piranesi
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Great angle to take, Brandon. Show us how smart you are at knowing all the rules and explaining how we have to follow them like they make sense.
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ready for some form of "She's just one person. Do you know how many jobs are at stake?" from some online types.
and not regular online types. Bigshots making 6 figures to write shit like that.
You know...it's actually a form of threat straight from the Vince McMahon's to all of us.
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Of course. That's what this is going to be about. Look for a NYT opionion piece on how NDA's won the cold war.
Lawyers "just doin' the job." Media "Just doing the job" (don't wanna piss off the wrong giant streaming companies). SOme judge will "just do the job' and somehow she'll owe him money.
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The percentage of people who, when they attain even a shred of wealth and power over other people, proceed to become absolute vile animals at the first chance they get....is staggering.
And we all know who a lot of them are. They're just sitting there above us every day openly gloating about it. Like, can we imprison them or something? Or do we just all agree to let them do it forever because "hey they're the boss. get that $$$$$"
And oldsters wonder why "Gen Z" doesn't want to work. For what so they can make it all the way to the WWE some day? There is nothing left to work for other than one or another equivalent of that achievement...all the way to....Netflix. All the way to...the Big Game! (don't wanna get sued). All the way to...Nestle headquarters! It's all the same now.
I don't see a single article for anyone asking Netflix about this. It is actually staggering to me that they wouldn't immediately issue a press release trying to backpedal the deal. But hey, we don't wanna blow a 5 BILLION dollar deal over a few little gang rapes, now would we?
yes. If you gave me a button that would pay me $5 billion but one woman would be treated like this somewherer I would smash that button over your head and not stop smashing until one of us was dead.
But I don't think that's what we're going to see.
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I'm so ashamed I still used a smark term in that post. Jesus I need to cleanse.
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14 minutes ago, jaedmc said:
This is kind of the anger I'm feeling today, and something I alluded to in an earlier post when I talked about who else knew Vince like this.. Like others had to know, and I just feel like the industry went silent today.
And I also have a lot of disdain for anyone who said they were a "wrestling journalist" who only spent their time reviewing RAW and trying to get access to their favorite wrestlers. We all knew he was garbage. They knew too. And instead of trying to get to the bottom of it, they played nice for access and clicks.
I feel like I'm veering way off topic so feel free to delete this but the whole thing reminds me of just how much 'they" have automate the beureaucracy of cruelty through all of us. wrestling journalist guy can deaden his soul enough to just keep "doing the job" Like the sunglass hut security guy using the faulty facial recognition software to accuse a 60 year old man 2000 away and the local cops are like "hey gotta go get him" and the warden's like "doin' my job" and an hour later the guy is in intensive care from the beating he took. (CNN two days ago). Everyone along the chain just "doing what I'm paid to do." not "Doing what is right" or hell even "Doing what is good for the company" but "doing what I'm paid to do." unitl this guy's life is destroyed.
How many people in that office building hear that woman in their heads when they cash their check?
It's like our entire economy is now based around "you're paid to pull the bad lever on them and they're paid to pull the bad lever on you." and we just all do it and pretend it's because "that's the job? How else do I live?"
past a certain point you either stop being a human or live doing something else. Anything else. Harder work is better than knowingly surrendering your entire essence to evil because "things might get harder".
Maybe I can bring it back around this way. I assume everyone at Netflix will "just do the job" and cheer for their new deal.
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2 minutes ago, jaedmc said:
Just wanted to say I get where you're coming from. I feel that way about a lot of stuff. I don't really know what the answer is. I love the idea of wrestling, but then I wonder how many kids got a Make-a-Wish visit from this company, and now their parents are like "That guy was doing what with women?" It's fucked.
Yeah. All of that stuff now just feels like "But Al Capone ran a soup kitchen" and "But Hitler loved dogs."
But the worst thing is that I was smart enough to see through that. All of us were smart enough to see through the pink shirt bullshit. i don't blame some kids for wanting to meet their tv friends but I can still blame myself for letting it go by and just accepting it. I was a grown ass adult who knew for a LONG time just what a sick Demon the man was and assumed worse as well and I just let it all ride because what "I don't want to take it out on the workers. They're nice guys."
