YMS Derides Sound of Freedom and its Defenders

[@redwaytoo]

This marketing is so "forward this email to 5 friends or your mom will die!"

[@Sm0k3turt]

“Make sure you see the movie multiple times or your kids will be trafficked!!”

[@meatmobile]

put this in 15 comment sections for free robux

[@HarryDirtay]

The end of the movie has a call for action to buy tickets for all your friends etc😂

[@VIMaggotVIBrainzVI]

It's almost like it was marketed to the same exact gullible rubes who fell for those very same email chains back in the day (and probably still do)

[@Deadrum]

@@HarryDirtaydoes it actually? Lmao. I walked in on my mom watching it awhile ago but she wasn’t aware of *any* of the controversy or w/e around it and she still thought it sucked 😆

[@PlatinumAltaria]

If you didn't like Transformers Dark of the Moon you're probably a decepticon tbh.

[@dalgusmaximus4557]

I wish that were true for real.😢

[@niclaswa5408]

If you don’t like this WW2 movie, you’re a n@zi

[@gurs6714]

Nah wtf Decepticons roll out 💀💀 he knows

[@SoraTheKeyToEverything]

Good example lol

[@TurbopropPuppy]

i didn't and i am, how'd you know???

[@luiginastro8831]

"The organization has been criticized for its conduct during sting operations and has been accused of exaggerating claims regarding its work. Former staffers at O.U.R. have stated that the group is rarely involved in actual rescues, and the claims of rescues have misled donors and the public about what the group does. The group's founder, Tim Ballard, was the subject of an internal investigation in 2023 after multiple former employees accused him of 'sexual harassment, spiritual manipulation, grooming, and sexual misconduct.' Ballard resigned as CEO as a result of the investigation. Weeks later, the organization was named in a lawsuit filed by two married plaintiffs who accused Tim Ballard of sexual assault and grooming". This about the organization depicted in the movie. I would also like to add the movie's very fucking boring, which is the bigger crime in my head.

[@cyberpilate]

Thank you.

[@tomburress4928]

Literally the first thing I thought about when this crap movie came out. Looked it up and saw the group, and Tim Ballard especially, had so much stuff out there that were just straight up lies or in Tim’s case guilty of assaulting women who volunteered to work with him after believing his bs. It turns a legitimate issue like trafficking into a sideshow grift for terrible people to profit from.

[@bladegirlx]

The organization itself was accused of sexual contact with trafficking victims

[@classyrobot5648]

You don't think there'd be people wanting to perpetuate the trafficking of humans? You don't think they'd come up with every crime in the book to accuse him of? I simply do not believe you. There is too much at stake

[@luiginastro8831]

@@classyrobot5648 Begone, strawman

[@PatchGuilf]

So the Adrenacrome conspiracy is just Monsters Inc. IRL?

[@user-x7dc2pq7n]

“The elites are taunting us with the truth!1!!!”

[@zephyr8072]

CD: “Movie bad because it has THE MESSAGE.” Also CD: “Movie good because it has THE MESSAGE I agree with!”

[@tanner201x8]

Ok but child exploitation is very real lmfao try again

[@phillgornall2296]

Adrenochrome is really silly. Everyone knows children generate more power from laughter than fear. There’s a whole documentary about it!

[@larissabrglum3856]

Oh shit these people think Monsters Inc. is real

[@KyrieFortune]

Also, adrenochrome is literally just oxidized adrenaline. Adrenaline that's rusted. Which happens every time adrenaline is produced, which is EVERY DAY because adrenaline controls a lot more than fear and fight-or-flight reactions.

[@joshuaolsoncook]

I understood that reference.

[@boop7725]

Now that I think about it, this really is the conservative version of "If you didn't like Black Panther then that means you're racist."

[@MrSharpShooterMan77]

I mean yeah, that's something that would be brought up if you said you didn't like something like '12 Years of Slave' or 'Black Panther'.

[@Calcagno1988]

It can’t really be compared though because this film is deliberately and openly a tool for a political movement. Like you didn’t see politicians using it as a means to…I don’t know, arm black militants?? I mean the movie’s bad guy tries to do that! It’s shown as a bad thing!

[@countzephire9445]

Funny part about that is reasonable non-conservative Americans never said/think anything like that, it was the American conservatives who made up their own problem then started complaining about it. They have a knack for doing that, especially before an election year.

[@coletrainhetrick]

​@countzephire9445 at the end of the day, liberals are actually genuinely destroying the country so it doesn't really matter what people say and think on either side

[@lucyw4195]

Once someone told me I must be racist because I don't like the "Wrinkle in Time" movie, but I do like the book. For some reason she was convinced that the only difference between the movie and the book was the race of the characters.

[@MovieEggman]

The golden irony that one of this film’s biggest financiers was actually involved in a trafficking scandal.

[@iciajay6891]

It turns out many ppl have been found out to be. The main guy the movie is based on got kicked out of the Mormon church. He was sexually harassing and assaulting women they were using to pretend to be his wife to buy kids with..

[@iciajay6891]

And the amount of guys who funded and were involved with this movie / charity, have been caught on video abusing kids they were 'rescuing'. I'm a csa survivor, most men that are obsessed with a charity like this, are often going to be pedo's. They flock to that shit.

[@surobyk]

You mean the guy who "kidnapped his own daughter" and media spun it into trafficking scandal?

[@godsteeth1574]

​@@surobyk Why put that in quotations? You can absolutely kidnap your own children

[@stephaniehillssawyer]

@@surobyk okay then, explain the other sexual misconduct committed by people involved in this film? Also exactly why did he take his daughter?

[@Loffeleif]

If Don't Look Up wasn't your thing, that means you want the Earth to blow up

[@DeadCanuck]

If you don’t like Don’t Look Up, it mean you look down. Down bad.

[@seamussmyth3248]

something something Death Star something something Darth Vader something something James Earl Jones something something Lion King Damnit Jon

[@KenjiAsakura09]

@@seamussmyth3248 somehow Palpatine returned

[@burningmisery]

​@@KenjiAsakura09 Bam bam baaaam!

[@nont18411]

Yes

[@Kumaclaws]

My favorite part of the Sound of Freedom crowd is when their reviews read like a Karen’s yelp review. Where they’re like “this movie is what the wokes DONT WANT YOU TO SEE!! The theater was kinda chilly and the theater was a mess! The popcorn was stale!! That means that big Hollywood is trying to CENSOR this MOVIE” Like, that’s just going to a kinda crappy movie theater. It makes literally no sense for a movie theater to show a movie they don’t want you to see

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

I think I also remember someone saying that the theater was showing too many previews before “The Sound Of Freedom” (or at least taking too long for the film to start, which is not uncommon for movies playing in theaters), as if it was some conspiracy by the theater to torture the viewers, I guess. It’s like they’ve never been to a theater before. 😂 Most movies nowadays don’t start on the exact showtime, anyway, and have lots of trailers before the movie starts. It’s an annoyance, for sure, but it’s definitely not unique to “The Sound Of Freedom”.

