I highly recommend everyone go see Sound of Freedom in the theaters.
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https://aiptcomics.com/2023/07/07/sound-of-freedom-qanon-caviezel/
‘Sound of Freedom’ is a QAnon smokescreen
Jim Caviezel, best known for his performance as Jesus in the shockingly violent, Mel Gibson-directed The Passion of the Christ, has long since gone over to the dark side of QAnon. Caviezel has a long history of antisemitic and conspiracy-promoting behavior, so it isn’t too surprising he’s now fully red-pilled. In 2021 he spoke at the “Health and Freedom Conference” (where election truther Lin Wood was also a speaker) on the topics of D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) and the “adrenochroming of children.”
Where is this Qanon connect proof? Nothing in you article shows proof. It’s all claims. Plus the author of the article is podcaster and not a news write or actually journalist with sources to back up her claims.
What would your standard of proof be for this?
Who about Tom actually testify in front of Congress on his work of stop sex trafficking. Which lead to Congress passing laws allowing the federal government to work with other countries to stop child trafficking.
That… Isn’t stating your standard of proof.
I’m curious what it would take to convince you otherwise, not what it took to convince you of your current stance.
"Caviezel, best known for being tortured to death in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has become a prominent figure on the conspiracist right, giving speeches and interviews in which he hints at an underground holy war between patriots and a sinister legion of evildoers who are harvesting the blood of children. It’s straight-up QAnon stuff, right down to his use of catchphrases like “The storm is upon us.” Here, he gets to act out some of that drama by playing a fictionalized version of Tim Ballard, head of the anti-sex trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), in a feature film that casts the operator as a Batman-style savior for kids sold into the sex trade.
Ballard himself has dabbled in Q-adjacent conspiracy theories, such as the Wayfair trafficking hoax, while his organization has far-right affinities and a long record of distorting its botched “raids,” which rely on bizarre tactics like asking psychics where to find victims for rescue. Ballard, Caviezel, and others of their ilk had primed the public to accept Sound of Freedom as a documentary rather than delusion by fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated “epidemic” of child sex-trafficking, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities. In short, I was at the movies with people who were there to see their worst fears confirmed.
As implausible as the movie is — it invents a finale where Ballard journeys deep into a jungle alone to pluck a girl from the clutches of guerrilla militants, which he accomplishes by posing as a doctor distributing cholera vaccines — one wonders if it was extreme enough for Caviezel’s liking. The actor has taken to repeating the most grotesque falsehoods of the sprawling QAnon ideology, among them that traffickers are harvesting children’s organs and extracting the chemical compound adrenochrome from their brains before murdering them. "
“Caviezel has saved that for his promotional media appearances, such as a recent drop-in to Steve Bannon’s show War Room on MyPillow proprietor Mike Lindell’s streaming channel Lindell TV. In the course of their interview, he conveyed the severity of the situation by explaining that an enterprising salesperson would have to move 1,000 barrels of oil to match the sum they’d get for filling one barrel with the rendered corpses of the innocent. Elsewhere, he’s parroted falsehoods about Pizzagate and other underground cells subsisting on human blood, all of it pointing back to a foundation of conspiratorial thought targeting the Jewish and transgender communities.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/06/sound-of-freedom-movie-qanon-jim-caviezel
It’s pretty damn obvious lol
Who down votes a movie about how terrible child trafficking is.
Everyone who knows it’s a Qanon dog whistle?
How, show actually poof.
Plus this is a movie area not a political.
Ballard stated to The New York Times “Some of these theories have allowed people to open their eyes. So now it’s our job to flood the space with real information so the facts can be shared.”
Even the Wikipedia article sources the New York Times, BuzzFeedNews, and Slate, as well as Vice (which you won’t accept).
Do a basic search and you get things like this, Falling Down: The Demise of Tim Ballard and Operation Underground … , Operation Underground Railroad under criminal investigation - FOX 13 Utah , The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic - The Atlantic
It is absolutely political garbage
American Crime Journal is not a source I would trust.
What are sources you would trust?
Wow, it’s just amazing how a movie about sex slave trafficking can be turn some how political. Everything in the article you posted is political talky points. It not about. Left or right the movie is about the traffic of children. Vice is also a terrible source that is only political motivated.
I thought this sub was about movies not politics.
Everything is political. Movies are deeply and inherently political, and that has nothing to do with anyone thinking that human trafficking is ok.
If you don’t see and acknowledge the politics of popular media, you just end up eating cultural propaganda.
So will people go after Tom Cruise new MI movie for him being a Scientologis.
Yes? You’re aware that some people don’t watch Tom Cruise movies because of his association with Scientology, aren’t you?
But also, some people won’t watch Misison Impossible movies because they’re CIA-supported, America imperialism propaganda films.
Many others will watch them, making informed decisions about the politics of what they’re viewing, and even more will watch them while being completely blind to them.
I’m not sure what you think “politics” is, but I can tell that whatever that may be, it’s wrong.
Not when you’re being disingenuous as a promoter of this grifter garbage. You don’t care about human trafficking; you only care about shilling this “movie” which doesn’t even have accuracy to it.
@TwoGems @Sans_outside Jim Caviezel has joined Hollywood’s insane asylum where Randy Quaid, Jon Voight, Kevin Sorbo, James Woods and other angry, loudmouth middle-aged racist white men reside.
A movie about how sex slave/children trafficking is a bad thing is a terrible movie and if you like the film. You’re a crazy right winger. I really don’t get you people. But you’re not bad person.
@hal_5700X @Sans_outside More to the point, it’s right-wingers who are usually complicit in enabling these monsters.
