trying to share with people who liked it imo!

@xenn4985

Ай бұрын

​@@paigekutz8539no it isnt. These people are war brained fanatics. They cannot help but form entire ideologies based entirely around contradicting whatever their enemy is doing.

@erikschwartz1214

Ай бұрын

If a movie helps bring to light atrocities, does it really matter if its good or bad?

I remember being in a trans self-help discord channel and one of the transmasc folks there was trafficked to Northern Europe. He was somewhat aware of his situation, but he had been groomed into learned helplessness and it was incredibly hard to explain to him what he has to do next. The whole group chat was gathering information on how to help him and where he'd have to go to be safe. I remember viscerally the moment when I talked to a friend about this, and I had my roommate chime in like "what are you guys talking about, an action movie?" and when I told him this was real, he would barely believe it. Of course, the question was "why is the family not concerned about this person?". Well, he's trans and got kicked out, and his only financial support is the abusive man that kidnapped him. The fact that we, as a society, have fictionalized abduction to a point that it seems almost a fantastical story about Saving The Kids rather than a real thing that happens to predominantly marginalized people, that happens to people that society has decided are not worth looking after, is truly harrowing. And knowing that a trafficked trans guy would probably not "count" to conservatives as a "good victim", makes me feel a whole other way around this topic

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

Aye I really appreciate you sharing this! edit: also I appreciate you :)

@engelbrekthaakansson4100

Ай бұрын

I really hope they're okay now and getting the help they need and deserve!

@ElevatorEleven

Ай бұрын

Must be real nice to live in a world where abduction is so unthinkable a thing that it feels like fiction. Like, I get it. Read history about stuff like Aztec blood sacrifice, Haitian slavery, the Plague of Justinian, Nazi death camps, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, or Enver Pasha, and there's a very strong impulse to shrug it off like 'nah come on that CAN'T be real, that's just TOO ridiculously horrible.' If you wrote Dark Lord Sauron doing this shit, the audience would be like 'no that's silly'. But if it's something that's still happening, you gotta dig in and accept it.

@pufffincrazy5275

Ай бұрын

Fact is stranger and more disturbing than fiction

@nachosNipples

Ай бұрын

you know what's more sickening? i've heard some MOTHERS say they don't think it's even real.

I’m from Colombia: Sound of Freedom is a bad depiction of the issue. There has been American agents helping to solve some issues in our country, but in contrast, a huge scandal in the 2000’s was American soldiers doing despicable things to Colombian women and child. Colombia is a land of contrast, it’s up to us to depict ourselves: but stories coming directly from us are rarely listen. A Colombian artist could be listened or seeing and being respected, but then, the imaginary rounds again over narcoculture and war. Then, they used exactly the same marketing tools to Colombian evangelical folks, and we are depicted again as an spoiled tutifruti. It’s sad, TQG was also a media product of 2023 Edited to solve typos

@ViveLaResistance11011

Ай бұрын

PS:. I send a shout-out!!! This is one of the best digital media analysis I’ve ever watched in KZread! Edited to solve grammar errors

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊 and thanks for your perspective

@abeaconintheoffice

Ай бұрын

I'm not Colombian, but my fiancée is. She has noticed, and shared with me, how groups like the Daily Wire are using a news organization called "Americano News" to try and gaslight their readers into believing that most, if not _all_ of Latin America are Conservatives pushing against Progressive thinking, 'Woke' ideals and such (Woke in quotes, as that's not what being Woke means but I digress) as well as stating that all Latinos actively support the former President of the US... because of the Wall thing, despite the clear contradiction that a Closed Border policy would only end up negatively impacting the migrating community.

@christopher5846

Ай бұрын

"They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented"

@Red_Lion2000

11 күн бұрын

17 thousand British and French Women SA's by US soldiers during WW2, and god knows how many more in Britain and especially Japan since the US occupies our countries.

This was one of the most obnoxious eras in recent culture. If you dared to question the sincerity of this movie, you were called a pedophile/human trafficker. And the most ridiculous notion was people going "this film is telling us THE TRUTH and you're too blind to see it!!' as if we didn't know human trafficking was a thing???? That was the worst part of it all. Everyone pretended they had no idea this went on until they saw this "life changing" movie.

@macias7125

Ай бұрын

how? lmao there quite literally is nothing to question becuase stating the truth is NOT propaganda like the lady in this video with no life is stating I mean since it's a thing and it's having attention brought to it with a movie and it seems to both you some way, it kinda means you're the problem. This movie was pretty much pointing it out no different to a documentary so why does this movie bother you so much?

@GameMageVideos

Ай бұрын

@@macias7125 because of exactly this. TONS of movies have been about human trafficking before. If you actually watched the video, you'd know the production company realized the best way to make a ton of money is start this marketing campaign where they turned this into some sort of political/religious issue. So now ANYTIME you go "who cares about this movie" you get people like you replying like "well this movie exposes the TRUTH and if you dont like it that must mean something EVIL about you...huh? huh? aren't you on OUR side? aren't you gonna #payitforward and buy a bunch of people tickets for this movie?" Like can't you see how you've been manipulated? This is just a random movie twisted into having some sort of greater importance so people like you can market the movie for free

@macias7125

Ай бұрын

@@GameMageVideos yeah but not about child trafficking and none of those movies went to detail like this movie did. They never turned this into a political issue lmao are you dumb? WHEN??? They simply made this movie to bring awareness and to gather enough money to fund programs that stop these sort of things. How is this manipulation? This movie is not political nor has any propaganda in it it’s simply a movie bringing awareness to child trafficking and if it seems to bug you in any way shape or form, then shouldn’t YOU be the one who’s manipulated? Please explain to me how I’m the manipulated one? The only thing twisted here is your brain lol if you have a problem with child trafficking awareness then that’s saying a lot

@poindextertunes

Ай бұрын

@@GameMageVideoswell said

@adamnesico

24 күн бұрын

Is there some readon you hate this movie beyond political tribalism? No leftist movie gets so questioned about their true morality and intention.

Reminds me of a recent stand up special where he says "did anyone else trick themselves into thinking they were getting smarter by following politics when in reality politics were just getting dumber?"

@AngryReptileKeeper

Ай бұрын

Politics just makes me feel really negatively about where humanity is going, honestly.

@randomnerd3402

Ай бұрын

I read this in Randy Savage's voice cause of your pfp lol

@Badmanpuntbaxter

Ай бұрын

I used to feel that way but I genuinely think once the baby boomer generation starts, uh, "passing on", so to speak, things will begin drastically improving. Like there are certainly bad guys in my generation, but generally speaking we lean far further left than previous ones. Plus, there's a surprising spike of conservative beliefs upon owning a home, so we'll continue to be left leaning, lol.@@AngryReptileKeeper

@cheesezee86

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah dude

@apersonouthere

Ай бұрын

​@@Badmanpuntbaxteri think you're right to an extent but don't forget that systems supercede individuals and their beliefs, and the nature of systems is to preserve themselves in a status quo. Basically, nothing will naturally just change, we still have to be active working towards it because it takes work to put a square peg in a round hole lol

Listening to Jordan Peterson describe basic storytelling building blocks like they're some Profound Insight that he discovered is peak comedy. "I've found that when you have a main character facing a problem it makes it easier for audiences to understand that problem" no fucking way Kermit the Fraud

@user-ll3kc4kq2d

Ай бұрын

plus he's a drug addict🤣

@stotab8700

Ай бұрын

Kermit the Fraud 😂 did you make that up or did you read it somewhere else?

@metaldude4563

Ай бұрын

@@stotab8700 I can proudly say I came up with that one, although I wouldn't be surprised if somebody else thought of it as well

@HyperkalemiaSineWave

Ай бұрын

@@user-ll3kc4kq2dI don’t like Kermit but lots of good people have been addicted to drugs at some point in their life.

@cosmicmuffin322

Ай бұрын

​@@metaldude4563that is fantastic, I'm going to use it

I don't wanna bash Americans too much, but I'm 100% sure the reason why this movie did so well is simply because a blonde blue-eyed super agent saved some uncivilized niños Also the movie has the word "Freedom" in its title so that's huge

@poindextertunes

Ай бұрын

I mean both points are spot on

@Huskerguy316

Ай бұрын

Found the Jew

@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012

27 күн бұрын

@@Huskerguy316 ben shapiro is a jew

@stephenvelez9710

22 күн бұрын

Thanks for not wanting to bash us, but we sooo deserve it

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

22 күн бұрын

@@Huskerguy316 Found the Nazi.

The problem is that it will always feel and look better to save 5000 abused and tortured children at gunpoint, rather than implement social policies that would save hundreds of thousands of children from ever getting abused and tortured in the first place.

@Kaiyanwang82

Ай бұрын

ding ding ding

@b.w.6919

27 күн бұрын

To think in such a way requires an amount of problematizing that it seems most folks either never speak out loud or know how to consider, not unless it concerns them personally.

@kant.68

22 күн бұрын

And the first step to that is TALKING about the program. Which things like this do very well

@Roosters-rants1977

4 күн бұрын

What does that even mean. This seems to just be a way to trigger you and demonize people you have decided you don't like. What policies would you implement? I think that's the point. You must be aware of the problem before you can fix it.

Imagine how many kids would be saved from trafficking if everyone watched this movie in IMAX

@BL00DYM1SHA

Ай бұрын

42?

@copsuicide

Ай бұрын

@@BL00DYM1SHAat least 43

@MarieJohanna760

Ай бұрын

Its 47

@smokyquartz5817

Ай бұрын

The kids would want us to have sour candy.

@1917yee

Ай бұрын

why are you imagining children being trafficked

The fucking pause about the release date was actually fucking horrifying

@Sanch0000

Ай бұрын

he deserves an oscar for that

@direcircumstances

Ай бұрын

I thought my computer was malfunctioning when he waited so long to finish his sentence, I was freaked out.

@matthewsanchez7953

Ай бұрын

Legitimately unnerving.

