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IvanTheHeathen

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@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
David Lynch's simple, golden advice to all creative people: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3-5fpiMd5qEY7M&ab_channel=PatRiesterer
@Muskateering
@Muskateering 8 күн бұрын
For me, Fire Walk With Me is his underrated masterpiece, a total gut punch of a horror film that might be the most terrifying thing he ever made. R.I.P 🙏🏼
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
@@Muskateering - It was terrifying, but I think that if you watch it closely, you’ll find that it ends on a hopeful and optimistic note, with Laura in heaven, weeping from the beatific vision. It was criminally underrated. Anyone who wants indisputable proof of Quentin Tarantino’s fundamental worthlessness as a director need only recall that he hated _Fire, Walk With Me._ Many critics also hated _Lost Highway,_ which I find flabbergasting. Siskel & Ebert panned _Lost Highway,_ and Lynch, because he was the man, used that fact as advertising on a poster.
@MisterMeanor
@MisterMeanor 9 күн бұрын
The man inspired (Twin Peaks, specifically) a Japanese team to create one of my favorite video game horror series nine years after the show debuted. For the last six years I’ve been wanting to get my hands on Twin Peaks as well as his movies, but other things came up. His book, _Catching the Big Fish : Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity_ was sitting in my online wishlist, but will need to be put on the purchased list. This is my cue to finally explore more of his works! Eraserhead was a good appetizer, and Twin Peaks, now in the mail, be a great follow-up. Thanks again, Ivan. A proper send-off to a true artist.
@EleaticStranger-v6n
@EleaticStranger-v6n 9 күн бұрын
The first move of his I’ve seen was Eraserhead, I was quite young at the time of viewing but his vision of the sort of hellish lifestyle in an industrial, brutalistic city always stuck with me. Like you say, however, he was always an optimist at heart that accentuated the healing properties of beauty (recalling his scene with Shelly in Twin Peaks). I would also like to thank you Ivan, as someone who doesn’t have a habit of leaving comments. I stumbled on your channel years ago by accident as an impressionable young kid and the videos and reading recommendations had quite an impact on my intellectual development (recalling your videos on classical theology among others). Don’t stop doing what you do, I always tune in to the channel every once in a while to see if you uploaded a new video.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
The first Lynch movie that I had ever seen was _Blue Velvet._ It had an immediate effect on me because I had never seen anything like it before. Lynch was the first director to force me to take film seriously as an artistic medium because his films are impossible to watch passively. _Blue Velvet_ shocked me because I initially couldn't quite understand what I had seen after my first viewing, and yet, the film called me to bring more mature consideration to bear on it and immediately brought to my awareness the fact that I was looking at the work of a serious artist. Ever since then (this was just over 10 years ago), I have refused to treat film as passive entertainment. One of my central beliefs about art is that all art is ineluctably moral. Every artist - whether he realizes or not, whether he acknowledges it or not - presents a moral vision of some kind to the world in his work. There is, in reality, no such thing as "art for art's sake" because even the thesis that art should be unmoored from moral considerations is itself a moral thesis. Furthermore, it is, in practice, a moral thesis which serves the function of allowing both the artist and his audience to behave irresponsibly and is, for that reason, at least partly responsible for our civilization's slide into decadence and decay. What John Gardner said in _On Moral Fiction_ was clearly and obviously correct. _Blue Velvet_ is a journey into the recesses of darkness, especially into the darkness of the protagonist's, Jeffrey Beaumont's, own soul. And yet, in the end, Jeffrey emerges back into the light. This core element of Lynch's moral vision - that to truly appreciate the light, one must pass through the darkness - has impressed me from the first moment. It demonstrates that one can take the seedy and shadowy elements of life seriously while still retaining a fundamentally optimistic vision, and that believing in the ultimate triumph of good need not make one into a sappy fool who is afraid to stare life in the face. It gives the lie to the idea, so central to so much of post-WWI art, that when artists wallow in depravity and animalism, they merely hold up mirrors to the world. Taking seriously this thesis about the necessity of darkness to round out the light can certainly put one into great danger, but there is no way to become a mature adult without confronting danger. Thank you for your encouragement. It is heartening to see that I have had such an influence on someone. Your channel name is fortuitous and interesting. I know that it's a reference to Plato's _Sophist,_ but I happen to be reading a fascinating book by Peter Kingsley right now called _Reality._ The book is about Parmenides and his subsequent influence upon Western thought, and Parmenides was obviously from Elea. When one thinks seriously about God, one begins to notice reason gently pointing beyond itself. One begins to notice that God both _is_ reason itself and is beyond reason. Reason thus paradoxically leads to mysticism. Plato, as you probably know, masterfully explores this very theme in the _Parmenides._ The duality-yet-connection between reason and mysticism in Plato and Parmenides mirror's Lynch's own exploration of the duality-yet-connection between good and evil, and I don't think that this is an accident. God himself is the coincidence of opposites, as Nicholas of Cusa said. Moreover, metaphor is the central element of all art, and a metaphor is simply a connection drawn between two things that are not truly the same. This is why philosophy started - and could only have started - in poetry. David Lynch was a genius. I am not the sort of person to become sappy over the deal of a celebrity, but his death was upsetting. We lost a true artist's artist and a genius. Again, I thank you deeply for your support and encouragement.