[@The1NickSkyline]

@@BirdsandGhibliFan "How dare movie theaters show previews for other movies before showing the movie that I want to see!"

[@carter_lovejoy]

@@BirdsandGhibliFan some people have said that some audiences (idk if it was all of them) were upset whenever the theaters showed a trailer for a movie they deemed “woke” like Barbie and The Color Purple (2023), which are the two I can distinctively remember reading on an r/movies post on Reddit. Like, just a bunch of Conservative church groups booing whenever the theater played them.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@carter_lovejoy Wow, really? LOL 😂 That’s too funny to be believed, but I can believe that. 😆

[@Im.Smaher]

That’s exactly what they would say, word for word, no irony

[@longlivethesheet4561]

Apparently if you dislike an anti-war movie, that means you’re pro-bombing civilians

[@eragonship4929]

Why do you want to ban the concept of peace?

[@DudesterGX]

​@@eragonship4929what are you waffling about?

[@jasonalec6573]

@@DudesterGXyou missed the joke, bud

[@luiginastro8831]

@@eragonship4929 Smartest American

[@jasonalec6573]

@@jeremyusreevu237 the irony is not lost with you

[@riotbreaker3506]

I love the ending of the movie where the main character turned to the camera and said "please buy our movie, please please buy it twice."

[@Sandyoo6026]

They said pay it forward. They want the message to be heard. Child trafficking is a real problem.

[@cjtherou4427]

​@@Sandyoo6026 By giving them more money that they aren't donating to an org actually fighting child trafficking. As we know no one knows about child trafficking.

[@johnscott6481]

Yeah except that they rarely partook in actual rescues, and Tim Ballard is the subject of the movies had to resign over a bunch of grooming charges . and when the guy leading the way is Jim caveizal who claims to be so real Jesus he got struck by lightning and was resurrected on a movie set. Their a bunch of axe grinding narcissists who picked what they thought was an unassailable premise for a film who have political axes to grind.

[@riotbreaker3506]

@@Sandyoo6026 they themselves were convicted of abusing those trafficking survivors

[@Sandyoo6026]

@@riotbreaker3506 could you direct me to proof of that because I’d be really interested to check it out. Especially since Tim Ballard is basically praised as being a hero and I’ve never seen anyone say he was accused of doing those things.

[@drewgoin8849]

The accusatory framing adopted by fans of this film reminds me of "If you don't ___, the terrorists win." or "Why do you hate America?"

[@gillfreddie4100]

I love how they say "why do you hate america" as if hating america is morally wrong lmaooooooo

[@danieltobin4498]

Ok but the fans of SoF are the same people who made the “Why do you hate America?” arguments. They’re arguing from emotional positions, not logical onces

[@nogodsnomanagers]

It should be obvious why everyone hates America. It's a piece of shit. Pretty simple.

[@Joebro5000]

If they really wanted as many people as possible to see this movie, they could release it online for free.

[@Timic83tc]

true

[@Shades14]

But then they wouldn't make any money. And how could they ignore- I mean help the poor, the needy, and the children they're supposedly saving without money? God needs your money to save the childrens!

[@greenpinapple820]

Thats a great south park joke.

[@maubpp]

I better not hear them complain when they're jacking it in San Diego

[@pw6002]

Nah, if thy released it for free, they would consider themselves as "communists"... and would immediately have a stroke.

[@redwaytoo]

DIdn't the guy this is based on just wrote self-insert fanfiction in which he was far more heroic and important to the investigation than he actually was in real life?

[@iciajay6891]

He did run that 'charity ' but was found to have been sexually harassing and abusing women that he got to pose as his wife when he litterly bought children. He was kicked out of the Mormon church. Many of the men involved with funding of this movie and part of the charity, have been proven to be pedophiles. Even caught on tape doing crimes. I'm a csa survivor. If someone is going that hard about this subject, they are the abuser. It's part of doing DARVO. They overcompensate to try to hard there own crimes.

[@duckywinks]

Also turns out the whole time he was sexually exploiting women.

[@SAVarXX]

Yes. His crew is also responsible for increasing the demand for child trafficking in the regions they head over to because the way their operations work is they walk around places overseas asking if anyone knows where to buy a kid without any subtlty. There was an expose about how a significant number of the children he has freed were trafficked for the first time when he rescues them, further implying that his crew is single-handedly fueling the trade. Like, when you actually hear how OUR operates you start to wonder if you're listening to the plot of a very mid Black Comedy.

[@x-xPhobia]

He was also caught actually fondling two girls to show he wasn't with law enforcement.... However when law enforcement do that they are normally pretty good about NOT INCREASING THE DEMAND FOR CHILDREN IN THAT AREA

[@larissabrglum3856]

Yes

[@jordanrichard5615]

Kony 2012 walked so sound of freedom could run

[@joshuamooney4509]

As soon as the 'reviews' of this movie came out, that was the first thing I thought of. I feel seen by this comment

[@Kolbatsu]

The billion dollar news company on a major cable network: not mainstream media

[@larissabrglum3856]

Like how Trump is somehow not a member of the elite

[@Edax_Royeaux]

That regularly brags at being the number one watched cable news program.

[@makito106]

16:20 people want to improve the world by doing the least amount of work possible. It kinda reminds me a how some people thought giving money to Disney by watching Black Panther would help black people. This is worse since Disney doesn't pressure people to buy more tickets in the credits.

[@filiperoque1801]

That's why the Kony 2012 comparison is so spot on.

[@DeepEye1994]

Ah yes, Disney supporting black people with Black Panther. A film they censored the poster of (they covered the protag's face with his mask) of in order to sell the movie to racist China. Getting racist Chinese cash is more important than showing their black main hero with pride. As if the movie will flop if it doesn't do well in China. They are a JOKE.

[@MCCrleone354]

You think Caviezel is "pressuring" people to buy more tickets. What a dumb take.

[@makito106]

​@MCCrleone354 18:00 there's a website and qr code to buy more tickets in the credits. A website with strategies to protect kids would be way better. Telling parents to make sure their kid's phone location/GPS is always on and to keep track of their kid's online activities. Or the website could have been donating money to the fbi or organizations who track down s*x rings

[@MCCrleone354]

@@makito106 A rebuttal to a point I didn’t make. Explain how that is “pressuring”?

[@Stuckoutsideyourhouse]

this whole movie can be described with that one scene from south park "so why dont you put the movie online for free"

[@Normel-man]

“Wh-what was the question??”

[@Stuckoutsideyourhouse]

@@Normel-man "if this movie could end child trafficking why don't you put it online for free?!"