@TheGrades90

Ай бұрын

That's what mormons are raised to do! Start crying when god gives you a "personal revelation". And it's really creepy.

@carsarthu

Ай бұрын

right?

Maaaaan for a second there I almost felt empathy for Tim considering all he’s seen - until I remembered he has live-streamed rescue missions and offered viewings for like $30,000. He didn’t seem to grasp that this was also…child exploitation.

@Saibellus

Ай бұрын

are you ffr rn? exclusive trafficking rescue streams like its a trashy episode of cops?

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

Buddy, claiming moral superiority over a man whos dedicated his life to stopping child sex trafficking is another level of progressive brain rot. Yeah, its wierd and I wouldnt do it, but he is making money for the organization to go out and help more children.

@fran2815

Ай бұрын

@@user-nz8uy1zm3z whatever you say buddy

@fran2815

Ай бұрын

i'm pretty sure Fundie Fridays mentioned it in their review of Angel Studios@@Saibellus

@audreybell6773

Ай бұрын

@@user-nz8uy1zm3z So engaging in child exploitation is okay if you can claim that it's for the sake of stopping child exploitation? That's really the stance that you want take, buddy?

Imagine filming a child alone in a PUBLIC BATHROOM & then putting that child's face on the Internet (without their parents' knowledge or consent) all while acknowledging the child is vulnerable & claiming to be woke to child trafficking. The irony is astounding!!

@BirdsandGhibliFan

21 күн бұрын

I know, right? What she should’ve done is ask the parent or guardian of the child to be more watchful. But, no, she had to post a video on TikTok and expose the child for all the world to see without the child’s and parent’s/guardian’s consent just so she can go viral. 🙄

"Disgust doesnt do anything. The only thing disgust succeeds in is in locating yourself within intolerable and unpredictable conditions." Perfect way to summarize performatism. This was absolutely amazing. The effort and passion you put into this really shows. I would eat up any long form videos like this in the future, too.

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

This was not passion. It was smug contempt.

@gabimartinez8862

Ай бұрын

@@AlexReynardIt’s okay to express contempt for things that are contemptible.

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

@@gabimartinez8862 Are you guys aware that your idea of "contemptible" is "a guy with firsthand experience in preventing child trafficking isn't doing it the way *_I_* think he should"?

@gabimartinez8862

Ай бұрын

@@AlexReynard She literally says in the video that she thinks he’s done noble things though. Her problem is that the narrative he paints is self serving and seems to be more interested in recounting how his way is the BEST way to deal with the problem rather than centering the hardship of the people actually put into these situations and the conditions that create these situations. Conditions that he directly opposes changing by nature of being a religious conservative. Yes, I would say taking child sex trafficking and making it about yourself is pretty contemptible.

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

@@gabimartinez8862 "She literally says in the video that she thinks he’s done noble things though." One compliment doesn't outweigh half-an-hour of condescending character assassination. "Her problem is that the narrative he paints is self serving and seems to be more interested in recounting how his way is the BEST way to deal with the problem" Please step back and consider: What would you think of some KZreadr making a video about a surgeon, telling him, 'You're doing surgery wrong. I know better than you how you should be doing your job'? >Yes, I would say taking child sex trafficking and making it about yourself is pretty contemptible. Why? *He's actually doing the work.* And all she's doing is complaining about him doing it. Maybe, I dunno, that's an attitude that one has to take in a position like that, to prevent the stress of the job from driving you insane, or preventing nihilism from taking over. Maybe, after looking at thousands of images of horrifying child abuse, if you don't narrow your focus, you lose your fucking mind. I certainly wouldn't have the gall to criticize someone doing a job I don't have the faintest idea how to begin doing.

In short: people get trafficked because they're POOR. So make them not poor.

@alfsmith4936

Ай бұрын

Be nice, wouldn't it?

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

Ай бұрын

There's more poor than traffickers.

@surfacematter2098

Ай бұрын

Well, that's never been the correct reply, has it? I mean, when you cut down to the base of most societal problems... But their worlds find that worse than the actual issue. To help your fellow neighbor for the good of all just doesn't sell.. so here we are in a world where "greed is good" is even better. Inequality everywhere

@alfsmith4936

Ай бұрын

@@surfacematter2098 Oh well. I'm off to watch Made in Chelsea.. Good English values!

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD ok... so what? That doesn't mean that what they said isn't true. What you said is true and what they said is true simultaneously. It's easy to see the world as black and white when you're not the one that has to deal with this crap 🤷‍♂

God can’t stop child trafficking, but he can give you inside tips on when to release your movie. Got it!

@KRobinson-ko1ne

Ай бұрын

This is the Trump Prophecy all over again 😔

@sudonim7552

Ай бұрын

Well of course the eternal and omniscient providence of God dictated that he must release your movie on July 4th, the most famous national holiday. Surely that is not just his own internal bias. 😂

@matildamarmaduke1096

Ай бұрын

​@@KRobinson-ko1neWTF are you talking about

@KRobinson-ko1ne

Ай бұрын

The Movie: Trump Prophecy It’s this guy who has a hallucination or something and he took it as a prophecy that trump would take office…or needs to…or something like that It was really fucked up

@KRobinson-ko1ne

Ай бұрын

Any way it’s not too far from that other “prophecy” that the movie needs to come out on the 4th

This woman is way too level-headed for KZread

@MarkWampler

18 күн бұрын

I love how this was the last comment before the platform shut down comments for almost a whole day.

Imagine if someone made a movie about how murdering is bad, it flopped, no company wanted to make it a movie, and then they claimed that Hollywood supports murdering :)

@fettypaige4551

Ай бұрын

It’s true sometimes though. Black Adam flopped, and Hollywood has a history mistreating blacks

@erichfiedler1481

Ай бұрын

Well, a film was released last year that had one of its character's claim that things like euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty are considered murder, and also the person stating this is a death row inmate possessed by a demon (who is also the title character of the film), would that count

@joshraid1550

Ай бұрын

@@erichfiedler1481What film is that?

@erichfiedler1481

Ай бұрын

@@joshraid1550 it's called Nefarious, and if you wanna know how bad it is, the directors/writers also wrote God's Not Dead, abs the best way I can describe it is that it's basically if a dollar store version of Exorcist 3 and The Seventh Seal did a Fusion Dance and they botched it and looked like Fat Gotenks

@Unowdvalcon82752

Ай бұрын

Don't forget that the creator of that movie will then make the claim that they made the movie because they had some sort of "spiritual awakening" telling them that murder is... actually kinda bad.

Judging from that pause it wasn't God, it was a stroke

@evanrutledge-sz4yo

Ай бұрын

He got that demonic interference.

@azure7304

Ай бұрын

[alien conspiracy theorist voice] he was receiving orders from the mothership

@iris_ofthestorm4260

18 күн бұрын

Bro was getting a software update

This dude needed GOD to tell him to release his conservative propaganda film on July 4th?

@insolencestar

Ай бұрын

not the brightest

@evanrutledge-sz4yo

Ай бұрын

I find it very interesting how God told him to release the movie on July 4th in particular. Like seriously, people like this make me groan, they’ve mistaken God for a telemarketer.

@zaidlacksalastname4905

28 күн бұрын

​@@evanrutledge-sz4yoI wish the Mormon god gave me tips in my math exams :c

@evanrutledge-sz4yo

28 күн бұрын

@@zaidlacksalastname4905 I wish God sent down a piece of scratch paper and a pencil, you know, because I ain’t always gonna have a calculator.

@erenjaeger1738

27 күн бұрын

So child trafficking is now "conservatives propaganda" XD? Bruh this what moist critical got confused at his stream saying "how a movie about child trafficking is right wing propaganda?" At his chat XD. Jeez you people get so brainwashed by both systems groups

I like how the Daily Wire tried so hard to prove they aren't sexist that they got a contingent of their own fans to think they were going woke.

@lazuruswolf6668

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of what happened when they made that western film with Gina Carano, Daily Wire spent years hating female characters in movies calling them mary sues then they ended up making one for their own movie. You should see the reviews for it a lot of DW fans called it woke.

@John-bravooo

Ай бұрын

​@lazuruswolf6668 i mean star wars is terribly woke and full of mary sues.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

Ай бұрын

It's kind of funny that they spent so much time complaining about superficial female empowerment that they never learned how to make meaningful characters

@Overseer2579

Ай бұрын

@@John-bravoooyeah no it’s not

@John-bravooo

Ай бұрын

@Overseer2579 good argument. Kathleen kennedy ADMITTED to forcing "girl strong" identity politics.

LGBT people are about 7 percent of American population, but LGBT youth is 40 percent of homeless youth. Homeless youth is one of the most vulnerable populations for trafficking, but I will bet actual money that Tim and his cohorts would turn a blind eye on these kids.

@223Drone

Ай бұрын

They do so due to their homophobia/transphobia.

@yungmuney5903

Ай бұрын

Conservatives don't actually give a shit about children, shocker

@undercookedtoast1479

17 күн бұрын

The “perfect victim” narrative many of these people live by exposes that you care more about being a morally righteous person than you do about helping actual victims.

Holy shit, I'd say that someone who says describes pornography like a gateway drug to CP needs watching very closely. That absolutely blows my mind, that someone can not only say that but say it publicly, without any awareness of how bad it sounds.

Only 30 minutes in and this blows all the other media critiques I’ve seen of this film out of the water. Good god damn job!

