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Chadwick Boseman Dies of Cancer At 43: Twitter Reacts
The Internet is mourning the passing of the Black Panther star.
08.29.2020
Beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, whose portrayal of Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe made him a household name, died Friday of cancer.
The versatile 43-year-old actor also played American icons Jackie Robinson in 2013's 42 and James Brown in 2014's Get on Up.
A statement posted to the actor's Twitter account reads, "It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman." It continues, "It was the honor of his life to bring King T'Challa to life in Black Panther."
https://t.co/aZ2JzDf5ai— Chadwick Boseman (@Chadwick Boseman)1598667110.0
The statement also makes clear that stage IV colon cancer was the cause of the actor's untimely passing.
"A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much," his family said in the statement. "From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more- all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career to bring King T'Challa to life in Black Panther."
Boseman had never spoken publicly about his diagnosis, so his death comes as a shock to many.
"This is a crushing blow" Jordan Peele said on Twitter.
This is a crushing blow.— Jordan Peele (@Jordan Peele)1598667797.0
Director Barry Jenkins shared the simple, poignant message:
"In power
Eternally in power."
In power Eternally in power— Barry Jenkins (@Barry Jenkins)1598668122.0
"This broke me," wrote actor and writer Issa Rae.
This broke me.— Issa Rae (@Issa Rae)1598667745.0
Meanwhile, others marveled at the actor's strength.
My god the ENTIRE TIME Chadwick Boseman was working in the MCU he carried this with him. Worked through it. Red car… https://t.co/b0MF64lTjv— Jordan Crucchiola (@Jordan Crucchiola)1598667923.0
Others remembered the enormity of the actor's contribution to the cinematic universe.
I keep thinking about my 3-year-old in his Black Panther costume. How he wore it almost every day when he got it, r… https://t.co/WgYcIuaQi9— Clint Smith (@Clint Smith)1598668656.0
One user wrote: "no cuz this is such an loss for not only the film community but the BLACK community. chadwick was so important and may his legacy live on. this sucks"
no cuz this is such an loss for not only the film community but the BLACK community. chadwick was so important and… https://t.co/hIXLCnV83d— clemmie (@clemmie)1598667402.0
Indeed, in a year in which the dark legacy of American racial inequality is finally coming to a head, the loss of an influential Black figure feels particularly painful.
Perhaps this Twitter user puts it best, writing, "Chadwick was the first superhero a lot of black kids could really look up to and identify as. That kind of legacy is...unparalleled and today we found out he was a superhero in real life too, battling cancer while entertaining millions. That strength is rare, Rest in Power King."
Chadwick was the first superhero a lot of black kids could really look up to and identify as. That kind of legacy i… https://t.co/T08XHi0dpP— first-mate prance (@first-mate prance)1598668742.0
Rest in power Chadwick Boseman.
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Popdust's #PumpedToGetPlump Playlist for Thanksgiving 2020
Don't let your Boomer family get you down.
11.25.2020
Thanksgiving has always been about food.
We suffer through the awkward small talk and often anti-climactic football games for the sake of the meal that awaits us at the end of the day, and even then that "meal" is representative of ethnic cleansing and genocide. But there are a few other pros that lay outside of gorging yourself on mashed potatoes. The holiday always falls on a Thursday, which means you always have a four day weekend. Black Friday is also the following day, so despite whatever infuriating experiences you may have on Thanksgiving with your family, you can at least rest easy knowing you can go out and buy enough stuff to numb the pain.
These reasons alone are enough to warrant celebration. So while you clench your jaw through what is almost guaranteed to be a painfully long afternoon, why not curate some music to help elevate your mood and remind yourself that a four day weekend of relaxation awaits?
<p>Here is the necessary playlist for those who are pumped to get plump.</p>
<h2>Check out the rest of the playlist below!</h2><h2></h2><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="380" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/0Ng1VHkqnyNJLXhIhPMUIP" width="300"></iframe></div>
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<p>Leave it to Alanis to remind us how greedy we are on the day when we're meant to stuff our faces. "How 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up?" she cries out. The anthem may not be the peppy, optimistic, or what we want to hear on our day of gluttony, but it's what we need to hear.</p>
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The film Hillbilly Elegy has been almost universally panned by critics, torn to shreds in a way possibly not seen since Cats.
