DEI Actress: DEI Has Become a Bad Word in Hollywood and We Have to Use Different Words Now to Push Our DEI Grift

Issa Rae says DEI has become a 'bad word' in Hollywood as executives of color 'tiptoe' to keep jobs

'Insecure' actress spoke at TheWrap's Creators x Hollywood Summit about the rollback of DEI initiatives
Actress Issa Rae said Thursday that she believes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has become a toxic topic for the entertainment industry.
"I'm seeing it," the "Insecure" actress said while participating in TheWrap's Creators x Hollywood Summit. "Just blatantly. People are scared and just not necessarily investing the same way that they would have before. Even executives who, you know, are of color are also like tiptoeing like, 'Well, I can't co-sign you because I'm going to lose my job.' And that's scary to see and sad to see because it's kind of like a bad word now."

In other words, moneylosing grifter projects had previously been greenlighted due to the DEI lobby's power and now that lobby has lost power and DEI projects aren't getting greenlighted and DEI hustlers aren't getting paid.

"We all know that, typically, when we're talking about diversity, equity [and] inclusion, it is about giving people opportunities that would otherwise not have them as opposed to pity hires and pity shows and the like," she continued. "It's changed meanings and has become a bad word, but it hasn't affected what we do and who I create for and what our company creates for and who we prioritize. And it never will."
Rae was asked about Hollywood and other major industries rolling back DEI initiatives since President Donald Trump took office again in 2025. As a series creator herself, Rae admitted that people have to be "smarter" about how they package diverse projects.
"Like, 'It's not a show about a Black woman, it's a show about class,'" Rae said. "As icky as that might feel, it gets the show sold. You know, a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down."

Yes: Let's talk about "the medicine."

A lot of people don't object to black actors, writers, or directors. I have nothing against a black actor in a kind of show or movie I'd like. If it's a detective show with a black lead, I would watch that.

The problem is "the medicine." DEI grifters don't merely push beancounting hiring for positions. They also push The Message. They want to make movies and shows that are lectures.

There's a reason I avoid black-- and "female led" -- tv shows and movies: Didacticism. There is a powerful strain of woke lecturing among female and black creators. Again, if you're pitching me a black detective show, I might be interested. But if you're pitching me a black detective show in which every two or three episodes are about The Talk and White Supremacy and George Floyd and white superiors denying promotions to qualified black cops and giving those promotions to Mediocre White Men -- that's gonna be a "no" from me, dog.

And that's what a lot of this crap is. These creators are frustrated because they want to make very didactic, lecturing fare and be rewarded and beloved for it. But that's not what the public wants, and it's never been what the public wants. As Samuel Goldwyn said 80 years ago (I think): "If you want to send a message, use Western Union."

Partly they do this because projects that would never, ever have gotten greenlit in the past were suddenly mandatory due to the DEI takeover of all corporations. Partly it might be a kind of employment-guarantee: If a project is specifically about "The Black Experience in America," well, you know that all of the lead roles and key positions will have to go to black people.

But no one wants this. They never did. During the height of DEI, Hollywood lost hundreds of millions of dollars every year making one sure-moneyloser woke lecture after another.

Losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year is not a sustainable business model.

There is an entire grifter industry in Hollywood of people taking a mafia-like cut of projects. Crap DEI director Ava DuVernay has a whole business based upon the concept of DEI entrepreneurialism, monetizing white guilt and the George Floyd propaganda effort. It's called "ARRAY." You know, an array of skin colors and diverse lived experiences.

array now
https://arraynow.com
Founded in 2011 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, ARRAY is a Peabody award-winning arts and social impact collective dedicated to narrative change.

She's been complaining since 2024 that the DEI grift isn't paying off like it had in the prior years. But how long did you think you could milk the George Floyd grift?

Ava DuVernay On Hollywood's Diversity Failures: She's "Tapping Out" & Will Go "Make My Movies"
Ava DuVernay is frustrated, and perhaps the odd way her acclaimed drama, "Origin" has largely been ignored by the awards circuit hasn't helped ("I wish she was at the Globes or SAG Awards or Critics Choice or the other nominations that didn't come," the filmmaker recently lamented about her "Origin" star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor).
It's no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post). There's been a concerted effort and campaign among the conservative forces in this country to disassemble DEI initiatives and it's clear as day (you can cite dozens of articles on this topic, but feel free to read "Republicans are at war with corporate America over diversity" at The Hill or "Conservatives See Claudine Gay's Resignation As A Victory" in the New York Times or just yesterday, "DEI Goes Quiet" from the Times).
And all you need to do is look around at the way the diversity movement is receding in Hollywood, much like the way #MeToo did after it had its moment. Many conservatives see all these movements as "overcorrections" to roll back.
DuVernay was on the Talk Easy podcast recently and vented her frustrations about it all when asked about the attack on DEI in this country and the growing voices in the conservative right that are trying to systematically dismantle these practices ("After #MeToo Reckoning, a Fear Hollywood Is Regressing," is also another key NYTimes article to read).
In her long response, DuVernay said she would be "tapping out" of the "Hollywood industrial complex" and would "pass the baton" to others over the industry's ongoing failures in diversity and inclusion. "This town does not want it," she said.
...
"I'm going to build another house; I'm going to go over to the house that I've built on my own and focus on that," she explained. "That's where I am today, like I did it all, and I'm good. I'm just gonna over here and make my movies."

Well isn't that what you should have done in the first place, instead of playing the Black Female Card to get people to "invest" in projects that had no chance of breaking even?

What did her efforts achieve? According to DuVernay, she couldn't move the DEI needle in the way she wanted, and that's the source of her frustrations with the Hollywood industry at large, "I think I've done things to help but that those are isolated incidents that are [anomalies]. [The system can be fixed], sure it can, but it needs cooperation, it needs people to want to do it and this town does not want to do it."

Well it does want "to do it," but Hollywood is now on the verge of collapse. At some point a business has to actually start producing widgets the public is actually interested in buying.

Of course, DEI lecturing isn't limited to female and black creators. All of NBC's white liberal showrunners are determined to push the party line in every single show, for example.

The surprising racial and gender bias in 'Law and Order'
John Sides - January 3, 2017

Spoiler alert: You will not be surprised.

For many years, variants of the show "Law and Order" have been among the most popular television programs about crime. At times, they have been among the most popular programs, period. "Law and Order: SVU" still airs on NBC.
Social science research tells us that the public often learns about crime -- and especially its racial implications -- from how it is portrayed on television.
A new paper by Gaurav Sood and Daniel Trielli analyzes "Law and Order" and comes to a surprising conclusion: In its portrayal of both perpetrators and victims, "Law and Order" is biased in terms of both race and gender, but not in the way you'd expect. The show over-represents whites and females as both victims and perpetrators.

That is exactly what I expected.

In total, Sood and Trielli analyzed 731 episodes from three different "Law and Order" series: the original, "SVU," and "Criminal Intent." They identified the gender and race of over 1,100 criminals and over 1,500 victims portrayed on these episodes.
They compared the racial and gender breakdown among criminals and victims to government statistics for similar types of crime and periods of time. Here is what they found.
Criminals
Black criminals are less common on "Law and Order" than in reality. The graph below shows that in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), about 30 percent of criminals are black (with higher percentages among those arrested for murder or rape). But in each of the "Law and Order" series, about 10 percent are black.

Even when a criminal turns out to be black, he's not the real criminal, who will turn out to be a white guy and usually a white supremacist who goaded him into committing the crime.

...
"Law and Order" also distorts the true proportion of blacks and women who are crime victims. It dramatically underrepresents blacks as victims, especially with regard to murder. About 50 percent of murder victims are black, according to the FBI, but on "Law and Order" just over 10 percent of victims are black.
The show overrepresents females as victims. Just over 20 percent of murder victims are women, but on "Law and Order" it is upward of 40 percent and, on "Law and Order: SVU," 60 percent.

The female thing isn't due to political bias-- it's due to these shows being beloved by female, and in particular urban liberal females (AWFULs). Women like stories about women.

