Oh, but we shall.
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“… sorry, this fascism is not fascist enough”
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I respect that, and I don’t post gleefully about her personal misfortunes. However, when a media project funded by the Daily Wire bombs and loses money, this is a good thing.
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All the way off.
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And then she can keep fucking off.
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The sad part is the actress ruined a marginally fun character on a pretty fun tv show, by publicly spewing her hateful opinions.
It’s sad when you find out a person isn’t as cool as you thought they were, let alone a ignorant, loud bigot.
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Hi Gina!
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It really does hurt. I really enjoyed a friend’s dad for years, until NC anti-Trans bathroom bills debates percolated into Facebook (back in 2016?!) and he proved to me that I had him wrong.
Any German-speakers want to coin a word for “ache due to person you thought-highly-of showing their true colors”?
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You spelled it wrong.
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Probably not for an Oscar. (Not a chance, but then they can slap “Oscar qualifying movie!” in the ads.)
The picture must have been publicly exhibited for paid admission in a commercial motion picture
theater in one of the six qualifying U.S. metro areas: Los Angeles County; City of New York [five
boroughs]; the Bay Area [counties of San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, San Mateo and Contra
Costa]; Chicago [Cook County, Illinois]; Miami [Miami-Dade County, Florida]; and Atlanta [Fulton
County, Georgia], for a run of at least seven consecutive days with at least one screening a day,
prior to public exhibition or distribution by any nontheatrical means. The picture also must appear
in the theater listings along with the appropriate dates and screening time(s). Drive-in theaters
are included as a qualifying commercial venue in the above metro areas (films must run for seven
consecutive days with at least one screening daily)
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You do realize this movie was exclusive to Daily Wire +, a subscription streaming service, right? The one and only theatrical screening was the premiere event. This would be like mocking the new Rescue Rangers movie for low box office because it was only released on Disney+. Daily Wire + saw massive success around this movie’s release.
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oh daddy it’s so big
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It has a 5.4 on IMDB, so even the types of people who would pay actual real money to subscribe to The Daily Wire thought it sucked.
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Hmmm…no one’s said that yet.
Where can I follow your blog?
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Ok let’s see. $74 million divided by $804 a week, they’ll recoup their losses in 92,039 weeks. That’s only 1769 years.
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We have a term for when a movie like this “costs” $74 million to make: money laundering.
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Movie premieres are publicity (and now awards qualification) events. They don’t sell tickets except when they’re also charity fundraisers. Whatever it was, this theatrical release was absolutely a failure in and of itself.
By what metric? Are there real numbers backing up a contention that this fascist streaming service got a significant amount of new subscribers because of this particular movie? As noted above, they may have actually lost subscribers because a lot of the mouth-breathing misogynists who subscribe to the service found it too “woke” for featuring a woman as a hero.
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It’s true I could have been clearer - what depresses me here is that yet another star in a role that I like turns out to be full of hate, and when I say “Can we just not,” what I mean is, it would be great if we lived in a world where it was uncommon to read about famous people and artists speaking off-the-cuff and revealing themselves to be full of hateful ideas. Like, you know, if we could just enjoy the memory of “Fat Albert” and not live in a world where something like that turns out to be the product of a depraved serial rapist, or we could re-watch “Manhattan” without throwing up, or we could just enjoy a charming story about wizards coming-of-age without the author quadrupling down on a public stance of bigotry.
If y’all want to celebrate this as a victory for the forces of not-completely-fucked, go ahead - you won’t get any criticism from me. I’m all in favor of Gina being de-platformed, but I take no joy in this story, because the kind of hatred she casually wields is too toxic and too pervasive. It turns out that what I always thought was a reasonably low bar for human behavior is actually a standard that a great many people can’t meet. And I’m just fucking tired of the Ginas and the Kanyes and the Elon fucking Musks and the harm that they do.
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Really just waiting to see if this is referenced in Deadpool 3.
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