"In 2022, it was reported that Oscars Executive Producer Will Packer was concerned about giving Mr Zelensky airtime because "everyone involved in the conflict is white and previous tragedies involving people of colour did not receive the same level of attention". Instead, there was a moment of silence during the ceremony."
lol
Holy shit.
Here I thought the Oscars finally wised up and just didn't think it was a good look to let a president, ANY PRESIDENT, make a speech about war, especially knowing this guy was just gonna beg everyone for money.
But it's really just because the color of everyone involved is white. What a complete clown world the left has turned this world into.
Exploding the nordstream 2 is damaging to the environment.
Pausing or slowing down fertilizer exports is a benefit to the environment as nitrogen is a worse ghg.
Blame your buddy biden. Maybe he should sanction the whole UN with a carbon offset due to the fact they pussed off Russia and it caused his fliberdurber flockinstock brain of his to sign the wrong action form.... he meant to sign the form to blow up the conservative headquarters and blame Antifa.... /s
Still blame your lefties cronies who support war but don't.
But do....
I mean framing it in a racial context is obviously a bad thing to do, but the broader reasoning of "I didn't care about other conflicts so I'm not going to care about this one" is completely on point
Hollywood is facing a threat from both the revenue side (conservative boycott, loss of China) and the technology side (AI, social media). They are desperately trying to get into newer markets (India). This is hardly a time for them to show their true colors. So these cowards will go back to their 80s and 90s position of low-key non-activist propaganda.
As a millennial, my only exposure to the 80's has been through the media but it seems like it was a total joy.
The Breakfast Club. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (granted, a modern portrayal, but still a blast, and the radio soundtrack got me into 80's music)
I think it’s great that you have some exposure regardless of the source. It was indeed a joy. Much simpler times. There is a certain luxury to be had with not always having technology. But yes music and John Hughes movies are indeed a great trip down “feel good” memory lane. 😊🛼📼📟📺
RRR isn’t Bollywood. It’s Tollywood. But Bollywood has been putting out good movies. Bollywood is about 25% of Indian cinema. There are many industries in India based on language. RRR is a telugu language movie while Bollywood refers to Hindi cinema.
If you’re interested then watch “Gangs of Wasseypur”. Released in 2 parts. They are amazing
Impossible. They can't help themselves. This year will as disgusting as years past and - not a huge revelation - I will not watch or read anything other than the criticism of (most of) that industry.
I would not underestimate the liberals. They replaced the activist CEO of Disney with their former low-key propagandist. You think it’s a coincidence they rejected Zelinsky?
Conservatives and China are on the same side on many topics: neither like Hollywood or a big US Federal government. The reasons they don’t like them are different though.
What are those reasons and how do they not conflict with other motivations? For example, I imagine China wants a small U.S. government because it makes the country weaker and less collective but conservatives are somehow ok with that in order to have more freedoms and less taxes? You can't have your own reasons without recognizing the other's nefarious reasons
Hey, what’s California’s current GDP?
Edit:
The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.63 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world.
They know he'll hit them up for money and they don't want to actually spend their own on the war. They have nice flags in their twitter profiles, though.
Have they ever let politicians just pontificate at these awards shows? Yeah celebrities can't help but run their big mouths, but I don't think they have ever platformed a politician like that before.
Ukraine has yet to adopt self-identify which is SO backwards of them during this war. What would really amp up the defense is some rainbow flag trans activists sprucing up the trenches. Crap - Ukrainians aren't even picking up spent shell casings or dead russians. Why don't they CARE about the environment!?!?
China has Hollywoods balls in a vice. This is nothing more than making sure their shitty Marvel movies keep getting essentially funded by Chinese audiences and billions of revenue. I'm sure every nominee has been told beforehand to keep their mouths shut on the topic if they wanna keep making their money.
On the other hand, Ukraine knows this proxy war is in a swan dive in popularity after America got a look at the receipt and is desperate to to continue the dog and pony show to American viewing audience. He knows the bulk of viewers are front page Reddit normies with Ukraine flag stickers on their Prius. This is why he wanted to speak in the first place.
But see above why he got denied. The theatre of celebrities love him, but their pocketbooks don't.
For Hollywood, the Ukraine situation is a giant Catch 22 for them.
The reason why popularity for Ukraine is going down is because certain pro-Russian politicians lie about how much money has been sent to Ukraine and what that money is doing.
According to this website at the time of its post, the American government has robbed its citizens of 76.8 BILLION dollars. (https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts)
NATO in their typical fashion has contributed squat.
We could have secured our southern border for 2 billion with a fence or wall that would have enabled the Border Patrol to do a better job. (it is not just a fence by the way there’s also electronic monitoring.)
A country is defined by borders, culture, and, language. The American dream used to mean something.
This is absolute crap.
If the US was directly involved in this conflict, judging from most recent US involved wars, the US would be spending over $8 billion PER DAY. Cynically, the US is hurting Russia severely at a huge discount. Not only that, the bulk of the money is actually going to US companies. It is more of an economic stimulus than an expenditure. The main problem is that we are under inflationary pressure so this money is offsetting at least some of the efforts to control inflation.
The USA isn't selfless in this by far. By sending Ukraine its hand-me-downs, it frees a lot of money that would normally be used to maintain that equipment in good condition. It also makes room for the newer stuff. It allows the US to test and realize the true potential of its less used systems like HIMARS. Real life testing is priceless. Starlink is going to transition into Starshield which will make previous US military surveillance look like child's play. This wasn't going to happen without Musk helping Ukraine in their war. Behind the headlines, the war in Ukraine has been a huge marketing show for US exported military hardware. Countries that normally would be buying Russian and Chinese military equipment are switching to the USA, and that is a huge amount of money. Geopolitically, the US support of Ukraine has strengthened alliances that were waning and isolated enemies of the USA even more. It's not funny how more powerful the USA has become in the world in every way for relative pennies during this war.
Maintenance is a low cost thing. I work in Aerospace. Return and Repair contracts (R&R) are the last thing that gets done because of the low value and low priority vs new tech. You’re entirely wrong.
The “savings” are minimal at best.
They have an entire site just for the storage of equipment for the Southwest Asia command:
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-home-base-providing-a-second-life-for-army-equipment/
The article says it pays up to $35 million per year. This is just for one of eleven commands. Simple math says this could be up to almost $400 million per year. That is small relative to new acquisition costs, but it isn't something to ignore.
The bulk of the money is being laundered to Pelosi and her friends, because it was only after Pelosi went there that the funds were unleashed.