[@TheNerdWithASuit]

I like to joke about the Indiana Jones comparison stuff that if these people are saying you must be pro-pedophillia if you dislike a movie about stopping child-trafficking, what does that say about the fact they were crapping all over a movie about punching and killing Nazis a week later?

[@RepoMan1512]

To be fair the people who love The Sound of Freedom are usually Nazis lmao

[@Accountnamehere1968]

They'll probably just reply saying that they are crapping on Indiana Jones because his first conversation with Marion implies that he is a pedophile.

[@TheChiefOrg13]

"You don't like the newest Indiana Jones? I guess you want a Neo-Nazi to go back in time, supplant Hitler, and win WW2, huh?"

[@al112v4]

@@TheChiefOrg13 You half explained part of the plot of the new movie lol, but yeah, I didn't liked the last 2, it's so silly to think that way.

[@gunnargunnarsson5963]

@@TheChiefOrg13actually, the main bad guy is an ex Nazi scientist, but eh whatever, they're still Nazis

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Ironic that hyper-religious people blames every minor inconvinience to either the illuminati or Satan itself, but when Jim Cavizel is struck by a lightning during while filming _The Passion of Christ_ it means nothing, no sir 😂

[@spraynard9529]

Did that actually happen? That’s hilarious!

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

@@spraynard9529 yes, that really happened

[@BridgetWalker-xu8sw]

Tbh it was probably because he was sticking out like a lighting rod. Wood is weird conductor of electricity. There could have also been metal propping the cross up. Nothing miraculous.

[@zephyr8072]

Actually he was struck by lightning twice. No, seriously look it up. This can only mean one thing. He somehow managed to displease both Zeus and Thor.

[@pugachevskobra5636]

Lmfao that's such a great point. I legit forgot about that. I think Patrice O'Neal made a joke about Cavizel being hit by lightning on the Opie and Anthony show.

[@makito106]

Linking morals to liking media will always be dumb. Imagine saying if you don't like captain planet cartoons then you're pro dumping chemicals in the ocean 😂

[@MaxMax-zo9vq]

Doubly funny because I went back to watch Captain Planet for some nostalgia and it’s really bad lol.

[@SuperMegaGaelourde]

"One of my favorite movies is Halloween:The Curse of Michael Myers" "Oh so you like violence and evil cults?" "No I like cheesy horror flicks and Paul Rudd"

[@Slivertrust]

@@SuperMegaGaelourde I'd like to give him a Paul Rubb

[@carter_lovejoy]

“My favorite band is The Beatles!” “Why, because they promote marijuana and LSD (aka the drugs made by the Devil himself) in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?” “No, I just like great, iconic music from the past century and Lennon and McCartney are poets.”

[@mcspanky3241]

I think morals is obviously highly connected to lots of media, and often part of what people love about it. Adam often is clearly happy or unhappy with the message in a given film. It’s just that morality isn’t the only important aspect and you can’t hide behind it anymore than you can hide behind a cool idea if the implementation sucks.

[@OlCrunchy]

Sure movies have done the "oh man the issues in the movie are real, wild huh" credits but never before have i seen "wow the issues are real. and you can help by buying more tickets to this movie" incredible

[@heisenbaj]

When Aryan Thunderdick showed up in the post-credits with his QR code for me to buy empty seats to end child trafficking, myself and the whole theatre of 3 people and otherwise booked and empty seats burst into tears and got it started all over again. Thank you, Drinker, for recommending this kino.

[@Erekt0]

They keep saying this film is about children and seeing it will help the children, ok then make it free. If you really want as many people as possible to see your message don’t charge people for it, rent out theaters and encourage people to go see it because it’s free, the grift is fucking obvious.

[@helios566]

Doesn't it kinda make them pedophiles because they're pay-walling the solution to trafficking? Only the scholars could sus this one out.

[@glurb69]

I love how the Fox News clip tries to claim that people criticizing this movie don't believe in sex trafficking, using that CNN interview as evidence by taking it out of context. Only for Jack Poso to post a full clip from that SAME INTERVIEW, that quite literally says the opposite. "Liberals deny sex trafficking is a problem" but then the liberals in question literally say "it does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking". It's insane. This stuff appeals to the lowest level of intelligence. How is it possible to say "We know trafficking is real, we know it has real victims, no one is denying that" and have a Fox anchor take that as "Durrrrr buhhhh these CNN goofballs don't believe in sex trafficking". It has to be intentional. No one is that stupid.

[@Korra228]

It's called propaganda

[@vetreas366]

Of course it's intentional, it's not like they don't have access to the full clip.

[@littlemoth4956]

Like a reply said, it's propaganda. It's disingenuous on purpose to brainwash viewers.

[@ilikespaghetti4458]

Like the replies said, propaganda. That's all Fox News is lol

[@ChipCheerio]

It's completely understandable that people were fooled by this movie. Parents in particular are usually very protective of their children, and you can easily make them imagine that those were their kids. It's so easy to manipulate parents, I should know, I work on a pharmaceutical product that ONLY tries to manipulate parents into buying our drug.

[@iciajay6891]

As a csa survivor, the most dangerous person for a kid is often direct family. As in my case. My abuser waa my biological father. You ned to worry about that before trafficking. As 1 in 3 girla ans 1 in 5 boys are csa in North America, usualy by direct family. Or like many of the ppl involved in this movie, those who yell the loudest in an obsessed way. Many of the men who funded this money werre proevn to be pedos. And the main dude it was about sexually harrased/assaulted women he used to pose as his 'wife' during these operations. The main guy the movie was about was so bad he was excommunicated from the Mormon church. You have to be really bad for that to happen. They generaly protect sex abusers. Another thing to look out for is ppl trying to make themselves the saiviourof kids. It usualy means the opposite. Abusers tell on themselves.

[@ChipCheerio]

@@iciajay6891 All I was talking about is the perceptions people have of themselves and their families and how easy it is to manipulate those. The reality of a given situation doesn’t matter at all if you can play on what they fear, which is what this movie did. I know the people who you’re most at danger to as a child is your own family, because they have the most access and the most trust, which can easily be abused. The people who made this movie don’t really care about that, I mean they’re pushing adrenochrome.

[@michaelccozens]

@@ChipCheerio If all people care about is their "perceptions" and their unexamined fears, they don't care about the issue they claim to care about. QED.