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 8 күн бұрын
@@IvanTheHeathen I myself encountered your channel way back in early 2017 when I was searching a few forums for stuff related to quantum mechanics & idealism, and someone suggested your video on it. This then led to some very interesting conversations with you (which I appreciate since not a lot of people on KZbin are willing to respond to questions / objections in paragraphic depth!) as well as subscribing due to the other interesting content you posted. And it didn't disappoint. Over the years you've still managed to produce interestign & worthwhile content, even if very scant at times (from 2017 to 2021 or thereabouts was when vids from you were as rare as a JonTron upload); heck, your videos on the Russo-Ukrainian war decisively tipped me in favor of Ukraine from a neutral-to-slightly-inclined-towards-Russia position. since I knew you were far from a liberal & tend to be careful with the positions you take! I certainly hope you make more videos in the future than you did during the years of 2017! Or at least more community posts!
@markcooperartcomofficial
@markcooperartcomofficial 8 күн бұрын
I'm pretty sure that he's responsible for helping other movie makers think outside of the box. Without him most movies influenced by him (many) would have totally sucked!
@Bartholomew_Musgrave
@Bartholomew_Musgrave 8 күн бұрын
Younger generations would not know, since Lynch is so universally loved on the left and right these days, that he was also widely disliked on the left and right prior to the online age. It was probably only after Mulholland Drive that he began to become more critically accepted by some of the mainstream. Prior to that, you were probably some sort of misfit if you loved his work. I remember watching Twin Peaks in 1990 when it was first broadcast on British television, and avidly taping them all on VHS. Thankfully it was broadcast on BBC, which meant there were no adverts to break up the magic atmosphere of the show. The same year, Wild at Heart was released, so it was a great year to be alive as a David Lynch fan. That film in particular was always being screened at my local arthouse cinema in the early 90s, an old cinema which had lovely big comfortable seating, and of course you could smoke and drink whilst watching the film for the seventh time. Imagine not being able to smoke whilst watching a Lynch film! I always liked that he was such a champion for the joys of smoking cigarettes. I feel like I’ve been in conversation with his work my whole adult life, and what a conversation. He was one of the very few modern artists who was consistently fascinating in interview, and his interviews are a key part of his work. For me, his masterpiece was Blue Velvet. It’s impossible to tire of that gorgeous film. Thank you for a lovely tribute to a dear, sweet man.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
I came to appreciate Lynch's work relatively late. I watched _Blue Velvet_ in 2014, and I agree: It's a gorgeous film. Like everything else he made, it's got layers upon layers of meaning. The performances were unforgettable: Isabella Rosselini was chilling, Laura Dern was endearingly sweet, Dean Stockwell's brief appearance was the weirdest thing I had ever seen up to that time, and Dennis Hopper especially was a complete psychopath. As I understand it, he won many plaudits for _Blue Velvet._ It was _Twin Peaks: Fire, Walk With Me_ that began to sully his reputation. Critics hated it, and it's said that it was booed at the Cannes Film Festival (though that appears to be a myth). It's true that it's impossible to fully appreciate that film unless you've also watched the series (and _The Missing Pieces_ also help), but I think that that it's his most profoundly spiritually optimistic work - and, arguably, also his darkest. The fact that Quentin Tarantino hated _Fire, Walk With Me_ so much only confirms to me that, at his core, he's just a gooning degenerate who has fundamentally nothing interesting to say. His entire reputation consists of him coasting off of the success of _Pulp Fiction,_ whose only real strength is that it contains a few clever lines of dialogue. Tarantino is a prime example of the kind of "artist" I was referring to who simply wallows gratuitously in filth for no greater purpose. I thought it was hilarious when Lynch invited Tim Roth to do a cameo appearance in the third season of _Twin Peaks_ and used him to give Tarantino a not-very-subtle middle finger. Shortly after I watched _Blue Velvet,_ I devoured all of Lynch's other films, with the exceptions of _Dune_ and _Inland Empire,_ which I watched later. There are other directors whose work I enjoy and appreciate (Refn, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Wenders), but Lynch is the only one whose films I consistently re-watch from time to time. I can't even tell you how many times I've watched _Mulholland Drive._ The sheer profusion of theories and interpretations that his films have generated on KZbin (Twin Perfect's controversial but interesting take on _Twin Peaks_ being a prominent example) and elsewhere perfectly illustrates why great art is inexhaustible. Lynch is _the reason_ why I take film seriously as an artistic medium. It's infuriating that we could have seen more from him in his later years had Netflix not refused to greenlight his ideas. Philistines! Absolutely worthless philistines! I wonder whether he had tried going to a studio like A24. Perhaps he didn't because A24 is headquartered in New York, and he hated that whole general area, especially Philadelphia. He was fascinating both as an artist and as a man. It's terrible that he's left us. May he rest in peace.
