Ragoo said:

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YouBet said:

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Ragoo said:

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YouBet said:

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The Diplomat on Netflix is really good. It has the normal subtle Democrat bias that all political shows have, but it's good enough to look past it.

Have not seen the latest season 3 yet.

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try The Gentlemen too. It is great.

Netflix and Apple TV are my 1A and 1B. Netflix both quantity and quality, Apple for quality.

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We loved The Gentlemen. I believe a second season is on way.

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it's out

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And it's really good.

BigFred said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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That's a level of passitivity that "woke" simply is not.

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Woke was term used by spoken-word poets as a greater awareness of health, wealth, etc. But I get why you wouldn't know that.

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"Woke" has a long history in black speech but it most recently emerged from black academics who write about -- surprise -- black issues. It means to be aware of racial injustice and social (i.e. progressive) issues.

The term entered the mainstream during the Black Lives Matter movement because progressive writers used it extensively to mock white people who questioned the underlying reasons for the upheaval. In their minds, whites didn't understand because they were still asleep, i.e. not "woke."

White conservatives didn't change the meaning ... they simply took a word that was considered laudatory by progressives and turned it into a negative, describing people or things that are over-the-top progressive.

ETA: I see now that others have posted basically the same thing, so I apologize for piling on.

Dallas82 said:

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Yeah, all that woke backlash is why the Odyssey is the 16th highest grossing picture of all time.
(Hint- nobody cares about your woke fetish)

Oops. Scratch that. 15th highest grossing film.

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No, Christopher Nolan is why the Odyssey is the 16th (or whatever) highest grossing film of all time.

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EFR said:

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What is the obsession with trying to tie the troubles of any company to being "woke"?

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right wing culture warriors don't have much to celebrate these days, gonna invent wins where they can to avoid succumbing to despair

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The border and USAID both still closed last time I checked. I'm good.

AxelFoley85 said:

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Netflix just secured the rights to the next World Cup. They ain't hurting

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Tell that to the 6% of their workforce losing their jobs.

Jeeper79 said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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Dallas82 said:

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Yeah, all that woke backlash is why the Odyssey is the 16th highest grossing picture of all time.
(Hint- nobody cares about your woke fetish)

Oops. Scratch that. 15th highest grossing film.

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Yeah, how'd all that woke casting and writing work out for films like Snow White, The Little Mermaid, or The Marvels?

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Movies can be woke and still be excellent. Take Black Panther for example. The three you listed were also just mediocre movies at best (and Snow White was decisively bad).

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One of the most overrated movies ever

How hard is it to keep your own personal politics OUT of business?

But no, business leaders do it all the time. I've seen big business crash out because the CEO went nuts and began to pontificate about some woke issue to get some likes from some niche group (at the cost of everyone else). And more recently I saw an owner of a very successful local restaurant in my area sell it and move to FL and open a new restaurant and tell everyone there that they came to get "better politics" and they were MAGA. Now MAGA or not, it is dumb to say that because it alienates a large group of customers who are not MAGA.

Dallas82 said:

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Yeah, all that woke backlash is why the Odyssey is the 16th highest grossing picture of all time.
(Hint- nobody cares about your woke fetish)

Oops. Scratch that. 15th highest grossing film.

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Christopher Nolan is arguably the greatest Director of his generation.

Also, had they NOT decided to go Woke with the casting it would have almost certainly made more. It's not Netflix though.

The thing that annoys the hell out of me is making shows about Europe and the UK or Greece up until 1900 and acting like it wasn't 99% native European and that there was this group of black people who were aristocrats and rich and noble folks there who were the heroes. Why? It only takes away from a story and it isn't even original anymore. Started with "Hamilton" and "Bridgerton" and now it's in every show. Netflix isn't alone in this of course or even the worst. Then you have crap like "The Woman King" that takes a people that basically bathed in the blood of slaves and had to be forcibly put down by Europeans to finally stop the slave trade and making them into the heroes who wanted to end slavery against the evil white people.

6 lower openings after earnings in a row this morning.

techno-ag said:

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Is the Odyssey a Netflix film?

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He's a lib, you will have to forgive his reading comprehension

BigFred said:

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Silent For Too Long said:

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EFR said:

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What is the obsession with trying to tie the troubles of any company to being "woke"?

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Republicans can't stop using the word "woke", Which origins simply means. staying alert.


But Republicans have co-opted and weaponized the term "woke" as a catch-all pejorative label to attack progressive policies, diversity initiatives, etc.

It's like when your grandparents misuse a slang term that they have heard their grand kids say in an annoying way to appear hip or clever.

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This is revisionist garbage. Case in point, even left wing SNL latched on to the idiocy of woke 9 years ago

Lots of stories going around around the pre release views of Narnia flopping and several people have been fired. It seems the films are on hold until they figure out all the changes they want to make.

P.U.T.U said:

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Lots of stories going around around the pre release views of Narnia flopping and several people have been fired. It seems the films are on hold until they figure out all the changes they want to make.

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Unbelievable they thought having a woman voice Jesus was a good idea.

P.U.T.U said:

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Lots of stories going around around the pre release views of Narnia flopping and several people have been fired. It seems the films are on hold until they figure out all the changes they want to make.

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I've seen the same. Several reports that early screenings got horrendous feedback. We will see.

techno-ag said:

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P.U.T.U said:

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Lots of stories going around around the pre release views of Narnia flopping and several people have been fired. It seems the films are on hold until they figure out all the changes they want to make.

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Unbelievable they thought having a woman voice Jesus was a good idea.

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It was deliberate.

My issue with Netfix, is that they cancel so many shows after one season (several) or two seasons (OA is one example)

So now we don't pick anything unless it is a limited series, or has at least 2 seasons. And that really restricts what you can watch.

"Woke" comes form he same sentiments of: " Once I was blind, but now I see".

Sentimental of a state of benightment. But with today's leadership and low vibration mind sets.
I completely comprehend why many miss the essence of the term woke.

techno-ag said:

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Unbelievable they thought having a woman voice Jesus was a good idea.

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They can't relate to Christians at all since they don't know any.

Right. It's always been about leftists proclaiming moral superiority. While being completely degenerate. They created the term.

It became a pejorative because they made it so.

Netflix used to be an avenue for must-see shows. Now the only use my free account gets is my kids watching 10-15 year old shows (not the weirdo grooming content either, it's closely monitored).

Useless service with inflated streaming numbers. I have no interest in watchin live sports on it either.

BigFred said:

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"Woke" comes form he same sentiments of: " Once I was blind, but now I see".

Sentimental of a state of benightment. But with today's leadership and low vibration mind sets.
I completely comprehend why many miss the essence of the term woke.

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Dude, we have been over this already. Are you a recent graduate who thinks everything your generation comes up with is something brand new that nobody has done before? The concept of "woke" goes back a century to the black community in the 1920s and 1930s and was about being awake and aware of systemic and structural racism. Recent progressive politicians and social media co-opted the concept in the last 10 years as part of their BLM, DEI, ESG push, but the concept is neither new nor unique to recent politics.

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Right. It's always been about leftists proclaiming moral superiority. While being completely degenerate. They created the term.

It became a pejorative because they made it so.

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They didn't create the term or the concept. It is about a century old and has just been co-opted by recent progressives.

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