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iclimbtreestofeelalive · 2 years

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okay i'm gonna say something and you all have to give me a chance. ready?

we need to stop making fun of poor american southerners who distrust the government. it's real easy to call them all conspiracy theorists and dismiss them, but half the time, its built off of a genuine feeling of being abandoned by the infrastructure meant to keep them safe.

in appalachia, a lot of people lost their homes because of coal mining operations. a lot of people worked in those mines, and then when the mines stopped being profitable, they got tossed out with the bathwater. a lot of appalachia is poor, malnourished, and i don't blame them for not trusting rich politicians who dismiss them as stupid and lower class.

if yall actually listened to half the things poor southerners say, you'd realize that a Lot of common leftist complaints are virtually identical to the rural grandma who doesn't hold with electronic money and politicians. it stems from a genuine feeling of abandonment and ostracization by the people who run the country. functionally, someone living paycheck to paycheck in the city in a tiny apartment has infinitely more in common with someone from rural appalachia than a politician. high rent, high taxes, food insecurity, feeling lied to by those in power, a general sense of frustration. it just sounds fancier coming from a city mouth than one with shitty teeth and a southern accent.

tl;dr stop dismissing southern people as stupid. they're absolutely right not to wholeheartedly trust politicians, because they've been fucked over by them time and time again, and honestly, id rather talk to a southern person who openly distrusts their representatives than someone from the city who wholeheartedly believes that Frederick Jamestown OldMoney III genuinely cares what people think and can be convinced to change his ways.

#appalachia #gettin real tired of this #hot take: southerners were right when they said never trust a politician theyre the devil #its easy to laugh but jesus christ are they wrong??#those in power rarely came to power through just means #there i rephrased it fancy will you listen now #jesus christ #some people genuinely were never taught the fancy words to make people pay attention so you have to pay attention anyway #please note that i didnt mention race because thats an intersection im not qualified to talk about and would very much like to hear about #but jesus christ. have you all considered that maybe. just maybe #southerners arent stupid. trump was fucked up and awful and a piece of shit #he won because he at least Appeared to be sympathetic #leftists so so rarely try to actually understand poor people they dont like and its gonna be what fucks this country over #edit: hey terfs reblogging this 👋#fuck right off unless youre prepared to include trans people in this statement #poor trans southerners exist!! i know an awful lot of them!!#im trans and southern and if you touch my post you acknowledge that trans people are breathing thinking people #with our own rational thoughts and opinions and live complex lives and face similar issues

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mst3kproject · 3 years

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The Atomic Submarine

I’ve had this one sitting around for a while. It’s a pretty dull 1950’s White Men vs the Saucer People movie, which attempts to differentiate itself from the crowd by taking place underwater instead of in outer space. It features Brett Halsey from The Girl in Lover’s Lane and a few moments of Jean Moorhead from The Violent Years, and has parts for Jack Mulhall and Paul Dubov from The She-Creature.

It is… the future. The US and the USSR are friends now, and passenger submarines regularly run between the two under the polar ice! But all is not well – the USS Sturgeon, largest of this arctic fleet, suffers a reactor meltdown somewhere just shy of the North Pole, resulting in the loss of all hands. The Pentagon convenes some guys in suits, and decides to send another submarine, the Tiger Shark, to figure out what happened. When the Tiger Shark encounters a mysterious electrical phenomenon, their scientists conclude that the only possible answer is creatures from outer space!

I seem to be making a tradition out of starting with the shitty science, so here’s a good one: the Flying Saucer’s source of power is stated to be magnetic – that’s why it has to return to the North Pole every time it sinks a ship, to recharge. Except… that’s not how the magnetic field works. In the late fifties and early sixties, the north magnetic pole was somewhere near the southern end of Bathurst Island in Nunavut (as of 2020, it’s on its way into Siberia and is actually closer to geographic north than it’s been in centuries). Sailors would definitely know that, making this plot point kind of hilarious to anybody actually in the navy.

I mentioned Moorhead… she and Joi Lansing (who was once in a movie called Queen of Outer Space) are the only women in the entire movie. They occur in the same scene, which seems to serve only to remind us that women exist, and have no effect on the plot whatsoever. Once we’ve entered the submarine where most of the film is set, the cast is entirely similar-looking guys in uniforms, and there are no romantic reunions at the end. The Atomic Submarine couldn’t even give us the requisite 50’s movie Cute Girl Scientist. I guess they were going for realism in their story about trans-arctic Soviet passenger subs and one-eyed semi-aquatic aliens.

