Exactly. The best example of this is Aladdin. Another unnecessary live action remake from Disney that nobody really cared about and no one cares to really remember either.

But it kept its mouth shut all around, didn't get pissy about the Will Smith memes, and raked in a solid billion dollars from people. Granted, having been forced to see it, that was a decent movie on its own without much politics, though nothing special enough to care about, while Snow White here seems to fail to even be that and constantly forces Woke politics upon you.

Well that seemed to be how much she was getting these other countries in tax money through her contracts, not the amount she herself was taking home.

I have no doubt she was making a number high enough that it would make me rage if I knew it, however.

I am sorry that you seem to have lost so much, my friend. You seem to have gone through much more than most in your journey from one side to another and that does speak to the strength of your convictions.

She lined up three contracts for 2025, totaling about $63,000, funded by USAID ... to promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and root out corruption.

You could barely start a regular ass business for that much money. That's barely enough to hire a single fulltime worker.

This single quote alone tells you her entire business was in laundering money or doing some other form of nonsense to make it move hands in ways it wasn't supposed to, because there is literally nothing you could do about any of those problems, let alone all three, for such a pittance of money (assuming it was equally split to 21k$ across the contracts).

I get genuine glee in these constant sob stories getting to watch these people languish in misery.

I think she alone holds all of the blame for why this movie is doing so badly that even the normal defenders can't fully deny it, while Little Mermaid, while controversial pre-release, was able to come out and quietly disappear with a razor thin profit.

Kamiya isn't someone with any consistency other than "say whatever I think in this exact moment, block literally anyone who says otherwise."

He has been like that for as long as he has been on Twitter and basically every year he pisses off one side or both by doing so.

That's why once KIA2 was big enough to have discussions I peaced out of KIA1 forever. Some of the most unaware, maliciously ignorant liberal losers possible.

I don't keep up with him too directly, but everytime you look him up he is either missing on a bender, posting nonsense high as fuck, or locked up in some form of institution.

The man is quite broken and a good look into why skaters/punks should die young for their own good. And I mean that in the least malicious way possible.

Nigga I been attacking you personally for weeks. Its fun, you get very angry about it, and its just an overall great time.

To be fair, having unfortunately been shown quotes from the book, this is well beyond just gross erotica and is basically a book about wife husbandry, grooming and a man having sexual desire for a toddler.

Its closer than any amount of anime will ever be to a possibly damaging piece of fiction, because its trying to eroticize a man grooming a child from the age of 3 with purely sexual intents. So if anyone is in favor of making things like lolicon or the like illegal for XYZ reason, this is absolutely in the wheelhouse of fulfilling every negative thing they claim that does.

And considering Australia is in favor of that, this is almost a good thing of them trying to evenly and consistently apply their position, even arresting women for it.

Still awful, still don't support it myself.

Bam's a huge fuckup and is only just skating by not being in jail constantly. Its well beyond cancelling and into legitimate legal and safety problems. They literally cut him from the Jackass reunion thing a few years ago because of it, and those were his closest "friends."

So I'm sure to most of the suits in charge he was bad optics and controversy they didn't want, but Tony is a shockingly nice guy and probably doesn't care about any of that. This series wouldn't be where it was without both of them, skating as a whole might not be, so to Tony he deserved his place.

Its one of those situations where both sides are probably in the right depending on your beliefs.

Says the guy who made a whole post seething about his "otaku cred being called into question."

You can act all cool and powerful, but that little show proved how delicate your ego is, my nigga.

That's a great way to look at the world.

I was too naive and trusting once so I just blindly believed what I was told until it was way too late and the world was on fucking fire, but then I woke up so bygones are bygones right bro?! You'd have done the same as me!

At least you kept that classic Leftie projection and love to dodge accountability for helping get us in this hell we live in. So its only kinda "former," huh?

Honestly, it was some variation of faggot, gayboy, and other loving terms of endearment boys that age use.

Video games are hugely made in America, so I can forgive people in other countries for caring about whatever is going on around them even if they live on the otherside of the globe with no other horse in the race.

