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Became too much an activist recently


Since years now,her Instagram is 95% posts about political themes,but during her HIMYM years she wasnt like this. Or maybe she was,but she had not an Instagram account yet at that time! By the way its sad that it is like that. You follow some hot celebs to get some sexy pics,instead you find only political posts,thats a shame haha

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True!

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One could also argue that people shouldn't post political stuff on a movie chat forum and yet they do. Constantly.

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Thats not related

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It's just a comment that regular every day people put politics into everything, and that's okay, but a celebrity can't do the same?

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Putting politics into everything, you say? Gee, I wonder who started doing that.

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It doesn't matter who starts it. I don't even know who started it because politics have always been a part of the arts as the arts play a big part in societal change.

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It does matter. It always matters. Remember that cop who died after the Trump supporters beat him over the head with a fire extinguisher during the insurrection? Well, he was never hit over the head with anything. He died of natural causes more than a day after the riots. But the media constantly repeated the lie that Trump supporters killed him. It was used in the impeachment of Trump. Even the officer's own family begged the media to stop spreading the lie that he died from blunt force trauma.
But there is never any accountability for the lies liberals tell.
They say math is racist.
They say cops are racist against black people. The truth is white people are much more likely to be killed by the police. It's not even close.
And Hollywood constantly repeats those lies over and over and over. They will go on tv at award ceremonies and repeat them over and over and over.
It does matter. Especially when there is such a disconnect between reality and what liberals are selling.

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And I bet you believe Trump never lied. When you are so entrenched in your ideology all you can do is blame the other side.

Arts have always been political. That's the point I'm making. Asking artists to not be political is pointless.

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No. I know Trump lied many times. But they are nothing compared to the lies spread by liberals. Krugman, the liberal economist, claims BLM is the LEAST violent movement. Maybe ever. Despite the hundreds in millions in damage in the Twin Cities alone! The TEA party was called a terrorist group despite never doing any damage and the only altercations were caused by liberals.
Liberals, the party of SCIENCE, ignores science all the time. Especially with the China virus. All China had to do was release this virus and watch liberals turn America inside out.
Art is not inherently political. I don't listen to artists when it comes to politics. Because, as you should be able to tell, they are ignorant of what most of us go through day to day. Lebron James is a first class moron. But people will listen to him. Why? Because he plays a game called basketball.

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Where do you get that art is not inherently political?

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Why would art be political? It's only political to the extent a person wants it to be political. Art should be apolitical. But liberals inject politics into everything.

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Art is generally liberal as well.

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You mean to say that most artists are liberal. I would agree with that. But it has nothing to do with politics. Liberals just happen to be more into art. It's a shame they weren't more into helping America.

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You got a harrumph outta me.

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If you were concerned with helping America you would stfu.

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Art is generally liberal as well.


No it's not. Liberals, Conservatives and everyone in between create art, although the forms may vary.

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Art itself is neutral, every form (writing, poetry, illustration, painting, music, movies, sculpture, etc.). Art is a tool that either entertains in some manner or conveys a message by its creator; or both. The purpose could simply be aesthetic pleasure, but the piece could also be used to convey a point of philosophy, spiritual belief or political idea.

So art can be political, but it could just as well be aesthetic, philosophic, religious or occultic. As such, it's not inherently political. Of course if an extreme politico creates art, it's usually political in nature.

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😴😴😴

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The truth is white people are much more likely to be killed by the police. It's not even close.


THIS is false.
Yes, it is true that police kill more white people than black people the percentage of black population killed by the police is higher.

According to this site https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 76.3% of Americans are White and 13.4% of Americans are Black. This is a 5.69 to 1 ratio.

Based on this site: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
The number of white and blacks killed per year is
2017 457 223 2.04 to 1 ratio
2018 399 209 1.91 to 1 ratio
2019 370 235 1.57 to 1 ratio
2020 457 241 1.90 to 1 ratio

So in the years 2017 thru 2020 for "white people are much more likely to be killed by the police" there would have to be more than 6 white people killed by police for every one black person killed by police. That is obviously not the case.



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When you consider that black people commit HALF the violent crimes which means their encounters would be much more likely with the police overall, it is shocking to realize that almost half the killings of police this past year were white people. That becomes even more stark when you consider black people commit much more crimes overall.