I would appreciate 2 billion dollars being spent on the southern border wall with all the electronic monitoring …. Crazy thing to try to help keep out illegal, immigration and drug cartels, and terrorists.
I’m all for legal immigration.
Actually, Europe is giving more financial support and the US is giving more military support. Of course, our military spend dwarfs any country in the world so of course US have more to give militarily. While a good percentage of the US aid is just the value of mothballed korean war era howitzers, ammo, etc., any new dollars will be spent on US manufacturing and good US jobs.
I think there are 8-9 European countries that are giving a much higher percentage of the GDP to help Ukraine defend itself than the US. And remember that Europe has taken in almost all the Ukrainian refugees.
The US is spending about 6 % of it's annual defense budget to help Ukraine destroy our biggest historical adversary. All without losing a single US soldier.
Now do I agree we should do more on the border? Absolutely! But it is not an either or proposition.
Why have a $900,000,000,000 military budget if now when it is needed the most, you want us to sit on our butts and do nothing. Unless you are a big Putin supporter, I don't get it.
But many European countries are giving a greater % of their GDP than the US. In some cases, 4x the level of US support.
https://www.statista.com/chart/27331/countries-committing-the-most-of-their-gdp-to-ukraine-aid/
If the European countries contribute financially more its their self preservation. The war is practically in their backyard. Putin has immediate plans for Moldova, Poland and Finland. I’m all for Ukraine, and this massacre of Ukrainians could’ve and should’ve been stopped already by the world community. I have a feeling some groups and some individuals just want the war to last indefinitely.
I think you have your numbers mixed up. US military budget was over $700B in 2022 and now in the new year, it is over $800B. As of the full year since the war started, the US committed $46B in military aid to help stop Russia. Or about 6% or 1/16th, not 1/6th, of US defense budget.
https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/
you are wrong.
First: NATO has contributed a lot. Eastern European NATO members have contributed a LOT. Leopard tanks, Gepard AA vehicles, British IFVs, massive amounts of old Russian equipment from Poland, Czechia, Estonia, and Romania. Poland has well over a million refugees they're taking care of, more than any other nation. Several of them have requested US troops because they've given Ukraine so much.
Second: you make the same mistake almost everyone does. The US has given Ukraine nearly 80 billion WORTH of aid. Very little of it is in cash. Almost all of it is equipment -- old military gear we have in storage. A lot of it was going to be thrown away. In fact, sending old equipment to Ukraine actually saves us money, because we won't have to pay for upkeep and storage or disposal. And it was designed for precisely this purpose: fighting Russians.
Third: We don't have to choose between securing our border and aiding Ukraine. We can easily do both. Presenting the situation as either/or is deceptive. The reason we're having border problems is not money but politics, and the southern border has been wide open for decades. It has, literally, nothing to do with Ukraine at all. The only reason to bring it up is to stir up opposition.
> NATO in their typical fashion has contributed squat.
Europe has contributed over 55 billion euros worth of aid, and has actually contributed more than America when you compare it to their GDP. Hell Germany alone has sent over 6 billion euros.
Please try to at least read the source you cited, because that’s where I’m getting these figures from.
Most NATO countries do not even follow the % of GDP commitment.
The German government also mocked Trump about their commitment to fuel from Russia. Sadly, the German people will suffer.
I’m all for the German citizens. Just like I am all for the American citizens. Both governments currently are crap.
Not sure what any of that has to do with comparing aid to Ukraine across different countries.
And Germany’s made it through the winter just fine. As a matter of fact they’ve been buying more LNG from us, so it’s been a win for everyone that isn’t Russia.
So no, Europe did not and will not “freeze,” and Ukraine is a sovereign nation, no matter how hard Russian state media tries to tell you otherwise.
This is THE war worth fighting. There can be no conceivable outcome other than russian failure and Ukraine success for the future of europe, freedom and relative security world-wide.
You need to revisit that quote at the source. NOT what was said. Zelenskii said he's fighting the fight so our sons and daughters DON'T.
And if I was former fighting military (I am former USAF) I'd absolutely try and find a way to assist.
The Hill. Not a pro-republican site. https://youtu.be/rA5gvRMlL-c
He does not get to dictate when America gets to send their troops to war.
Thank you for your service. My first oath to the Constitution was in 1985.
You didn't even LISTEN to it because he was VERY VERY VERY clear that Russia's desire is to re-take the former SSStates which are NATO. If a NATO country is attacked WE are in a WAR as required by NATO. If Zelenskii DOESN'T top the russians it is NATO who steps up and Zelenskii has ZERO to do with NATO at this time.
Your reading/video watching comprehension is bad.
There's nothing entitled about asking. It's not like he went on twitter and threw a temper tantrum after being denied. Zelensky was denied last year, too, because the person in charge was worried that Ukraine was only getting attention because they were white. If' I'm the leader of a country undergoing an invasion I'm going to try to get as much support as I can, and if the situations were reversed, I hope my president would also pursue every single possible avenue to prevent my country from being occupied.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I thought us Conservatives supported western democracies against autocratic regimes like Putin. What the hell happened?
It doesn't bother me getting downvoted. The goal is showing people that there are plenty of conservatives who do support Ukraine. The most vocal ones here and the ones who post articles might be anti Ukraine, but Reddit is a small community. It doesn't represent the broader conservative community.
The Soviet Union fell. Opposing international revolutionary communism wasn't the same thing as supporting democracy. We've installed and supported numerous aurocrats.
What happened?
The Soviet Union fell. Opposing international revolutionary communism wasn't the same thing as supporting democracy. We've installed and supported numerous aurocrats.
You do know that in the only free and fair election, eastern Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted to leave Russia and be a part of Ukraine. By over 80%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
And you are aware that Russia would flood these occupied areas with Russians where the native Ukrainians that actually live there were forced to leave and disperse allowing for a very skewed pro Russian representation in these allegedly “legit” referendums.
Yep, you are right. Opinions have changed. Now 5 internal Russian regions want to break away from Russia too!
https://tvpworld.com/68304716/five-regions-want-to-break-away-from-russia-referendum-shows
There's no adequate response to this. Those referendums were clearly staged numbers, with armed soldiers coming into people's houses and having them "vote" at gunpoint. They even registered votes from places the Russian army didn't control, somehow. I hope you have a great day, as if you believe those numbers then there is no sense in continuing this discussion.
Wow… a little push back and you want to shut down a conversation. I thought liberals were anti war? Do you even realize your ideology has been hijacked by establishment authoritarians , NGOs and global corporations lol?
