No, I didn’t forget about it. But you’re pretending the comment I made after that doesn’t exist. It’s some pretty pathetic gaslighting, I must say.

I gave you two. Squeaky Fromme and Kyle Rittenhouse.

If you’re going to gaslight me, try harder.

Oh no, the US definitely has a gang problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs

Tarantino almost made a Star Trek movie. And it was supposedly going to be a remake of Yesterday’s Enterprise. I still don’t know what to think about that.

I gave you two actually. I can give you more.

You have a lot of anger over the people forced to do bad things for survival

Ah, so they are being forced. Thank you, that’s what I was saying.

By the way, the idea that the only way you can survive is die on the battlefield doesn’t make much sense.

The Enterprise D Technical Manual that Sternbach and Okuda released, which was supposed to be about as canon as it gets, says warp 10 is infinite speed. Go figure.

You do know you come off as insincere and condescending as fuck, right?

Sure. Apart from the specific times I mentioned where you do see it happening. And all the other times you see it happening.

And it still doesn’t make child soldiers either moral or excusable.

I don’t need you. I will never need you. You are not relevant to my life.

You’re not familiar with the success of this strategy to recruit kids

And you are? How did you become familiar with it? Or is this just a guess on your part?

That’s why it didn’t go over well. You needed to make it erotic to get the teacher excited.

How many times did you write “blowjob?”

Your point:

If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

Apparently you answered your own question now: yes, those kids in that developed country would be successfully recruited to be in a militia. Or at least do a militia’s bidding.

Nah, never happens in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse

And do tell me about Kyle’s tragic upbringing full of hardship.

I’m sure you know what your life is about.

What you don’t know is what my life is about, despite this arrogant superiority bullshit where you act like you know me.

Also, why the hell would I DM someone who has been hypocritical twice in this conversation and arrogantly and falsely psychoanalyzed me in the most condescending way possible about anything? So you can be more condescending? So you can get my life more wrong?

I know you think you’re the Flying Squid expert around here, but you don’t even know what my fucking pronouns are.

Have you ever thought about asking about someone’s life rather than assume you know what’s going on with it? I’m guessing not. Not necessary when you’re better than everyone else and know about them more than they do, am I right?

I have the whole restored trilogy they did. Really great stuff. As someone who has worked on the technical side of film-making, what interests me most is how the grain keeps changing in Star Wars, I’m guessing due to Lucas’ inexperience with a film project at that scale. Empire didn’t have that problem because Kirshner had a lot more experience. It comes back a bit in Jedi because apparently Lucas should have learned more.

Edit: Never mind, I forgot Lucas didn’t direct Jedi.

Too bad he never did.

IMO, the real reason Star Wars was a successful film was Marcia Lucas’ amazing editing. She really deserved her Oscar. Also, she told dumbass George, who was going to let Obi Wan live, how basic storytelling works. And then dumbass Joseph Cambpell decided George was the genius because he really fucking hated women.

Lots of children of rich, successful people join cults.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme

I do, actually.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190678.The_Killing_Star

It was an okay book, but it basically ended on a cliffhanger and I don’t think a follow-up was ever written. It also suffered from way too many high-concept ideas crammed into one story.

I was born in 1977.

And that’s fine.

But it isn’t news.

Do you really want c/news to have endless tour announcements?

Why on Earth would you think I know the answer to that? Do you think I’ve ever seen it happen? Experienced it?

Considering the number of young, impressionable kids who live comfortably that join cults, I’m guessing a good salesperson could be pretty successful at it.