@Bartholomew_Musgrave
@Bartholomew_Musgrave 8 күн бұрын
Yes, he hated Philadelphia, you probably know that he considered Eraserhead his artistic reaction to the horrors of that city. That sensibility informed much of his subsequent work, so it came to be profoundly important that he moved there. I think of Eraserhead as a sort of cyberpunk movie in the sense that it’s a rejection of city living. It’s sickening to think of possible lost work because of Netflix. I hadn’t heard that before. As if any of us need another reason to loathe that company. One more thing to say: his celebration of beautiful European women is just about unmatched in the era he was working. (Something a lot more common in the Golden Age.) Isabella Rossellini didn’t make many good movies, but she was immortalised in startling ways in Blue Velvet. It makes me happy to know that those two spent some of their years on Earth together.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
​@@Bartholomew_Musgrave -- Lynch had fantastically good taste in women. The comparison you draw between Lynch's way of casting actresses and the way it was done during the Golden Age of Hollywood shows another way in which he hearkened back to an older America. The story of how he met Naomi Watts is quite funny. As you probably know, he had a habit of casting actors based entirely on the feelings he got from looking at their photographs. But when she showed up to do her audition for _Mulholland Drive,_ Naomi Watts didn't quite look the same as she did in the photograph Lynch saw, which left him absolutely crestfallen. Luckily, she still got the role. Laura Harring was very beautiful, too. And of course, _Twin Peaks_ was loaded with gorgeous women. The scene in _Twin Peaks_ where Gordon Cole meets Shelly and is able to hear her without assistance is really emblematic of the kind of optimist Lynch was. He believed that beauty had a healing power. The possibility of lost work is infuriating. I think he would have had better luck pitching ideas to a studio like A24. Alas! "Unrecorded Night," one of his last ideas for a show (though the details have largely been kept secret), was pitched to Netflix. The absolute imbeciles there rejected it. After making _Eraserhead,_ Lynch had an idea for a film called _Ronnie Rocket,_ which, as I recall, was to be about a three-foot-tall detective with red hair (probably to be played by Michael Anderson) who had the power to control electricity. I would have loved to see that, but I think that elements of that idea had been injected into other Lynch projects over time (The Man From Another Place in _Twin Peaks,_ the many allusions to electricity and television throughout Lynch's filmography, etc.).
@Bartholomew_Musgrave
@Bartholomew_Musgrave 8 күн бұрын
Absolutely. There’s a sequence in Mulholland Drive where the Harring and Watts characters are walking between properties in the apartment complex during which my jaw is on the floor at how sensational Laura Harring looks, haha! Isabella was always the one for me though.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
@ -- Laura Harring and Madchen Amick were both stunning. Sherilyn Fenn pulled off the slightly mischievous look that Audrey needed to utter perfection. Even Peggy Lipton, though she was in her 40s when they shot _Twin Peaks,_ had aged very gracefully and still looked fantastic. It's nice to see that there are a few people here who appreciate Lynch as much as I do, even though I've built my audience talking about very different things.
@CosmicFaust
@CosmicFaust 8 күн бұрын
It was a shock to me when I heard he had passed away. It was so bizarre because I had actually just finished re-watching Dune 1984 by him when the news broke 😳
@goldfishy
@goldfishy 8 күн бұрын
I will always love this version of Dune. It touches my heart. “Father!!!” young Paul screamed into the sky.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
I had heard of his death late on the night of the 16th. It felt awful. Celebrity deaths typically don't bother me, but this one hurt. I immediately drew the connection between his death and the fires in LA. I've been rewatching all of his films now. I would have loved to see his full version of _Dune._ Sadly, it's another of his many projects that have been lost.
@johnomalley9426
@johnomalley9426 9 күн бұрын
Thanks Ivan!!!
@hvitekristesdod
@hvitekristesdod 8 күн бұрын
Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are two of my favourite films. I was praying for him during the LA fires. I really thought he was going to be okay for many more years. 😢 I do think Mulholland Drive is a horror film. It scares me more than just about any other horror film out there, the Winkie’s scene of course, but there’s tons of other scenes that hit as hard or harder
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
I've been watching many videos paying tribute to Lynch, and on one of them, someone commented, "It never even occurred to me that David Lynch might die." I felt the same way. He had an utterly unique personality, manner and creative impulse. From his cool hair to his folksy demeanor, he seemed almost like someone from another world, and there appeared to be something almost absurd in the suggestion that he would die one day. I remember watching his weather reports when COVID was happening and being greatly entertained. After the third season of _Twin Peaks,_ for which I was deeply excited, I had really hoped that he would get to have one last hurrah in filmmaking. I am simultaneously despondent and enraged to know that Netflix and other studios had consistently shot down his ideas for shows and movies. Even in his old age, he was not a spent force creatively. We could have had so much more from him. To see the same sort of people who stood in the way of his creativity now crying crocodile tears over his death and calling him a genius is grotesque and insulting. He didn't die directly in the fires, but the diminished air quality resulting from them probably sped along his demise. Gross incompetence in two areas - in the entertainment industry and in public administration - took a giant from us. That's unforgivable. As I said in the video, I see in these things the signs of a civilization in its death throes. No one could possibly replace him, but all creative people who have anything interesting or worthwhile to say should take inspiration from him and press on. His advice here is very direct, very simple, and obviously accurate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3-5fpiMd5qEY7M&ab_channel=PatRiesterer
@hvitekristesdod
@hvitekristesdod 3 күн бұрын
@ Very well said
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 8 күн бұрын
Did not know much about David Lynch, but do know about Twin Peaks which is his creation, so may he rest in peace!
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 8 күн бұрын
You're in for a treat if you decide to watch more of his work. _Twin Peaks_ (at least the first two seasons) are among the more accessible parts of his oeuvre. If you can stomach _Blue Velvet,_ you should also be able to enjoy his _truly_ weird stuff, like _Eraserhead_ or _Inland Empire._ _Blue Velvet_ was the first film of his that I had ever watched, and my immediate reaction after it had ended was to say, "What the hell did I just see?" Yet, I was drawn to it and wished to understand it. I think that every thoughtful and sensitive person can find something to appreciate in Lynch's work. I would encourage you to explore it more deeply.
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 8 күн бұрын
@@IvanTheHeathen Will make sure to do that one day! I haven't even watched Twin Peaks yet, just know about it generally and how it has influenced other shows I really happen to like! Lynch's stuff sounds really interesting from what you've described so far in vid and comments - I'll try to start with the order you recommended in the last part of the video!
