• Lem Jukes@sopuli.xyz
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      It would ultimately be just as empty. Even if Feige came out today and said they were halting all Marvel productions until Kimmel’s show was reinstated, he would be fired and we’d all be reading about who’s going to be the next boss at marvel.

      There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.

      We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, u/bufalo1973. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, u/bufalo1973. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

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      RDJ probably doesn’t like Kimmel. Cause Kimmel ”joked” about RDJ’s drug addiction at the Oscars.

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        That shouldn’t matter, in the past I’ve stood up for people who I didn’t like. It didn’t stop me from doing what I viewed as the right thing to fo.

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          Yeah but RDJ is not a morally upstanding person. Dude is still friends with Mel Gibson because Gibson helped him decades ago. Loyalty is probably more important to him than doing the righteous thing.

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            Guy, screeching about loyalty to someone who helped you through drug addiction isn’t the burn you think it is. As someone with a Trumper parent who has been brainwashed I fully empathize and understand that challenge.

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              Your parent shows no loyalty to the human race, why should you show loyalty to them? They show no empathy for anyone who isn’t white, rightwing, “Christian”, and able bodied.

              Maybe if these Trumpers experienced consequences, like being cut off by their children, they would question who they’re truly loyal to. A fascist dictator cult of personality, or their offspring.

              If many people stuck to their principles, throughout the world, instead of some bullshit loyalty, then we may have avoided this global authoritarianism. But here we are.

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                This is peak, “I’m going to vastly simplify complex relationships and tell everyone on Reddit to ditch everyone in my life based off of two paragraphs.”

                People are complex. It’s rarely that simple.

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                  Make excuses all you want, all I know is my conscience is clear, can you say the same?

                  Cutting someone off doesn’t have to be permanent. We’re not children. I’ve cut off a few people in the last few years and made it clear to them why. Some are still selfish, ignorant, arseholes but some have seen the errors of their views and behaviour and changed. I speak to those people again.

                  The only way to make MAGAts change is to provide consequences for their actions, otherwise they’ll just continue being arseholes and you’ll just have to continue internally moaning but doing nothing to truly change anything. Words and debate usually mean nothing to that kind of person, you must provide consequences instead, and if your only “power” over them is your love, affection, attention, and care then withdraw it.

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          You are a different person than somebody else, though. What does what you would do matter to what others do?

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            It doesn’t. Besides anyway, RDJ could be doing what he thinks is the right thing, so he’s actually doing what I did.

            All I said was you can do what you think is right, and it shouldn’t have to matter if you like a person or not to do so.

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    Went to go cancel all these subs and realized I had already done the needful. I will pirate the fuck out of these companies. Will it make a difference? Don’t care still gonna plunder.

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      More importantly, seed the shit out of it. Losing your subscription is small potatoes if you’re still consuming and talking about the media. Now if you can make it easier for other people to drop their subscription as well, thats the real win.

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      Canceled my subscription to D+ and Hulu yesterday as well and wrote in why when I chose “other”.

      I, too, will pirate this shit!

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      Same but I’m not content pirating it because I want their content and IP to fizzle out of all discussions and thoughts.

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    I never stopped pirating. It’s been so weird seeing the zeitgeist over the past 15 years shifted into corporate ass kissing. Like I get it. Everyone grew up and became working stiffs. Sat in your stuffy suits in cubicles and started believing the corporate bullshit you had to huff every day.

    It’s been weird though. How we went from the great recession Occupy Wall Street mindset into a 180 pivot of pro-corporations. I sure did enjoy being lectured about paying monthly fees for owning nothing and making sure I enjoying it like a good consumer.

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      People were guilted into thinking that the people working on TV and movies wouldn’t get paid. It wasn’t “corporate ass-kissing” more like the no-name camera guy should get paid for their work.

      Now I don’t know if that’s actually true, things are still getting made and actors are making shit loads of money.

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    Oh good, this means I won’t ever have to worry about a season 2 of She Hulk ever coming out.

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    Guess no more She Hulk in the MCU… I probably will be down voted into oblivion but Im a marvel fangirl and I dont want to cancel my Disney plus. I still havent watched ironheart or eyes of wakanda and marvel zombies is coming soon. Gosh im so far behind.not to mention andor season 2. Plus I was trying to watch all of clone wars, rebels and other shows that lead into Asohka.

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      I get that.

      I hope you will consider that financially supporting art distributors is very optional, today.

      Obviously, there is piracy.

      There’s also used media sales. Used media is so cheap today, because the only people buying it are doing so for purely moral or vibe reasons.

      There’s also the hybrid approach: accidentally buying “used media” created by pirates. You can tell it’s fake once you get it, because it’s not covered in ads or FBI reminders about how much more convenient piracy is.

      You might also find a friend willing to loan you their copies of these shows.