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It's funny, I used to watch Gary back in the day when he first started. His YouTube channel had like a thousand subscribers. He's got over a million today. Who would have thought.
He used to do review videos for TV shows back then with his co-host Dennis. This was back before everything went Woke.
It was fun times. Then things started to go woke. Gary changed, and his channel became all about criticizing Wokeness. This turned me off and I stopped watching him. Back then, I didn't "see" it yet. I thought to myself <i>"Why does this guy constantly talk about this stuff?"</i> or <i>"If it bothers him so much, why doesn't he just watch something else?"</i>. Then a year later, I started to see it too. Now I understood. Once you spot the pattern it really becomes suffocating. And it doesn't stop. You can't get away from it. It's everywhere.
Still though, I mostly stayed away from his channel because he started bringing up his libertarian politics and it bothered me.
These days, I will catch a video here and there, or watch a bit of his FNT streams. I don't watch often because he covers the same 3 shows over and over, shows that I have no interest in watching anyway. Or he talks about Disney. But I do enjoy watching him making fun of Hollywood.
I've never heard of those YouTube channels. But I have watched some Nerdrotic videos that talk about the same thing.
How did they do it to the communists in the 1950's? People simply created an atmosphere that was unwelcoming to communists. People refused to want to be seen with them. People refused to work with them. The government would investigate them and harass them. It just requires normal people (anti-Woke people) to create that atmosphere. To go from passive observers who tolerate this nonsense to people who actively speak up against it. Who make life difficult for anyone who is woke. Who use the same social pressure that the Wokes now use, against them, in the real world, with real consequences.
What this means for you is to be active. When you encounter these people in your day to day or in your work you have to make it clear that their ideology is not welcome. By doing this you are putting pressure on them. At first, the effect is minimal. But if more and more people started doing it, the force becomes overwhelming. And the targets will start to retreat. Keep their head down. They will be feel marginalized because they will be marginalized.
Ok. I'll check it out.
I remember watching mst3k when I was kid in like the late 80's. I didn't like it then. I don't know how it would be like to watch it now. I'll have to check it out on YT or something.
Ok. I'll be on the look out. If you guys ever do a movie that I really want to watch, I'll try to join in.
Ah ok. How do you guys get on the zoom meetings? I never actually used zoom. Do you need an app or can you do it through the browser? Do you guys post a link or a code or something here?
I wanted to private message you but MC won't let me because my account doesn't have enough posts or something.
I also just checked out Tubi. I never heard of it before. Damn, it's pretty cool. I'm not used to watching things legally. I've been sailing the high seas for over 20 years. Forgot what dry land looks like.
Wow, thank you for the invite. I'm honored. But I don't think I'd be a good addition to a zoom meeting. I don't really watch movies anymore, just TV serials mostly. Aside from that, when I'm in a group setting I don't usually talk that much and I have an issue being on camera (I literally just had to change doctors recently because they switched from doing phone sessions to zoom calls where you had to be on camera).
But I'll take a look at the thread. Maybe if you'll be doing a movie that I really like or want to see, I'll join in. I want to be able to actually contribute something of value to the discussion if I show up.
When you watch your movies, do you guys comment during them here on Moviechat?
Can you explain more about what that is? I haven't taken a good look around yet. I just popped in the general thread and read only a few posts here and there. I'm staying away from the politics thread for the time being so maybe I'll last a while. But then again, I was stupid enough to get myself sucked into an exhausting conversation with Skavau, during which he threatened to report me and get me banned because he didn't like my reactionary politics. So maybe I won't last that long after all.
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Edit:
I just realized that those might not be tears.
Kowalski, you dirty dirty bird.
Lulz.
My bad bro. I saw the emoji but I couldn't tell it was a Winky face.
<blockquote> I don't see any signs of them moving away from it. It will suddenly stop or continue until someone stops them.</blockquote>
Before the Oct 7th attacks on Israel, Jews had assumed that they were just another oppressed minority like the gays and the blacks, so they supported all this woke anti-White DEI bullshit. But after Israel's genocidal response, all these woke activists turned on Jews, and they discovered, to their horror, that they are also considered White and therefore are the oppressors. As a result, many of them started to turn against DEI and Wokeism. People like Bill Ackman who is a wealthy hedge fund manager and a supporter of DEI, all of the sudden started publicly speaking out against it. Then other powerful people started to speak up and all of the sudden companies started to change their position on DEI. I don't remember the source, but I remember reading about BlackRock questioning their DEI policies around this time.
Thanks for explaining.
And we've met before. We were friends in a previous life.
What happened? Why did he leave?
Originally it came from academia. Then in 2011, Obama signed an executive order that implemented Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion all throughout the government.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/18/executive-order-13583-establishing-coordinated-government-wide-initiativ
After that, the corporate world followed. Once investment companies like BlackRock implemented it it, they forced it downstream to everyone else. Good news is that BlackRock is slowly moving away from DEI and hopefully more companies will follow.
Well there you go then.
Is that what happened?
Are you sure?
Why not?
Can you tell me how many matches I dropped?
Because I said so. That's why.
The real question is: If I spilled a box of matches all over the floor, would you be able to tell me how many matches I dropped?