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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but the Rock once made a profit off a movie based on the video game Rampage. Some movies don’t require good acting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This article almost feels like gaslighting.

  Disney has put out a ton of content that follows the same power. It generally can be summarized as "put out overpriced mediocre garbage, hamfist some culture war stuff in there, and then imply anyone who doesn’t like it is some sort of deplorable.

  This movie:

  • Had a budget of at least 270 million, meaning that it would have to make like 700 million to be considered a success
  • Looks mediocre as all hell regardless
  • The Dwarves are CGI monstrosities that feel more at home in a horror movie. This is because Disney kept pivoting to dumber decisions based off petty internet drama.
  • The decision to cast a Latina in a movie where the actress is explicitly white is on some level a deliberate decision to start culture war drama. Disney has had multiple WoC as princesses for over twenty years now, so it’s not like they didn’t have other movies they could have adapted
  • They made Zegler look a lot less attractive than she is IRL via poor wardrobe choices, while managing to capture Gadot’s beauty.
  • Israel aside, I have zero idea why Gadot is cast in this. She’s like the female version of the rock in that she’s only really good in stupid action movies that take absolutely minimal acting abilities
  • I understand Lemmy is super pro-Palestinian. However the general viewing public is a lot more divided, and many people simply don’t want modern politics in a movie they take their small children too. This is the kind of shit you say at a premier of a small budget film, not something that has to gross hundreds of millions of dollars
  • Zegler also harassed Gadot on set, despite the fact that she was trying very hard to not bring politics into the workplace. Again I understand Lemmy might think that’s amazing, but most working people recognize that as the kind of shit they put in an HR training video
  • Zegler also seemed to go out of her way to insult hardcore fans of the show. This is especially egregious because hardcore fans are the type of people to see an IP no matter how bad this is.
  • Unlike Joker where you can just dodge criticism by calling fans of the original incels, hardcore fans of Snow White tend to be gay men and white women. The end result was a lot of the outrage came in the form of gossip influencers throwing shade, which the Disney PR machine was not prepared to counter.

  The most ridiculous part of this is the trailer for Lilo and Stich, a movie that is a million times more minority forward than the Snow White remake, dropped to largely positive reception. 2024 is going to be simultaneous “Snow White failed because of bigotry” and a movie centered around two woman of color, and unconventional definition of family, and Hawaiian culture prints money hand over fist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it wouldn’t have been allowed back then except for the fact that an openly gay man who could pass as straight was still a novel and funny idea.

  As a sidenote Neil Patrick Harris is a million times worse in Harold and Kumar, but that somehow aged better on account of everything in those movies being comically offensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. However if you’re the type of person to ask in this question, you should be invested in a target date fund. As part of the way they attempt to hedge for retirement, the include exposure to international funds and bonds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How I met your mother aged extremely poorly. The ending rightfully gets a lot of flak, but the characters are just massive toxic assholes in a way that isn’t really funny.

  Also I’m like 90 percent some of the ways Barney convinced women to sleep with him could be classified as rape. I get the joke that Neil Patrick Harris was gay, but it’s still uncomfortable to watch. Oddly enough I don’t get the same feeling when I was Neil in Harold and Kumar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyundai and Kia always has something out of the ordinary happen. My model was an ICE with two major flaws: one meant that the engine was liable to catastrophically fail and catch on fire at around 90k miles, and the other made it so stealing them was literally child’s play.

  Hyundais just aren’t good cars. They cut corners to the max, and when shit goes south just try to gaslight everyone involved. I’m highly skeptical that their EVs are high quality, because their ICE models were shitboxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony here is that Hyundai models built 2019 - 2023 have an issue where they’ll spontaneously combust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks continues to be terrible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s absolutely no way he’s adding enough value compared to Joe MBA to justify that compensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that, but I’m like 95 percent sure that was a different faction of conservatives. The current porn bans are being spearheaded by evangelical Christians, while ThotAudit was originally a 4Chan thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No because there are a million different websites that just don’t follow these rules. All this does is dissuade people who are both clueless about where to find porn and not particularly determined.

