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Second is a Serial Plagiarist that just got caught red handed

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Monday, January 9, 2023 11:41 PM

I figured I'd post this hilarious turn of events in the RWED just in case people would miss it in the Cinema thread.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=60492&p=1#11677
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
6ix, you define yourself by your resentments.

And yes, I mean “resentments” rather than “grievances.” Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you’re being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you, at some level, envy, such as Hollywood, Disney, James Cameron.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, “owning the libs.” In context, “owning” doesn’t mean defeating progressive policies, say by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally — making them look weak and foolish, making their Disney movies (Avatar 2 and plain old Avatar) look like failures.

And does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected by Walt Disney and Hollywood was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”?

I’m not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth: It really did happen, and it hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump’s trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn’t seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. (James Cameron is a Canadian. Avatar 2 was filmed in New Zealand. Disney is in California, the state viscerally hated by Trump and his voters.) “The world is laughing at us” was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump’s own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you’re so smart? Well, we’ll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two




Haha! I just read the article that you plagiarized here. Give me a minute. I'll find it.





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Ah... There it is.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/07/paul-krugman-republica
ns-are-making-the-us-small
/

It's written by your boy Krugman too. I knew it wouldn't take long before he'd make an ass out of himself after showing he might have a redemption arc.

Let's see exactly what you stole from Krugman's article for your own here...

(Feel free, everyone, to compare the underlined paragraphs to Second's post above)



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Like many liberals, I'm feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude: taking some pleasure in the self-destruction of the American right.

There has never been a spectacle like the chaos we've seen in the House of Representatives this week. It had been a century since a speaker wasn't chosen on the first ballot. The last time that happened, there was an actual substantive dispute: Republican progressives (they existed back then) demanded, and eventually received, procedural reforms that they hoped would favor their agenda.

This time, there has been no significant dispute about policy; Kevin McCarthy and his opponents agree on key policy issues like investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and depriving the Internal Revenue Service of the resources it needs to go after wealthy tax cheats. Long after he tried to appease his opponents by surrendering his dignity, the voting went on.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:16 AM

Oh, I've known for years that SECOND doesn't write his own stuff. He used to post very long posts with no links and no quotes that clearly weren't his. Then he started to use the quote format on some stuff but try to pass off other stuff as "his". But the content and writing style were too self-contradictory and diverse to be coming from one person. I think he doesn't even READ what he posts, or give it a moment's thought. If he did, his posts would be a lot more coherent. He's just throwing crap against the wall for trolling purposes. Yanno, just to wind people up.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 1:18 AM

Is that what "Owning a Lib" feels like?



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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 1:33 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, I've known for years that SECOND doesn't write his own stuff. He used to post very long posts with no links and no quotes that clearly weren't his. Then he started to use the quote format on some stuff but try to pass off other stuff as "his". But the content and writing style were too self-contradictory and diverse to be coming from one person. I think he doesn't even READ what he posts, or give it a moment's thought. If he did, his posts would be a lot more coherent. He's just throwing crap against the wall for trolling purposes. Yanno, just to wind people up.



I never knew this or even suspected it before. I always give people the benefit of the doubt as to their abilities until they've illustrated that they are sub-par. I always just thought that Second was stupid because of all the bullshit he buys into, but until today I thought that his writing ability was above average and even if he was just parroting Leftoid Legacy Media talking points he was at least using his own words.

Apparently comic books, movies, TV shows and books aren't the only thing that Second likes to steal.




He clearly read this one though. He's a huge Krugman fan. And besides throwing in the Disney/Cameron/Etc. stuff into Krugman's paragraphs, he also would slip in or change a word or two here or there as well. Most likely because it didn't fit right the way it was written and not to hide the fact he was stealing Krugman's article, I assume.

I mean... if he were trying to hide it, he knows how it feels to "Own a Lib" too.

Biggest self-own on in the history of FFF.net.

Everything Second posts now is sus. It will be fun trying to figure out where he steals his future brilliant insights from.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 10:09 PM

Many of "SECOND's" posts are long and follow a chain of events and/or logic to reach an pre-selected conclusion. For example, how Trumpism is directly descended from southern slavery and racism. They refer to places and experiences that SECOND has never had: the New York City subway, for example.

Then "he" posts another lengthy piece that partly or in whole contradicts a previous post, or reaches an entirely different conclusion.

For example, he'll post at length, and often, how terrible Russians have been throughout history and how they must be destroyed, and then post that the Ukraine invasion was "unprovoked". THEN he'll post that this really is NATO against Russia and that was the plan all along.

Anybody who REALLY knows history and who can create a complex chain of logic tying certain events together to reach a conclusion would never be so self-contradictory.

It's clear that he's just scanning M$M for headlines that rile people up and then he spews it against the wall, undigested, to see who reacts.

The only parts of his posts that are authentically his are when he posts about Texas and Texas "Trumptards" and when he insults and libels people. And the only reason to respond is not for HIM, but for lurkers.



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023 10:42 PM

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Originally posted by second:
In his recent book "Thank You for Your Servitude", my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarized his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: “We’re just waiting for him to die.” As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration.