Well a lot of them weren't and aren't and I think we'll find out right now how many of them have a shred or morality or dignity left when paychecks come next week.
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Looking back on it all I really can't believe how much I let slide and still watched wrestling. I really feel genuinely guilty about how far I was willing to let these sick fucks go. All the way past Saudi Arabia even for awhile. That it took this much is an indictment of me as well.
Goddamn.
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They finally found a way to get me to cancel Netflix.
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Shut this fucking company down and god damn anyone who remains working for it now.
I would take any fucking 8 hour shift job in retail rather than bend the knee to this sickness for any salary and at this point I don't feel "privileged" for saying fuck anyone who does.
There are lines that are crossed where people go from human to inhuman. And that line includes anyone who continues to push buttons for pay for someone or something like this company.
I'm at the end of the argument that "hey I need the money" If you are paid to overlook or help save this company, you are crossing that line. Everything about this whole goddamn industry has been suddenly erased from my mind and my past. All of it is dead. We should all let it die.
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for....Netflix LLC has decided to take a value downgrade for tax purposes. The following content will be leaving this month.
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On 11/30/2023 at 5:34 AM, Cobra Commander said:
Here’s all six parts of JJ Dillon’s The Saga Of The Family from Florida in 1983:
Behold…
Segments which have the feel of a conspiracy theorist buying time on public access TV to expose the Illuminati where JJ Dillon recounts the history of Dusty Rhodes and Blackjack Mulligan, aka Virgil Riley Runnels and Bob Windham, and their connections to outlaws of the old west.
JJ utilizing a map as a visual aid! Citing specific pages in books!
JJ’s generous offer of an extra minute of television time if Dusty and Windham will appear to defend themselves.
JJ goes to the ranch and is driven off before giving an account of his escape back to civilization.
JJ Dillon is so motherfucking awesome on the mic. This is likely not news to you. But this is an amazing 29 minutes of JJ just going at it without raising his voice.
The best Heel managers of the 1980s come off like they’re committing some sort of crime offscreen. JJ Dillon with the Horsemen brought a lot of “he’s committing some sort of fraud in his free time” energy.
But JJ in these segments really might be the closest pro wrestling has come to reproducing a Lyndon LaRouche infomercial.
Florida is the territory that brought us great wrestling television like Killer Karl Kox using the freedom of information act to expose the Iron Sheik as being from Iran. So maybe it’s not a coincidence that the CWF studio looked like a nightly news set.
One thing I always liked about him and other heels of that era is that they were all part of each-other's schemes so you assumed they were all meeting backstage all the time to set shit up while the dumbass babyfaces would be all alone. And that there was a point to it that ulitmately had to do with Jimmy Hart making money somehow. Even the heel announcer would "probably" be in on whatever the scheme was that week and long term and you fucking knew it too.
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Just checking in to see if jimmy Johnson's promo on the Cowboys/Lions halftime show counts and who he's been studying with?
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I've stayed so far away from WWE programming the last five years I think (maybe more) so that this showing up online was maybe the first non "stock market/lawsuit" story that I even have seen about them in a long time. So maybe I should just stay out of it. But when I clicked and saw that all the buzz was for: CM Punk and Randy Orton and R Truth...returning....again....and everyone is excited but in a way that's like "well this is probably literally the best we could have hoped for from this company" and just that much contact with them has made me exhausted from WWE all over again.
I didn't even see it. I just read it and felt tired and beaten.
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It seems so obvious all these legacy production companies need to go back to just producing things and licensing them and then collecting that and some ad money from when they run and all these streaming distributors need to stop chunneling money into their own bloated productions and blowing hundreds of millions of $$$$ at a time instead of just a few million to license from a production company.
The old model was fine. I know no one is going to go back to t.v. channels but they just need to decide on like three streaming services to license everything to. Low risk high reward. By now the FOMO of being left behind while some other service creates the perfect vertical monopoly and conquers the world is no longer a factor. No one is going to do that.
