I've only started caring when they've started making everything about race.
You're not the only one. My take on the world used to be "We're all just human beings on a ball of mud that's hurtling through the cosmos. We should treat everyone like they're your brother/sister". I didn't care if someone was black, white, yellow, red, or pink with purple polkadots. I didn't care if they were straight, gay, or bi, because what they did in their own bedroom is their business.
Now? Now that they've made skin color, sexual orientation, and ability (or lack thereof) the sole focus of how they value someone? As soon as someone makes it known that's all they care about, I shut down and just judge them as being an IdPol NPC idiot. Unfortunately, you can't rationalize with zealots, and they're the foot soldiers in the cult that is wokeism.
Trying to effect an arrest with 2 people surrounded by 20 is a sketchy proposition.
I've been saying for years that they need to rig up the police vehicles that have the potential to be used in urban areas (where they might be surrounded) with a full-frame taser rig, similar to what one might do with an electric fence. Got a bunch of miscreants attempting to stop the vehicle by laying hands on it? Discharge that sucker and I guarantee you they'll let go of it and back the hell off, pronto.
I'm also all for rigging them up with on-board tear-gas deployment and any other number of anti-riot capabilities that can be set up on a standard car.
the worst of these blue hell holes like NYC or Chicago generally don't let you have guns
Legally, anyway. And since we all know that criminals, by definition, give zero fucks about the law, that leaves them with an unarmed populace that is ripe for the picking. As Chris Rock said years ago, "Never go to clubs with metal detectors. Sure it feels safe inside. But what about all those niggas waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one." Same thing applies to cities with blanket gun bans. Better to get the hell out of dodge so you can arm up and protect yourself.
More like their guerrillas (no ape pun intended). Useful idiots like the attacker mentioned aren't trained enough to be considered paramilitary.
Seth talking out of both sides of his mouth is to be expected. Sure, comedy evolves with the times, but cancel culture is killing any and all freedom of expression in every realm. Comedy is supposed to be edgy, subversive, and thought-provoking when done correctly. It is also supposed to be goofy, stupid, and cathartic at the same time. It can't be any of those if the comedians are afraid to speak their minds, and people like Rogen don't get that the chilling effect cancel culture has on speech will ruin it for everyone.
You could always follow that up with "Build a liberal a fire and they'll be warm for the day. Set a liberal on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life."
"Too Campy"? Hell, the whole show was originally as campy as the old Adam West Batman series. It's supposed to be campy as fuck.
What it shouldn't be, however, is a woke-filled hate-fest that retcons the shit out of the cartoon and stomps all over the source material. The pilot they filmed didn't get pulled because it was "too campy" - it got pulled because it took a massive, steaming shit on the girls and professor and tried to go hardcore with the ham-fisted wokeness, which didn't fly with the fans. They're not going back to the drawing board to remove the camp, they're going back to try and make the wokeness more subtle.
Out of the whole cast, the only one that actually needs "pronoun'd" is Desire, because they're supposed to be the embodiment of both male and female desire and as such they're both male and female at the same time.
The rest of that shit? Technically, "Johanna Constantine" is a legit character in the comic books (which was originally created as a nod to John), but she's not supposed to be the Ur-Hellblazer like they're making her out to be. Brace yourself for the "but everyone perceives the Endless as something different" argument when it comes to the race-lifted Death. Also, it makes me wonder how they're going to tiptoe around the whole "Rose gets pregnant by Jack" storyline, or the fact that Rose being black doesn't really fit into the timeline of her story arc.
Either way, it's a woke-fest shit-show, and yet another reason why I'm thinking about dropping Netflix after having an account for the better part of 14 years.
NGL, first shot reminds me of Ryan Reynolds, second shot looks like some round-faced fat kid. Guess there must be plenty of food to go around in the post-apocalypse.
Re-file under "You don't fucking say?" If you're going into something planning to do a trilogy, you'd damn well better know what the endgame is for the whole arc before you start plotting book one of the series. Even if you're planning on "subverting expectations" from prior work, you still need to know what the final chapter of the whole thing looks like so you can maintain internal consistency in the narrative across multiple sections of the story. Only a hack goes into trying to build a story without having some idea of where it's going to go, because otherwise you end up with a meandering, meaningless storyline that ends up being less than fulfilling for the reader/viewer.
If KK hadn't thrown the baby out with the bathwater on the EU, and Disney had just sucked it up and paid the writers the royalties like they should have, they could have had the perfect followup trilogies from Zahn's books. Granted, the would have either had to have made them animated (since the original crew had long since out-aged the time frame of the books) or re-cast the parts with a younger set of actors, but the Thrawn series pretty much IS the sequel in most fan's minds.
They're trying to pull that shit in downstate Illinois, too. Some businesses have started slapping up signs that vaxxed people can come in without a mask, but non-vaxxed still have to mask up. Like any sort of virus is going to go "Oh no, not a piece of cloth!" and run away. Hell, I thought the whole point of people being vaccinated was that they'd be immune and as such they wouldn't be walking around spreading the virus to everyone? If that's the case then why should anyone be wearing masks? If a critical mass of everyone else is vaxxed then the non-inoculated should have nothing to worry about, right?
