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Mon Oct-05-09 02:11 AM
Response to Reply #70 |
| 74. You are making your point to the previous poster |
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and missing the point that I raise about possibilities. Oh well  |
| -Sorry, but Michael Moore's argument just doesn't make sense. |
Towlie |
Oct-04-09 11:35 AM |
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Information is power. |
tekisui |
Oct-04-09 11:37 AM |
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"vast Obama-voting majority" is not reality |
TxRider |
Oct-06-09 09:38 AM |
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Hasn't the motion picture industry tried to freeze Mike out for years? |
EFerrari |
Oct-04-09 11:40 AM |
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In the spirit of its creation |
notesdev |
Oct-04-09 11:40 AM |
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How would that be different from swarms of bittorrent users downloading every other movie? |
eShirl |
Oct-04-09 11:41 AM |
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Well, it's got to get distributed somehow |
LTR |
Oct-04-09 11:48 AM |
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I read that he has now raised enough money to distribute all of his future movies himself |
proud2BlibKansan |
Oct-04-09 12:08 PM |
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Having the money vs. having the ability are two different things |
LTR |
Oct-04-09 12:31 PM |
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This is always a dilemma for progressive media... |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-04-09 11:49 AM |
#6 |
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Reconsider your assumptions |
omega minimo |
Oct-04-09 10:09 PM |
#66 |
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Yes it does, but it also limits the audience |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-04-09 11:13 PM |
#70 |
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You are making your point to the previous poster |
omega minimo |
Oct-05-09 02:11 AM |
#74 |
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No I understand your point |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-05-09 07:45 AM |
#79 |
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Yet you repeat your negativism and pretend MoveOn is all I suggest, ending discussion |
omega minimo |
Oct-05-09 12:49 PM |
#81 |
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No I am not ending discussion of possibilities |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-05-09 05:22 PM |
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Well put. Thank you. |
omega minimo |
Oct-06-09 12:26 AM |
#101 |
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He could have hooked up with Netflix and bypassed the theater |
DatManFromNawlins |
Oct-05-09 02:53 AM |
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It will be on Netflix when it is released on DVD, but it needed to be in theaters first |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-05-09 07:49 AM |
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WAKE UP! |
Spoonman |
Oct-05-09 03:47 PM |
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No Moore uses a capitalist corporation to distribute his films... |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-05-09 05:29 PM |
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His movie doing well will do one thing, basically |
Dreamer Tatum |
Oct-04-09 11:51 AM |
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it'll do much more than that- |
dysfunctional press |
Oct-04-09 11:27 PM |
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Moore is Pavlov. We're the dog. The movie is his bell. |
timeforpeace |
Oct-05-09 03:49 PM |
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i'm not hearing it this time. |
dysfunctional press |
Oct-05-09 10:41 PM |
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Have you seen the movie yet? n/t |
Subdivisions |
Oct-04-09 11:51 AM |
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It does to most working class folks |
fascisthunter |
Oct-04-09 11:53 AM |
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And then we, like corporations, whine and bleat Americans are uneducated... |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:46 PM |
#28 |
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Turing out in droves will do only one thing. |
BobRossi |
Oct-04-09 11:57 AM |
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No one will be inspired to change things? No one will be moved to discuss problems? No one will be |
KittyWampus |
Oct-04-09 12:00 PM |
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Nice to see some people understand things. |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:45 PM |
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Knowledge is power. Artwork/Storytelling is Inspirational. |
KittyWampus |
Oct-04-09 11:58 AM |
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Michael usually releases his movies for free on the Internet. He did that with Sicko. n/t |
Bolo Boffin |
Oct-04-09 12:00 PM |
