Right wing nuts thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[LA - L.A.]

weird is an understatement.. they just keep getting weirder..

Yeah, they've crossed over to disturbed.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Article on racist and sexist review bombing
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……However, with grim inevitability, a huge chunk of the backlash was racist in nature. Diehard Tolkien fans took against the casting of Black actors (including Lenny Henry playing a Harfoot, one of the show’s proto-Hobbits).

Elsewhere, the decision to give one female dwarf facial hair sparked fury from people who were either repulsed by the idea of female facial hair or outraged that her beard wasn’t as big as it could have been.

As such, the show became a potential target for review bombers: people who deliberately and maliciously give low user ratings for shows they disagree with ideologically, in an attempt to drag down their overall rating…….

Although it wasn’t the best run of The Boys – it felt a lot like everyone was keeping their powder dry for next year’s finale – there’s a sense that many bad reviews came from angry Republicans who learned too late that the show was a satire on the Trump-era United States.

This is backed up by the Rottentomatoes page, which is full of tossed-off half-star reviews such as “the people running it think it’s their job to make a show to air their values and beliefs instead of entertain” and, apparently alluding to one character’s growing sense of compassion, “the french is an arsehole”

Damon Lindelof knows about review bombing. His 2019 Watchmen series had to overcome a huge amount of backlash before it even began.

First, Alan Moore – the co-creator of the source material – was publicly hostile about the adaptation, and then Lindelof had the temerity to not only cast a Black woman as the lead, but use the 1921 Tulsa race massacre as the show’s inciting incident.

Despite universal critical acclaim, a noisy group of users bombed Watchmen’s Rottentomatoes page, taking its score down as low as 43%……

Then there’s The Acolyte, the most recent Star Wars series to air on Disney+. Perhaps because it has a female showrunner in Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland, or perhaps because it attempted to add some breadth to the Star Wars universe, a vocal minority of fans have trashed the show online wherever possible, with one IMDb reviewer calling it nothing less than “cultural vandalism”.

When it was cancelled after only one series, its star Amandla Stenberg blamed it on “a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us”.…..

‘You know your show is garbage!’: inside TV’s biggest backlashes

From Watchmen to The Rings of Power, TV is increasingly being bombarded with outrage. We talk to the creators of shows who faced down furore, review bombing and a furious police force

www.theguardian.com

It tempts me to post my one hour political satire pilot script online somewhere. If those shows made right wing Trumpers pissed off, I can't imagine what my script would do to them. The crazy thing is that negative viral attention might actually help me get it sold. The American film and television industry are afraid to touch any project that doesn't already have some public attention and awareness.

 

[SystemShock]

Then there’s The Acolyte, the most recent Star Wars series to air on Disney+. Perhaps because it has a female showrunner in Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland, or perhaps because it attempted to add some breadth to the Star Wars universe, a vocal minority of fans have trashed the show online wherever possible, with one IMDb reviewer calling it nothing less than “cultural vandalism”.

When it was cancelled after only one series, its star Amandla Stenberg blamed it on “a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us”.…..

The Acolyte was cancelled because it wasn't good, and didn't do well globally. Hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol in the U.S.? Sure. But that's not the case in the other 50+ countries Disney+ streams.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Unfortunately, ignorant bigotry and hate exists everywhere on the planet that humans do, especially ignorant bigotry and hate toward women and LGBTQIA+ which is the bigotry that was spewed at The Acolyte. The vitriol got so feverish that some started making death threats over the show breaking continuity regarding the age of some of the characters set up by previous Star Wars shows.

A lot of the review bombing of The Acolyte and other shows comes from Europe and Asia.

 

[MT15]

And they want people to quit calling them weird? This is weird.

 

[bird]

And they want people to quit calling them weird? This is weird.

Weird is as weird does.

 

[coldseat]

And they want people to quit calling them weird? This is weird.

I like how they put the one black guy in the middle, lol.

 

[MT15]

Imagine being an adult and saying let’s arrange the birds we killed to say Trump. Exceedingly weird.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I like how they put the one black guy in the middle, lol.

Just like at his rallies

 

[Optimus Prime]

Imagine being an adult and saying let’s arrange the birds we killed to say Trump. Exceedingly weird.

I thought those were rocks, which I did think was a bit weird, how long did that take?

But birds? BIRDS!!??

That’s beyond weird and a little serial killerish

“Let’s hunt some deer, gut them and use the entrails to spell out TRUMP! in six foot tall letters! And we’ll use the decapitated deer head to dot the exclamation point!”

“Maybe next time, let’s start with birds first”

 

[fooferdoggie]

Imagine being an adult and saying let’s arrange the birds we killed to say Trump. Exceedingly weird.

Maybe its birds from a wind farm???

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Acolyte was cancelled because it wasn't good, and didn't do well globally. Hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol in the U.S.? Sure. But that's not the case in the other 50+ countries Disney+ streams.

I haven't seen it yet so I can't comment on the quality of the show (I'm way behind on Star Wars shows, just finished Mando S3)

But Star Wars show with female showrunner, female cast and minorities to boot? The hate was going to be there no matter how good the show was

And if the show really wasn't any good, that would just be the icing on the cake, and proof of what happens when you have a female led Star Wars show

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I like how they put the one black guy in the middle, lol.

There's always one.

 

[SystemShock]

I haven't seen it yet so I can't comment on the quality of the show (I'm way behind on Star Wars shows, just finished Mando S3)

But Star Wars show with female showrunner, female cast and minorities to boot? The hate was going to be there no matter how good the show was

And if the show really wasn't any good, that would just be the icing on the cake, and proof of what happens when you have a female led Star Wars show

Nowadays, there'll always be hate, no matter the subject. However, the other side of that is, if a show like Acolyte is panned, one cannot assume that it is necessarily hate behind the criticism.

