The Culture War Thread

[Potato]

Possibly the most obnoxiously "woke" thing I've ever seen.

Couldn't get more than 10 minutes in before turning it off.

If you want to see how creatively bankrupt Disney can really be, give this a go for 5 minutes. You will not be disappointed.

How can it be, then, that three proven talents who know how to create first-rate comedies have made one so lacking in laughs? The only excess, in fact, is the shameless parade of blatant product placement — and really, Disney, did you need that money from Cîroc for your family film?

From the first shot, in which we see a prominently placed “Black Lives Matter” poster, it’s clear that the filmmakers intend not just to update but to upgrade this story, modernizing it in a way that is still too rare in studio movies. But in contrast to “Black-ish” and its spin-offs, which make their social and cultural observations through sharp wit and insight, “Cheaper by the Dozen” talks over, past, and down to its primary audience.

Just like the product placement, the many frank discussions of privilege, race, and racism are laid atop the movie rather than woven into it. The comic setups are as old as the original source material. Frenetic pacing substitutes for entertainment.

This "Cheaper by the Dozen" does not hesitate to name-check the concept of white privilege, or to show that this film's family is outwardly liberal (with a Black Lives Matter sign plastered on one of their windows, or pets named after former President Barack Obama and current president Joe Biden).

[Potato]

Question:


Why were you watching a Cheaper By The Dozen reboot in 2022 and what were you expecting

Family movie night (not my choice) and I didn't know it was a remake.

[james]

If you're older than 12 (15 for women) and watching a new Disney movie you deserve to be canceled

[Polident Hive]

What I’m hearing is there’s a new audience for another Yours Mine and Ours remake. The greatest rivalry soldiers on.

[Nintex]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1506282092296089602

 

[benjipwns]

Breaking news from Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1506683514443517959
https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1506684263835521027

 

[Potato]

Breaking news from Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1506683514443517959
https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1506684263835521027

 

So, he's queer, but isn't attracted to men?

Sounds like he's just trying to stack the deck in the oppression Olympics.

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[Potato]

he said he's queer, not gay 

There's a difference?

[Transhuman]

He's doing it for attention, and we're talking about it, so it worked

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[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1506976388255039493

[Potato]

On a scale of 0-distinguished mentally-challenged, this article ranks "vice" on the scale.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nmzk/hogwarts-legacy-imagines-a-harry-potter-without-jk-rowling

This is the kind of stuff that’s baked into Harry Potter that becomes impossible to avoid even in Rowling’s absence. If you turn over a rock of Potter lore, you unearth a whole host of problematic worms. Despite the fact that Rowling did not work on Hogwarts Legacy, and despite the fact that Warner Bros. would surely like for Harry Potter to exist in perpetuity apart from its creator,  like Star Wars now does, Rowling did in fact write and create this universe, and in many ways it is a reflection of her politics.

Right now, Rowling’s politics and bigotry are the most visible aspect of her persona. It would be convenient for Warner Bros. if it was possible for Rowling to be separate from the intellectual property that they own, and that is demonstrably quite profitable. But everything eyebrow-raising in Harry Potter came from one source: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter can’t truly exist without her.

[Nintex]

Asking whether or not these creatures are intended to be anti-semitic is kind of pointless when, well, look at them.

the Shrieking Shack podcast

you can’t read Harry Potter without tripping over her ideas about femininity and gender (for a start)

are they going to do something like slap a character creator into the game that lets you choose pronouns, and market that as a ‘Love Wins!’ type of thing, while the author is also out there doing material harm

the sanctioned slavery of the house elves

the only canonical gay person also canonically fell in love with wizard Hitler and never loved again

Rowling’s politics and bigotry are the most visible aspect of her persona

[Potato]

It's a special kind of fuckstick that even contemplates a position like that, let alone writes an article.

It is very much in the line of, "I always knew something was up with her, even while I was sucking her fat hog and fanatically buying all her books and merchandise!"

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[Potato]

“Greeks felt the sexiest body part were the thighs”

Wrong thread filler, but like all things, the Romans were just an inferior copy of the Greeks!

[Transhuman]

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267

Richest man in the world asks what he should do. The answer is obvious, buy Twitter Elon

 

[chronovore]

I enjoyed someone's observation that Elon Musk is a dumb person's version of a smart person. As in "he's smart from where they're sitting." It's like when someone who doesn't speak Japanese tells me my Japanese is really good. Really? How would you know? I could've been reciting a soup recipe for all you know. Musk isn't smart, he's just smarter than they are.

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[james]

 

Will Smith or Chris Rock who is getting cancelled place your bets now

[Potato]

Will Smith or Chris Rock who is getting cancelled place your bets now

Neither. White people are too scared to make a judgement call and black people give no fucks

[tiesto]

I enjoyed someone's observation that Elon Musk is a dumb person's version of a smart person. As in "he's smart from where they're sitting." It's like when someone who doesn't speak Japanese tells me my Japanese is really good. Really? How would you know? I could've been reciting a soup recipe for all you know. Musk isn't smart, he's just smarter than they are.

