The Imperial Collapse Playbook

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https://www.tmz.com/photos/2020/09/22/celebrity-vote-register-instagram-photos/

The article says "A-listers" and I had to scroll a bit to find one! Yeah, let's wear a mask and underwear to raise awareness!! Freaks.

I didn't know Heidi Klum is an American citizen. I guess she applied for it so she could vote for Obama! lol These rich people just get a new citizenship with ease or what? Makes me feel silly about poor immigrants and their status in America.

Isaac Asimov, naturalized American citizen
Alexander Graham Bell, naturalized American citizen
Nikola Tesla, naturalized American citizen
Albert Einstein, naturalized American citizen
Enrico Fermi, naturalized American citizen
Zbigniew Brzezinski, naturalized American citizen
Henry Kissinger, naturalized American citizen

Heidi Klum, naturalized American citizen

That's quite the list she belongs to. lol I'm also surprised at the amount of athletes. I can't believe Dan Akyroyd and Lorne Michaels were/are Canadians!

 

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I do admit, Marlon Brando's Sacheen Littlefeather protest is exemplary.

“I suppose they were booing at me as I interrupted their fantasy with a little reality” -Marlon Brando

Here is Clint Eastwood making a joke about it! I guess some things never change!

What's changed is how lame Hollywood protests are. It's not so much as Hollywood but the audience don't care much for it. Legend has it that what made Will Smith slap was his frustration with how lame Hollywood protests are.

Why am I posting this? Because Hollywood is a big part of the empire.

Bridging the Pacific gap: Hollywood in post-WWII Japan

Bridging the Pacific gap: Hollywood in post-WWII Japan

Hiroshi Kitamura discusses his new book "Screening Enlightenment."

www.wm.edu

Asia can make its own movies now. America is no longer special.

To me it seems like the culture has resulted to people like Tom Cruise and Lady Gaga showing up in Tokyo once a year to stack Yen. I feel like the empire has sucked enough money out of Asia already. Enough!

 

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On July 28, 1949, a group of men quietly gathered at Shōchiku studio for a closed screening. It was the day to view the rushes of Murderer (Satsujinki), an extended court story about a man’s suspected killing of his wife. Present in the dim room were three company representatives, three legal experts (one Japanese, two American), and two censors from MacArthur’s Civil Information and Education Section, which routinely monitored the content of the movies. The CIE censors had taken great interest in this production, as they believed that it could introduce “democratic court procedures” and “enlighten . . .

Some things never change

The problem of history’s (and collective memory’s) corruptibility is exacerbated by the absorption of these altered narratives by societies living under the aegis of those making the histories. Why there is such little resistance by people exposed to politically modified histories is a topic for debate, but most scholars seem to agree that “in creating collective memories, societies are not bound by the same rules of evidence that discipline historians.” Kansteiner identifies “a troubling disregard for proof” as a cause for the seemingly indiscriminate acceptance of historical representations among societies. What results from such a combination of historical manipulation and unchecked absorption might resemble the dystopian picture painted by George Orwell in his famous novel 1984, where the State reveled in the blind adherence to the myth-histories it propagated. The occupation of Japan had just begun to ease its restrictions on Japanese media outlets and allow for open communication about the war in 1949, the same year Orwell’s novel was published. The formal occupation of Japan, which would continue for another three years was likely the most cogent example of what Orwell had warned the world of.

For some odd reason it reminded me of this

lol freedom and democracy

[I keep forgetting that strong adherents of democracy has said that democracy doesn't mean 'everyone is involved' -- no way they say -- democracy is reserved for the rich and those with credentials. So I ask, can we at least get more meritocracy? Getting rich by showing cleavage isn't a merit.]

 

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I do admit, Marlon Brando's Sacheen Littlefeather protest is exemplary.

“I suppose they were booing at me as I interrupted their fantasy with a little reality” -Marlon Brando

Perhaps at this moment you are saying to yourself what the hell has all this got to do with the Academy Awards? Why is this woman standing up here, ruining our evening, invading our lives with things that don’t concern us, and that we don’t care about? Wasting our time and money and intruding in our homes.

I think the answer to those unspoken questions is that the motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian people and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. It’s hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know.

Recently there have been a few faltering steps to correct this situation, but too faltering and too few, so I, as a member in this profession, do not feel that I can as a citizen of the United States accept an award here tonight. I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian people [of the world] is drastically altered. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

from 1973 -- some things never change. RIP Hollywood, it was super nice knowing ya. Hats off, really.

 

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LOL

Hollywood in a nutshell LMAO

 

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The US will stop providing $4 billion in annual military assistance to Israel starting next year, President Donald Trump has said.

“We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox. “We made a deal months ago that we’re stopping,” he said, adding that Washington would “keep it going” if West Jerusalem still needed assistance.

Translation: We'll just bomb the middle east for them instead.

The president acknowledged that his decision has a political dimension. “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about… as a signal of unfairness, and we can’t allow that to happen,” Trump said. “Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayed when they don’t need it? It’s a bad... talking point.”

Translation: El-Sayed is sort of an anti-zionist. That's literally like antisemitism and we don't do that here in America.

El-Sayed explained why he supported sending American military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia but opposes sending aid to Israel as it fights Hamas and other armed groups in the region.

“In Ukraine, you’re talking about attacks from a leader of a neighboring sovereign country, who clearly violated international law in attempting to breach the sovereignty of the Ukrainian public,” El-Sayed said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Translation: The shitshow must go on!