The never-ending battle against woke Hollywood and SJW infused entertainment media [trigger warning]

Midnight's Edge is a bit dry and humorless but they are fairly factual.



A few things in this video make Amazon's actions make more sense financially.

1) Amazon only owns the rights to Tolkien's addendums, not the Hobbit or LOTR. I'm not sure about the Simirilian.

This partially explains why they are working in such a small space and are not shy of rewriting it. They have to rewrite it so the historical events happen in a shorter time frame so their human characters don't age and die to be replaced by new characters next season.

2) Amazon is likely trying to buy the rights to The Hobbit and LOTR.

3) Amazon is not trying to make this a prequel to Peter Jackson's movies.

Either they want to buy the rights to LOTR and make their own OR they will fail to buy LOTR. But either way, they have no incentive to make their series mesh with Peter Jackson's LOTR. Which sidesteps of question. "Okay, if it's the same universe, how come the past had a bunch of black dwarves, elves, and hobbits and the LOTR didn't? Was there some secret color specific genocide?"

4) Jeff Bezos is claiming to be a big LOTR fan.

Some are saying he is lying for marketing purposes. But I don't think he's lying. Years ago I spoke with an accountant for a professional sport franchise. He said some people buy a team as an investment and others are just rich people who like to say "I own the insert team here." The latter are not trying to make money, just break even. Note, most of the sport's team that consistently are in the running for championships are run like a money making business, not as a hobby.

Hypothetically, if you gave me an obscene amount of money and I was required to spend it on something selfish, I wouldn't buy a giant mansion or a fleet of yachts, I would bankroll vanity media projects.

I think Jeff Bezos wants to own Tolkien's work the way other rich people want to own a professional sport's team.

Like most sport's team owners, his net worth is so high that he doesn't need it to make money.

 

I don't believe I have been remotely tempted to watch Showtime in the last fifteen years. I cannot boycott something I wasn't going to buy anyway.

Side note, I don't like Ryan Kinel's presentation style, even when I agree with his points.

 

I agree that Critical Drinker is my favorite. His work seems scripted and rehearsed.

I don't mind Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers but I don't like to listen to angry nerds for long periods of time. Overlord DVD claims to be angry, but I don't smell the vitriol that Jeremy has. I too wish Clownfish TV was a little more succinct but I like their casual style.

I often have Clownfish TV as background noise. I try to limit myself to one or two angry rant videos a day. Ideally without excessive swearing.

In most cases I listen to videos without watching them, and I nearly always watch at accelerated speed. Though with Critical Drinker, I usually listen to at normal speed as a sign of respect.

I regularly watch Thatumbrellaguy for updates on Amber Heard's court drama. Domestic abuse is a terrible thing even when a woman is hitting a man. It's even worse when a woman hits a man than tries to make the victim the bad guy.

 

i wasn't aware of the existence of such a pile of crap...

 

"Everything is gonna be..." reminds me a lot of the first Jurassic Park. When the paleontologists need to immerse their whole arms in the big pile of dinosaur's crap to find the poisonous berries. Here i was, diving in that pile of crap and finding a solid core of ignorance and racism against white people.

 

According to the anti-defamation league, it is impossible to be racist against white people.



On June 1, 2020, the ADL’s definition of racism was this:

Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.

But a few months later it was changed to this.

The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

By their first definition of racism, the second definition is inherently racist!

Not only does this mean that white people can never be the targets of racism. This also means, that the CCP's discrimination against foreigners in general, Africans, and ethnic minorities within China are not actually racist because this sort of discrimination does not help white people. If anything you can call it social justice because the CCPs action inconvenience white people in the free world.

This also means that if hypothetically Asian and Black people attacked each other on the basis of race, that would also not be racist because white people are not involved.


The Anti-Defamation League is now essentially a pro-defamation league in a very Orwellian sense where the Ministry of Peace foments war, the Ministry of Love spreads hate and the Ministry of Truth spins lies.

 

Is this the organization that took a century to recognize that, maybe the armenian genocide was, well, a genocide?
what a bunch of clowns.

 

If i'm not wrong they don't have the rights on ir.