Related: They've torn down the sets for the cancelled woke identity "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" show -- Gay Klingons Eating Pudding -- as well as the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and they're selling the props at auction.

🖖 NEW - #StarTrek: #StrangeNewWorlds Sets are being torn down!

Along with #StarfleetAcademy, it seems the sets for the Captain Pike series are being taken down as well. Derigging of the sets is already underway, according to a crew member.

"Year One" looks unlikely at this� pic.twitter.com/OlGxJ0DCfp
— Trek Central (@TheTrekCentral) April 8, 2026

🥲 #StarTrek Sets Being Taken Down!

It looks like this is the end for Modern Star Trek, at least for now. Crew members for Star Trek: #StrangeNewWorlds and Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy have reported that the sets for both shows are being taken down. pic.twitter.com/4aNELoxpLm
— Trek Central (@TheTrekCentral) April 9, 2026

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 14, 2026 04:30 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 14, 2026 04:30 PM (LdBR/)

3 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 14, 2026 04:31 PM (LdBR/)

4 >>>We Have to Use Different Words Now to Push Our DEI Grift

also see, for example, every college in America re-labeling their DEI departments and staff. also many corporations

Posted by: brak at April 14, 2026 04:31 PM (jGJov)

5 And that's what a lot of this crap is. These creators are frustrated because they want to make very didactic, lecturing fare and be rewarded and beloved for it. But that's not what the public wants, and it's never been what the public wants. As Samuel Goldwyn said 80 years ago (I think): "If you want to send a message, use Western Union."

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Yes, Goldwyn, as relayed second hand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:32 PM (1Q6Kv)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

7 She's been complaining since 2024 that the DEI grift isn't paying off like it had in the prior years. But how long did you think you could milk the George Floyd grift?

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If she hadn't made A Wrinkle in Time about black girl hair concerns, maybe she wouldn't have this problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:33 PM (1Q6Kv)

8 Nothing tells DEI better than Critical Drinker.

"THE MEEESSSSAAAGGGGEEEE!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

9 hollywood and their sick twisted values are what is killing hollywood and yet they keep pushing this crap expecting something different.

Being stupid at that level should be physically painful because then they might try to fix it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (0N4FZ)

10 they went from marxist to socialist to progressive to liberal to progressive and they've going to 'democratic' socialist.

same crap, different word(s). always

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (CWTWj)

11 "Belonging"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (U/j9n)

12 And I don't apologize.

Who the f*ck is Issa Rae

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Had to look her up. Meh, not about appearance cause whatever but career. Again, meh, won’t ever watch any of her offerings.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:34 PM (pDt9x)

14 I, for one, am a HUGE fan of DEI.

Deport
Every
Illegal

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

15 And that's what a lot of this crap is. These creators are frustrated because they want to make very didactic, lecturing fare and be rewarded and beloved for it. But that's not what the public wants, and it's never been what the public wants. As Samuel Goldwyn said 80 years ago (I think): "If you want to send a message, use Western Union.
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Comrades, the arts are responsible for instilling the proper Socialist attitudes and Marxist approaches in the masses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2026 04:36 PM (RIvkX)

16 Women are out whining about the opposition to DEI in all sorts of platforms. Joyce Carol Oates is upset that DEI ending might allow men to get books published now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:36 PM (El6/E)

17 There's a reason I avoid black-- and "female led" -- tv shows and movies: Didacticism. There is a powerful strain of woke lecturing among female and black. Again, if you're pitching me a black detective show, I might be interested. But if you're pitching me a black detective show in which every two or three episodes are about The Talk and White Supremacy and George Floyd and white superiors denying promotions to qualified black cops and giving those promotions to Mediocre White Men -- that's gonna be a "no" from me, dog.

You're clearly a racist. Just because there are always large numbers of black faces in shows about 19th Century Vienna, 15th Century Florence, and 9th Century Vikings, doesn't mean they're pushing a message.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

18 !
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Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

19 Okay what just happened? We all Centrists now?

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

20 The DEI crowd always inflates its importance to the rest of us.

Do I care if black women get jobs in Hollywood? No, no, I do not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (aZm/F)

21 Didn't even have time to sock Wes Anderson.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

22 Issa Rae? Youssa Rae, Meessa Rae!

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (Dv3i1)

23 A lot of people don't object to black actors, writers, or directors. I have nothing against a black actor in a kind of show or movie I'd like. If it's a detective show with a black lead, I would watch that.

I don't either. I have no issue with black actors playing roles.

What DOES stick in my craw is when they take predominately white characters from history and shove a black guy in the role just to shove a black guy in a role.

If I had f*ck you money, I would remake Shaft and put some lily white Irish bloke in the role.

How ya like me now?!!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

24 Basically her complaint is that if we go back to merit based hiring she'll never get any work which sort of speaks for its self.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:38 PM (El6/E)

25 Saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol with some Cratchit family members who were black.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

26 We all know that, typically, when we're talking about diversity, equity [and] inclusion, it is about giving people opportunities that would otherwise not have them as opposed to pity hires and pity shows and the like,"

It's just the bad, awful, worthless affirmative action bullshit.

You can either do the f*cking job or you can't. Don't like it? F*ck off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Why dont they just call it "Anti-White Male" and be done with it.

Posted by: Fuck Them And Their Bullshit at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (4eiIm)

28 Never heard of her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

29 We all know that, typically, when we're talking about diversity, equity [and] inclusion, it is about ~~giving people opportunities that would otherwise not have them as opposed to~~ pity hires and pity shows and the like,"

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:40 PM (Riz8t)

30 >>"I'm going to build another house; I'm going to go over to the house that I've built on my own

She's a carpenter? -- She'll do OK, then. Carpenters are in big demand and make good money nowadays.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 14, 2026 04:40 PM (cNW6Y)

31 I get sick of the gay couple crap or the smart black person explaining to the dumb whites. It's tiresome and boring. And the mixed race couples in every commercial. Please stop and die. Thank you.

Posted by: turambar at April 14, 2026 04:40 PM (Q0yOR)

32 I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't really get into a movie or program unless I know which character wants what in which orifice and why.

Traditional orifices and other.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 14, 2026 04:40 PM (Sco7b)

33 The Message is what has absolutely killed any interest in Star Trek, as compared to decades ago when no fans batted an eye at a black space station commander or a female captain. Because back then, it didn’t matter—Sisko happened to be black but that wasn’t the sum total of his character. Star Trek used to imagine a future in which humanity had gotten past the focus on race but now Hollywood can’t imagine producing content that doesn’t highlight race and The Message.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 14, 2026 04:41 PM (gYnrv)

34 32 "If you don't stick it in the ear, you can't be QUEER!!111"

Posted by: turambar at April 14, 2026 04:41 PM (Q0yOR)

35 16 Women are out whining about the opposition to DEI in all sorts of platforms. Joyce Carol Oates is upset that DEI ending might allow men to get books published now
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:36 PM (El6/E)

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Huh, I've noticed the big box stores selling books have a preponderance of female writers.

I know I'll get pushback, but as a general rule, I avoid female writers.

I downloaded the first book from one of those recent (bestselling) sci-fi series written by a woman, and it was absolute crap. Something with a dragon on the cover. I should have known better.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 14, 2026 04:42 PM (aZm/F)

36 HW is probably wishing the studies had burned all old films. Between having access to older good movies and TV shows and now AI there is no need to accept some scolding karen rant pretending to be entertainment when one wants to pass some time and more people are waking up to that fact.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 14, 2026 04:42 PM (+89TD)

37 Yes; I was just thrilled /s with the 2022 adaptation of "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 04:42 PM (Nx5jP)

38 The female thing isn't due to political bias-- it's due to these shows being beloved by female, and in particular urban liberal females (AWFULs). Women like stories about women.

The old broad on SVU that adopted the boy and exposed him to a former MLB pitcher to learn how to pitch and play baseball........decided he was more interested in ballet and she transitioned his ass.

I put up with the anti gun shit. I put up with the anti conservative shit. I even put up with the evil white guy shit.

