@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
Despite the fact I’ve gone off him a bit on account of his out of touch Trump rants
His on point rants about Trump is the reason I've stayed a fan despite his questionable acting roles and performances in recent years.
I get what you mean but I don’t take any star voicing political opinions remotely seriously. They should stick to entertaining.
It was a real hoot a few years ago when singer Pink managed to drum up an enormous reaction against Australian lamb producers when she called the process of sheep mulesing¹ “sadistic” in a video for PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals I think) and wanted the industry shut down which, after all, she was both qualified and entitled to do.
Oh, how we laughed - ho, ho, ho - as the shoppers simply stopped buying up for Christmas, retailers got the jitters and their stock buyers backed off for Australia Day and Easter. December to Easter sales are important for the growers, but people ignored that and listened to Pink because she had credibility as their very most fave singer (or something). And anyway, she said she grew up in rural Pennsylvania. But.
Which grows bugger all lamb. But. Especially not in town, where daddy went to work every day selling insurance.
"Cheeky li'l minx" chortled the lamb growers from the Range down the south west slopes all the way out to Cootamundra, as their livelihoods were hung out to dry by a 27 year old warbler from the USA, they were soooo amused!
About 4 weeks later in mid January, as Pink's prospects of being fed through a mincer improved, reimagined as a lamb sausage, out came a profound tearful statement:
*Pink backs down over animal cruelty claims
“I probably could have been a lot more researched on my own… My message was, in my mind, boycott animal cruelty – not an entire industry, not Australia, obviously, because it’s my favourite country.
“Then going back, I was speaking without thinking and I actually did say ban Australia. It’s not something that I can agree with. I have nothing against farmers. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. I don’t want to hurt anyone, I just want the animals to hurt less.”*
She added that she had never heard of mulesing - which didn't stop her from expressing her distaste. It is so very easy being terribly important, and facile, eh?
I see a rationale that "they're people, why can't they have an opinion on politics and then voice that?" This drongo's opinion cost them their income during the peak sales period, plus some.
I wonder what the sheep growers of Harden Murrumburrah would say to that? It took them years to recover from Pink's stupidity.
¹ "mulesing" prevents maggot infestation, otherwise the animals die