The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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unwashed potato! said:
Yes this is all true if you live in made up land.

Of course James Woods can't get roles. No one will go see his films. The same with that stupid actor that was in andromeda TV series. People won't go see anything he is in. No one will pay to have that actor jn their production. It's rather simple.

If you can't accept that, then brain rot has set in.
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Did you even listen to what he said? He said every casting director checks every actor to see who they're following, if they follow certain conservatives they get blacklisted
 
tang0 said:
Did you even listen to what he said? He said every casting director checks every actor to see who they're following, if they follow certain conservatives they get blacklisted
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Erm... I never said they didn't do that.

It's an argument he made for starters without giving proof.

Every casting director?

Sure go ahead. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not. I don't care either way to find out how true that is as it's not something think about, especially when the person saying it is less than worthy of immediate trust.

However does that go against what I said? Read my post and try again
 
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tang0 said:
Maybe it's the same reason why conservative actors can't get parts for films. Their online history gets scrutinized, and if you've said the "wrong" thing, or follow the "wrong" people you get blacklisted.

Maybe it's the same for tech?


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Shock horror the arts also attracts liberals. There are plenty of conservatives in the movie business though. James Woods, Randy Quaid and Jon Voight are so far out there that no one wants to see them in anything or likely wants to work with them. Its like that mate who believes all kinds of crazy **** who when you see them you just hope they don't start coming out with a load of nonsense. Kind of like watching Tucker Carlson, just a load of nonsense comes out.

And you still didn't answer why highly educated people tend to be liberal. The educated bit is the clue.
 
tang0 said:
Maybe it's the same reason why conservative actors can't get parts for films. Their online history gets scrutinized, and if you've said the "wrong" thing, or follow the "wrong" people you get blacklisted.

Maybe it's the same for tech?


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lol.

The reason a lot of the self proclaimed cancelled "right wing" actors don't get jobs any more isn't because of the politics directly, it's usually because of the same reason a lot of actors end up dropping out of Hollywood - they may have been good at one time, certainly good enough to bring in the money so if they were difficult to work with it was worth dealing with them, but the moment you stop bringing in the money you start losing roles very quickly if you have a reputation for being difficult or have upset enough people that when you're no longer the top dog, the people you've potentially spent decades annoying and being hard for them to work with, they're not going to put a good word in for you, or chose you over another actor who maybe is a bit less experienced but isn't known to be difficult on set.

When you read the history of a lot of actors who basically disappeared for years you tend to find that the "being difficult" thing is often one of the most common reasons someone will go from being in everything (or so it seems) to being in bit parts. Meanwhile actors regardless of their political or religious leanings who get a reputation for being easy to work with on set are far more likely to last pretty much as long as they like, especially if they're smart enough to be willing to reduce say their pay demands after a flop or two, or do a few roles that are different to the one they got known for (thus showing they're able to do more than one sort of character).

Basically a key skill to long term careers in Hollywood (and many industries where your name gets known), is being known to be reasonable, and flexible.

IIRC Kevin Sorbo and Dean Cain for example were both actors who for a while were AA for TV work, Cain was Superman for years and Sorbo was Hercules, and then they both let it go to their heads, started becoming increasingly hard to work with and in Sorbo's case managed to tank a reasonably high budget TV show built around his character (so the producers couldn't even consider replacing him).with his demands/changes and never seemed to admit that maybe his actions had something to do with it, which made him increasingly unemployable as far as the big companies were concerned when he kept up the behaviour.

So I suppose they might have a "black list", if by "black list" you mean a reputation for for being hard to work with, and people remembering how their previous experiences went...
 
Jono8 said:
I thought they said that requests from the Trump white house were received and honoured too?
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IIRC that was something like 20 tweets down, it seems many people stopped reading at the bit about Twitter honouring requests to remove naked pictures of Hunter Biden in accordance with both their own terms and conditions and IIRC the law in several states (IIRC Twitters T&C state something like you're not allowed to post intimate private photos of people without their permission or words to that effect).
 
Jono8 said:
I thought they said that requests from the Trump white house were received and honoured too?
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They did.

Which is rather closer to a genuine 1st Amendment violation than anything the Biden campaign could have done in 2020.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
yeah along with Sly Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis. I'm spotting a theme here, if they are good at their jobs, make money and aren't difficult to work with they get work.
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Wow you're right and how easy was that. The shameful thing is, that user won't go, you know what, you're right, sorry my bad. Instead they will either ignore or just straight up argue it any way so that they don't have to admit wrong doing.
 
This. Its all a play thing for him, he's loving his new power and clearly loves the sycophancy that he is being showered with. Messing with other countries politics isn't big or clever and throwing out open statements like this is irresponsible. Brazil has enough problems without Elon throwing a grenade in the room.

 
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