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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, I’ve seen wet blankets with more charisma than those last two. “JD” “Vance” definitely gives off a lot of failson vibes - weirdly, he seems a lot like Uday and Qusay Trump.

    And then DeSantis seems he’s always trying to be this fake alpha dickbag with that “take that mask off” stuff being growled at a goddamned KID and stomping around in those high heels of his, LOL.

    At least with Taco, many dipshits seem to think this fancy-pants Manhattanite that never worked a day in his life and skipped out on service due to “bone spurs” is not in fact a gigantic pussy, but a real Man’s Man. I just don’t see the slack-jawed yokels going for couch fucker in mascara or the height-challenged guy prancing around in high heels.

    But then again, I’ve been wrong before. I thought they’d see right through the guy with a 2 hour hair and makeup routine who was known for decades as a bullshit loud-mouthed con artist…






  • In a word: no.

    It’s more nuanced than that, but the discussion around such things is now so polarized that it’s hard to have a conversation about things like Ghostbusters 2016. It felt like a big bloated pandering, bandwagon-jumping, uninspired mess and then the marketing and ensuing aftermath of it flopping was that if you didn’t like it, the problem is with you the viewer and you need to check your privilege, etc. And that’s just nonsense.

    If the message is the audience must like a movie/TV show simply because of the demographic makeup of the actors/writers/directors, or else it’s the audience that has failed, well then I reject that. And so did a lot of the audience going by the ratings and the amount of money made.

    Were there misogynist assholes bitching about how it was going to “ruin their childhoods” and other such claptrap because, ew, giiiiirrrls? Of course. But that doesn’t mean the toxic liberal scolds out there telling people they must like this IP were not creating another set of problems…it’d be fine if they tried to reboot the much-loved IP with all-women and it failed and if they quietly said, well, that didn’t work, what did we (mostly the writers, I think) do wrong here? But that didn’t happen. There was lots of blame-shifting and lectures.