@Mongoose-ct6us
@Mongoose-ct6us 8 күн бұрын
Rest in peace Bob Uecker too
@NFDEITHER
@NFDEITHER 8 күн бұрын
Greetings Ivan, I have returned to youtube, Sebastian Ortiz. Still subbed to your channel though.
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 8 күн бұрын
Reposting a few Qs from prior videos that you haven't answered yet (some rephrased since lotsa stuff has changed recently), all in one comment, so hope you don't mind! Btw you can respond to some questions with reverse text due to their relative sensitivity, or some of the others as well if you prefer: 1) Exactly how much did Habsburg rule help with / influence Ukrainian nationalism in all of Western Ukraine? Because the Habsburgs only ruled the southwestern portion of western Ukraine called Galicia at the time, not the Lutsk, Rivne, Ternopil and Zhytomyr oblasts. Was the territory of those oblasts influenced by the developing nationalism of Galicia as well, perhaps in secret, assuming the Russian Empire wanted to suppress Ukie nationalism in the western portions during it's multi-century reign? 2) You mentioned once that you thought Styks was a grifter, in the context of him predicting Trump would still win the election as you were worried fortification could still occur. Well now we know the results, so....do you still think Styks is a grifter? What's your overall opinion on him as well? 3) What are your overall opinions on Razorfist? His political views, major opionions, whether he's a good analyist? 4) As we've seen, there have been at least two attempts to cancel Trump's subscription to earthly living in the last year, in July and September. Now that he's president, do you think they will try to cancel the subcription yet again? Or is this too risky so they'll just try to hinder him as much as possible? 5) How's the video series about what truly happened in 2014 going along, as well as other things relating to the history of Ukraine, and Russia? You mentioned how the portion where Ukraine could become the next cultural center of Western culture has basically become alternate history right now, most likely. What about the other vids? Are you still planning on making that video series in the future? 6) Finally, how long do you think will the Russo-Ukrainian war last if peace talks go nowhere & Trump decides to radically increase support for Ukraine? From that point on, how swift do you think will ultimate victory be? A couple months? A year?
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 7 күн бұрын
7) Any thoughts on Neil Howe's book The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End ,if you've read it? It was released in July of 2023. 8) How long do you think would it take before the US as an empire itself begins to seriously decline? And how would this affect the dominance of the dollar? Here are some tweets about this that I'd like to know your thoughts on: Kirkpatrick: _"You can say Biden is decrepit all you want but his program of unlimited military aid to Ukraine, confronting China on Taiwan, and even willing to risk nuclear war may ensure GAE's dominance (and all that comes with it) for another generation. Russia would need to go Great Patriotic War Round II, and people seem to be fleeing the country instead. China looks indecisive in foreign policy and neurotic on zero COVID. The EU is a colony. So everything has to be about surviving within the End of History."_ Shoultz: _"The Soviet Union looked like it was going to renew in strength in the 1980s, if I recall my history. And we all know what happened afterwards. Though that does suggest it will have to be Christianity, specifically Catholicism, that finally confronts America."_ JD: _"Even if the US as a superpower is in decline, it's still the world hegemon; it can maintain full spectrum dominace for decades. Evn empires in decline are capability of silver ages. Similarly, I don't think the US will ever be weak, just weaker and less influential."_ Constultanon: _"The GAE actually details their failure and how they’ll lose in the great reset narrative, which I agree with. There will be a global debt reset once US bond market collapses. The question is whether or not they’ll be able to control the currency after that"_ Kirkpatrick: _"Dollar still stronger than everything else in relative terms so it might be a very long time."_ Constultanon: _"The stronger dollar is making us enemies to energy importing nations that need dollars for oil, especially so when we’re limiting production. If we keep screwing them they will find energy elsewhere in another currency. OPEC is now using oil as a political tool against Biden."_ Harley: _"You gotta remember this has happened before and keep an eye on the big picture. Dollar has rehashed itself many times over, and the US has a much stronger hold than ever before. The world is a US financial derivative at this point. Hence Putin/chinas weak attempt to break free"_ 9) Note, the following were posted 2 years ago, so this is the context for it: A second issue is Russian demographics and citizens fleeing the mobilisation. Some claim Russians fleeing mobilisation is just Western propaganda, and it's only a small portion, or even those who flee eventually return quickly, etc, etc. Here: Anatoly Karlin: _"Russia's population was 147.2M in 2021, the four liberated territories have 8.7M; adjusting for parts still occupied by Ukraine & emigration, that still takes Russia's population to ~152M, much higher than prior 1992 peak of 148.5M. Very successful year for Russian demographics."_ Basile Geneve: _"Now adjust for the portion of the top 2% of IQ that has been lost due to expatriation and fleeing mobilization. Good job on collecting aging pensioners in the Donbass tho."_ Indian Bronson: _"It's probably true that large numbers of intelligent Russians have been emigrating from Russia for a long time, and it's also probably true that this has accelerated since 22nd of February, 2022. But compare to Russia..."