Problems abound. First off, the movie is, somehow, fairly boring. It's almost entirely lacking in aesthetic style, and it's also completely devoid of politics. Why is that a problem?
Like the average moderate Democrat, it attempts to "humanize" and "understand" entire demographics but somehow falls short of anything approaching inspiration or genuine connection.
Like the average moderate Republican, it preaches an ethos of comeuppance and valorizes capitalist success.
Combine both of these things with a desire to avoid any sort of political statement and you get...whatever Hillbilly Elegy is.
<p>The book, written by venture capitalist J. D. Vance, arrived shortly after the election and quickly became an oft-cited text that, essentially, was marketed as a window that would allow coastal dwellers to better understand the life of poor working class white people living in the middle of the country. </p><p>It's clear that the "white working class" and "Appalachia" are neither monoliths nor synonyms nor a useful demographic for political analysis. Yet the book is still inextricably tied to the media's 2016 obsession with "understanding" the illusion of the white Trump voter from the backwoods. Because of this, the book, and the story, are fundamentally political — a fact that the film doesn't seem to acknowledge.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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<!-- End Ezoic - under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><p></p><div id="6b213" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3f5dfd494ef21ed5e5ae61921055364c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1331590589696135175" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Vance sold himself as a man who could communicate what was happening in these communities, because he was of them.… https://t.co/ucbzkc3wRD</div> — Mary Chuff (@Mary Chuff)<a href="https://twitter.com/Mary_Chuff/statuses/1331590589696135175">1606310910.0</a></blockquote></div><h4>Reviews Are Reflections of the Reviewers</h4><p><em>"Elegy</em> isn't meant for the people of Appalachia, or the Ozarks, or the Rust Belt. No hillbilly film is ever made for the people it depicts," writes Sarah Jones in <em></em><a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/who-is-netflixs-hillbilly-elegy-for.html" target="_blank"><u><em>Vulture</em></u></a><em>.</em> "They're intended for people with power and security, people who want to believe that money is the same thing as integrity or intelligence and that, conversely, an absence of money indicates something about a person's character."</p><p>Intriguingly, the same thing could be said of the film's many negative reviews — many of which include deep analyses of Appalachian history and racial theory, and many critique the movie for its apparent nostalgia for whiteness, while never acknowledging that white liberalism (which preaches compassion while enacting no change) is just as damaging and dangerous as stereotypical Appalachian racism. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent11 - mid_content --></p><p>Many, written by people actually from Appalachia, express frustration with the film's one-sided depiction of its characters and the region. Others, like Los Angeles celebrity Ben Shapiro, argued that the negative reviews come from the media's hatred of Trump supporters. </p><p>Before seeing the film or Ben Shapiro's tweet, I read some reviews and admittedly did think that many seemed uncannily aggressive in trashing the film. Some of them reeked of pretension. <em>It couldn't possibly be that bad,</em> I thought...</p>
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<p>I wanted to give the movie a chance; but sadly, it simply was not a good or coherent film, and ultimately it left me feeling far emptier than I felt when I'd started it. And after reading many reviews and statements by people actually from Appalachia—statements that had nothing to do with conservatism and more to do with the way the film stereotyped whole groups of people—the film's flaws only became clearer.<br></p><p>Some of its issues, perhaps, could have been avoided if the movie had been...better. What could have saved <em>Hillbilly Elegy? </em>Less screaming and more restraint from Amy Adams? Better writing? Better actors in the roles of Memaw and Bev? More happy memories? More violence? </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-636"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent22 - long_content --></p><p>If the characters were more traumatized and visibly impoverished, or less so? A more artistic film style? A political statement that expressly connected the opioid crisis to big pharma and emphasized the importance of systemic change? </p><p>More hair conditioner? If J. D. Vance had become a liberal politician rather than a venture capitalist?!<br></p><p>In the end, it's hard to say. All or even one these things may have helped, but they don't guarantee that the film would have succeeded. The fact that the film has been universally panned is sad in its own way, as it had some potential, if only to instigate some generally good discussions. But sadly, the <em>Hillbilly Elegy</em> film needs an elegy of its own.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-637"> </div>
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-hillbilly (2019)
-Heroin(e)
-Harlan County,… https://t.co/DOHqz5Uzvd</div> — Sarah Jones (@Sarah Jones)<a href="https://twitter.com/onesarahjones/statuses/1329071591779516417">1605710335.0</a></blockquote></div><p><br></p><h2></h2><p><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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The 9 Best Thanksgiving TV Episodes to Watch on Turkey Day
Celebrate thanksgiving by hiding from your family and watching these fictional families enjoy turkey day!