  It also won’t make a difference when basically every major social media website is a softcore porn website. I feel like conservatives opened their crusade by targeting thotfluencers they would have had a lot of momentum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that you don’t know the first thing about American politics, and are wholly unqualified to make any comments about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you honestly think a military junta would be more representative of the American people than Trump, then I don’t know what to tell you.

  Also our president is not elected via majority (or plurality) vote. This has been one of the major complaints about the American political system since 2000, so I gotta wonder how much you’re paying attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re basically describing the Riechstag fire decree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your first question is pretty philosophical. All I can say, is that most representative governments place a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.

  A military takeover based on the desires of a minority of citizens would violate that principal. I don’t think any reasonable person can call it saving democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be clear, your solution to saving democracy would be for the military to usurp a president who received the majority of the vote less than six months ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions North Korea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also why the US highway system was built, btw. The president who championed it, Eisenhower, was the commander of US allied forces during WW2. While there were other benefits, his goal was to be able to quickly transport troops in the event of a Soviet invasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unmatched Southern military genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stonewall Jackson would never.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darn it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone’s lives including their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean for all we know they might and just choose not to federate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Par for the course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Ironically he also went on a bit of a rant about how the traditional media outlets whittle down interviews to the most salacious bits, and that’s part of the reason the American public is slowly losing trust in them.

  While the reason for him saying this is to discredit his previous perception as robotic, he’s also not wrong. All the articles I read “highlighting” the interview hyper focused on a few lines, and in doing so left and incomplete or dishonest impression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Par for the course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I watched the entire three hour interview.

  Technically speaking, Zuckerberg emphasizes the need for balance. He on multiple times either emphasizes that both men and women should feel comfortable in corporate environments, and explicitly says something like “there has to be a balance” on at least two occasions.

  The issue is that other parts of the interview don’t really match that idea of balance. Zuckerberg and Rogan spent like a third of the entire interview talking about bro culture stuff. I’m not even talking about “bro culture in the context of corporate America”. Rogan spends like a full ten minutes lecturing Zuckerberg on the proper way to bow hunt.

  Overall I think the media is focusing outrage bait while ignoring the serious implications of the interview. Zuckerberg is clearly lobbying the Trump administration to prevent meta and other US tech companies from being subject to EU regulatory security. It has serious implications both as a consumer and in terms of geopolitics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Par for the course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re on a website where people come out of the woodwork to defend “ethical polyamory” and the biggest cuck you can think of is a CEO trying to curry political favor with the current US president?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose there is some level of poverty I would consider becoming a sex worker for, but it would be an absolute last resort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Reddit Army is Here⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate to break it to you but reddit isn’t dead.

  I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it’s a lot worse than it used to be. It’s way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There’s also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.

  However in some ways it’s genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It’s also slightly less of an echo chamber.

  I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.

  The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.

  Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There’s very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So there are actually levels to antivaxxers. The granola nuts that think putting anything into your body is a sin are actually the extreme minority or antivaxxers these days.

  The average antivaxxer is someone who has extremely little faith in both big pharma and the government as a whole. They usually come from a community that has been screwed over by both. In the US, this translates to older first generation immigrants, the African American community, and low income white people in areas that were hit hard by the opoid crisis.

  A lot of these people are cool with the traditional flu vaccine, because it’s been around forever. The covid vaccines on the other hand were met with skepticism, on account of it being “untested”. In their eyes FDA testing and positive media coverage don’t mean anything, because in their eyes both groups have lied to their faces in the past.

  A lot of the antivaxxer discourse during covid frustrated me. While there were people who were legitimately just idiots, there were a lot of communities who had fears rooted in genuine trauma and frustration. Calling them a bunch of idiotic death cultists and then celebrating on social media when one of them died just resulted in those communities distrusting the system further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point you’re clearly intentionally more representing what I’m saying so you don’t have to question your own beliefs in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you’re being disrespectful of my viewpoints, and intentionally being obstinate in refusing to understand them.

