How about the death threats she was responsible for via the Family America Project? Or when she wrote fake news stories about conspiracy theories with evidence she fabricated?
I’m not happy the face eating leopards are powerful enough to ruin her life, but I’m not going to go out of my way to protect her from the monsters she helped create.
Agree 100%. It’s naked hypocrisy.
So is Matthew Lillard. The whole thing feels oddly personal. Like if he had said “I didn’t like Dano in There Will Be Blood” you could understand that’s just a professional opinion. Maybe he thought someone else could have done better. But making it insulting undercuts his credibility as an impartial critic.
Maybe this time we try literally any cohesive attack strategy? Like instead of just silently gesturing broadly at everything, hoping voters will be inherently riled up about the audacity of conservative fascism.
You just solved a 20 year old mystery that I didn’t even realize I was curious about. It was super weird, because these were relatively progressive, educated adults, and the audacity of the bigotry just sort of left me confused. This helps me understand a little bit better.
We should use every tool at our disposal. We should be irrationally unyielding and exhaustive in our efforts for progress. Leave no avenue untapped.
Everything
I don’t know.
It was in a jam
Push it down a hill.
I’m so fucking tired of the cynical voice in my head being right all the time. I read this headline and immediately thought of Arthur Dent face down in the mud in front of a bulldozer.
My European cousins tried to explain to me that it was weird how no Jewish people died in the twin towers on 9/11, like they had all been warned. I had to patiently explain that I had friends who died in 9/11, some were Jewish, and that whatever his source was, it was likely nazi propaganda, and extremely disrespectful to repeat obvious bullshit.
On the one hand, yeah maybe he was operating as a propaganda agent for Iran. But they deleted his whole account, his email, his drive contents, and every video he uploaded. His life’s work nuked from orbit.
You can’t swing a dead cat on YouTube without hitting 1200 different propaganda agents working for various political wings. When was the last time Google obliterated a joirnalist from Newsmax or Xinhua?
Criticism is fine, when you’re talking about someone’s work and how to improve it. Calling someone “weak” and “the worst actor in the SAG” is deeply personal and insulting.
Revealing a personal bias in a professional setting belies unprofessional attitudes and prejudices. Tarantino isn’t a critic, he’s a filmmaker and an influential voice in the industry. Taking pot shots at a couple of B-list character actors is hurtful on a personal level, and wantonly destructive on a professional level. The power dynamic between producers and actors is massively unbalanced. It would be like the CEO where you work talking shit on LinkedIn about project managers at a rival company. If he’s saying this publicly, what is he saying behind the scenes? Is he trashing actors to casting directors to influence their careers?
He has every right to say “I don’t want these people in my movies.” It would also be professional to say “I did not like this specific performance for these specific reasons.” It’s extremely unprofessional to say “I hate these people because of who they are and anyone working with them is on my shit-list.”
He also took some totally unnecessary shots at Paul Dano, saying he was the worst actor in the SAG. That’s a bizarrely personal attack out of nowhere on a guy you never worked with.
The mask is off.
Faith is a big word with many different meanings. Faith in people means trust, but it’s not the same as a faith in god. Putting your faith in a person is making yourself vulnerable to be hurt by them. Putting your faith in god is to abdicate your personal responsibility in favor of an ideology attributed by religious leaders to imaginary friends.
My go-to is the biblical definition, which says pretty much the same thing. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Things hoped for have no substance. So you plant your feet on faith instead of substance, and insist the things you hope for are true. Your evidence for unobservable things is faith. You cannot prove they exist, so faith is your foundation and your confirmation that you’re right.
… All of us? That’s like a societal problem. In the most abstract sense, bad people do bad things for personal benefit and are rewarded. Are you proposing a solution to it?
Well… it keeps working, so why would they do anything else?
I was thinking the commodore.