Gabriel retweeted
Oh it was ABSOLUTELY for political reasons.
The pitch bible came out for this a while ago. Gus went into the military at 18 and came out trans.
Rocko may have gotten away with similar in the Netflix special, but Disney ain't touching that one, especially not right now.
The "RECESS" reboot is not moving forward at Disney Kids & Family according to Paul Germain & Joe Ansolabehere due "political reasons".
Likely refering on the unit just being interested in rebooting The Disney Afternoon over One Saturday Morning IPs.
youtube.com/watch?v=X7e7ddgC…
Gabriel retweeted
I do it part time and I've dealt with 5+ business owners in the last few quarters who almost completely collapsed their business by using AI not to streamline processes, or do the work no one (actually) wants to do, but to "race" employees and have a parrot on their shoulder telling them the person they are talking to is trying to scam them, from the janitor to the person responsible for businesses making far more than they sought out for help.
I always thought when people begged to be on Kitchen Nightmares and then tried to prove Gordon Ramsay wrong or act better than him were hammed up for TV but there are people absolutely like that and will do it over the most marginal of skill difference between you and them. They ALWAYS have failed at the part of the work youre successful at.
Even funnier is multiple celebrities I've worked with none of them act like that and are the most kind employers and so willing to listen to your ideas and able to filter if it will work or not and explain why in a healthy reasonable manner. The biggest tyrants are the guys jealous of those folks.
I run a corporate consulting firm that specializes in small businesses, and I've dealt with more dysfunctional owners like this than I care to remember. I can tell you EXACTLY what's going on here.
This guy had HALF his competent workforce walk off the job, can’t retain new hires even after doubling wages, and the workers who do stick around can’t even clean a fish tank without causing thousands of dollars in damages.
And his conclusion is that an entire generation is unemployable?! Complete and utter nonsense.
I can practically guarantee that if I sat down with the employees who quit, it wouldn't even take five minutes to figure out why they all left:
An arrogant, insufferable, Boomer tyrant who treats his employees like garbage, blames everyone else for his own failures, and has created such a miserable working environment that anyone with two functioning brain cells and another employment opportunity immediately slams the eject button.
Which, incidentally, explains why the only employees he can retain are apparently too stupid to tie their own shoes.
The most incredible part is that this guy thinks offering $35 an hour somehow vindicates him.
Do you have any idea how thoroughly you have to screw up as an employer to make $73,000 a year CLEANING FISH TANKS sound like a bad deal?
And rather than engage in even a moment of self-reflection, he takes to X, publicly announcing that everyone who has ever worked for him is a lazy, incompetent moron.
I cannot imagine why people don’t want to work for this man.
I've got news for you, pal, and you might want to pay attention because I normally charge $400 an hour for this:
When everyone who has the ability to leave your business does so, and the only people left are the ones nobody else will hire, it isn’t an employee problem. It’s a YOU problem.
And the fact that you apparently had to shut down an otherwise profitable business before figuring that out tells me everything I need to know about why you had no business running one in the first place.
Gabriel retweeted
I can't speak to this specific example because I didn't follow that film's reception at all but generally speaking I think it is very often the case that critics get excited to see films before they get released and get caught up in the hype and the festival atmosphere.
Gabriel retweeted
the problem isn't just neon ‘dropping’ fjord, it’s how distribution operates now. over-acquiring festival slates then only pushing whatever makes immediate noise in q4 completely mutes great cinema. a palme d’or winner with this cast shouldn't get sidelined just for trend cycles.
Gabriel retweeted
People can lie on any social media platform, but you need to understand that 100% of stories from Reddit are fake. Literally 100%. Reddit is a creative writing platform. People literally get paid to write fiction and post it to subreddits. All Reddit screenshots are fake.
Gabriel retweeted
The worst thing to ever happen to content creators was a pressure post 2016 to take political stances.
Being apolitical is the correct default stance, and it was this way right up until 2016 as unwritten rule.
Even when most creator politics at a surface level might have been obvious.
This is how most of the entrainment industry was by default before 9/11.
Firstly most content creators are young and uneducated on any serious issue and would be speaking to a younger than them, also uninformed and uneducated audience.
No actual meaningful good can come from that just on the premise of it.
Secondly, the reality is that most people turn to entertainment as a safe zone to escape the world and PAIN that politicians created for them to begin with… inflicting the same thing they are escaping in their day to day lives on them during their entertainment is NOT some kindness.
Third, the level of ego and self importance that a mere entertainer would have to have, to think they should directly and forcefully insert themselves into politics in beyond arrogant.
There is nothing wrong with simply being an entertainer and doing that you’re good at. You’re a performer.
Combining performative politics isn’t particularly meaningful. Your entire job is to be likable, largely unserious, and to essentially make people happy…
Combining that with political rhetoric is dangerous and should be unwelcome in spaces primarily occupied by young people.
Content Creator’s whose core content isn’t politics, should largely not inflict politics on to their audience.
The exception is very simple… make political content and move into that genre if it’s important to you and you’re willing to do the work to become educated about it.