The last 3 shows, Mandalorian has a Chilean lead, Andor has a Mexican lead with a thick accent to boot, Ahsoka starts a woman with African and Taino roots. They all were well received.

And again, no matter that a small group of misogynistic haters flood XTwitter and youtube with hate and vitriol, Disney will always look at the global picture.

 

[Taurus]

Article on racist and sexist review bombing
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……However, with grim inevitability, a huge chunk of the backlash was racist in nature. Diehard Tolkien fans took against the casting of Black actors (including Lenny Henry playing a Harfoot, one of the show’s proto-Hobbits).

Elsewhere, the decision to give one female dwarf facial hair sparked fury from people who were either repulsed by the idea of female facial hair or outraged that her beard wasn’t as big as it could have been.

As such, the show became a potential target for review bombers: people who deliberately and maliciously give low user ratings for shows they disagree with ideologically, in an attempt to drag down their overall rating…….

Although it wasn’t the best run of The Boys – it felt a lot like everyone was keeping their powder dry for next year’s finale – there’s a sense that many bad reviews came from angry Republicans who learned too late that the show was a satire on the Trump-era United States.

This is backed up by the Rottentomatoes page, which is full of tossed-off half-star reviews such as “the people running it think it’s their job to make a show to air their values and beliefs instead of entertain” and, apparently alluding to one character’s growing sense of compassion, “the french is an arsehole”

Damon Lindelof knows about review bombing. His 2019 Watchmen series had to overcome a huge amount of backlash before it even began.

First, Alan Moore – the co-creator of the source material – was publicly hostile about the adaptation, and then Lindelof had the temerity to not only cast a Black woman as the lead, but use the 1921 Tulsa race massacre as the show’s inciting incident.

Despite universal critical acclaim, a noisy group of users bombed Watchmen’s Rottentomatoes page, taking its score down as low as 43%……

Then there’s The Acolyte, the most recent Star Wars series to air on Disney+. Perhaps because it has a female showrunner in Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland, or perhaps because it attempted to add some breadth to the Star Wars universe, a vocal minority of fans have trashed the show online wherever possible, with one IMDb reviewer calling it nothing less than “cultural vandalism”.

When it was cancelled after only one series, its star Amandla Stenberg blamed it on “a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us”.…..

‘You know your show is garbage!’: inside TV’s biggest backlashes

From Watchmen to The Rings of Power, TV is increasingly being bombarded with outrage. We talk to the creators of shows who faced down furore, review bombing and a furious police force

www.theguardian.com

Forget that the neanderhobbit was black, how about making them into psychopaths? Could that maybe, just...y'know, possibly have had something to do with it?
Rings of Prime was doomed from the start because they made terrible story choices. Let alone making everywhere look like downtown Chicago, thus robbing anywhere of a sense of place, of history or originality.

They even missed a "woke but lore appropriate" trick with the dwarves. My own issue wasn't with the beard, it was with it being singular. They ALL should have beards and ALL look pretty much the same. Now there's a trans awareness feature for ya. Cast cisgender men, women, trans and andros higgledy-piggeldy, all with the same clothes, beards and makeup. Are you talking to a girl dwarf or a boy dwarf? Who knows? Only the dwarves do and they think it's hilarious that others don't.

There are ways to be empathetic and inclusive while still telling a good, rousing story that's respectful of the lore it's borrowing from. Fallout did it. Game of Thrones did it. It's not that hard if you let a fantasy world be a fantasy world.

 

[Optimus Prime]

These two clowns reemerge
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A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business, according to four former employees as well as photo and email evidence.

LobbyMatic was founded last year by Jacob Wohl, who in 2022 was convicted along with his longtime associate Jack Burkman of felony telecom fraud after running a robocall campaign in largely Black neighborhoods in several states telling people not to vote by mail. An Ohio judge ordered them to spend 500 hours registering people to vote, and the Federal Communications Commission fined them $5 million.

In his role as a founder and CEO of the new firm, Wohl uses the name “Jay Klein,” according to the former employees and emails obtained by POLITICO. Burkman uses the pseudonym “Bill Sanders,” the former employees said.


LobbyMatic, whose website does not list any company leadership, temporarily signed up at least three brand-name clients: Toyota, consulting firm Boundary Stone Partners and drug company Lantheus, according to two of the former employees.

Running their new firm under pseudonyms appears to be the latest instance of shady behavior by a pair of convicted fraudsters who’ve become infamous in Washington for various schemes. Now, they are seizing on public exuberance around the promise of AI to transform the workplace — in this case, on K Street.

Two of the former LobbyMatic employees resigned after learning of Klein and Sanders’ true identities, while the other two learned only after they had left the company. The first worked for LobbyMatic for only a month, and the other three worked for the company for several months.

“Jay/Jacob was out of touch with reality,” said one of them. “Working for them you knew you were never getting the full story and were often left trying to find the truth. If I had to sum up my work experience for them, I would describe them as living with their head in the clouds and in a false reality.”..............

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/02/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-ai-lobbying-pseudonyms-00176917

 

[SystemShock]

Rings of Prime was doomed from the start because they made terrible story choices. Let alone making everywhere look like downtown Chicago, thus robbing anywhere of a sense of place, of history or originality.

Two shows come to mind in that regard: Queen Charlotte and Vikings Valhalla... the former has a black woman playing queen Charlotte, the latter a a black woman playing a jarl. The idea that an actor should play any role, seems it only works any which way but white.

 

[LA - L.A.]

I like how they put the one black guy in the middle, lol.

Hope it's not a Surviving the Game situation.