moviefreakedmind

It’s been on some channels on and off over the last couple years.

I wasn’t saying anything about the establishment. I brought up Kathy Griffin as an example of someone who got shut down for offending conservatives and same with John Lennon who drew the ire of the Christian right fifty years ago. Thankfully the Beatles had enough fame to overcome that shit. Like Dom said, we all knew Roseanne was like this before the show, so obviously the corporate people didn’t care about her being a deranged alt-right nut until people on Twitter noticed. People in general want their media to be safe and that’s why they suck and that’s why media sucks. I saw a commercial for Thundercats getting revived and it looks like just another cutesy animated pile of garbage like all children’s entertainment these days. It all just exists so parents can show their kids inoffensive, bland, tepid, boring programming so that their kids can grow into inoffensive, bland, tepid, boring adults.

As for mrebo, no one is cutting off the right, they’re bigger than ever on Youtube and just want to play the victim like they always do. Youtube is censoring anyone that is a corporate outlet including many leftists. I’ll give you another example of someone even shittier than Roseanne, Steven Crowder. Crowder made a disgusting video claiming that AIDS was never an epidemic and that research money is wasted because most people that die of AIDS are gay. Crowder is a disgusting pile of dishonest shit and I hate him, but I don’t want him to get removed from YouTube for not representing Youtube’s values. That’s a little different because Crowder’s show is a propaganda outlet and Roseanne’s was actually a real show and her offensive comments were made outside of the show, but again, these are just more examples of the media sucking and being terrible. People that are far dumber than Roseanne surround us already. They’re your neighbors, they’re your coworkers, they’re your family, although they actually have no redeeming qualities while Roseanne actually has at least one. So ultimately, I don’t care. Again, this is just going to lead to these dying TV corporations aligning with people that they suspect won’t do anything remotely offensive, and that’s going to lead to safer programming, and as we all know safe programming sucks horribly and is unwatchable dogshit.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

Well, you can’t find reruns of The Cosby Show on tv anymore either. And it was pulled long before the current court case ended.

Big difference between that and stupid Twitter comments.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

If someone is in the public eye and makes a spectacle of themselves in a negative fashion, I’m not at all surprised at people not wanting to be associated with them or their opinions.

I’m not either, and I don’t blame Wanda Sykes for not wanting anything to do with her anymore, but I’m talking about the soulless corporate hacks that pretend to care about this.

Being talented or popular should not make one exempt from the consequences of bald-faced idiocy.

Being talented is actually a great virtue that not enough people value. I value it a lot more than others do. Most people, believe it or not, are really fucking stupid. And the vast majority of those idiots are totally untalented and almost devoid of any kind of value. A little talent goes a long way in my eyes.

Look at my avatar. That Sinead O’Conner stunt was considered one of the most offensive things broadcast on television. It pretty much ruined her career. Now, this is a totally different example because her statement was altruistic and very important, but the consequences were the same. I’d rather the stupid people get some leniency so that we don’t have to walk on eggshells all the time instead of getting outraged at everybody. It also doesn’t help that social media exists purely to broadcast stupidity to the world, but that’s a different topic.

It did actually. It defended him and showed the white-trash Roseanne character accepting him. Either way, I don’t care if a show is progressive or not. I’m opposed to cancelling them because of stupid shit said by the stupid people behind the show. I was even opposed to cancelling Laura Ingraham for the same reason. Even though she actually is a propaganda outlet, it sets a precedent that anything associated with anything offensive needs to get cancelled which can only lead to two outcomes: safer entertainment or entertainment produced by safer people, both of which suck shit.

SilverWook said:

Well, you can’t find reruns of The Cosby Show on tv anymore either. And it was pulled long before the current court case ended.

Well, Cosby is a serial rapist who knocked unknowing victims unconscious and penetrated their near-lifeless bodies and did so for decades. Big difference between that and stupid Twitter comments.

Gilbert Gottfried got fired from doing the Aflac duck commercials for making a stupid tweet after that tsuamni hit Japan.