I will never watch that f*cking show again after that shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

39 Law and Order is MUCH MUCH worse than what is reported above.

They are comparing statistics, but L&O famously "rips" its stories from the headlines -- these are not statistics, but real stories that they always (ALWAYS) race swap to make the white businessman the bad guy. It is perverse, like a Soviet propaganda organ or 1984.

Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 14, 2026 04:42 PM (cNW6Y)

40 Star Trek used to imagine a future in which humanity had gotten past the focus on race but now Hollywood can’t imagine producing content that doesn’t highlight race and The Message.

Thank you, Barack Obama.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

41 33 The Message is what has absolutely killed any interest in Star Trek, as compared to decades ago when no fans batted an eye at a black space station commander or a female captain. Because back then, it didn’t matter—Sisko happened to be black but that wasn’t the sum total of his character. Star Trek used to imagine a future in which humanity had gotten past the focus on race but now Hollywood can’t imagine producing content that doesn’t highlight race and The Message.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 14, 2026 04:41 PM (gYnrv)

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All Star Trek sets at CBS were torn down in the last few days.

It's the first time in more than a decade that there's no Star Trek in production or active development.

Alex Kurtzman's legacy is now in the past.

Give Trek 5-10 years, and then let someone who actually likes the property take a stab at it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:43 PM (1Q6Kv)

42 part of the problem is that they want huge budgets for what are really niche projects. another part is that they're jack asses who think people will pay to see urkel as napoleon.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 14, 2026 04:44 PM (CWTWj)

43 As Ace says, we don't want to be lectured. If the pill comes with a natural sugar coating -- say, the message is naturally the conclusion a person would reach after having his experience or adventure -- that's one thing. The original Trek had messages galore, but they couched it in action-adventure terms. TNG was the same, but they opened up a new box of stories in the process. "Darmok" would not have appeared on the original series -- but it was gripping and intellectually fascinating.

Lecturing us at the expense of storytelling? Uh, no, dog.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

44 She's a carpenter? -- She'll do OK, then. Carpenters are in big demand and make good money nowadays.
Posted by: bob

As long as they don't criticize ululating A-rabs.

Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

45 they're jack asses who think people will pay to see urkel as napoleon.

I dunno, that sounds pretty intriguing.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

46 37-it was biracial

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (2sfNr)

47 Hello. You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Affirmative Action at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (wVcYX)

48 Netflix is coming out with Little House on the Prairie.

I assume this is where we find out what it is like to experience the hell of being mis-gendered as a 2-spirit tranny Indian, er Native.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)

49 42 part of the problem is that they want huge budgets for what are really niche projects. another part is that they're jack asses who think people will pay to see urkel as napoleon.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 14, 2026 04:44 PM (CWTWj)

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The combination of DEI, low interest rates, the explosion of streaming, and MeToo knocking out a solid portion of the male leadership of studios was something like a perfect storm that was allowed to sweep over Hollywood for more than a decade.

And Hollywood employment in the city of Los Angeles has crashed.

Because of Trump. That bastard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (1Q6Kv)

50 Related: They've torn down the sets for the cancelled woke identity "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" show -- Gay Klingons Eating Pudding -- as well as the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and they're selling the props at auction.

Kurtzman Trek. By, for, and of the gay retarded theater kids.

Posted by: Gene is spinning in his grave at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (TbWk/)

51 If I had f*ck you money, I would remake Shaft and put some lily white Irish bloke in the role.

Harriet Tubman and make it a white tranny.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

52 I get sick of the gay couple crap or the smart black person explaining to the dumb whites. It's tiresome and boring. And the mixed race couples in every commercial. Please stop and die. Thank you.
Posted by: turambar at April 14, 2026 04:40 PM (Q0yOR)

EVERY commercial on TV:

* Black woman, white dude
* The white dude is ALWAYS a f*cking idiot
* Black family is SOOOO much more sophisticated and smart than the white family next door
* Fags with HIV

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

53 Did Ace ever review Star Trek Academy? I saw several on YouTube and enjoyed them, but Ace would be on a different level.

That show was beneath contempt.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (aZm/F)

54 Saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol with some Cratchit family members who were black.
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

***

Is that the one with LaDontchatrez and Akima-Ahmed Cratchit?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 14, 2026 04:46 PM (affD0)

55 SVU was good back before the left completely lost their friggin' minds. It then became unwatchable garbage like pretty much everything else crapped out of Hollywood.

Mariska Hargitay herself is a nasty piece of work IRL. Bad enough that it's enough for me to not participate in giving her any more money by watching that show.

Posted by: ballistic at April 14, 2026 04:46 PM (oqH4h)

56 I have a friend who is a state criminal investigator (CI) who goes out to collect evidence at crime scenes. Does some lecturing at a nearby college on the side. He tells me he gets approached by a lot of young women influenced by the Hollywood dreck who want to become a CI.

He told me he asks them, "can you imagine being out on a cold night in the rain or sleet digging in the mud because a perp hinted that's where the victim is buried?" Most of them say no.

Reality is not on your TV.

Posted by: Distant Observer at April 14, 2026 04:46 PM (xCSxo)

57 Give Trek 5-10 years, and then let someone who actually likes the property take a stab at it.
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Lt. Uhura in a burka, no thanks!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:46 PM (Dv3i1)

58 "I'm going to build another house; I'm going to go over to the house that I've built on my own
*
She's a carpenter? -- She'll do OK, then. Carpenters are in big demand and make good money nowadays.
Posted by: bob (HQ Comment of the Week Award Winner) at April 14, 2026

***
Worked for me!

Posted by: The Young Harrison Ford at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

59 EVERY commercial on TV:

* Black woman, white dude
* The white dude is ALWAYS a f*cking idiot
* Black family is SOOOO much more sophisticated and smart than the white family next door
* Fags with HIV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

Plus
*Fat people who are surprisingly nimble and with great rhythm.

Posted by: ballistic at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (oqH4h)

60 Star Trek used to imagine a future in which humanity had gotten past the focus on race but now Hollywood can’t imagine producing content that doesn’t highlight race and The Message.

I remember when President Lincoln called Uhura a "negress".

Posted by: Mammy Oprah at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (4eiIm)

61 - The European Union plans to reduce electricity taxes and expand clean technologies faster to cut consumers' exposure to soaring oil and gas prices,

Brussels also plans to propose an electrification target before summer, to push industries to switch from fossil fuels to electricity, the draft said.
_Reuters

youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (yRrl+)

62 And Hollywood employment in the city of Los Angeles has crashed.

Because of Trump. That bastard.

This war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson gets some of the blame.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

63

Could you imagine what these demented communists would have done with Cheers, Police Squad and Benny Hill?

They are dedicated and animated by hysterical female hormones and insanity.

Marvelous.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at April 14, 2026 04:48 PM (et1vG)

64 The basic tenet of all white democrats, from the time they ran cotton plantations to today, is that people other than them are sub-species who need their help to survive. In the country's early years, they congratulated themselves on taking literal heathen savages and converting them to Christians (while providing them with gainful work) thus saving them from an eternity of hellfire and damnation. They thought themselves to be heroes and saviors, just as today.

Posted by: jwest at April 14, 2026 04:48 PM (nfOOG)

65 Hello. You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Affirmative Action at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (wVcYX)

https://youtu.be/O-L4vMhLWNQ?t=306

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

66 Law and Oder became a joke . As soon as a 41 year old white straight guy appears you knew he was the killer.

Posted by: Heroq at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (DRiFU)

67 EVERY commercial on TV:

* Black woman, white dude

I'd say the black man with a white woman is far more common.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

68 48 Netflix is coming out with Little House on the Prairie.

I assume this is where we find out what it is like to experience the hell of being mis-gendered as a 2-spirit tranny Indian, er Native.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)

It's time for the bestiality party to join the parade.

A video online said Starfleet Academy burned through 8 million US an episode. Wow.