[@TraxMaster_99]

@@iciajay6891 "Many of the men who funded this money were proven to be pedos" I guess you are referring as one dude that was accused of being a PDF, that person was indeed, someone who put money to the film, but there is huge difference and misinformation going around, many people try to make it seem like this dude was a producer of the movie, when its not true, it was a random dude that donated money into the crowd funding of the movie, which charges of his crimes were dropped and deemed as a family misunderstanding, so now, a dude that is not even a producer, is somehow portrayed as one of the main people in charge of the movie and as a PDF when he is not even both "And the main dude it was about sexually harrased/assaulted women he used to pose as his 'wife' during these operations" these are all accusations, which means that he can be or cannot be as the the women that denounce him claim him to be, of course he is not perfect, he can also be a an a-hole and a huge egotistical person, but one thing is saying he is an a-hole and the other is accusing him of SA an traficking, and about allegations, remember, is "alleged" for a reason, there was a streamer named auronplay that was allged to be a PDF, but he wasnt even one, and the "victim" of him turned out to spew a lot of BS, im not saying its 100% the same with tim, but allegations like this, taken as face value and as the absolute truth, is very dangerous came late to this anyway, if tim wasnt a conservative, none of this chaos would've happened, still, I found some very weird things surrounding the movie, but anyways, came late, just wanted to say this

[@MichaelSmith-fq6hz]

I, for one, can’t believe conservative media would be straw manning. I am shocked, shocked. Well, not that shocked

[@helios566]

I will believe that cons will believe anything at this point.

[@kayame18]

Deadpool 3 would probably be in the perfect space to use a QRcode gag at the end.

[@carter_lovejoy]

I’d love to see DP3 make fun of this film and Gina Carano

[@joshkaid]

Just because a piece of art is about sonething important, doesn't mean it's above criticism. This film is the epitame of that.

[@dumat100]

Wow, I did not know about that message at the end of the film. That perfectly explains why so many of the theaters playing the movie were empty.

[@duckywinks]

Alright, I don’t like the movie (in concept, haven’t seen it), but I don’t think the empty seats thing is accurate. Maybe in some areas, but as someone working at a theater, I can tell you our Sound of Freedom screenings were packed. People definitely showed up for it. The Pay It Forward system did not affect the Box Office results. What it did was essentially put the money all in a big pile, and at any time, someone could go into the website and order a ticket through there while taking money out of the pile. However, that kinda makes the grifting even more ludicrous, since on-top of the money people were already spending actually watching the movie, there’s the giant money pit that they have no obligation to actually put towards tickets. And I doubt too many people used it since they had to give them money to stop child trafficking. So on-top of the almost $200 million it made, it raked in probably millions more from donations, none of which has to get split with any theaters. That’s all pure profit. This was all a giant grift and it worked out spectacularly.

[@helios566]

And then they film the empty seats they bought and it's another conspiracy.

[@Abcdefg-tf7cu]

​@@duckywinks I think it is short sighted to say that the pay it forward system didn't affect sales. Plenty of people went to see it who wouldn't have were it not for the system being in place and advertised by the film makers. Old people love getting stuff for free.

[@nurichbinreel4782]

As someone who has never watched fox news before i am just really baffled by the way the host talks. Even if you disregard the shit content, the dude literally says "Wait can this report be right?..." its like he is reading a reddit comment. But he is a host for a giant TV network? What is going on.

[@DeadCanuck]

The best part about your comment? “What’s going on here?!” is a fairly well-known Tucker Carson-ism 😅 What a bizarre network.

[@MatecaCorp]

Fox is a complete mind fuck. My grandma has it on all the time and it’s like a poorly planned podcast, not a news show.

[@DeadCanuck]

@@MatecaCorp That is an amazing description😂

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

It sounds like a satirical news report that you would see on “The Simpsons” or “South Park”. I roll my eyes at the people who think the likes of Tucker Carlson are groundbreaking journalism who is calling truth to power. 🙄 The interview Tucker had with Putin is especially ridiculous when considering that Putin is mostly everything they accuse Biden of doing: jailing political opponents, branding political opponents as Nazis, a warmonger, etc. I don’t like Biden, either, but conservatives who call Biden a dictator while worshipping another dictator have no self-awareness. Also, Russia is not a tradcon paradise that conservatives make it out to be. Russia has high rates of abortion and alcoholism, about a quarter of the people there are not religious (possibly as a result of the former Soviet Union instituting state atheism, but still a large portion of the population nonetheless given that the USSR dissolved over three decades ago), high rates of divorce, among other things. But, that’s a topic for another day.

[@wiggyou6114]

@@MatecaCorpjust like Biden’s speeches

[@fulcrum6760]

It’s funny that the MCU and even the fucking DCEU has a better anti-human trafficking message with Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3, Black Widow, Daredevil and even Batman Vs Superman.

[@countzephire9445]

19:50 YMS underestimates how easily Americans can be manipulated with patriot buzzwords.

[@DustyRagu]

I wish it was just our stupid people, all you gotta do is take a quick glance at conservatives/traditional people anywhere across the world.

[@RenegadeVile]

Or manipulated in general, for that matter.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

That was a joke in _American Dad,_ right? "You can convince him to do anything as long as you mention the flag and 9/11" or something

[@vfxninja5503]

@@Mario_Angel_Medina Family Guy. Lois wins a seat on the school board with a speech that's just "Nine eleven." repeated like five times.

[@ilikespaghetti4458]

Or buzzwords in general. Some good modern examples include "woke" and "groomer", both of which were appropriated into meaningless prejorative slurs.

[@ZombiiChix]

I don't need to see this movie to know child trafficking is bad

[@meatforbreakfast]

The hypocrisy in Drinker vehemently fighting back against people who a few years back claimed that if you didn't like Black Panther it's cause you're racist (justly so), then a few years later saying "people who don't support Sound of Freedom, I question what their morals are" is almost poetic, I'd be curious to know if he actually holds the latter belief or simply says what he knows the person interviewing him and the audience he has accumulated want to hear and I don't know which is worse

[@willgeorgiadis2025]

I lost my shit at the “drinking the blood of children” like this is centuries old anti semitic rhetoric I can’t believe it’s being spoken seriously today.

[@Korra228]

Hey, propaganda that lasted for centuries lasted for centuries cause it works. People are easily manipulated, especially when they feel disenfranchised.

[@legend7951]

@@Korra228 Literally it's been different variations of the exact same shit for hundreds of years, we're already going back to the "blood and soil" shit with modern conservatives

[@jaycee2070]

Yeah, the anti semitism is out of control. Next thing you know these crazy right wingers are gonna claim that Israel is mean to Palestine. Everyone knows that's just right wing conspiracy theories.

[@dawizza]

When was that established in the film? I watched it and no where does it even state or have the implications of weird vampire shit. Yeah it’s a talking point dumbass people have in those circles, however it wasn’t in the film so I can’t see how people would equate those ideas. Sex trafficking is already fucked up enough what more do people want?

[@willgeorgiadis2025]

Not in the film but in conversation surrounding the film. Have you even watched the video that I’ve commented on? I guess I should have specified that I was responding to something Adum was reacting to.

[@GrayD_Fox]

That end trafficking line sounds like something a child will say. “I’ll end racism by not being racist”

[@theSuper1Player]

Adum: I have mountains of evidence to disprove your claims. SoF Stans: Ah yes, but I have this tiny grain of truth!

