Please consider watching this. It’s only 12 minutes, and it’s very powerful.
h/t to the person who linked to this yesterday.
Open thread.
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Please consider watching this. It’s only 12 minutes, and it’s very powerful.
h/t to the person who linked to this yesterday.
Open thread.
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guachi
So good I watched it twice yesterday. My mom was feeling gloomy about the state of things vis-a-vis Palestine/Israel and I made her watch it without telling her exactly what it was about.
It made her feel better knowing powerful voices like this were out there speaking.
Go watch. Now.
J. Arthur Crank (fka Jerzy Russian)
Wow. Thanks for sharing this.
Alison Rose
Thank you, WaterGirl.
eclare
So powerful. From someone who knows.
Brachiator
Very powerful. Arnold breaks things down in a way that makes it easy for people to relate to and to understand.
Craigie
The internet has destroyed my attention span. Twelve minutes is a lifetime.
WaterGirl
@Craigie: So just watch the first 3 minutes.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: He also doesn’t judge them for how they got there, he just shows them a way out.
currants
@WaterGirl: Yes. He has a great deal of compassion.
Brachiator
@WaterGirl:
Yep. Great point.
Another Scott
He’s very good at this – I remember one from a few years ago, I think it was after Charlottesville. I hope lots of people listen and keep it in mind.
Thanks for the pointer.
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@Another Scott:
I know he did one after Jan 6.
WaterGirl
I guess most BJ peeps aren’t up for serious on Sunday afternoon. Note to self.
Raoul Paste
Regardless of attention span, it’s hard to stop watching
Well done Arnold, and if you wrote all of this, it’s an outstanding essay, delivered with impact
Scout211
As the video says, everyone deserves a chance to look at themselves and make changes to become a better person.
Sadly, my immediate response to this video was to discount the message because of who Arnold was as a governor and the people he hurt due to his policies. It was a long time ago but I still have resentments. Sigh.
But . . .the message of the video is indeed powerful and I guess I will just work on letting go of resentments. It’s kind of the message in the video, right?
VeniceRiley
I’m sure regrets his “when you’re famous, you can grab Em by the pussy” past. Unlike Donny Dollhands.
Daddio7
Can be? Everyone here knows it is people who think and vote wrong who are making them unhappy. However I am one of those voters and am happy. Biden is in the White House but his voters are the ones who are unhappy, that makes me happy also.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Here’s a new powerful Biden ad (video)
Doc Sardonic
@WaterGirl: Because we’re easy, easy like Sunday all day
m.j.
Arnold voted for Trump. No?
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: Yep. We are fools if we don’t let people change for the better.
WaterGirl
@Doc Sardonic: And here I thought it was easy like Sunday morning!
WaterGirl
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Am I crazy, or is the line at the end…
An American president
… intended to suggest that the previous guy wasn’t working for America?
WaterGirl
@m.j.: I don’t know. Do you have a link?
edit: Apparently, that’s a NO, dated in 2016.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘I Will Not Vote for the Republican Candidate for President’
Yutsano
Oh wow. Great job there guv. Now get it to the people that need to hear this.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
That’s what I thought…easy like a Sunday morn.
lamh36
Count me in as someone who rarely watch these types of videos, but I gave it a shot and once I started I actualy watched the entire thing.
Well done Arnie!
jackmac
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Great ad. It’s reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s powerful “Morning in America” ads.
WaterGirl
@eclare: I think Doc Sardonic was making a funny. I was just playing along.
zhena gogolia
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: You should note it’s a Lincoln Project ad, not from Biden-Harris. But it’s great. I like their videos.
zhena gogolia
NYTimes Sunday magazine: “In Search of Kamala Harris. After nearly three years, the vice president is still struggling to make the case for herself — and feels she shouldn’t have to.”
FUCK YOU NEW YORK TIMES I HATE YOU
Now do Pence.
lamh36
Since this is an open thread…wanted to share a video that I found myself watching despite not planning to…LOL.
Still can’t believe me and the fam LITERALLY walked the streets of Tokyo in May! Shoot we def gotta go back cause we missed so much.
🇯🇵 TOKYO WALKING TOUR – WALK THE STREETS OF JAPAN DAY & NIGHT [ 4K HDR -… https://youtu.be/28ZjrtD_iL0?si=DH3I-Rq2wq6gngOZ via @YouTube
Hmmm is it too early for me to want to go back to Japan… I mean I missed so much during the trip cause of the pain I experienced over there. I was essentially laid up half the trip..
Alison Rose
@zhena gogolia: uuggghhhhhhh
Almost Retired
This was really, really good. I get that Arnold has a book to sell and he is in burnishing his legacy mode. But it was powerful. I’m skeptical of his implication that some of the Germans and Austrians of his father’s generation saw the errors of their ways in later life (I know that’s not exactly what he said). But his message that the path of hate leads to destruction for the hater as well as the hated is very well stated. Great post. I needed this today. Thanks.
Joseph Patrick Lurker
@zhena gogolia:
Pence is running on empty and it’s likely his campaign won’t even last until the Iowa caucuses.
trollhattan
That was Good Arnold, a parallel to Good Janet on The Good Place.
Kind of wish the micro horse or donkey was around but I can understand why he didn’t include them. One of my little pleasures during covid.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl: Yeah, he had no time for The Donald or the party that The Donald broke out of their padded cells.
Villago Delenda Est
Meanwhile, Elno has made an offer to Wikipedia: I’ll pay you a billion dollars to change your name to “Dickipedia”.
