Since yall smarter than Brian Gregory tell me how yall getting any stars or significant upgrades with the picks we have & be realistic go ahead i will wait
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
@Nicky_Bonez@RIPYaksbeard@RuffCrim But when you’re shooting your debut feature with less than a million dollars, you wont have the leverage necessary to negotiate any sort of bonus/incentive structure with the studio. To be clear, I don’t think this is a good thing. I just don’t think this is the directors fault
@Nicky_Bonez@RIPYaksbeard@RuffCrim I 100% agree, my only qualm with the OP and some of the discourse around it is that it seems to subtly imply that this is the directors fault/intent. Its hard to verbalize my thoughts with 280 characters, but imo the main issue is greed and the lack of profit sharing from studios
@o_TOPCAT_o@Marr2vert That’s totally fair. I personally felt we were told more about her trauma (cement w/ handprint, flashbacks), rather than being shown through her actions or decisions. I also just found her way less interesting than Clark and would’ve loved to see more of his dissent into madness.
@o_TOPCAT_o@Marr2vert To be so real, I thought that Mary was not very well acted. I don’t know if that’s because of the actress or the screenplay (likely the screenplay), but I found Mary extremely bland and lacking in personality. I never felt truly invested in her story or escape from the backrooms
@Keiracoven@AnnieisUndead Thank you for verbalizing this, I 100% agree. I really wanted to like this movie, but the screenplay was so lackluster imo that it was really hard for me to stay engaged. Especially by the final act of the movie.
@BenGarciaShow@therealOStinson@bricklinsnow I can understand disliking the spurs, but why question my fandom because I like watching Wemby play. Especially when we’re a month off from getting swept by the team Wemby just played against.
@BenGarciaShow@therealOStinson@bricklinsnow If the issue with the suns-spurs series was that the refs were fixing games, I truly don’t understand why the brunt of your criticism/hatred is for Spurs. Not like they paid the refs off themselves.
@varietypaul@MattLanzarotto@ShamsCharania@BobbyMarks42 Democracy is stretch lol. These new rule changes give Adam Silver additional disciplinary authority, allowing him to fine teams up to $10 million and seize any of their draft picks. I’d hardly call that a democracy. Only the billionaire owners voted anyway.
@benjaminluk I think this an important distinction that not only highlights the harmful nature of Bears wish, but also makes it clearer that Bear has, at best, selfish intentions. I just think the other “Wishers” weren’t idiots and didn’t use their wish to forcefully change another’s life.
@benjaminluk I honestly think it DOES make sense. Bear’s wish is contingent on changing another persons emotions/brain chemistry. My interpretation is that most people with access to wishes probably used it for something that only impacts themselves or is material (Ian, Shop Clerk)