11.25.2020
Celebrating Thanksgiving usually entails a day of eating, answering uncomfortable questions from your family about your career and romantic life, hearing about your grandma's bunion surgery, and, if you're lucky, a well-earned doze in front of the TV. This year, given the social distancing guidelines, you may bypass the family time and go straight to the couch.
Regardless of your plans for Turkey Day, when that second helping of turkey starts to settle in your belly and your eyelids start to feel heavy, it's time to shove your cousin (or cat) over on the couch, settle in, and turn on one of these classic Thanksgiving-themed episodes.
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“The One With the Rumor,” Friends
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNTcyNi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYwOTg1MDUwM30.HQbIHMBhvTWbQXJfVjNNEdyF2dDzBgalqgLZBCxKPDs/img.jpg?width=980" id="5630d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="43c434173d17f82544480a47c4a8fb30" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Friends Thanksgiving episode" />Friends<p><strong>Season 8 Epsiode 9</strong></p><p>This iconic episode guest stars Brad Pitt (then married to Jennifer Aniston) as Rachel's former classmate who was still bitter about being an ignored and overweight teenager who co-founded the "I Hate Rachel Green Club" with Ross back in high school.</p><p><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Netflix</p>"Parents," New Girl
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNTc2Ny9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODI3MjI1NH0.oNG7ZNehomcjG8q5GShlB4QGnaMwQIIZOjLuU-uOVGk/img.jpg?width=980" id="9e04b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a6c4d706bbef84d1987a5fc8d320368a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="New Girl Thanksgiving" /><p><strong>Season 2 Episode 8</strong></p><p>This is an adorable and realistic depiction of the family drama that inevitably comes with Thanksgiving. Here, Jess tries to reunite her divorced parents and, obviously, chaos ensues. </p><p><strong>Where to watch: </strong>Netflix</p>"Homo for the Holidays," Will and Grace
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNTgzNi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MTMyNjA2OH0.K_t3o1VI9Uu5vD24GR6RYbfFKkgpU2Xqt53G5_0NRF0/img.jpg?width=980" id="6b500" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="73c6dc0fde532b5293d958e38fd88e09" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Will And Grace Thanksgiving episode" /><p><strong>Season 2 Episode 7</strong></p><p>This episode centers on Jack trying to come out to his mother over Thanksgiving dinner. It's as messy and hilarious as it is touching. </p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Hulu</p><p><center><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Popdust Mobile Banner 320x100 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4301469008561137" data-ad-slot="6952751205"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center></p>"Slapsgiving," How I Met Your Mother
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNTk1Mi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMTk2NzAwOH0.M1_L9ywWjrMCAUxURvr9FvXu1jaiL5PGEnvztptXHHY/img.jpg?width=980" id="b2791" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="23b9b895b1bd6b28b27a8e8d14ebd992" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="How I Met Your Mother Thanksgiving Episode" /><p><strong>Season 3 Episode 9</strong></p><p>HIMYM is all about running jokes, and this episode is full of them. The gang is going through a time of transition, since Ted and Robin just broke up and Lilly and Marshall were recently married, and things get rocky (and hilarious) as a result. </p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Hulu</p>"Turkey In a Can," Bob's Burgers
