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>>223756328
What was dishonest about it?
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>>223756350
Wall Street banks absolutely knew what they were doing but the film frames the harm they caused as a result of institutional stupidity / apathy
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>>223756350
they blamed banks instead of poorfags and immigrants
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>>223756520
those things aren't mutually exclusive
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The guy that discovered the subprime loans thing predicted the AI bubble is about to burst.
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>>223756520
It was stupidity, but they did it anyway. Nobody cared as long as they were bringing home a fat paycheck. Who cares if the little guy gets screwed
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>>223756584
wow so just like every other midwit youtuber?
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>almost crash the US economy into another Great Depression
>have a film made about you
Life is not fair.
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>>223756520
ultimately the blame lies with the govenment forcing banks to give out bad loans to "under repepresented" communities in order to get their vote, the bank was guarunteed their money back by the gov so they had no reason not to hand out as many loans as they could
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>>223756599
Except he's not a midwit Youtuber and he's putting money on it.
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>>223756645

every youtuber is a midwit unless they prove their credentials. so, every youtuber is a midwit.
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>>223756572
knowing exactly what youre doing and being oblivious to it are in fact mutually exclusive
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>>223756632
intrtesting point. now can the movie's entire message be pivoted in this direction by a single AI generated scene inserted at the right time?
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Got tricked into watching this by my aunt and cousin as a kid. There was never a gingerbread man, just a stupid thriller that I didn't understand.
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>>223756684
yeah yeah so literally every WW2 movie. what else?
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>>223756743
It's more specific than just a "WW2 movie" and you know it, Moshe
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>>223756520
The film acknowledges that near the end with Steve Carrell's character. "They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid. They just didn't care".
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>>223756328
Even ignoring the alcoholism, Spurlock said his McDonalds diet was resulting in consuming more than 5000 calories every day, which would have been impossible if he were following his rules
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>>223756765
Nah. The holocaust is the main theme of every WW2 movie. The only reason they keep making them is to remind us how evil the nazis were and how good jews are
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>>223756584
He's only predicted 44 of the last 3 crashes



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