[@IAMA1]

When I read "SoF" fans I misread it as "S*m*n on Figure" fans. TBH those guys might have more integrity than these conspiracy believers lol

[@bilalsadiq1450]

​@@IAMA1didn't even realise there was a word for that fetish... I'll be honest, I misread the title as 'Sound of Music' and was really confused.

[@Sm0k3turt]

My thing makes more sense to me so it must be true.

[@joshuaolsoncook]

If you disliked the old Mario Bros. Movie, you’re probably a Koopa. Mama mia…..

[@claus4670]

Youre gonna turn into a goomba!

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

Or you want to kidnap Princess Peach. 😂 But, in all seriousness, the discourse surrounding the Mario movie was strikingly similar to the discourse on “The Sound Of Freedom”, and even more so than this film, some fans of the Mario movie ridiculously made it a culture war issue. Basically, anyone (especially critics) that didn’t like the Mario movie were automatically considered to be woke Disney shills, despite some of these critics making negative reviews of recent Disney films. I think the fanatics are too terminally online to understand that some people most likely didn’t like the film because it was a mid film with member-berries that didn’t have a reason for existing outside of being based on an established IP.

[@Gchildwarrior]

You mama'd your last mia!

[@galleryofrogues]

I read this in the CDI Hotel Mario’s voice

[@jessyjulie5506]

Wow, what is coincidence that this man's crusade to end child trafficking also makes him a millionaire. What a stroke of luck.

[@edwardreed67]

The whole arc of anti-woke content creators on KZbin has literally just been: “We’re not politically biased, we just want a good story” To “We just want a good story, ignore our political bias”

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

I also find it funny that they ignore or overlook the fact that Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard have insane political views and how the film is promoted by Donald Trump and other conservative politicians, and then they have the nerve to turn around and say that, “The left is making CT into a political issue by criticizing the film!” The right has politicized and trivialized this issue for years, and now they’re mad when people, including people from their own side are pointing it out.

[@vetreas366]

There is no arc. Arcs have a start and an end. This is just a circle.

[@Hannahgs]

@@vetreas366exactly. When they said “political” they meant “politics I don’t agree with”.

[@Kuro-dx5pq]

I love the censor sound effect, especially whenever its a longer beeeep or beeps quickly one after another

[@nathanmitchell958]

Is that from lion king? I’ve always wondered where the beep is from.

[@theghostofyankeejim]

@@nathanmitchell958 It is indeed from the 2019 remake of The Lion King, specifically its take on Be Prepared. Adum made a joke about it kind of sounding like "beep repair" during a stream and I guess its status as a meme mutated into being the censor that Olivia uses for these videos

[@Roseforever84]

@@nathanmitchell958if you look up “yms be prepared”, you can find the exact moment when “beep repaired” becomes a thing. I love it

[@fantastopotomus]

​@theghostofyankeejim I loved that part so much I clipped it 😂

[@jonahbrown5669]

BEEP REPAAAAAAAAAAAIIR

[@Heretic1373]

When was this recorded? Ballard has since been removed from his org after getting outed as a groomer himself. It's even worse than just a shit film peddled to the Fox News crowd. He was such an obvious shill from the beginning, I'm still shocked it took so long to come out.

[@thattaht]

The beginning of the video says February 1st, a while after it skips to February 6th.

[@sonotdown998]

If criticizing “Sound of Freedom” means I’m a , then I’m SERIOUSLY gonna have to rethink my opinion of “Megan is Missing.”

[@tomburress4928]

Didn’t Tim Ballard, the guy who the movie is “based” on, get accused by multiple women who worked with him of SA and then others of straight up lies?

[@The1NickSkyline]

That honestly makes the movie go from "okay, this is kinda meh" to "yep, I've got my pick for the worst movie of 2023, through no fault of the movie itself".

[@tomburress4928]

@@The1NickSkyline no kidding. Along with all that apparently the way they ran their “sting” ops actually increased trafficking in the area. He’d also us the women who volunteered to pose as his wife or gf and manipulate them into sleeping with him as a way to “validate” the cover story. He reminds me of that Jack Idema guy who faked his whole story and weaseled his way into being a military contractor in Iraq and ended up accused of doing numerous horrific crimes.

[@squatch545]

There are youtube videos of empty theaters showing SoF that are listed as 'sold out'. Which means wealthy backers are buying out showings with nobody actually buying individual tickets.

[@skhevdbsjhsjhsvdbdb5438]

Republicans are a party with the soul purpose of being for the bankers, so this wouldn’t make any sense.

[@skhevdbsjhsjhsvdbdb5438]

Republicans is a party with the SOLE purpose of keeping the banks in positions of power, this doesn’t make any sense.

[@skhevdbsjhsjhsvdbdb5438]

The rights sole purpose is keeping the rich and the banks in positions of power.

[@acronen]

Correction: At 10:36 the text that pops up says "seven of the women he was supposedly "saving" are..." These aren't women he was "saving", they were employees and volunteers that worked for him and his organization (OUR). It is largely centered on this idea of Ballard's called "the couples ruse" which you should really look into if you want to have a laugh at how ridiculous, unserious, and completely made up Ballard's stories about rescuing kids are. It was all so he could have guilt free sex with women other than his wife as a Mormon.

[@janefkrbtt]

the funniest thing about the whole debacle, is ppl posting empty theatres. saying "they" bought it out so nobody would see it. but at the very end of the movie it gives a pay it forward link to encourage ppl to literally buy out tickets. its just that those tickets were never given to anyone.

[@wesshiflet2214]

this is literally just if Kony 2012 charged you admission up front

[@KarmaPaym3ntPlan]

Had no idea this movie was still being discussed

[@carter_lovejoy]

We’re pretty much at the point now where the discussion about the film has pretty much died down where it doesn’t revolve around every Conservative online swarming live a hive mind to people’s Tweets, comments and reviews that are criticizing it and telling them that they’re “gr**mers and p*d*philes” for not supporting and/or liking the film.

[@eragonship4929]

​@@carter_lovejoyaka every conservative "movement" ever. What happened to discussions on critical race theory? Vaccines? Antifa? Now this. So interesting how their discussions last like 4 months and then no one ever brings it up ever again. Just wait a couple months until DEI and trans athletes leave the current news cycle

[@inefffable]

​@@eragonship4929sad that the "othering" will never end

[@carter_lovejoy]

@@eragonship4929 they’ll definitely go after disabled/neurodivergent people next, mmw.

[@Sm0k3turt]

@@inefffablereally.

[@litguru4748]

Holy shit that rant around the 18 minute mark was fucking cathartic.

