Dr. Michael Rectenwald "The Great Reset Rubric: Making Sense of Our Present Dystopia"

[Aragorn]

@Beyond_Beyond

I can understand that approach if the employee isn’t under a contract, but a contact is a binding legal document that both sides are legally bound to

What specifically do you consider an employment contract in the sense you are talking about? An example maybe?

[H_factor]

@Beyond_Beyond

Realistically the average person is not going to able able to take their employer to court, if they think they have been wrongly dismissed. Its easier to lump it and move on.

True. But if this “problem”was so widespread you wouldn’t see companies doing it consistently. Because someone would sue and win and scare companies in to not doing that. But they haven’t done that because it’s been a loser. The court simply doesn’t view that as a violation of freedom of speech. You can continue to call it one if you would like but in reality it simply isn’t. If it was it wouldn’t be happening.

@Beyond_Beyond

Unless you are on a contract to your liking, you can easily get screwed by an employer if they choose to go hostile, and unreasonable, and getting redress is much harder.

For the most part companies are going to protect themselves. So when I get hired they will have safeguards in place so if my social media turns into a Hitler love fest and starts costing them money they can get rid of me.

Again all this is easily avoidable by employees.

[dt79]

@Beyond_Beyond

Also the company if its like Disney won’t totally get run into the ground. They might wreck a movie franchise like Star Wars in an attempt to make it woke, but make it up in other movies that either haven’t been wokified, or don’t cater to most Stars Wars fans, like Rom Coms.

Ok, let’s talk about Star Wars.

The first real new Star Wars movie was Rogue One. That made a billion dollars and fans pretty much liked it. It was a little woke and had a female lead.

The new franchise started with The Force Awakens. That made 2 billion dollars and was generally well received by fans while also having a female lead and a couple of woke moments.

Now taking into consideration that a major movie like a Star Wars sequel doesn’t just pop out of thin air, but rather, it takes YEARS to produce and film, do you think it’s more probable that they thought more wokeness = more profit or they were trying to indoctrinate people into becoming woke based off the returns from the 2 previous movies?

So they made The Last Jedi and fucked it all up. It wasn’t just woke as fuck. It SUCKED. I’m not a Star Wars fan and I don’t really care for it. Everyone other than SJWs and critics who we all know are just fucking cowards and shills hated it. But it still crossed the 1 billion dollar mark.

With that said, you need to take into consideration that the slew of other woke movies being released prior and after that probably also began production 1-2 years earlier and lots may have began production a short while prior to the release of The Last Jedi and people were tired of all that shit by then.

Then Solo FLOPPED. The first flop in the franchise they’d ever had and it wasn’t even really woke. The budget allegedly went up to 300 million due to reshoots and a change of director. I thought it wasn’t too bad.

Then, as I described earlier on, they panicked, brought back JJ Abrams and made The Rise of Skywalker and retconned large chunks of The Last Jedi and reduced all the characters people hated to minor roles based on the fan backlash and test audiences. It still sucked since it was something patched together hoping to appease the fandom but I liked it in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. The Emperor using the force lightning scene near the end sent me into fits of laughter.

So when did Star Wars really stop catering to Star Wars fans?

Now, let’s talk about Marvel.

Black Panther made 1 billion at the box office and it wasn’t too bad, just not woke oscar material. Captain Marvel, as much as I fucking hated it, also made 1 billion at the box office but we can argue that it was released right between Infinity War and Endgame and promised a post credits scene linking both films together. The bastards LIED lol. The only other MCU movies that crossed the 1 billion mark were the ensemble movies and Iron Man 3.

@Beyond_Beyond

I’m betting the Chinese people and govt wouldn’t put up with SJW bullshit, unless its been sanctioned by the state. The movie wouldn’t be allowed to be shown otherwise. China is definitely a lucrative market, if Hollywood chooses to cater to it properly.

The audience in China doesn’t give a fuck about wokeness. If it’s a good movie, at least by their standards, they’ll like it regardless of whether it’s woke or not since they don’t really know what “woke” is. The government doesn’t give a fuck unless you add in openly LGBTQ++ characters. But that didn’t stop Endgame from adding in a gay dude and it passed the censors.

I can write half a book on why Mulan flopped and it has nothing to do with wokeness. To put it simply:

1. The movie sucked.

2. The filmmakers didn’t understand the culture at all.

3. The English dialogue was ABSURD and it was dubbed into Mandarin based on said dialogue, which made it even more absurd.

@Beyond_Beyond

Wandering Earth sounds interesting, I don’t mind the Chinese perspective on a movie genre. I will keep my eye out for that. We get plenty of movies from mainland China, shown on free to air tv, on one of our publicly owned stations in Australia.

Don’t bother. I watched half of it and turned it off. It was a cardboard copy of various Hollywood movie tropes with shitty CGI with a shitty script. People probably just went for the spectacle. Movie tickets are relatively expensive in China so people generally won’t get off their asses to go to the theaters unless it’s something that you really need to watch on the big screen or a really popular local comedy. If you want to watch the good shit, watch Operation Red Sea and Wolf Warrior 2.

[rwr410]

@H_factor

Then again his supporters are largely buying Democratic cannibals are selling the blood of children or something so maybe not that crazy in comparison.

Actually it’s organs, and it’s babies, and it was on video tape.

[Beyond_Beyond]

@dt79

So when did Star Wars really stop catering to Star Wars fans?

Probably with the Phantom Menace, but that’s probably not what your talking about.

I was ready to give Black Panther a go, from all the positive press. But it was shit. I can understand black people liking the representation, good for them. But all feels apart it was a very average movie at best. Imagine if the story was about some other racial group, do you think it would have got as much positive press, I doubt it.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch Cpt Marvel, I probably wouldn’t be able to watch it, without a gun pointed at my head.

@dt79

If you want to watch the good shit, watch Operation Red Sea and Wolf Warrior 2 .

Will keep my eye out for them, thanks.

[H_factor]

@rwr410

Actually it’s organs, and it’s babies, and it was on video tape.

You have a videotape of the Democratic Party eating babies? You should probably share that with authorities. Imagine an entire party eating children and no one is doing anything?!

[mnben87]

I wasn’t sure if rwr410 was serious or not with that post? Absurd thing to believe without evidence, obviously.

[rwr410]

@H_factor

You have a videotape of the Democratic Party eating babies? You should probably share that with authorities. Imagine an entire party eating children and no one is doing anything?!

You said selling. How do you forget what you said? I even quoted it.

[rwr410]

@mnben87

I wasn’t sure if rwr410 was serious or not with that post? Absurd thing to believe without evidence, obviously.

It’s absurd for you to not know about this. It was only 2015. Major news story. Real footage. The media designated it “edited” or something and alternately declared it a “hoax” and “for science”, depending on what suited the minute, and down the memory hole it went.

Inform yourself. You owe you at least that much.

[Aragorn]

So who’s this Q guy? You met him in person at least? Do they serve good booze at the meetings?

[mnben87]

Sure, post it. I think I will be able to make my own judgement on it.

[doogie]

@rwr410

Major news story.

Please post some articles from major news sources. I missed this somehow back in 2015.