MazeDancer
Assume that everyone who donated to Larime’s GoFundMe 8 months ago just got an update about Sylv having maybe a heart attack. Terrible news. So, Larime needs help, literally. Has to hire someone to take care of him.
Except he disabled the GFM, months ago, so people can’t donate now.
I emailed and tweeted Cole. Who knows if he’ll get either.
But if anyone has Larime’s contact from hiring him or something, could you please alert him that he has to either restart the GFM or start a new one.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, your tax dollars at work: Phys.org:
(The paper is open access – no paywall.)
This could be a really, really big deal. And this is what government labs are really good at – building a strong team and working on a problem for years or decades, really understanding the issues until a breakthrough is made. The “if you’re not breaking everything, you’re doing it rong” brainiacs don’t understand this.
Here’s hoping that it (or something like it) works as well as imagined.
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose
@Villago Delenda Est: I’d call him childish, but that’s an insult to children.
SiubhanDuinne
@Villago Delenda Est:
That is so preposterous I just knew you were joking, so I looked it up.
OMG, you weren’t joking.
Citizen Alan
@Villago Delenda Est: It is a testament to how shitty this timeline is that I thought “This is an Onion article or a NYT Pitchbot tweet.” Then, I thought “Maybe Elmo is that much of a piece of shit.” So I googled it. And then realized upon reading the Yahoo article that, of course, it’s true. Because Elmo is the biggest piece of shit in the history of shit.
And this is why I support confiscatory tax rates. Because wealth beyond a certain level always — ALWAYS — turns people into narcissistic evil assholes who view people who have less money than them as mere monkeys who can be made to dance for their entertainment.
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
I hope we get more light fodder for the weekends, we spend all week on hard news and after a while it can get tedious, and tense, particularly with hot-button issues such as Ukraine and Israel.
More respite threads are welcome any time.
Sister Golden Bear
@lamh36: I love those sorts of walking-in-foreign-cities videos on YouTube. Walking Alice is one of my faves.
I really want to go back to Japan, since I was severely jet-lagged (unusual for me) all four days I was in Tokyo. Plus it was unseasonably hot, i.e. 90s and muggy. So not that enjoyable.
Citizen Alan
@Alison Rose: It just astounds me that someone with the advantages of Elon Musk has no higher purpose in life than to be a real life Sir Guy Grand.
Sister Golden Bear
Speaking of everything you’re unhappy about being someone else’s fault, CA Rep. Tom McClintock — who’s otherwise a POS Republican — released a wonderfully snarky letter to Chaos Eight who toppled McCarthy, which he signed off with “your secret admirer”:
sab
@lamh36: Yes. Me also.
Princess
@MazeDancer: As it happens, a common fb friend just posted about them. I have access to their Zelle and PayPal and CashApp contact info. Should I post it here?
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I think Schwarzenegger is right about centering the question on about how people can move forward from this 56 year-old conflict. It’s really a 75 year-old conflict; the families of many of the people in Gaza and the West Bank were displaced from their land during the war fought 1947-1948.
A lot of commentary about the current war centers the history. That’s important to know, but when all it leads to is moral judgements, it can obscure the path needed for people to get beyond this mess.
Geminid
@Sister Golden Bear: Rep. McClintock has made some half-way intelligent comments on the Republican House mess. So has Ken Buck (CO). I guess I would call the two “Old School” Republicans.
Nukular Biskits
Good evenin’, y’all!
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Larime wrote to me and John. John is very protection of Balloon Juice peeps and not going to the well too often. If we do that, then folks will be less inclined to help when we do ask.
If anyone who received an update is inclined to help in some way, perhaps Larime will supply Venmo or PayPal Information on his website or on his social media. I suggested that as an option for him but I do not know whether Larime has done that, or will do that.
HumboldtBlue
When cats and Tchaikovsky mashup you get this!
WaterGirl
@Villago Delenda Est: What is that about? Or is that a joke?
edit: I see that this is not a joke.
MazeDancer
@Princess: Not sure that should be public. But can your friend get a message to Larime to opeen the GFM and send another update?
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: The GoFundMe is a Balloon Juice GoFundMe, and Cole does not want to go that route, so that is not an option.
@Princess: You are welcome to post the Larime information in a comment.
MazeDancer
@WaterGirl: Don’t think Larime understood. He sent an update to everyone who gave. .Sounded dire.
And now everyone has already been “asked” to go back to the well. But has no way to give.
Backing away, now. But if Sylv is having a heart attack and Larime doesn’t know how he is going to be able to pee and eat and just sent that to the entire BJ list. Feels like we are already involved.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Can we deport this horse’s ass back to South Africa?
Hoppie
@Sister Golden Bear:
My experience is that is not the least unseasonable. Plus, typhoons.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Yeah, not ideal.
That was an accident on Larime’s part. He was trying to write that to me and John and he somehow ended up with it as an update. So my first job was to figure out how to take down the update, which I did. But the automated emails had already gone out. Not sure if they went to everyone who donated, or if they just went to people who had clicked the box to say they wanted to receive updates.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato:
I vote yes!
Princess
The info I have for Larime and Sylv is:
PayPal and Zelle — [email protected]
CashApp — $LarimeTaylor
lowtechcyclist
@mrmoshpotato:
I’ve got a better idea: let him be the first human to set foot on Mars. I bet we can get him there with current tech. Just not back again.
Another Scott
@Villago Delenda Est: @SiubhanDuinne:
rofl.
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Scott: lol
Villago Delenda Est
There would be no internet at all if these blockheads were running DARPA 40-50 years ago.
AlaskaReader
@Another Scott: Thanks for that link.