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He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.
Wait...individuals can donate to a country's army?
Yes. I donated to the Ukrainian army and others can easily too
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Wait...individuals can donate to a country's army?
No, you can't donate directly to the IDF, but turns out you can just make stuff up as long as it fits one's world views.
Yes you can donate (why did you add the word "directly"?). It just passes through intermediary organizations, such as the Friends of the IDF. There are even non profits that pay for "lone soldiers" -- international mercenaries -- to take part in the genocide in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of "lone soldiers" took part, I believe something like 20,000 came from the US alone.
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#383Reading the comments -- it is amazing how quick it takes to from allegedly a democracy governed by a rule of law to a corrupt oligarchy. I personally understand the reasons, but it's a bit "funny" given all the grand-standing before about the founding fathers, checks and balances etc.
It all starts with regulatory capture, imo
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The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…
I don't understand how that kind of clause can be legal. Its existence puts anti-trust enforcement in a catch-22, either they allow the merger, which reduces competition, or they reject it, and the acquiree is decimated, also reducing competition.
8.3(b) on pg. 79 says that "Regulatory Termination Fee" is $5,800,000,000 from Netflix to WB. (IANAL)
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The Americans that react most extremely to those words are generally those that don't realize it's actually what they want. They just know the words as derogatory, without realizing that they represent the world as they think they'd like it to be.
That, is very Russian. They are "fighting the fascists" though they are.
Not surprising that the same people have special affection for Russia and their dictator. It's a role model.
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#386That would be much better, as Paramount understands to make good movies, trusting good directors. This year only Warner had the good movies
Putting aside all the politics involved in this merger, I kind of agree with you... My first thought when reading about Netflix acquiring WB was that a whole lot of IP was going go down the drain thanks to how hard they try to push an agenda in their content.
My opinion is mostly based on old interviews with Coppola when he was asked why he would make Godfather with Paramount and not United Artists. He said Paramount doesn't care about movies, they are bankers and only care about money. They would not interfere at all with his artistic direction. And they didn't.
Now that we have the Ellison, I don't know anymore. His daughter is excellent, but with a different studio. His son has no idea. Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. We'll see.
My European colleagues are mostly worried about more MAGA nonsense in the media with the Ellisons
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That is exactly what is going on. Everyone at WB management knows that the Ellisons want to weaponize CNN before the midterms runoffs start in spring.
Doesn't that imply that Netflix was planning to do the same (for their party)? Or are you saying Netflix is innocent here
Both-sidesism is a hell of a drug.
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It looks like it. $2.8bn by Warner Brothers to Netflix [1]. If the vote looks close, Paramount would be expected to raise their bid to cover that cost. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525... 8.3(a)
The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where whole neighborhoods and towns were built around - are closing forever, leaving those areas as food deserts. Either way, this entertainment merger is going to get ugly. Consumers ar…
I live a couple blocks down from one that was open for 40+ years. I use Amazon now for my groceries. I was gonna use Safeway but their prices are high.
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> Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/one-batt... > Netflix's 93% RT Hit Show That Has the U.S. Government Furious Is a Streaming Sensation https://collider.com/netflix-boots-streaming-success-after-g... And that’s before we’ve even touched HBO. John Oliver is probably the most obvious example. But I’d say shows li…
Rewatched Watchmen (show) recently and just wow. It hasn’t aged a day and is truly a masterpiece.
I remember when it hadn't come out and there were mostly images and speculation I was really concerned that Lindelof had no idea what he's doing. A friend who watches a lot more TV than me insisted when it did release that it was very good, and reluctantly I agreed to watch Episode 1, and I knew immediately he got it and I was hooked. Watchmen is about masks, what masks mean, what it means when people wear masks, and Lindelof's TV show takes this somewhere the original book didn't but still remains about masks.
I knew about Tulsa, about Black Wall Street but I didn't know there was actually a plane. I was like, "That's surely creative license" when I saw it. But nope, the racists actually had a fucking plane.
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#390I just realized that the netflix ceo is a big-time democratic party donor, and that paramount is supposedly being supported by larry ellison (big-time republican/trump donor) and saudis? I'm sensing a strong political/influence angle here by the billionaires.
Larry Ellison is also a very public supporter of Israel and the IDF, as recently as a few months ago speaking in support of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
What does this have to do with anything?