@themorbidzoo

27 күн бұрын

Thank you ☺️

Much of what you talk about here reminds me of this tweet I read a few years back. Maybe someone remembers it or not. It was about a law being passed giving the death penalty for child abuse, I believe. Someone quote retweeted it to say that such a law won’t do much to stop child abuse, and may in fact make it harder for abused children to tell someone what’s happening to them. After all, if you know your abuser, who might be a parent or other loved one, could be killed if you speak up, why would you? Abused children generally still love their abusers I remember seeing so many people upset about this quote retweet and, regardless about wether or not you agree with what this person was saying, if you even believe the death penalty should be legal, it was so clear to me that many people lashed out not because of actual reasonable counter arguments they had considered, but because of an overwhelming sense of anger and disgust they held toward all child abusers. You may think, isn’t that a normal reaction? And yes, that would be right. But like you said, disgust in the face of crimes against children does not do anything to help said children. Reading these replies, I felt that many people were so disgusted and angry with this hypothetical child abuser, that they had perhaps forgotten to truly care about the well being of the victims. If you truly care about the victim, you would prioritize measures to help them even if it means putting aside your anger toward their abuser. It may mean a child abuser perhaps going into therapy instead of being killed as we may instinctively desire. But that doesn’t satisfy our bloodlust. Satisfying our desire for revenge often means leaving the person you’re avenging behind in the process. It’s not enough to hate child abusers. You must care about victims of abuse too, and your care for them must always outweigh your hatred for their abusers. As you said, truly helping child victims doesn’t often involve bursting into a scene of danger to heroically tear a helpless child away from a cruel stranger who has kidnapped them off the streets, an inhuman monster, cartoonishly evil. It often just involves addressing mental health issues to stop people from becoming abusers, funding shelters, finding ways to educate children about abuse that doesn’t involve painting abusers as complete strangers that constantly belittle and hurt you, and instead showing that abusers are often family members or other trusted adults who may usually act kind and affectionate until they’re not

@saraf5414

Ай бұрын

A wonderfully articulated comment, thank you

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

brilliant comment. Hope your weekend is going alright 🤗

@halfbloodprincess989

Ай бұрын

A lot of abusers are closely related to the child (fathers, older brothers and the like), so it wouldn't surprise me at all, if even less victims of CSA would speak out were the death penalty hanging in the air... Also a lot of these 'sound of freedom' fans would freak out and silence the victim if the abuser were someone they love.

@nope19568

Ай бұрын

​@@halfbloodprincess989i know people would probably throw major bitchfits about it but i swear 99%of these problems could be solved with some sort of parenting license, monthly free professional mental health check ins, and better sex education

@neonradius

Ай бұрын

⁠@@nope19568My ex-stepdad actually did have to do mandatory parenting classes after his wife died and he was the sole parent of two kids. He did extremely well in this classes. He was also extremely abusive and ended up murdering my mother after years of abuse towards everyone in my family. He was in therapy the entire time. I also have a friend whose parents were foster parents. In order to be a foster parent in my state, you have to take many classes and get licensed, including classes teaching against physical punishment and abuse. Their parents took all of these classes, got approved, were great friends with many of the adults involved in the foster process, and proceeded to be extremely physically abusive towards both their biological and foster children, and openly talked to their circle about all the propaganda classes they had to take to get more children and joked about how easy it was to lie through them. It’s a great idea in concept. It’s easy to see abusers as stupid people who can be foiled by education. But it just doesn’t work in practice. Do I think parenting classes/licensing, sex ed, and mental health services should absolutely be available for free? Absolutely! They do help people! Hell, maybe the would stop some abusers. But I also wish people realized how manipulative and good at fooling the system abusers are. None of these abusers were inherently smarter or evil masterminds, hell, my ex-stepdad barely finished high school because he was failing so many classes. But there’s this idea that abusers are-on some level-stupid, and they’re abusive because of that stupidity, and because of that stupidity they’d be easily fooled by licenses and therapist. And that’s just not true. Sorry for the long comment. I’m not angry at all, because I used to think that stuff like that would stop abusers. But it just doesn’t.

"...because the kinds of conservatives that produced and enthusiastically consumed this movie are people for whom the word 'freedom' means the right to abandon reality; that you should be allowed to say whatever you want about anything, and when whatever you're talking about becomes too difficult to understand, when it requires action that might be inconvenient for you or doesn't really fit in with the character arc you've got planned for yourself, your responsibility for your own words is over." That is so unbelievably on point. That whole last part of the video really. Add this one to the list of GOAT video essays.

@plasticjesus444

Ай бұрын

fr. her pen was on fire

Something I feel is worth mentioning, when it comes to the movie's fans swearing that no celebrity speaks out on child trafficking, is that when conservatives say "how come nobody talks about [topic]", they haven't actually looked to see if that's the case.

1:06:45 Amazing how his first response to hearing something that doesn't align with his own personal worldview is "they're just being silly, they don't know what they're talking about"

@themorbidzoo

28 күн бұрын

Very glad you noticed that, it’s such an incredible blend of childish naivety and well-fed arrogance

I remember when _American Sniper_ came out and the right tried to convince everyone that watching it was a patriotic duty. Seeing it all happen again with _Sound of Freedom_ gave me serious deja vu

@thislycantomboy7087

Ай бұрын

god, yeah! I was really young when that came out and I still got deja-vu hearing about sound of freedom. felt like a bizarre, confused childhood dream

@Kaipyro67ALT

Ай бұрын

I was one of the few people who saw American Sniper because I was a moviegoer and just wanted to see it in theatres! Big mistake. Theatre was jam-packed with church group people-- I was sitting next to this group of 5 middle-aged ladies who COULD NOT stop gasping whenever something intense happened on screen-- which is the whole goddamn movie. Worst movie viewing experience of my life.

@teslashark

Ай бұрын

I always ask people "how did he get into a shooting argument then"

@adambazso9207

Ай бұрын

That movie is the antithesis of human moral and spiritual responsibility. It's disgusting, like every other war-marketing of Hollywood. I had the impression that you had to have something wrong with your head if you felt inspired by that piece of military-industrial propaganda.

@amysteriousstranger1221

Ай бұрын

The more things change the more they stay the same

Holy shit, the unabashed "we boldly let you spend your money on our movie again by buying another ticket for someone" was bonkers

@jordanholt9170

Ай бұрын

The fact that they end the movie with a call to action to buy more tickets instead of a list of other organizations that deal with human trafficking is one of the things that makes the film seem hollow.

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

@@jordanholt9170 Seem hollow?

@ArbitraryOutcome

Ай бұрын

@@d3nza482 Performative might be an apt term, too.

@demetriam2408

Ай бұрын

​@@d3nza482like they're using the messaging in their movie for making money for themselves instead of to actually help solve the problem they're talking about. If someone makes a video on Palestine, they usually link to charities that support their message and also send their profits from the video there, whereas with this movie they are only asking people to give them more money.

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

Why is it wrong for them to do that?

Verasteguí tried to be a presidential candidate for the elections in Mexico. He tried to seek support from Catholic people, but was ignored for practical purposes. He failed to meet the basic requirements to be a candidate - without going into too much detail on Mexican electoral laws, he needed about 1 million signatures of support, he achieved approximately 150k -, he proceeded to disqualify the regulatory institutions, and now he is asking to put their names on the ballots, even though those votes will have no value in the count.

8:45 but the Thing is, Bottoms, a Fight-Club-esque raunchy comedy about lesbians wanting to get laid, also got the same treatment it was only in a few select theatres and was sent straight to streaming. Even The Boy and the Heron was super hard to find in theatres. This movie got multiple posters outside AMCs. So, of course, the far right only notices it when it happens to this movie. This sounds like double standards, lmao💀.

@phoneemail2035

Ай бұрын

The issue with the release of Sound of Freedom was that it was finished years ago before the pandemic and yet it was not released due to the subject matter not being what Hollywood wanted to be pushing with Weinstein and Epstein scandals going on.

@Letsjustnot9597

Ай бұрын

@@phoneemail2035 Also them trying to release at the same time as the whole Barbenheimer thing was not a smart thing anyway and also while Transformers and the Spiderverse sequel were still in theaters. That was a losing battle, they had no chance, but at least they managed to make some profit since they had a smaller budget. But regardless of the vision he had, it was just a poor marketing choice. Plus movies are just not staying in the theaters as long as they were before the pandemic. Most movies will only have a month or 6 weeks before they're sent to streaming, even Dune 2 was given the same treatment. So if it is a conspiracy, then all movies are a victim not just the Sound of Freedom :/.

@BirdsandGhibliFan

Ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out! When I watched “The Boy And The Heron” for the first time, my family and I went to see it in a theater farther away, and it took about a week or two for it to screen at our local theater. I was also disappointed that the movie’s run in IMAX theaters was limited and short-lived (the good news is I saw it at a Cinemark XD theater, the closest thing to an IMAX auditorium, on opening week). Still, not once did I think there was some conspiracy from Hollywood to censor Ghibli or ban Miyazaki’s film.

@henrylangham6428

13 күн бұрын

@@BirdsandGhibliFan there is 100% a khanspearacy to censor Japanese culture and to destroy Japan and their culture. it is proveable with scientific evidence

Saw this blind, didnt even know what it was about, just that my MIL was taking us to see it. Im a CSA survivor. I had to leave after seeing the photos they showed from the pedos stash. I came back and had to leave again at one point for good. My MIL and partner knew my triggers and brought me to see it anyways. Im still upset by that.

@ethernetangel1133

Ай бұрын

Finding out the shady embellishments and propaganda of it all afterwards felt so vindicating, like im glad other people felt something was off about it as well

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

I’m sorry that happened to you, ugh

@ethernetangel1133

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo literally some of the shots looked like softcore Club Penguin it gave me such an ick around who must have been advising on the film

@hopefulmonsters4407

24 күн бұрын

That's awful! What a complete lack of empathy?

"There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs." The human condition requires an unobtainable catharsis.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Nice

@suezcontours6653

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo I just don't believe in "white saviorism". The West is the most organised group of nations in the world yet they can't solve human trafficking? They fund wars which creates instability therefore opportunity to traffic humans seeking refuge. Most sex tourists anywhere are Western men. Brazil, Ghana, Thailand - who do you see? Western men taking advantage of poor people who can't make ends meet. Passport Bros came bit late but same idea.

@mirror8519

Ай бұрын

Sounds like something Mussolini would say.