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See #25. I don't think that's entirely true. Indeed, where's the "walk his talk" aspect? |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:49 PM |
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Google "Tu Quoque". You're soaking in it. n/t |
Bolo Boffin |
Oct-04-09 01:49 PM |
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Your arguments have been debunked many times already |
Kaleko |
Oct-04-09 01:58 PM |
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BS |
Spoonman |
Oct-05-09 03:54 PM |
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Good luck. |
Kaleko |
Oct-05-09 07:24 PM |
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I'm actually surprised that "Capitalism" has NOT turned up on the net |
Sebastian Doyle |
Oct-04-09 01:02 PM |
#33 |
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Michael Moore explained that SICKO was stolen |
Generic Other |
Oct-04-09 01:10 PM |
#36 |
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Towlie wants to steal from artists and thinks that is groovy! |
Bluenorthwest |
Oct-04-09 12:04 PM |
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Thanks for proving the point that Moore is a capitalist who wants your money and nothing more. |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:51 PM |
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thanks for demonstrating an absurd logical fallacy. That Moore can't critique an economic system |
KittyWampus |
Oct-04-09 01:22 PM |
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He is a businessman. |
sabrina 1 |
Oct-04-09 06:24 PM |
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Sorry to hear about your reading comprehension impairment, Bluenorthwest. |
Towlie |
Oct-04-09 03:23 PM |
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No, you just innocently dropped the suggestion into people's minds |
Touchdown |
Oct-04-09 03:56 PM |
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Dude, you certainly gave yourself the right name! Kudos. n/t |
Fire1 |
Oct-04-09 06:46 PM |
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It's also not theft...it is copyright infringement |
Zodiak |
Oct-05-09 01:17 PM |
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I guess you've never watched a DVD, or VHS for that matter. |
Touchdown |
Oct-05-09 01:35 PM |
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That is foolish of you, it's a miracle this film has opened so widely, kudos to MM nt |
flamingdem |
Oct-04-09 12:05 PM |
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Let me speak as someone employed by the motion picture industry |
Beaverhausen |
Oct-04-09 12:08 PM |
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It's also killing itself the way Corporate Music did by charging too much per unit. |
omega minimo |
Oct-04-09 12:38 PM |
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Bullshit. The Lion King on Broadway? $165 a ticket. Up in a theater? Average $8. |
Touchdown |
Oct-04-09 04:02 PM |
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The reference was to movie prices. Theaters charge too much. |
omega minimo |
Oct-05-09 01:08 PM |
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I referenced that. |
Touchdown |
Oct-05-09 01:27 PM |
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No. You called it bullshit. Then did a strawman number. |
omega minimo |
Oct-05-09 01:38 PM |
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Deleted sub-thread |
Name removed |
Oct-05-09 03:15 PM |
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The one damn thing not made in China |
treestar |
Oct-04-09 07:28 PM |
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"The heads of the studio I work for are Democrats." |
Spoonman |
Oct-05-09 03:51 PM |
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Most of us, if we're lucky anyway, have some kind of job for which we are paid. |
man4allcats |
Oct-04-09 12:23 PM |
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You don't like Michael Moore much, do you Towlie? |
leveymg |
Oct-04-09 12:23 PM |
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Sure, I like him. I just didn't like that shallow-sounding sales pitch of his. |
Towlie |
Oct-04-09 03:20 PM |
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It has to start somewhere |
HughMoran |
Oct-04-09 12:32 PM |
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MM sure has brought lots of cynical, spoiled, ungrateful, impotent, unAmerican childishness out |
omega minimo |
Oct-04-09 12:35 PM |
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No need to hide, Omega. When you're right you're right. n/t |
Fire1 |
Oct-04-09 06:48 PM |
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On the upside. Bitchin is the best cure for what ailes you. |
Fire1 |
Oct-04-09 06:55 PM |
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The revolutionary artist who succeeds is always called a sellout by those who come after |
omega minimo |
Oct-04-09 10:21 PM |
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Both multiplexes near my neighborhood had Moore's film. |
DailyGrind51 |
Oct-04-09 12:37 PM |
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Moore's on record saying pirates hurt his profits. |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:43 PM |
