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@FArkonus @Variety "Centrist" Is there anything you right-wingers can't blame on "wOkE" at this point?

Here’s the thing, they got rid of all the old talented artists long ago because they were all “Old white dudes”, the young people they replaced them with were less good and so drove up the cost to do anything. Meanwhile the writing and simply choice of characters went a similar way, for similar reasons. The result was films that needed over $200m to make (Way more actually, but those announced budgets are listed after the generous tax credits) and struggled to hit $600m at the box office (Enough to be profitable after theatre cut, Prints and advertising). The trend has been steadily downwards on success (Spider-Man and Deadpool/Wolverine aside) and let’s not forget the last movie The Wasp was in was one of the worst for quality, cost and losing money. So while I respect what she is doing (Really do, I don’t fault her for speaking out about non-actors losing work), the truth is these movies are not financially viable as is anymore. Something has to change if they are going to keep making them. Personally I’d rather they focus on actually popular characters and stories instead of stuff from the dead wasteland of modern comics, and make good, fun, agenda feee cinema, but if they refuse to that.. Well, they have to cut other corners. But maybe this can unify everyone… in not watching.

Evangeline Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne/Wasp in the MCU, blasts Disney for laying off artists at Marvel Studios: "SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away. Why [does AI] get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots go hungry? Disgusting... To the Marvel Studios artists who designed and brought to life the glory days of Marvel...I salute you. I was there. I know what you did. I know how passionately you worked round the clock to make magic happen. You are the magicians, no matter what the Wizards of our new Oz make it look like going forward. I will never forget." variety.com/2026/film/news…

@JohannesClimac5 @Variety Disney makes billions in profits every year. Suggesting they're out there holding a tin cup and begging for change because VFX artists expect to be paid is absolutely idiotic

@Variety Disney is a for-profit company that sells movies. If the movies aren’t selling, then you cannot pay people.

@summerrdz1 @theGhostOfRiel @PollTracker2024 Nobody gives a shit, they want health care and an affordable life

@theGhostOfRiel @PollTracker2024

Semafor: Republicans plan “all-out assault” on Platner’s candidacy in Maine “Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, didn’t have the money to fully prosecute her case against Graham Platner in the state’s Senate race. Republicans do — and it’s going to get ugly, fast.” “Senate Republicans’ primary super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, has reserved $42 million in fall ads. A sister nonprofit group, One Nation, is running a suite of ads now totaling $18 million.” semafor.com/article/04/30/…

@KathyHu97661084 @Sjacobs2020 @Acyn @CNN Sorry, but a haiku is actually 5-7-5

@Sjacobs2020 @Acyn @CNN Scott is the only sane Person on that panel of leftist morons that no one Likes their spew.

Wow Scott Jennings blows up at Adam Mockler: “Get your fucking hand out of my face” Mockler: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters Ira that we are currently failing that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt. I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior endless wars.

@techwithchizi @DiscussingFilm The issue being discussed is people, actual human beings, not comic book characters, losing their jobs so a gigantic corporation can make a few more dollars. If you're not able to empathize with human beings maybe just don't say anything and avoid sounding like a sociopath

@DiscussingFilm Marvel shouldn't be together with Disney in the first place. Ever since the collaboration, Marvel movies has just been shit and look at what they turned their characters to in Disney Junior, to some child's play.

Evangeline Lilly has called out Disney for being “disgusting and horrible” after they laid off almost all of Marvel's visual development team. “SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.”

@Fat_mikey_Run @ryangrim She's going to reach out to Gen Z voters concerned about her age and commit to only serve two terms max

@ryangrim She’s gonna launch her presidential campaign

Lame

@strxwmxn A nation-state and its inhabitants are not synonymous. Ending the USSR didn't wipe out Russians, ending Apartheid South Africa didn't wipe out Afrikaners. If Israel wants peace it has to either a legit two-state solution or recreate itself as a nonsecular multi-ethnic state

Calling for Israel to be dissolved is calling for genocide.

@BigGeorgeUSA @strxwmxn You can't move "back" to a place you've never been. It's not 1948, there've been 3 generations of sabras born in Israel, it's their home. Forced expulsion is what we need to oppose, for ANY people.

@strxwmxn No it's not. I want Israelis to move back to Poland.

@SaltyRiverWater @weeklyshowpod @grahamformaine Uh, no he's not

@weeklyshowpod @grahamformaine This is the actual Nazi guy right? Weird.

Jon and @grahamformaine, US Senate candidate for Maine, discuss the limits of “tax the rich” messaging without tangible results and the willingness to push for real change. New pod out now! #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

@RachelBitecofer @weeklyshowpod @mrbigg450 @grahamformaine Once again, liberals and conservatives love teaming up to crush the left

@weeklyshowpod @mrbigg450 @grahamformaine Neither has the other campaign. DNC does not engage in primaries

Despite a 40-point lead, Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine says he hasn’t heard from DNC leadership. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

@musskbuddy @Kylypso @RachelBitecofer @weeklyshowpod @mrbigg450 @grahamformaine No I'm sure the Senate Minority Leader has no sway over his party at all

@Kylypso @RachelBitecofer @weeklyshowpod @mrbigg450 @grahamformaine You don't actually think that Schumer runs the DNC, do you?

@Discipln_trader @HeptishHotik @AlexAndBooks_ It was after reading one of your tweets

@PRFlanagan @HeptishHotik @AlexAndBooks_ When did you lose your mind?