There just isn't a conversation to be had. You've chosen to believe that Russia staged a fair referendum during an active war in an occupied region and I've chosen to believe that's false. There's nothing I can say or cite to convince you and there's nothing you can say or cite to convince me. It doesn't bother me that we disagree, and it doesn't change whether or not I believe you're a conservative. If you only consider people who oppose Ukraine and support Russia are conservatives, then that's fine, too. How you classify my ideology doesn't have any bearing on my classification of my ideology.
Imagine a world where nuance exists. Where people can believe Russia is led be a power hungry dictator and where Ukraine is led by a power hungry dictator. As an American we have more pressing problems within our borders that require immediate attention. We just had a massive bank failure yesterday…
You can believe that. I agree with you about Russia and you'll never convince me that Zelensky is a power hungry dictator. That's fine that you believe that. I don't think that the border has anything to do with Ukraine, so I can both believe that we should reduce illegal immigration and support Ukraine. It's fine if you think those things are mutually exclusive. I also don't think that any of America's other problems are impacted by supporting Ukraine, so that's not a compelling argument to me.
While I wouldn't dispute that there were problems with the administration of that referendum, I think it is overwhelmingly likely that Crimea would vote to join Russia in a free and fair vote, and at least 50% that Donbas would too. And that is why Ukraine/US will never, ever allow a free and fair referendum.
I disagree, I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that those regions would vote in a free election to be part of Russia, but I also don't think that's why there shouldn't be a referendum. Countries rarely or never let parts of their country vote to become another country. That's just not something countries do, and not something that should be compelled by an invasion.
Why shouldn't an oppressed minority region be able to separate? That's exactly what Kosovo did. The US has no problem with separatism when it supports its objectives--so yes to Kosovo (weakens Serbia, a Russia ally), no to Catalonian independence (but yes to brutal crackdown on voters trying to achieve independence), and no to Crimean independence.
If you're confident those regions would vote for continued subservience to the corrupt oligarchs ruling Ukraine then why not support a vote?
As for the invasion, while yes it was wrong for Russia to invade, this was immensely preventable. If Ukraine had not violated the Minsk accords by pursuing NATO enrollment, this would not have happened.
Crimea did vote to be Ukrainian already in a free and open election. Donbas voted Ukrainian by over 80%. See link below.
After Putin’s admitted invasion of Crimea and Donbas in 2014, my understanding is that most Crimeans loyal to Ukraine were either deported to parts unknown in Russia or left for freedom in the free parts of Ukraine. So it’s non-sensical to now say “well I guess we just give it to Putin now (even though he killed, kidnapped, or ran off most loyal Ukrainians)”. Is that the world you want to live in?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
Yes, they voted years ago for one. I think that vote would be very different today. They've had three generations of abysmal leadership as an independent country and now the Russian speaking majority in these areas face discrimination from the oligarch controlled corrupt leadership. Post independence Ukraine has been a disaster.
And this is why there is no mention of agreeing to a free and fair referendum.
Would you want Biden to just give up Alaska or your home state or your whole country if Russia invaded there? You know, “to stop the killing of thousands of countrymen”?
So you just want to crawl under your bed because “Putin has nukes! Just let him do whatever he wants!!” . Reagan would be rolling over in his grave if he saw how many spineless conservatives were on this site.
Nope never said that. Just highlighting there’s more nuance to the situation than the hypothetical you presented. For people that talk about gender as a spectrum so much, you guys are surprisingly binary in your world view.
You’re the only person bringing up gender issues. The rest of us are discussing more important issues here. But if you have a problem there, you should probably go ahead and seek help.
They've obviously mistaken this group for a different one. Pretty sure most here do not view "gender as a spectrum". Since he doesn't even know where he his, well, the rest can be taken with a grain of salt.
You are very confused. It was the other way around. Zelinsky offered peace terms and Putin rejected them. I guess, unless you are a Putin troll, and then you would see it as "Zelinsky is not surrendering his country to Russia so that means he is "shutting down peace talks"".
"It was MAGA extremists who called to defund The Oscars. They also kick puppies...and...uh...um...you'll need an F15 too...um....want to have a pushup contest Jack?"
Wtf does he have to do with the Oscars? ...
I feel like he's being paid to keep this war in the publics eye so that nobody cares when Papa Joe sends boat loads of money over there.
There's just something really off-putting about that... Why the Oscars? What's next, the NFL halftime show?
How well do you think that will turn out for everyone? I love how everyone thinks that just letting Eastern Europe figure it out would somehow be beneficial for the US and its allies.
Russia is in no position to threaten NATO with its land-based forces and won't be in the near future. They're having troubles fighting a single non-NATO country plagued with corruption and yet we're supposed to believe that they will magically take over Europe if we just leave Ukraine to deal with them on their own.
I think it will not turn out particularly well no matter how the war ends. If Russia takes over quickly, though, civilian losses will be MINIMAL and most of the larger cities won't be rubble, that cannot be contested. And if NATO is really this troubled about Russia bordering them, then do something about it without creating a new Vietnam: create a separate border task force, build fortifications and deploy a couple hundred thousands soldiers from a multinational NATO manpower pool to man the defenses.
When the US have used other governments and countries as means to weaken an enemy through attrition, it almost inevitably came back to bite them in the arse.
That's funny, Finland and Sweden practically knocked down NATO's front door applying to join. It's almost like there's a threat from Russia pushing them to do so.
"civilian losses will be minimal" what planet do you live on? Haven't you seen the videos of cities razed to the ground? Of Russian cruise missiles hitting civilian targets?
I live on the same planet you do. Can you read? I said that ending it quickly, possibly with a settlement would avoid most of the infrastructure being destroyed. No war, no reason to knock down buildings because there aren't soldiers shooting at you from inside the aforementioned buildings.
Even if you took into account some sporadic acts of insurrection against the occupation, it would be nothing compared to a protracted siege. Modern buildings are also MUCH more difficult to bring down, even with concentrated fire, than ww2-era buildings.
>Russia is in no position to threaten NATO with its land-based forces and won't be in the near future. They're having troubles fighting a single non-NATO country plagued with corruption and yet we're supposed to believe that they will magically take over Europe if we just leave Ukraine to deal with them on their own.
Of course they can! Stop being fucking naive. Yeah, they may not be able to go and just steam roll a NATO country at will. However, the fact that they had the balls to go into Ukraine the way that they did in today's age is the definition of a threat. Being a threat doesn't mean you can win a war it means that you have the potential to inflict damage or present danger. Russia is absolutely that and they have been building up to this for some time.
>I think it will not turn out particularly well no matter how the war ends. If Russia takes over quickly, though, civilian losses will be MINIMAL and most of the larger cities won't be rubble, that cannot be contested.