'Stargirl' on prime was $5 million an episode but it was fantastic. Just a fun superhero show.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

69 Brussels also plans to propose an electrification target before summer, to push industries to switch from fossil fuels to electricity
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Because electricity isn't produced by fossil fuels? I did not know that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (Dv3i1)

70 Netflix is coming out with Little House on the Prairie.

I assume this is where we find out what it is like to experience the hell of being mis-gendered as a 2-spirit tranny Indian, er Native.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)

It's about a brothel where a bunch of BIPOC women are kept in sexual servitude to the white man. If they have special costumes, we might finally get to see those stupid handmaid capes and bonnets go away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

71 Star Trek and Star Wars need to take about a twenty year hiatus.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (u73oe)

72 The most important thing is that neither quality nor competence be considered.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 14, 2026 04:50 PM (ndZc7)

73 I know I'll get pushback, but as a general rule, I avoid female writers.

I do as well, not because I think women cannot write -- clearly they can, and do well (we have several ette authors here who are quite good). Its just that the genres I like, often the women don't write it as well as men (Napoleonic era navy, noir detectives, etc). I wouldn't prefer male writers for a historical romance if i liked those either.

But there are always exceptions. I don't generally like female authors of fantasy but I do like our own Sabrina Chase's fantasy for example.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (El6/E)

74 Why dont they just call it "Anti-White Male" and be done with it.

Posted by: Fuck Them And Their Bullshit at April 14, 2026

***
That would give away their battle plan. Got to fool at least some of the rubes, y'know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)

75 The house that Jerk built.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (AkIUi)

76 60 EVERY commercial on TV:

* Black woman, white dude
* The white dude is ALWAYS a f*cking idiot
* Black family is SOOOO much more sophisticated and smart than the white family next door
* Fags with HIV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Ben Stein wrote a book in 1979 saying, basically, Hollywood was intent to re-shape a culture that they were totally disassociated from.
Ben was a smart guy. You could never win his money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (yRrl+)

77
I'd say the black man with a white woman is far more common.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

You may be right. I may be crazy.

It just may be a LOONATIC you're looking for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

78 Ben Stein wrote a book in 1979 saying, basically, Hollywood was intent to re-shape a culture that they were totally disassociated from.
Ben was a smart guy. You could never win his money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (yRrl+)

Anyone.....anyone......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)

79 I've got a better euphemism - PHRASE! I meant to say "phrase"!

"Affirmative Action" sounds so much more positive, doesn't it?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 14, 2026 04:52 PM (eV3uQ)

80 I'd say the black man with a white woman is far more common

Which is odd because that pisses off black women even more than touching their hair

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:52 PM (El6/E)

81
I'd say the black man with a white woman is far more common.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

Eyes on the prize.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)

82 Saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol with some Cratchit family members who were black.
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

I'm actually surprised that no one's done an all-black version of A Christmas Carol yet, though not set in England. Scrooge is black, the spirits are black, the Crachits are black, etc.

Like The Wiz or Carmen Jones. And, if done well, it might actually be watchable.

The virtue of all-black adaptations of originally white stories is that it removes race as a plotline and makes the audience concentrate on the characters as individuals within their particular context of black culture, and not as cardboard cutouts of the victims of the oppressed class.

Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

83 Is a black chick still cast as Helen of Troy? Then I’d say DEI is alive and kicking.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (u73oe)

84 “I remember when President Lincoln called Uhura a "negress".”

That was a great moment on the show—Lincoln realized he may have insulted her and Uhura responded that in her century people have learned to not fear words. That kind of scene just isn’t possible under Kurtzman Trek.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (gYnrv)

85 75 I know I'll get pushback, but as a general rule, I avoid female writers. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (El6/E)

If it weren't for female writers, there would be a lot less "ravishing" going on.

Posted by: jwest at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (nfOOG)

86 Anyone.....anyone......

Supposedly, he wasn't even supposed to appear n the movie, just be a voiceover, but his delivery cracked everyone up so much they expanded his role

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (El6/E)

87 Meanwhile, at Syracuse University . . .

Biden Pulls Black Man To Podium, Says He Looks Like Barack Obama

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (ndZc7)

88 If I had f*ck you money, I would remake Shaft and put some lily white Irish bloke in the role.

How ya like me now?!!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Big fricken drunken Mc?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

89 Star Trek used to imagine a future in which humanity had gotten past the focus on race but now Hollywood can’t imagine producing content that doesn’t highlight race and The Message.
*
I remember when President Lincoln called Uhura a "negress".

Posted by: Mammy Oprah at April 14, 2026

***
Yes -- and nobody, including Uhura, got upset by it. It was just an outmoded term and way of thinking by the 23rd century, and nobody foamed at the mouth or was literally shaking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

90 "Affirmative Action" sounds so much more positive, doesn't it?
___

I'm about to give your gender some affirmative action, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Confused at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

91 See my Saturday night movie thread post on this topic from a few months ago for supplemental reading. It is titled “A House of DEI.”

Self promotion…guilty. But it is relevant

Posted by: Lex at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (y4H1r)

92 It's time for Westerns to make a come back.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (AkIUi)

93 Is a black chick still cast as Helen of Troy? Then I’d say DEI is alive and kicking.

Yeah its just dormant, it will erupt again even worse when a Democrat is back in the oval office.

And I have a prediction, if a democrat wins in 2028 they will declare a national emergency because the Trump administration was so destructive and chaotic that they have to take extraordinary measures to restore normalcy and the rule of law.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:55 PM (El6/E)

94 You may be right. I may be crazy.

It just may be a LOONATIC you're looking for.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

—————

That one will be around for the rest of the day.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2026 04:55 PM (u73oe)

95 I remember when President Lincoln called Uhura a "negress".

Posted by: Mammy Oprah at April 14, 2026 04:47 PM (4eiIm)

AND SHE WASN'T OFFENDED.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2026 04:55 PM (PiwSw)

96 It's time for Westerns to make a come back.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (AkIUi)

Tanned, rested and READY!!!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

97 D.C. Fontana was a good writer for the original Star Trek

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

98 It's time for Westerns to make a comeback.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Hey, we tried.
-- Producers of Brokeback Mountain

Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

99 It was just an outmoded term and way of thinking by the 23rd century, and nobody foamed at the mouth or was literally shaking.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

Demonstrating, more than warp drives, teleporters, and photon torpedoes, that it was a work of fiction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (ExV1e)

100 Didactic entertainment fell out of favor long ago. Like, centuries ago. People occasionally try bringing it back; it always sucks. Adults have a lifetime's fill of lectures by the age of 25, and they're sorta done with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

101 The next shoe to fall in California:

Progressive billionaire Tom Steyer has been telling California voters he wants to “abolish ICE” despite investing nearly $90 million in a company behind the state’s largest immigration detention center.

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 04:57 PM (RHGPo)

102 Television ad free and media bullshit free is the way to go through life. I am a happy camper

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 04:57 PM (yAteE)

103 103 Didactic entertainment fell out of favor long ago. Like, centuries ago. People occasionally try bringing it back; it always sucks. Adults have a lifetime's fill of lectures by the age of 25, and they're sorta done with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2026 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

========

Was it...ever popular?

Greek drama doesn't have it.

As far as I know, Elizabethan drama doesn't have it.

Cervantes doesn't have it.

Dante doesn't have it, even though he was constantly using contemporary real life figures as targets of his anger in, especially, Inferno.

19th century British lit doesn't have it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (1Q6Kv)

104 100 D.C. Fontana was a good writer for the original Star Trek
___

Meant to point out that DC was a she. Though maybe it is better to just say "good writer" rather than "good female writer"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (Dv3i1)

105 Television ad free and media bullshit free is the way to go through life. I am a happy camper

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 04:57 PM (yAteE)

So, you use neither?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (Zz0t1)

106 It's time for Westerns to make a come back.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2026

***
Adapt some of Elmore Leonard's other Westerns, or Loren D. Estleman's. His Page Murdock series would make top-notch films, if done right. I suggest Chris Pratt as Murdock!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (wzUl9)

107 107 100 D.C. Fontana was a good writer for the original Star Trek
___

Meant to point out that DC was a she. Though maybe it is better to just say "good writer" rather than "good female writer"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (Dv3i1)

=======

She was a good writress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (1Q6Kv)

108 Now do indentured servitude. That point of view was not exclusive to plantations. Or the South.
Posted by: Yep at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (DLiIR)

Indentured servants (Irish) didn't rate any of the self-righteous, self-congratulatory feelings that owning black slaves did. As far as the democrats of that time thought, they were simply trash, to be used and disposed of.

