It's funny because I've seen more steamy romance novels at my public library than I can count, yet somehow I've never found so much as a Playboy there.
Change your name to something Hispanic, ditch your Social Security card and try to pass yourself off as an illegal alien. It's worth a shot.
It's particularly ironic because much of Disney's success came from adapting works in the public domain, like fairy tales.
Roald Dahl has been dead for nearly 33 years. What moral right do the owners of his work have to create a monopoly on it? What a joke current copyright law is.
Sometimes, conservatives can successfully co-opt leftist language and use it against them, though. Woke used to be their word.
Wow. That's insane. I've paid five bucks for premium chocolate, and even then I've gotten a bar that was more than six ounces for my money.
Also, I did the math on Jeremy's Chocolate. Even if you go with the bulk option, buying a 20-pack for $80, it's still $4 per 1.5 oz bar.
I bet Maoris know what a woman is!
Agreed. Another public figure that I liked, Penn Jillette, went full-TDS, leftist, COVID-nutter after Trump got elected. His daughter is transgender now, too. Penn constantly flagellates himself over not always getting "his" pronouns correct. It's pathetic.
On one hand, Richard Dawkins said that Christianity is probably a bulwark against something worse; on the other, he went all-in on the COVID idiocy. He's your run-of-the mill useful idiot, with brief flashes of insight. I'd put him at a lower level of intellectual honesty than Christopher Hitchens (though Hitch was far from a paragon of intellectual virtue), but at least Dawkins scores higher than the totally amoral Sam Harris.
It's strange to think that I admired all of these men less than ten years ago.
Good. Doctors mutilating the bodies of the mentally ill is not medicine. Bring back the Hippocratic Oath.
I remember that. Looking back, what happened to Cracked was an eerie barometer of what was to come in broader society. It still feels weird that one of the main players in destroying that site was a white guy LARPing as an asian (David Wong).
Hopefully this poor girl's mental state will improve, now that she's being removed from the source of the problem.
Tbf, Jesus also said to love your enemies. That doesn't mean abandon your moral principles, but it is important to throw out there.
I would make an allowance if she was Hispanic, because hyphenating names goes back centuries there. But of course, neither of her last names is Hispanic.
You're right. The question is, what do we do? How can we use their tactical retreat to our advantage? Can we use them to weaken their competitors who are still pro-ESG?
I'm not asking these questions rhetorically; I'm really interested if there's something that we can gain from this in the culture war. Naturally, we must be ever-vigilant regardless of whatever action (or inaction) we take.
First of all, I completely agree with both points. I just wanted to comment on this one in particular:
This subversion will continue to be a problem, if not by Disney then by another beast. A Disney Co. without Walt Disney is an empty shell and will naturally become a vehicle for whatever more motivated cause can seize it.
Disney co. had a period of time when they did amazingly without Walt. The Disney Rennaissance of the late 80s into the late 90s produced several animated masterpieces that were worthy of the name. Clearly whoever was the creative steward at the time, cared about Disney's legacy. Star Trek had a similar phenomenon with Rick Berman carrying on Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon's legacies.
Ultimately though, I don't think that either of those situations will repeat. Both media brands got extremely lucky. I don' think that Disney (or Star Trek) for that matter are ultimately salvageable. I think that creative people need to take inspiration from what was good about them, and make wholly originally brands.
Don't forget that books were only burned in Fahrenheit 451 because they were deemed offensive, and people demanded them to outlawed.
Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.
Kudos to the Post Millennial for including trans teens in the "body image/mental disorder" camp. Because being transgender is really the ultimate body image disorder.
It truly is a monstrous thing to say, as if saving some money justified murder. He clearly doesn't value human life. Not a good look for a politician. Perhaps worse of all, he didn't even realize how badly saying that would be received. That kind of idiocy would put him pretty early in the eugenics line he suggests.
That's because the notion that every human has inherent value is fundamentally a Christian notion. It was not a feature of even the greatest civilizations pre-Christianity. In fact, the pagan Romans mocked Christians relentlessly for it, calling Christianity "the religion of women and the poor."
As our society rejects Christianity more and more, it is inevitable that more of this will pop up. You cannot destroy the foundations of a house, and expect it to stay standing. Too many people ignore the lessons of history and take the benefits of our civilization for granted. The atrocities of the twentieth century were the result of trying to create "new" and "rational" systems of morality. The same thing happened during the 18th century French Revolution, as well.
I'm proud to say that I never hate-watch these woke shitfests themselves, though I will confess to sometimes watching Youtubers who review said shitfests, (Critical Drinker, Disparu, Little Platoon, RLM, etc.) But even that is getting tiresome. I just don't have the mental energy or even curiosity to see what they'll do next. Wokeness, even the vilest subversions of beloved art, is boring.
*Henry Cavill in drag with the CGI'd away mustache from Justice League
You're absolutely right. Orwell also put it well.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
and even more relevant to the 2+2=5 point,
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
IIRC, surgical masks scored in between those two color masks.
Jacob, keep your shirt on!