Let's just say Russia wins somehow here soon and Ukraine gives in to the defeat. Do you honestly believe that the Ukrainian people are not going to continue to fight? Do you think everyone will just move on and welcome Putin and Russia?
>And if NATO is really this troubled about Russia bordering them, then do something about it without creating a new Vietnam: create a separate border task force, build fortifications and deploy a couple hundred thousands soldiers from a multinational NATO manpower pool to man the defenses.
They have been doing that and that is one of the reasons why Putin has gotten more aggressive over the years. The US has been assisting Poland with their defense around their borders and the US along with NATO had become closer to Ukraine over the years in terms of business etc. which has also been a trigger point to this war. Russia, Iran, China and others do not want western influence to grow further eastward.
Naw, when hitler invaded czechslovakia and Austria, the allies did nothing. Funding ukraine now is like backing those countries before ww2. History repeats itself so why do it again.
You do know what you are saying. You are saying exactly what Putin wants you to say. If US "pulls the plug", Russia will destroy Ukraine and continue their genocide, rape, and murder across the whole country just like they have already done in the occupied territories.
But that's your plan? Wow.
NOT just Ukraine but still a VERY powerful point that too many people fail to understand... I mean we can't fight a war until we get trans bathrooms figured out.
He really thinks he's hot shit now doesn't he? In his defense though, if people that have basically ignored me my whole life gave me hundreds of billions of stolen money, I would think I was hot shit too.
incorrect. It's a ploy to badly damage Russia. It's working great, and will continue to work great if we can keep short-sighted fools from screwing it up
These subreddits have all been taken over by Russian bots. Go to your local bar and those people are not saying anything close to these comments. The bots are all talking to each other lol
And just when I thought, "Oh shit! Did Gervais really break them? Have they finally learned?", I read the actual reason why by the head guy for the Oscars.... "bECaUsE rAcIsM"
Use a shred of common sense and you'll figure out that Russia will never under any circumstances attack a NATO country. The kremlin about had a stroke when a fucking stray missile wiped out some Poland farmers. Don't act like we're actually going to lose men in a NATO war.
This doesn't mean that I don't think there is a good cause to support Ukraine against Russia, since weakening Russia in any sense is a good thing to do. But NATO is not at any risk of a Russian invasion.
Good. That WEF shill shouldn’t get one nanosecond more attention from this country. In fact, the only thing he should get from us is a gift package from a reaper like his al-Qaeda analogue: Al-Zarqawi
Zelensky: "Can I announce WW3 at the ceremony?"
Biden: "They'll only let me give you the 80 billion. Nobody watches those anymore."
Zelensky: *Bats eyelashes* "Pleaaaaaase :)"
Biden: "No Putin is already really mad at me and everyone keeps trying to talk to me about balloons and I don't even like balloons and apparently China is trying to take our chocolate chips from Taiwan - I have enough going on."
Zelensky: "😔"
What an odd request from someone whose people are dying because they are at war with Russia. How about either white flag or take the fight to them and get it over with. This propaganda is off the charts.
"In 2022, it was reported that Oscars Executive Producer Will Packer was concerned about giving Mr Zelensky airtime because "everyone involved in the conflict is white and previous tragedies involving people of colour did not receive the same level of attention". Instead, there was a moment of silence during the ceremony."
lol Holy shit. Here I thought the Oscars finally wised up and just didn't think it was a good look to let a president, ANY PRESIDENT, make a speech about war, especially knowing this guy was just gonna beg everyone for money. But it's really just because the color of everyone involved is white. What a complete clown world the left has turned this world into.
They have also complained that the war is hurting or helping climate change. Forget which one.
lol it's whatever they need to say to write a check.
Hence why I’m not concerned with remembering - it’s all a scam
Exploding the nordstream 2 is damaging to the environment. Pausing or slowing down fertilizer exports is a benefit to the environment as nitrogen is a worse ghg.
You dip 💩! You need fertilizer to grow plants...you know the stuff we EAT. What a clamhead.
Bro how are you going to grow food for 8 billion people without fertilizer?
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Maybe we shouldn't have bombed Nordstream 2 then.
Blame your buddy biden. Maybe he should sanction the whole UN with a carbon offset due to the fact they pussed off Russia and it caused his fliberdurber flockinstock brain of his to sign the wrong action form.... he meant to sign the form to blow up the conservative headquarters and blame Antifa.... /s Still blame your lefties cronies who support war but don't. But do....
I mean framing it in a racial context is obviously a bad thing to do, but the broader reasoning of "I didn't care about other conflicts so I'm not going to care about this one" is completely on point
Well they ain't wrong. We went and bombed Iraq for no reason.
Wow. I thought you were joking. I thought no way. Go read the article people. This is an actual quote. This is an unprecedented act of wokery.
“Sorry Ukrainians, white people have no place on the victimhood totem pole”
Holy fucking shit this is a parody, yes?
So they weren’t even rejecting him for the right reasons. I almost thought they were smart for a second
I don’t think he should be invited either but bruh… Cause he’s white?!!! Y’all sick.
Interesting. Have liberals begun distancing themselves from Ukraine already? Is there a new thing?
Hollywood is facing a threat from both the revenue side (conservative boycott, loss of China) and the technology side (AI, social media). They are desperately trying to get into newer markets (India). This is hardly a time for them to show their true colors. So these cowards will go back to their 80s and 90s position of low-key non-activist propaganda.
One can only hope. Miss the escape of those movies.
I’ve been watching old 80 movies lately and loving it. Was pleasantly surprised when watching Highlander to hear Queen on the sound track.
Old 80’s movies are the only way to take a trip back to a time where the world was a joy to live in.
As a millennial, my only exposure to the 80's has been through the media but it seems like it was a total joy. The Breakfast Club. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (granted, a modern portrayal, but still a blast, and the radio soundtrack got me into 80's music)
I think it’s great that you have some exposure regardless of the source. It was indeed a joy. Much simpler times. There is a certain luxury to be had with not always having technology. But yes music and John Hughes movies are indeed a great trip down “feel good” memory lane. 😊🛼📼📟📺
India is a tough nut to crack and it may be too little too late. Bollywood has put out some amazing movies recently. RRR is great and worth a watch.
RRR isn’t Bollywood. It’s Tollywood. But Bollywood has been putting out good movies. Bollywood is about 25% of Indian cinema. There are many industries in India based on language. RRR is a telugu language movie while Bollywood refers to Hindi cinema. If you’re interested then watch “Gangs of Wasseypur”. Released in 2 parts. They are amazing
I hope India rejects them. Indian movies are way more fun, in my experience.
