#michael moore

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[lenbryant]

Education: Finland v USA.

[davidhudson]

Happy 70th, Michael Moore.

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).

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2004.

The People versus Linda Ronstadt.

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"One of the things that keeps everything running here is that the government is afraid of the people. They’re afraid of protests, they’re afraid of reactions from the people. In the States, people are afraid of the government. They’re afraid of acting up. They’re afraid of protesting, afraid of getting out. In France, that’s what people do." – American living in Paris, Sicko (2007)

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Michael Moore responds to people who say a responsible gun law amendment could never be passed.

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Terry Woods by Michael Moore.

- Excelsior Magazine

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Tidepool's Top Five List of Environmental Books

(personal opinion this is just a list of book recs)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmer This book expertly blends indigenous knowledge and Western scientific methods. Highly emphasizes precocity and living with the environment instead of separating ourselves further as many Western green movements would have you believe. This book also has realistic strategies for dealing with the climate crisis other than just personal choice.

Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall Amazing conservation wins from animals that have been brought back from the brink of extinction by zoos and aquariums. Stories like the California condor and the black-footed ferret are featured prominently. This book gave me hope that there may be a solution to saving species from extinction.

We Are All Whalers by Michael Moore Focuses on threats the northern right whale and other whales face out in the ocean and the connection we all have to it as consumers. This book does not shame consumers for their choices though, but rather calls for systematic changes in the fishing and plastic industry. One of the four books that made me cry while I was reading it.

Fresh Banana Leaves by Dr. Jessica Hernandez Amazing criticisms focusing on the Western Conservation Movement and the role of displacement in the environmental movement. The editing could be a bit better, but the message that indigenous knowledge should be centered in the environmentalist movement is impact.

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gums: This book is the second in the "Emergent Strategies" anthology. While all the books are amazing this one is my favorite. The book focuses on the shared relationship between white-western colonialism and the current ways we are affecting the marine environment. She gets a few scientific facts wrong regarding marine biology, but this book is so beautifully poetic I'm willing to over look it.

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Trump is more an insane than a fraud (Essay)

Michael Moore

Film director Michael Moore called Trump a "professional fraud." I agree with him. The tagline, "Make America Great Again," is a rehash of Nazi Germany's " Deutschland über Alles." This is because it takes advantage of the psychology of some American citizens and imposes a fantasy that Trump can truly realize. Trump's exaggerated way of talking and flashy gestures are probably the result of learning deception techniques from TV shows but looking at his recent words and actions, it seems that's not all.

Trump says President Truman ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb because he had presidential immunity. When his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021 Trump also defended his own "criminal acts." He says he has presidential immunity too. How can these two cases be argued to be the same? If Trump's claims are accepted, he would have presidential immunity even if he committed rape, arson, or murder. Even the president is a human being, and there are certain things that he cannot be exempted from doing.

Trump's logic is broken. Far from being a "professional fraud", it seems to me that he is mentally bankrupt. It is reasonable to assume that Trump suffered a mental breakdown and became insane after losing the presidential election. The future choices of the American people will be important. If you elect an insane person as president, the world will end.

Rei Morishita

トランプは、詐欺師というより既にキチガイだ（エッセイ）

映画監督のマイケル・ムーアはトランプを「プロの詐欺師」と称した。私も同意見だ。「メイク・アメリカ・グレイト・アゲイン」というキャッチフレーズはナチスドイツの「ドイチュランド・イーバー・アレス」の焼き直しだ。一部のUSA国民の心理に付け込み、本当にトランプが実現できるような幻想を押し付けるからだ。トランプの大袈裟なしゃべり方、派手なジェスチャーは、TV番組で騙しのテクニックを学んだ成果だろうが、最近のトランプの言動を見ていると、それだけではないように思える。

２０２１年、アメリカ連邦議会への支持者乱入事件を主導した件について、トルーマン大統領が原爆の投下を指示したのは、トルーマンに大統領免責特権があったからであり、トランプ自身の「犯罪行為」にも大統領免責特権があると言うのだ。この２つの事例がどうして同一と論じられよう。トランプの主張を認めるなら、トランプがレイプしても放火しても殺人をしても大統領免責されることになる。大統領といえども、一人の人間であり、免責されないことはある。

トランプの論理は、破綻している。私には「プロの詐欺師」どころか彼の精神が破綻しているように見える。トランプは大統領選敗北後、精神に異常を来し、キチガイになったと考えるのが妥当だ。これからのUSA国民の選択が重要になる。キチガイを大統領に選んだら、最悪、世界が終わる。

[msclaritea]

You know what Michael Moore and Mark Ruffalo have in common? They're constantly acting against their own country, unless neither of them see America as their home. Figures that they're all in the same shady group.

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I’ve yet to read and post ALL of Michael Moore’s Midterm Tsunami Truths but, for me at least, this is the MOST IMPORTANT POST SO FAR.

In this post Moore recommends several links for us to check out, including the Ken Burns documentary on PBS, The U.S. and the Holocaust.  If you missed the 3 part documentary I highly recommend watching it & sharing it with family & friends, including  your children & grandchildren.  Additionally here’s the link, again, to Rachel Maddow’s podcast ULTRA about the plans to vote FDR out of office.  Link here:  https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra.

I want to add something very important for today’s Americans to know:  there were quite a few Americans, including elected officials, who were Hitler/Nazi sympathizers in the lead up to WW II.  Among them were 2 of the most prominent, well-known & admired Americans - HENRY FORD & CHARLES LINDBERGH.  Charles Lindbergh headed up The America First group (sound familiar?) 

My great grandparents and their children, on my father’s side, emigrated from Germany before the war.  My father fought in WW II and his platoon liberated one of the Nazi death camps in Germany.  He never talked to my older brother & myself about the horrors he’d witnessed there but he did share that with my mother.  Under Hitler Germany became a FASCIST NATION, which is where our current RepubliKKKan Party is trying to take America.   WE CAN’T ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.

EACH & EVERY ONE OF OUR VOTES COUNT & WE MUST VOTE BLUE.

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Some pinktober prompts I did and other stuff. My buddies and I decided that Zazzard’s would be a restaurant in Anterica specializing in offal. Plus, I decided on a name for the sun drug, Solance!

[oskarlevant]

Michael Moore says European Christians are the true enemy of Israel, not Palestinians

Moore believes it's European Christians aka White Christians who are the true enemy of Israel, not Palestinians.

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Michael Moore Birthday

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and left-wing activist.

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Before he was famous, Michael Moore went n roadtrips to Toronto and stayed at a sketchy flophouse on Carleton Street, directly across from Maple Leaf Gardens.