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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys?
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yock
@LByock
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Feb 1, 2021
Hi, @SenTedCruz, Watchmen writer/producer here. Literally what the fuck are you talking about?
Jason Campbell
@JasonSCampbell
Sen Ted Cruz: "Have you noticed in how many movies how often rabid environmentalists are the bad guys? Whether it's Thanos or go to 'Watchmen.' The view of the Left is people are a disease"
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Lila Byock
@LByock
Get our name out of your thin mouth.
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Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Got it.
nattyice
(331 posts)Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)radical Islamists
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Make7
(8,543 posts)Blue Owl
(50,512 posts)Just like your slime trail?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)era to now, US Senators are portrayed as craven and purchased.
ProfessorGAC
(65,211 posts)We can go to Jimmy Stewart when Wayne was not close to that star level!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,211 posts)An add on, only!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)as he's claimed his entire sorry career. Wouldn't the environmentalists be portrayed as the heroes??!..... i know... I know.... don't look for sense where there isn't any....
DFW
(54,445 posts)"Avatar" had such a sad ending (if you are a Republican).
underpants
(182,904 posts)Cruz is an idiot.
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
genxlib
(5,542 posts)Some people have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality?
Even if his point were true (which it isn't), all that does is tell you that screenwriters have presented it that way. It says nothing about actual reality.
One of the worst books I have ever read was "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. The bad guys in it are laughable eco-terrorists. Crichton was a right wing tool who argued against climate change and wrote a book with awful strawmen characters just so he could show the world how bad they were. What a hack that guy was.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)(Credit to Make7. 😎👍🏽
Towlie
(5,328 posts)
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for example
And people are a disease - a life-threatening skin disease that Planet Earth has contracted. The biggest threat to our way of life is our way of life.
PufPuf23
(8,839 posts)and hopefully you will lose your office, go to jail, and be mentioned in the talk of American history as Benedict Arnold.
Go find shit stains to eat.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Ted Cruz is very smart?
More likely hes a stupid mans idea of a smart man.
Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)While everyone is ignoring them. Jesus on a pogo stick! CRUZ is just heinous. I feel like every time he opens his mouth, its a crime towards humanity.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...Erin Brockovich.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Fascists like Brenton Tarrant weaponise environmentalism in service of white supremacism and the strategy is gaining popularity in mainstream politics.
I am an Ethno-nationalist Eco-fascist.
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/how-white-supremacists-wield-environmentalism-to-mask-racism-25376
Or at least, we should keep this handy to fight Repukes who try to caricature environmentalists as left wing nutjobs.
Ted Cruz is a walking cliche, a flaccid mush of indecipherable ignorance.
To his point, I can only think of one feature film with a "rabid environmentalist" who is a villain, and practically nobody saw it. It is Night Moves, a low-budget film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.
It is actually a good movie with rookie mistakes (the camera is always too far away from the actors' faces--or the director doesn't like close-ups for some aesthetic philosophical reason) that suffers from the limitations of that low budget and a third act that goes a little bit haywire. But it is a movie that I've recommended to people who like offbeat movies.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)That was the Reagan Era, the only era in history in which trees caused pollution, to hear him tell it.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)He's such a dumbass.