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Dec 26 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Wow, look everyone: the guy who has repeatedly tried and failed to make films starring Gina Carano that have literally no purpose other than to be anti-woke, has an opinion about an actually good film. I can't wait to see this.

Yes, spoilers below.
BREAKING NEWS: A murder mystery film tried to misdirect the audience.

Here's a thought, Ben, maybe the next time you criticize a film, actually understand its genre first?
Again, Ben, that's how murder mysteries work. They misdirect. But the thing is, there actually ARE clues to a lot of this stuff planted early on for observant viewers. Again, a trope of the genre. How is any of this a complaint?
Ahhh, so THIS is the real reason you're so offended by the film. Not any of that bullshit stuff above. You were just trying to come up with other apolitical reasons so this would just look like one of many grievances.
I mean, if you've followed Elon Musk's actual career, Ben, yes, this is literally how he got successful. Investing in smart people then pushing them out and taking credit. He literally won the right to be called a "Tesla founder" in a lawsuit, when he wasn't one.
Ben Shapiro is aghast at the idea that a film would push the radical idea that sometimes, stupid people end up being rich and successful and the people whose accomplishments made them rich get shafted. But that's true of tons of billionaires, not just Musk.
Dude, were you paying attention to the plot AT ALL? The point was all of Bron's friends owed literally their whole careers to him. Two of them, Duke and Birdie, were canceled for saying idiotic shit, and he saved them. And he was bankrolling the governor's political campaign.
Hey Ben, please name a single real-world example of someone who became successful by taking down the rich and powerful the way you're describing.

I think Rian Johnson has a much better grasp of how the politics of wealth and fame work than you do.
This is just pathetic. Ben sounds like a high-schooler trying to half-ass his way through a book report when he hasn't read the source material. Only here it's worse, because he DID see the source material, he just understood absolutely nothing about it.
Anyway, go and stream #GlassOnion if you braved the spoilers in this thread but haven't seen it yet, because it is fantastic, trenchant, insightful, and wildly fun. Something exactly zero of Ben Shapiro's forays into popular media have ever even been close to being.

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Like, nothing is stopping you from putting out a Nativity scene instead of Santa and his reindeer, and spending the day praying in Jesus' name. And those who want to do that, do that.
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Progressives have all kinds of debate over how best to deal with these issues. The one thing they do hold firm on is: doctors and patients, not politicians, are the best people to make these choices.
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I would like to talk a little bit about one of the most embarrassingly awful pieces of infrastructure in the United States.

Las Vegas Boulevard.
Here's a city where the whole economy is based on tourism.

The principal draw is a long linear district of casino resorts in unincorporated territory south of the city, with an airport at the southern end.

A huge percent of people coming into the city aren't bringing a car.
So what would you build to navigate this area and connect all the tourist attractions?

How about a giant six-lane highway with double slip lanes at each intersection?
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