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Hollywood’s Latest Blockbuster Is One Giant Leap Backwards For Mankind
Daily Caller ^ | 9/26/2023 | GAGE KLIPPER

Posted on 09/27/2023 6:42:08 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

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To: Bounced2X

Thumbs up for Jose’.


21 posted on 09/27/2023 6:59:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (And the invasion of America continues while the RAT Party worries about the Ukraine.)
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To: Bon of Babble

“See, those invaders that are coming over the border in masses are future rocket scientist and astronauts. We need them all to “help conquer” the Russians.”

Don’t laugh. There are plenty of dumbed-down Americans that will believe the propaganda. And yeah, they all vote Democrat.


22 posted on 09/27/2023 7:01:05 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Bon of Babble

We saw this and it’s a decent movie.

If he really did get the keys to all of Lawrence Livermore (because the secretary kept assuming he was a janitor) and if he did use them to break into a lab to run simulations that helped with ABM-type efforts, then the general race themes seem sustainable. However, white engineers are painted as simply stupid, which I found wholly inappropriate.

I will say that white guys my wife and I know at work can be just like these people, and they are often promoted over you.

Companies promote idiots, probably because those promoting them are incompetent and don’t want a former underling ever in a position over them. They instead want people they can fully manipulate and have owe them favors.


23 posted on 09/27/2023 7:04:14 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

If America is as racist as this movie claims, this Mexican-American would have NEVER gone into space.


24 posted on 09/27/2023 7:04:17 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Denzel’s good.


25 posted on 09/27/2023 7:05:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Only one I will go see.


26 posted on 09/27/2023 7:06:22 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Timmy

He did help as a migrant farm worker, but he continued with school.


27 posted on 09/27/2023 7:06:53 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Timmy
According to the article he was a migrant farm worker - which the movie plays up -

As a child in the 1960s, Hernandez leaves Mexico with his parents to travel up and down California as seasonal laborers. He excels in school whenever he can get away from field work. The white kids mock his accent but he embarrasses them in class with his intellect. We learn from a drawing of a rocket ship that he wants to be an astronaut some day.

28 posted on 09/27/2023 7:08:06 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Bon of Babble
"It is about a Mexican immigrant overcoming the obstacles of a racist society to became the first 'migrant farm worker' to go into space."

Does he break into the space capsule and/or sneak aboard?

Regards,

29 posted on 09/27/2023 7:09:32 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rktman

According to the article - that was the crux of the movie, from what I read - how racist, hostile and unfair Americans, particularly White Americans are.


30 posted on 09/27/2023 7:09:36 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: SpokeshaveReturns

According to that move, but for those black women, we never would have gone into space, let alone landed on the moon.


31 posted on 09/27/2023 7:10:42 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: BigFreakinToad

“I almost never see a movie with a minority lead because it will be full of SJ and diversity BS.
I blackslide however to see Equalizer 3.”

Denzel movies are usually pretty good. He is one of the “less woke” Hollywood actors, so far.


32 posted on 09/27/2023 7:10:51 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Bon of Babble

This is eerily similar to that movie about the NASA super math genius who was a black woman. IIRC, they seemingly tried to portray all of NASA as treating the woman and her “team” as some kind of Math Jemima’s or something and the problems she overcame in addressing the pervasive racism and gender bias.

Frankly, it looks like the rest of this century (or at least generation) will be subjected to nothing but reminding white people how racist they are and how only peoples of color have done anything worth lauding. All you have to do is look at the pictures that accompany nearly every streaming service offering. If there’s a PoC in the show somewhere in any role he/she/it gets top visual billing. This isn’t just happenstance. Part of an overall combined effort, IMO.


33 posted on 09/27/2023 7:13:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BigFreakinToad

“I almost never see a movie with a minority lead because it will be full of SJ and diversity BS.”

AND EVEN WORSE, the producers and writers figure that being full of SJ and diversity BS means that it’s not necessary for the film to have character development, engaging and believable story, engaging and believable dialog, good cinematography and editing, and all the other factors that make a great film, BECAUSE being full of SJ and diversity BS is completely sufficient unto itself for churning out a film ...


34 posted on 09/27/2023 7:13:46 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: joshua c

Yes, and I’m sure we have enough money to cover their welfare-for-life, Section 8 housing, educations for their many children, doctors and hospitals for all the medical care they’ll need, - and in the Southwest, we have plenty of water to go around too - and the aging electrical grid will easily handle all of the illegal wiring the illegals will hook up to the system.


35 posted on 09/27/2023 7:14:52 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Stand And Deliver”, staring the awesome actor, Edwards James Olmos ...


36 posted on 09/27/2023 7:15:02 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Danie_2023

I live in that very state - California!!


37 posted on 09/27/2023 7:15:30 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Bon of Babble
"Despite his qualifications, he is relegated to the copy room and mistaken for the janitor."

That happened to a certain US secretary of state. She was mistaken for a cleaning lady.

38 posted on 09/27/2023 7:16:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; FlingWingFlyer

“O.K. José, you’re on your way!” ;O)


39 posted on 09/27/2023 7:17:20 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: ConservativeMind
However, white engineers are painted as simply stupid, which I found wholly inappropriate.

Yep. My dad was a part of the space race - not that he didn't have advanced degrees in physics and engineering, my uncle in astrophysics and mathematics, both taught graduate students at the university level - any dumb old White can achieve that, right?

Good those guys were "shown the way" by those brilliant black women and migrant farm workers, right?

40 posted on 09/27/2023 7:19:28 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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