@epileptictrees5213

Ай бұрын

@@mirror8519 what the fuck are you talking about

@mirror8519

Ай бұрын

@@epileptictrees5213 In the fascist manifesto it says something like "we don't aim to fix the problems in the world and create an utopia, because that's impossible. we just aim to make the lives of the prople better within our limits", idk it reminded me of that lol

I find it incredibly sickening that whenever people watch a movie, documentary, or just hear anything involving CSA all they do is get angry and scoff and then ten minutes later they are back to normal and have completely forgot about it. People like these movies because they're only interested in being angry at the subject while not doing ANYTHING to prevent it, like congratulations you're against CSA, want a medal? It's completely OK and normal to get angry about the subject because CSA is probably on the top of the list of some of the most evil things in the world, but don't just sit there angry for a few minutes and then throw it away, how about insaid you sit down and think about why these things happen and how we can prevent them. The two things that contribute the cause of CSA is poor sexual education and the lack of understanding of concent and income inequality. It's much harder for CSA to happen if the child has a good understanding of concent and what is and isn't OK for someone to do to them. And in terms of wealth inequality, children become desperate to help their families financially and get roped into doing things that lead to CSA/trafficking. And lastly I find it incredibly hypocritical conservatives are the loudest when it comes to combating CSA when they themselves are the people literally causing it by upholding child marriage laws and stripping schools ability to teach kids proper sexual education and the concept of concent. Don't just get angry at the action, be part of its solution.

@Fistbeardthepirate

Ай бұрын

"how about insaid you sit down and think about why these things happen and how we can prevent them. The two things that contribute the cause of CSA is poor sexual education and the lack of understanding of concent and income inequality." To boil CSA down to lack of sexual education and income inequality unironically sounds like propaganda. Did you mean to just say 'two things that contribute...'

@JaniHorvat1

Ай бұрын

@@Fistbeardthepirate It isn't only two things, but those two play big roles.

This is the first video of yours I've seen, and in the MOST complimentary way possible, you strike me as ContraPoints without the crazy sets/production -- incredibly well-written/spoken/researched, and very insightful. Also very blunt, in the best way. Love your commentary.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thanks, big compliment 😊

I have bipolar disorder. What I’m seeing in American society atm is what a typical manic episode for me feels like, but spread out among the average citizen. Everything is frenetic and every new idea or piece of information is the most important piece of information to ever exist. People, albeit out of ignorance rather than maliciousness, buy into the new crop of conspiracy theories with such gusto that they begin to almost *hope* that the horrific and disgusting consequences become a reality. Whether it’s every member of congress having children in their basement or a microchip implanted from a vaccine that turns the inoculated into a zombie democrat, they’d rather be right than be okay. Good vid!

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

I’ve had the same thought 🫠

@jackflash8218

Ай бұрын

Well fk'n said! 👍🏼👍🏼

@tytro1124

Ай бұрын

I know this is completely irrelevant to what you said, and I apologize for that as you truly provide an insightful perspective, but I just gotta say that I love ur profile pic.

@maefromnitw4091

22 күн бұрын

"america is and has been undergoing a large scale manic episode" is not something i ever thought of but makes so much sense and now im never going to stop thinking about it

I can definitely relate to what Tim Ballard is saying re: superimposition of my children onto victims. When I worked as a paramedic, this happened to me, with some dead children. My child's face was superimposed onto theirs, and I hallucinated his voice talking to me, as I performed CPR on these dead children. Unfun for me, though obviously less fun for the parents of the children who had actually died. The wails of the mothers of dead and dying children still echoes in my mind, all these years later. The unimaginable agony in those screams

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Take care of yourself ♥️

@jbone877

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo thank you. I'm quite well, for the most part, these days

@PropheticShadeZ

Ай бұрын

​@jeremydoerksen877 Please remember that you dont have to be ok after seeing stuff like that. Not being ok is the correct response.

@jackflash8218

Ай бұрын

Fuck's sake... if you were having full-blown audio-visual hallucinations, maybe that wasn't the best line of work for you?

@jo3473

Ай бұрын

@@jackflash8218 calm down. it's very intense to see a child's dead body. and we have no idea the state they could have been in. it's one of those things that tends to be a textbook form of trauma... and we know that trauma makes the brain do weird stuff. it's not like they regularly experience psychosis

The rescue and release model makes me think of when cops groom an angry weirdo online into trying to do a terrorist attack by selling them explosives. Then they go an arrest the guy and claim they stopped a potential threat

Engagement - I really thought this was a stand out piece. Dare I say (Dare, dare!) “a work of Art!” You made my day, and I hope you are proud of this

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

That trump interview is so funny he sounds like a kid in school that didn’t read the book being put on the spot to talk about it.

@justins1484

Ай бұрын

TBH he sounds like that on most things he talks about. Guy is the ultimate bullshitter

@navonmyhand7999

Ай бұрын

This is also why it's extremely funny whenever Trump is asked about the Bible.

@gunkulator1

Ай бұрын

Trump's life is pretty much just him "wingin' it" through one situation after another.

@evanrutledge-sz4yo

Ай бұрын

“The rising action followed by the falling action was really, it was really just, wow.”

@sw3aty_forte

20 күн бұрын

LOL

i watched this movie in theater with my parents and sister. i remember leaving so incredibly angry... how can they use such a nuanced and horrifying subject as an advertisement for their religion/ideology. They did this at my old church too. They used to organize these "marches against human trafficking" once a year cooperating with an organization that actually helped victims of sexual trafficking. I went a couple of times as a volunteer to hand out pamphlets to curious bystanders, and the people who organized the event had to be very persistent to every volunteer that it was NOT a chance to advertize our church. And even so, some people did. The pastors and leaders of the church always marched at the front, making sure they were caught by the cameras, ready to show the world how much good they were doing, and trying to get more people involved with their church. Never in the remaining time of the year was this subject brought up again in church. This is exactly how this movie felt to me, and i think that's why i left the theater so angry.

@AngryReptileKeeper

Ай бұрын

"how can they use such a nuanced and horrifying subject as an advertisement for their religion/ideology." My impression is that it's effectively just Ballard engaging in some old-fashioned self-aggrandizement. Dude's ego is massive and greedy.

@sosmooth13

Ай бұрын

Church horror stories shouldn’t be happen so much in a place that’s supposed to be morally sound

@purplepedantry

Ай бұрын

Not surprisingly, they're doing worse than the Pharisees their main lad used as a major example of what not to do. Hypocrisy at its finest.

@roshinvarghese6879

Ай бұрын

The left has their own religion yet no one bats an eye.

@ivanhenderson31

Ай бұрын

Focus should have been prayer and serving the organization - the Word should come afterwards and the last thing should be the church name.

"God's children are not for sale" is a dumb phrase because A) The Bible explicitly allows the sale of human beings B) If an all-powerful God wanted to stop child trafficking, he could stop it at any time

@henrylangham6428

13 күн бұрын

wrong. comment 1 of ????

@henrylangham6428

13 күн бұрын

the primary relijjun of the country who is doing geanocyde against Palestinians allows the sale of human beings, that relijjun says that anyone who isnt a pure bloohd isnt a yooman

@-alovelygaycat-

13 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠@@henrylangham6428 Are you arguing that the Bible doesn’t condone slavery or are you arguing that God isn’t all-powerful? Because if you’re arguing the former, you’re wrong. The Bible, being written by multiple different people, contains multiple viewpoints, many of which condone the practice of slavery and instruct slaves on how to behave towards their masters. If you’d like evidence, I’d be happy to oblige and send you some verses.

I thought it was a very mid movie, nothing to write home about. Saw a video of Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard talking about how kids are being trafficked for adrenochrome, that’s when I say “Aight, Imma head out”. It could’ve had a nice message until they started with the adrenochrome BS. Mental illness is bad in this country.

@poindextertunes

Ай бұрын

what pxsses me off is the misinformation(adrenchrome) that discredits the actual crimes that have been committed by politicians and govt. I’m talking about the Franklin Scandal and The Finders cult. These things actually happened and are still happening

@henrylangham6428

13 күн бұрын

NOOOOo!!!!! someone started talking about the aboose of women and chyldr3n and helping to expose it to raise awareness and to stop it NOOO!!!!!!! “Aight, Imma head out” mark jesse exposed in 4k engaging in the crimes that this movie is talking about

@OrgaNik_Music

11 күн бұрын

@@henrylangham6428 Oh look, an anime avatar making the exact points this video deconstructs, but will never know it since they didn't actually watch the video at all.

@henrylangham6428

10 күн бұрын

@@OrgaNik_Music you only mentioned anime because you have a hatred of Asians and Japanese and you think they are whyyyy???te therefore are evyle oppressors you only talk bad against me and this movie bc you support pdf fiyl-ia

@SpoopySquid

9 күн бұрын

​@@OrgaNik_Musicit's always either an anime avatar or a username that's just a random string of letters & numbers

I'm not a victim of human trafficking, but I am a victim of the proxy issue of CSA, and I found this video extremely cathartic to watch. The conservative narratives around CSA, why it happens, where and who does it has always been to be a constant reminder that despite performance people put on, they're more concerned with how uncomfortable the reality I actually dealt with makes them than me. They don't care why what happened to me did or what they can do to stop it from happening to others, they care about how upset the idea of it makes them. So man it is everything to just see people willing to talk straight about it. Be pragmatic about what really needs to happen for it to change. Holy shit how little I care at this point how much it upsets people on a personal level--- it needs to start upsetting people on a systemic level for it to stop.

@djangofett4879

Ай бұрын

i think if you look at the last few years, the main driver of their indignance over CSA is that they're always looking to demonize "the left" and this movie gave them another reason to call everyone left of tim pool a groomer. that is the main motivation. its all about team sports mentality and the other team is always bunch of groomers or NPCs or whatever other buzzword is popular. you need to wrap your head around just how dumb and petty this movement is.

@rowanmurphy4986

Ай бұрын

Also a victim of CSA and online grooming+exploitation when I was a minor. This video was also extremely cathartic. No one cared why it happened to me, I was often even blamed for it. You know being a queer, vulnerable child, with a physical disability and undiagnosed AuADHD does make you more vulnerable to abuse yet no one seemed interested in why. Only the moral vindication of kicking down the door for punitive punishment rather than a complex understanding of trauma and need for a nearly inhuman amount of empathy for them.