I'd say they're equally insidious.
Faking the crime wastes public resources in chasing down a ghost while the Pee-Oh-See gets to have their 15 minutes of fame with all of the wokies cheering them on and trying to gin up support against the ebil wypipo. Taking something innocuous and attempting to crime-ify it is an attempt at a shift of the Overton Window, with the wokies trying to control the narrative and reframe the discourse. They literally try to take anything and everything they can and turn it into a hate crime or an attack on them and their pet causes so they can claim the moral high ground and sneer down their noses at anyone who tries to point out the bullshit of the claim (and then double down if they can't justify the bullshit, or find some way to blame the accuser of something unrelated so they can shift the attention away from their fuck-up).
The value in the purchase is definitely the back catalog. Amazon now owns the entirety of MGM's movies, meaning anyone who wants to have them on their streaming service (Netflix, Hulu, et al) now has to cut a deal with Amazon for licensing. Even if they do cut a deal, Amazon still has those movies as yet another draw for Prime Video fodder, or to potentially stick on IMDBtv to be ad-supported.
Or, hear me out on this one, we build three huge ark ships. We put all of them on ark ship B, and we tell them it has autopilot. Then we launch it towards some unknown sector of space, preferably directly at a star, so we don't end up screwing up the colonization of another planet, like the Golgafrincham species did...
Sadly, I could see them doing that, but she'd also have to "out-Indy" Indy. She'd prove to be better at archaeology, physicality, and one-liners by showing up his old ass at every turn, and by the end of the movie he'd either turn over the hat and whip to her, or at some point during the film he straight-up dies and she takes them up herself to finish out the adventure. Wouldn't put it past Woke Hollywood to do so, considering how much they cocked-up the sequel trilogy for Star Wars.
They tried to pass the torch in the last one, but having Shia as a replacement wasn't something anyone wanted. How much you want to bet that he'll now have an illegitimate daughter pop up out of the woodwork in this installment, so he can pass the whip on to her instead?
Not necessarily "automatically" - if a college graduate enlists in the Army they can be accelerated to Specialist (E-4) following boot camp if their education and training warrants that degree of promotion in comparison to their chosen MOS. Some may only be promoted to E-2 or E-3 depending on the number of credit hours they completed. If they have a Bachelors degree or higher they can put in for OCS to potentially be promoted to O-1. She wouldn't have come out of boot as a Corporal, unless things have changed since I last had a look over enlistment advancement rules (I have a nephew that was interested in enlisting).
Dude may have come full circle, but that's only because he sees the means of his livelihood at risk. Cancel culture can fuck over the dude who once did the "Niggas vs. Black People" routine just as hard as it does everyone else.
Damn, and here I thought they'd be a self-solving problem. After I read that those nitwits were trying to get land in the scrubland areas of Colorado that were at high elevation, I figured they wouldn't be an issue any longer after the first winter, because the likelihood of only one or two surviving that would have been pretty high.
Check out In The Heat Of The Night for a good look at Sidney Poitier's acting chops. If there was a black dude that could have played Bond back in the '70s, he would have been the go-to choice.
Crabs in a bucket, right there. "Keepin' it real" may maintain 'hood cred for them, but it won't get them respect from their neighbors in the nearby McMansions when they're bumping loud music and letting their crew party until daybreak. Like I stated in another post, these types are the thugs that demand respect and maintain it through coercion and/or fear, rather than commanding respect through their actions.
I honestly think she's just waiting until the queen steps down, because she knows that if she tries to cut and run before then QEII will more than readily send the royal equivalent of a tactical nuke after her for the shit she's pulled on the family. Charles, OTOH, is probably too milquetoast to do anything about it, and I'm not sure where William would stand on it but he'd probably be more than willing to welcome his sad sack brother back into the family if the excess baggage wasn't in the picture.
As the line from Vox Day's book goes, "SJWs always double down" - that's exactly what they're doing. They don't care that Carl Manvers, Captain Falcon, and FemThor failed miserably in the comics, they're going to keep forcing them down the throats of the fans and continue to blame the failures on the ebil muhsoggynist -istphobes that are part of the fandom and need to be removed so they can enjoy their story in a safe space.
I think I threw up in my mouth a little while writing that...
I heard a line on a TV show a while back: "You're the type of guy who demands respect instead of commanding respect" (or something to that effect). That's what I think of whenever I see one of the nu-riche tech entrepreneurs who is all like "naw, bro, I got them fat stacks, yo" and refuses to even approach something like respectable business attire. They're not someone who is worth taking money from. They're just a thug who got lucky and doesn't realize that their fame and fortune can turn around and disappear just as quickly as it came to them.
As shitty as ISPs are, record labels and other IP holders are even worse. This is another one of those lawsuits like Apple v. Epic Games, where I wish both parties could lose at the same time.