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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-disney-mulan-china-idUSKBN2630AZ Only comment I'm making on this is the captions in the video were, I guess, autogenerated and gets Uyghurs as weavers and then wiggers. And I'm really glad it did. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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BrainDance posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-disney-mulan-china-idUSKBN2630AZ Every single thing about this Mulan movie is either stupid, bad or strange or all three at the same time. Manohla Dargis of the NYT, one of two resident film critics there (A.O. Scott being the other) who both routinely write scathing reviews about every single great movie, loving LOVES this movie. You can "buy" it on Disney+, but then you "own" it only on that service. The main actress loves the HK police. Disney had to make this in the Uyghur region. From a strictly logical standpoint, if you collaborate with the Nazis, it doesn't matter if you do it in Berlin or Auschwitz, but it's still a bad look. ==> I give Bob Chapek another year as a CEO tops until Eisner comes back or they get someone else. He seems grossly incompetent.
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They also had boatloads of Chinese people working on the film either directly or as consultants and nobody told them that Mulan, from northern China, couldn't possibly live in a Tulou.
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I really wonder why they did that. It seems like a weird hill to die on. "No, actually genocide is good and justified. We, Disney, totally stand for it!" Could have just made a movie anywhere in China without any connection to that sort of business and made money from both sides.
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Would it be crediting the Chinese government too much if it was suggested that they ensured Disney filmed at that location so later on they could say "There can't possibly be any genocide happening - look the American company Disney filmed out there and they saw nothing!"
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I saw the Mulan movie last night. Chi is stored in the balls, apparently
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And the award for surprising abso-fuckin'-lutely nobody goes to: https://twitter.com/i/events/1305285869738184704 WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 10:49
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Haramstufe Rot posted:I really wonder why they did that. It seems like a weird hill to die on. "No, actually genocide is good and justified. We, Disney, totally stand for it!" If only there were clues. https://youtu.be/pjNtBi_lzzM?t=108
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screamin and creamin posted:Every single thing about this Mulan movie is either stupid, bad or strange or all three at the same time. given that chapek started as ceo in february of this year and mulan filmed from august to november 2018 i'm not really sure if this can all be pinned on him
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screamin and creamin posted:The main actress loves the HK police. This is pretty much standard be operating procedure when Chinese nationals are in a western movie now. Toe the CCP line and publicity stare it, or your career is over and your assets are frozen.
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Yeah I don’t get why people are dragging the actress over her supposed support of the Hk cops. Like okay maybe it really IS her opinion but it’s more likely that she simply doesn’t want her career to go up in flames or to suddenly vanish off the face of the earth.
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Gutcruncher posted:Yeah I don’t get why people are dragging the actress over her supposed support of the Hk cops. Like okay maybe it really IS her opinion but it’s more likely that she simply doesn’t want her career to go up in flames or to suddenly vanish off the face of the earth.
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I wouldn't be surprised if someone at the rump end of state security has the task of leaning on any famous faces to make sure they're on public record supporting the right side.
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Strategic Tea posted:I wouldn't be surprised if someone at the rump end of state security has the task of leaning on any famous faces to make sure they're on public record supporting the right side. Leaning on anyone you can to parrot the party line is a time honored tradition in China that goes back 50 years. Even Chinese folks living in America with a green card or dual citizenship don't want to say bad things about China, because the officials can and will be impossibly petty to you about it if you or your family ever interacts with the state in any capacity. Like, your nephew went to Shenzen for a job interview and was detained for 2 weeks and fined 20,000 yuan for 'anti-government statements' tier petty.
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Mordja posted:Nobody asked her opinion on the protests, she could have just not said anything regardless of her beliefs. If I remember rightly, she was explicitly asked about the protests in an interview because she is a prominent Chinese actress. And, as stated above, because she is a prominent Chinese actress who wishes to remain a prominent Chinese actress, she gave a "what the CCP is doing is cool and good." style answer before moving on. Doesn't make it right, but it does explain it. edit: Methylethylaldehyde posted:Leaning on anyone you can to parrot the party line is a time honored tradition in China that goes back 50 years. Even Chinese folks living in America with a green card or dual citizenship don't want to say bad things about China, because the officials can and will be impossibly petty to you about it if you or your family ever interacts with the state in any capacity. Yeah. There is a recently documented case of an exchange student at University of Queensland who was photographed in the background of a Free Hong Kong protest in Brisbane, who got a phone call from his parents saying they had been visited by a Party Official who leaned on them by telling them that their son should "think about his families safety before doing anything." The CCP is petty, vindictive, and not above threatening family members. Hell they threatened the family of the whistleblower doctor in Wuhan as a matter of standard protocol. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:If I remember rightly, she was explicitly asked about the protests in an interview because she is a prominent Chinese actress. quote:In August 2019, Liu reshared an image posted by Chinese newspaper People's Daily, an official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[49] The image included a quote from Chinese reporter Fu Guohao who worked for People's Daily-owned tabloid Global Times and was subsequently assaulted by protesters during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: "I support Hong Kong police. You can beat me now. What a shame for Hong Kong."
