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Me and my wife were Star Wars fans. The last Star Wars media we watched was episode 8. I almost walked out the theater.
Star Wars is synonymous with Andor at this point. The original trilogy is second, but it isn't a close second.
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He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.
That’s misleading. You can’t directly donate to the IDF—people give to NGOs that support soldiers’ welfare, not combat operations or weapons. And while Ellison has given millions to FIDF, there’s no evidence he’s “the largest donor,” and no public ranking shows that. You can dislike Israel without inventing facts.
I think we can leave the pedantry for the ICC and just stop at him being a rather nasty genocide supporter regardless of the details.
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That's a shitty gamble when online media is where it is at now a days. These big media networks are dinosaurs hanging on by a thread.
I think that's over-simplifying it. Some YouTube personality (or whatever we want to call 'online media' that isn't just CNN's website) isn't going to be getting a Whitehouse press pass anytime soon.
The most concerning aspect for me is the obvious and conspicuously-timed consolidation of these companies under David Ellison. Within the past few months he's taken control of Paramount, CBS, The Free Press, and now he's working on Warner Bros. From everything I've seen he's basically an ideologue, and has already re-structured CBS to align with his vision. Just something that seems very out in the open yet kind of p…
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That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8.
I mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example. There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though.
Maybe 3rd. Jedi is gorgeous but the script for everything past Jabba’s Palace is a mess. Doesn’t know what to do with all its characters, feels the need to have them all around anyway.
Jared Kushner's firm? I am pretty sure about who is going to win....
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Star Wars is synonymous with Andor at this point. The original trilogy is second, but it isn't a close second.
Oh really? What’s Andor?
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Since the beginning of the year - USA is just a shell of market economy. Small government indeed… Also some say it’s “flawed democracy”, IMHO - for last ~3 decades (or even more) it’s just a charade of democracy. Probably soon you won’t even have that. First-past-the-post two party system, bizarre primary elections, electoral college, land votes instead of people (how many senators are from california and how many fr…
The fact that in US you can win the most powerful seat in the world while not even voted for by majority of its own population is properly ridiculous. Yes we all heard about historical this and that but that doesn't matter, thats not a democracy at its core and at the lowest, most important layer of building a resilient democratic society. Then on that questionable base you build a shaky empire that is supposed to wo…
My bigger issue with regards to how democratic we are would be more related to campaign finance laws, corruption, and the immense power wielded by those in charge that can be pointed at political challengers if the politician is so inclined.
No matter who wins, we lose.
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The fact that in US you can win the most powerful seat in the world while not even voted for by majority of its own population is properly ridiculous. Yes we all heard about historical this and that but that doesn't matter, thats not a democracy at its core and at the lowest, most important layer of building a resilient democratic society. Then on that questionable base you build a shaky empire that is supposed to wo…
I also take issue with the electoral college system, but to claim that a representative democracy is not a democracy based on the intermediary representation seems like a fairly hollow concern. My bigger issue with regards to how democratic we are would be more related to campaign finance laws, corruption, and the immense power wielded by those in charge that can be pointed at political challengers if the politician…