Posted by: jwest at April 14, 2026 04:59 PM (nfOOG)

109 =======

She was a good writress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (1Q6Kv)

Dat bish could pen!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Star Trek and Star Wars need to take about a twenty year hiatus.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

A new Star Wars.

https://tinyurl.com/yjbwz55p

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 14, 2026 04:59 PM (ndZc7)

111 Sponge, neither. I have a DVD collection of things I truly enjoy for entertainment.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:00 PM (yAteE)

112 87 “I remember when President Lincoln called Uhura a "negress".”

That was a great moment on the show—Lincoln realized he may have insulted her and Uhura responded that in her century people have learned to not fear words. That kind of scene just isn’t possible under Kurtzman Trek.
Posted by: Open Channel D at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM (gYnrv)

--------

Now that is how you bring the healing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 14, 2026 05:00 PM (aZm/F)

113 "The Pitt" season one was peak TV. One of my favorite shows in recent memory. So what did they do for season 2? You guessed it, started sprinkling "the message" into it at least once per episode.

So if you want to see one of the best medical shows in the last 20 years see season 1 of The Pitt. But season 2 is entirely optional as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Max Power at April 14, 2026 05:01 PM (q177U)

114 I'd say the black man with a white woman is far more common

Which is odd because that pisses off black women even more than touching their hair
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 04:52 PM (El6/E)

I knew a black guy in Alaska who had married a white woman. They fled their home state because his sisters were absolutely livid, hated him and threatened her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 14, 2026 05:01 PM (PSEDc)

115 executives of color

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"Executives of color"....LOLOL It's so ridiculous, all I can do is laugh, although it is sad that America is absolutely drowning in a slow-cooked, bacteria-laden stew of racism that's eroded away our connection to one another. For that, I'm sad.

Coming next:

"Breathers of color" and other such stupidity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2026 05:01 PM (qBdHI)

116 Loved a good writress sammich back in the day, me and that fat slob Chris Dodd.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Feminist Hero at April 14, 2026 05:02 PM (Dv3i1)

117 Was it...ever popular?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

__________

Is historical fiction a form of didactic entertainment?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 14, 2026 05:02 PM (XvL8K)

118 A white woman marries up because she wants to move up. She does what's necessary and, if only by association, improves herself.

Black women don't (can't) marry up because they have no concept of the responsibilities marrying up entails therefore remain unattractive to white men and upwardly mobile black men.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 05:03 PM (yRrl+)

119 The basic tenet of all white democrats, from the time they ran cotton plantations to today, is that people other than them are sub-species who need their help to survive.

Now do indentured servitude. That point of view was not exclusive to plantations. Or the South.

Posted by: Yep at April 14, 2026 04:53 PM

Yep, I have lily white ancestors that were basically shipped to the Americas to work off debts their families incurred in England. Their debt was bought by a wealthy family here and they sometimes worked them worse than slaves.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 14, 2026 05:03 PM (0N4FZ)

120 "The end of Modern Star Trek"?

You mean they won't be picking over their own corpse anymore??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 14, 2026 05:03 PM (wtvvX)

121 Ok, so.......

O/T

Today, I had basically a one on one with the global CIO of the company I work for. He came to the DC I manage and the company that runs it gave a presentation and tour of the facility, then I showed one of our cages. He had way too much time allotted, so I told him he couldn't come to Texas and not get some good BBQ, so we went to a local place.

I wore my boots (not cowboy boots, but work boots in the CB style) and loaded him into my F250. "EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas, goodness!"

Had a good lunch and great conversation. His driver that was picking him up to take him to his next appointment was early, so we headed back after lunch. I wasn't expecting it and usually the Danes don't do this, but he actually gave me a bro hug before leaving in lieu of a handshake. I was stunned.

Guess I did pretty good.

It's been a minute since I've been around executive types.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

122 124 "The end of Modern Star Trek"?

You mean they won't be picking over their own corpse anymore??
Posted by: Tex Lovera

It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Bones at April 14, 2026 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

123 And I have a prediction, if a democrat wins in 2028 they will declare a national emergency because the Trump administration was so destructive and chaotic that they have to take extraordinary measures to restore normalcy and the rule of law.

They'll need an organization with a good name to head it all up.

Committee of Public Safety?
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs?
The Khmer Rouge?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:05 PM (Riz8t)

124
Sam Goldwyn was the Yogi Berra of Hollywood.

Actually, we should say Yogi Berra was the Sam Goldwyn of baseball or something. Look up some of Goldwyn's famous malapropisms. They are legend.

Half of them were probably made up, or just improved versions of what he actually did say, but they're all too good to check, like "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" or "Spare no expense in saving money!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 14, 2026 05:05 PM (w6EFb)

125 Terms of indenture varied, as well as the specifics. 3 year 7 year sometimes 10 or even more.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:05 PM (pDt9x)

126 We learned from Tucker Carlson's newsletter on Tuesday that "the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus."

Joy-less Behar suggested that Jesus Christ would be “narcissistic” if he had acknowledged he was the Messiah. She flaunted her profound ignorance because even after she was told that Jesus in fact did say he was the Messiah, she insisted that even the Messiah would be “narcissistic” for saying such.

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:06 PM (RHGPo)

127 Which is odd because that pisses off black women even more than touching their hair

Is that true? If so, why?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:06 PM (Riz8t)

128 Is historical fiction a form of didactic entertainment?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
________

For instance, Sir Walter Scott? Because he was pretty damn popular.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 14, 2026 05:06 PM (XvL8K)

129 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 04:58 PM (1Q6Kv

Sure, various forms of lycea have been sporadically popular for millennia. But for the last couple centuries, didactic entertainment has been mostly for children. I think its popularity falls as literacy rises.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (BI5O2)

130 The end of Modern Star Trek?

That's a shame.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

131 Sponge, this doesn't surprise me. You are such a personable guy.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (yAteE)

132 120 Was it...ever popular?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

__________

Is historical fiction a form of didactic entertainment?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 14, 2026 05:02 PM (XvL8K)

======

Didacticism is when you have characters give speeches about the message. Drama and didacticism clash really badly because the needs of drama trend towards subtlety and the needs of didacticism trend towards obviousness.

It's the propaganda issue.

Can you put out a story that's supposed to convince a population of a particular idea and do it subtly? Of course, but it's easier to make sure the message gets across if you have someone stop all the action and explain it.

That's when it becomes didactic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (1Q6Kv)

133 The end of Modern Star Trek?

That's a shame.

*looks skeptically*
Is it, though?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (Riz8t)

134 Personable Guy>>>Excitable Boy

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (pDt9x)

135 And now, Bible Study Corner With Joy Behar!

Joy Behar calls Jesus 'narcissistic' for acknowledging he's the Messiah

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Well, Joy knows narcissism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (ndZc7)

136 Which is odd because that pisses off black women even more than touching their hair

Is that true? If so, why?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:06 PM (Riz8t)

—————-

Because you might accidentally pull the wig off?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (u73oe)

137
I knew a black guy in Alaska who had married a white woman. They fled their home state because his sisters were absolutely livid, hated him and threatened her.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 14, 2026 05:01 PM (PSEDc)

We've been neighbors with a black family for 26 years. We've become very close over the years. Their kids are our kids and our daughter is their daughter. The FiL is a country boy from way back, so there's always an N word coming out in conversation. He met them and liked them alright.

One day he asked the First Lady, "What if your daughter starts dating a black guy?"

"Well if he's anything like our neighbor's son, he will treat her with respect and be good to her, so we'd be ok with it."

He didn't know what to say.

