Of course they do. They're luciferians

True. Once upon a time, the blue-collar people were depicted with a certain dignity. (As well as wealthy conservatives.) Now they are ignored at best, lampooned at worst.

As discouraging as it is, it can't last forever it's wildly unsustainable. Wokeness eats itself more often than not

I don't believe in wokeness or anything that both the politicians(of All political parties) and the nationwide media say,for it is just terrible producers and terrible people in Hollywood and the film industry,the Harry Knowles influenced journalism industry(and community), the terrible fandom community(of All genre films),and the terrible politicians that plague our society and our world as I heavily miss the days of intelligent journalists and intelligent film fans(of every genre) whose guidance we all solely need today..

@@stevenmillan9220 You ‘don’t believe in wokeness’ that’s on display right in front of you on a daily basis? …and I’m sorry, but genre fans are the only folks keeping things in check for these revisionist a$$holes.

US here, BBC before 1990 is great. All creatures great and small , foyle's war, Dr who, documentaries, fun stuff! Now, BBC is bog roll

@@thejohnbeck Like many Yanks, I looked up to the UK for quality programming. While their actors are still top-notch, their product is unwatchable -- just a bunch of woke stuff.

@@1Gr8Editrix I didn't look up to it. I just liked their stuff. David Attenborough had been shown to be a liar in his documentaries, so I do mean everything BBC.

This is how current-day journalists see their role: "Our job is not to inform the public, it's to educate the peasants."

Ever since the Boomers went to college in droves those with college degrees are driving out those with non-college degrees in both the media, but also lower and middle management. This is why education is now the new class divide.

@@primmakinsofis614 Yeah, that's more accurate. I've heard them say it on occasion. Remember when all sorts of media types were describing themselves as "educators" in their Twitter bios? They kind of stopped doing it after 2019 or so, but there was a stretch where it seemed like every editor, journalist, TV writer, etc. described themselves as an "educator". So obnoxious.

@@primmakinsofis614 So true. They sound so arrogant & ignorant, a bunch of whiny but naive rich kids. I listened to one of them last week (she stopped by to visit my roommate), and I had to refrain from laughing when I heard her talk about politics, economy, etc.

Exactly!

The same reason I quit reading the movie news(of every genre) that heavily brownnose the corporate studios and (each and) every single terrible film that is out there.

You mean for office or making movies? Yes to both. The former is best attempted on the state or local level where you have more chances of making a difference directly in the lives of your community. As for the latter, I'm not sure how anyone does it successfully as an independent creator, but I can't help but feel that the future where innovation and the most interesting stuff will exist outside of Hollywood. The internet basically democratize the creation of art so you don't necessarily have to go to the centralized Hollywood hub to create something.

"You. Don't. LISTEN!!" 🔥🔥🔥🦟

That's because this society has taken life for granted. The current generation wants participation trophies for zero effort.

11-12 years ago, I first listened to the Switchfoot song "Selling the News." (Their whole Vice Versus album is a great work of alt rock, imo). I didn't fully understand it at the time, but now I think it was ahead of the curve on exactly what your comment is talking about. It was on the pulse of upside-down media reality, manipulative fake news propaganda and inversion of truth. It's basically about "fake news" and being red pilled on the official narrative before a lot of that stuff really hit the zeitgeist.

You really believe that Trump, who lives in a gold plated home believes in 'championing the underdog'? Trump is a deceitful scumbag. I still remember how he made fun of a disabled reporter during his presidential campaigns, I couldn't believe what I was watching.

Interesting comment. Understand that there are free thinking blacks and other minorities who don't drink the liberal lie flavored Kool-Aid. They are treated just as poorly as conservative whites, be they male or female.

As someone who is definitely not a leftist, self-proclaimed leftists that primarily espouse the values you expressed are the ones I like and would probably happily call a friend. You aligned with the people you did on the basis conscience, common decency (love your neighbor as yourself), and moral principle. Take my opinion for whatever it's worth to you, but I think the problem is that a lot of leftists only claim to care about xyz outsider group or profess whatever principled stance they think will gain them more power and control in the moment, only to heel turn as soon as they have what they want and they believe that saying something else will get them even more power and control. In other words, it's no principled stance at all, publicly Virtue signaling (professing virtuous beliefs without actually doing anything to be virtuous) in order to get what they actually want. The reason I think that many past leftist advocacy movements have worked to whatever extent they have is because to one degree or another, regardless of whether or not they're ultimately correct or not, there is at least some kind of a valid point to be made that deserves to be addressed which they recognize and tap into. What they do, however, is latch onto the plight of those in need, not because they actually give a rip about those people or those principles, but so that such-and-such group or whatever cause can be used as a shield for their own envious pursuit of power. "Xyz is a problem, so give us power so we can stop it/help them!" That's why the anti-war left under Bush almost entirely flipped overnight as soon as Obama took office, because they thought they had one of their own in power to push their causes and agendas. They paid absolutely no mind to the fact that he escalated the exact same wars and even started multiple new ones. Similarly, you can see this point illustrated in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. There were two main factions by my estimation. There was the classical liberal faction that had liberals and conservatives alike who espoused equality under the law, wanted to make the country better by bringing everyone together, and admonished America to fully honor the spirit of its founding values by fully acknowledging and respecting the dignity of all of its citizens because "all men are created equal" in the eyes of the Creator. Then there was the leftist/communist faction that espoused race consciousness, tried to stoke racial tensions, and used the sins of the country's past as an argument to undermine America's legitimacy as a country. The latter faction was ostracized and marginalized in the movement, resulting in the cultural victory for the classical liberal cause. What we're seeing now with progressivism/wokeism and things like critical race theory is not liberalism. It's basically the vengeful resurgence of the radical divide and conquer race consciousness faction. They pretend to advocate for the rights and interests of black people, but they manipulate and lie to black people all the time for power and money with no intention of truly getting to the bottom of a problem and actually solving anything. They pretend to work someone's interests only insofar as they're perceived to be useful for acquiring more power. That's why leftists abandoned the working class, particularly the white working class, because too many of them in America didn't buy what they were selling. They generally didn't embrace the revolutionary agenda on account of the fact they didn't hate their country, so the left threw them to the wolves when the corporatist globalists gutted American industry and exported it elsewhere in the 80s and 90s. They adopted the fascist belief (fascism actually being the black sheep cousin of socialism/communism or its sibling rival rather than anything "far right") that "there is no truth but power." It's a bit simplistic, but you wouldn't be entirely off-base to conclude that "progressivism" or whatever you want to call it is basically an unholy marriage between Maoist communism and Mussolini fascism/corporatism that uses critical theory and postmodernism as it's primary weapons to attack and undermine the society that its trying to destroy/conquer so they can build their delusional vision of utopia on the ashes.