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjA2MC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTM1MjU5N30.5zhyqTD_xtyocyGKNe3J14VYwYM_YV6_EdZB4b42VGc/img.gif?width=980" id="bc662" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="99ddebe8711e7cde94576da02d51e1f4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Bob's Burgers Thanksgiving Episode" /><p><strong>Season 7 Episode 6</strong></p><p>The plot of this episode revolves around a turkey ending up in a toilet. That's it. Its fantastic. </p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Hulu</p>"A Lilith Thanksgiving," Frasier
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjE5My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxMTIxMDc0N30.MYlpMkpq7GwzX_yYEceAipyPv8cQC8MNR0jyzwP3jPM/img.jpg?width=980" id="34cd3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f3c950fa81fe24a4abfb08f8320d3f2e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Thanksgiving Frasier" /><p><strong>Season 4 Episode 7</strong></p><p>One of the few <em>Frasier </em>episodes that takes place in Boston, this episode sees Frasier and his ex-wife vying to get their son into a prestigious school, while Frasier's dad tries to teach his grandson to play baseball. There are also some fantastic Niles cooking mishaps that make the episode worth watching. </p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Netflix</p>"Lockdown," Brooklyn Nine-Nine
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIxNC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTM4MDU0Nn0.ZHzj8bYLjSEvNWhQIpLC82kZOxPD0MJxMFqG6X5Apq0/img.jpg?width=980" id="154e1" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a2da54f625cc5508fc4b6abceadae0b5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Brooklyn nine nine thanksgiving episode" /><p><strong>Season 2 Episode 7 </strong></p><p>There are several great Thanksgiving episodes of <em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine,</em> but this one, in which the squad gets locked inside the station due to an anthrax scare, takes the cake.</p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Hulu</p>"Thanksgiving," Master of None
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIyNy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODMzODY4NH0.P6Ttnfk2Zu0ViTUFLc-La5pUDyLUMA8Aba6G6IRlqAU/img.jpg?width=980" id="8a36b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c247d8edbc6c937a360e1a087ab2df5f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Master of None Thanksgiving Episode" /><p><strong>Season 2 Episode 8 </strong></p><p>This episode hits all the heart strings in all the right ways. It shows family Thanksgivings over the course of 30 years and tells the moving story of Dez's bestfriend coming out to her mom. </p><p><strong>Where the watch:</strong> Netflix</p>"WUPHF.com," The Office
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIzOS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNTk1NDc0Nn0.YIyfcAsAgJJUQvFeQFw-d9HAZYdStj7Lodm-UxUz_FY/img.gif?width=980" id="0a047" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="59e7c43a63ff3b54811a903eb6a3cb8f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="The Office Thanksgiving Episode" /><p><strong>Season 7 Episode 9</strong></p><p>In this episode, Dwight decides that a hay festival is just what everyone needs to get them in the holiday spirit. Meanwhile, Ryan tries to scam his coworkers out of a lot of money. Good stuff!</p><p><strong>Where to watch:</strong> Netflix</p>From Your Site Articles
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This Haunts Me: Did Scientists at CERN End the World in 2012?
Can the strangeness of recent history be blamed on scientists meddling with forces beyond their understanding?
11.25.2020
Do you remember 2012?
People were convinced that the world was going to end — that the Maya calendar had predicted it more than 2,000 years earlier. And protesters and time travelers continued to decry the cataclysmic dangers of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, where scientists were taking apart the building blocks of the universe to understand how they worked...
