themeatbridge

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking the commodore.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Or maybe just NotCare for short.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I think we can stop calling it Obamacare.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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."

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (13 children)

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The mask is off.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that existed until Trump and Hegseth wanted to murder people on a boat with missiles from the stratosphere without involving any available legal system.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah, getting banned puts you in a weird in-between space where you basically have no control anymore. Makes me want to just avoid participating altogether.

 
 

Haven't seen any posts all year.

 

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

 

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

 

Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

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