[@EvilProductionz]

I saw the film last week, and while it does spread a positive message, it feels like it’s forcing its message down your throat. Literally within the first 5 minutes, they show ACTUAL footage of children being kidnapped.Further to elevate the film’s point,after already showing a scene of child being manipulated.The film doesn’t have any characters to care about (in terms of personality, motivations,etc),them catching pedophiles is there whole personality. And nobody talks like a normal person, everyone talks like they’re giving a dar Mann like monologue.The film isn’t a giant conspiracy, it’s a film more concerned about guilt tripping its audience into liking the film,rather than an actual impact.

[@matteeh100]

That bit with Caviezel on the video call saying that unfortunately Tim Ballard couldn't be there because he was at that moment busy saving children from being adrenochromed had the same energy as Lois Lane saying that unfortunately Superman couldn't be there for her interview because he was at the moment busy pushing a bus full of orphans out of the path of a runaway train

[@The1NickSkyline]

At least Superman did more to save children than Tim Ballard did. That wasn't a joke, by the way.

[@Yeetusdeletus897]

I remember there were people on tiktok and twitter trying to claim that theatre chains were trying to make sure no one saw this movie by claiming the air conditioner was broken in the theatre and leaving the lights on by accident.That whole theory is such bogus when you remember that movie theaters get to choose which movies they show and it was one of the hottest summers on record so of course air conditioners would break easily

[@kingsleycy3450]

I suspect the worst of people who loudly say they like the Sound of Freedom. It’s like a self tell

[@Kumaclaws]

The only people I’ve heard say anything positive about it was the people from Red Scare. And in the exact same episode they described Barbie as “Jewish neoliberal handwringing for ugly fat women”. So if that says anything…

[@moviemakersam04]

when my class was asked to write their favorite film of the decade so far the dude that sits next to me wrote SOUND OF FREEDOM so huge. i got second hand embarrassment

[@iciajay6891]

As a survivor, I can tell you I followed this dumb shit. My gut was that it was full of pedo's funding it. Turns out it was. Even the main guy the movie is about was found to be a sexual predator. Pedos often try to yell the loudest. To try to keep ppl form looking at them. If a grown man is very obsessed with this movie, it is likely they area sex pest. Abusers love to do DARVO gaslighing. And try to paint themselves as someone who stands up for kids. Its a well known patern.

[@cookiemocher388]

This is litterly the mindset being criticized in this video

[@michaelccozens]

@@cookiemocher388 Not even slightly, as SoF has been proven to be thoroughly dishonest about and actually contributing to the problem it claims to want to solve. You also need to learn the difference between "suspect" and "reveal". But thanks for proving you don't know or care about the reality of this issue, or the nature or "evidence" itself, beyond your ability to twist either for personal gain, making you exactly the same as the SoF grifters being criticized.

[@maxmiddleshirtz]

I love that you covered the QR code, great work :)

[@YMSHighlights]

Thanks. I make it a habit to censor QR codes in case it's actually something malicious. For all I knew that shit was an IP grabber.

[@GrayD_Fox]

Critical Drinker sounds like the Lovefist guy from GTA Vice City

[@doratheexploder286]

from what I heard, this Ballard guy actually made trafficking worse by talking to criminals and asking them if they could get him kids for abuse, and they delivered. If he had stayed home, those kids would not be traumatized by the traffickers and by police etc as they went larping as detectives.

[@inefffable]

This guy thinks people not liking his movie is the same as not thinking child sex trafficking is an issue. The ego and lack of self awareness required for that mindset...tbh real sad

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

Watch the video first.

[@inefffable]

​​​@@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845?? He literally says "people are criticizing the movie because they don't want to address this darkness/have these convos" (25:49) right after spreading misinfo multiple times. Why do I need to watch the entire video to comment on a specific thing said? Did he walk it back or something?

[@Fluffy6555]

​@@inefffable the guy thinks you were talking Adum somehow

[@danang5]

ironic considering one of the creator used to say that to alot of movie

[@james5995]

To be fair, most of the audience probably don't know what a QR code even is.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

They've got some of the paranoid crypto crowd amongst them.

[@larissabrglum3856]

As a person who interned at a child advocacy center (a place that helps kids who've been victims of all kinds of abuse, including sex trafficking), it is infuriating to me to see the right promote false narratives about what child sex trafficking looks like.

[@kieranczyzniejewski2178]

It would be hilarious if Avatar ended with James Cameron talking very seriously while saying "The Na'vi need your help. They didn't ask for this and the only way to save them is to watch this movie or buy a ticket for someone else".

[@PeacockandPuppets]

The whole conspiracy of "they don't want you to see this" is often because theaters being bought out by churches mass online purchasing tickets and handing them out for free to members, my parents were one of those people unfortunately. The guy the movie revolves around has actually made the situation worse and has been told by the FBI to stop interfering. The children he "saves" are put in harms way for his egotistical action-movie stuff and are option left to local authorities who often just leave them back to the circumstances that lead to them being trafficked

[@NoviListovi]

I'll never forget my parents walking through the door coming back from the theater, looking me in the eye, and asking "What's QAnon?" I died. I actually died, my soul ascended and I've never been the same. Had a lovely hour-long chat about how my tax dollars fund child trafficking rings and the liberals are covering it up. 21:41 I've been dragged to every Angel Studios film since. They do this speech at the end of every one. I get elbowed and my mother tells me "that's how we got you a ticket". It's embarrassing.

[@seventeenseventythirteen7465]

I just kind of want to see some kids in cages in some foreign country to start talking amongst themselves saying "Don't worry guys, Samantha Carry in Oklahoma just bought 18 tickets to see The Sound of Freedom! We're so getting out of here!"

[@Hannahgs]

Kids are in cages here in the US.

[@Eidlones]

There was a woman that claimed AMC was trying to stop her from seeing the movie, cause their AC wasn't working and cancelled that one showing cause it was too hot. Even though she could easily go to any of their other showings, with the refund they gave her.

[@Retromaniac212]

As someone who worked at a theater chain while this movie was playing, I'm glad someone else finds the end credits begging as manipulative as I did. I honestly burst out laughing when I saw that for the first time!

[@codyxvasco592]

He's literally talking about the plot of Monsters Inc.

[@FTZPLTC]

The whole "pay it forward" thing is so hilarious. I have to assume that everyone who loudly wondered why the "mainstream media" wasn't talking about this movie was totally aware of this - that it was being pushed up the box office charts while playing to largely empty theatres. Deadpool 3 should end with RyRey reading this exact script over the credits.

[@larissabrglum3856]

It's so obviously a way to inflate numbers

[@FTZPLTC]

@@larissabrglum3856 - The sad thing is that it's all about exploiting people's protective instincts towards children to manipulate them. You see it everywhere when someone lacks the honesty to just explain why you should agree with them. The gross part is, when you look into Tim Ballard and his little movement, it's so grubby and stupid. Like, if we're being at all charitable and not just treating him as a money grubber, he's basically using people's emotional response to the idea of child trafficking to attract the kind of guy who thinks that the best way to tackle child trafficking is to think "What Would Steven Seagal Do?" If the kind of straight-to-DVD action hero bullshit that he and his cadre of marketing execs want to engage in actually helped with child trafficking, I don't think child trafficking would be a problem. And you'd think people would realise that the fact that it IS still a problem means it's maybe a bit more complicated than that. But apparently people would rather believe that it's a really easy-to-solve problem and that Guvmint just wants to drink scared baby juice to make its wrinkles go away.

