Warner Bros - Netflix vs Trump and Larry Ellison

[Andrew Reid]

My opinion on the buyout of Hollywood by an oligarchy mafia.

https://www.eoshd.com/opinion/warner-bros-risk-talent-exodus-over-trump-ellison-deal-who-will-follow-christopher-nolan-and-jump-ship-next/

[Snowfun]

The line between entertainment and propaganda is shrinking inexorably…

[Andrew Reid]

"The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born, now is the time for monsters" - Antonio Gramsci, Italy 1930s

[fuzzynormal]

Egalitarianism is a lost cause in the USA.  It would be nice to strive to be on the correct side of that spectrum, as we've done since WWII, but I ain't holding my breath.  We're back to our Gilded Age mode, which I fear is the default.  Maybe with the way info moves these days we'll speed run it and it'll swing back the other way somehow?  Then again, I look at too many of my own family members, see how they think, and just kind of know in my gut that none of this ends well.

[sanveer]

Just curious ... should a sitting US president be openly influencing the fate of an entire industry, for his own or his family's personal gains? Will he push or influence regulators and law makers to cancel the business deals of everyone else? I read a report that a huge number of US Legislators own shares in Tech, Pharma, Defence Companies etc. But even by that standard, this seems to be much. 

[fuzzynormal]

8 minutes ago, sanveer said:

should a sitting US president be openly influencing the fate of an entire industry, for his own or his family's personal gains?

Of course not, but here we are again.

[sanveer]

18 minutes ago, fuzzynormal said:

Of course not, but here we are again.

It's really weird ... 

[eatstoomuchjam]

34 minutes ago, sanveer said:

should a sitting US president be openly influencing the fate of an entire industry, for his own or his family's personal gains?

No, but it turns out that a lot of our guard rails are imaginary.