North Vietnam also had industrial bases in the Soviet Union AND China supplying and funding them. It’s not like they were all paddy farmers.

Yeah that’s a fair assessment.

Why? He wasn’t like this before his stroke. His stroke literally changed something in his brain. The guy you elected is no longer there.

Haha that’s the whole point! There best work, isn’t.

Like, the first few Stranger Things were great, and House of Cards was great until the boondoggle of an end (which wasn’t the creators fault bc of all the Spacey nonsense). That’s about it.

Same. It’s just been Netflix’s MO since they came into being.

They have never been able to develop a decent idea into a good one. Triple Frontier, a movie about former special forces dudes stealing from a cartel. Great idea, horrible 3rd act when they forgot how to all green beret at the same time.

Good idea, needed a few rewrites. Old Guard, 6 Underground, the list goes on and on. Movie after movie is just mid.

Disney+ learned this lesson, and for the Marvel shows at least, they’re going back to yearly releases. Daredevil Born Again season 2 is well into production right now and will come out again next March, for example.

I am 100% out on Netflix shows for this reason. It’s been how many years since One Piece live action came out? It’s been how long since the last season of Stranger Things? No one gives a shit anymore.

Man it’s like the majority of people here don’t have ‘regular guy’ friends.

The way to get to regular dudes, is to make them feel fucking included. Yes, diversity is fucking awesome. Yes, having women in leadership roles is fucking awesome. But for your average guy… who do they have to look up to on the left side of things? In the news? In congress? Who is on the national stage for these things? Who is talking to those people?

There isn’t anyone. There are tons of people talking to other groups of people, but there has been flat out no courting of the white dude demographic outside of White Dudes for Harris (which was brilliant but came too late).

Speak to the issues these guys are facing. Talk about dating. Talk about career struggles. Talk about feeling alone, and feeling vulnerable. And then, talk about solution based problem-solving for these things.

Why do you think the right wing latched onto guys who do the whole personal betterment thing? It’s the same shit that white supremacist groups do. They’ll get you with things that anyone can agree with like ‘Hey man if you work hard you’ll succeed. I fucking believe in you when no one else will.’ Then they go into the right wing bullshit because now they have you at an emotional level.

There is no online left presence doing these things, and there are multiple right wing people doing this shit.

Make a left wing Joe Rogan, and bro-dudes will watch that shit like shit on velcro. But it has to be a dude-bro talking to them. It can’t be Rachel Maddow or AOC, it has to be someone who comes from that background.