It's like Tom Tuttle from Tacoma in "Volunteers." We sent over a tough-guy wrestler action star, and in two seconds flat we get back a sniveling toady regurgitating Communist propaganda.
Anybody still think globalist economic and cultural engagement will liberalize China?
Anybody still think globalist economic and cultural engagement will liberalize China?
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1397186837526024204
You know what will put a stop to this disgusting cowardice from Hollywood? Make it cost more for them to suck up to China than it would cost to speak up for freedom and justice. Kill this Fast and Furious movie dead at the box office and scare the ever-loving hell out of studios.
Nothing ELSE will do it, that's for sure, China has proven that its "sharp power" policies - weaponizing its entire economy to serve the geopolitical interests of the Communist Party, using its financial leverage to compel obedience from "free" world corporations - WORKS.
Read Chinese media and you'll see the CCP is smugly confident that its political control of private industry - that would be fascism, for those of you unclear on what that term really means - is the key to dominating information space for the rest of history.
They think chaotic, messy, fractious free societies are no match for Chinese fascism's disciplined fusion of political structure, military power, cultural hegemony, and economic leverage. Free societies have too many fault lines they can exploit, while they have none.
Here's your chance to prove them wrong, movie fans. Kill Fast and Furious, and everything else John Cena does, and let Hollywood know that the cost of servile obedience to the Chinese Communist Party is the loss of American box office. There's nothing else you CAN do.
The CCP is confident that U.S. studios, their finances ruined by China's pandemic, will never do anything to risk their revenue from the surging Chinese box office. They are blasting signals that China doesn't really NEED Hollywood product any more, so offend them at your peril.
Let's force Hollywood to make that choice, shall we? The entertainment industry has FAR too much influence over American politics and culture to let it become a captive instrument of Chinese fascism. Better to burn it down and rebuild from scratch than let it become that.
If Hollywood studios decide to abandon the U.S. market - snarling every step of the way about stupid deplorable nationalist xenophobic American audiences - it's no great loss. We can rebuild. We really SHOULD, to cleanse Hollywood of its corruption and ideological rot.
We have plenty of plucky and capable independent filmmakers and storytellers ready to go. The Internet gives them ways to reach audiences. Maybe they can build a new Hollywood that can actually get people interested in its awards and "prestige projects" again.
Meanwhile, let the corrupt, bloated, narcissistic, hypocritical entertainment industry go and make its money in China. At least it will be clear up front that every movie with big Hollywood stars that China sells back to us is CCP product. A little honesty is better than none.
Can you imagine a toady like Cena or LeBron offering a groveling apology to Americans for offending their values? Of course not. They're not AFRAID OF YOU. Make them afraid, or settle for being the audience they care about less, the audience they'll never respect. /end
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