there's very, very few of the "hysterical" left. The right wing media engine amplifies their voices to crazy degrees. If you got the same with the right wing whack jobs you'd be shitting bricks right now. And lets not forget those folks have _real_ power. The Evangelicals get to set all kinds of public policy in exchange for voting for trickle down economics. Anti-abortion and anti-birth control laws are just the tip of that ice berg.
No, it's not two 1984 countries. It's folks fighting for the working class (Bernie, Liz Warren, AOC) and folks fighting to take everything you have and usher in the next dark age. I know that sounds extreme, and it is. These are the same folks that orchestrated the response to 9/11 (not the thing itself mind you) and have gotten us into 8 wars and counting.
Guys like Dick Cheney and the schmuck who runs Haliburton & Blackhawk are your enemies. The billionaire class that's brought wealth inequality to pre-Great depression levels are your opponents. Not the fat chick who runs the woman's study dept at your local community college. She's got no power. Those guys decide who lives and dies.
but I remember seeing a YouTube video where a guy trawled (not trolled) through alt-right forums and found a pretty significant effort to down vote, false flag and shit-post YouTube videos using bots. They make a game of it. The do the same in reverse for channels and things they like, so alt-right videos will often have a huge number of likes.
It's becoming harder to do. YouTube caught it and they've been implementing countermeasures but it went on for years. I wouldn't be surprised if now that their shenanigans don't work on YouTube (these aren't state actors, they're just bored, angry dudes) they're moving on to other sites for trolling and lulz.
just the best on Rotten Tomatoes. RT isn't exactly a movie buff site. It's for popcorn lovers. e.g. pop culture. If you're going to a site called "Rotten Tomatoes" you probably shouldn't expect deep film criticism or elevated craftsmanship....
This is just an excuse for the police to stop you. More of that "broken windows" policing that doesn't stop crime but does let the govt crack down on dissidents.
the Military was just the excuse used to get the wealthy to let themselves be taxed so we could pay for it to be developed.
I've got a crazy idea: how about we have modern civilization without a Military Industrial Complex by just taxing the rich whether they like it or not?
Also, are you suggesting the Army was responsible for the horror that is Microsoft Exchange and Office? Best argument for ending war I've ever heard in my life...
Also, while I'll admit I don't know if Huawei really is a problem or not, I find it hard to believe they couldn't just buy from the same companies the US is getting it's equipment from.
Then again, it's all made in China anyway, so does it matter?
to anybody. Your money spends the same as everyone else's.
That said, movies today suck because they're not made for you. They're made for the Chinese first, then for American women (because they tend to make the purchasing decisions in this country) and for American men last. You don't bring enough dollars to get movies made for exclusively you.
It doesn't help that the 80s were a period before focus groups and international box offices that everybody looks back on wistfully. Yeah, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the original Star Wars were better movies than anything we've got today. The studios pretty much let them get made though. They shrugged off flops. They don't do that anymore. The last real flop was "Mars Needs Moms" and it made national news when it didn't make it's money back.
there's a small, vocal minority of crazies like there is in every group. There's also a small group of grifters, again, like there is in any group.
A powerful media engine is amplifying the voices of both these groups for their own end. As near as I can tell with racism and homophobia winding down folks are looking for a new kind of identity politics to replace The Southern Strategy. Anti-SJWism is that new politic. It's the thing you use to distract the voters from economic issues long enough to get their vote every 2 years.
Pushing identity politics agendas really just ends up alienating markets.
Doesn't get much clearer than that. He's saying that identity politics hurt a movies performance. It's not hard to read into that either. He means left wing, SJW identity politics. I say that because the entire push against identity politics comes from the right (which is frustrating, given that the right has been using identity politics in the form of the Southern Strategy to win elections for over 70 years).
I'd still like some examples of movies that have alienated markets with identity politics. He listed what are counter examples because, well, it's easy to find those. It's not so hard to find actual movies ruined by identity politics. Even Ghostbusters wasn't political. It was an attempt to hit a broad female audience with female comedy.