On to the actual movie. The first ‘character’ we hear from is the deep-voiced 50’s narrator, who sounds exactly like the guy rhapsodizing about radar at the beginning of The Deadly Mantis, but I looked him up and Patrick Michaels has never narrated any other movie. I guess there’s just a category of men that have 50’s Movie Narrator Voice. His job is to sound portentous as he talks about things that are either irrelevant or else stuff the movie could have showed us but chose to tell instead. He falls silent for long stretches of movie and then pops up again, interrupting the flow of the story every time.

The special effects in The Atomic Submarine are okay – they’re nothing ground-breaking, but considerable effort seems to have gone into them. The saucer and the submarines are obviously small models but they’re nice and the underwater photography is quite atmospheric. I especially like the little submersible the Tiger Shark carries, the Lungfish, which was clearly designed based on ideas for such machines that were in the works at the time. There’s a shot of the saucer breaking through the ice cap and rising into the air which looks really good until the saucer itself actually emerges, wobbling on top of a rod. The one-eyed alien inside the saucer is nice and gooey and parts of it look like they’re made out of living sea creatures.

Like many movies on MST3K, The Atomic Submarine has some germs of good ideas in it, and like the rest of them, fails to do anything much with it. The flying saucer – maybe we should call it a swimming saucer – is described as a living organism, possibly the same organism as its pilot. The aliens themselves are biological engineers who will use humans as a template for altering themselves to live on Earth. That’s pretty cool, but is ultimately not important to the plot. Besides the pilot, who seems to have been assembled by a variety of marine organisms, the inside of the saucer doesn’t look particularly organic. If nothing else they had an opportunity for some really neat visuals here, but let it slip through their fingers.

The alien intelligence remains unseen and inscrutable for much of the movie. This theoretically builds suspense but there’s honestly not a lot of suspense here. A plot summary makes The Atomic Submarine sound like an exciting adventure, but the impression one gets from actually watching the film is that it’s kind of a day at the office. In a way, that’s fairly realistic – the crew of the Tiger Shark aren’t a ragtag group of misfits, they’re professionals doing their jobs which just so happen on this particular day to include saving the world. Unfortunately, this doesn’t make for a very exciting movie. An awful lot of scenes are just suspenseful music over footage of men in uniforms frowning at things. Rather than feeling any excitement, the audience just wants to get to the damn aliens already.

The movie’s only about half over by the time we do enter the swimming saucer to meet the one-eyed, tentacled beast within, but it feels like we’ve been here for hours. Once the boarding party enters the craft, some things do happen but they’re still not exciting. Three of the four men die, one by being cut in half by a sliding door and two getting melted by intense radiation – these deaths are surprisingly explicit and gruesome for a 50’s movie, but they’re drawn out far too long and don’t serve a plot purpose. If the alien killed the men to stop them cutting the Tiger Shark free of where it rammed the vessel’s hull, that would be one thing, but it appears to do it just because.

The main characters all sort of look the same, as lumpy-faced white guys in old movies tend to do. The only one who really stands out from the crowd is Dr. Nielson, the son of the scientist who invented the Lungfish and an avowed pacifist who’s only on this mission because he knows his father wanted to see the sub used. He has a running beef with an old friend of his father’s who thinks he’s a coward, all talk and no action. This is supposed to be the movie’s main arc and yet it fails to go anywhere on just about every level.

Neilson spends much of the movie insisting that he isn’t a coward, which one would assume is a lead-up to him doing something heroic. It’s not. He’s just here to drive the Lungfish and that’s literally the only thing he does – he takes the boarding party to the saucer, and then sits there and waits for the sole survivor to return. There’s a bit where the captain of the Tiger Shark decides to ram the saucer with the sub in order to get through its defenses, and Neilson speaks up, pointing out that this is a suicide mission. Nothing ever comes of this, and it might be evidence of his ‘cowardice’ but I’m not sure… the movie is not nearly as interested in his character as it ought to be. At the end he seems to have decided that war is cool after all… or maybe the guy he was arguing about has agreed that we need to set aside war with other humans in order to focus on war with aliens. It’s very unclear.

If there’s a regular passenger service between Alaska and Siberia, doesn’t that suggest that in this future we’ve already set aside war with other humans? I’m not sure this movie thought very hard about its worldbuilding.