Ha! Good luck with that. Consider this:

• Donald Trump has a Filet-O-Fish–centered diet, exercises only by playing golf, and employs some of the least trustworthy-seeming doctors to have ever been associated with the medical profession.

• He did not take the threat of COVID seriously at all and actually got COVID himself just before the last election.

• He’s 76 years old.

• He nonetheless recovered fully from COVID and has had no known health problems since. He looks fine. (He looks less frail than the Democrats’ likely 2024 nominee, for one.)

Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




This stolen intellectual property brought to you by Slate.com

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/republicans-donald-trump-d
eath-wish-literally.html


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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 8:23 PM

When he's not pirating woke movies and books, second is trying to pass of opinions of idiots as his own.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65614&mid=11746
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Archive: https://archive.ph/PnlmD


Word for word, stolen from idiot and asshole Robert Reich from here:

https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/columns/robert-b-reich-the-gop
-has-manufactured-5-fake-crises-to-deflect-our-attention-from/article_56a2ec24-ff11-11ed-90fd-67eeaf1cc872.html


Second is incapable of having an original thought, no matter how moronic it is.

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Friday, August 4, 2023 9:26 PM

From the Barbie and Oppenheimer thread in the CINEMA Board on 08/04/2023:

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=65670&mid=11781
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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‘Barbie,’ and why conservatives keep losing the culture war

The only person who didn’t enjoy the experience was my wife. She grew up with Barbie as, I imagine, most women today have. The movie’s left-wing message upset her. When asked by the kids why she didn’t like it, she replied, “It was a movie about Barbie made by someone who hates Barbie.”

Well, at least he pointed out that his wife is the one who wears the pants in the family. I would have loved to have seen her elaboration on this point of view. What sort of Barbie were they expecting to see, if they didn't know it was Greta Gerwig Divorce movie?

Apparently Greta Gerwig the writer/director of Barbie knows what sells tickets:

Top 2023 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office

Rank Movie Worldwide Box Office
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,356,699,911
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 $845,303,497
3 Barbie $816,822,894
4 Fast X $719,379,825

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2023


Movie Comparison: Barbie (2023) vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
shows that Barbie could surpass the #1 movie Super Mario Bros.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Barbie-(2023)/Su
per-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly





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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The man-hating harpy finally cracked the code and figured out how to get normies to pay for their brainwashing.

Good for her. Fuck those kids up, groomer.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

Trump has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country and especially movies to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. (And our movies.) And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society. A majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what they want it to be, including at the movies.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




What?

You think that copying stories behind a paywall at the Atlantic is going to keep me from knowing you copied stories and blasted them out here as your own?

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Trump may constitute a unique threat to America’s democratic traditions. But he has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Whether

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Monday, December 4, 2023 10:01 PM

December 4th, 2023 from the "As Palestinians pushes for statehood, Israel finds itself more isolated" thread:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=49739&mid=11845
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Originally posted by second:
Some of our greatest literary works have portrayed the positive effects on an individual of a close encounter with death.

Tolstoy’s War and Peace provides an excellent illustration of how death may instigate a radical personal change. Pierre, the protagonist, feels deadened by the meaningless, empty life of the Russian aristocracy. A lost soul, he stumbles through the first nine hundred pages of the novel searching for some purpose in life. The pivotal point of the book occurs when Pierre is captured by Napoleon’s troops and sentenced to death by firing squad. Sixth in line, he watches the execution of the five men in front of him and prepares to die — only, at the last moment, to be unexpectedly reprieved. The experience transforms Pierre, who then spends the remaining three hundred pages of the novel living his life zestfully and purposefully. He is able to give himself fully in his relationships to others, to be keenly aware of his natural surroundings, to discover a task in life that has meaning for him, and to dedicate himself to it.




Oh. And by the way...

If anybody was wondering where Second plagiarized "his" insight from, you can thank Irvin D. Yalom.

If you'd like to read more, you can read his book Existential Psychotherapy

The entire bit Second "wrote" can be found, word for word (minus a "14" and "*" for footnotes), on
page 33 in Chapter 2, titled "Life, Death and Anxiety".

https://books.google.com/books?id=nI7VDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT45&lpg=PT4
5&dq=%22%0D%0ATolstoy%E2%80%99s+War+and+Peace+provides+an+excellent+illustration+of+how+death%22&source=bl&ots=5bl2x7gL9r&sig=ACfU3U0F0GMB1RZiN-QggweuB57JZ1hPfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLnMjPnfaCAxWaAHkGHXITAA4Q6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22%20%20Tolstoy%E2%80%99s%20War%20and%20Peace%20provides%20an%20excellent%20illustration%20of%20how%20death%22&f=false



You're such a fucking idiot, dude.

Stop stealing shit.



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Monday, December 4, 2023 10:12 PM

That didn't take long before the pirates had a copy of a major motion picture:

Killers Of The Flower Moon 2023 720p AMZN WEB-DL H264-FLUX
Posted on Dec 4th, 2023 at 5:1 pm
https://rlsbb.ru/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023-720p-amzn-web-dl-h264
-flux
/

Killers.of.the.Flower.Moon.2023.720p.10bit.WEBRip.6CH.x265.HEVC-PSA
https://psa.wf/movie/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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