Yes, chicks have their own forms of comedy, and no, I don't find it funny, being a dude. Go dig up that Rosie O'donnel buddy cop movie they made a few years back for a good example of it. That wasn't political, that was marketing.
What I'm trying to do is snap folks out of this anti-SJW fever. It's the new Southern Strategy. A new trick for the right wing to use to distract us all from worsening economics. You're not unhappy because you're wages dropped 1.5% every year for the last 20 years. It's those feminazis forcing unnatural gender roles and ruining movies/tv/video games. The videos pushing that narrative on YouTube have millions of views. True, a lot of that is down to the right wing media engine supporting them (Sargon of Aakad, one of the big ones in that field, has had a ton of help and consulting services from various right wing think tanks, he didn't get all those subbies himself, he had help).
If we let this shit go on then it won't matter that racism, homophobia and religious bigotry are winding down. The 1%ers will find another group for us to fight with while they take all the money and run. I'm fucking sick of it. Enough already. Wake. The. Fuck. Up. For the Love of God, Stop falling for the same stupid tricks again and again.
I can't think of one. Last Jedi didn't rage on CIS males, it just kinda sucked. And you just listed a ton of movies that are the opposite of the point you're making.
I suppose you could dig up some independent movies written by/for radical feminists. But they're the left wing equivalent of Atlas Shrugged. Garbage written by and for the faithful that nobody really pays any attention to past high school when they grow out of their "rebellious" phase.
So barring that, what is a single mainstream movie that has even a side message of "straight white male bad"? While you're at it please explain why you feel that way (or link to a post/YouTube video that encapsulates your reasons).
milktoast centrism is what got us Hilary Clinton and in turn Donal Trump. The actual left, as a matter of policy, opposes US military intervention policies.
As for North Korea, it depends on what Kim wants. Trump has already shown with Syria that he's laughably bad at negotiations. There's a story of him "negotiating" with Ed McMahon and, after talking for a few hours walking out with nothing and Ed getting everything. A guy like Kim, who has managed to survive his father's death, is going to run rings around Trump. Just like Putin did.
The left wing of the Democratic party (Berniecrats? Justice Democrats? Call 'em what you like) will do it, and they've been gaining ground since 2015. Trump has, if anything, been a huge boost to them. It showed loud and clear that the old school, Clintonian / Establishment Democrats are a dead end.
The only question right now is will the old money folks manage to crush the left wing. I honestly don't know. It depends on the Millennials. If they show up to vote we win. If they stay home we lose and everything the boomers said about them is proven true. Time will tell.
Female lead, not an ensemble cast. Smaller scale story. Seems to me like they're trying to change up the formula.
That said, yeah, a female lead was bound to bring some bad elements out of the woodwork, and there's an entire anti-SJW outrage machine on YouTube and Twitter that exists to make money from those bad elements and the manufactured controversy they create. Worse, the left wing responds to them instead of just ignoring them until they go away.
Where there's smoke there's fire, especially if some joker with a flame thrower and a case of Molotovs is around and about. Ignore it though and they fires'll go out on their own and the only thing that'll get burnt is that joker's own home.
Data privacy is so far down the list of problems in my life it barely registers.
Maybe it's different in Europe & Canada, but in the US we aren't guaranteed healthcare (and I have friends who struggle daily to get the medicine they need to live), inflation's about 4.5% on necessities (food, healthcare, rent, insurance, tuition, etc) but pay raises top out around 3% if you're very, very lucky, my government's actively involved in 8 wars, working on 9 and 10 and using the debt from those wars as an excuse for why they can't pay for us all to have healthcare. Oh, and my taxes just went up this year.
The rich and powerful have much, much better ways to oppress me than invading my privacy. Any talk of it is just a side show from much, much bigger problems.