@@Tyler_W Well said!

​@@Tyler_W A few things, first there is a tone of virtue signaling going on these days. I agree with the values of the 'WOKE' movement for the most part, it's the implementation of those values that frustrates and scares me (the erosion of free speech and freedom of expression and cancel culture). One problem I do have with WOKEism is its fixation of being 'offensive'. Most decent, ethical people will agree that there are things that are offensive and should be avoided, however WOKEism appears to want to eradiate 'anything' that's offensive, which is absurd. Anything can be potentially offensive to someone, and being offended goes with freedom of speech/expression. However, it also allows you to voice your grievances. If the only price you have to pay for freedom of speech/expression is the possibility of being offended, I call that a bargain. Critical Race theory wants to blame racism (on the part of whites only) for almost everything (which is itself racist), it's becoming toxic. However, I'll be the first to admit that racism is still a problem, however it's not relegated to white people, like the WOKE idiots keep claiming. The thing that annoys me the most is that the counties that are primarily white are the only ones trying to make the world a better place. The WOKE idiots never discuss all the countries (cultures) on this planet that are social nightmares. The only people you can criticize are white people apparently. As far as your comment about globalists gutting American industry and exporting it elsewhere, if you're referring to the fact that much of the products purchased in the West are produced by other countries (primarily China), that has to do with plain ol' economics. Many American companies export their production to other countries (China being the main one) because of the low costs of production, which increases the profits of the parent companies.

As you said, the affordability and access to quality equipment makes it easier to do anywhere, as does the Internet, sspecually the internet. If people can just get the vision, backing, and promotion for a studio, pet's say, somewhere in the Midwest, akd they could promote more independent material with less restrictions and red tape, I think something like that could blow up. Location is far less of an obstacle now so long as people have the internet to communicate.

@@Tyler_W it would be cool to see some sort of streaming service that has open competitions for writers, directors, etc around the country, to find the standouts, and then helps them produce their films or series. I know I'd be willing to check out a service like that and see what they produce. Rachel Leigh Cook was recently on the Inside of You podcast, and she made a comment about how movies always want to cast big names for the publicity, but she was thinking about the people out there who would maybe could have played that role better, even if they weren't career actors and this was their only perfect role, but we will never see them or what they could offer. That comment stuck with me and made me think about all of the talent that we are missing out on because they're the wrong kind of voice, or they live in the wrong place. Part of the current strike is about getting more money because of the cost of living in LA, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why tv writers need to live in LA. Build your writers room in another state, and suddenly your writers are living like kings.

The problem is that the areas that could most benefit from film and tv don't want them there because of traffic and a very annoying sense of "small town", "our town", "our neighborhood" which happens on the right wing and left wing who think anything that comes across as gentrification is going to destroy their honestly average cities instead of turning them into hot spots

@@NA86737 possibly. I've definitely worked on a project that disrupted the downtown area and upset people, but this was due to bad scheduling which tied up the city for days. Most projects that I've worked on have managed to film without too much disruption, both in smaller towns and in the city. I think it comes down to respecting the locals. Sometimes, out of town productions can think that they're a bigger deal for locals than they really are.

That’s basically what Marvel comics was, Jewish guys writing stories about working class Irish guys hahaha

Chastain is a repugnant feminist. She's awful.

@@ShadeDraws she's the only one though who will act and produce about the working class. A repugnant feminist would be Lena Dunham, Taylor Swift who use feminism to masquerade their deep seeded neuroses.

John Hillcoat is an excellent, underrated filmmaker. He was perfect for The Road. I look forward to Blood Meridian.

The exception proves the rule, then.

@@Tyler_W I mean Coda was about a working class blue collar family, Parasite was about a working class blue collar family (in Korea but still), Nomadland was about working class people in general being left behind by society but coming together. It’s been a trend not an exception with working class blue collar films to win best picture. Before that Green Book won which wasn’t exactly cheerleaded by the left was it lol?

Nope, wrong, your take, and you.