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<!-- End Ezoic - under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><p></p><p>And then those scientists discovered the particle they were looking for without any apparent disruption to the fabric of reality, and the year passed without the world flipping on its axis or <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/in-2012-neutrinos-melt-earths-core-and-other-disasters/" target="_blank">neutrinos suddenly becoming deadly</a> while John Cusack raced to save his children.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-630"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - underfirst11 - under_first_paragraph --></p><p>Did you laugh then, at the people who predicted doom? Did you mock them? And how have things been for you lately? Because for most of the world they have become increasingly weird, chaotic and incomprehensible — suffused with a growing sense of unreality.</p><p>People and events have stopped making sense. Almost as if the predictable order of the universe has begun to unravel...</p><div id="f14b0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="59889d2fabd2fb9d5429c2dfb255f905"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1329484160734547968" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">🥴🥴🥴🥴 https://t.co/z5IbY4ulOt</div> — POPDUST (@POPDUST)<a href="https://twitter.com/Popdust/statuses/1329484160734547968">1605808699.0</a></blockquote></div><p>While it's hard to point to a moment when it things started to go wrong — does it all go back to 2012? — it's easy to say when things were less weird. Things were less weird about a week ago — before Rudy Giuliani gave a press conference with hair dye dripping down his face.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>But the weirdness seems to be accelerating at such an incredible rate that the answer to that question changes at shorter and shorter intervals.<br></p><p>Things were less weird before 2013, when we got a new pope <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25121121" target="_blank">without the old one dying</a> — so now there are t<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/19/two-popes-plotting-cardinals-francis-benedict-celibacy-rules" target="_blank">wo popes plotting against each other</a>. Things were less weird before 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president. Before 2018, when school shooting-survivors became celebrities, and then <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/maine-house-gop-candidate-drops-out/index.html" target="_blank">became hated by half the country</a>.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-633"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent1 - mid_content --></p><p>Before <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/watch-trump-kiss-caress-american-flag-cpac-love-you-baby.html" target="_blank">Donald Trump made sweet, passionate love to the American flag</a> on live TV. Before the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>Before <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/qanon-cong-candidates/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">QAnon candidates</a>. Before <a href="https://www.popdust.com/kanye-west-kirsten-dunst-2647054867.html" target="_self">Kanye 2020</a>. Before Rudy Giuliani in <a href="https://www.popdust.com/borat-movie-2648503139.html" target="_self"><em>Borat 2</em></a> and Rudy Giuliani at <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/how-did-trumps-team-land-on-four-seasons-total-landscaping.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Four Seasons Total Landscaping</a>.</p><p><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Even if we ignore the particular nexus of insanity swirling around Rudy Giuliani, everything has gotten so ****ing weird. But why? What is the origin? It's as if humanity has lost its grip on reality… or reality has lost its grip on us.<br></p><p>The idea that this can all be traced to CERN's activities in 2012 was <a href="https://twitter.com/NickHintonn/status/1154523206692331520" target="_blank">laid out by Twitter user Nick Hinton</a> back in July of last year. In an extensive thread on the topic, Hinton argued that we were all unknowingly sucked into a black hole in 2012, and relocated to another dimension/simulation.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent11 - mid_content --></p><p>He points to a number of supposed <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-mandela-effect-and-the-science-of-false-memories-114226" target="_blank">"Mandela effects"</a> and an anonymous CERN "whistleblower" on 4Chan as evidence that we have left our familiar reality. But while the particulars of his theory and his evidence may not hold up to scrutiny, there is a kernel of truth in Hinton's vision that has only gotten more compelling in the 16 months since he wrote it.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-635"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><div id="12706" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7d290f738884d3da36595e0bfca37790"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1154523264963796994" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">There’s the old cliche argument that nothing has ‘felt right’ since 2012. I agree with this. Maybe it has something… https://t.co/3elVkZPWO7</div> — Nick Hinton (@Nick Hinton)<a href="https://twitter.com/NickHintonn/statuses/1154523264963796994">1564094771.0</a></blockquote></div><p>With that in mind, I developed an alternate explanation for the accelerating weirdness of the world.<br></p><p>Back in 2012, the Higgs Boson was still theoretical. It was thought to mediate the quantum field responsible for giving particles their mass, thus regulating the force of gravity. And beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) were using their enormous and incredibly powerful particle accelerator to find it.