@allthenewsordeath5772

Ай бұрын

@@rowanmurphy4986 I don’t want to belittle your experience, but in the defense of morons, the Internet thrives on outrage, and it thrives on people being outraged at other peoples outrage, media on the whole follows this model and the thing about outrage is that it either burns out, or needs to be very constructively channeled, and the second thing is basically impossible to do when we’re always moving onto the next thing.

@bostonteapartycrasher

Ай бұрын

@@allthenewsordeath5772 The silver lining here is that once the outrage burns out, we will be able to have rational discussions about this.

@ravendreaming3966

Ай бұрын

Survivor of grooming here, and yeah-- victims are treated like they're evidence of the crime. Uncomfortable to be around. They want to be heroes. They can't deal with a situation where there's nobody to save.

Getting struck by lightning twice, while pretending to be jesus, really did a number on Jim.

@JacobHillSBD

Ай бұрын

You’d think he would’ve gotten the hint but apparently they’re doing Passion 2!

@TheLordpeanuts

Ай бұрын

lol, lowercase j on Jesus 👃👃👃👃

@erichfiedler1481

Ай бұрын

​@@JacobHillSBD interesting, is it gonna be an action movie co-starring Chris Tucker? The moment I read that, I couldn't help but think of the joke from Family Guy when they were revived

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

lol yeah I always figured he took the wrong lesson from that. If *_I_* got struck by lightning while pretending to be Jesus, I'd be VERY careful about what I said about God. But nope.. Jim apparently took getting struck as a sign that he was on the right track 🙃

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

@@JacobHillSBD I genuinely cannot tell if "The Passion 2" is a joke or not. Either way thanks for the laugh

I’m Australian and I remember watching this movie in theatres with my mum and grandma who actually cared about it. The theatre only had a handful of people in it, mostly older couples. I remember walking out of the theatre just thinking something was off about the whole thing but ultimately forgetting about it. Seeing the reaction to it in America compared to Australia is absolutely fucking wild to me. It’s hard to believe that anyone could care about a movie that feels like a well meaning but ultimately flat psa stretched out over a movie runtime

@missveronica8393

Ай бұрын

Australian as well, I went to see it with my dad and a couple of women from church. I definitely agree with your summarisation that it's a psa stretched too thin, it feels like a self congratulatory fluff piece, just there to make Tim b and 'Murica look good. I had actually wanted to see the movie, I feel very strongly about the subject matter, but ultimately I think it was hollow and meaningless, what does it accomplish? Did it actually help anyone? None of the profits went to helping anti trafficking, it was just about making money to line their own pockets, and there are other ways to bring attention to a cause than making a feature length film about it. The film itself is too focused on the happy ending and making sure that the audience feels good to really send a message that has any impact. You leave with the good feeling that everything is okay, because Tim is a big hero who saves the day, instead of being forced to sit and think about the reality of life and how this actually goes in the real world. A better ending would have been not to have rescued the girl, making an attempt that ultimately fails and nothing can be done, but using it to strengthen resolve not to let it happen again, showing the reality of the situation. I would have had five minutes at the end of the movie having someone who works to stop trafficking talk to the audience about how to better protect their children, actually use the platform to do something useful. Anyway I need to stop ranting and finish watching the video 😅

@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel

Ай бұрын

These are the type of people who see a pride flag in front of a church they don't even go to and start ranting about how western society is dying and how "its people have abandoned God". Expecting a proportionate response out of a committed ideolog, especially an American one, is folly.

@ilonakonradsheim3988

Ай бұрын

Your answer reminds me of a movie I watched shortly beforr sound of freedom! I don’t remember the name but it was about a murderer of women who were prositutes in Iran, so gut wrenching and the ending DID end in a „well the problem is not that one murderer, he‘s dead but the problem will continue“ and afterwards the freedom movie was feeling SO much flatter but I couldn‘t put my finger on it, I just thought I‘d rather hear the story from the children themselves and not a polished version from That Tim…

@valivali8104

Ай бұрын

​@@missveronica8393 or children are saved, but they are realistically traumatized and have long, painful recovery ahead of them.

@hectormartinez3409

15 күн бұрын

​@@ilonakonradsheim3988holy spider

This video actually made me think a lot about how my family, my cultural upbringing, and my own ego have brainwashed me into being obsessed with hero narratives. Mostly my own ego. By this I mean thinking that being percieved as a hero or one of the good guys as more important than the actual, tangible good I could be enacting in the world if I rose above my own narcissism (everyone wants social acceptance, but these hero narratives feed narcissism, not something natural and good to want like social acceptance from loved ones and your community.) But still, thank you for making this, and for bringing attention to individuals seeking to address sociocultural factors rather than retelling their own stories.

It’s the movie THEY don’t want you to see. Whoever THEY are they must be incompetent because this movie was readily accessible

@Rossoneri2

Ай бұрын

By "they", they probably meant audiences given how nobody talked about it a week after release.

@Blandy0487

Ай бұрын

The movie didn't claim to expose anything, it was a mediocre and liberal retelling of true events, it was the reaction from the mainstream media to this movie that raised eyebrows

@BirdsandGhibliFan

23 күн бұрын

@@Blandy0487 There were lots of conservative influencers on KZread, Twitter, and TikTok that claimed that the movie was exposing something, though. Also, the video creator acknowledges that some of the response from mainstream media to the movie wasn’t very helpful and that some of their reviews might’ve been self-indulgent and used to prop their own political bias, but let’s not pretend that the discourse from the defenders of the film were any better.

@Blandy0487

23 күн бұрын

@@BirdsandGhibliFan I'm saying conservative influences claimed that because of the way it was covered in the mainstream media and its backlash to the movie. Therefore the mainstream media and the establishment might be complicit in the trade, the movie itself didn't try to make that connection

@BirdsandGhibliFan

22 күн бұрын

@@Blandy0487 That’s not evidence that the mainstream media or establishment was complicit in anything. Whether or not the movie itself made the connection is irrelevant and has nothing to do with my point. It’s just an obfuscation of the fact that many conservatives have made bold and outlandish claims that people were trying to censor or ban the movie, which there’s barely any evidence for. From personal experience, “Sound Of Freedom” was heavily advertised on movie theater apps around the time of its release, so I don’t know where conservatives are coming from that the movie was being sabotaged by AMC because the air conditioning in a theater stopped working or because seats were empty. Also, you admit yourself that the film is mediocre, so it begs the question of should it be worth anyone’s time and money to see it in the first place. It’s weird seeing people twist themselves in knots and say, “It’s a mediocre movie, but it’s telling an important story, and that’s all it matters, and anyone who says otherwise must be complicit.” To me, that’s not having a cinematic experience. That’s a virtue-signaling exercise, and I have no interest in that, whether if it comes from the left or the right.

I had to wipe my phone and glasses off….because you, my friend, ARE SPITTIN!!!!!

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

😂

So, i watched this movie since my grandmother gave me the tickets, and i thought it would be interesting for me to watch as someone who was kidnapped and technically human trafficed (she had money for keeping me in the home, but did not pimp me out or anything like that) and i found it a really... strange story. Mostly because it didnt feel real in the slightest. It made me emotional, sure, but i found myself wondering more about what was actually happening to the children. How they got so many, how they survived their day to day lives. But i didnt get that. The kids in this movie are the most innocent naive things that seemingly do nothing, ask for nothing, and have very few actual opinions on what is happening to them other than the fact it makes them sad. But the strange thing is, a story like this is going to be believed way more than a story like mine. My story isn't someone snatching me up in a van. I didnt have that popertially sad look, i didnt even realize that I should be sad about what was happening to me. And i could tell you a hundred different stories about the abuse i suffered, but they wouldnt feel like the stories shown in the movie. Mine are just much quieter, much more feasible than a big bad child stealer. Every time i talk about it i have at least one person say im lying. And i think i know why. Its because law enforcement didnt do anything about it. I didnt have a white savior, or a good guy with a gun. I didnt have a social worker come and take me home. Me, and the three other children that were there, all fell through the cracks. I was just lucky that my mom could afford a private investigatior and go through the long years of legal battle it took to get me back home. My mom had rich parents to take me home. This is all to say, a story like mine is so much harder to fathom than a story the song of freedom tells. Song of freedom is willing to pat you on the back for watching a film, for tweeting about a film, but not for actually doing anything. It awards you for the basic human instinct of outrage at what happens to these children, and the joy that comes from knowing they are okay. And that is an amazing feeling, its a useful feeling. But only if you let that feeling motivate you to actually do something. To actually write a check. To actually reasurch. To actually join an organization, to actually advocate for a world where children like me dont need to be rescued in the first place. No one is actually ready to do that, no one who watched this movie and came away with the idea that all we need to do is send some agents out of the country and it will be fine is actually willing to do that. It speaks volumes to me, that they'd rather imagine a world where human trafficking is an isolated problem, than to actuality look me in the face and understand that the reason i was kidnapped was not because of evil people wanting to evil things. It was as simple as my mom couldnt afford to have me at the time, so she sent me to live with someone who had ulterior motives. And no amount of good guy with a gun will stop that happening to someone else.

@khakachu7778

23 күн бұрын

*Thank you!!* *I feel as a trafficked victim yourself, YOUR experience Is the one that matters the most. After all, people weren’t willing to believe you because they were so naive and foolish to not do research.* *Another Ironic and hypocritical thing some of the Sound Of Freedom fans Is that they’re attacking and harassing ACTUAL gay former trafficked victims online, simply for not agreeing with everything In the movie. Some of them were like “Oh, you’re gay, so there’s a chance that you wanted It!” The fact that people are ACTUALLY saying this Is VERY telling. 😒*

@lakibramble

23 күн бұрын

@khakachu7778 yes. I'm also queer, and the idea of 'wanting' abuse is really insidious because it lacks the understanding that most abuse victims who were kidnapped or taken from their homes, don't actually recognize what is happening to them. I was in such an environment that I didn't know pretty much anything about the outside world until was six or seven years old. I went months without leaving the house, and of course I had some kind of bond with my abuser. They positioned themselves as the only person that could allow me to eat, drink, read, or play. Of course I would grow to see them as a 'good' thing in my life because I didn't know of anything else. Of course I would see them as someone who's there to help me, despite how they would physically and emotionally abuse me, as well as starve me and deprive me of water. You could make a case that I 'wanted it' if you wanted to. But it's like saying a starving person WANTS to eat dirt in order to live. It's just not how it works. This movie definitely sparked a lot of conversations. Sadly, only the useless ones.