[@cookiemocher388]

It's understandable when hearing about the controversy, your first thought is "wait, why would you be againt a movie with a powerful message?", without knowing about O.U.R. and it's problems

[@fillervision3]

Honestly it's a breath of fresh air to hear Adam look at this stuff and say "...yeah, absolutely not" with all the BS "controversies" this film had surrounding it and clearly points out how ridiculous it is. Always love the highlight reels that get posted, especially those that are informal as these ones.

[@kreiyu]

how to sell a bad movie: just say it's "the movie liberals don't want you to see!"

[@larissabrglum3856]

You could get thousands of Republicans to watch 2 Girls 1 Cup if you slapped a "Liberals HATE this movie!" sticker on it

[@Andysavage24]

Or use "most triggering comedy" or something like that.

[@Eli4331]

As a *BEEP* I can say sound of freedom is bad

[@carter_lovejoy]

I’m also a *BEEP* and I can say that Sound of Freedom is one of the worst movies of 2023. Spotlight (2015) is a better anti-trafficking movie than Sound of Freedom will ever claim itself be. Unfortunately Conservatives will call that film “woke Hollywood propaganda” because it stars Hollywood actors who all lean pretty Democratic/Liberal and is about journalists for The Boston Globe investigating into the Catholic Church’s child sex trafficking/abuse scandals in the Boston area. It also won for Best Picture at the Oscars, so checkmate Conservatives!

[@jasonalec6573]

@@carter_lovejoyTrafficking in the church is a conspiracy!

[@ggalluuu]

Gotcha pdf file

[@aftertaster]

Hi Scott’s alt account.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@carter_lovejoy Also, the fact that “Spotlight” won Best Picture sheds some doubt on the claim that Q-Anon conspiracy theorists make that everyone in Hollywood is a PDF file, or at least complicit in it. Granted, there are creeps and pervs in Hollywood that exist, but I don’t buy the notion that everyone in Hollywood is/was complicit and was doing disturbing things with Epstein or something.

[@liz1646]

My favorite part is that this guys org has no actual evidence of ever stopping any sex trafficking. All while also being sued for multiple instances of sexual misconduct and child grooming.

[@PatrickWDunne]

So what did Sound of Freedom actually do to help end child trafficking?

[@berrybluebird3842]

Nothing.

[@basquat76]

Well i'm sure if you ask Maga folks the problem is now solved. Hollywood is no longer drinking the blood babies. They stopped it.

[@piggy201]

Well, it builds a community that is aimed to help just give us money, ok? Buy a ticket for your aint!

[@laurarbnsn]

Basically nothing.

[@verde7595]

Well the main financer was a trafficker and the guy it's based on used his operation to rape women. So, less than nothing.

[@Awwscrewit]

I recently attended a seminar on child trafficking. The vast majority of the time it is not some big organization but a small group of people moving just a few children within states and provinces. More traffickers are caught by local police or neighbors than groups like this tools.

[@ButtSolution]

Most of the ones that we know of and are allowed to know of. Epstein was in collusion with Mossad, one of the largest intelligence services on the planet. Everyone in America's intelligence knew what he was doing too. Alexander Acosta, former AG of Florida, was told that he couldn't arrest Epstein because he "belonged to intelligence". Then there are the Hollywood ones. Sacha Cohen (the Borat guy) went in disguise to a Hollywood party and started asking various people where he could get some prostitutes "under bar mitzvah age". One of the staff members at the party offered to do exactly that. Cohen freaked out and turned the footage over to the FBI immediately, who proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it. Shortly after that, his show "Who Is America?" was declined for renewal.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Correct

[@BiPolarUrsus]

Person: I like Waffles. The Internet: why do you hate pancakes? Person: i never said that. The Internet: so you dont want anyone to have pancakes and you're trying to ban them?

[@AstraVex]

I just realised the Qanon/Adrenachrome conspiracy is basically the plot to Monsters Inc IRL.

[@ChrisMaxCisneros]

You sound stupid as hell 😂

[@Lithosagymfan173]

​@@ChrisMaxCisnerosYeah, but it's true.

[@ralmcg]

The movies looks more like an action movie with child trafficking as a backdrop than a serious look at child trafficking.

[@basedchimera5859]

I saw this at the cinema with my mum and I was absolutley flabbergasted at the credits. The blatent audacity. After it was over one woman clapped hysterically like she really believed everything he said at face value. Child SA is obviously horrific but seeing it being weaponised for a films marketing is pretty fucking scummy

[@Boredman567]

23:16 Kony 2012 wasn't a moneymaking scam, it was just naive and idealistic, and it oversimplified a difficult problem to try and make a difference.

[@h3rbsman]

I mean kony had fled Uganda 8 years prior and has been actively hunted down by like every military and judicial branch in the surrounding regions, dude was largely irrelevant by the time kony2012 was even produced. I think what happened is the filmmaker was mentally unstable and felt an overwhelming sense of self righteousness (not unlike qanoners) and tried to change the world based on inaccurate or outdated information. So maybe it’s not fraud but I would agree it ended up being a scam considering how it was purely ideological and had 0 practical objective and ended up just receiving donations based on false premises.

[@ajzeg01]

Ava DuVernay is doing the QR code pay it forward thing in her new movie lmao, so the other side IS doing it.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

I’ve always thought Ava DuVernay was a political hack. I never saw the appeal people had about her, even as a black person myself. Even some of her works that received critical acclaim, like “13th” and “When They See Us” seemed laden with BLM propaganda.

[@blastermaster5009]

Olivia clearly had to work overtime to make this video monetizable. She did an awesome job!

[@henryhammond7393]

‘These people are so stupid and exhausting…’ That really should be the extent of this debate to any rational person… but here we are.

[@capsjukebox]

I still contend that 80% of Fox’s viewership is muted TV’s playing in nearly empty dentist’s offices

[@Sm0k3turt]

Appreciate the edits that give more context! Great work Olivia! Thanks!!

[@llamaczech]

"...our own FBI..." Who the f*ck else's FBI could it be?