</p><p>They were hoping to improve our understanding of Gravity. The weakest of the fundamental forces, yet potent enough to puncture the fabric of the universe — creating a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html" target="_blank">black hole</a> from which even light cannot escape. As familiar as it is mysterious.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-636"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent22 - long_content --></p><p>At the quantum level, the mechanics of gravity remain little understood, and events are theorized to take place not as a result of ordinary cause and effect but as a function of probabilities. A popular explanation for this is that every possible outcome takes place, but splits off into an endlessly branching multiverse.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>In that sense there would be countless versions of the Earth, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/mvx7v8/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes" target="_blank">the Berenstain Bears</a>, and you. But the vast majority of those versions would likely be clustered together around the most probable outcomes.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-637"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent3 - longer_content --></p><p>So what if that cluster was held together by the force of gravity? What if the people decrying the incredible power of the Large Hadron Collider were right to be worried?</p><p>The scientists at CERN were messing with forces beyond their control — beyond their understanding. So maybe they did trigger a doomsday scenario — one that we couldn't see.</p><p></p><center><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Popdust Mobile Banner 320x100 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4301469008561137" data-ad-slot="6952751205"></ins><script>
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</script></center><p></p><p>Three weeks after they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the sun shot out the largest solar flare in more than a century. If it had struck the Earth, it would have caused trillions of dollars of damage to electronics worldwide. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">It missed us by the astronomical equivalent of inches</a>. That was just the beginning.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-638"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent33 - longer_content --></p><p>Could it be that they ruptured our universe's quantum gravitational bond to that core of probable realities?SH That we have been drifting further and further from its center ever since — into increasingly improbable events?</p><p>If so, then by now we are either living at a frayed end split off from the central strand of the multiverse — waiting to be pruned — or we are doomed to spiral off in an endless fractal of increasing absurdity. Each year more ridiculous than the last. An eternal apocalypse of strangeness.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-639"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent4 - longest_content --></p><p>Once I'd had this thought, I couldn't let it go. It seems far-fetched at first, but is it more absurd than the idea that millions of Americans would subscribe to a conspiracy theory placing every celebrity and politician in <a href="https://www.popdust.com/jim-watkins-qanon-2647439021.html" target="_self">a cabal of elite satanic pedophile cannibals</a>? That we would elect <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/11/04/congress-will-get-its-second-qanon-supporter-as-boebert-wins-colorado-house-seat/?sh=7418602d568f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legislators who believe that</a>?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>The more I thought about it, the more I began to see the evidence in every improbable headline. I've started to perceive our hyper-dimensional drift in the erratic behavior of my fellow citizens.<br></p><p>I know now why they deny the overwhelming evidence of COVID-19's death toll (nearly 260,000), or <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/29/texas-louie-gohmert-positive-covid-19-raju-nr-vpx.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blame its spread on face masks</a>, <a href="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/covid-top-10-current-conspiracy-theories/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5G, and pharmaceutical companies</a>. When they decide to trust Donald Trump's inability to ever admit a loss — and his willingness to <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaigns-actual-argument-in-court-were-only-trying-to-disenfranchise-1-5-million-voters-not-6-million-pennsylvanians/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">toss out as many legitimate votes as it takes</a> — more than they trust every election expert in the country, I get it.</p><p>It's not that they are becoming unhinged from reality. Reality has become unhinged, and they are adapting to it.</p><p><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<!-- End Ezoic - incontent44 - longest_content --></p><p>Once you embrace this fundamental truth, the world starts to make sense. The rapid acceleration of strangeness is no longer a mystery. But three questions remain:<br></p><h2></h2><p>How much further can our reality stray from the realm of probable events? What happens when we've stretched too far? And when is it time to start buying lottery tickets?</p>
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I Found Literally Every Turkey Movie for Thanksgiving
Gobble Gobble, Motherf***ers.
11.25.2020
Gravitas Ventures
There are shockingly few Turkey Movies™.
