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    7 hours ago

    It is morally correct to pirate Paramount content then complain about how shit it is anyway.

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    It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, since Hollywood loves to blacklist folks in general for opinions outside work. But to outright claim X, Y or Z won’t be working at Paramount seems a bit of a stretch.

    There’s a lot of wiggle room in that article. It’s reporting on ‘sources told Variety’ that Paramount is making a list, but that they’re not sure who’s on it. But that they assume these people would be.

    It’s all silly anyway. Even folks like Kevin Spacey eventually get back to working in Hollywood. Hollywood principles only go so far once the media attention dies down.

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    Furthermore, Variety claims that Ellison’s goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more “America-centric” and geared toward “the middle of the country.”

    RIP any future Star Trek property.

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        So hilarious and so apt… I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what’s effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones… but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.

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      America-centric?

      Mother fucker it’s already America-centric, just look at the space Christian angels episodes of discovery to see how American it is.

      Oh well, more Americans shooting themselves in the foot for foreign media to step in and replace them. Guess this is the century of China if America is giving up.

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      Good luck with South Park and painting Matt Stone as Anti-Semitic. Fucking pieces of shit.

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      I reckon we could get 4 seasons into a Terran Empire based series before the MAGAs figure out they’re being made fun of.

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        You could get away with a Starship Troopers Star Trek Terran Empire series literally forever, The Colbert Report ran 11 seasons and people still think it existed to balance out the liberal bias of The Daily Show.

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    Seeing that list of stars, I didn’t even need to open the article to see if Paramount was just conflating anti-genocide with anti-semitic.

    They are, in case it wasn’t immediately clear.

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    This past September, the company became the first major Hollywood studio to publicly reject a high-profile letter — signed by stars including Stone and Bardem — that urged a cultural boycott of Israeli film institutions accused of engaging in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians. Warner Bros. later took the same position.

    Ah, so not antisemitic, but “antisemitic”. Imagine blacklisting Jewish signers as “antisemitic”. Seems the Paramount execs are the actual antisemites.

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    Is that a bad thing? As in, there are some good actors on that list which won’t be making MAGA-friendly films at Paramount.

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    *People critical of the attrocicities being committed by the genocidal Israeli government under netanyahu

    I’m sure there’s numerous Jewish actors on their list.