Of course, she's not dating a black guy, is with the only boyfriend she's ever had and they'll likely get married after they graduate college. That is, if we can get her to actually MAKE it to graduation..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Personable Guy>>>Excitable Boy > Low-Sparked High-Heeled Boys?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (Riz8t)

139 This crap wasn’t always so unavoidable; the show “ Homicide” was probably the best cop show ever put on TV. It had a diverse cast and it showed the crime of Baltimore realistically, which means most of the murders were black on black due to the drug trade. It didn’t lecture us or lie to us, which is probably why women didn’t like it

Posted by: UGAdawg at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (4MsaP)

140 Yeah, indentured servitude was not much preferable to slavery, from what I've read.

Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

141 We learned from Tucker Carlson's newsletter on Tuesday that "the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus."

Everything that guy just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)

142 tubal, Sponge is steady as a rock.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (yAteE)

143 Sponge, this doesn't surprise me. You are such a personable guy.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (yAteE)

I have my moments......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

144 Star Trek - The Soviet Generation

https://youtu.be/j4AxM4nUz3Q

Posted by: Halfhand at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (eOqcD)

145 145 Yeah, indentured servitude was not much preferable to slavery, from what I've read.
Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (77rzZ)

The Term Limits were the best part.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (pDt9x)

146 I thought the Pitt kinda sucked

I barely made it thru two eps (of season one)

it was just annoying. LIKE THE BEAR.

anyway! you guys recommended (I think) The Last Kingdom and I finally started that!

IT IS AMAZING

please if it gets dumb and woke please don't tell me

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (j+aD2)

147 Personable Guy>>>Excitable Boy

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (pDt9x)

ISWYDT.

Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

148 "Ben Stein wrote a book in 1979 saying, basically, Hollywood was intent to re-shape a culture that they were totally disassociated from."

I went about ten years (my twenties) with almost zero TV, very few movies. This was in my "Full Christian" decade. There are advantages to not being exposed to the Corruption that is The World, but the downside is not being able to relate to those that live fully under Hollywood's (and MSM's) influence.

"Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good" is the verse that I still sorta "cling to". If one can watch entertaining movies AND discern what wrong doctrine is being pushed, then maybe that is fine. But there are always multiple layers of "wrong doctrine" which if not fully rejected, influences one's mind. That is the power of pervasive propaganda. imo

Posted by: Bill Cosby at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (vbXSk)

149 I won't watch non diverse shows. Like with Target boycott, I will not be missing much.

Black people should be watching Ghosts and the new Matlock. I'd also recommend Elsbeth. The Diplomat is really good. There are several Black characters on the show that aren't all from the same family either.

I really wish we would fight harder and stop letting people define terms like DEI and Woke! The people using these terms as a negative really don’t even know what they mean.

DEI is only a "bad word" amongst fascists who are never going to tolerate any diversity in media. You can't placate them you crush them.

Not to mention, an all-white cast just feels creepy and surreal?? Some kinda Children of the Corn or Stepford vibes.

I find those places creepy and surreal as well. I’m not kidding. Small, all-white towns feel strange to me. Same for overwhelmingly white areas in cities. They also feel dangerous for people I love.

Funny how shows used to be full white all the time and nobody cared or said anything but soon as coloured people started appearing now it's dei this dei that not realising DEI hires primarily benefits white women most 🙄

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (JCZqz)

150 tubal, Sponge is steady as a rock.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:09 PM (yAteE)

I'm as smart as one too!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (Zz0t1)

151 148 Sponge, this doesn't surprise me. You are such a personable guy.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (yAteE)

I have my moments......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Are you solid, like a rock?

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

152 my great grandfather was an indentured servant for a while. he did ok after that tho!

not uncommon for Italians and Irish here

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (j+aD2)

153 Muslims love Jesus like Candace Owens loved Charlie Kirk.
It's a love of someone who is not around to explain himself, which allows them to make up any illusion about him, which they can cloak in performative emotion.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (gKWVE)

154 Saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol with some Cratchit family members who were black.
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

My favorite was the historical drama featuring a black actress as Anne Boleyn while the rest of the cast was white. I guess it's more fashionable to show a black woman getting persecuted. So stupid.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (k9OZB)

155 149 Funny how shows used to be full white all the time and nobody cared or said anything but soon as coloured people started appearing now it's dei this dei that not realising DEI hires primarily benefits white women most 🙄

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (JCZqz)

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I demand proportional representation.

70% of people on TV should be white.

Only 13% should be black.

I also demand this of the NBA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (1Q6Kv)

156 147 Personable Guy>>>Excitable Boy

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:08 PM (pDt9x)

ISWYDT.

Well played.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Aw shucks. Warren has not been entirely memory holed!

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (pDt9x)

157 My grandparents were indentured . They had to pay off $4,000 of debt in 1912 money.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (yAteE)

158 I won't watch non diverse shows.

Well aren't you just special. Here's a lollipop.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (Riz8t)

159 those reddit comments are amazing

gotta love dead-enders

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (j+aD2)

160 Had a good lunch and great conversation. His driver that was picking him up to take him to his next appointment was early, so we headed back after lunch. I wasn't expecting it and usually the Danes don't do this, but he actually gave me a bro hug before leaving in lieu of a handshake. I was stunned.

Guess I did pretty good.

It's been a minute since I've been around executive types.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Did you check your back for knives after?

Posted by: Never ever trust a suit at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (TbWk/)

161 153 Muslims love Jesus like Candace Owens loved Charlie Kirk.
It's a love of someone who is not around to explain himself, which allows them to make up any illusion about him, which they can cloak in performative emotion.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (gKWVE)

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They love the Jesus in the Koran who is not the Jesus of the Bible.

But that's a distinction you're not supposed to note.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (1Q6Kv)

162 127 And I have a prediction, if a democrat wins in 2028 they will declare a national emergency because the Trump administration was so destructive and chaotic that they have to take extraordinary measures to restore normalcy and the rule of law.

They'll need an organization with a good name to head it all up.

Committee of Public Safety?
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs?
The Khmer Rouge?

Posted by: Archimedes

N.I.C.E. (obscure CS Lewis reference)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 14, 2026 05:13 PM (sAmhv)

163 tubal, Sponge is steady as a rock.
Posted by: Ben Had

The Sponge of Hercules guards the Strait of Gibraltar.

Posted by: Bulg at April 14, 2026 05:13 PM (77rzZ)

164 Committee of Public Safety?
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs?
The Khmer Rouge?

Posted by: Archimedes

N.I.C.E. (obscure CS Lewis reference)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Not necessary because they will be D.E.A.D.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

165 They'll need an organization with a good name to head it all up.

Committee of Public Safety?
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs?
The Khmer Rouge?

Posted by: Archimedes

I thought the Saudi nomenclature was good. The Committee For the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 14, 2026 05:14 PM (ndZc7)

166 It's been a minute since I've been around executive types.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

——————-

I used to be one. We’re as full of shit as anyone else.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2026 05:14 PM (u73oe)

167 N.I.C.E. (obscure CS Lewis reference)
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I get it!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

168 Black women don't (can't) marry up because they have no concept of the responsibilities marrying up entails therefore remain unattractive to white men and upwardly mobile black men.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 05:03 PM (yRrl+)
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There is no group of people more tired of black women's shit than normal, decent black men.

Posted by: ballistic at April 14, 2026 05:14 PM (oqH4h)

169 Sponge is steady as a rock.
Posted by: Ben Had
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So Bob Seger wrote "Like a Rock" about Sponge? I thought that song was about Chevy Trucks.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:15 PM (E4rtv)

170 " I thought the Pitt kinda sucked
I barely made it thru two eps (of season one)"

I got HBO for a month to watch Illinois lose in the quarterfinals. So I watched Pitt for a few episodes ... but yeah, it seemed too heavy on the DEI thang for me to keep watching. I made it through a few episodes before deciding it was too "didactic". (a word I don't use in casual speech, but since Ace used it, I give it a whirl)

Posted by: Bill Cosby at April 14, 2026 05:15 PM (vbXSk)

171 Sheesh-- being a Democrat means living in a completely weird reality

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (Zk+C1)

172 I made it through a few episodes before deciding it was too "didactic".

people don't talk like that and docs DEFINITELY do not talk like that

plus they're a bunch of overwrought over emotional ... meh

just like The Bear

ridiculous

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (j+aD2)

173 I made it through a few episodes before deciding it was too "didactic". (a word I don't use in casual speech, but since Ace used it, I give it a whirl)

You won't believe what an auto-didact is.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (Riz8t)

174 151 148 Sponge, this doesn't surprise me. You are such a personable guy.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:07 PM (yAteE)

I have my moments......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Are you solid, like a rock?
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

Right now he's just soaking up all the praise.

