_malcontent_
No bio...
User ID: 679
_malcontent_
2yr ago
And, as the saying goes, the man who divorces his wife and marries his mistress leaves a job vacancy.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
There is a writers strike going on now, so even if they had the story plotted out the can’t do any rewrites or punch ups.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Didn’t the family get $700000? The author of the book probably had his own separate deal.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
The format of having a “3 act” country song, where the words of the chorus are the same, but the lyrics of each act change the meaning of the chorus is very popular in country music.
I can only think of a couple examples off the top of my head right now, but there are a lot more.
Kenny chesney’s there goes life
Tim McGraw’s Don't take the girl
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Why did Cameron feel the need to plug in an invented romance, I have no idea. Wanted to make a chick-flick? Who knows.
Here's 1.8 billion reasons why. I remember when it was in theaters, and many of the women I knew went to see it multiple times. The music video was blared non-stop on MTV. It wasn't because they were moved by the sacrifice of the men in first class.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
in addition to the other reasons given in this thread, Peter Parker wasn't race swapped. He was replaced with another character, Miles Morales, After Peter Parker was killed. All this happened in an alternate universe.
Also, it is very common for conservatives to be initially upset about something, but after a while they accept it. Miles Morales was introduced over a decade ago. There definitely was some complaining at the beginning.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
too many spaces after the greater than sign, so it is doing both a quote and code block (I'm assuming). Looks like the line height for code is messed up.
Just quote:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
Just code block:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
Both:
Again and again, why do people keep on jumping to race as the most accurate way to filter for being able to integrate?
_malcontent_
2yr ago
you can remember it by thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?!?"
_malcontent_
2yr ago
I don't think Americans realize how much of an aberration those stupid lazily printed-out A4 papers hung hastily to the windows with an unevenly cut piece of cello tape are to the eyes of a foreigner.
great post. But just a quick correction. In the US, it is letter sized paper, not A4.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
though I would suggest that "stodgily following the tropes of the moment" is actually a key part of wokeness in organizations -- it's the movement of the hour, and so organizations follow it because it's what creatives seem to like and they don't see the elements (heh) of it that sometimes alienate audiences.
Maybe that's the problem. When it takes 18 months or more to make a movie, by the time your movie comes out the movement of the hour is last year's news. Even if the idea was fresh in the planning stages, it is completely played out by the time it is screening in the movie theater.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
I think a bigger cause for concern is the 6% drop in Democrat support. What's up with that? What changed with regards to gay marriage in the past year that caused Democrats to back off?
_malcontent_
2yr ago
To your Bernie Madoff example, if he'd paid back all the people who were conned, yes, he would have probably skated
Martin Shkreli made money for all his investors and was still charged and served jail time.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
“TERF” in general is also used to describe a lot of libfems and even center-right women who are gender critical, so the number of actual TERFs is even smaller than you might think.
I was including this group when I wrote "TERFs", so the group is larger.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Yes. I can see conservatives rallying behind an otherwise unsuitable candidate because they're against calling a trans woman a woman. And then being surprised when that candidate votes against their interests in everything else.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
It seems to me he's just doing it to show the people clamoring for censorship that it goes both ways, and they don't really want it as much as they want opinions and voices they don't like muzzled.
But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Seems to me that conservatives should (and won't) take this lesson. Someone pointed out here in the past that it is okay for conservatives and TERFS to unite on the trans issue, because their beliefs are so radically different in every other aspect that there is no danger of cross-contamination (my words, not theirs. I can't remember who said it and where it was said, so I'm just writing the way I remember it).
Conservatives should learn from this that any ally whose only connection to you is that you have the same enemy is not an ally at all.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
It's a great addition. There is a bug where every time you click on expanding a response or loading more comments it adds another newnewnewnewnewnewnew~
_malcontent_
2yr ago
After Samuel L Jackson got cast as Nick Fury they made the comic book version black.
the comics made him black first, in 2002. They used Samuel L Jackson's likeness without his permission.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
I think it's quite common for audiences to rate movies higher than critics.
unless the critics are giving it extra points because it is woke. Then the people's score is usually a lot lower.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
What about this: Windsor police officer who donated to convoy protest will work 80 hours unpaid? That's 80 hours of unpaid work for a $50 donation, that was given by a person who was on unpaid leave, and never went through because the accounts were already frozen.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
you posted this in the wrong discussion
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Many of the population still remembers the cold war and the fact that Russia was America's #1 threat, and if democrats played their cards right, could use his stance there to put his campaign under ground.
I'm not sure this is the case. Democrats calling Trump a Russian Operative and claiming he is in Russia's pocket caused a lot of Trump supporters to not be anti-Russia, if not pro Russia. The was with Ukraine may have complicated that, but the Democrats bringing up Russia will just remind Trump supporters that Trump was erroneously tied to Russia by those same-self Democrats for 4 years.
_malcontent_
2yr ago
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega continues his slide into dictatorship. For the past couple years, he's been stifling free speech, removing critics and opponents, and independent media outlets. The latest he's done is seize a dozen private universities, either closing them outright or taking control. Of the 12 universities seized, seven are based in Nicaragua and five were the virtual campuses of foreign universities.
Super Supportive on royal road. It may be the best I’ve read on the site.
The story blurb, while accurate, doesn’t do it justice. The author excels at fleshing out characters, and making you really care for them. Just finished a major arc a couple weeks ago, so it is a great time to jump in.
More options
Context Copy link