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Heyjude's avatar

Outstanding. For a long time I thought the reason movies didn’t appeal to me was that they are made for young people. Another superhero movie? Really? Thanks to your work, I’ve learned that the problem is far deeper than my age.

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ScottyG's avatar

Will there be a category this year for how many transgender children an actor or actress or producer is raising? Inquiring minds want to know…🙃

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Mad Dog's avatar

Every little boy in a dress deserves one of those special juvenile Oscars they used to give to child stars.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

Those kids deserve better parents.

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Mad Dog's avatar

That's as much truth as could ever be fit into a single four word sentence.

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Austin's avatar

Sasha, forgive me for asking, have you written about Harvey Weinstein and the fallout of his scandal? As a regular Joe, I roll my eyes at the industry that spent millions of dollars and great efforts besides to cover up for Weinstein, all while lecturing me on my truck and my AR-15.

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Bob's avatar

The fallout of his scandal is that movies got worse. (Evidently takes an A-Hole to get things done against a tide of mediocrity - as we may again be seeing - or at least preternaturally stubborn (eg. Lincoln, but I digress).)

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Craig Stephenson's avatar

Sasha, you nailed it! I used to be a regular movie viewer once or twice a week in the theaters. Loved the buildup, the previews, and of course the popcorn! It has been wonderful following you and have shared with many friends. Just bought a gift membership yesterday and will continue to do so. Thank you in advance for more great writing.

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Mad Dog's avatar

Hollywood's primary focus is no longer on selling movie tickets. Instead, like higher education, publishing, unions, and environmental groups—industries largely influenced by the Left—it thrives on generating outrage.

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equinefriend's avatar

Just wanted to compliment you on your insightful, informative, articulate and entertaining writing. You are SO in your element and make valuable contributions to the true understanding of what's ACTUALLY going on rather than what the wokies say is going on. What particularly jumped out at me referring to Top Gun: Maverick was this: "For once, Hollywood made a movie people actually wanted to see. It gave them what they wanted instead of what they should want." Not that I particularly enjoyed that film, but the point being the extreme hubris of the "woke." Here we have the brainwashed telling us what WE should want. Unfortunately, the brainwashed are entirely unaware they are brainwashed and therefore prisoners of their own irrational beliefs. Indeed, our "woke" public school system (imported from Prussia by the oligarchs in the early 1900s) has done its intended job. The full story is in John Taylor Gatto's magnum opus, Underground History of American Edcation. I'm surprised it hasn't been banned.

Sasha, I hope your audience continues to grow and that you'll keep writing for the duration. Thank you.

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TeeJae's avatar

Big fan of John Taylor Gatto. Brilliant mind.

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equinefriend's avatar

Yes indeed. Should be required reading for all prospective teachers at all levels. But, in my dreams, right?

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Terry Quist's avatar

Great framing metaphor with Biosphere 2!

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PSW's avatar

The irony is astounding. The great transgender movie goes bust, but the male actor gets best actress award and then gets canceled for bigoted tweets. Wokeness at it's best absurdities!

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Robert's avatar

The Tablet article was excellent. Thank you, Sasha.

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Joe's avatar

Sasha, how long do you think that Hollywood can continue to do this if the box office returns aren't there? I would have thought change would have come before now.

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Dena's avatar

Also interesting is how DEI hiring led to a halt & lawsuits on Obama’s library. It’s been 10 years & it’s a mess. Obama insisted on hiring only DEI companies. Incompetence & racism led to him being sued. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

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TeeJae's avatar

Oh the irony.

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jemarr's avatar

Yet, you still refer to a biological male as "she" in your article. Be free, Sasha! Be free!

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Bob's avatar

She was referring to the character .. oh wait.

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Fred Mertz's avatar

Read every word, Sasha. Well done. I still don't sense the business actually wants to be saved by my dealings with the folks I know. There's a lot of, "we're still woke, but we're being covert about it" going on right now. That said, I've seen a few non-threatening white guys who probably watch MSNBC nightly get some gigs they wouldn't have in the past 5 years.

By the way, the scuttlebutt is a producer behind the curtain of a best picture nominee ordered the hit on Emilia Perez. Which would make sense since this producer had the statue slip from their fingers once before. If that's true, they did the movie business a favor because that film winning big would've ended the movie business. They weren't going to survive the repercussions of that level of virtue signaling. Even Zoe Saldana winning is a joke and everyone knows it. Love her, but this is not the role or the movie she wants to be known for.

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Heyjude's avatar

Do they really believe they are being covert now in their woke? That is like a little kid believing you can’t see him because he covers his own eyes.

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Fred Mertz's avatar

They believe everyone is stupid. They actually thought they were being sly about slipping in the woke stuff. It's why it's a failing business when it comes to new content.

All you have to do is look at Marvel and see how the politics/tone have shifted in the films from the first Iron Man and Captain America movies to what they pump out now. The only people still paying for it are adult babies who are hooked and can't live without it. The general public is over it. They're trying to course correct but it's Disney so they are still grappling with being social activists without realizing that's why there's fatigue for the product.

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Kick Nixon's avatar

One of your best yet, Shasha. The Biosphere analogy was perfect.

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Prof. Fred Nazar's avatar

Just as the Nobel Prizes, the Oscars were born dead, because they were founded by masons to give prizes to masonic movies, with few exceptions. Think about all mainstream actors who are masons (like Tom Hanks) or their mercenaries.

Apart from sin-empowered demons, what is their main source of power? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

Taking down central banking doesn't solve the problem. Their source of free endless money is counterfeiting, fractional reserve banking and financial instruments (e.g. derivatives, debt over debt, compound interest above real growth, etc.). Also, insider information, sabotage, infiltration, manufactured news and events to create profitable market-movements.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: the SSS (Satanic Secret Societies such as masonry) create trillions out of thin air and launder them through their Banks, foundations, and foreign loans and “aid”, with which they buy puppeticians and seats in the boards of the Federal Reserve (the only private-run Central Bank in the world), judiciary, corporations, media, healthcare, universities, foundations, political parties, etc.

The masons’ worst nightmare is that the daydreaming majority wakes up, finds out their crimes, and seek justice. We are a million to one. Until they achieve the CBDC digi-tatorship, they are walking on a tight rope.

We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

Who are The Powers That SHOULDN'T Be ?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/criminal-intent

https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/who-is-they/

SSS for dummies

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sss-for-dummies

Weaponization of Justice

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-justice

Illuminati David Rockefeller, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Confessions of ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Illuminati Attali, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

Chisholm, father of the WHO’s global pedophilia

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/brock-chisholm-father-of-the-whos

Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

Please share, not the articles, but the information! I'm expendable. Saving the free world, is not!

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Bob's avatar

Joe Reacher put an end to counterfeiting.

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Beth Dutton's avatar

Brilliant piece. The same is happening in the theater world, just saying.

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