Posted by: Like a s....shamwow at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (TbWk/)

175 Did you check your back for knives after?
Posted by: Never ever trust a suit at April 14, 2026 05:12 PM (TbWk/)

No, but he wasn't wearing a suit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

176 I will never watch anything by Issa Rae. She will always be an abstraction.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (pDt9x)

177 They love the Jesus in the Koran who is not the Jesus of the Bible.

But that's a distinction you're not supposed to note.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Koran is a hodge podge of contradictory verses cribbed from older Jewish and Christian literature as if the original illiterate warlord was in fact illiterate.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (E4rtv)

178 172 people don't talk like that and docs DEFINITELY do not talk like that

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (j+aD2)

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*hides manuscript*
-William Shakespeare

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (1Q6Kv)

179 From Insty:

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Volkswagen Ending Production of ID4 in U.S., Future of EVs Unclear.

Oh, I think it's pretty clear.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (Riz8t)

180 Sponge Im very pro Dane now after watching some of the Last Kingdom lol

glad you had a nice time with your Dane!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (j+aD2)

181 Posted by: Bill Cosby

I always thought your sweaters were a bit didactic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 05:18 PM (Dv3i1)

182 the ID 4 was a dumb car

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:18 PM (j+aD2)

183 I mean, who didn't love "Blackula."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

184 oh sheesh, I'm still posting as Bill Cosby ...

Posted by: illiniwek at April 14, 2026 05:19 PM (vbXSk)

185 Uthred !!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:19 PM (yAteE)

186 173 I made it through a few episodes before deciding it was too "didactic". (a word I don't use in casual speech, but since Ace used it, I give it a whirl)

You won't believe what an auto-didact is.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:16 PM (Riz8t)

You'll go blind!

Posted by: Harry Palms at April 14, 2026 05:19 PM (TbWk/)

187 Sponge Im very pro Dane now after watching some of the Last Kingdom lol

glad you had a nice time with your Dane!
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:17 PM (j+aD2)

I've spent a lot of time with Danes. Don't get me wrong, they're an incredibly egotistical lot. They're they smartest people they've ever met and aren't afraid to tell you.

But, there are exceptions and I was surprised how down to earth this guy is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

188 All kknds of Leftists groups and colleges havd changed names of their Diversity names but the programs haven't.

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

189 #StarTrek: #StrangeNewWorlds Sets are being torn down!

Today is a good day for the sets to die

Gay Klingons Eating Pudding ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (RHGPo)

190 actually started The Expanse bc friends had recommended to me based on my love of sci fi and ... I'm sorry but NO

made it like halfway thru the first episode of that mess

then The Last Kingdom - what a breath of fresh air! love the heck out of it so far. please don't go woke please don't go woke...

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (j+aD2)

191 188
I've spent a lot of time with Danes. Don't get me wrong, they're an incredibly egotistical lot. They're they smartest people they've ever met and aren't afraid to tell you.

But, there are exceptions and I was surprised how down to earth this guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

It is all because of their large - shoe sizes.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (pDt9x)

192 Black people should be watching Ghosts and the new Matlock. I'd also recommend Elsbeth. The Diplomat is really good. There are several Black characters on the show that aren't all from the same family either.
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Intercepted Reddit gives a quick rundown of shows to avoid

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:22 PM (Zk+C1)

193 I've spent a lot of time with Danes. Don't get me wrong, they're an incredibly egotistical lot. They're they smartest people they've ever met and aren't afraid to tell you.

... sounds like every Mensa member I've ever met

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:22 PM (RHGPo)

194 Watching historical fiction fight now. The Tudors

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:22 PM (yAteE)

195 193 Black people should be watching Ghosts and the new Matlock. I'd also recommend Elsbeth. The Diplomat is really good. There are several Black characters on the show that aren't all from the same family either.
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Intercepted Reddit gives a quick rundown of shows to avoid

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:22 PM (Zk+C1)

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The original British version of Ghosts is pretty fun and worth checking out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 14, 2026 05:22 PM (1Q6Kv)

196 Intercepted Reddit gives a quick rundown of shows to avoid

yeah no doubt

Im worried about the rest of Silo too. that adaptation is already wokeified. great books tho.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (j+aD2)

197
It is all because of their large - shoe sizes.
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (pDt9x)

Yes...I've read some whack study about that being the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

198 Black people should be watching Ghosts and the new Matlock. I'd also recommend 'Boston Blue" .. 1st show I've ever seen with openly Black Jews

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (RHGPo)

199 190 #StarTrek: #StrangeNewWorlds Sets are being torn down!

Today is a good day for the sets to die

Gay Klingons Eating Pudding ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (RHGPo)

Starfleet Academy is gay klingons eating pudding and wearing skirts and gazing longingly into twink cadets' eyes. And a guy who's so gay he literally vomits glitter.

Posted by: Couldn't make this shit up if I tried at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (TbWk/)

200 197 Intercepted Reddit gives a quick rundown of shows to avoid

yeah no doubt

Im worried about the rest of Silo too. that adaptation is already wokeified. great books tho.
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (j+aD2)

Are they based on the Hugh Howey books?

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (pDt9x)

201 OT but reminder for the Horde: Check the batteries in your weapon optics!

I've been away from the range for far too long so part of this is on me for not going shooting enough, but I went through my safe this afternoon and found that the battery in two of my red dots was completely flat.

Don't be me.

Posted by: ballistic at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (oqH4h)

202 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Glad you had a nice day with all the difficult stuff going on recently.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (Yl2Ob)

203 BabylonBee: Defiant Trump Nails Copy Of ‘The Art Of The Deal’ To Vatican Door

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (RHGPo)

204 198
It is all because of their large - shoe sizes.
Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:21 PM (pDt9x)

Yes...I've read some whack study about that being the case.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:23 PM (Zz0t1)

I am sure that they have too. An entire nation, preening.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (pDt9x)

205 We liked "The Count Of Monte Cristo" and "Maigret"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (Zk+C1)

206 Are they based on the Hugh Howey books?

yes

but a lot of gender and race swapping already

also sort of draggggggggg

the show is being stretched out I guess

the books are good!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (j+aD2)

207 DEI movies will still get government subsidies.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (wBaIH)

208 And a guy who's so gay he literally vomits glitter.

.. every young mother knows ... NO GLITTER

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (RHGPo)

209 "Since I am black and female, I should be paid just for existing, due to all the oppression I'm kind of feeling."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (CHHv1)

210 202 OT but reminder for the Horde: Check the batteries in your weapon optics!

I've been away from the range for far too long so part of this is on me for not going shooting enough, but I went through my safe this afternoon and found that the battery in two of my red dots was completely flat.

Don't be me.
Posted by: ballistic
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Thanks. Got to get into the safe and do that.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv)

211 The Count Of Monte Cristo

I've heard good things!

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:26 PM (j+aD2)

212 BabylonBee: Defiant Trump Nails Copy Of ‘The Art Of The Deal’ To Vatican Door
Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (RHGPo)
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Lutherans rise up in revolt!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:26 PM (Zk+C1)

213
Glad you had a nice day with all the difficult stuff going on recently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:24 PM (Yl2Ob)

Agreed.

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 14, 2026 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

214 207 Are they based on the Hugh Howey books?

yes

but a lot of gender and race swapping already

also sort of draggggggggg

the show is being stretched out I guess

the books are good!
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:25 PM (j+aD2)

That’s too bad. Excellent books. Wool a favorite book of mine. You might like The Passage trilogy, maybe.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:27 PM (pDt9x)

215 208 DEI movies will still get government subsidies.
____

ahem, taxpayer subsidies

I think they get a kick out of making us pay for our propaganda

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2026 05:27 PM (Dv3i1)

216 213 BabylonBee: Defiant Trump Nails Copy Of ‘The Art Of The Deal’ To Vatican Door

Now, that is funny!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 14, 2026 05:27 PM (Yl2Ob)

217 "The Gentlemen" (TV series) wasn't terrible, if you are into Guy Ritchie

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:27 PM (27K+2)

218 The Count Of Monte Cristo

I've heard good things!