@Red_Lion2000

11 күн бұрын

All due respect. Isnt sending your child away to someone like that evil? and isnt that person evil for wanting to do those things? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you...

@lakibramble

11 күн бұрын

@@Red_Lion2000 so, in my case. She didn't know any of this would happen. She had a friend who would do a scam where she'd find women who couldn't afford to house their kids, befriend them, and then offer to take them in. She did this with three other children. My mother at the time had cancer and a new born baby, and she was told she could visit frequently, and I would go to school. Well a few weeks later she was sent a contract and the woman told her that she'd need to sign it for me to go to school. She didn't realize that she was essentially signing her rights away. This was so she could have children to trick the government into giving her money. I wouldn't say my mom was evil. I'd say maybe she should've looked into it a bit more. But she was a cancer patient with a newborn baby, I'm not gonna blame her for being easily manipulated. While my version of human trafficking isn't exactly like the kind you are probably used to hearing, kidnapping children for money is what constitutes human trafficking.

@lakibramble

11 күн бұрын

@@Red_Lion2000 also to elaborate. I'm not saying the lady who harmed me wasn't 'evil' or whatever. She was a bad person. But I also understand it isn't as simple as that. If my mother had the resources she needed, I would not have ended up in that situation. I also have to acknowledge the fact that the woman who abused me was also a hard user of drugs and alcohol. I'm not saying she'd be any better to kids if she *wasn't* but that also has a large impact on what happened to me. A large amount of the money she got from housing me and the other kids went to drugs and alcohol, would she have still done what she did if she didn't need the money for the drugs? If she had been off the drugs in the first place? I don't know. But probably not. Whatever you call it. Injustice, evil, what have you. They're systemic issues, and they need systemic solutions

i really admire not only the obvious quality of your research, but the matter-of-fact, no-bullshit air of your delivery. i can get impatient with a lot of the style choices of video essayists that tend to waffle airily around the subject at hand (often to disguise less than comprehensive understanding of the topic they're presenting). your understanding of what is important to include and how to convey it succinctly really elevates your work as an essayist.

“Because the kinds of conservatives who produced and enthusiastically consumed this movie are people for whom the word ‘freedom’ means the right to abandon reality.” 😤😤😤

Hiiii! Mexicana here! Just to inform you that Eduardo Verástegui didn’t even got to try to run for president 🤭 didn’t get the minimum amount of support to even be a candidate, loved the video ❤❤❤❤❤

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Eyyyyy fuck yeah best news I’ve heard all day 🇲🇽❤️🇲🇽❤️

@indicev

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo hahahahhaa it was soooo good on twitter he was like “there will be consequences” and people were like “what ur gonna do? Pray the rosary?” I was gagging

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

@@indicev 😂😂😂

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

@@indicev God will smite them for not appeasing his favorite boy.

This was one of the best video essays I've ever seen on this this film. Your conclusion was so sharp you could split hairs with it.

You've pretty much crystalized exactly why this film made me uncomfortable when I was hearing about it and saw it. Great video!

@chasehedges6775

20 күн бұрын

💯💯. Yep

For me, the start, the ending, and maybe the result of this video essay might be what I love so much about it.

@EmmaAndEmmaAndEmma

Ай бұрын

I see what you did there 🤣

@EmmaAndEmmaAndEmma

Ай бұрын

I see what you did there. 🤣

I thought i was having a stroke the length of time harmon took recalling hearing voices ahem i mean spoken to by god

@butt317

Ай бұрын

Dude looked like he was staring into the void, overwhelmed with terror

@chrisbudmelman

Ай бұрын

I want to say, as a former Mormon, that this is a particular type of speaking is quite common in the faith. You start to recount an experience with God, then -- as you approach the actual statement or experience-- there is a looooonnng pregnant pause. And then, always, the first words that spoken after the pause are teary and shaken, usually coming out in short phrases. I saw it coming as soon as he started recounting the story. This isn't to say that he wasn't sincere, but just that he certainly grew up hearing this type of speech pattern.

@Countraccoonula

Ай бұрын

He claimed he also got emails from God. I wonder if God is more of a Gmail dude or an office suite dude.

@hookedonphoenix3112

Ай бұрын

19:00; it’s amazing!

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

@@chrisbudmelman Yeah. Kinda like how shouting "OH GOD! OH GOD! OH MY GOD!" while orgasming might be considered strange to an atheist or Buddhist - but to someone raised as a christian it is perfectly innocuous. It's a culture thing.

One of the producers of that film is Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican actor and singer. He was quite famous in the 90s and 2000s. It was learned that she had a love relationship with Ricky Martin (who at that time had not yet come out of the closet) After that, he disappeared for a long time. Until he reappeared but he was no longer the same. He converted to Christianity and became the face of Mexican conservatism. He became friends with quite important politicians and religious figures at that time. Including Marcial Maciel, a priest accused of rape and abuse of minors. The man has spent the last few years talking about the dangers of homosexuality on open television and on the internet. At one point two years ago, Eduardo announced that he was going to run as a presidential candidate for the 2024 elections in Mexico. Using the same tactics as the Republicans in the USA. Fear campaigns, attacks on everything that does not represent the Right and a great hatred towards the LGBT community. He promised to return honor to Mexico (sic) and also that he was going to inaugurate a Christian state. The man had a kind of egocentric personality around his campaign and also became quite violent in certain cases. At the beginning of this year, the Mexican electoral institute announced that Eduardo had not obtained enough signatures to be considered as a candidate and had to drop out. After that, he became much more erratic, posting videos using assault rifles (which is illegal here in Mexico), Accusing everyone of sabotaging his campaign and blaming the president for doing nothing. That only ended badly for him, because the authorities summoned him to justify the fact that he had received money from the United States for his campaign (which is also illegal).

The academic quality of this is INSANE! Shit like this is part of why youtube (and by extension video essays) are amazing for conveying information about topics or general thesises. Appreciate the amazing work!

So good. An hour and a half+ essay with an actually tight script that doesn't lose focus throughout is impossible to come by. Real academic level shit

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@Sm0k3turt

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzooit’s true!!!

@user-uv2cp1qd1j

Ай бұрын

And it’s not like those long for the sake of length videos. Where it’s like Part One : History of Cinema

@willfinck1267

Ай бұрын

@@user-uv2cp1qd1jAgreed. One of my favorite parts of this channel is how she treats the audience as relatively intelligent people who don't need every tiny connection drawn out for them and that she always assumes everyone is arguing in good faith even when they aren't

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

An hour and a half script about child trafficking and Hollywood, that doesn't mention how none of Epstein's clients have been brought to justice. Gosh, that's interesting.

BEN SHAPIRO WANTED TO FORCE FEMME A SPORTS TEAM?!?

@johntaylorson7769

Ай бұрын

If it were attributed to anyone else, this might sound weird.

@madeofmeats

Ай бұрын

Ben Shapiro likes sissification confirmed

@llynxfyremusic

Ай бұрын

Lol the fact that he couldn't find anyone willing to try it and admitted it on air and no one cares what this means for his argument

@LucieDeRocheclaire

Ай бұрын

Holy shit based

so i watch a LOT of video essayists but im calling right now, this is the best video essay of the year, if not one of the best ive seen

@chasehedges6775

23 күн бұрын

True.

Some of my family members went down the OUR rabbit hole a few years ago (all also Mormon and already prescribed to the whole God-made-the-colonists-make-America stuff), and they've all been SO mad at me since. Your rant at the end really hit the nail on the head for they way they act. Nothing's political until I say the other side, systemic change is impossible besides through guerilla tactics, and everyone who slightly disagrees hates God and wants all good things to die. Out of genuine curiosity and hope for the future, do you have or know of any suggestions on what to do about the way social media spurs anti-intellectualism? Outright bans can't do it, and moderation, automatic and manual, only seems to be making users more paranoid.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Oof good luck with your family. Personally I think the first steps we should take with social media to truly make it the engine for healthy communication it pretends to be are only allowing adult access and removing the profit motive. This would make the internet significantly more boring and kill the influencer system (which I benefit from), but we need to stop creating incentives to associate the concept of good information with sensationalism, that’s the core of the problem with social media

Political scientist here, and your linking to our previous bout with the last revolution in communication (mass media) to our current (social media) was spot on. It's something I constantly worry about, especially as bad actors like authoritarian states, non-state actors (terrorist organizations, global organized crime), and multi-national corporations continue to exploit it to a startlingly effective degree. As the kids say, it's my "Roman empire". The fact that social media is interactive in ways that traditional mass media could never have been only adds more variables to humanity's ultimate calculation. On a more upbeat note, this goes both ways; good actors still exist (excellent video btw), and the body politic is far from flat-lining. And who knows: maybe we'll skip the world war and mass genocide this go around?

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Oof I worry too. It feels like the kind of social fever that won’t break without some kind of large-scale calamity, that’s exactly what happened last time we did this about a hundred years ago. Maybe if we recognize and talk about it it won’t happen? That’s my hope

@blaiseywaiseyriot

Ай бұрын

no, clearly we haven't skipped the mass genocide and emerging conditions for war. this is a startling comment after nearing six months of the Israeli regime bombing and massacring palestinians; war crimes that the ICJ is pursuing the Israeli regime for and the war crimes america has assisted and been in unequivocal support for so much so that they passed a law to stop all aid if palestinian authority sought justice in the ICJ. what about the israeli regime's bombings of south lebanon, yemen, syria with american weaponry? whole events literal shifting the tectonics of the global world order. is it only a large-scale calamity if it's not the global south? i am sincerely confused

Why do so many Christian media personalities look like they're about to cry?