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You keep attacking Moore for doing nothing... |
Bjorn Against |
Oct-04-09 11:46 PM |
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Michael Moore's "argument" is a commercial to sell a product. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Oct-04-09 12:44 PM |
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+1 |
Deja Q |
Oct-04-09 12:50 PM |
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Well now that's a load of bullshit. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Oct-04-09 12:51 PM |
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How many times are you going to call him the Limbaugh of the Left? |
Patriot 76 |
Oct-04-09 05:25 PM |
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It's less tiresome than the other bizarre obsessions he forces on us, though. |
QC |
Oct-04-09 10:25 PM |
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Yeah, how DARE he. |
PVnRT |
Oct-05-09 12:57 PM |
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Ronald McDonald is not a corporation making/selling hamburgers. Moore is an individual artist |
KittyWampus |
Oct-04-09 01:25 PM |
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Truth's proooobably NOT so bleak, here. |
Zix |
Oct-04-09 03:28 PM |
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Is Michael Moore really going to quit if there's no revolution? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Oct-04-09 04:38 PM |
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Well, I don't know what methods you would have him use. |
Zix |
Oct-04-09 05:09 PM |
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One man's passion is another man's sales pitch... |
LanternWaste |
Oct-04-09 05:57 PM |
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The cynical slime is just so oozy and comfy, ain't it? |
omega minimo |
Oct-05-09 03:25 PM |
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Just as yours are |
omega minimo |
Oct-04-09 10:25 PM |
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I think it's about what you pledge to do after the movie is over |
Generic Other |
Oct-04-09 01:03 PM |
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Towli says "it'll be interesting to watch" |
Generic Other |
Oct-04-09 01:53 PM |
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What would you suggest he do to get his message out? |
AllentownJake |
Oct-04-09 01:08 PM |
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Apparently there are people on our side who don't want the message to get out! |
Generic Other |
Oct-04-09 01:18 PM |
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He was was tapped the other day on NPR for taking corporate funding... |
bridgit |
Oct-04-09 01:40 PM |
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I'm spending my hard-earned pay to see his movie in the theater and I intend to take my |
bertman |
Oct-04-09 02:36 PM |
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MIchael is merely trying to get a message across |
donheld |
Oct-04-09 03:27 PM |
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Strikes me as similiar to the line of thinking |
JonQ |
Oct-04-09 04:31 PM |
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You are aware that the big studios are not behind this movie |
nadinbrzezinski |
Oct-04-09 04:33 PM |
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Moore would not have been able to get his movies into theatre chains WITHOUT the movie industry |
earth mom |
Oct-04-09 05:44 PM |
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I'm amazed that Sicko didn't make a bigger impact |
Canuckistanian |
Oct-04-09 06:00 PM |
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Deleted sub-thread |
Name removed |
Oct-04-09 06:00 PM |
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Becuase the $ from this movie is ONE TINY DROP IN THE BUCKET |
yodermon |
Oct-04-09 08:41 PM |
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It's a fair way to make a buck. |
rucky |
Oct-04-09 11:53 PM |
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moore produced it. so it's mostly moore who's profiting, not "the industry". |
Hannah Bell |
Oct-05-09 02:36 AM |
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I hope that... |
Tx4obama |
Oct-05-09 02:53 AM |
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The old chestnut, 'Life is short; Art is long,' obtains. |
saltpoint |
Oct-05-09 03:02 AM |
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Michael Moore is like a kid who cries and complains, and won't realize what he had until it is gone. |
BMD |
Oct-05-09 03:54 PM |
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He's a Capitalist Genius! |
Spoonman |
Oct-05-09 03:57 PM |
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Yeah 'cause demonstrating that there is a huge progressive audience |
Warren Stupidity |
Oct-05-09 05:52 PM |
#98 |
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And here come the hypocritical union haters out in full force. |
ContinentalOp |
Oct-06-09 01:21 AM |
#102 |
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He's wrong, because the people who see it will be the people who already agree with him |
eridani |
Oct-06-09 02:14 AM |
#103 |
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