zeke5123a
16hr ago
It isn’t just movies. Tasks the theme parks. Infamously Disney reimagined a fan favorite in Splash Mountain allegedly due to racism (note the ride literally contained zero humans or depictions of humans). The original ride was great story telling as the ride itself cohered with the story telling. The story wasn’t gendered but arguably somewhat masculine (ie had a frontier / wandering aesthetic).
Disney turned it into a black princess ride that is a pale imitation of its ancestor.
Or the Indiana Jones stunt specular. They removed swords for batons. Indiana no longer has a gun. The bad guys don’t “die.” They even removed the bad guy’s Nazi symbols. They sanitized the show removing the things boys would find interesting (probably without making it interesting to girls).
I’m not sure these moves are to pander to women so much as Disney has strong progressive / feminine decision making.
zeke5123a
18hr ago
Probably not from a discounted cash flow perspective. Also you ought to factor in failures like the Star Wars hotel in WDW.
zeke5123a
1d ago
True but a majority of the court would’ve voted to vacate or overturn the entire conviction. But they couldn’t agree on vacate v overturn.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Perhaps racism evolved because it is useful? I’m not suggesting there are t terrible failure modes but if multiculturalism actually is bad, then maybe some soft racism is actually good?
zeke5123a
7d ago
To me, there is a difference between pecuniary and the common good. I can imagine some communities that are slightly poorer compared to other communities but better places to live due to non pecuniary reasons. Of course, the larger the pecuniary gap the more difficult it is for the non pecuniary benefits to outweigh the pecuniary ones.
zeke5123a
7d ago
Yeah — the other poster who is anti Trump believes Trump’s policies will be bad and therefore Trump’s voters will abandon him.
That is not unreasonable for anti Trump person to believe but isn’t necessarily the best reflection of reality. Take tariffs. Suddenly Democrats hate tax increases*. But it’s far from obvious how much of a tax increase it will be for American consumers. First, tariffs are on the import price which often is a small fraction of the overall price. Second, some of the incidences of the tax will fall on non Americans or capital. To the extent the tariff revenue is used to shrink the budget deficit, it could on net help consumers. Doesn’t mean tariffs are good (or this will work) but the idea that it’s the end of the world doesn’t make sense (especially by people who were pushing for mark to market taxation and significantly higher corporate and individual tax rates).
Take immigration as a concrete example. Jobs are meh but the mix of the jobs were foreign less and natives more. A dem would point to “limited job growth” whereas a Republican would point to “our people are getting jobs.”
I would bet all things equal life is pretty similar for a lot people on 2028 as it was in 2024. I think the one thing Trump could do to change that is passing some kind of massive zoning reform (he is stealthy doing some of that for large projects via the EPA).
*there are of course arguments that tariffs are bad kinds of taxes precisely because they are easy to avoid and therefore people will make non economic decisions. But this second order thinking is always absent in democrat plans so hard to take it seriously.
zeke5123a
7d ago
Of course. But you made a claim about the mass of conservatives. I think a big piece is that there will be a net decrease in utility. Some of that is eco ionic and some of that is cultural.
zeke5123a
8d ago
Speaking as an anti immigrant person, I’m concerned we let in people who are ill suited for our culture and who aren’t the brightest. I don’t think the brazilificarion of our nation will lead to economic growth per capita even if it might increase overall gdp; I think it will per capita make it worse.
zeke5123a
14d ago
Agreed. I would think stating eloquently that they are evil while at the same time dying with dignity will have more affect compared to a man who seemingly is weak.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Yeah but that’s the whole point of the insult — the one act of cocksucking makes someone a cocksucker (ie a bad thing).
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I don’t think it’s the equivalent but it is still highly distasteful. That is, I would be crushed if my daughter did porn. I would still be extremely upset if she did playboy. Yes one is worse than the other but only on the margins.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Billionaires aren’t generally spending billions of dollars on material goods (maybe hundreds of millions); instead, they are making capital allocation decisions. Trying to tax billionaires is (I) distorting capital allocation and (ii) transferring capital from investment to consumption.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Ever hear of the story of the boy who cried wolf? I don’t think even Garak can salvage this one.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
And now it turns out the guy died in Chile in 2019.
Honestly if you hate the west so much why are you living in the west?
Edit: didn’t realize the OP was banned. Didn’t mean to challenge someone who couldnt respond.
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Really? Career bureaucrats who are fine but not rich but know rich people seem like a large group
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I don’t think there is any strong evidence to suggest a frame job here. What is motive of the victim?
zeke5123a
1mo ago
So we now believe the victim who identified Floyd is lying because an officer involved happened to be dirty?
zeke5123a
1mo ago
Still in his Wikipedia. Here is a WaPo article strongly hinting it was made up with zero evidence (ie they took the five year plea because they were convinced they’d receive no justice—yet the paper didn’t include any of the evidence supporting the conviction). https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/policing/
zeke5123a
1mo ago
I think he did. Anyone who points a gun at a pregnant women while robbing their house deserves to hang
I’m struggling with the sale in that case if video games were generating 700m of FCF pa
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