_ He then shows maps comparing average IQ where most of Ukraise is around 95, while Russia is consistently 97 or higher, with northern regions and such being over a 100 IQ on average. DannyK: _"You missed out the hundreds of thousands of people who fled, first when the war began and later when mobilization happened. This is very unusual historically, when wars start populations are exuberant, even if irrationally, and don’t flee their own country"_ NoPhone: _"Those only existed in western propaganda. Some people paniced and most of them returned. With the partial mobilisation again some people paniced and most of them were dual cidizen of bordering countries."_ DannyK: _"Huge lineups at the Georgian border were propaganda? This never happens to countries that choose to invade other countries"_ 10) This one is from Russians With Attitude on Ukrainians doing assassinations, with people saying how it shows (incredible to claim this!) Russia is being more restrained than the West would be. He links to a NYT article called US Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia and says: RWA: _"IMO this sudden leak could mean that the Americans know that Kiev is planning another terrorist attack in Russia in the near future and want to distance themselves preemptively."_ J4 Rey: _"I disagree, it's more like US commending UKR for carrying out the attacks successfully. We all knew Ukrainians were behind it, but they were not alone, US has a hand in it, providing intelligence, and maybe with arranging explosives within Russian border."_ Ophelia Cox: _"Despite all the provocation, the Russians have been remarkably restrained. I do wonder if the Western establishment would be quite so keen to continue attacking Russia if a few of them accidentally started falling out of 10th floor windows."_ 11) An argument that the invasion was justified because Ukr was ciding the Russian genos, w some words edited for sensitivity: RWA linked to a Dailymail article called We're Hunting Them Down & Shooting Them Like Pigs: How the Ukrainains Are Taking Brutal Revenge on the Collaborators Who've Betrayed Their Neighbours & Country to the Russians, and says: _"in two weeks they will claim that they've found mass graves full of civilians cided by russians - fully normalized procedure by now"_ PeterW responds: _"Lol....satellite photos will tell you who did what- don’t worry Russkis I’m sure you’re safe"_ Robert Rodriguez: _"Just like the satellite photos that proved Iraq had WMDs. Just like the satellite photos that proved China is committing genoc. And just like the satellite photos the USA is in record admitting to fabricating"_ PeterW: _"Lol like clockwork."_ and then links to a Daily Mail article on sattelite images showing Russia's Poseidon nuke submarine in the Arctic... Wednesday Adams then responds by with a clown world emoji and linking to an article detailing Ukrainian war crimes in April 2016 by the OSCE Supplementary Human Dignity Meeting called Warcrimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. PeterW: _"So Ukraine deserves Russian invasion - got it"_ WAdams: _"Strawman argument. Focus on the topic of ukraine commiting and now openly bragging about war crimes."_ Peter then says Russia is also wrong for invading and WAdams justifies this by linking to an UN website about genoc prevention and says: _"Then the Minsk agreements happen in response to this, russia was being diplomatic within int law. They failed causing Minsk II, that also failed due to ukraines continued crimes which UN acknowledges."_ Peter: _"AaNd again I ask - does it warrant and invasion?"_ WAdams: _"IF you would have actually read the link.. According to the UN _*_yes,_*_ if diplomatic attempts have failed and genoc continues. Which they did, notice this is why russia said this was a SMO not an invasion, this is a term you've picked up thats incorrect"_ Sandberg: _"74 dead(military Included) in 2020 and less in 2021 is pretty far off a genoc. And you might want to start reading what you're posting."_ WAdams: _"1: The conflict didn't just happen in 2020 and 2021 this has been ongoing since 2014 to present day. 2: I like to post it all for context purposes. So where was the protection from the international community whilst Ukr commited WC? 3: genoc isn't just about the numbers of victims"_ He then cites a Wikipedia estimate of the various casualites per region since 2014. So what do you think of the genocide-of-Russians defense for the invasion?
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 7 күн бұрын
12) NOTE: You can respond to some of these questions with reverse text, of even outright in Russian or Ukrainian. This one is from October 8th 2022, from Russians With Attitutude trying to expose the Ukr gov's Twitter account unintentionally admitting it was the cause of the Crimea bridge blowing up, and being terror ystical: The Defense of Ukraine twitter account says: _"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch Bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainain crimea - have gone down. What's next in line Russkies?"_ Then they quote Mikhailo Podolyak saying: _"Now seriously. FSB/PMC try to eliminate leadership of Defense Ministry/GHQ. Before personnel change, FSB is in knockdown - missed Putin's bridge explosion. Defense Ministry can now blame FSB for the future South loss. Isn’t it obvious who made an explosion? Truck arrived from RF."_ And RWA says: _"After celebrating and boasting all day, Kiev is now trying to claim that it was a false flag and Russia blew up the Crimean bridge. Can't make this shit up"_ _">commit terror attack >Government, SBU & Ministry of Defense publicly boast about it >it turns out the terror attack did not achieve its goals >"IT WAS A RUSSIAN FALSE FLAG! WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!" "_ _"every. single. time"_ What do you think of their take on the Crimea bridge sinking, in hindsight now? Did the Ukr engage in terror ystic actions? Did it accidentally admit it was behind this with a slip up like that? This was 2 years ago, so I think the dust should be settled & we should have more info on this. Thoughts? Similarly, the Ukrainian Government said in relation to this: _"Sick burn"_ to which Scott Greer responds: _"This will be deleted when the State Department decides it’s better to blame Russia"_ So...what came of that? 13) Up next is from October 9th 2022 where the issue is that Ukr seems to be more mongolian than Russ in not even avoiding responsibility for its crimes, but openly bragging about them and having normal Ukr citizens enjoying those, with several claims about what Ukr national TV broadcasts that I REALLY wanna see your take on bcuz you know the language. An orthodox guy on Twitter called Big Serge who wrote: _"Ukrainian troops brazenly posting video of their ethno cleaning program. Good. Let the west be without excuse."