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[Northwestcoug]

For the uninformed, such as myself, can you elaborate on what the root cause of abuse/addiction is?

Ha serves me right for trying to sound authoritative.

But I think it stands to reason that unless you decrease the demand there will always be a supply. Multiple countries have tried to cut off supply for decades, and the drug epidemic is as worse as it's ever been.

I'm as ignorant of sound drug policy as the next person here. But I do trust some that say addressing root causes of drug abuse involves a lot of money and effort to tackle societal ills. A multimodality approach that includes harm reduction programs, decriminalization efforts, and other socialist-curious community investments will likely do more to decrease the morbidity/mortality of drug abuse on the ground (where it counts the most) than any unconstitutional attacks on other countries.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The new The Rest is History series on the Ku Klux Klan is excellent. i had a fairly good understanding of the KKK but am learning a lot of new information and, as always, the presenters are very engaging.

It has also re-aroused my very strong negative feelings about LDS Church policy from 1847 to 1978, but that's something for another discussion.

[Green Monstah]

The new The Rest is History series on the Ku Klux Klan is excellent. i had a fairly good understanding of the KKK but am learning a lot of new information and, as always, the presenters are very engaging.

It has also re-aroused my very strong negative feelings about LDS Church policy from 1847 to 1978, but that's something for another discussion.

I’ll definitely listen to that this week. Usually, I love their episodes, but the prior series just couldn’t hold my attention.

[YOhio]

I just finished this Tetragrammaton podcast with Rick Rubin and Jeff Harmon. Jeff is one of the founders of Harmon Brothers, VidAngel, DryBar Comedy, and Angel Studios. He's a pretty impressive entrepreneur and their business model is going to be interesting to watch. I'd just watched Solo Mio the day before listening and I really enjoyed the movie, so I came in a bit biased. It was a really fun listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RE...QHCdrBqiZw2FWg

[Jeff Lebowski]

I just finished this Tetragrammaton podcast with Rick Rubin and Jeff Harmon. Jeff is one of the founders of Harmon Brothers, VidAngel, DryBar Comedy, and Angel Studios. He's a pretty impressive entrepreneur and their business model is going to be interesting to watch. I'd just watched Solo Mio the day before listening and I really enjoyed the movie, so I came in a bit biased. It was a really fun listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RE...QHCdrBqiZw2FWg

Speaking of Angel Studios, I see that they are about to release Animal Farm and people are losing their minds because it has flipped from anti-communism to anti-capitalism. Angel Studios social media is desperately trying to convince people that it is still anti-communist, but the facts seem to say otherwise.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51482116...os-is-involved

Some of Orwell's material remains intact in the animated version, but Serkis shifts the story to warn against the dangers of capitalism and corporate greed, giving human characters a larger role to embody these ideas.

In Serkis' adaptation, after the animal revolution, Napoleon seizes power and begins scheming with rival farmer and billionaire Frieda Pilkington — a character created for the adaptation — who lures him with human luxuries to execute her ultimate plan: taking over the farm, the last piece of land she doesn't own, and building a profitable dam.

The back-pedaling:

"As social and mainstream media respond to incomplete or erroneous information, it's important to get the facts straight. There are four," Angel said in a statement. "Angel is the distributor of this film, not its producer, nor with creative control. Angel Guild members viewed the film and voted heavily to support it."

"While the title is the same as the classic book, updates were made to make it relevant to a broad-based, values-centric, family-friendly audience," the statement continued.

"This is an anti-communism film, and the Angel Guild will ensure that it stands by the principles of our members."

[YOhio]

Speaking of Angel Studios, I see that they are about to release Animal Farm and people are losing their minds because it has flipped from anti-communism to anti-capitalism. Angel Studios social media is desperately trying to convince people that it is still anti-communist, but the facts seem to say otherwise.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51482116...os-is-involved

The back-pedaling:

After listening to the podcast I'd be shocked if it were truly anti-capitalist. Maybe everyone should wait until the movie comes out before freaking out.

[BigPiney]

That movie looks terrible. no thanks

[Jeff Lebowski]

After listening to the podcast I'd be shocked if it were truly anti-capitalist. Maybe everyone should wait until the movie comes out before freaking out.

I would not be shocked.

Variety:

Here, the humans are unilaterally “greedy and cruel” carnivores who represent the evils of capitalism. Mr. Whymper (Steve Buscemi) works for the bank, first seen ready to foreclose on Jones’ farm and later more than willing to take the animals’ “magic paper” (i.e., money). Wealthy Freida Pilkington (Glenn Close) drives a Tesla-style Cybertruck and covets the farm as “the last piece of land I don’t own,” bribing Napoleon with credit cards and sports cars, when what she really wants is to build a dam and drown the farm.

Daily Mail:

A new film version of Animal Farm has sparked a backlash for criticising capitalism rather than communism and introducing a happy ending.

The original novel by George Orwell follows a group of farm animals who rebel against their human masters, serving as an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent rise of Stalin.

But rather than serving as a critique of totalitarian Soviet Russia, the new family friendly movie version shifts its focus towards the dangers of capitalism and corporate corruption.

Wall Street Journal:

Orwell’s original book was an allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution, communism and its inevitable descent into totalitarianism. I read it in high school. You probably did too. The allegory was pretty transparent: Napoleon was Stalin, Snowball was Trotsky, Farmer Jones was Czar Nicholas II, and Old Major was a combination of Lenin and Marx.

Forget all that. While only a trailer is available, the film was reviewed after appearing at a festival last June. Remarkably, instead of Stalin, the antagonist is a tech billionairess who drives a Cybertruck knockoff. Really! She bribes Napoleon with fast cars and credit cards and, as one reviewer put it, her “methods mimic the hostile-takeover techniques of big banks and monopolistic companies.” Hilarity ensues. Yes, capitalism is the villain. Hollywood strikes again.