In fact, watching the ending I don’t even know if the guy Neilson talks to at the end was the same man he was arguing with earlier, because, as I mentioned, the actors all look similar. Until that final conversation I thought the other dude had died aboard the saucer and honestly I’m still not convinced he didn’t. What mainly makes me doubt the idea is that it would mean there’s no closure to the feud at all, which would be the height of poor writing. I’ve seen movies where I would buy that they were just that careless, but other aspects of The Atomic Submarine are competent enough that I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

So what does this movie want us to think about war and the military? It certainly suggests that they’re necessary, since after all we have aliens to defend ourselves from. One of the scientists on board is British and another has what I think is supposed to be a Russian accent, so perhaps its extolling the virtues of international cooperation. This would fit with Neilson’s statements about how we need to leave war behind, but if that’s the movie’s point it hobbles itself by never talking about it in that light.

This is all made that much more annoying because, as I said, the effects are decent, the cinematography is pretty good, and while none of the actors are stellar they all do their best. There’s no real reason why The Atomic Submarine had to be so dull and messy, unless they were just saddled with a half-assed script. Even then, they made a pretty good effort to get some gold out of the dross. You might find The Atomic Submarine worth watching even if only to think about what might have been.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #the atomic submarine #50s

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Tucked In Biggest Reshuffle, Yogi Adityanath's Solution

Sporting out his biggest bureaucratic reshuffle over the past five weeks, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered transfers of nearly one hundred forty officers bringing in new faces to take rate as collectors and police chiefs in over two dozen of the kingdom’s seventy-five districts.biggest loser

Certainly one of them became Love Kumar, the Senior Superintendent of Police of Saharanpur district, who stood his floor and dispersed a procession sponsored via BJP lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal that caused violence. At an impromptu protest at Mr. Kumar’s residence, Mr. Lakhanpal – who changed into later named in two police instances for rioting – known as Mr. Kumar “naa la yak” (nugatory) and placed his prestige at stake whilst he declared that the SSP could be eliminated.

An assault on the SSP’s house, his scared kids, and wife at home,

Which preceded the Lok Sabha member’s speech had drawn criticism from the Valuable IPS Association in Delhi that referred to as the incident “unfortunate”. “It demoralizes officer, traumatizes circle of relatives. Desire authorities uphold morale of police,” the Affiliation had tweeted.

But the lawmaker told NDTV that there has been no need for him to apologize. The BJP leader’s only remorse, he stated, changed into that “we have any such bad neighborhood district administration”. Much less than every week later, the Yogi Adityanath government regarded to have acted on his assessment. It is a choice this is bound to ship its own message to the bureaucracy.yogi musician

The authorities transferred no longer best Mr. Kumar, however also Saharanpur’s District Magistrate Shaukat Kamal who turned into seen to have long past along with the police officer’s evaluation. Even as Mr. Kamal has been appointed as a unique secretary in the nation’s rural development branch, Mr. Kumar has been appointed because the police Chief of Gautam Budh Nagar that accommodates Greater Noida, one of the nation’s key business hub.

Planes, Cruises, And Hotels: Busting The Biggest Travel Myths

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Kerala, Love Affair of a Balmy Destination and Gypsy Yogi

The motherland of Ayurveda and an area where the soul meets the mind whilst the frame is idolized as a temple of fitness, Kerala is a balmy, breezy gem of Southern India. This fishermen’s land of India is a blessing for yogis and yoga practitioners. The place flickers with the footprints of remarkable yogis and Ayurveda experts. Yoga teacher education unearths actual which means in Kerala’s lap as the region is a first-rate mastering center. The environment and the surroundings act as a catalyst to examine the art of yoga, meditation, and pranayama in a couple of minutes. Here are a few tips, why Kerala, the city of Ayurveda and yoga, is the suitable vacation spot to exercise yoga instructor education program.yogi owls a

True Yoga Teachers

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Wonderful View

The peaks of the southern hills and the crystalline water of the beaches, the blue sky and the outstanding view, the entirety provide as much as a high-quality yogic experience. The surroundings inspire and ignite the passion for reaching new heights and additionally provides to the whole studying enjoying. Yoga trainer education requires a practitioner to contain the mindset of gratitude of their lives, which they analyze inside the training. When they see the same taking place inside the local, regular environment of Kerala, they absorb the teachings all the greater.yogi name meaning.mc yogi songs

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History of India

India’s USP lies in its rawness. The untamed lands of Kerala, which can be far away from the touches of materialism, breathes the natural air of simplicity and cultural Historical past. This makes Kerala tick as a vacation spot for yoga teacher training guides. The gods and their mythological legends informed within the class can be seen in temples and museums. And actual level getting to know can be experienced.

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