So they can stop worrying about not being the winner and just go back to low risk high reward making movies for a few million dollars and selling them in syndication/streaming packages after they play in theaters.
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That is asking a lot of very old people to hang on for another full year.
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On 5/9/2023 at 11:40 AM, Craig H said:
So my group of Cubs friends all had that moment of WTF when the Cubs didn't even try to keep Willson, but then we laughed at the Cards signing him. One of us asked at the time, "did the Cardinals suddenly become dumb?" And then we went on figuring the Cards would just run away with the division anyway.
Turns out that yes, the Cardinals became very dumb and signing Willson was like the canary in the coal mine for that team. They went to replace one of the best catchers of all time with a bat first catcher who was the worst or one of the worst pitch framers in the league and all of his pitchers throwing to him weren't great. It was a recipe for a disaster. Now that alone is a fucking delight because fuck them Cardinals. But everything else on top of that? Like the manager repeatedly throwing the team under the bus? I mean...you love to see it.
I'm sure somewhere @piranesi is like, yeah, this team is crazy stupid now and there's no point in bothering with them. I'd also wager that at least half of the "BEST FANS IN BASEBALL" want Palpatine back.
I think it's not that they suddenly became dumb but that the dumb guy, John Mozeliak, suddenly, about two years ago with everyone who ever stood up to him finally gone, is totally in control for the first time. His coach. His prospects. His signings. His style. His vision. A coaching staff that just takes orders and a press corps that had long ago forgotten what it's like to write about a loser and sees him as his past results (holding the old core together just long enough to keep making the playoffs all decade in a weak division).
But two years into Queen Cersei's full reign and here we are. the 1950s cardinals. The 1970s cardinals. now the 2020s cardinals.
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Has any other major sort of Super rich mogul type figure like Vince ever had anything like the series of reversals of fortune that Vince has somehow managed to survive/pull off even just in the last like two years, let alone all the ones before that were just "will they go out of business or not"?
edit: Wait I am literally asking this on the day Donald Trump is indicted. Never mind. I am just stoned.
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Can someone smarter and less old and stoned than me just explain is this the best possible outcome because it keeps WWE as part of a scummy outsider culture with no regulation instead of a subsidiary of a mainstream corporate drone culture
or is it the worst possible outcome because, well because it keeps WWE as part of a scummy outsider culture with no regulation instead of a subsidiary of a mainstream corporate drone culture?
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I don't know what possesses someone to accost someone else in a public space and start screaming attacks at them based on the physical traits they feel most vulnerable about and not because they did anything to you but because of some science stuff he probably has never really read about and is just a convenient way to get his latent desire for someone to scapegoat and pile on out of his system.
I also have a hard time believing that someone who would naturally fall into that as a cool thing to do is also a "good guy" more generally. That kind of menacing desire to ostracize and punch down at people doesn't just come and go in a flash and then disappear. It's a big leap from having thoughts and beliefs that are bigoted and trying to corner someone in public to scream at them because you think it will get a laugh from the boys.
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On 3/13/2023 at 2:41 PM, For Great Justice said:
I vote giving @piranesi the book
Are you really prepared for a reboot of Sin Cara with The Hurricane as his team-mate and masked Cody Rhodes as the heel?
Because that would be day 1.
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Jimmy crossed the Kayfabe event horizon a loooooong time ago.
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these mfs are like "we synthesized heat and cold" and I'm like "you mean you made lukewarm?"
Like I do that everyday with the two little sink thingees.
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22 minutes ago, Contentious C said:
These X Chair commercials can go fuck right off, too. "Synthesizing the universe's elements"... Too bad they can't synthesize some polonium in the brain of whoever dreamt that up.
Don't forget that they list "all the elements of the universe" as "heat" "cold" and "touch."
Also u have to subscribe monthly to the chair.
The Wall Street Journal Vince McMahon Thread.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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It really seems like the logical answer is to hurt him more.