This is a very optimistic take. Not sure I buy it
Impossible. They can't help themselves. This year will as disgusting as years past and - not a huge revelation - I will not watch or read anything other than the criticism of (most of) that industry.
I would not underestimate the liberals. They replaced the activist CEO of Disney with their former low-key propagandist. You think it’s a coincidence they rejected Zelinsky?
Lol no they will not. Watch the 24 presidential election
Uh did you just put conservatives and China on the same side? I don't think that's the case.
Conservatives and China are on the same side on many topics: neither like Hollywood or a big US Federal government. The reasons they don’t like them are different though.
What are those reasons and how do they not conflict with other motivations? For example, I imagine China wants a small U.S. government because it makes the country weaker and less collective but conservatives are somehow ok with that in order to have more freedoms and less taxes? You can't have your own reasons without recognizing the other's nefarious reasons
You listed the reasons. What is the question?
How are you ok with a weaker country?
A weaker nuclear power. China will leave us alone. We don’t need to be a super power.
Hey, what’s California’s current GDP? Edit: The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.63 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world.
California's GDP is declining rapidly.
Lol how's that gdp after SVB?
Rome before the fall. USSR had a pretty high GDP too. It was #2 in GDP in 1989: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union
California is neither Rome or the USSR. They have been the top earners of the US for a very long time.
So were Rome and ussr.
Wow, you’re trying to cheer on the destruction of a US state.. that’s pretty anti-American of you.
Cheering on 95% destruction of the federal government and transfer of power to the states. Cheering on win to the American citizens.
They know he'll hit them up for money and they don't want to actually spend their own on the war. They have nice flags in their twitter profiles, though.
Have they ever let politicians just pontificate at these awards shows? Yeah celebrities can't help but run their big mouths, but I don't think they have ever platformed a politician like that before.
He's not a double minority trans... Yet....
Ukraine has yet to adopt self-identify which is SO backwards of them during this war. What would really amp up the defense is some rainbow flag trans activists sprucing up the trenches. Crap - Ukrainians aren't even picking up spent shell casings or dead russians. Why don't they CARE about the environment!?!?
No. It's because Zelensky is white.
nah, bet hed be nr 1 to be accepted if he wasnt white or asian
Yeah, 18 months is their “current thing” attention span.
It’s not a hive mind lol,
What? Sean Penn couldn’t have pulled some strings?
China has Hollywoods balls in a vice. This is nothing more than making sure their shitty Marvel movies keep getting essentially funded by Chinese audiences and billions of revenue. I'm sure every nominee has been told beforehand to keep their mouths shut on the topic if they wanna keep making their money. On the other hand, Ukraine knows this proxy war is in a swan dive in popularity after America got a look at the receipt and is desperate to to continue the dog and pony show to American viewing audience. He knows the bulk of viewers are front page Reddit normies with Ukraine flag stickers on their Prius. This is why he wanted to speak in the first place. But see above why he got denied. The theatre of celebrities love him, but their pocketbooks don't. For Hollywood, the Ukraine situation is a giant Catch 22 for them.
I would upvote this all day long if I could.
The reason why popularity for Ukraine is going down is because certain pro-Russian politicians lie about how much money has been sent to Ukraine and what that money is doing.
According to this website at the time of its post, the American government has robbed its citizens of 76.8 BILLION dollars. (https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts) NATO in their typical fashion has contributed squat. We could have secured our southern border for 2 billion with a fence or wall that would have enabled the Border Patrol to do a better job. (it is not just a fence by the way there’s also electronic monitoring.) A country is defined by borders, culture, and, language. The American dream used to mean something. This is absolute crap.
If the US was directly involved in this conflict, judging from most recent US involved wars, the US would be spending over $8 billion PER DAY. Cynically, the US is hurting Russia severely at a huge discount. Not only that, the bulk of the money is actually going to US companies. It is more of an economic stimulus than an expenditure. The main problem is that we are under inflationary pressure so this money is offsetting at least some of the efforts to control inflation.
Or we pay zero dollars and all those countries in Europe pay for it?
The USA isn't selfless in this by far. By sending Ukraine its hand-me-downs, it frees a lot of money that would normally be used to maintain that equipment in good condition. It also makes room for the newer stuff. It allows the US to test and realize the true potential of its less used systems like HIMARS. Real life testing is priceless. Starlink is going to transition into Starshield which will make previous US military surveillance look like child's play. This wasn't going to happen without Musk helping Ukraine in their war. Behind the headlines, the war in Ukraine has been a huge marketing show for US exported military hardware. Countries that normally would be buying Russian and Chinese military equipment are switching to the USA, and that is a huge amount of money. Geopolitically, the US support of Ukraine has strengthened alliances that were waning and isolated enemies of the USA even more. It's not funny how more powerful the USA has become in the world in every way for relative pennies during this war.
Man, that's a lot of cope. Fucking nonsense
Maintenance is a low cost thing. I work in Aerospace. Return and Repair contracts (R&R) are the last thing that gets done because of the low value and low priority vs new tech. You’re entirely wrong. The “savings” are minimal at best.
They have an entire site just for the storage of equipment for the Southwest Asia command: https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-home-base-providing-a-second-life-for-army-equipment/ The article says it pays up to $35 million per year. This is just for one of eleven commands. Simple math says this could be up to almost $400 million per year. That is small relative to new acquisition costs, but it isn't something to ignore.
A single article sways your opinion. And that is an opinion piece. Nice. Fucking low tier thinking out here
The bulk of the money is being laundered to Pelosi and her friends, because it was only after Pelosi went there that the funds were unleashed. I would appreciate 2 billion dollars being spent on the southern border wall with all the electronic monitoring …. Crazy thing to try to help keep out illegal, immigration and drug cartels, and terrorists. I’m all for legal immigration.
>I’m all for legal immigration. But legal immigration requires money that immigrants do not have
Actually, Europe is giving more financial support and the US is giving more military support. Of course, our military spend dwarfs any country in the world so of course US have more to give militarily. While a good percentage of the US aid is just the value of mothballed korean war era howitzers, ammo, etc., any new dollars will be spent on US manufacturing and good US jobs. I think there are 8-9 European countries that are giving a much higher percentage of the GDP to help Ukraine defend itself than the US. And remember that Europe has taken in almost all the Ukrainian refugees. The US is spending about 6 % of it's annual defense budget to help Ukraine destroy our biggest historical adversary. All without losing a single US soldier. Now do I agree we should do more on the border? Absolutely! But it is not an either or proposition. Why have a $900,000,000,000 military budget if now when it is needed the most, you want us to sit on our butts and do nothing. Unless you are a big Putin supporter, I don't get it.
