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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by HWR_14 »

mgh2 wrote: post #124
andrei_says_ wrote: post #71

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Some examples? And could you please define “woke propaganda”? Asking because the term is used to mischaracterize a broad range of views by, ironically, large scale propaganda / fear mongering outlets.

Snowpiercer (series): Gave up after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting). Other examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/pwp3t4/im_tired_of... Eventually got tired of Netflix's money cow strategy by sacrificing quality - buying original ideas and ruining them with more seasons for the sake of engagement: Designated Survivor, Money Heist, etc. Pigg…

> Snowpiercer

So your example of woke propaganda is content made for other services that Netflix later acquired non-exclusive rights to?

> after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting)

I have no idea what this means. I followed your reddit link thinking maybe it would explain what you're talking about, but "snow" appears nowhere on the page.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by h3cate »

thomasfedb wrote: post #128
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #63

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is Alcoholism a mental illness - https://www.portstluciehospitalinc.com/ufaqs/is-alcoholism-a... Yes. According to the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a diagnosable mental illness.

The DSM is a book full of things that (a particular group of) academic doctors think should be considered to be illnesses. It's previously included homosexuality and "gender identity disorder" (transgenderism). It's a not a bad source, obviously, but being in a book does not make things diseases or not. That said, in my (medical) opinion, alcoholism and other addictions are much better to be considered (and treated)…

You minimise it as "being in a book". The book is: "a publication by the American Psychiatric Association for the classification of mental disorders". Are you part of the psychiatric field?

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by jchw »

zionic wrote: post #173
jchw wrote: post #160

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Hopefully it was accidental and not a sleight of hand, but I hope you realize you pivoted a statement about the trans activists being pushed back against (that they are “deluded”) to being about trans people as a whole. I feel like this kind of pivot happens so often in bad faith that people now do it subconsciously and not even necessarily in bad faith but simply out of habit. Similarly, (but not necessarily in the…

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Did you mean to reply to me? I have not really made a statement about the actual topic because it is personally irrelevant to me. I just want people to argue in good faith, even if at this point a reasoned discussion seems impossible. (And just to be explicit, by that I mean, we’re probably not going to see eye to eye, so I’m probably not going to engage with your rhetoric. Sorry.)

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by DangitBobby »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #85
joemazerino wrote: post #4

I cancelled my Netflix account after the whole Cuties debacle. While visiting my friends I have noticed that Netflix content quality has been dropping sharply the last few years. Let's hope this exodus of customers and content creators will create a new, more interesting industry for the future.

Funny - I find Netflix content keeps getting better. Dark, Ozark, Unorthodox, Russian Doll, Sense8, Love Sex & Robots, The OA. Not as good as HBO - but honestly it seems close. If anything - HBO's content seems to be on the decline more than Netflix. It's still top notch, but it used to be outstanding. Netflix is really mastering the wide appeal & good enough content: 13 Reasons Why, Elite, Bridgerton, Bird Box, etc.…

Yeah, I find Netflix content to be fairly high quality. I often have to watch a couple of pilots before I find something that hooks me, but I always find something. And I'll recommend Maniac to anyone who will listen...

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Post by robonerd »

shephardjhon wrote: post #157
aeturnum wrote: post #125

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> I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. You say you're part of several vulnerable populations, but you don't ask the world to "accommodate" you - but the complains trans people have about Chappelle are not about 'making their lives easier.' Where transphobia (or any prejudicial viewpoint) comes into play is refusing to take vulnerable populations' viewpoints seriously. When trans people poin…

I agree with your points but his particular joke was about transphobia vs racism. That trans and gay people can turn on their white privilage in a second to attack black people, including using cops to attack black people, knowing cops are trained to fear black people and use excessive force against them. Of course he isnt taking into account people who are both black and trans but in only this one case, you need to…

> If you are an employee and this is original content, your name is forever linked to it and so you should be able to have a say in it. If it was purchased content, maybe you could say you weren't involved.

Like working for a tobacco company, your name and reputation will be tarnished by that association. The solution is obvious: don't work for that company.

Or maybe Netflix will start to implement solutions like those used by the pornography industry; hire sys admins, programmers etc under a shell company that doesn't share the name of the main business. So rather than putting "Software Developer at Pornhub.com" on your resume, you can put tell people you worked for "MindGeek".

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Post by robonerd »

nautilius wrote: post #163
nahnahno wrote: post #54

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You clearly don’t have mental illness or a drug addiction. Yes, absolutely, you are severely discriminated against with either of those. People see you as utterly unreliable, weak, and unworthy of the kinds of respect afforded to able minded people.

Do people tell you that you are not really an addict or mentally ill, that that's not even a thing, and that it's just a phase you grow out of once you simply make up your mind? [edit] Ok, got it. I don't mean to question anyone's personal experience, and sorry that this is what's happening to you. Also, I don't want to 'rank' the degree of marginalization different groups experience, that's not at all what I'm after…

Yes.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by otde »

zionic wrote: post #150

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I guess I just can’t think of a better way to describe some of the stuff people say about trans people. It’s rooted in a deep hatred that warrants the suffix, IMO. I don’t think “disagreement” adequately describes the severity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Post by dannyphantom »

joemazerino wrote: post #4

I cancelled my Netflix account after the whole Cuties debacle. While visiting my friends I have noticed that Netflix content quality has been dropping sharply the last few years. Let's hope this exodus of customers and content creators will create a new, more interesting industry for the future.

To be fair, HBO has consistently had an awesome catalog whereas Netflix has been unfulfilling for what feels like years.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by shephardjhon »

ryan_j_naughton wrote: post #97
perihelions wrote: post #75

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We've had recovering-alcoholic presidents (USA), but it'd be very difficult to see a trans president anytime soon. The intensity of ostracization is not at the same level. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Alcohol_abuse )

> it'd be very difficult to see a trans president anytime soon. People would have said the same thing about the likelihood of having a gay president 15-20 years ago. Instead, we had an openly gay and married presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, do quite well in the last election with his homosexuality not being a major point of the conversation. The amount of progress on gay rights and the public's perspective on…

BTW, that was literally the joke Dave made. That progress on LGBTQ rights was so fast that they can still use their white privilage against people who look like Dave if they are both white and LGBTQ+. Meanwhile people who marched with MLK jr had to march again in 2020 after Geroge Floyd's murder and in the 90s after Rodney King and again recently due to voting rights and racist redistricting laws. Dave's mistake was he didnt take into account people who were part of both minority groups and face opression on two counts.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by mgh2 »

HWR_14 wrote: post #181
mgh2 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snowpiercer (series): Gave up after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting). Other examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/pwp3t4/im_tired_of... Eventually got tired of Netflix's money cow strategy by sacrificing quality - buying original ideas and ruining them with more seasons for the sake of engagement: Designated Survivor, Money Heist, etc. Pigg…

> Snowpiercer So your example of woke propaganda is content made for other services that Netflix later acquired non-exclusive rights to? > after the main plot focused on maintaining a lie, not discovering a truth (conventional screenwriting) I have no idea what this means. I followed your reddit link thinking maybe it would explain what you're talking about, but "snow" appears nowhere on the page.

The series overthrows a lie, but supplants it and feeds another one.

Screenwriting is complicated, but if you want to know more details focus on the "midpoint", where the truth/thesis is stated.

Essentially movies or series are sort of discovery tools to reveal an audience a certain truth - there is no point on being consistently lied to...

https://trendguardian.medium.com/anatomy-of-great-movies-bd9...

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