[@jackoflames]

100% with Adum about Cuties. If they had not made it live action, and instead made it animated with adult voice actresses, I would've probably given it a watch, since it's a good topic. But making an anti-sexualization of children movie with sexualization of actual children is a big no. Let's be clear; No matter what topic it was, if a movie/show/piece of media or just anyone sexualizing actual children, it's not something to give the time of day. Should also be noted that the Sound of Freedom fans are not only the same people which also tend to watch child-rape-apologist & 16-to-17-old-girls-should-be-married-and-pregnant Matt Walsh, but also vote on pro-child-marriage Republicans to the degree that there is US states with NO minimum age to get married, which yes, is just selling/giving kids to dangerous people.

[@AnimeCosplayFan92]

One could argue that Turning Red is kinda similar to Cuties so there's your animated version.

[@ButtSolution]

Bro, you're watching clips from a channel run by a guy who wrote an essay on why having sex with animals is comparable in morality to eating meat.

[@ChiangKai-Shrek]

​@@AnimeCosplayFan92Haven't seen it, but wasn't Cuties about the exploitation of little girls? Turning Red is nothing like that

[@AnimeCosplayFan92]

@@ChiangKai-Shrek No that's Sound of Freedom. Cuties is more or less a coming-of-age drama with some scenes in that are unfortunately very extreme and uncomfortable

[@ChiangKai-Shrek]

@@AnimeCosplayFan92 Huh okay. What about tone? Turning Red is a pretty light-hearted comedy. From what I've seen, Cuties doesn't seem as light-hearted in nature.

[@KingustheDingus]

Potential hot take: Adum should make more political videos in his highlight channel.

[@DeadCanuck]

Hear that, Olivia?

[@wesshiflet2214]

new angle

[@soapbiter36577]

I mean, views have been down, no?

[@gudboah4688]

SMH they made adam political 😤

[@glurb69]

No. Not a hot take. Good take. I love these videos

[@mantasa0000]

What a wild random rabbithole, I didn't expect that movie to become KONY 2.0 !

[@randomguy8293]

I guess we now know mamamax favoured movie

[@miffedmax3863]

51:00 I love that the adrenochrome conspiracy is just Monsters Inc, lol

[@ch4rm4]

I work at one of the giant American theater chains and trust me, there were way more people going to see it than we had denouncing it (zero of course). Hard to believe there was a 'big push' to ban it or anything like that. We tend to have rushes of usually elderly guests when a new faith-based or conservative grift movie comes out, and this one was definitely the most popular one I've experienced, at least having worked there for about a year (came out on the 4th of July too of course, obligatory 'murica). We almost always have one, and just in case you're interested, the current one is the season 4 episodes 1-3 of the bible show that's probably streaming right now called the chosen. The studio for Sound of Freedom didn't send us a poster, likely to save money I guess, but that only made people ask me, a part-timer, why there wasn't a poster outside and passive-aggressively insinuating that we were trying to silence this movie that had most of our business for 2 months. Also, our AC system is whack as hell (old building) and the guests would sometimes show us articles from conspiracy sites that theaters were sabotaging the movie by cranking up/down the heat to make it impossible to watch, as if we wouldn't just simply not show the movie if that's what we were trying to do. I had to nod and smile to many elderly folks yammering on to me about how it was such an important film that more people need to see. Messy theaters left as well, they're not a very considerate crowd, those qanon-adjacent fellows. When this movie was popular at our theater, it was the time that my fellow employees were the most nervous/scared to deal with customers and clean up after them. Anyways rant over, long story short, part-timing in America still sucks even if it's a film related job.

[@BenWard29]

“There will be no mercy for them…” says Jim C. Me: Well, unless they ask for the lord’s forgiveness. I mean, that’s your whole religion.

[@Pan0s821]

Critical drinker siding with Ben Shapiro and Russell Brand kinda confirms he is a conservative.

[@R0CKDRIG0]

You are unironically doing a kind of "you know who else drank water, Hitler!" argument. I don't know about Russell but he has being against and even made fun Ben Shapiro's takes on media before, so where does that leave him?

[@Pan0s821]

@@R0CKDRIG0 He makes videos with them, agreeing with almost all their takes on the subject ''politics in movies''. Besides, come on, he sides with the Fandom Menace and people like Nerdrotic, and he talks about politics ALL THE TIME. People like that have a certain agenda. Only those inside the rabbit hole are not able to see it.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

⁠@@R0CKDRIG0 Russell Brand seems to be a left-wing populist with economically socialist views. Despite that, though, because of his populist views, he has aligned himself with right-wing populists. Also, many right-wingers have criticized Ben Shapiro. Hell, some of them have criticized Donald Trump. That doesn’t make them any less right-wing.

[@stdamonsbeard]

So Adam going on Vaush’s channel means he’s a…. He also went on Idubbbz channel a couple days ago. And I hate to break it too you but they are putting politics into movies. And when people say that they mean in movies they shouldn’t be. Like big budget movies. Movies that shouldn’t be overtly political. Not to mention DEI and ESG. As well as Oscar diversity requirements.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@stdamonsbeard Show me one person that said that politics in movies don’t exist.

[@Irvi90]

Just noticed that the BEEP used to censor words is the "Be Prepared" song from The Lion King video

[@1000huzzahs]

Tim Ballard was BIG in the Mormon Church, real chummy with the high-up people, and they in turn promoted OUR and his work. Since he's been outed as someone who does SA on his own female coworkers, the Mormon Church has excommunicated him and scrubbed all mention of him and OUR on their web presences. He was about to announce his candidacy for Mitt Romney's old Senate seat, when people came forward with all sorts of skeevy things about him and lots of receipts. Also, isn't the most common type of S. Trafficking for kids in the U.S. when a Queer kid gets kicked out of their home and falls victim to it themselves? Not "illegals" trafficking precious suburban white children, but all those well-to-do conservative parents blowing a gasket when they find out their child uses they/them pronouns, and then shoving them out the door.

[@brigidmadden5577]

They actually called him out in a public statement after he tried to imply he was related to a church higher up (he’s not and the official seemed all too happy to tell him to stay away) in the lead up to his failed campaign

[@jessyjulie5506]

Mormons have a big problem with child brides, but he ignores that

[@wilsonTVYT]

Idk how I’m supposed to take a political movement remotely seriously when their politics come down to buying content to consume. People are deluded

[@ownagemunky]

I had no idea the clip of caviezal talking about adrenohcrome was from the press tour for the actual movie, I thought somebody dug that out of his past and maybe he was reformed now. This was actually some straight up, overt QAnon shit I'm crying. Makes the entire saga 100x funnier in retrospect

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

Also, Caviezel references DUMBS (a Q-Anon acronym for “Deep Underground Military Bases”). This crazy conspiracy theory revolves around the idea that there is a parallel underground civilization of military bases that spans around the world with advanced technology and where alleged atrocities are taking place (trafficking rings, human experimentation, sacrifices, etc.). It almost resembles the plot for Jordan Peele’s “Us”, but without the doppelgängers. I wish I was making this up.

[@ownagemunky]

@@BirdsandGhibliFan Holy shit my boy is FAR gone