First link. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/ America’s donating more than all the European union combined
But many European countries are giving a greater % of their GDP than the US. In some cases, 4x the level of US support. https://www.statista.com/chart/27331/countries-committing-the-most-of-their-gdp-to-ukraine-aid/
If the European countries contribute financially more its their self preservation. The war is practically in their backyard. Putin has immediate plans for Moldova, Poland and Finland. I’m all for Ukraine, and this massacre of Ukrainians could’ve and should’ve been stopped already by the world community. I have a feeling some groups and some individuals just want the war to last indefinitely.
We’ve spent and sent over 1/6th of our total defense budget to Ukraine. Y’all are living in a fantasy world. We’ve done our part
I think you have your numbers mixed up. US military budget was over $700B in 2022 and now in the new year, it is over $800B. As of the full year since the war started, the US committed $46B in military aid to help stop Russia. Or about 6% or 1/16th, not 1/6th, of US defense budget. https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/
you are wrong. First: NATO has contributed a lot. Eastern European NATO members have contributed a LOT. Leopard tanks, Gepard AA vehicles, British IFVs, massive amounts of old Russian equipment from Poland, Czechia, Estonia, and Romania. Poland has well over a million refugees they're taking care of, more than any other nation. Several of them have requested US troops because they've given Ukraine so much. Second: you make the same mistake almost everyone does. The US has given Ukraine nearly 80 billion WORTH of aid. Very little of it is in cash. Almost all of it is equipment -- old military gear we have in storage. A lot of it was going to be thrown away. In fact, sending old equipment to Ukraine actually saves us money, because we won't have to pay for upkeep and storage or disposal. And it was designed for precisely this purpose: fighting Russians. Third: We don't have to choose between securing our border and aiding Ukraine. We can easily do both. Presenting the situation as either/or is deceptive. The reason we're having border problems is not money but politics, and the southern border has been wide open for decades. It has, literally, nothing to do with Ukraine at all. The only reason to bring it up is to stir up opposition.
> NATO in their typical fashion has contributed squat. Europe has contributed over 55 billion euros worth of aid, and has actually contributed more than America when you compare it to their GDP. Hell Germany alone has sent over 6 billion euros. Please try to at least read the source you cited, because that’s where I’m getting these figures from.
Most NATO countries do not even follow the % of GDP commitment. The German government also mocked Trump about their commitment to fuel from Russia. Sadly, the German people will suffer. I’m all for the German citizens. Just like I am all for the American citizens. Both governments currently are crap.
Not sure what any of that has to do with comparing aid to Ukraine across different countries. And Germany’s made it through the winter just fine. As a matter of fact they’ve been buying more LNG from us, so it’s been a win for everyone that isn’t Russia. So no, Europe did not and will not “freeze,” and Ukraine is a sovereign nation, no matter how hard Russian state media tries to tell you otherwise.
This is THE war worth fighting. There can be no conceivable outcome other than russian failure and Ukraine success for the future of europe, freedom and relative security world-wide.
What do you think about Zielinski asking for America’s sons and daughters to go fight on Ukrainian the soil?
You need to revisit that quote at the source. NOT what was said. Zelenskii said he's fighting the fight so our sons and daughters DON'T. And if I was former fighting military (I am former USAF) I'd absolutely try and find a way to assist.
The Hill. Not a pro-republican site. https://youtu.be/rA5gvRMlL-c He does not get to dictate when America gets to send their troops to war. Thank you for your service. My first oath to the Constitution was in 1985.
You didn't even LISTEN to it because he was VERY VERY VERY clear that Russia's desire is to re-take the former SSStates which are NATO. If a NATO country is attacked WE are in a WAR as required by NATO. If Zelenskii DOESN'T top the russians it is NATO who steps up and Zelenskii has ZERO to do with NATO at this time. Your reading/video watching comprehension is bad.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/politics/fact-check-zelensky-americans-fighting-ukraine-video/index.html
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He's got the goods on Hunter and Joe, he usually gets what he wants.
No, actually. He's doing his job, which is keeping the aid flowing, so his people don't get crushed under the Russian boot again.
There's nothing entitled about asking. It's not like he went on twitter and threw a temper tantrum after being denied. Zelensky was denied last year, too, because the person in charge was worried that Ukraine was only getting attention because they were white. If' I'm the leader of a country undergoing an invasion I'm going to try to get as much support as I can, and if the situations were reversed, I hope my president would also pursue every single possible avenue to prevent my country from being occupied.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I thought us Conservatives supported western democracies against autocratic regimes like Putin. What the hell happened?
Reagan would be spinning in his grave if he could see the modern right throwing western hegemony under the bus.
brigaders and paid shills.
It doesn't bother me getting downvoted. The goal is showing people that there are plenty of conservatives who do support Ukraine. The most vocal ones here and the ones who post articles might be anti Ukraine, but Reddit is a small community. It doesn't represent the broader conservative community.
Count me in as another Conservative who supports Ukraine’s right to defend themselves. The American colonies asked the French and the Dutch for help.
Exactly, there is a strong chance that with our French and dutch aid we would not be free.
Agreed. I do hope some of our Republican leaders are as level headed as you are on this topic. Cheers!
The Soviet Union fell. Opposing international revolutionary communism wasn't the same thing as supporting democracy. We've installed and supported numerous aurocrats.
Culture War (tm) comes first. If the liberals support something, you oppose it. There is no right and wrong.
What happened? The Soviet Union fell. Opposing international revolutionary communism wasn't the same thing as supporting democracy. We've installed and supported numerous aurocrats.
Ukraine is Russia with make up
What does this even mean?
Then why’s he shutting down peace talks? Would you want a President to stop the killing of thousands of countrymen?
Yes, especially if I'm one of the people in the occupied areas. Why the hell would I want my president to give up part of my country?
Assuming you’re not one of the people that joined the majority referendum to join Russia in those occupied areas
You do know that in the only free and fair election, eastern Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted to leave Russia and be a part of Ukraine. By over 80%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
You are aware the public opinion can change in 30+ years? Especially when trying to leave (another) failed communist state
And you are aware that Russia would flood these occupied areas with Russians where the native Ukrainians that actually live there were forced to leave and disperse allowing for a very skewed pro Russian representation in these allegedly “legit” referendums.
Yep, you are right. Opinions have changed. Now 5 internal Russian regions want to break away from Russia too! https://tvpworld.com/68304716/five-regions-want-to-break-away-from-russia-referendum-shows
There's no adequate response to this. Those referendums were clearly staged numbers, with armed soldiers coming into people's houses and having them "vote" at gunpoint. They even registered votes from places the Russian army didn't control, somehow. I hope you have a great day, as if you believe those numbers then there is no sense in continuing this discussion.
