"Christmas Carol adaptation where Scrooge makes salient financial points and everyone who hates him isn't so perfect themselves" is such a cartoonishly perfect movie for the new anti-woke Paramount to greenlight.
Grocery stores as a metaphor for capitalism:
- enough food for everybody but excess is thrown away rather than given to the hungry
- illusion of choice yet all the different brands are owned by a few holding companies
- exploitation of the third world to provide cheap inventory
people are always like "wow medieval Justice was so bloodthirsty" but (unfortunately) plenty of modern people are foaming at the mouth to watch the state murder someone
They are thugs and criminals. They are also settlers. Stop trying to rescue the word "settler" to mean something pure and non-criminal. It isn't. The entire settlement enterprise violates international law.
No wonder the BBC is fucking banned in China. They can straight up USE CHINESE MEDIA FOOTAGE, and claim that CHINESE MEDIA is hiding the news. What a fucking joke.
i think people have an unrealistic idea of what "third-world country" even means at this point. unless you have a completely failed state there are pockets of wealth everywhere. that doesn't mean anything.
This is the dumbest thing I've seen all day. Not a valid litmus test: not supporting genocide. A valid litmus test: condemning a fucking twitch streamer.