I was actually referring to his 9/11 jokes, but that’s a good example too.

Everyone else you mentioned said things before social media instantly broadcasted brain farts around the globe at the speed of light.

Exactly. I don’t believe in defining people based on single comments. Either way, I actually don’t care about the comments themselves, I care about getting in the way of entertainment over it. That’s all I care about.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

She said stupid right-wing shit on Twitter and now the show is cancelled. It sucks because now TV is just going to become more unwatchable than it already is.

That assumes the show Roseanne was making TV less unwatchable.

Good on Disney for shutting that crap right down, I say. Roseanne Barr should return to the has-been obscurity that she deserves.

Roseanne actually was a very progressive show, and was great. They revived the show knowing that Roseanne was a psychopath, their only problem now is that she said more anti-semitic, racist, and anti-islam shit on a public forum. None of that was reflected in the show. Shutting down talented people for their dogshit opinions accomplishes nothing. They did this to Gilbert Gottfried too after 9/11 and Kathy Griffin after her stunt. Basically, this is just going to motivate the corporate overlords (who don’t care about progressive values, by the way) to go with safer people to create shows rather than just talented people. And when “safe” gets put ahead of talent that always leads to shittier entertainment. If all artists throughout history got de-platformed the second they made offensive drug-fueled psychotic comments then we’d have almost no good media. Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, John Lennon, Joan Rivers, and a million others that I could list would’ve been shut down before giving us valuable work. By the way, I don’t consider Kathy Griffin’s stuff valuable work. She’s not funny at all, but she was in the same situation where she made a mistake and now no one will touch her. Her mistake was less insulting than Roseanne’s in my opinion, but it’s the same problem.

She said stupid right-wing shit on Twitter and now the show is cancelled. It sucks because now TV is just going to become more unwatchable than it already is.

Dammit Roseanne.

I wasn’t even really being cynical there, I was just talking about how miserable life is.

An ROTS reference?

God I fucking hate everything. A goddam bug flew into my fucking eye the one time I try to go outside. Nothing is fucking worth it, everything under the sun sickens me. And I hate it all. Fuck Memorial Day. It’s a piece of shit holiday. I hate it. It can go to hell. Everyone that likes it can go to hell. Everyone that doesn’t like it, but pretends to like it can go to hell. Everyone else can go to hell too. Not that any of this matters though, because tomorrow will surely suck just as hard.

Possessed said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Possessed said:

So you’d get invited to more bbqs I guess.

I’d rather be dead than at anyone’s bbq.

Sounds extreme, but yeah well that’s just like uh my opinion man.

Still don’t get it.

I can’t, so I don’t even try.

I don’t have any 4K movies.

Possessed said:

So you’d get invited to more bbqs I guess.

I’d rather be dead than at anyone’s bbq.

DuracellEnergizer said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Yeah. Why would I pretend to be more optimistic than I am?

It’s not about pretending. It’s about subjecting yourself to exploratory brain surgery.

Unsure what this means.

I can’t stop myself from caring what people think about me, but I never alter my behavior for them.

Frank your Majesty said:

Reminds me of my latest shift at my casual job at the hardware store, where a customer approached me from behind and adressed ma with “hello young man” and when I turned around, he said “oh, not so young, after all” 😦

That customer sounds like a total asshole. I commend you for putting up with the likes of him.

Yeah. Why would I pretend to be more optimistic than I am?

I can’t even bothered to watch TLJ!

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t really the point of Black Mirror. I bet it’d be really hard to see your reflection in it if it’s all black.

0/10

I don’t really the point of Black Mirror. I bet it’d be really hard to see your reflection in it if it’s all black.

Why would I do that?

I know. I already said it’s a day for white-collar people to take off work.

I don’t think I’m a lazy viewer. I usually pay pretty close attention to things, but I just don’t really care about colors looking slightly different than how they supposedly looked in theaters. I don’t usually trust someone’s several-decade-old print of the film either.