I read a bit of that. Apparently people are confusing DC's Captain Marvel (Shazaam) and Marvel's Captain Marvel and think that somehow they made Captain Marvel a women in the Captain Marvel movie....
It reminds me of the folks who were surprised that Emperor Palpatine and Chancellor Palpatine were the same person. I can't even... I mean...
And for the record, Captain Marvel's been a woman since 1982. Not that it even matters. It goes back and forth because the name "Captain Marvel" was picked because, well, Marvel Comics. Jeez, comic book fans these days.
And I pointed this out elsewhere but I'm guessing this is all just fake controversy to get clicks for ad revenue. Both sides of the SJW debate seem to be exploiting it for quick cash.
There's no background, just a link to the page. And as another poster pointed out it's not reviews, it's the "Want to See" rating.
It's possible somebody is using bots or just plain organizing a movement against the film for some reason or another (I can't imagine what, sure it's a female lead but so what? It's not like Supergirl gets this treatment or that the gender swapped Batman or something).
Without context this looks like more click bait meant to exploit the ongoing SJW debate on the Internet. It shouldn't have been greenlit. It's an obnoxious attempt to get more folks clicking/. links for one more ad impression. Shame on you/. editors.
they're measuring productivity growth in all sectors of the economy, specifically they're measuring productivity of retail workers. Think cashiers and stockers.
There's a finite amount of work you can get out of a retail worker. Walmarts added robots to take inventory and Amazon's working them to the bone, but we're hitting the limits there.
Manufacturing & Farm outputs, which is the real measure of productivity increases, are way, way up.
As for unemployment, more lies. They're including "gig economy" workers. e.g. Uber drivers. Those aren't real jobs. Most of those folks are basically mortgaging their cars to get by. Eventually the maintenance will come due and the whole system will collapse. With modern cars we've got about 5 more years. Incidentally, a major recession just happens to be on the way....
old folk probably can't balance on the things (AFAIK no gyroscope) and would either drive or call a cab.
It's a buck to rent plus 15 cents per minute. They can go for about 50 minutes on a charge at around 12 mph (15mph is the max, but that's gonna rise and fall depending on terrain). You could pretty easily spend $8 bucks getting somewhere on one. For a few dollars more I could call a lyft. Maybe even for the same price.
seriously. Yes, age discrimination is technically illegal. You'd have a better chance getting H1-B restrictions enforced than age discrimination rules. There is literally nobody enforcing it. Remember, it's not a law if it's not enforced.
And this is automation. They're not hiring young folk. They're not hiring _anyone_. The jobs are just gone. Poof.
They're automating a ton of back office work that used to be done by people. The jobs aren't going overseas. They don't exist anymore.
This is gonna be "interesting times" as more and more work is automated. It's the #1 buzzword at every tech place I know of. And it's happening faster than new jobs can be created.
Good thing millions of unemployed and unemployable people are never a problem for long term social stability.
it's still tied up in courts. That said, my ISP didn't used to have bandwidth caps and they added them right after Trump got elected. That is not a coincidence.
It can take years for the damage caused by bad policies and ideas to really be felt. That's the problem. It lets you shift the blame. This has been happening since at least Reagan. Folks elect a Republican for a change, the GOP wrecks shit, the Dem comes in and fixes as much as they can, doesn't fix everything in 8 years and then we get another Republican. Each time the cycle repeats a little ground is lost, so that real wages are down 20%.
I understand folks don't like partisan politics, but the reality is that if you're somebody who works for a living (as opposed to somebody who either inherited money or just gets it from the stuff they own via rent seeking) then the GOP is not your friend. Enough folks have realized this that a Democratic Socialist has a real shot at the presidency.
wouldn't that make the scenario you're describing profitable to them? Or if somebody just does what Bain capital and other leveraged buyout firms do and buys up 51% of the stock to again cash out?
