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You lost me with this-I don’t follow you.

Fair question. Someone to rally around, admire, use as an example. Not a perfect definition but one I’m comfortable with.

Re: employee stupidity. Google “Coleman Bonner Gatlinburg”. This degenerate took glee in the Gatlinburg fires that killed people because they were “Trump supporters”. His employer fired him in three seconds, as they should have. And this was on a vastly smaller scale. https://www.al.com/news/2016/12/alabama_man_loses_job_for_call.html Update-it appears he might have passed away due to mental health issues. As tragic as it is, hate always turns inward. It’s a mathematical certainty. It’s my prayer that God has more compassion than Coleman did. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/coleman-bonner-obituary?id=36931793

Yup, we’re vastly far apart on this with no agreement. Calling him a “flat earther” is not a personal attack at all. He’s admitted that’s what he believes. So, it’s using his own words to describe him. You don’t like it and I’m sorry, but that’s what he said. What’s a PC word for flat earther? Sphere denier? A “good employer” needs to take a nuanced view of her company and realizes that if people think her company is anti-Semitic it’ll destroy that company, leaving to hundreds of layoffs. Especially if that company is in the entertainment world. When you sign the paychecks for thousands of people you’ll begin to realize what a burden it is. If I ran a company that had a large LDS base of customers and an employee started Tweeting about how much he hates LDS, I’d fire him immediately. Kyrie absolutely has the right to free speech. If the government told him to shut his mouth I’d march in the streets with you demanding he be allowed to speak. This has nothing to do with 1984. Which most people claim to have read but few grasp. If Kyrie didn’t realize the controversy this would create, then yes, he is dense. It does not take a commanding intellect to see how controversial this would be. Heck, I’m the dumbest guy alive and I could see this was a bad idea. Kyrie does not have the right to force Twitter (or any other private company) to give him a platform. He also has no right to force the Nets to pay him or endorse his views.

If my “true colors” are disliking a flat earther who is too dense to see that if he promotes an anti Semitic documentary on his Twitter his employer might be slightly irritated, then that’s a burden I’ll gleefully carry.

Oh, I plead guilty to that 100%. I AM trying to demonize Kyrie because I think he’s a lunatic. Yup. You got me. 100%.

It’s worse. He doubled down. But, it’s a blessing in disguise because he showed his true colors. Like Kanye, the right will try to make him a hero without realizing how unstable he is.

When it does that 99% of the time it’s just routine maintence. The rides have to be checked after a certain amount of riders have gone on.

There are many reasons why I’m extremely cynical that Disney is “struggling.” This is one of them. This is a line for their new show. The line started at around 2:30 for a show that began at 9. And… https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/business/disney-earnings-profit.html

https://babylonbee.com/news/republicans-and-democrats-agree-to-not-claim-election-was-rigged-if-they-win?fbclid=IwAR3EKqsMUz9zDdntwubRWoH4t9_dgZAmf5ztE-vH_1P_xS74_wbL5pSsos8 some humor on the subject.

The democrats foolishly misread the public on this one. This and Coivd lockdowns might seal the deal for the GOP.

Okay. You are free to believe what you wish.

And, there’s another reason why the Star Wars movies are disliked by my generation: You get to a certain age and you just stop liking new things. Then, you get to an age where you stop liking things at all. It’s all true of course, and seeing my generation fall into that cliche is so depressing. It’s why so many good new bands and authors out there fail 😞. Why read a Ronald Malfi book when you can read the same Stephen King novel for the 5000th time? Why listen to Visigoth (From Utah everyone!) when I can listen to Rust in Peace? And why enjoy Rise of Skywalker when I can watch ROTJ and read my EU books? If we were all decades younger I’m assuring you we’d think totally differently about the Disney Star Wars movies.

Doubtful the two are correlated. In fact, they aren't. Maybe 2% of 2% of 2% of Disney fans had a temper tantrum, but they had already left Disney long before this, and we’re just looking for the final shove out the door. And even if the Gina/merch thing was real, it did absolutely nothing to impact Disney in the long run. This is a classic case of an small amount of people thinking they have far more influence then they really do.

Chapek is hated by many AP’s (not me) for taking away Minnie Vans, the disastrous roll out of Genie+, the park reservation system, and several other choices. The man is hated by everyone, it seems. We (AP’s) are a bunch of entitled jerks though. He could give us 50$ whenever we entered the park and well, haters gonna hate.

HS closes at 9 and there’s still a 50 minute wait for ROTR, their latest Star Wars ride. On a Tuesday evening. When we went two weeks ago for our anniversary the wait times were so awful (well over 90 min) we didn't even bother going on. Not bad for a flop. You are, of course, free to believe what you want. But Star Wars, and yes, Disney, are doing just fine. In fact, they just finished up on two massive and expensive roller coasters-Tron (no, I don’t get it either. That movie was mediocre at best) and GOG. If Disney was really about to “go broke” they couldn’t have afforded one, much less two. Sorry.

Flops? Disney opened up a Star Wars world down here that’s been hugely popular with wait times over 80 minutes, even several years after it opened. They are, easily, the most sought after rides down here for Genie+. Baby Yoda toys sold out there in minutes. You have to be on a waiting list to make a lightsaber. Oga’s Cantina (a really cool experience, btw) has a waiting list as well though to be fair, it’s cooled down substantially. The other wait times have not. Their Star Wars hotel is a bust but it’s not because it’s “woke”. It’s because it’s incredibly expensive.

Yup, same.

Well, looks like we both misread something, I guess.

Well if I misread I apologize, but I thought they adjusted the ages in order to reflect a society where people get married and start having babies later. Which is happening all over the place. Like I said, if I misread it-well it won’t be the first or last time that happens. and I said popping, like popcorn. Not what you wrote.

I could have misread it. Didn’t the church take away age minimums for dating?

These are great points. I think the church is very wise to see the trend in dating is changing. Like you mentioned, this isn’t 1988 where women graduated high school and started popping out babies nine months later. The church is realizing what some of us refuse to accept. The world, even conservative religious communities, isn’t changing. It’s already changed.

Elections are only rigged when my side loses. When the other side complains about it being rigged-ha! Thin skinned snowflakes. If the election is “fixed” why should conservatives bother to vote at all? If it’s useless than just stay home. There. Problem solved. It sort of reminds me of Hollywood celebs who believe in global warming yet buy beachfront homes. If they really believed the ocean level would rise, the beach is the LAST place they’d live. Every group project has that one guy who just complains that it’ll fail so that when it does, he can lean back and smugly say “I told you so.” Same thing might be happening here. Or, conservatives are worried about losing and since they can’t admit they lost on ideas (democrats did exactly this in 2016) they’ll just believe it was rigged so they don’t have to look inward.

That’s the key. We all have different lifestyles but generally speaking, the super rich don’t live in a home with 88 rooms, 200 luxury cars, and four movie theaters. You’d be amazed how many millionaires drive “older” cars and have surprisingly modest homes.

Unless it’s clam chowder 😜