I feel Musk is what happens if you turn a nerdy 13 year old into the richest person in the world overnight.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Will Smith or Chris Rock who is getting cancelled place your bets now

Will Smith has the white illuminati behind him and Rock had the Jay Z Green Book.

Neither.

(hopefully white people)

[benjipwns]

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1506976388255039493

I used to wonder how people tricked themselves into going along with the Red Scare back in the day. I'm not as curious these days.

[Pissy F Benny]

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[james]

So whos winning the war?

[Joe Molotov]

So whos winning the war?

America

[Uncle]

So whos winning the war?

America

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1509352636113465344
https://twitter.com/AnthonyAbides/status/1509346875299749893

[james]

https://twitter.com/NathanBacaTV/status/1509575371154460679

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

@youwillneverdefetus.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/5-fetuses-found-in-home-of-dc-anti-abortion-activist-police/3013443/

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SeanLikeConnery/status/1508972444001972228

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[james]

Found Himus account

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/tjcs83/cant_find_a_job_and_its_killing_me_inside/

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1509675781709918209

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I've never watched sportsball, am.....am i retroactively a yt?

[Potato]

Found Himus account

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/tjcs83/cant_find_a_job_and_its_killing_me_inside/

Himu is vaccinated. Mental, but vaccinated.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/the_shoe_yes/status/1510372588098306056

[james]

Will Smith or Chris Rock who is getting cancelled place your bets now

Neither. White people are too scared to make a judgement call and black people give no fucks

Potato destroyed

Will Smith banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years after slapping Chris Rock on stage

[Potato]

Will Smith or Chris Rock who is getting cancelled place your bets now

Neither. White people are too scared to make a judgement call and black people give no fucks

Potato destroyed

Will Smith banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years after slapping Chris Rock on stage

Cancel culture doesn't exist. I'm sure this ban is just a figment of your imagination

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Sessler/status/1512558618746359811

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/1512689911656161280

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[Potato]

Dee Snider is a God amongst men

[Joe Molotov]

You may not like it, but this is what peak traditional American values looks likes.

[Uncle]

1. How could he possibly have thought We're Not Gonna Take It as a defense of conservative and traditional values

2. Who the fuck thinks We're Not Gonna Take it is "the perfect song"

[Refrain]
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
We're right! (Yeah!)
We're free! (Yeah!)
We'll fight! (Yeah!)
You'll see! (Yeah!)

being on the right and valuing freeze peach

[Transhuman]

[Refrain]
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
We're right! (Yeah!)
We're free! (Yeah!)
We'll fight! (Yeah!)
You'll see! (Yeah!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1514181602494103562

The larger part of the chyron isn't entirely wrong. I'm not sure what the rest of this have to do with Disney's poor stewarding of ESPN though.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1515358398749024258

[benjipwns]

Two local diversity advocates in Arizona are taking heat after calling a school district racist for hiring a DJ to perform in black face — but it turns out the DJ was black.

Stuart Rhoden and Jill Lassen — who specialize in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — lambasted the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for their decision to hire Kim Koko Hunter, 56, a local black DJ, at a charity event.

Both Rhoden and Lassen, who are involved in diversity work in the school district, slammed the school after seeing a picture of Hunter, only to later learn his race, according to the Arizona Daily Independent.

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But Rhoden, who is an instructor at Arizona State University, did not appear particularly apologetic and posted a side-by-side image of Hunter on Facebook to try to show that the DJ darkened his face even if he is black.

“Let me be clear, a black man, apparently in black face is an entirely different discussion than a White person,” he wrote on Facebook. “However… it seems at the very least he is in darker make-up if not ‘Black face’ or I am completely mistaken and it’s the lighting of the patio.”

Rhoden is a member of the district’s Equity and Inclusion Committee and Lassen is a co-chair of the Scottsdale Parent Council diversity, equity and inclusion committee.

According to Hunter’s Facebook Live, an organizer called someone he works with following the event and asked if he was black.

[benjipwns]

[james]

I am assuming yes, if the design of the toothrbrush head is sized for male mouths versus female mouths.

This is true across most products. Ironically, kitchen counters and appliances were standardized in the 1950s at a height most comfortable for an average man instead of an average woman

[Potato]

I am assuming yes, if the design of the toothrbrush head is sized for male mouths versus female mouths.

This is true across most products. Ironically, kitchen counters and appliances were standardized in the 1950s at a height most comfortable for an average man instead of an average woman

Most women have big mouths

[Cauliflower Of Love]

who pays 9 grand for a toothbrush?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/JradRabel/status/1516251205114241025
https://twitter.com/JradRabel/status/1516260569124323333