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Mordja posted:I thought she just tweeted it, unsolicited. From wikipedia: Fair enough. I misremembered.
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She totally went out of her way to stump for CCP. Everything about Mulan is a travesty. Donnie Yen is worse. https://twitter.com/kevinkfyam/status/1302121904736669696 Haramstufe Rot posted:I really wonder why they did that. It seems like a weird hill to die on. "No, actually genocide is good and justified. We, Disney, totally stand for it!" They absolutely didn't need to go there or anywhere in China to film it. Disney 110% went there because they got tax breaks/cash/unlimited extras. There are places where you can hire so many extras that you can form a literal division that is cheaper than CGI. Armour and sets included. When they film 3 kingdoms # 8975 don't be surprised if #8974 was filmed on the same set with the same extras with #8976 filming concurrently.
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Mr. Fix It posted:honestly, just retire niggardly. stingy works just fine. There's no reason to use it instead of the synonymous (and far more common) "miserly" unless you're an internet racist between 2008 and 2016 and need a clever way to call Obama the Forbidden Word.
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https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1305557170742636545?s=21 Get ready
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/\ this is a particularly low effort troll.Fallen Hamprince posted:There's no reason to use it instead of the synonymous (and far more common) "miserly" unless you're an internet racist between 2008 and 2016 and need a clever way to call Obama the Forbidden Word. It's not a synonym but it's certainly used like one by 99% of people who decide to use it. From the cambridge dictionary "niggardly adjective disapproving UK /ˈnɪɡ.əd.li/ US /ˈnɪɡ.ɚd.li/ slight in amount, quality, or effort:" Edit: to be clear I agree it probably doesn't need to be used. Weka fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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The only people who use the word niggardly do it in hopes that someone gets mad at them so they can get on their high horse about it The same as the people who legally open carry firearms.
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Gutcruncher posted:The only people who use the word niggardly do it in hopes that someone gets mad at them so they can get on their high horse about it Sometimes you can just look at someone and think "I bet they would try to justify using the word niggardly"
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 Mass detention of Uighers? Think again, outlander! -You cannot tell for certain that this mass of blind-folded men arrested in Xinjiang are Uighers. Do you see a sign saying "UIGHERS HERE"? I don't!  FAKE NEWS -You said they were kneeling, but clearly we can see them sitting!  These are different actions!Apologize! 
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Sad I had to check whether it wasn't from a western outlet
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josef goebbels with chinese characteristics
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"Look at these photos! They definitely don't show atrocities against the Uighers! Look at them, can't you see them? Here we'll show them to you, so you can see just how NOT bad they look. Take a good long look so you can absorb just how FAKE it is. See them? These photos right here. They are wrong, commit them to memory so you can remember what WRONG photos look like"
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Big Global Times energy there, writing "Kashi" instead of Kashgar
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Rabelais D posted:Big Global Times energy there, writing "Kashi" instead of Kashgar I was wondering what sort of heinous crimes you had to commit to get sent to granola jail.
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Why... Why would you release such a thing? Lots of Flat Earth level energy.Rinkles posted:Sad I had to check whether it wasn't from a western outlet Western outlets can be pretty bloody stupid, just not this stupid.
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China loses out on seat on UN committee on the Status of Women to noted defenders of feminism India. https://www.deccanherald.com/nation...I-R3hxvsqDq4-Vs Given the petty slapfight happening between the two country at the border, and the petty whingy babyness of both countries political leadership, I expect to see a bunch of diplomatic bragging/tears over this.
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In fairness, didn't the UN award the chair of a Woman's rights board to Saudi Arabia?
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WarpedNaba posted:In fairness, didn't the UN award the chair of a Woman's rights board to Saudi Arabia? Feminism with Saudi Arabian characteristics
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WarpedNaba posted:In fairness, didn't the UN award the chair of a Woman's rights board to Saudi Arabia? And they were right to do so. Do you know they are allowed to drive now? So progressive!
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Just popping in from exile to say that the Mulan actress has American citizenship, and has a reputation as a really low tier actress in Chinese media.
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