as Francis Ford Coppola's MegaSLOPolis bombs hard. Gets D+ cinemascore as well
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1frg7oo/coppolas_megalopolis_made_just_18m_yesterdaywhich/
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1fr71f8/megalopolis_gets_a_d_on_cinemascore/
Every cringe thing you heard about the film is true as well. Some unfortunate theater wagie 
has to ask Adam driver's character a question so that they can break the 4th wall and talk directly to the audience.
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He's talking about the Kurgan Hypothesis, an r-slured idea that evolved out of proto-Nazi German racial theory. This kind of bullshit was prominent in pop science in boomer times, and back then you couldn't just get on the internet and find out the real science. But these people wouldn't have bothered to find out the real science anyway. They're midwits just like the ones from our generations, people who decide that it's easier to be a lazy r-slur than actually think hard.
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Did you even read your link
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I linked to Wikipedia to give you context for what I'm talking about. I'm DEFINITELY not saying to believe whatever Wikipedia says.
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Yeah ok let's direct the boomers to abovetopsecret and coasttocoastam
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Pill me on the kurgan hypothesis
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Some r-slurred shit about how everyone was being all matriarchal and lived in Eden and then these evil men from the Eurasian steppe came in and... forced every culture on the Earth to be the way it is. Which I find confusing because you can't ride a horse to Japan or Colombia or Tahiti.
It's like that joke in the Dead Milkmen song "Bitchin' Camaro" about telling the stoner that you're "driving a car up from the Bahamas" and he's so r-slurred he actually believes you. Except it's a very important scientific theory.
It's like the bicameral mind nonsense but not quite as incredibly r-slurred.
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Well maybe you could 3000 years ago
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You could have gone to England in the Ice Age but those wouldn't work. Try to keep up on knowing where water is deep.
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Oh yeah? Well were you there PERSONALLY?
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Umm... well... yeah... I was in that plane crash of the small commuter plane between Moorea and Tahiti. It was really deep water so it took a long time time for the investigators to find me.
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When I read that I refused to believe it... but holy frick it's true.
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There are no definitive matriarchies at any point in history.
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That's because women weren't so arrogant as to assume anybody would care how they lived their lives and led their people
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you forgot about the the fallen west
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wow he's r-slurred
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When powerful older white men go "woke" it's often because they have deep regrets about shit they did when they were young or they try to make up for shit they're still doing today.
Externalizing their personal guilt to all whites, or all men, is a big relief.
They also often live in the past -- in the 1970s, when Ford was in his 30s, racism and sexism were real problems, so they must be today still. The grifters and activists feed that narrative, reward them for believing it and punish them for questioning it.
Additionally his worldview is based on the film industry, a morally rotten place, and he projects that onto normal Americans, Hollywood scum like to delude themselves that normal Americans are even more evil than they are.
On top of that he's too old to get the news from anywhere but the TV, he's probably throatgoating MSNBC histrionics about Trump 24/7.
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What hes describing would make sense as a description of the evolutionary period before we developed the capacity for planning
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My old lady always has a plan. Her plan is for me to decide where we're gonna go for dinner.
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Oddly enough the movie feels very misogynistic
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"if civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts" but in a GOOD WAY
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Horses probably originated in the new world, were brought over to Asia as humans migrated from Asia, but were eaten to extinction by the humans who settled in the new world.
So humans actually defeated The Patriarchy but accidentally let it escape to the old world, just like Sauron escaping to Mordor and rebuilding his strength to conquer Middle Earth.
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I'm going to unironically "source?" you. I've never heard the new world horse origin theory. I thought we were pretty sure horses were domesticated at some vague location on the eurasian steppe.
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They were, but thr equus genus originated in NA and went extinct here around the end of the last ice age along with most other large mammals in the world
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I know we clown on hoyas here but the same that happened everywhere else in the world
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This just proves that hoyas had a planet-spanning, advanced society before yt ppl
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Everywhere, but Africa!
Frankly I think it's a bit of a humble brag that everywhere homo sapiens spread as a species we just killed nearly everything that could be food and/or a threat. But it's probably also not great for ecology.
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I think some african megafauna died off hundreds of thousands or a million years ago when h. habilis or whoever discovered stone cowtools started spreading. But because the fauna had way longer to adapt to human presence and because the continent was actually less habitable during the ice age, they managed to persevere much longer. And yeah we dominate this planet so hard it's not even close. At this point we exterminate life without even trying
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Actually, horses were present in North America before the Mayos arrived, but the heroic Indians wiped them out (sadly, only after their evil miasma had infected the minds of those poor, once-noble savages).
When wh*toids reintroduced horses it only sealed their fate
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Lots of megafauna were present and then made extinct by the Native Americans who were obviously one with nature and never changed a thing that nature provided.
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The equine menace brought about their own demise through their emanation of violent & misogynistic ideation
Before they arrived the injuns lived in harmony with the giant sloths, saber tooth tigers, mammoths, etc
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This is the same premise that the New Age and psychedelic cult of Terrence Mckenna are based on. Wipe your mind back to the non-verbal so you can assimilate with Mother Gaia. All based on shitty anthropology from the 70s. Environmental determinism and making up stuff from the archaeological record ("look theres a Longhouse everyone was matriarchal and had no conflict ever, like my heckin Pocahontas!!") is peak midwit
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jfc orange man really buck broke his brain
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This is MAGApolis!
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