• bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    19 hours ago

    Meh. He’s got money and can move to Texas or maybe Cancun. I hear the weather and electrical grid in Texas is fine this time of year.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    it’s weird how an outright genocide, surprisingly recognized as such by nearly the entire world as it is happening, would cause people to voluntarily reveal themselves to be just cartoonishly evil.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    James Woods basically having Disney turn Hades into his personal self-insert character actually makes the parts of Kingdom Hearts where you beat the shit out of him that much more rewarding

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I heard about the wildfires yesterday, and thought: “ain’t it the rich people who have homes in that area?”

    :)

    :( to all the people who aren’t rich I’m sorry

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      There is like 6 fires, but one is a :) fire and the other five are probably :( fires.

      • hobovision@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        All of the fires are :(

        While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn’t make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.

        Don’t get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.

        There’s a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Lots of actors whose work you appreciated lost their homes. I’m not defending rich people, but many of these folks actually earned it, not all inherited or squatted on wealth. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal among others lost homes. I’m sure a lot of amazing Hollywood memorabilia went up in flames too.

      E: Why the negativity? Just generic hating on rich people with no nuance? I draw the line at when people use their wealth, personally or politically, to put downward pressure on people’s wages, benefits, and quality of life, doubly so if they personally benefit from it like getting a bonus for layoffs. I don’t hate on someone winning at life as long as they aren’t keeping others down to win more. If you want to hate on wealth save it for the execs trying to use AI to put these people out of a job. People like Goodman walked the line to support their unions. Show a little flexibility before you throw more torches on the fire.

      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Unless all of their net worth burned up in the fire it might be difficult for some people to feel bad for them when they’ll just buy another house from their luxury hotel room, or more likely, second or third home.

        • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 days ago

          Except the things that cant be replaced with money.

          Your kids first shoes, wedding photos, family heirlooms, the funny thing about rich people is that they are still people.

            • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
              02·
              2 days ago

              Cary elwes is rich enough to you that you doubt his personhood? I have to assume his net worth is seven digits(according to those celebrity net worth sites, $6-8 million. Idk if those are at all accurate, but it feels reasonable for his career). Doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, plumbers, contractors, septic tank servicers, and a fuckload of other people are in that range.

              That’s a lot of people you’re not sure are people. I get that it was probably not earnest and I’m ruining the joke, but that’s too broad a dehumanization brush for me to find it funny.

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    That’s unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      There’s just so many people that work on movies and finance them that there has got to be a 100℅ chance that every great movie has a dickweasle wedged in the process somewhere.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        02·
        2 days ago

        You gotta separate the art from the artist. When one of my favorite bands got canceled because the lead singer was into the young ladies, I tried to remember there were four other dudes in the band, as well as presumably a lot of behind the scenes folks who assisted with touring and studio production. Same with movies. You can denounce people for being shitty, but at the same time recognize they were a part of something great.

        • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Lol what does “young ladies” mean here? Like teenage adults or like girl kids. If you’re talking about a child abuser, describing him as a man who is “into the young ladies” is super dishonest and makes my skin crawl. If this musician is a child abuser, don’t sugar coat your language.

          Gross!

          • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 days ago

            To me a child is single digits. You’re right though, 15 year olds, whatever term encapsulates that age.

            • M1nds3nd@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Ephebophilia can be used as a distinction from pedophilia. Voicing that distinction makes you sound like a pedophile though.

              • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                0·
                16 hours ago

                I don’t think it’s pointless to say there are degrees of wrong.

                I know someone who cheated on their spouse with a willing 16 year old, which is legal here. This situation spawned arguments about morality that went on for years. Here’s a question to help those black & white thinkers break out of their shell a bit: which was worse? The 16 year old or the cheating? Does it change anything if the marriage had become sexless (spouse’s fault)? What if the 16 year old was or was not a virgin?

                Degrees of wrong.

              • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                I think it’s definitely wrong across the board. I honestly think 40 year olds dating 20 year olds is weird and I’m going to think differently of that 40 year old, but the laws have drawn this arbitrary line at 18, and so here we are.

                It’s all fucked up, but sexually assaulting a literal child versus sexually assaulting via coercion a 15 year old feels like a distinction worth making. You can be Lost Prophets pedophile or Brand New pedophile, they are vastly different degrees of awful, despite both being awful.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 days ago

          I don’t know about “gotta” but often, I agree. Picasso was a piece of shit and a great artist. I think it’s actually counter productive to take the binary good/bad route in cases like his. The guy is famous already, if we were to try and reverse that, we not only remove art from the world in a sense, but we also decrease society’s overall ability to discuss the light and dark side of things.

              • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                01·
                20 hours ago

                Every art historian and critic and fan

                Lol! You mean those people whose entire living depends on pretending the (so-called) “art world” isn’t 90% hype and 10% “Great Man” fallacy?

                I can throw a brick on deviantart.com and hit someone that’s more talented than Picasso was (well, you could before it got swamped with fake AI), but none of them gets hyped up by a scam industry selling feelgood to rich people, do they?

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  0·
                  16 hours ago

                  Your ignorance (and contrarianism) shows.

                  If someone can take a look at Picasso’s works and say they suck, their opinion is to be ignored. So thanks for that ❤️

    • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Thanks for sharing this. The story gets worse. The judge dismiss the case then almost immediately issue another statement allowing it to get through.

      Then the person die and they wanted to know his name and details of his death. Not only that he was tweeting about his victory and saying the guy in hell.

      Then force his family to issue an apology !

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      Oppenheimer has been out for a long time. It is what James Woods is most known for. Boycotting will not have much effect anymore. Maybe his next work.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Oppenheimer has been out for a long time.

        If a bit over a year is a “long time” then I’m a lot older than you lol.

        It is what James Woods is most known for

        uh, whhhat? that is certainly not true. I’ve known of him for like 20 years as a (shitty) actor and had no clue he was involved with Oppenheimer whatsoever, despite seeing that movie in the theater. From IMBD:

        In some ways, the executive producer isn’t super involved anyhow. My understanding is that they just drum up money and try to persuade suits that a picture should be made. I’m sure he got paid 100 times his worth though…