Seriously. In all of human history, we've made the bare minimum amount of Turkey Movies. No, I'm not talking about Thanksgiving Movies™––if you want a boring list of mashed potato shlock, you can hop on over to any other website. Here on Popdust, I'm talking about movies that literally feature turkey characters in a prominent role. And I'm telling you, after over a decade of grueling research, there are basically only four movies that fit my criteria––which is pretty much just that there is a character who is also a turkey.
<p>Much like a Thanksgiving turkey, I'm sure you're dying to get stuffed with hot Turkey Movie facts:</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-630"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - underfirst11 - under_first_paragraph --></p><h3><em>Free Birds</em></h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIyMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MTY0ODI0M30.FE35M3D0tAW1g7bYzKZDwfF9WcdmxAhkFKI_RhoudTA/img.jpg?width=980" id="c5c4b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c1d1e5bbf201ef41a756823c33f711c2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Free Birds">
<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Relativity Media</small></p><p>One might call <em>Free Birds</em> the definitive Turkey Movie, as it stars not one, not two, but <em>three </em>leading fowls. Starring the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, and Amy Poehler––all as turkeys––<em>Free Birds </em>follows a presidentially "pardoned" turkey who travels back in time to save all of turkeydom from the evil, turkey-hunting colonialists. If, for whatever reason, you want to watch a family-friendly, turkey-centric adventure movie on Thanksgiving, this is pretty much the only one that exists.<br></p><h3><em>ThanksKilling</em> (and also <em>ThanksKilling 3</em>)</h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjI0Ni9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNzkzMjExMH0.q0DBTpPiCflrZhuyFUUfxBJpMludvj1eVx7gOrDM0Co/img.jpg?width=980" id="a2c4b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7f465b4e2e0ad8871682da37d1782821" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="ThanksKilling 3">
<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Gravitas Ventures</small></p><p>Let's say you're spending this Thanksgiving without any kids around, so you decide to watch something a little spooky but also would prefer it to revolve around turkeys. I don't know what poor life decisions have led you down this path, but I'm excited to inform you that there is a movie franchise tailor-made for you. It's called <em>Thankskilling, </em>and it stars a demonic turkey who murders people while saying fun catchphrases like, "Nice t*ts, b*tch!" There is no <em>ThanksKilling 2</em>.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><h3><em>Turkey Hollow</em></h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIzNC9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MDc1Mzc3Nn0.GzphAr-7QNGgu3ZeeBufAkDpgEMMPvcs3SRQ3eM7Ikw/img.png?width=980" id="16eba" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cc4018f10b03695cd88ebcfab9ca6be1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Turkey Hollow">
<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Lifetime</small></p><p><em>Turkey Hollow </em>is a The Jim Henson Company TV movie that aired on Lifetime and features narration by American rapper Ludacris. If that sounds, well...ludicrous...yeah, it really does. The plot revolves around two kids in a remote town who try to track down a mythical monster called a "Howling Hoodoo" and stumble upon a group of turkey-like creatures. So yes, I'm stretching because they're not actually turkeys, but they look kind of like gross diseased turkeys and the movie is called <em>Turkey Hollow, </em>so sit down and shut up.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-633"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent1 - mid_content --></p><h3><em>Turkey Town</em></h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjEwNjIzNy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjE1ODA3M30.P5DCayYpu6cAF12MFZDHTTTJa5AXf-zg2hErow2EoyA/img.jpg?width=980" id="28ea7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="921d27ef0e070a90f206d9aa6bc11518" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Turkey Town">
<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Gravitas Ventures</small></p><p>A poorly animated turkey named Gobbles invites you to a Thanksgiving party where he sings and dances for you. It is over one hour long. There is no Wikipedia page. Gobble is an abomination. You can watch <em>Turkey Town </em>on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Turkey-Town-James-Kane/dp/B07HLRGFSK" target="_blank">Amazon Prime</a>. Good luck.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent11 - mid_content --></p><h2></h2><p>And that's it. I've gifted you every single Turkey Movie in existence. I'm leaving now. </p>
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