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When the actor, crew, or media is steeped in politics, then it's obviously going to become part of a discussion on a movie chat forum.

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The point is that everything is steeped in politics. Everything.

It's fine for these discussions to happen here, but not on a celebs insta? I don't understand the double standard. It's like when you actually have a a platform to voice your opinion all you're allowed to do is post selfies, while anyone and everyone else around you can bring politics into it.

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The point is that everything is steeped in politics. Everything.


It didn't used to be that way. That's the OP's point.

I used to frequent the IMDB forums a lot before they went kaput and I used to comment frequently on the actor, director, and movie sub-forums -- people who were sometimes quite politically active -- but their activism was relegated to activism OUTSIDE of their work. They didn't actively engage (at the time) in using their professional profiles for overt activism; so most of the conversations I had with people on the forums back then were about the actor/director/producer's work, not their politics.

It's like when you actually have a a platform to voice your opinion all you're allowed to do is post selfies, while anyone and everyone else around you can bring politics into it.


What OP is saying is that he wanted to maintain his fantasy of indulging in Cobie Smulder's professional appearance, but instead he was met with all of her personal politics. It's now bled over to the point where it's unavoidable across many vectors.

Before, the most you would hear about someone's politics is when they attended a rally or were specifically asked about it during an interview at an event or on a talk show.

Now? Now it's everywhere and it's an inescapable phantom that engulfs every aspect of someone's existential being.

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It's only more apparent because people use social media and are able to express themselves and not rely on the media to write about them. This is true of all people, not just celebs.

Sorry Cobie is a real person with thoughts and opinions rather than simply a blank canvas to indulge your fantasies TC, but such is life.

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You do really believe that celebs writing about politics is genuine?? Its their agents that tell them to do it! They do it because they believe that appearing as "intellectual" improve their image... well it doesnt!

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This.

Also, all their social media posts have to go through their publicists, so you're only seeing what's been well curated by their team.

It's embarrassing for Mike that he still thinks that celebs make genuine posts because it's what they actually believe rather than what's "good" for their careers and public profile.

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Art has always been political. I'm not saying that all art is political, but they have always been intertwined

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Celebs can also come here to discuss politics, no? The difference is that we're all anonymous here and don't use our professional lives to promote our political views (although I do think there's way too much politics here).

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lmao. nice.

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That's her choice and her right.

Other celebrities post stupid shit about how blessed they are to be rich and famous. That's their right to, so what?

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People are allowed to dont like this! Cobie is terrible because she never posts about herself. Go check it out her profile,every IG post and every IG story is about some social and political issue,its like i am following Angela Merkel and not Cobie Smulders! People used to like to follow celebs on socials to see more pics about them,now with that Cobie's profile,people perceive this: "I dont want to share anything about my life with you plebs,i want to lecture you ignorant pleb everyday instead".

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If you just want the sexy pics then don't waste your time on their instagram just wait for the hackers to release their naked selfies and sex tapes. At this point I don't think you can think of any actress that hasn't had their phone hacked and naught photos posted.

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YEAH...WHAT A BITCH...SHE NEEDS TO SHUT UP AND STOP HAVING OPINIONS...HER ONLY REASON FOR EXISTING IS AROUSING ME THROUGH FILM.

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Its not opinions,its what their agents tells them to do. Dont be naive. Also,even if they were genuine opinions,people can express them without being obnoxious (which she is)!

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LMAO...YOU ARE AWARE EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU TYPED ARE YOUR PERSONAL OPINIONS?...NO FACTS IN THE BUNCH...PLUS YOURE BEING PRETTY OBNOXIOUS AS WELL.

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So what? She is obnoxious and that was the point of the post

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LMAO....OK.

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Social media has made me dislike all my heroes.

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One of the reasons I'm not on it. I'm not interested in anything other than how they act/sing/play.

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Good. Everyone should be woke. I judge celebrities that show apathy to what's going on in the world.

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I judge them on how well they ACT, not stupid irrelevant shit..

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ACTING is pretty fucking stupidly irrelevant compared to the atrocity going on with extreme conservatives trying to re-shape the country into an autocratic regime. But hey, she was really good in Jack Reacher !

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She peed the bed and made taryn clean it

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