  I am mad about toxic behavior that is justified by liberal rhetoric. It is more egregious when it comes to sexism, but that is not the only issue. These behaviors are upsetting to watch, and it is frustrating to live in an environment where this is not only justified but portrayed as moral.

  This post is about the real world. As in, in person social interactions. That limits your options, and means you have to on some tolerate things that frustrate you or become a hermit.

  I live in a city of moderate liberals. I am a nerdy college educated millennial. While I have made a choice to avoid the worst of it after witnessing a lot of things that just crossed the line for me, on some level I simply have to live with elements of liberal culture that I find toxic.

  I have no idea where you live that you can find people that perfectly match your political/moral philosophy in such numbers where it’s possible to meet people and strike up friendships, but let me assure you that isn’t how it works where I live.

  A lot of my friends are good people overall, but do or believe at least one thing that frustrates me. I consider that part of life. However there’s some line I have to draw. In my experience the type of people who are extremely vocal about being liberal and how morally awful conservatives behave in really shitty ways, but get away with it by leveraging progressive rhetoric.

  I have made a decision that on some level that rhetoric is bullshit, and to not involve myself with people who do things that I think are beyond the pale regardless of their justification. That by definition means rejecting or displaying extreme skepticism in regards to some parts of liberal culture. Hence the “more conservative”. You seem hung up on the words conservative, so you can use the term “less liberal” if it makes you feel better. I am friends with a grand total of person who defines themselves as conservative in absolute terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re saying makes sense in theory, but I don’t think it makes sense in practice. The word that has defined politics since the mid 2010s is intersectionalism. There simply isn’t any sort of genuine political lane for, say, a socialist who hates #girlboss culture. I’ve actually watched the video you sent me and while I appreciate it, the opinion is rather niche. There isn’t really a corresponding political faction or identity to really latch on to.

  I also personally haven’t experienced this lack of intersectionalism when I “touched grass”. In general there is such a tight coupling of all things political to the point where you can do things like guess someone’s opinion on the middle east by how they feel about bat roosts in suburban areas. To be fair, that has faded significantly since immediately post covid. However, it’s still strongly present. There simply aren’t people I meet in real life who espouse those kind of unique political values.

  At the end of the day, I’m sort of in a rut. I can avoid certain people who behave in what I define as a toxic manner, but I can’t really avoid all of this toxicity in the context of modern society. Identity politics coding is everywhere, and on some level I need to “pick a side”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re coming from, but I think you misread my original post. I said more conservative.

  Pretend the temperature is 0 degrees outside. The next week, it is thirty degrees warmer. Someone would be 100 percent correct in saying that it’s much warmer today than yesterday. However it would still be objectively cold.

  That is what I am saying. I’m not conservative, but I am more conservative. I don’t see myself belonging to either group.

  I also live in a liberal area of the country. I don’t really have to worry about running into someone who says homosexuality is a sin or a woman who isn’t white and pure on her wedding day is a whore. On the other hand I do run into women blatantly hate men or will leverage tolerance rhetoric to gaslight and cheat on their partners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally touches grass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look Trump is a uniquely awful candidate, but why should I be associated with liberals? I’m a Jewish man. In liberal culture sexism towards men is normalized and antisemitism is normalized.

  There’s nothing stopping me from just coming up with my own philosophy while treating both liberal and conservative culture with skepticism. While right now that’s gonna be more on the liberal side, I don’t see why I should associate myself with people who normalize toxic behavior towards people of my religion/gender. That’s basically asking to be next on the target list.

  I always bring up the ethical non monogamy because it’s the most objectively insane thing. It’s so obviously toxic and unfair. It would soon obviously be considered emotional abuse if genders were reversed. Yet the more liberal someone is, the more they’ll suggest I’m sexist for having an issue with that behavior.