zeke5123a
1d ago
That’s the weird thing to me. I get he wants to appear willing to go to the end to get what he wants. The tit for tat with China accomplishes this. Why not with the other countries that came forward asking for a deal announcing a pause while negotiating. China gave you the perfect opportunity to make your threats real whilst giving a carrot to the others who play ball.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I said it wasn’t sci fi. Not sure why we need to limit to sci fi. Also it is a great book. I love the conceit that if the devil came to town it wouldn’t look that different from the commies.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Why not Master and Margarita or Gulag Archipelagos? Not Russian sci fi but interesting books.
zeke5123a
2d ago
US economy isn’t that trade dependent and the US trades a lot more with Canada, Mexico, and EU compared to China. If Trump can get the EU to reduce trade barriers along with countries like Japan etc. the economy will be fine.
zeke5123a
4d ago
I don’t know. Competitive news environment? But going to ancient sources of wisdom I need to know that I don’t know. That is, I need to know the media is wrong. I don’t need a solution. Because it is better to know you know nothing as opposed to now things that just ain’t so.
zeke5123a
5d ago
But this largely makes sense if those other countries didn’t have tariffs on the US to start with. But they do have tariffs and thus it comes across to me as rather hypocritical (ie fuck you for doing the very thing we do).
zeke5123a
5d ago
What are facts? I’m serious. Who gets to determine what is factual? Haniana believes the media doesn’t lie because in the end he accepts that they by and large get to determine what is factual. This position is prima facie absurd and therefore Haniana is absurd.
zeke5123a
10d ago
Zegler has a weird chin and sometimes looks, for lack of a better word, a little retarded.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Yeah true. Problem for them is people just don’t like the paradigmatic young woman of the Modern Audience.
zeke5123a
12d ago
The original of course didn’t shy away from beauty being good. But to your point vanity was bad. Yes Snow White was fair but also good hearted — she wasn’t consumed by her fairness. She inspired everyone around her to be a better person. She didn’t need to be a girlboss; the original Snow White was the paradigmatic young woman — fair, looking forward to building a family, kind, nurturing, and inspiring others to be better.
The modern iteration is…an activist
zeke5123a
12d ago
And the Valar always made claims about not doing something until they did.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Zegler isn’t ugly but next to Gadot Zegler looks like a soft 6. Relative casting matters.
In short, the problems from Snow White are:
- It tells a story most people won’t like
- It doesn’t execute that story very well
- Live action remakes are tired by this point.
- Bad PR as the lead actress trashed the beloved source material and attacked a decent chunk of the audience.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Fair. I read “it” as meaning stories that avoided saving the world whereas OP likely meant stories it to mean stories that focused on saving the world.
Funny enough if you look at the totality of middle earth stories even if Sauron won it wouldn’t be lights out. Morgoth won at one point and the valar intervened.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Isn’t LOTR kind of saving the world? The whole theory is that if Sauron gets the ring, it’s over for the free people of Middle Earth.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Your theory doesn’t make sense. This was an all stock deal. It shouldn’t give liquidity to Musk.
zeke5123a
14d ago
Sure but the idea is in the context of “men and women are equally strong” which even those tropes suggest is not true (because of course it isn’t true)
zeke5123a
14d ago
Why the only time? First you can always go back. Second, maybe getting laid will inspire you to get laid without paying for it
zeke5123a
14d ago
But isn’t the trope accepting that the smaller guy can’t physically compete so he has to figure out another way (eg out smart his opponent)?
Or that China is not the only important country from a trade perspective.
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