But I don't even remember IMC actually being much of a gamer to begin with, he seemed to be in it entirely for politics which circles back to exactly what you said.

He was part of a group of literal Neo-Nazis online way back, then tried to "repent" by going hard into SJWs before seeing that GG had way more grift potential so he flipped to "our side" during GG's heyday.

So he never had any side or loyalty, just grift.

What's funny is that all of that was soft sells, useful idiots being used as the foot in the door and thinking they were the final solution.

It was obvious even at the time that all of that was just stepping stones to bigger things, and its why guys like me (retards that were losing the culture war as it was back then) don't like any "former Leftists" that try to talk right now.

What's funny is Anita is nothing special other than being radically successful well beyond what even she likely expected.

She came at the tail end of the trend, but it was still a trend with history of feminists faking bullying online to prop up their little brand and riding it to decent little careers in being professional activists online. There were bunches of them every year and its a reason why the pre-GG set up involves a lot of Feminist versus MRA battles. The feminists won most of the time because Progressive Leftism was at its upswing and the Progressive Stack/Intersectionality hadn't thrown White Woman Greivances into the bottom of the totem pole yet.

Anita got used by the bigger and more coordinated elites pulling the strings to be the "face" of their movement, and that propelled her into UN level power that she had no capabilities nor talent to keep. That's why she disappeared hard the moment JoshMcIntosh stopped propping her up and the elites moved to TDS type things instead. She was always a puppet.

So they took a common little internet fad at the time that women used to grow their channels, and turned it into a major cornerstone of why the Left is literally falling apart right now.

Hey now, he gets mad if you say that. By his own admission he does all original research for his posts and doesn't repost them from anywhere!

The whole "not being marked as deceased" thing really throws a wrench into the excuse given for this prior of "they leave it up so that any files that link to this aren't left dead later." Because you could do that easily and still mark them as dead to prevent any fraud from happening.

But since they didn't do even that basic amount of bookkeeping work, that means there was absolutely a large amount of fraud happening and they just couldn't care enough to take 2 seconds of work to prevent it.

When you think you have no true competition, you begin to consider yourself the one in charge instead of the consumer. Which means you can treat them as little paypigs for your own desires.

Look at the fed employees you've ever dealt with. They literally do not care about you or your life, because they know they have all the power over you and you will dance for them no matter how you are treated. Its why they throw such fits about Space X or private schools, it introduces competition into a market they considered "owned."

Its also why they are throwing every thing they can at Asian media to try and get it literally illegalized, because it means consumers can have choice and then choose not to dance and that's life ruining for them.

Same with AI, which should always be subpar compared to a real deal version because, memes aside, it lacks soul and we can all tell. But they've all made themselves so miserable to work with and unlikeable that people will take that little uncanny valley happily.

They were aware, that's why they hilariously rewrote "fairest" to be about economic policies instead of looks.

Honestly, I like Papillion. He is a fully developed character with a legitimate arc, and nobody pretends he is anything but an uncomfortable freak regardless of it they ally with him. And he is really funny, instead of being some political statement.

If more flamboyant characters were written on his level, they might not be so fucking awful everytime.

Humans are usually 1:1 wingspan to height, so you better add arm lengthening surgery to that too.

People have a lot of instinctual noticing when judging people that they can't consciously think about. Like nobody really thinks about symmetry when talking about hot chicks, but we all notice it and it bothers us if it isn't right. Even a slight variation in that proportion will set off those bells in people's head.

Its why there is that certain short phase of teenager mid puberty that is so off putting. When they have that gangly look about them because their body isn't all growing in at the same rate.

I know the surgery exists, and I can believe guys are stupid enough to get it. What I call doubt on is that someone would just not notice you had it because it just worked so well that you just effortlessly pass as a naturally taller guy.

All of us who watched the original Higurashi figured out what the fuck "-chama" was from basic context clues and that should be the barest expectation of anyone watching foreign media.

Heck I remember when Persona 3 was still this sleeper cult classic in the making and the fact that the English dub kept all the honorifics in was considered a huge plus in its favor.