It’s not something you get to do as a hobby and then hide behind “well I’m just an entertainer” when it goes side ways and you need to shirk responsibility.
Gabriel retweeted
WE MUST LIVE
Why?
SO THE FUTURE US CAN BE FAT BOTTOMS IN OPEN RELATIONSHIPS ON GRINDR
❄️ ❄️
The end
Gabriel retweeted
I'm seeing so much of this over the past day, so I'll answer.
The Jews are not a monolith in American politics. There are three principal political factions.
"The Kosher Right" - These are hardcore Zionists on the right. It's Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Dennis Praeger, the Adelsons, etc. Historically the smallest group, but with several very powerful members in GOP fundraising/media circles. They're very ideologically close to the Likud government and many of its most public figures work with Likud extensively to craft messaging. Very big into Evangelical Christian outreach.
Diaspora Zionists - These are socially liberal Zionists and generally not big fans of Bibi and his crew. This is the largest group and mostly what you see getting memed on. Pro-immigration, pro-leftist social agenda. This is your median Jewish voter represented by people like Chuck Schumer, Mark Zuckerberg, your dentist, and Destiny. They're very concerned about the direction of the Democratic party, but they're not ready to get into bed with the right because they loath conservatives and they're afraid of anything that looks like a "white party". The kind of people who might have a Bar Mitzvah and show up to synagogue a couple of times a year for things like for Yom Kippur, they regard most Evangelical Zionists as rubes.
Leftist anti-Zionists - Rabidly anti-Israel and generally non-sectarian or Reform, this group is ideologically diasporic and often views their Jewishness though an ethnic lens, not a religious one. Still generally ethnocentric, they think Israel is a colonial apartheid monstrosity and a threat to the survival and wellbeing of the Jews. This is Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, etc.
The second two groups vote for Democrats, the Leftist anti-Zionists are self-explanatory, and the Diaspora Zionsits have become accustomed to having their cake and eating it too, where the Democrats carve out exceptions from their general policy positions for Israel. This is changing, though, and it's causing a ton of consternation. You can see it spilling out all over the place in Democratic politics right now.
There are a handful of weird religious groups like the Satmar who are both anti-Zionists and rightwing, but they're not really political players and tend to not talk about Jewish issues with non-Jews.
Gabriel retweeted
Se tiran tecatEs, vaguEs y desempleadEs pero son muy selectivos para tener una relación con alguien que trabaja en fasfú, por favooooorrrrr🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gabriel retweeted
Agree. PRIMETIME was high concept without a point and a lot of dark, moody cinematography. So what Hansen had an affair while hunting pedos. It hardly payoffs the comparison. The more interesting questions re: vigilantism and sexual deviance went ignored.
Gabriel retweeted
📺On November 4, 1992, Oprah Winfrey crossed over into the world of ‘The Simpsons’ in a special animated segment of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.’ Voicing herself, Oprah traveled to Springfield and sat down with the family for an interview
Gabriel retweeted
One thing I always think about…
If we had a young kid with the same about of singing and dancing talent as MJ, the era we are in wouldn’t cultivate them to become a star. The sound of music wouldn’t fit them, and they would have to make trendy, thin, TikTok music that couldn’t compare to “I want you back” or “Who’s lovin you.” At most, they would gain a moderate YouTube following just doing covers of older songs.
Gabriel retweeted
Wendy's chili was put on the menu to use up leftover hamburger.
Dave Thomas wrote in his 1992 book, Dave's Way, that people often asked why Wendy's had chili on the menu from the start. His answer was "What do you do with the leftover hamburger?" Wendy's built itself on square patties made from fresh beef. Fresh beef can't be parked in a freezer the way a frozen patty can, so a kitchen grilling it all day needs somewhere for the extra to go.
In 2022 a Wendy's employee posted videos of older cooked patties being soaked, chopped and bagged for the chili, then posted a Wendy's branded training slide showing the same steps. Wendy's didn't comment at the time. Chili has been on the menu since the first Wendy's opened in 1969.
Gabriel retweeted
🎄On November 3, 2002, the made-for-TV movie ‘Home Alone 4’ aired as part of ‘The Wonderful World of Disney’ on ABC
Gabriel retweeted
The unfortunate truth is even the original Ghostbusters film is just fine at most, so many better comedies in the 80s. The weird reverence this stupid franchise has has always baffled me
Gabriel retweeted
As much as I hate the reason for Melissa’s firing, I feel like it led to a lot of revisionism about these movies. Not only were 5&6 not that good, but pushing out the lead of a franchise for a younger model was also sinister and there’s no need to justify it
Gabriel retweeted
there's a fundamental error in this reasoning. you're 37, you're lonely, and you've concluded that marrying someone earlier would have been the better decision.
but you're comparing your actual circumstances to an imaginary marriage in which everything worked out. you have no idea what the alternative would have looked like.
you could just as easily be 40, divorced, financially devastated, and wishing you'd never gotten married in the first place.
marriage does not solve the problem of loneliness. it's an enormous commitment with its own costs and risks.
your dissatisfaction with the result of your choice is not proof that the other choice would have been better.