I was pumped for Decameron when it first came out. Renaissance Italians isolated to keep from getting the Black Death - what could be better?

It was a total woke fest. In fact, I consider it the high water mark of woke.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:27 PM (Riz8t)

219 ahem, taxpayer subsidies

I think they get a kick out of making us pay for our propaganda

It's part of the kink.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 14, 2026 05:28 PM (Riz8t)

220 Those ST sets look like cheap dogshit designed by gay videogame designers who have been in a drug-induced coma for 30 years.

If they’re auctioning off the sets, who gets the butt plugs and dildos?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 14, 2026 05:29 PM (cvmAx)

221 Went to lunch with a clod kickin hillbilly today. No fish. No wine. Firing his ass when I get back to the office.

Posted by: Danish Executive at April 14, 2026 05:29 PM (u73oe)

222 anyway! you guys recommended (I think) The Last Kingdom and I finally started that!

I am gonna be that guy and say "The books are way better, read them"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2026 05:30 PM (El6/E)

223 The old line "World Ends Tomorrow, Minorities and Women Hardest Hit " is a lot more like reality in this post then the writers of the stories realize
Hollywood is collapsing in front of our eyes and the DEI bunch is at the head of the firing line. No matter how much a writer is pushing DEI nobody is watching, regardless of status.
Schadenfreude on steroids and human growth hormone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 14, 2026 05:31 PM (genhU)

224 I am gonna be that guy and say "The books are way better, read them"

then I will! I believe you. my one son who loves this kind of thing will like them too.

and I'll look for The Passage as well tubal

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:31 PM (j+aD2)

225 It was a total woke fest. In fact, I consider it the high water mark of woke.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I think there is a Sixties era movie of Decameron. Italian with subtitles.

TJM has probably seen it.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv)

226 225 I am gonna be that guy and say "The books are way better, read them"

then I will! I believe you. my one son who loves this kind of thing will like them too.

and I'll look for The Passage as well tubal
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:31 PM (j+aD2)

Great! Justin Cronin is the author. I get more excited about books than movies ( sorry, TJM !)

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:32 PM (pDt9x)

227 I finally finished re-reading the Hyperion Cantos (4 long books) and feel quite free lol. they are great books tho. well worth the second run thru.

I just started House of Leaves and it's fun so far. fun for a designer I guess.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:32 PM (j+aD2)

228 221 Those ST sets look like cheap dogshit designed by gay videogame designers who have been in a drug-induced coma for 30 years.

If they’re auctioning off the sets, who gets the butt plugs and dildos?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 14, 2026 05:29 PM (cvmAx)

We'll recycle the dildos.

Posted by: WNBA fans at April 14, 2026 05:33 PM (PiwSw)

229 218 "The Gentlemen" (TV series) wasn't terrible, if you are into Guy Ritchie
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Ritchie also did the current Prime series (producer and director for some episodes), Young Sherlock. Not to my taste from the first episode but not particularly woke in it either.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

230 229 I finally finished re-reading the Hyperion Cantos (4 long books) and feel quite free lol. they are great books tho. well worth the second run thru.

I just started House of Leaves and it's fun so far. fun for a designer I guess.
Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 14, 2026 05:32 PM (j+aD2)

Great books. One of my favorite characters is the Blue Android guy.

Posted by: tubal at April 14, 2026 05:34 PM (pDt9x)

231 226 I've spent a lot of time with Danes. Don't get me wrong, they're an incredibly egotistical lot. They're they smartest people they've ever met and aren't afraid to tell you. Posted by: Howdy at April 14, 2026 05:32 PM (ZCGHC)

Back in my corporate days I spent a lot of time in Sweden. The Dane jokes were none stop.

Posted by: jwest at April 14, 2026 05:35 PM (nfOOG)

232 I have a DVD set of all the old Sherlock Holmes episodes and movies. Great entertainment.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 14, 2026 05:36 PM (yAteE)

233 Ritchie also did the current Prime series (producer and director for some episodes), Young Sherlock. Not to my taste from the first episode but not particularly woke in it either.
Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)
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Yes, it has its moments but it also has periods where only self-discipline keeps you going. The bad guy identity was a bit of a surprise.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:36 PM (U0NbE)

234 The Chip Hilton book series, set in Valley Falls High School with his buddies: "Biggie," "Soapy," "Speed" and "Fireball" in pursuit of sports.

Ripe for a modern retelling.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2026 05:36 PM (wVcYX)

235 229 I finally finished re-reading the Hyperion Cantos (4 long books) and feel quite free lol. they are great books tho. well worth the second run thru.

I just started House of Leaves and it's fun so far. fun for a designer I guess.
Posted by: BlackOrchid

If you like Sci-Fi Fantasy cross--try Christopher Stasheff. One of the few big sci fi Wizard series that was openly Catholic and set in the future (with a twist).

A Warlock In Spite of Himself is the first in the series and he wrote prequels/sequels in that particular Universe of his as well.

Warlock won a prize in late sixties for a fresh take on combining sci fi with fantasy.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:37 PM (E4rtv)

236 That was non stop. Damn you autocorrect.

Posted by: jwest at April 14, 2026 05:37 PM (nfOOG)

237 Back in my corporate days I spent a lot of time in Sweden. The Dane jokes were none stop.
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Broken up only by the Drunk Finn jokes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:37 PM (U0NbE)

238 If they’re auctioning off the sets, who gets the butt plugs and dildos?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 14, 2026 05:29 PM (cvmAx)
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DIBS!!!!!!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at April 14, 2026 05:38 PM (oqH4h)

239 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2026 05:39 PM (PiwSw)

240 I guess y'all missed the latest BBC producing of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge raped the black Mrs Cratchit.

Grim dark Christmas Carol. That was delightful.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2026 05:39 PM (iJfKG)

241 This is new...I just got an email from myself, assuring me it had been tested for malware and was A-OK, Yesiree Bob, and all I had to do to get this important corporate communication from myself was to click this little linkee right here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2026 05:41 PM (U0NbE)

242 234 I have a DVD set of all the old Sherlock Holmes episodes and movies. Great entertainment.
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Then you would get a kick out of "Without a Clue". Stars Michael Caine as Sherlock and Ben Kingsley as Watson along with some other actors you would recognize.

Michael Caine told a story in interviews about how this woman living in his apartment building came up to him and said, " I understand you are going to be Sherlock Holmes."

Caine responded "Yes, I am". The lady then told him, "I suppose you are going to be interviewed on TV for it as well." He again replied, "Yes". Then the woman told him, " I am going to be interviewed by them too." Michael was a bit non-plussed and as he even said, smug in his reply, " Well, what are they going to interview you about?". The lady replied, " I am Conan Doyle's daughter."

Michael never knew she lived in the apartment building. And he mentioned, "I hope she never saw the movie as she might have gotten upset."

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2026 05:43 PM (E4rtv)

243 226 I've spent a lot of time with Danes. Don't get me wrong, they're an incredibly egotistical lot. They're they smartest people they've ever met and aren't afraid to tell you.
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There is nothing like a Dame.
Nothing, ...Nothing, .... Nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 14, 2026 05:48 PM (yRrl+)

244 Speaking with a descent of an indentured servant who formed America's first carpenter's union, he worked for 12 years to buy himself out.

Indentured servants had actual skills whereas slaves we just brute labor.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 14, 2026 05:59 PM (wBaIH)

245 The Wire is IMHO (and I'm not alone) one of the best, most well-written, well acted TV series ever. It had "messages," but even when I may not have agreed 100%, the social commentary was still top shelf.

It also had a majority black cast, but that had nothing to do with the quality.

Posted by: logprof at April 14, 2026 06:31 PM (jo6FO)

246 I think we would all watch a black detective show, but not a Black detective show.

Posted by: Thatch at April 14, 2026 06:36 PM (7HCLI)

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