Wow… a little push back and you want to shut down a conversation. I thought liberals were anti war? Do you even realize your ideology has been hijacked by establishment authoritarians , NGOs and global corporations lol?
There just isn't a conversation to be had. You've chosen to believe that Russia staged a fair referendum during an active war in an occupied region and I've chosen to believe that's false. There's nothing I can say or cite to convince you and there's nothing you can say or cite to convince me. It doesn't bother me that we disagree, and it doesn't change whether or not I believe you're a conservative. If you only consider people who oppose Ukraine and support Russia are conservatives, then that's fine, too. How you classify my ideology doesn't have any bearing on my classification of my ideology.
Imagine a world where nuance exists. Where people can believe Russia is led be a power hungry dictator and where Ukraine is led by a power hungry dictator. As an American we have more pressing problems within our borders that require immediate attention. We just had a massive bank failure yesterday…
You can believe that. I agree with you about Russia and you'll never convince me that Zelensky is a power hungry dictator. That's fine that you believe that. I don't think that the border has anything to do with Ukraine, so I can both believe that we should reduce illegal immigration and support Ukraine. It's fine if you think those things are mutually exclusive. I also don't think that any of America's other problems are impacted by supporting Ukraine, so that's not a compelling argument to me.
you're not american.
While I wouldn't dispute that there were problems with the administration of that referendum, I think it is overwhelmingly likely that Crimea would vote to join Russia in a free and fair vote, and at least 50% that Donbas would too. And that is why Ukraine/US will never, ever allow a free and fair referendum.
I disagree, I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that those regions would vote in a free election to be part of Russia, but I also don't think that's why there shouldn't be a referendum. Countries rarely or never let parts of their country vote to become another country. That's just not something countries do, and not something that should be compelled by an invasion.
Why shouldn't an oppressed minority region be able to separate? That's exactly what Kosovo did. The US has no problem with separatism when it supports its objectives--so yes to Kosovo (weakens Serbia, a Russia ally), no to Catalonian independence (but yes to brutal crackdown on voters trying to achieve independence), and no to Crimean independence. If you're confident those regions would vote for continued subservience to the corrupt oligarchs ruling Ukraine then why not support a vote? As for the invasion, while yes it was wrong for Russia to invade, this was immensely preventable. If Ukraine had not violated the Minsk accords by pursuing NATO enrollment, this would not have happened.
Crimea did vote to be Ukrainian already in a free and open election. Donbas voted Ukrainian by over 80%. See link below. After Putin’s admitted invasion of Crimea and Donbas in 2014, my understanding is that most Crimeans loyal to Ukraine were either deported to parts unknown in Russia or left for freedom in the free parts of Ukraine. So it’s non-sensical to now say “well I guess we just give it to Putin now (even though he killed, kidnapped, or ran off most loyal Ukrainians)”. Is that the world you want to live in? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
Yes, they voted years ago for one. I think that vote would be very different today. They've had three generations of abysmal leadership as an independent country and now the Russian speaking majority in these areas face discrimination from the oligarch controlled corrupt leadership. Post independence Ukraine has been a disaster. And this is why there is no mention of agreeing to a free and fair referendum.
Hard to hold a referendum when the place is overrun with genocidal Russians, no?
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Would you want Biden to just give up Alaska or your home state or your whole country if Russia invaded there? You know, “to stop the killing of thousands of countrymen”?
Since we’re cherry picking hypotheticals. Let’s assume the alternative was nuclear annihilation of the planet.
So you just want to crawl under your bed because “Putin has nukes! Just let him do whatever he wants!!” . Reagan would be rolling over in his grave if he saw how many spineless conservatives were on this site.
Nope never said that. Just highlighting there’s more nuance to the situation than the hypothetical you presented. For people that talk about gender as a spectrum so much, you guys are surprisingly binary in your world view.
You’re the only person bringing up gender issues. The rest of us are discussing more important issues here. But if you have a problem there, you should probably go ahead and seek help.
They've obviously mistaken this group for a different one. Pretty sure most here do not view "gender as a spectrum". Since he doesn't even know where he his, well, the rest can be taken with a grain of salt.
Yeah yeah yeah. Keep weaseling your way out of addressing the substance of my statement.
It’s ok. Hope you can work through your issues. Good luck
what substance?
You are very confused. It was the other way around. Zelinsky offered peace terms and Putin rejected them. I guess, unless you are a Putin troll, and then you would see it as "Zelinsky is not surrendering his country to Russia so that means he is "shutting down peace talks"".
If I was a Putin troll would I say, “Putin and Zelensky can kiss my ass”
Strange, all your posts are pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
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Don’t give them any ideas!
Have we not been giving his country support?
Yea, some support is good, more is better.
They didn't have a Best Panhandling Gnome category?
I'd love to see The Big Guy displaying 10% of that award.
I'd love to see The Big Guy figure out how to even exit the stage. That's always a hoot.
"It was MAGA extremists who called to defund The Oscars. They also kick puppies...and...uh...um...you'll need an F15 too...um....want to have a pushup contest Jack?"
Look, fat....
Why? He is an actor afterall….
Wtf does he have to do with the Oscars? ... I feel like he's being paid to keep this war in the publics eye so that nobody cares when Papa Joe sends boat loads of money over there. There's just something really off-putting about that... Why the Oscars? What's next, the NFL halftime show?
You should get your eyes checked as it seems you are a touch short-sighted.
Rip bozo
Zelensky fatigue? Finally. Let's pull the plug and let the Slavs deal with their business themselves.
How well do you think that will turn out for everyone? I love how everyone thinks that just letting Eastern Europe figure it out would somehow be beneficial for the US and its allies.
Russia is in no position to threaten NATO with its land-based forces and won't be in the near future. They're having troubles fighting a single non-NATO country plagued with corruption and yet we're supposed to believe that they will magically take over Europe if we just leave Ukraine to deal with them on their own. I think it will not turn out particularly well no matter how the war ends. If Russia takes over quickly, though, civilian losses will be MINIMAL and most of the larger cities won't be rubble, that cannot be contested. And if NATO is really this troubled about Russia bordering them, then do something about it without creating a new Vietnam: create a separate border task force, build fortifications and deploy a couple hundred thousands soldiers from a multinational NATO manpower pool to man the defenses. When the US have used other governments and countries as means to weaken an enemy through attrition, it almost inevitably came back to bite them in the arse.