@De-Nigma

Ай бұрын

Well look at where their life and talents have brought them, they have to become Christian media personalities.

@dougbaer4463

Ай бұрын

Why does AOC?

@lucifersdumpster6283

Ай бұрын

It’s like a sermon/ preaching

@kfitz2711

Ай бұрын

@@De-Nigma😂😂😂

@cosmicmuffin322

Ай бұрын

Sermons and religious/political diatribes are performance art. Plus, my theory is that many of them have personality disorders, and for many sociopaths and narcissists, they love to fake normal human emotions in a very exaggerated and theatrical, even histrionic way that can be quite sinister or unnerving. See: Kenneth Copeland

it's insane how they really can't understand that child trafficking should be stopped by minimising the criteria traffickers look for in these children, and that is inherently politcal

The moment where Caviezel goes, "I played Jesus" and just freezes is... really concerning. Because given what I've read about about his time on Person of Interest, there is a non-zero chance he _actually thinks_ he was/is Jesus. Like, the man is does a weird kind of reverse-method acting - he doesn't try to "become" the character he's playing, he just thinks he _is_ his character.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

The way he talks about allowing the Holy Spirit to embody him when he takes a role, I do think he absolutely flirts with the idea that he was actually possessed by Jesus Christ in that movie

@thor30013

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzooProbably doesn't help that he was actually struck by lightning during filming. Personally, I'd take that as a _bad_ sign, but Caviezel is an odd one.

@juanlulourido548

Ай бұрын

​@@themorbidzooNo he doesn't. You are just ignorant of basic theology and dislike the guy lol.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

@@juanlulourido548 no dude. I’m a confirmed Catholic and the way he speaks in these interviews would be considered blasphemy.

@juanlulourido548

Ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo I am a catholic myself, what he says is well within what is considered acceptable, it isn't even that weird. American christians being prudes about it doesn't mean everyone is, within what is acceptable. I feel like in general a lot of the issues Americans have with this movie steem from your particular sociopolitical circumstances. I think your video is well researched, by I also think it is missing the point of a movie that makes a very simple point, not a documentary. I genuinely think the movie has good intentions and what has led to this endless social media breakdown is simply people fighting over it pretending it is completely accurate or just cheap propaganda. I stand by the opinion that it is a movie with a simple point: "hey let's be aware child trafficking happens under your noses"

“We had a bishop this morning, and what do you think he said? "The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible is this, 'The poor ye have always with you.' They were put here in order to keep us charitable." The poor, please observe, being a sort of useful domestic animal.” - Jean Webster, ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’ You know, I hadn’t heard of this movie and came in with no expectations. But seeing just how much those weepy influencers were admiring their own tears, I knew exactly how it would all pan out - and yes, your excellent analysis was exactly what those tears forecast. And they call leftists virtue-signalling.

@juanlulourido548

Ай бұрын

Jean Webster missing the entire point and failing completely at reading comprehension of what the bishop said to make a quippy remark about it has to be peak leftism made manifest

@gabimartinez8862

Ай бұрын

The phrase “admiring their own tears” is such a good one. They like this movie because they feel validated by feeling the appropriate amount of disgust at the subject matter, not because it’s actually effective at countering the issue.

@vylbird8014

Ай бұрын

I've seriously heard some overly-religious types argue that welfare programs are bad because they undermine the intended role of the church in caring for those in need.

@jbird976

Ай бұрын

truth is that every single one of the people who identify with "Right" and the "Left" are mastabatory in the admiration of their own tears and completely asleep at the wheel. They will gobble up whatever opinions are served to them without once questioning the motives of those serving the meals.

@evanrutledge-sz4yo

Ай бұрын

The quote above is the perfect example of how the right has completely bastardized The Bible of Jesus’s teaching. Jesus actively helped the poor, actively helped those who were seen “inferior” to society. This idea that God makes poor people to serve you is nothing but prosperity gospel BS that had poison the American Church. “Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” The church has become a circus of hypocrisy who take more after the people who crucified Jesus, than they do Jesus.

Jesus Christ. That last ten minutes was absolutely masterful. This is right up there with In Search of a Flat Earth as the most astute and incisive analysis of the modern American right

@user-ll3kc4kq2d

Ай бұрын

the modern american right is just angry liberal boomers more than anything

@bernardoohigginsvevo2974

Ай бұрын

It depends on what part of the right you're talking about, it is by no means a homogeneous thing

This was one of the most well-researched, insightful, and entertaining video essays I've seen. Thank you

Attacking poverty (whatever that ultimately means) would solve a whole host of societal ills, beyond child sex trafficking. Unfortunately, America is the land of "Fear the stranger in raggedy clothes" to an extremely unhealthy degree, and views them overwhelmingly as a potential threat. America is more interested in punishing bad guys, whoever that it is, than actually helping anybody. The idea that maybe someone gets help that "doesn't deserve it" destroys their willingness to actually help the other people that *do* need it.

@epictoenails

Ай бұрын

Couldn't have said it better myself.

@jackflash8218

Ай бұрын

"Attacking poverty" should probably start with people not breeding out of control like wild, mindless Monkeys. 8 billion is way, waaaaay too many. And it's only gonna get worse. Seems like there's real efforts being made to "cull the herd", but I don't know if anything short of a global/celestial event is going to make a dent.

@John-bravooo

Ай бұрын

US has spent trillions in the "war on poverty."

@user-nz8uy1zm3z

Ай бұрын

The fact that poor people commit crimes more than rich people has an effect on this.

@bigbluebuttonman1137

Ай бұрын

@@user-nz8uy1zm3z Really now? Don’t ask about all the rapey shit rich people get up to or the financial laws they break every Tuesday. That’s not a mugging on a sidewalk, so it doesn’t count, I guess.

the fact that the failed drama kids of the daily weirdos gets dunked on by their own fans for being woke gives me just enough life to see the light of tomorrow and not alleyoop this mortal coil once and for all (after learning fart of freedom is one of the highest grosing movies of all time, playing in nearly empty movie theaters)

@SomeOne-vf1rs

Ай бұрын

Hello. I couldn’t understand a single part of this comment.

@copsuicide

Ай бұрын

@@SomeOne-vf1rsyou're dumb

@djangofett4879

Ай бұрын

if you think the daily wire theater kid dorks are hateable, you should meet their audience.

@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel

Ай бұрын

​@@SomeOne-vf1rssadly, I could understand all of it.

@samt3412

Ай бұрын

​@djangofett4879 It is worrying to see that the DW has drawn in an audience somehow more deep in the conservative goop than themselves

Literally starting this over as i finish it to watch it a second time. Incredible work, articulate and concise. I admire your ability to pair a kind of forceful emotional weight with concise logical structure to create such compelling work.

Really liked your take on the Daily Wire - I think you nailed their exact problem. They want to believe that they're making movies that, actually, secretly, all those smirking liberals will really enjoy, and then lie about enjoying because they're not allowed; and they make movies that attempt to live up to their hollow notions that the right-wing are the true guardians of Free Speech, so they have to be violent, explicit, tonally borked, etc., even if that makes them unappealing to honestly everyone. Because, yes, it's about trying to outsmart everyone, rather than outdumb everyone.

The discourse with this movie was so exhausting

@djangofett4879

Ай бұрын

there was no discourse. it was just conservatives calling everyone they dont like a groomer.

@jackflash8218

Ай бұрын

Discourse with religious fanatics usually is.

@neru1584

Ай бұрын

​@@djangofett4879so.. the usual?

Should I assume Angel Studios donated the $250 million they made on the movie towards saving children who are trafficked? (lol, that was rhetorical)

@user-ll3kc4kq2d

Ай бұрын

it goes to israel 💀

@vixxcelacea2778

Ай бұрын

@@user-ll3kc4kq2d Which is not necessarily to help prevent and give resources to those who help get people out of trafficking. Which is criminally underfunded and extremely difficult work, because the reality of trauma is that it stays with you long after you are out of the thing that caused the trauma.

@SegwaeThePromo

14 күн бұрын

@@user-ll3kc4kq2domfg I would cry

@henrylangham6428

13 күн бұрын

@@user-ll3kc4kq2d ahhh. the ones who are doing the trafficking

I love how you address this stuff without demonizing anyone- I really appreciate it personally

People were NOT kidding about that pause

@hookedonphoenix3112

Ай бұрын

19:00, no they were not!

@avamin0s

Ай бұрын

I was confused wondering what the comments were talking about because I thought it was a scene in the movie, but then the interview came and the pause happened and I just stared at the screen like "😨 wtf"

@jordanburr6716

Ай бұрын

As someone who grew up in and eventually escaped the Mormon cult, that "pause while visibly trying control your emotions" is a tactic straight from the Mormon public speaking playbook. All of their leaders do it, but Henry Eyring is the most prolific. As an outsider looking in, it's so obviously manipulative, but the insiders absolutely eat it up. To Mormons, God is found in strong emotion, and the only time that it is appropriate for a man to cry is when he's talking about something that he believes God was involved in. So, seeing that pause was surprisingly triggering to my religious trauma.

@brandonsmith9098

Ай бұрын

He pulled a Mitch McConnell.

This was an incredibly illuminating video. Very direct, informative, and empathetic. It really struck a chord with me personally, too. I recall in my own struggles with PTSD and committing to therapy how much I wanted to insert myself into a crisis where I can directly right wrongs and fix problems in order to make my trauma okay, too. But it's such a destructive path that led me to anger, paranoia, and addiction. To see how the methods and institutions of propaganda can weaponize the fears of people in such a way is painful to observe after years of looking inward. Thank you for making this. It must've been so exhausting to research, too. 😅

@themorbidzoo

23 күн бұрын

That tracks from what I hear from a lot of people with trauma, especially men for whatever reason. Exhausting but worth it, thank you 😊

@richardestevez9220

23 күн бұрын

@themorbidzoo it can be tough to live with. But I've truly benefited from therapy, my kids, and good people in my life. I dont need to seek out things to fix anymore. By taking things a day at a time, I practice patience and allow the world around me to just be. I'm happy to subscribe to your channel and wish you the best. 😊

Trump’s response when asked about his take on the movie is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s the same response I would give my teachers when they’d ask me about the assigned reading that I, “definitely read.” Dude was not paying attention in that theatre. Was on his phone the entire time, I guarantee it.