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there's very, very few of the "hysterical" left. The right wing media engine amplifies their voices to crazy degrees. If you got the same with the right wing whack jobs you'd be shitting bricks right now. And lets not forget those folks have _real_ power. The Evangelicals get to set all kinds of public policy in exchange for voting for trickle down economics. Anti-abortion and anti-birth control laws are just the tip of that ice berg.
No, it's not two 1984 countries. It's folks fighting for the working class (Bernie, Liz Warren, AOC) and folks fighting to take everything you have and usher in the next dark age. I know that sounds extreme, and it is. These are the same folks that orchestrated the response to 9/11 (not the thing itself mind you) and have gotten us into 8 wars and counting.
Guys like Dick Cheney and the schmuck who runs Haliburton & Blackhawk are your enemies. The billionaire class that's brought wealth inequality to pre-Great depression levels are your opponents. Not the fat chick who runs the woman's study dept at your local community college. She's got no power. Those guys decide who lives and dies.
but I remember seeing a YouTube video where a guy trawled (not trolled) through alt-right forums and found a pretty significant effort to down vote, false flag and shit-post YouTube videos using bots. They make a game of it. The do the same in reverse for channels and things they like, so alt-right videos will often have a huge number of likes.
It's becoming harder to do. YouTube caught it and they've been implementing countermeasures but it went on for years. I wouldn't be surprised if now that their shenanigans don't work on YouTube (these aren't state actors, they're just bored, angry dudes) they're moving on to other sites for trolling and lulz.
just the best on Rotten Tomatoes. RT isn't exactly a movie buff site. It's for popcorn lovers. e.g. pop culture. If you're going to a site called "Rotten Tomatoes" you probably shouldn't expect deep film criticism or elevated craftsmanship....
This is just an excuse for the police to stop you. More of that "broken windows" policing that doesn't stop crime but does let the govt crack down on dissidents.
the Military was just the excuse used to get the wealthy to let themselves be taxed so we could pay for it to be developed.
I've got a crazy idea: how about we have modern civilization without a Military Industrial Complex by just taxing the rich whether they like it or not?
Also, are you suggesting the Army was responsible for the horror that is Microsoft Exchange and Office? Best argument for ending war I've ever heard in my life...
or the dog gets it.
Also, while I'll admit I don't know if Huawei really is a problem or not, I find it hard to believe they couldn't just buy from the same companies the US is getting it's equipment from.
Then again, it's all made in China anyway, so does it matter?
to anybody. Your money spends the same as everyone else's.
That said, movies today suck because they're not made for you. They're made for the Chinese first, then for American women (because they tend to make the purchasing decisions in this country) and for American men last. You don't bring enough dollars to get movies made for exclusively you.
It doesn't help that the 80s were a period before focus groups and international box offices that everybody looks back on wistfully. Yeah, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the original Star Wars were better movies than anything we've got today. The studios pretty much let them get made though. They shrugged off flops. They don't do that anymore. The last real flop was "Mars Needs Moms" and it made national news when it didn't make it's money back.
there's a small, vocal minority of crazies like there is in every group. There's also a small group of grifters, again, like there is in any group.
A powerful media engine is amplifying the voices of both these groups for their own end. As near as I can tell with racism and homophobia winding down folks are looking for a new kind of identity politics to replace The Southern Strategy. Anti-SJWism is that new politic. It's the thing you use to distract the voters from economic issues long enough to get their vote every 2 years.
Doesn't get much clearer than that. He's saying that identity politics hurt a movies performance. It's not hard to read into that either. He means left wing, SJW identity politics. I say that because the entire push against identity politics comes from the right (which is frustrating, given that the right has been using identity politics in the form of the Southern Strategy to win elections for over 70 years).
I'd still like some examples of movies that have alienated markets with identity politics. He listed what are counter examples because, well, it's easy to find those. It's not so hard to find actual movies ruined by identity politics. Even Ghostbusters wasn't political. It was an attempt to hit a broad female audience with female comedy.