China’s new official obsession: Getting people to read more books. In February, China passed a new regulation to build more public reading facilities and spaces. In April, China had its first-ever national reading week. State media encourages people to put down their phones and pick up a book. President Xi wants China to become a “cultural powerhouse” by 2035, and says the revival of reading is one of its pillars. Xi quotes Mao saying, “One can go a day without eating, a day without sleeping, but not a day without reading.” In 1949, less than 20% of China's population was literate. Today it's approaching 99%. When one of the most tech-focused countries in the world says that a population of book readers is vital to their future, we should all take note.

@cdseghetti @PollTracker2024 Literally none of those things are true

@PollTracker2024 No we do not agree with his point of view. The man has a Nazi tattoo, has issues with Black people, and thinks women deserve to be raped. We are not coming around to his point of view. He is a Republican psycho and he needs to stay elsewhere. Our tent is not big enough for Nazis.

NOTUS: Other Democrats are starting to agree with Platner’s view of the primary, arguing that Mills, a two-term governor recruited by Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, stands little chance of winning next month. “It looks to me like Graham Platner is formidably ahead … his lead is 20 points, 30 points, something like that?” Sen. Tina Smith told NOTUS when asked this week about the race. Another Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to speak freely, went further by arguing that it’s time for their party to pull the plug on Mills and coalesce around Platner. “We should be focused on beating Susan Collins, not on beating up other Democrats. It’s time,” the senator told NOTUS. #MaineSenate

@TeaTramRussia @ScottishCommie Is she talking about soldiers and citizens of the Third Reich here?

No, it's a huge BS. Bolsheviks did not kill over 60 million Christians. The entire population of the USSR was 270 million people. It would take a complete idiot to believe that the Bolsheviks killed a quarter of the USSR's population, including children and the elderly.

@NathanJRobinson @MattLech Aren't Politico staffers required to support Israel and free markets as a condition of employment by their German owners?

CEO of Politico says it's so obvious that Iran is an aggressor working on a bomb that the statement doesn't need any proof. He says it's just a basic fact, like saying "America is the biggest democracy in the world." (America is not, in fact, the biggest democracy in the world)

@TheSWPrincess But he doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

I’m not “getting over” Graham Platner because “no Nazi tattoos” is not a purity test. It is the lowest bar imaginable. And he failed it. I’m tired of watching liberals make excuses for a Senate candidate who has a Nazi tattoo, made racist and sexist comments, defended war crimes, and now blames everyone but himself for his own bad choices becoming public. Marginalized communities are always told to “get over it” when a candidate looks like a risk to us - because we’re expected to quietly accept that even a bad Democrat is better than a Trump Republican. The worst part is watching people who call themselves anti-fascists dismiss the tattoo, the comments, behavior, the holes in his story, and sneer at anyone raising concerns as “hysterical.” We are real people with real reasons to be worried. CNN’s KFILE reported that text chains from before the tattoo scandal broke showed acquaintances saying Platner knew years ago it was a Totenkopf. So I don't find his “I had no idea until October 2025” story believable. And when a former Republican repeatedly says he’s “not a partisan,” while asking Democrats to ignore this many red flags, it is absolutely fair to ask whether he’ll vote with Democrats when it matters. ICE is out of control. Trump is trying to turn them into his own secret police. People with reason to fear white supremacists do not have the luxury of shrugging this off because some Pod Bros / Bernie Bros decided accountability is inconvenient. We don't need another Fetterman, Manchin, or Sinema. We need fighters, not fakes.

@Discipln_trader @HeptishHotik @AlexAndBooks_ Why should any government be obligated to heavily promote Ayn Rand of all people?

I knew this. China doesn’t allow it freely as a Western country would, but it also doesn’t see it as dangerous enough to ban outright. The government manages it selectively. “Allowed” doesn’t mean unrestricted: It is not heavily promoted Has academic or niche circulation Translations may be curated or limited Availability can vary by region or time If a book suddenly became politically sensitive, it could disappear quickly. ************************************* Now answer my actual question. Just do a simple search on Amazon or go to a local library system. Oh, and I took Das Kapital out of my local library in 1972, followed by the Manifesto. I've been a lifelong hater of Communism because I not only researched it, but I have also had relationships with people who fled it and also hate it because they had to live under it. Unlike the US, China's government censors things it feels will embolden it's people to reject totalitarian rule.

@brahms_notbombs @anotherSmith5 @politico And what did those reforms achieve? And did the fact that Frank left Congress and immediately went to work for a bank perhaps affect the legislation he helped to write?

@anotherSmith5 @politico He co-wrote one of the biggest pieces of corporate regulatory reform in the history of the country. You can criticize his opinions lately, which are really unfortunate, but if you do so with such stupidity only ignorant and uninformed people will support you.

Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left dlvr.it/TSGpNv

@Ltrs_Frm_Across @BernieSanders What are his questionable public statements?

@BernieSanders This is just a bad take that reflects badly on Sanders motives. You can oppose the oligarchy and fight for working people without being a creepy nazi-tattooed guy with a very questionable record of public statements. Candidates like this will only embarrass you in the long-run.

The Democratic establishment spent millions on negative ads against Platner. The Republican establishment is spending millions on negative ads against Platner. Why? Not complicated. Because Graham is taking on oligarchy and fighting for the working people of Maine and the U.S.

@alshipley AIRPLANE! ended the Golden Age of Disaster Movies and the genre didn't return for another 15 years or so

nobody ever said "i can't believe they're still making action movies after The Naked Gun and Hot Shots," i love Walk Hard but we can really be less annoying about it, genre parodies were never meant to exterminate the genre in question