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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

yospos lore is that musk was a management-stan poster username stymie who poo poo on so much he quit posting

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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

gotta wonder how many of the new starts are arson

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

elon is about as good at POE2 as he is at rocket science

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

classic identity politics dem pandering, totally useless

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

Kesper North posted:

Ghostbusters was a Republican comedy, a comedy designed for conservatives by conservatives. Walter Peck was an EPA whistleblower, not a future member of the Trump Administration. I hate to tell you this, but that man... is a Democrat.

absolutely this. it’s a bunch of guys who start a small business that saves the world after academia kicks them out for being useless and frauds lol

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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Like I'm all for media literacy and analysis but seriously interrogating every drat movie or whatever to figure out of there's subliminable political messaging in it is just the most tedious loving thing.

my duder i never went looking for it, i just am vaguely media aware and have seen 90000 articles commenting on it over the past 2 decades

here is one link where the director himself discusses it:
https://reason.com/2014/09/23/ivan-reitman-cops-to-libertarian-subtext/
"This may well be old news but first time I noticed Reitman discussing it: Entertainment Weekly asked Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman to react to a common (among conservatives and libertarians at least) reading of Ghostbusters as having an explicit and intentional anti-regulatory, pro-small-business message.

While I've been unable to find it online, it's on page 113 of EW's Sept. 19/26 double issue. They ask Reitman: "Did you ever imagine that National Review would name Ghostbusters one of the best conservative movies?"

He replies: "I never knew that. I've always been something of a conservative-slash-libertarian. The first movie deals with going into business for yourself, and it's anti-EPA—too much government regulation. It does have a very interesting point of view that really resonates.""

frankly, i don't care much either way, it's a comedy classic

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