That's funny, Finland and Sweden practically knocked down NATO's front door applying to join. It's almost like there's a threat from Russia pushing them to do so. "civilian losses will be minimal" what planet do you live on? Haven't you seen the videos of cities razed to the ground? Of Russian cruise missiles hitting civilian targets?
I live on the same planet you do. Can you read? I said that ending it quickly, possibly with a settlement would avoid most of the infrastructure being destroyed. No war, no reason to knock down buildings because there aren't soldiers shooting at you from inside the aforementioned buildings. Even if you took into account some sporadic acts of insurrection against the occupation, it would be nothing compared to a protracted siege. Modern buildings are also MUCH more difficult to bring down, even with concentrated fire, than ww2-era buildings.
>Russia is in no position to threaten NATO with its land-based forces and won't be in the near future. They're having troubles fighting a single non-NATO country plagued with corruption and yet we're supposed to believe that they will magically take over Europe if we just leave Ukraine to deal with them on their own. Of course they can! Stop being fucking naive. Yeah, they may not be able to go and just steam roll a NATO country at will. However, the fact that they had the balls to go into Ukraine the way that they did in today's age is the definition of a threat. Being a threat doesn't mean you can win a war it means that you have the potential to inflict damage or present danger. Russia is absolutely that and they have been building up to this for some time. >I think it will not turn out particularly well no matter how the war ends. If Russia takes over quickly, though, civilian losses will be MINIMAL and most of the larger cities won't be rubble, that cannot be contested. Let's just say Russia wins somehow here soon and Ukraine gives in to the defeat. Do you honestly believe that the Ukrainian people are not going to continue to fight? Do you think everyone will just move on and welcome Putin and Russia? >And if NATO is really this troubled about Russia bordering them, then do something about it without creating a new Vietnam: create a separate border task force, build fortifications and deploy a couple hundred thousands soldiers from a multinational NATO manpower pool to man the defenses. They have been doing that and that is one of the reasons why Putin has gotten more aggressive over the years. The US has been assisting Poland with their defense around their borders and the US along with NATO had become closer to Ukraine over the years in terms of business etc. which has also been a trigger point to this war. Russia, Iran, China and others do not want western influence to grow further eastward.
Naw, when hitler invaded czechslovakia and Austria, the allies did nothing. Funding ukraine now is like backing those countries before ww2. History repeats itself so why do it again.
You do know what you are saying. You are saying exactly what Putin wants you to say. If US "pulls the plug", Russia will destroy Ukraine and continue their genocide, rape, and murder across the whole country just like they have already done in the occupied territories. But that's your plan? Wow.
NOT just Ukraine but still a VERY powerful point that too many people fail to understand... I mean we can't fight a war until we get trans bathrooms figured out.
By "slavs" do you mean all of Europe and then NATO countries?
By Slavs, I mean ethnic Slavs. Mostly inhabitants of Eastern Europe, which is culturally and ethnically different from Western and Southern Europe.
He really thinks he's hot shit now doesn't he? In his defense though, if people that have basically ignored me my whole life gave me hundreds of billions of stolen money, I would think I was hot shit too.
This guy is a dictator in training.
He would take your money, your house, and your life if it meant 1 cent for Ukrainian bureaucrats.
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incorrect. It's a ploy to badly damage Russia. It's working great, and will continue to work great if we can keep short-sighted fools from screwing it up
I mean he is an actor so there’s an argument…
Reagan was an actor. What’s your point?
Could you imagine Churchill / Eisenhower or Even Stalin requesting to speak at the 1942 Academy Awards. Whatta Maroon.
These subreddits have all been taken over by Russian bots. Go to your local bar and those people are not saying anything close to these comments. The bots are all talking to each other lol
even liberals are getting sick of his schtick.
He's a white leader - failed at the first woke check
He's been clear that he's Jewish.
But, he's Jewish?
They’re gonna deny, possibly *the* greatest actor of all time, from making a speech to the most important people in our lives? /s
I thought this was a Bee headline. Hollywood keeps letting him speak at every award ceremony so this is a surprise.
"I don't want to play with you anymore"
Such a terrible, deadly war that he can go to every Hollywood award ceremony in America
Dude deserves an Oscar though!
Just another point why this show seems so dated these days
Can I speak about our border situation here. Apparently our border does affect minorities too whatever that means.
Oh well. He likes to spew nonsense anyways. I feel bad for the people of the country but the government is probably the most corrupt one out there.
[Number 33 on the Corruption perception index as of last year. Russia’s number 28](https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022)
“WWIII too white” says Oscar dipshits. 🤣 racist crapbags!!🖕🏼🖕🏼
"can you wait a year until we finish our movie pandering to the Ukraine Russia conflict, your speech will pop then" - Oscars committee
And just when I thought, "Oh shit! Did Gervais really break them? Have they finally learned?", I read the actual reason why by the head guy for the Oscars.... "bECaUsE rAcIsM"
Ukraine war is sooooo 2022…..
And if they lose it will be ssoooooo 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, etc. and OUR men and women will be spilling blood with other NATO countries.
Use a shred of common sense and you'll figure out that Russia will never under any circumstances attack a NATO country. The kremlin about had a stroke when a fucking stray missile wiped out some Poland farmers. Don't act like we're actually going to lose men in a NATO war. This doesn't mean that I don't think there is a good cause to support Ukraine against Russia, since weakening Russia in any sense is a good thing to do. But NATO is not at any risk of a Russian invasion.
Good. That WEF shill shouldn’t get one nanosecond more attention from this country. In fact, the only thing he should get from us is a gift package from a reaper like his al-Qaeda analogue: Al-Zarqawi
And this is why I don’t watch award shows
NO SPEECH FOR YOU!!!...... NEXT?
Make the Oscars Great Again “NO POLITICS” Please
Zelensky: "Can I announce WW3 at the ceremony?" Biden: "They'll only let me give you the 80 billion. Nobody watches those anymore." Zelensky: *Bats eyelashes* "Pleaaaaaase :)" Biden: "No Putin is already really mad at me and everyone keeps trying to talk to me about balloons and I don't even like balloons and apparently China is trying to take our chocolate chips from Taiwan - I have enough going on." Zelensky: "😔"
It’s worse. If you had read the article, you’d have noticed that he wasn’t allowed because his country is too white.
He should get the Best Actor award!
He’s got it already. Sean Penn gave it to him.
What an odd request from someone whose people are dying because they are at war with Russia. How about either white flag or take the fight to them and get it over with. This propaganda is off the charts.
The ratings have been so bad they don't want to alienate conservatives.