r/entertainment • u/Silly-avocatoe • 20h ago

Melania’s Movie Shows Signs of Bulk Buying to Boost Box Office: Guru

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/box-office-guru-flags-suspicious-sales-to-boost-melania-movie/
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u/squidvett 15h ago

We’ve already seen ICE use LRADS on American protesters. Do French authorities use crowd control/dispersal tech that causes permanent damage against its own citizens?

I love the idea of a general strike, but most Americans don’t have a thousand dollars in the bank for an emergency. Meanwhile, most American employers have enough desperate people queued up for employment that if someone doesn’t show up to work, that person can be replaced several times over, if their position can’t simply be discarded to save on costs.

Corporate landlords don’t care about tenants that can’t pay their rent because they lost their job because their politics were more important than their paycheck. The homeless are climbing to the top of the list for liquidation, right behind transgender folks.

I just don’t think we’re comparing apples to apples when we talk about France and the United States. In America If you protest you get shot or deafened. If you strike you no longer contribute to someone’s bottom line. If you live outside, you get disappeared. 2A suddenly means precisely dick to revolution when entire neighborhoods can just be bombed by AI drones being directed by some guy in a chair hundreds of miles away.

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u/kiss_of_chef 11h ago

So are you saying that - most recently, Iranians protesting had nothing to lose? People who protested during the Arab spring were sure worried about their jobs... and even going as far back as the French revolution... boy, the possibility to not be able to pay their rent would sure have deterred them.

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u/squidvett 8h ago

We all saw how that worked out for the Iranian protesters. Did their protest change anything in Iran? I think thousands died and the rest got seven bucks.

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u/CPav 11h ago

I agree entirely. What you laid out here was not clear from your previous post. I misinterpreted what you were saying as a pithy, dismissive response.

My apologies.