@fettypaige4551

Ай бұрын

He liked the beginning, the middle, AND he liked the end. We need more reviewers willing to cut the BS

@d3nza482

Ай бұрын

He particularly liked the part when the person, woman, man, camera, TV. And the part with lion, rhinoceros and a camel. Some say there's an elephant. Most people don't know that.

@alfgwahigain5544

Ай бұрын

Remember when asked about his favorite bible verses his response was basically "all of them". He really digs deep.

@davismorgan7955

Ай бұрын

@@alfgwahigain5544I do not understand how the greater Christian community sees him as this beacon of Christianity. He’s really the opposite of everything that Jesus taught. It’s insane.

@Maccycheez

Ай бұрын

@@davismorgan7955 When I recently went into my old small town to visit my parents, there was a big sign up that said “Only Trump and God can save our country!” Yet the Bible in Exodus 20:3, Matthew 4:10, and Luke 4:8 goes against this idea of having a false idol! “Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.” They really do like to contradict themselves, don’t they? I bet they’ve read as much of the Bible as their “savior” has!

"A simple world, where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes: devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right, and their enemies are silent. They are trying to build a flat Earth." ~Dan Olsen, In Search of a Flat Earth If I could bring a modern invention back in time, it would be a bottom-up view of the universe. Humans are complex things, and we create complex things, so when we look at the complex world around us, we reasonably assume that the complexity probably came about from some other complex thing creating it, and therefore that things are the way they are by design. It's a top down view of the universe. But, it's wrong. Complex things are almost never the result of a designer designing something to be complex. From quantum mechanics to astrophysics to economics or sociology, the world is complex because it's made of trillions of ultra tiny things all doing their own thing, bouncing around and into each other. The way they talk about child trafficking like it's an inhuman monster from outer space reminded me a lot of the recent legislation that screwed up in vetro fertilization. The legislators had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, and they had no interest in learning or understanding it. They don't want to think about the icky gradient between human and non-human where gestating fetuses sit, because it's a scary place where philosophy meets biology. But instead of trying to square their beliefs about life with the messy reality that there is no single point at which a thing can be described as Alive, they just shoved the problem away as hard as they could as quickly as they could. There's no James Bond villain responsible for Human Trafficking, like as a concept. You can't end the drug war by beating up all the drug cartel bosses. Killing Osama Bin Laden, while still a good thing, didn't end all terrorism forever. There is no Devil creating evil where there wasn't any before. By insisting that there is, conservatives can pretend the world is flat and simple enough that they never have to lift a finger to make it any better. That's just the way things are. It is what it is. God will provide. Conservatism, and indeed Christianity, are tools of mass self infantilization, as a means of deferring responsibility. And when you tell them they need to make an effort and do something to actually help, they get extremely uncomfortable, not because they're lazy or apathetic, but because it challenges their entire top down view of the universe. Amazing video.

@ChineseSpyBal00n

Ай бұрын

Extremely well put.

@aandwdabest

Ай бұрын

A rather interesting and insightful comment.

@crazyeight9

Ай бұрын

Uhm science tells us that life begins at conception. No philosophy needed. Of course if your political ideology tells you something different

@leejerrett8268

Ай бұрын

@@crazyeight9 I could show you a picture of a cow, human and rat embryo and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

@crazyeight9

Ай бұрын

@@leejerrett8268 again science tells us that human life begins at conception. Clealry you don’t accept this basic science because it goes against your political philosophy. If you are honest you could admit that life begins at conception and argue from there

41:15 The "delightful" irony of someone wanting to protect a child... by secretly filming them in a bathroom without theirs nor their parents' consent.

@BirdsandGhibliFan

23 күн бұрын

It’s the equivalent of seeing a fight and instead of trying to break up the fight or calling the authorities, someone takes out a phone and records instead. Or seeing someone fall and taking out a phone to record instead of, you know, helping the person up and making sure he or she needs some urgent care.

First of all I'm glad the algorithm recommended this channel, the delivery and content made 90 minutes feel like it wasn't enough! Extremely informative content as well, currently searching for my notebook to write shit down that I didn't know. Great job!

The way you piece things together is amazing. The level of understanding you reach and the nuance you communicate. It hits bro.

@themorbidzoo

Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@jbone877

Ай бұрын

Word!

Tim Ballard is an extremely important example when it comes to traumatized individuals buying into the face-value affirmation and vindication of their moral standing/outrage by their immediate and unqualified social circle as a coping mechanism to give their pain & anger a “purpose”. Or rather a pedestal to stand on for self-moral comfort. It’s like taking an injured leg and propping it up on a cushion, just for it to stay that way forever. If you want your outrage to mean something, you need to encourage collectivized efforts to contextualize certain atrocities and brainstorm genuine and tangible ideas of progress. Like mass-rehabilitation programs for children to grow out of their trauma, poverty alleviation to increase living conditions and make kidnappings less likely to slip under the radar, or the decriminalization of sex-work so that the secret black market of human-trafficking can lose its mechanism of manipulation, causing the whole market itself to crumble over time. I tried very hard to not make this a word-salad lol Hopefully you can understand it❤

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

"I tried very hard to not make this a word-salad lol" You succeeded with flying colors! I'm drunk as shit and I had no problem whatsoever understanding you.. so I gotta imagine that you're all good 🤗

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

What are your qualifications to say you know better how to deal with trafficking than him?

@ElevatorEleven

Ай бұрын

When you see truly horrifying things and your Christian upbringing forces you to think the world is made by a God who loves us, it can be really tough to square that. People in that situation can fight pretty desperately to find some "meaning" in it. The movie is a clumsy, gross, and tasteless attempt to deny the fact that there is no satisfying story in a child abduction. They're not exciting, they're not meaningful, they're not a source of growth, of character, of redemption, or even very much interest. They're just SAD. hm where have I heard that line before

@chadbusch8541

Ай бұрын

What are yours?​@@AlexReynard

@Zren89

Ай бұрын

​@@AlexReynardyou're missing the entire point. This assessment shouldn't flow from a point of authority but from one of examining the reality of who is trafficked and WHY. What material conditions contribute to the issue at large. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

What a great essay. You are genuinely an impressive writer and narrator. This is one of the best-written video-essays I've watched.

Fantastic video! I have no idea how you wrote an hour and half script that was so cohesive and informative without having a single boring line in it Just discovered your channel and want to give a preemptive thank you for ruining my sleep schedule this week as I undoubtedly will be staying up to binge all your past videos

You just woke me up from the "heroic society" slumber I had no idea I was sleeping in. Absolutely incredible!! Amazing work

I've worked in a border town shelter where pretty much everyone we had was a migrant or asylum seeker. Every once in a while we had volunteers from the American diocese (the shelter was ran by Jesuit priests and nuns from some order or other) and the way Ballard and co act reminds me of those American volunteers: Very genuinely wanting to help but incapable of understanding what helping required materially. They were certain that they knew what people needed without even speaking their language, let alone actually sitting down to listen to them or us. This wasn't helped with the fact that some of them believed in building a wall WHILE SUPPOSEDLY WANTING TO HELP MIGRANTS. The cognitive dissonance is and was astounding

@idontwantahandlethough

Ай бұрын

lol oh jesus christ that's ridiculous. "Oh sure, we'll help you! We'd love to help! ..NO OH GOD NO! I MEANT OVER *_THERE_* -- WE WILL HELP YOU OVER THERE!"

@blixer8384

Ай бұрын

Dave Barnhart has a good quote about this kind of phenomenon that’s way to long and specifically about abortion. This kind of performative activism is never actually about uplifting the poor and vulnerable and providing for their needs. It’s about assuaging the guilty conscience of those who participate. So they can feel as if they are meaningfully contributing to a problem while sacrificing nothing to do so.

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

"This wasn't helped with the fact that some of them believed in building a wall WHILE SUPPOSEDLY WANTING TO HELP MIGRANTS." I know, right? How insane is it to think that you can help legal migrants and asylum seekers by building a border that makes it more difficult for entry for traffickers, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants who want to cut in line ahead of legal immigrants?

@Kokoamaya935

Ай бұрын

@@AlexReynard The wall doesn't make entry more difficult for smugglers or traffickers, it just makes it harder for migrants, all of them. Because it's so difficult to cross people actually resort to cutting deals WITH traffickers and smugglers because they already have ways of getting in without issue. Most of the people I met who got in that way (or tried to) were desperate and had no other choice. But thank you for illustrating my point that people think they know what they're talking about without ever even trying to understand what others are telling them.

@AlexReynard

Ай бұрын

@@Kokoamaya935 I didn't have a stance on the border until I started listening to the views of frontline border agents and legal migrants. Also, once I saw the effectiveness of border walls in other countries, and the insane attempts of US politicians to make us believe that something that demonstrably works overseas won't work here because... Reasons. "The wall doesn't make entry more difficult for smugglers or traffickers, it just makes it harder for migrants, all of them." What a great paradox. If it makes it harder for all of them, how does that not also include smugglers and traffickers? "Because it's so difficult to cross people actually resort to cutting deals WITH traffickers and smugglers because they already have ways of getting in without issue" I can't help but see that as, 'There are gaps in our security, and instead of filling those gaps, we should abandon the idea of a security system.' What's the alternative to a border wall that works better?

I can't express just how much I've been craving a new Morbid Zoo video. I'm practically buzzing.

This is hands down one of my favorite videos on this entire site. Masterfully done from start to finish.

@themorbidzoo

6 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching ☺️