Yes, chicks have their own forms of comedy, and no, I don't find it funny, being a dude. Go dig up that Rosie O'donnel buddy cop movie they made a few years back for a good example of it. That wasn't political, that was marketing.
What I'm trying to do is snap folks out of this anti-SJW fever. It's the new Southern Strategy. A new trick for the right wing to use to distract us all from worsening economics. You're not unhappy because you're wages dropped 1.5% every year for the last 20 years. It's those feminazis forcing unnatural gender roles and ruining movies/tv/video games. The videos pushing that narrative on YouTube have millions of views. True, a lot of that is down to the right wing media engine supporting them (Sargon of Aakad, one of the big ones in that field, has had a ton of help and consulting services from various right wing think tanks, he didn't get all those subbies himself, he had help).
If we let this shit go on then it won't matter that racism, homophobia and religious bigotry are winding down. The 1%ers will find another group for us to fight with while they take all the money and run. I'm fucking sick of it. Enough already. Wake. The. Fuck. Up. For the Love of God, Stop falling for the same stupid tricks again and again.
this is just a distraction from economics. They buy you off with phony social issues while rob you blind.
I can't think of one. Last Jedi didn't rage on CIS males, it just kinda sucked. And you just listed a ton of movies that are the opposite of the point you're making.
I suppose you could dig up some independent movies written by/for radical feminists. But they're the left wing equivalent of Atlas Shrugged. Garbage written by and for the faithful that nobody really pays any attention to past high school when they grow out of their "rebellious" phase.
So barring that, what is a single mainstream movie that has even a side message of "straight white male bad"? While you're at it please explain why you feel that way (or link to a post/YouTube video that encapsulates your reasons).
milktoast centrism is what got us Hilary Clinton and in turn Donal Trump. The actual left, as a matter of policy, opposes US military intervention policies.
As for North Korea, it depends on what Kim wants. Trump has already shown with Syria that he's laughably bad at negotiations. There's a story of him "negotiating" with Ed McMahon and, after talking for a few hours walking out with nothing and Ed getting everything. A guy like Kim, who has managed to survive his father's death, is going to run rings around Trump. Just like Putin did.
The left wing of the Democratic party (Berniecrats? Justice Democrats? Call 'em what you like) will do it, and they've been gaining ground since 2015. Trump has, if anything, been a huge boost to them. It showed loud and clear that the old school, Clintonian / Establishment Democrats are a dead end.
The only question right now is will the old money folks manage to crush the left wing. I honestly don't know. It depends on the Millennials. If they show up to vote we win. If they stay home we lose and everything the boomers said about them is proven true. Time will tell.
Female lead, not an ensemble cast. Smaller scale story. Seems to me like they're trying to change up the formula.
That said, yeah, a female lead was bound to bring some bad elements out of the woodwork, and there's an entire anti-SJW outrage machine on YouTube and Twitter that exists to make money from those bad elements and the manufactured controversy they create. Worse, the left wing responds to them instead of just ignoring them until they go away.
Where there's smoke there's fire, especially if some joker with a flame thrower and a case of Molotovs is around and about. Ignore it though and they fires'll go out on their own and the only thing that'll get burnt is that joker's own home.
Data privacy is so far down the list of problems in my life it barely registers.
Maybe it's different in Europe & Canada, but in the US we aren't guaranteed healthcare (and I have friends who struggle daily to get the medicine they need to live), inflation's about 4.5% on necessities (food, healthcare, rent, insurance, tuition, etc) but pay raises top out around 3% if you're very, very lucky, my government's actively involved in 8 wars, working on 9 and 10 and using the debt from those wars as an excuse for why they can't pay for us all to have healthcare. Oh, and my taxes just went up this year.
The rich and powerful have much, much better ways to oppress me than invading my privacy. Any talk of it is just a side show from much, much bigger problems.
I read a bit of that. Apparently people are confusing DC's Captain Marvel (Shazaam) and Marvel's Captain Marvel and think that somehow they made Captain Marvel a women in the Captain Marvel movie....
