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A preposterous concept to begin with


The idea that an FBI agent works in a basement room waiting for the phone to ring is entirely preposterous. This is how an asset sends a distress call? In the internet age? To a landline phone? It starts on an absurd basis and then builds an incredibly silly story.

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I can usually let one preposterous concept slide and accept it may be the requirement to start a story. The problem is this thing just goes down from there. The casting is nutty as fuck and just screams woke quota. For once I would like to see a show have some casting that is realistic. Someone high in the White house isn't going to be a 20 something that looks like she just left the sorority. And if you have a white family don't throw in some Tongan niece because it doesn't make any fucking sense. It is pretty much every minority character in the show is miscast as if they were just forced into a role to make a quota.

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They're not minorities anymore.

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Clearly you've been brainwashed by the quota pushers in the media. If you went by what you see in movies the black population would be 2 or 3 times what it actually is. The truth is the blacks in the US have been declining steadily and will continue to decline.

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Yes, you're probably right. I'm not American nor do I live in the US. Seeing how every film or show made today has a black person involved, not that I mind it but sometimes it feels contrived.

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Did we watch the same show? Who is 20 something that is high in the white house?

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The Asian woman that has the fake gray hair. Maybe she's really 30 something but whatever she is the fake gray hair to try and make her look older is ridiculous.

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She's 43 man! A white house Chief of Staff being around that age is perfectly realistic.

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LOL what???? Get a fucking clue...as the poster above me states, that is a perfectly reasonable age. Not sure what you're on about.

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Asian people often look 30 after 40. Then suddenly they look 80 almost overnight.

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"...And if you have a white family don't throw in some Tongan niece because it doesn't make any fucking sense..."

While I agree with some of your post, how do you know the Tongan's parents didn't adopt her? That's certainly within the realm of possibility.

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Actually we never meet her parents, how do we know they weren't a mixed marriage.

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Yep, that's another possibility thomas998 conveniently ignores in his screed.

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Exactly! His complaints are incredibly stupid and completely fall apart with the slightest bit of critical thinking.

Kind of amazed he didn't mention the female President. That usually is a big trigger for the insecure crowd who scream about wokeness so much that the word has completely lost all meaning.

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Exactly.

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Your idiotic complaints don't even make sense. If your talking about the White house chief of Staff, that woman is 43.

And while the uncle was white, the aunt was clearly a person of color, so she's probably the one blood related to rose. Or maybe she was adopted. Or maybe they were just extremely close friends with her parents and she calls them aunt and uncle. Honestly, none of that crap matters to anyone but you morons who cry wokeness at every turn, nor does it detract from the story in any way.

Honestly, why do you even watch movies anymore?

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Yet another woke warrior trying to explain away the problem of the woke folk.

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yet another person who can't make head or tail of the actual world they live in

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Sounds like thomas998's sensitivities have been triggered. "Woke" means that you support everyone having equal rights. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+, immigrants, voters - everyone. No matter their gender, sexual orientation or race. There are no quotas. There is no agenda. Only someone who hates everyone who isn't white and straight would be too stupid to suspend their disbelief and enjoy a movie or tv show.

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The problem is this thing just goes down from there.

Only for those who cant stand it if black people are on the screen . or women .

who gives a fuck if they are "over represented" ?
would you get so apoploptecly enraged if a disproportinate number of the cars were painted silver?
would you be all like
"oh i just cant watch this , i think you'll find if you look at the retail figures only 46% of cars sold were silver "

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Don't underestimate how foolish and wasteful the federal government is lol. It's not their money they're wasting, it's yours and they've proven time and time again, they don't give a fuck about you.

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I too thought it was ridiculous at first, but like I do with man movies, I suspended disbelief, and the show is actually watchable.

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