_ I don't know exactly what he means by this. Anyway, he quoted a blogpost where he wrote: _"Videos showing the tore ture of Russian POWs by frothing Ukrainians, of Ukrainain soldiers calling Russian mothers to mockingly tell them their sons are dead, of Russian children removed from the census by shelling in Donetsk, have served to validate Putin's implicit claim that Ukraine is a demon possessed that must be exorcised with high explosives."_ I think I'm starting to notice some hints of Excusium up above, where the utter crushing of Ukr is justified by portraying Ukr as being full of socio or psych pathic people who're ravenous in doing horrible stuff...anyways continuing with some people trying to decrease the guilt of Ukr: Baykal: _"Sir, War brings out the worst among humans. There is hardly a war, where one side has been angelic.."_ XboxLive Republican: _"but the Ukrainian state _*_publicly flaunts_*_ its warcrims, whereas Russia denies or repudiates them. I think that is _*_very telling_*_ about the moral cultures of these respective states."_ Joseph: _"Russian soliders are also guilty of plenty of warcrims as well, so it's definitiely a two-way street."_ Xbox: _"Well I'm sure every military commits some crimes in the course of prosecuting a war. As I said, the difference is that the Ukrainians openly flaunt this, and _*_boasting_*_ about crime is part of their domestic propaganda strategy. Russia _*_at least purportedly_*_ condemns it."_ Joseph: _"Can you give an example of them flaunting warcrims though? Not the soldiers who did those flaunting them (Russians do the same among themselves), but an official mouthpiece for example, or larger groups of the populace"_ Xbox: _"I mean I can post many examples of Ukrainians filming the census-removal of POWs and _*_putting it on Ukrainian social media._*_ Ukrainian public eats that up - they _*_love it._*_ As far as Ukrainian gov't is concerned, they've publicly equipped unidentified partisan fighters, a warcrim. Senior Ukrainian military officers, when interviewed on Ukrainian television, will talk about ekse cutting prisoners, uncensusing civilians, etc. Ukrainian elected officials talk _*_on public television_*_ about summary ekse cutting of suspected "collaborators" etc etc"_ Joseph: _"Wait, can you speak / understand Ukrainian?"_ Xbox: _"No, I usually _*_use auto-translate_*_ when encountering Ukrainian text. In video format, it could be mistranslated maliciously, of course, but I usually come across this content from _*_pro-Ukrainian_*_ sources, or am able to get it translated."_ What do you think of this comparison between Ukie & Russ? 14) Now this one shows RWA basically saying that if Ukr removes civilians from the census in Donbass before 2022, then this justifies Russ attacking civilian targets during the war. Coming really close to admitting civilians ARE targets, but without explicitly saying that. RWA on Twitter cited Ramzan Kadyrov responding to Zelensky's complaints that Russians are bombing civilians and infrastructure. Obviously apprvoingly: _"Zelensky complains about flyovers in Kiev and other cities. And how did you, fool Zelensky, think: you are allowed and others are not? So for 8 years, bombing civilians, destroying the infrastructure of LPR & DPR cities, shelling a nuclear power plant, blowing up bridges, shelling important facilitie was allowed, but as soon as it landed on your head, suddenly no one was allowed?"_ _"We warned you, Zelensky, that Russia hasn't really started yet, so stop complaining like a sucker and run away before it gets you. Run Zelensky, run without looking back to the West. Now I am one 100 percent satisfied with how the SMO is conducted."_ This was all around autumn of 2022 btw....wonder how THIS has aged... 15) There was the Kupyansk incident in 2022 where RWA argues it was provably Ukrainians doing the uncensusing and that they tried to edit the video to make it look like it was the Russians doing it, but the metadata proves otherwise. I really wanna know your take on this!: RWA: _"Regarding the video of the ekse cutting of civilians in Kupyansk, after the Ukrainians released a two second clip to "prove" it was Russian soldiers - with a very clumsily added red bandage - it's now _*_so_*_ clear what happened there that you'll never hear about it again"_ Mo: _"The _*_meta data proved_*_ who uncensused these people. They can‘t hide that fact anymore, so they will just bury this story like so many others."_ RWA: _"Meta data is easy to change or overwrite. The half-assed edit with the red bandage lagging behind the soldier's leg _*_is much more_*_ damning"_ Darya: _"Moreover, Shovel in the ground with a jacket on top is in different positions on two videos!!!"_ Straydog: _"poor editing, you new to photoshop, pity the source of the video is Ukraine and stating what they are doing Do MO Dumb"_ Val: _"Except that it's not. Anyone can literally still visit the Telegram posts and check the metadata on the actual original uploaded videos (which unlike with pics is not stripped by TG). Video taken exactly one hour before upload. It's forensic proof."_ Pluthorium: _"yeah its easy to change the metadata, but apparently they didnt even bother. The given metadata just exposed themselves"_ Ghost: _"Can't extract exif data on media taken from telegram, the app cleans it when it's uploaded. Either way, it would be easy for the ukies to prove all their excuses, instead they incriminated themselves further with the obvious editing in the new clip."_ Carolina: _"I noticed a yellow arm band on the first soldier too besides the shoddy job of putting the red band on the.leg!"_ Myth: _"theres even red and white on the civilians to blind fold them and tie their feet, you think that is just a coincidence"_ Ivan Stojanović: _"Unless you own telegram. I'm sure they are keeping the original media."_ RWA: _"Pure chutzpah, really"_ Punc the Notsheez: _"The Azovs are a highly motivated and high morale unit, as they say."_ What's the truth of the matter, now that it's been a few years?