It reminds me of the folks who were surprised that Emperor Palpatine and Chancellor Palpatine were the same person. I can't even... I mean...
And for the record, Captain Marvel's been a woman since 1982. Not that it even matters. It goes back and forth because the name "Captain Marvel" was picked because, well, Marvel Comics. Jeez, comic book fans these days.
And I pointed this out elsewhere but I'm guessing this is all just fake controversy to get clicks for ad revenue. Both sides of the SJW debate seem to be exploiting it for quick cash.
There's no background, just a link to the page. And as another poster pointed out it's not reviews, it's the "Want to See" rating.
/. links for one more ad impression. Shame on you /. editors.
It's possible somebody is using bots or just plain organizing a movement against the film for some reason or another (I can't imagine what, sure it's a female lead but so what? It's not like Supergirl gets this treatment or that the gender swapped Batman or something).
Without context this looks like more click bait meant to exploit the ongoing SJW debate on the Internet. It shouldn't have been greenlit. It's an obnoxious attempt to get more folks clicking
they're measuring productivity growth in all sectors of the economy, specifically they're measuring productivity of retail workers. Think cashiers and stockers.
There's a finite amount of work you can get out of a retail worker. Walmarts added robots to take inventory and Amazon's working them to the bone, but we're hitting the limits there.
Manufacturing & Farm outputs, which is the real measure of productivity increases, are way, way up.
As for unemployment, more lies. They're including "gig economy" workers. e.g. Uber drivers. Those aren't real jobs. Most of those folks are basically mortgaging their cars to get by. Eventually the maintenance will come due and the whole system will collapse. With modern cars we've got about 5 more years. Incidentally, a major recession just happens to be on the way....
old folk probably can't balance on the things (AFAIK no gyroscope) and would either drive or call a cab.
It's a buck to rent plus 15 cents per minute. They can go for about 50 minutes on a charge at around 12 mph (15mph is the max, but that's gonna rise and fall depending on terrain). You could pretty easily spend $8 bucks getting somewhere on one. For a few dollars more I could call a lyft. Maybe even for the same price.
I think they're just a novelty at this point.
seriously. Yes, age discrimination is technically illegal. You'd have a better chance getting H1-B restrictions enforced than age discrimination rules. There is literally nobody enforcing it. Remember, it's not a law if it's not enforced.
And this is automation. They're not hiring young folk. They're not hiring _anyone_. The jobs are just gone. Poof.
They're automating a ton of back office work that used to be done by people. The jobs aren't going overseas. They don't exist anymore.
This is gonna be "interesting times" as more and more work is automated. It's the #1 buzzword at every tech place I know of. And it's happening faster than new jobs can be created.
Good thing millions of unemployed and unemployable people are never a problem for long term social stability.
it's still tied up in courts. That said, my ISP didn't used to have bandwidth caps and they added them right after Trump got elected. That is not a coincidence.
It can take years for the damage caused by bad policies and ideas to really be felt. That's the problem. It lets you shift the blame. This has been happening since at least Reagan. Folks elect a Republican for a change, the GOP wrecks shit, the Dem comes in and fixes as much as they can, doesn't fix everything in 8 years and then we get another Republican. Each time the cycle repeats a little ground is lost, so that real wages are down 20%.
I understand folks don't like partisan politics, but the reality is that if you're somebody who works for a living (as opposed to somebody who either inherited money or just gets it from the stuff they own via rent seeking) then the GOP is not your friend. Enough folks have realized this that a Democratic Socialist has a real shot at the presidency.
I remember because my dad just barely squeaked in a bankruptcy (medical debt from when his mom was sick).
about police militarization.
One of the consequences of Getting "Tough on Crime" nobody talks about.
wouldn't that make the scenario you're describing profitable to them? Or if somebody just does what Bain capital and other leveraged buyout firms do and buys up 51% of the stock to again cash out?