…fuck, I’m old…

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    I’m so conflicted about Jim Carey. On one hand, he’s a based socialist, on the other, he’s an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist idiot.

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        I had this with the youtuber and investigative journalist Johnny Harris. He has some good videos where he does deep dive investigative journalism but then in other videos he hears something and just accepts it as fact. For instance, in his video on who is Elon Musk he accepts what Musk said about his history as fact and didn’t check any of it. Or he uses multiple sources all leading to the same source: Musk. So the entire video is a big Musk circlejerk promo video. But with other videos he doesn’t accept something that easily and goes really deep to find the truth. So I googled the guy, apparently he’s a devout Mormon. How can I take this guy seriously with anything if I can’t trust him to check his sources properly every time, when some things are just what he believes and accepts without doubting any of it. I mean, the guy believes in fairy tales, and really weard one too. So all of his material becomes junk as it’s really hard to disect the good journalism from the bad yourself, without doing all the research yourself completely. He’s a selective journalist, not an investigative one. But it took a while to spot the twisted info he produces. I followed him for a while and though he delivered proper investigations until he made videos on something I specialized in and he made critical errors while stating it as fact. This is, in my opinion, one of the most dangerous fake news forms out there. It even fooled me, while I’m not easily fooled.

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        Vaccine skepticism

        In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.[149] With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a “Green Our Vaccines” march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of “toxic substances” from children’s vaccines, out of a belief that children had received “too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic”.[150] The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not “pro-safe vaccine”,[151] and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being “irresponsible”.[152]

        On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California Governor Jerry Brown a “corporate fascist” who was “poisoning” children by enacting the vaccination requirements.[153] The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being “ignorant when it comes to vaccines” by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University,[154] and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as “angry, dense and immune to reason”.[155]

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

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      Rich people are only socialist until someone tries to redistribute their wealth. It’s all an act.

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          I prefer Jims acting and the roles he’s chosen, but Adam seems like he’s probably a nicer person.

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            Its an Adam Sandler song reference…“At a medium pace”.

            Imo peak Sandler music. Everyone remembers Lunch Lady Land and Thanksgiving and Chanukah Song because they are (mostly) family friendly and get played on the radio sometimes.

            At A Medium Pace will not get played on legit terrestrial radio. It is probably not family appropriate, unless your family has a traveling act called “The Aristocrats”. That’s that raunchy, cringey Sandler we all know and love and sorta miss but we know he’s too old to really do it anymore and it wouldn’t be genuine but he’s still pretty good in romcom settings.

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                It’s a horrible movie that is

                1. not funny; ok that’s subjective but I really don’t think Adam Sandler is funny independently of his political views
                2. reducing crimes against humanity such as genocide, colonialism and apartheid to "people just need to get along“ which is a common liberal Zionist narrative to whitewash said crimes
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                  I certainly recognise the argument that the film was zionist propaganda. I’m just highlighting that Sandlers public zionism is quite liberal.

                  I’ll take a 1947 border zionist over a 2025 settler zionist any day.

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          Movies.

          But this is a very niche joke based Animals in HBO dedication an entire episode+ to litigating Sandler vs Carrey

          Basically trying to start a war in the comments

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      Have you seen the Kaufman documentary? IMO Carey is certifiably insane, he spat on someone and refused to apologize because it wasn’t him, it was Andy. He literally thought he was possessed, or at least acted like that’s what he thought

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        To be fair I think that method acting requires you to let go of your conceptual self, so I can see why Carey wouldn’t necessarily think it was him, if he was in character.

        To clarify: I don’t think there’s necessarily anything happening which is particularly interesting neurologically, but it is to say that I don’t think the act of spitting on someone is necessarily the asshole move. I think the asshole move is to commit yourself to staying in character. There’s something to be said for whether the commitment itself is worth it as an actor, and whether actions could be excused or forgiven, but I’m not here to make those points.

        Where I am here to say is that Carey’s choice to commit to staying in character makes him responsible for the impact and outcomes on other people.

        It makes me think of Jared Leto, who was probably just trying a bit too hard, and sent dead rats to his co-stars or something?

        I think that’s a case of trying to bootstrap method acting but was certainly not very convincing. I think there’s a case to be made that ‘Leto’ was responsible for that one. I’d call it “cosplaying at being obnoxious”. In this case, I’d say Leto is responsible for those actions.

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    That’s the girl who played Cindy Lou Who opposite Jim Carrey in The Grinch Stole Christmas.

    His face, to me, says “I’m old”.

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      I saw this and thought that’s the leased singer for the pretty reckless.

      10 mins later I learn she’s both

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      If it makes you feel better, I have no idea who that is because I was already an adult when it came out and had no desire to see it.

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          As someone who was an adult when it came out but didn’t see it until years later.

          It’s an adequate live-action adaptation of a classic piece of animation. With Christmas coming up you should probably go ahead and give it a watch, if for no other reason than to say you did.

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            I appreciate your point of view, as someone who saw it at a younger age, I’m sure I have some nostalgic bias’s

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      She finally grew into her nose.

      Edit: for the downvotes, there’s a line in The Grinch about how Cindy Lou is so young she hasn’t even grown into her nose yet. I’m not commenting on the actor’s looks.

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    I saw one of her shows and she was all tits out in booty shorts, with the goth look that’s my type. I felt weird until I remember I was also a kid when grinch came out so it’s ok