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 7 күн бұрын
16) And one last example by RWA to try to highlight the cruelty of Ukrainians in general, is a beer made in Lavov called Crimea at night that makes fun of the strict electric blockade Kiev tried to impose on Crimea: _"A beer called "Crimea by night" that was made in 2015 in Lvov, making fun of Kiev's energy blockade against Crimeans/ Lvov city center tonight"_ And showing a picture of an article in Ukrainian or Russian about it. I'll write the cyrillic as transliterated into the standard alphabet - I myself know how to read cyrillic, but some Ukrainian or Russian characters are a bit weird so it may be imperfect. Oh well. _"Vo lavove vipustili pivo "Krim nochyo" opublikovano foto"_ published on 27th nojabrja 2015 So what do you think of this complaint? The tweet also comes with a bonus convo about Russian precision in shelling civilians unintentionally: Kristian Norgren: _"It is a enormous difference between refusing to deliver electricity to someone occupying ones territory and bombing the others powerplant!"_ Vivek: _"The Russians are so inept that it took them like 8 months to bomb the power plants in Ukraine. They have learnt nothing from the NATO playbook!"_ Norgren: _"You could argue that. I would argue that RU is completely incompetent when the waste a 10m dollar missile on a bike bridge! A electricity plant is a military target, a bike bridge is not."_ Vivek: _"What did you expect the war to be like? Even the "technologically" advanced western armies could not execute precision strikes, you expect the Russians with inferior technology to accomplish that. And the original pt you raised was about Ukraine govt refusing to deliver electricity to Crimea. On the one hand you say Crimea is Ukraine and then cut off electricity and water to that region. so the people living in Crimea and Donbass don't matter only the land matters. Then at least be honest about that."_ Norgren: _"The bike bridge attack was a precision strike. It was on the dime!"_ Thoughts on that?
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 6 күн бұрын
I'm going to reply to these out of order. Let's start with Styx: 2) I made the "grifter" comment because of the particular niche that Styx has carved for himself on KZbin. The vast majority of his audience consists of pretty hardcore Trump fans, and he is financially beholden to that audience. He is under financial pressure to praise Trump, whether it makes sense to do so or not. If he alienates his audience too much, his income will try up; he knows that and tailors what he says accordingly. I think this leads him to exaggerate the good that Trump would do (or even be capable of doing) for the country. Concerning the issue of fortification, my view leading up the the election was that, in his eagerness to pander to his audience, Styx was understating the danger of fortification. My view on the election was that Trump _could_ win, since Harris was so overwhelmingly awful, but I wasn't especially confident that he _would_ win. I tentatively said that he would win, and thankfully, the danger of fortification didn't materialize to any significant extent, though I haven't looked into the matter in enough detail to know precisely how it was prevented from materializing. Do you know anything about this? Is it simply that the Republicans had their ducks in a row this time around and were ready to catch would-be fortifiers? Since he spends so much of his time, praising Trump, I find most of Styx's content pretty stale. Although I'm generally favorably disposed toward Trump, I've never been more than a fairly lukewarm supporter. Trump's views are more-or-less identical to those of the typical 1980s Democrat, but this has been exaggerated into seeming like a breath of fresh air because the left has become utterly unbridled and insane, and because we are now so inured to the left's consistent ability to shift the Overton Window in its direction that even the slightest and meekest pushback against it elicits a massive reaction. Trump is not, nor has he ever been, committed to making sure that the United States remains composed of a majority European population, though, in practice, restricting immigration only to the legal variety will slow down America's demographic decline. Trump is not, nor has he ever been, in favor of an unfettered free market, though his general economic policies are still markedly superior to those offered by the left. The H1B fiasco and Elon Musk's absolutely inane and tone-deaf response to it have been quite revealing. The man seems to have become so accustomed to people always kissing his backside that he has essentially lost the ability to respond to criticism like an adult. First, he attempted to pass off this criticism as coming from "bots" (which it manifestly was not); then he changed his Twitter handle and avatar to a Pepe meme, attempting to hide from the controversy by using irony; and then, he began banning Twitter accounts that continued to criticize him. Arguably, censorship is as prevalent as it ever was on Twitter; it has simply taken different forms than it embodied before. Each of Musk's H1B claims - that there's a shortage of STEM workers in America, that foreigners (specifically, Indians) are more skilled in these areas than Americans are, that the H1B program only admits highly skilled workers, and so on - are all provably untrue. Musk is simply a corrupt tech oligarch in whose economic interest it is to push down wages by whatever means he can. Of course, there are also all of the other issues with Musk that have plagued him from long before he decided to throw his weight behind Trump. He seems to be completely on board with the transhumanist agenda, and his professed desire to implant microchips into people's brains, or nanomachines into their bloodstreams, should make any freedom-loving person permanently suspicious of him. His comments on AI and what he believes needs to be done to combat the dangers that it presents suggest that he either doesn't understand how AI works at all (we will never see true, human-like AI, and AI is already arguably beginning to plateau in its development) or he's simply lying about it on purpose in order to persuade the gullible and uninformed to surrender more control to him. His entire career has consisted of him vastly overpromising things and vastly underdelivering on those promises. James Corbett's documentary on Musk, made a few years ago, amply documents this. For these and other reasons, Musk's close relationship with Trump should be worrisome. I can say many similar things about his budding ties with Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. Most ominously of all, Bill Gates met with Trump recently, and the two of them appear to have spent approximately three hours talking about vaccines. Gates actually seemed to be impressed with Trump, which is not a good sign at all. One does not need to know the details of that conversation to understand that nothing good could have passed between them. Gates appears to be working on developing some sort of HIV vaccine. For reasons that I don't have room to