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DessertStorms

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People are starting to get bored of the live action soulless remakes

Lol, you think the companies throwing billions at AI give a shit? It's only going to get worse from here..

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Movies are bombing now, and they keep churning out the same, and consistently worsening, garbage.

Studios will fire their entire staff in exchange for an AI megafarm before they consider "wasting" any more of their time on quality. Why would they when quantity is enough to fill their pockets?

So called enshitifaction is taking hold everywhere, what makes you think the entertainment industry is any different?? Hoping for shareholders to give a shit, at this point in time, is laughable.

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I have faith in some kind of course correction,

Then neither you, nor Michael Eisner are paying attention (though LMFAO at you bringing a former Disney exec, not even a creative but a business man, as representation of someone who gives a shit about cinema. That's like quoting Musk on environmental issues. Hint: People like that absolutely have been paying attention, things are going great for them, they just can't not lie to make themselves feel important, and to make their shareholders, and people like you, believe in some white/greenwashed fairy tale they spin for you while they continue exploiting people and destroying industries out of sheer greed for money and power).

Also, the idea that if the big corporate propaganda machines fail, cinema fails, just goes to prove how well said propaganda works.

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On a personal note, I think the exhibition should have just been called "Beauty" rather than "Other Beauty", but "Free" fits the statue perfectly.

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More power to them, we need collectives like this in every town and city. Build communities that exist to serve and support their members, not line the pockets of some already obscenely rich capitalist that has probably never even set foot locally.

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Well, no, they aren't fighting homelessness at all, that would mean trying to reduce, not to mention eliminate it.

Capitalists want homelessness, so that they have a whole under class of people to lock up and exploit, and that also serve as a warning to the rest of the working class.

The war is definitely against the homeless, not homelessness.

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reminded me of

this

ID: comic showing a homeless person sleeping in a doorway when a cop comes and tells them it's illegal to sleep in public. The homeless person replies saying they guess they'll just go to a hotel tonight, or maybe their townhouse or the Hamptons, then make a mock call to "Smithers" saying their "super fun street sleeping holiday" is over and asking which mansion they should sleep in, as the cop thinks "next: outlaw sarcasm"

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It's such a shame it's all of our collective necks that boot you're licking so enthusiastically is stomping on, not just yours.

DessertStorms ,
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The sycophants guide to corporate boot licking more like...

Why do the vast majority of romantic comedies depict people who are wealthy?

My wife has been on a rom-com binge over the last year or so and something I’ve noticed when I’m vaguely paying attention or walking past is that almost every single rom-com features people who are, at the very least, middle to upper-middle class. These characters all live in gigantic houses/apartments, have beautifully...

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People saying it's escapism inadvertently proving that it's working as intended, because it isn't there for escapism, it's a distraction, a very deliberate choice to do with keeping poor people "aspirational".

It's about reinforcing the lie that is "The American Dream" (or the "trad life"), and the idea that the people watching really are just the temporarily embarrassed millionaires they've been made to believe they are, that are actually just Christian white supremacist patriarchal capitalism doing what it needs to to maintain its control - promote the "perfect" cis-heteronormative nuclear family, living in the house with a white picket fence (now evolved in to a McMansion), with 2 cars in the drive, not only as an ideal, but as the norm.

The idea that a movie can't provide escapism if the people in it aren't rich, again, just goes to show just how well this specific brand of propaganda works.

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That's still just a superficial solution, you need to go deeper and address the reasons these foods exist in the first place, and why people buy them, because it really isn't the ultra processed foods in themselves that are the issue, it's that the system is geared not only to encourage producing food as cheaply as possible, but also for people to work for such long hours to barely survive, and be so badly educated about food and nutrition, that fast food, and filling the pockets of those who sell it, is their best option (in terms of time, money, and other physical and mental resources that go in to consistently and reliably preparing food from scratch).

So much of the damage being attributed to these "ultra processed foods" is almost certainly actually due to stress and poverty, which are what (alongside a multi-trillion dollar marketing and advertising industries) lead people to eat them in the first place.

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