• Panthenetrunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Ya know, I never really thought about Pulp Fiction in this light but…

    You could read Jackson’s character’s obsession with that quote as faith sans interaction with the source material. He never read the bible, he just found something cool and started saying that and it turned into something approaching genuine belief over the course of the movie.

    When Pete says it it’s the exact opposite. It’s an appeal to pulp spiritually similarly lacking in engagement with the source materal except here it doesn’t result in anything. In pulp fiction Jackson’s character starts off with a lie then stumbles into true faith. Pete starts with a lie upon a lie and faith never even enters into the equation. It’s just preformative all the way through.

    Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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    “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” Hegseth prayed.

    "Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.

    “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee, and amen.”

    It’s already bad enough that they have sermons in government buildings, but then it’s with this kind of content?

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      And he basically replaced the parts that were supposed to be god referring to godself, with himself referring to himself.

      He’s trying to elevate himself to the position of god, in very cringy fashion.

      Overall, just very delusional and megalomaniacal, in addition to blasphemous…

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        Apparently he was reading a prayer related to the mission to extract the downed F15 pilots… No idea how any of this makes sense.

        Hegseth mentioned he was told the prayer is titled “CSAR 2517,” which stands for “Combat Search And Rescue” and alludes to the fact that it borrows some wording from Ezekiel 25:17

        Source for that is here

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          Perfect, why the heck not, just remix the Bible however you feel. He already picks and chooses what parts to follow or ignore, so he may as well just change the text to fit his whims.

          This is the dumbest timeline

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              That assigns too much agency to the LLM. They can’t be conscious. They’re only useful for producing langauge which appears intelligent.

              The LLM companies will make the LLMs say anything to not go bankrupt, though.

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    “Thou shalt not vote democratic!” “And the Lord sayeth unto the American soldiers, Come Fourth! But they came fifth and lost the race”.

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    Politicians give sermons, preachers give political speeches, charlatans give medical advice. I am honestly disappointed that the head of NASA is not a flat-earther.

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    while giving a sermon at the Pentagon

    What the fuck? Why is this alcoholic giving sermons at the Pentagon?

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      Why is an unregistered paedo, reality TV star, confirmed rapist, racist, convicted felon, bankruptcy champion, russian stooge, blatant corrupt, pathological liar, massively narcissistic, dementia riddled mushy brained, pussy grabbing sexual assaulter allowed to be the us president (twice)?

      And why is the aforementioned ambling barrel of obese syphilis allowed to put these inexperienced idiots to be in such positions of power?

      Christ, allowing a tantrumming toddler to have all that power is ridiculous in itself. But then allowing a manbaby to just gut and replace such important jobs with insane sycophants is absolutely moronic!

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        unregistered paedo, reality TV star, confirmed rapist, racist, convicted felon, bankruptcy champion, russian stooge, blatant corrupt, pathological liar, massively narcissistic, dementia riddled mushy brained, pussy grabbing sexual assaulter

        He’s also just a fucking dickhead – nobody ever mentions that. And he’s the worst kind of person – an insufferable moron that thinks he’s a genius (maybe that fits with “massively narcissistic” but I think it’s different tho possibly related).

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          The typical American is desperate, struggling, frightened and beaten into apathy

          Unfortunately, they’re also incredibly poorly educated and ignorant.

          What they’re taught in school is a sanitised and propagandised version of the world, where America is always the hero

          When they are shown how civilised countries operate, the response is always “this is America, we don’t want that here, despite the fact that it’s demonstrably better for everyone in society”

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            Makes me remember sailors from the soviet union, laughing their asses off because we explicitly drove all our cars in front of their boat in the harbour to make them believe like everyone in Sweden had a car.

            When it was just a normal day.

            Bet usanians can’t comprehend the freedom we have in europe either.

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        Racism. George Washington should have let the southern states separate after the Revolutionary war when they threatened to if they weren’t allowed to keep slaves.

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      Unsurprisingly, alcoholics are great at making bad and morally unsound decisions

      Edit: since it looks like I’m probably being just a judgmental jerk.

      I’m booze free for three years now, I’ve made my share of bad and morally unsound decisions with the stuff, but the best one was putting it down. If there’s anyone out there who thinks they have a problem, I assure you it’s worth whatever it takes to give it up, it’s much nicer on the other side.

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      I learned from kingdom come deliverance that the best sermons are made when still drunk from the day before.

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    I can imagine satisfaction from accomplishing a military mission.

    I cannot imagine satisfaction from being force-fed BS from a racist lunatic.