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Dave Chappelle vs. the Gay Mafia
Netflix’s “Social Dilemma” is Pure Deflection Because the Best Lies Always Contain Some Truth
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
This blogger sees Netflix in the same way “Godfather”, Vito Corleone, viewed his enemies. In other words, I keep my books and blogs close, but television and movies closer. This is because social narratives are the new religion. As I’ve stated before in previous articles, I have a love-hate relationship with Netflix. It offers a convenient and affordable access to an impressive library of film and documentaries – but not without its cultural bias. It’s like anything else, buyer beware; or, rather, I simply slice off the meat and leave the bones when it comes to infotainment.
Everything on Demand
Guest Post by John Stossel
Reporters complain about business. We overlook the constant improvements in our lives made possible by greedy businesses competing for your money. Think about how our access to entertainment has improved.
“When I was a kid,” says Sean Malone in a new video for the Foundation for Economic Education, “my TV broadcast options were PBS, Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. Depending on the weather, it was hit or miss whether or not they were even watchable.”
1977 brought the first video rental store. “We literally had to rent a VCR along with two or three movies we could get on VHS from Blockbuster,” Malone reminds us, pointing out how much changed. “Now just about anything I’ve ever wanted to watch is available at the click of a button.”
Comedy Gold: The Joke’s on You
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God…
– 2 Timothy 3:1-4
As an internet writer seeking common ground, or, rather, a mutual base frame of reference with the readers, I’ll often use widely disseminated resources in order to inspire contemplation and conversation. Obviously, these sources would include movies and books. So, with that in mind, I recently took advantage of $5 Tuesdays at a theater near me and saw “Joker”. The antagonist of the film, of course, is Batman’s old arch nemesis, “The Joker”.
It Is What It Is
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
I was in a gathering of folks when a dispute escalated between a husband and wife over what has now become the title of this article. During our discussion someone recited those words and the wife divulged how much she hated that statement. After quietly listening to the exchange for a few moments, the husband spoke up and said: “Well that must be more proof of how opposites attract, because I LOVE that phrase and I say it all the time!”
Which may have been part of the reason why the wife disliked the expression, but I wasn’t about to go there.
Instead, I mentioned how that particular shibboleth of sorts was surely defined in the minds of the beholders. On the one hand, its utterance could be an excuse – even a fatalistic expression derived from laziness or defeatism. Or, like the purveyor of produce in Ayn Rand’s epic tome, “Atlas Shrugged” – when Dagny Taggart asked the grocery vendor why she didn’t move her product from out of the sun and into the shade and her reply was: “Because it’s always been that way”.
Oh, the world sucks? Of course it does. Why bother.
It is what is.
Better results start with an independent, global view
Guest Post by Simon Black
Last week when Uber finally went public, the stock set a record for the largest first-day dollar loss in IPO history: over $6 billion vanished from the company’s valuation in a matter of minutes.
But that shouldn’t be surprising since Uber doesn’t actually make a profit.
And the company acknowledged in its IPO filing that it may, in fact, NEVER turn a profit, given that it expects operating costs to “increase significantly in the foreseeable future.”
As we’ve discussed before, Uber is far from alone. Most of the new, high-flying, popular tech companies lose money and burn through their investor’s cash faster than a California wildfire.
Snapchat, Lyft, Tesla, WeWork, etc.
And then there’s Netflix, which is actually in one of the worst financial positions imaginable.
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Netflix’s unbelievable cash burn just got 60% worse
WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MEETS FYRE FESTIVAL
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something–anything–before it is all gone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Sometimes I wonder about strange coincidences. In an email exchange with Marc (Hardscrabble Farmer) in the Fall, he mentioned he had begun reading Steinbeck’s Winter of Our Discontent and planned to write an article about it. Coincidentally, I had just bought a used copy of the same novel at Hooked on Books in Wildwood. I didn’t plan on buying it, but I’ve read most of Steinbeck’s brilliant novels and felt compelled by the title and our national state of discontent to select it from among the thousands of books in the store.
Marc had posted his Steinbeck-esque article in December, but I didn’t read it until I had finished the novel. Marc’s perspective on the value of money and his diametrically opposite path from Ethan Hawley, the discontented anti-hero of Steinbeck’s final novel, was enlightening and thought provoking. I’m sure it impacted my consciousness as I wrote this article.
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NEW NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’ Contains Clear Coding on Continuing in Cataclysms
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
A recent Netflix original movie has taken America by storm. The film is called “Bird Box”, starring Sandra Bullock. The online streaming service claimed it was viewed by more than 45 million accounts during the first seven days after its release; the best week ever for a Netflix film. Although I was, initially, hesitant to write about it, it’s now become such a big deal, I’m compelled to add my proverbial two cents.
The film became available for streaming on December 21, 2018 and since that time, it has propagated as a viral topic of conversation, instantaneously, online and in three dimensions. My kids mentioned it over Christmas break and the discussion continued to expand by means of social media, internet memes, and a plethora of articles both in print and throughout the electronic interwebs.
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PEDOFLIX
Is Netflix being run by the United States Congress?
Guest Post by Simon Black
Shares of Netflix soared on news the company lost a record $859 million in cash in the third quarter.
Why are investors applauding this egregious destruction of capital?
Well, it’s because investors only look at one number when Netflix reports earnings – subscriber growth.
And on that metric, the company outperformed, adding 6.96 million subscribers, bringing the global total to more than 137 million.
At 137 million subscribers, Netflix has about 2% of the global population as customers.
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Netflix lost $17.8 million for each of its 112 Emmy nominations
Guest Post by Simon Black
It was only a few day ago that Netflix was riding high.
The streaming company had been nominated for a whopping 112 Emmy awards, more than any other network.
And they’d further managed to unseat HBO’s 17-year reign as the undisputed king of Emmy nominations.
That’s all fine and good. Netflix certainly has some great shows.
But reality started to set in yesterday afternoon when the company reported its quarterly financial results… and the numbers were definitely two thumbs down.
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Traveling Transition Road: 123 Revelations from May, 2018
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
For the previously unstated purpose of impugning internet censorship, and the fact online search engines are becoming less of a trustworthy source when attempting to research past articles, a catalog of links was started by this blogger on Mayday 2018; and based upon the belief that transitions are roads to revelations.
Keep in mind the following May denouements occurred in addition to those previously delineated during the first “Seven Days in May”.
The ensuing disclosures occurred between the dates of May 8-31, 2018 and have been organized into categories for the reader’s convenience:
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