discuss in detail here, I don't think that HIV is the cause of AIDS, and I believe that HIV is ultimately a rather harmless virus that is little different from the viruses that cause the common cold, which means that Gates' vaccine, once it emerges, will be useless at best and exceedingly harmful at worst. Styx could mention at least some of these things from time to time, but he never does. Styx has been around on KZbin for quite a while, but after Trump arrived on the scene and he began making generally favorable comments about Trump, his audience began to grow and the money started rolling in. I think Styx's has painted himself into a corner and now needs this flow of cash to remain consistent. Pre-2016 Styx would unhesitatingly criticize Trump for the kinds of things I've been recounting. To my genuine disappointment, much the same is true of Alex Jones. One only needs to watch a documentary like _Endgame_ to see how absolutely hardcore he used to be all the way back in 2007. Alas, he is almost nothing like that now. He recently had a meltdown _praising_ Elon Musk and _defending_ him from backlash during the H1B controversy. I don't think his vehemence during this meltdown can be chalked up to his usual showmanship. He sold out, and he knows it. The following is only my own personal hunch, and I have no proof to support it, but it may be the case that Musk is financing Jones through some kind of backchannel. Given Jones' recent financial woes - which were certainly unjustly inflicted, though that doesn't alter the issue I'm pointing to - this wouldn't surprise me. This sort of behavior from Jones isn't recent either. Years ago, a man named David Knight used to do a morning show before Jones came on the air. Knight tended to be critical of Trump during the years when the virus of unknown origin was raging, specifically in connection with Trump's willingness to sign on to the vaccine agenda. This eventually led to a split between Jones and Knight, causing Jones to demand the latter to be more pro-Trump and firing him after he refused. Such behavior would have been unimaginable for 2007-era Jones, but Jones appeared to have gotten much more money flowing in after he began pandering to Trump's base. Another of Jones collaborators, a man named Gregory Reese, put out some short but excellent videos in the past that summarized all of the serious problems with Musk and that went after Trump hard for his Zionist connections. Reese hasn't uploaded anything in about a month. Is another rift forming between Jones and Reese? Will Reese also be throw out? I don't know, but this is all very interesting. I could also talk about the times that Jones had Ali Alexander on his show, but I'd quickly run out of room in writing this comment. Pointing these aforementioned things out does not require one to turn on Trump. One can still sometimes be critical of Trump while acknowledging him to be the decisively lesser of two evils. I certainly do. But money appears to make cowards out of many. Since this video here is about David Lynch, I want to end by briefly comparing Lynch to the likes of Styx and Alex Jones (Lynch was once a guest on the Alex Jones Show many years ago, and I think the character of Dr. Jacoby in the third season of _Twin Peaks_ had to have been at least partially based on Alex Jones). Lynch's integrity was absolutely unimpeachable. I think that he probably voted for Trump and supported him (Trump once brought up a positive comment that Lynch made about him during a rally), but he was never overt about it. His art was never overtly political. He never once stooped to pandering. After his unpleasant experience making _Dune,_ he never worked with a large studio again, though he could have done so had he wished to. Money just didn't tempt him. All he cared about was staying true to himself and his own vision. Lynch was "wild at heart and weird on top" and absolutely did not care what others thought of him. I admire that enormously. Now that we've lost him, we're only going to be in that much more trouble.
@AbsurdScandal
@AbsurdScandal 6 күн бұрын
@@IvanTheHeathen You ask me: _"Do you know anything about this? Is it simply that the Republicans had their ducks in a row this time around and were ready to catch would-be fortifiers?"_ Which quickly reminded me of a video I watched a day or so after the election, but which was published a few days before, from a relatively popular liberal channel called Legal Eagle, touching on this very issue. I dunno if you've seen the guy's videos before or not, but he's a lawyer who's been making dozens upon dozens of videos engaging with Trump's politics in a somewhat more detailed and systematic way than most other liberals. Granted, the guy's still biased and I did find some errors in some of his arguments against Trump, but he does go into more legal detail than most. I haven't seen anyone on the DR actually respond to him, so I wonder what you think of him. Anyways..... The video I saw actually, believe it or not, predicted that Trump will dispute the result if the election didn't go his way, and one of the things it mentioned IIRC is how GOP sections directly in favor of Trump, in various key swing states, have managed to hire numerous lawyers ready to dispute the results as soon as possible, along with the judiciary in several states having made decisions that would allow for supposedly spurious votes to be rejected which could flip a close result in favor of Trump, and argued that the criteria for making such votes spurious are bunk & that Republicans have used similar criteria to declare victory in 2000. Fairly interesting stuff. And I think this guy's info may inadvertently reveal how actual fortification may play out and, more importantly, why it *didn't actually* work this time. The guy btw complained about all of this as undemocratic behaviour that is tantamount to cheating and unfair, etc etc along with some other complaints, basically saying that it's Trump who is the likely party to cheat his way to victory rather than the other side(!). In fact, the video ID for it is dx_npZ9SHtk which you can put into the URL bar, and it is around 32 minutes long, though you can play it at higher speeds. I don't have time now to give exact timestamps, but I would in either case encourage you to watch the video in its entirety because it is....interesting to see how the other side sees things, which could give some key information that would reveal the truth of things contrary to the actual intentions of the video maker. What do you think of it?
@johndyer9739
@johndyer9739 9 күн бұрын
Ivan, check out S. Craig Zahler if you haven’t yet. Light in the deepest depths of darkness.
@IvanTheHeathen
@IvanTheHeathen 9 күн бұрын
I've seen _Dragged Across Concrete,_ though I didn't know that Zahler was the director. That was an extremely based movie, so I'll check out his other work. Thank you for the recommendation.
@Bartholomew_Musgrave
@Bartholomew_Musgrave 8 күн бұрын
I watched Bone Tomahawk on a recommendation and it has a disgustingly brutal murder of a white man by Native Americans. Early life.
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