RIP Director Rob Reiner and his wife

Back to his career, I loved him as Max Belfort in the Wolf of Wall Street. The scene where he jumps their asses about a $430,000 American Express bill is really funny. The role was kind of out of character for him, but he really pulled it off.
 
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ZenMode said:
I haven't been following the story much, And I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but Trump's truth social post about the deaths is absolutely appalling. Just when you think he can't raise the bar any higher in regard to being a piece of shit as a human being, he still finds a way to raise it.
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Compare/contrast:

 
Zoo_View said:
Macho Macho Man
I gotta be a macho man
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Not at all. If you have something against us for raising three successful adults with tough love instead of friendship then you are part of the problem that led to a whole generation of crybaby adults.

Has zero to do with being macho, but you and others simply can't help yourselves.
 
“…authoritarian parenting shows the highest correlation with child aggression (Muhammad, Rathi, Baroi, et. al. 2022). Additionally, when such parents engage in derisive parenting—behaviors that demean or belittle—adolescents are more likely to exhibit adolescent dysregulated anger, which contributes to increases in bullying as well as victimization (Dickson, Laursen, Valdes, et. al., 2019).”

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Authoritarian Parenting: Its Impact, Causes, and Indications

Authoritarian parenting is highly associated with a child's negative emotions and externalization. However, parents can learn how to parent in more constructive ways.
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keywestheel said:
Not at all. If you have something against us for raising three successful adults with tough love instead of friendship then you are part of the problem that led to a whole generation of crybaby adults.

Has zero to do with being macho, but you and others simply can't help yourselves.
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There's space between those two. I agree that kids need parental relationships and not parents that are friends. I was their father until they had kids of their own and now we're more compatriots. The three of them all turned out pretty well and we didn't do it by tough love. We did make them face up to tough decisions and their consequences. We gave them guidance and support but pretty much had them do the dirty work. Since they are now all in seemingly happy relationships, all with seemingly happy children, I'm good with that.
 
wmheel1287 said:
This is correct. Not how they treat others. How they treat ME.
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This is THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between MAGA and Liberals.

MAGA only cares about whatever they perceive to be their in-group. If you're in, you mist be protected, if you're in a perceived out-group then everything about you, you're welfare, your family, your culture, you're very life itself, must take a backseat and become subservient to the perceived interests and welfare of the in-group. They see it as a zero sum game.

The rest of us know the obvious truth that protecting out-groups is, in fact, protecting our own self serving interests (and as a bonus is making life better for those in the out-group as well).

Listen, if the Trump Administration can commit extrajudicial murders of Venezuelan mariners, then THEY CAN KILL YOU AND I in exactly the same way, without breaking any additional laws! That's what extrajudicial means. It's outside the law to kill them in PRECISELY the same way it's outside the law to kill US citizens.

What I'm trying to say is that protecting out-groups is not a purely altruistic affair (thought that's a wonderful thing in it's own right), it also 100% of the time the best practical way to protect ourselves and our families and the rest of our in-groups.
 
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