Now that days have passed, participants are publicly denying this is what was said and claiming that audio was manipulated. OP is willingly pushing far right BS misinformation and has a post history demonstrating similar acts in bad faith.
Get off of twitter, OP.
You are tge one who introduces false premises without credible support and then you are here arguing them as if confirmed in your own unsubstantiated thread days later? You're a mess, friend.
So I actually work as a lawyer for one of the production companies putting this together. I was just in a meeting discussing licensing needs and we were given a walkthrough of the outline for the screenplay. This is just posted on Lemmy, so nobody will see it. Be cool and don't repeat. Here is what I remember...
100% going to be a rich person with a scottie dog wearing a top hat as the villain (big chance Kevin oleary, as Hollywood likely wants to launder that evil ghoul now that they have precedence) owning all the property in the city as a slumlord and living in a big hotel on park place that he owns. He has a yacht that looks like a battleship (game-piece) and in front of his house, a statue of himself on a horse (game piece) that's also the hood ornament design on his fancy old sports car (game piece). His butler irons his tie with a little golden iron (game piece) in opening scene. He basically "holds all the pieces".
Hero, named Chance (like the game card), is going to be a kid born on the wrong side of the (Redding Railroad) tracks, who is buying small run down properties and improving them with inheritance found in dead grandpa's old boot (game piece). Signature trait is that he always carries his lucky dice around (game piece).
As hero rises up, the temporary set back to overcome will be that they "go to jail" for something, but only temporarily.
Comic relief will be that the villain, who hates the rising hero, fumes one day as they open the paper and see that the hero ALSO won a beauty contest?!?!?
Climax is that villain buys Atlantic ave building where hero's sick grandma lives and raises rent to $10k a month on an apartment she lived in for 60 years with grandpa who has died. Grandma sews gifts for hero (thimble, game piece). She's going to be homeless. Grandma's name is Elizabeth Magie (a reference to the actual original creator of the game when it was actually "woke" to the max and called "The Landlord's Game").
Everyone in town pitches in at a big block party to form a community chest (game card) to pay Grandmas rent. It's summer and kids are playing in the fire hydrants in the street. Villain owns the utilities and shuts down the water as a fuck you. But a firefighter who we see briefly as Chance's childhood friend from "the neighborhood" shows up and uses reserve tank on firetruck to spray in the air for the kids.
Knowing that will only cover temp rent, and villain will just raise rent further (will be some lazy vague reference to a trump figure allowing that corruption). So hero will take community chest money and sell all his properties to villain in a deal that feels like defeat. Villain gives deed to grandma as part of deal. She warns him to "be careful paying that Landlord's Game" (she said the thing! She admit it! #hashtag)
As villain now gets ready to evict all the families and bulldoze all the cheap properties to build mixed use buildings that are purchased by foreign investors and sit empty with crumbl cookies on ground floor, hero uses villain sale money to purchase a single building, the building villain lives in. Hero has the doorman (fast talking new york type kid, named "Go") keep villain out of building. Villain owns a media company and has "news" film him dumping a golden wheelbarrow (game-piece) of money into a glass box in front of the building, he then issues a call to the city, "This is my corrupt doorman, Go. Go wants to stop me from improving this city and has locked me out of my building. So, whoever can help me PASS GO, will COLLECT $200 (million) DOLLARS!"
then big fight chaos scene, Go knows karate or something, kill bill music plays, the scottie dog somehow ends up stealing the money in the chaos and finds another dog (comically different dog, lassie or something) to run away with. Also, in middle of everything, someone fires a giant antique cannon (game piece).
Hero finds all the evidence of villain crimes in the building (the golden iron from opening scene was key to a vault door) and villain then goes to jail, for real this time. Villain's property gets seized and new mayor (a mamdani analog) sells all back to hero at auction for a single, symbolic dollar. Hero then gives ownership back to all the families and ends as the "good billionaire" who owns fancy park place hotel but let's poor people swim in the pool!!!
And they probably have mark Cuban or an appearance helping the hero somewhere, because "good billionaires" are all around us!!! And because shark tank reference, do you get it???!!!!????!!!! Probably a "just visiting" stop at jail with hero to see the villain. And they leave together driving villains antique sportscar.
post credits scene: You see the dogs again relaxing on a tropical beach with butlers bringing steaks. Camera pulls back from beach in a crane shot and you see that the beach town is a realistic version of the Game of Life board.
Black screen
Bookmark it. You'll see... Or maybe it will just star a new emoji called the Fart Emoji doing the 6 7 hands for two hours.
"Democrats shit in my pants, AGAIN? Impossible!!! It had to be an inside job... These are $700 trump brand security pants with AI anti-diarrhea technology in the butt and real gold Bible verses stitched into the crotch to repel gay boners? These liberals are just too computer, someone needs to stop them from having Paramount plus subscriptions so they can't learn from the CSI"
Lawyer here: This is NOT legal advice as I'm not OP's retained counsel and I don't know all facts obviously, but on initial scan something isn't right... The posted story really stinks and this seems like a pretty shitty case overall. I would not take the work - I mean MAYBE if they were paying a lot, but it wouldn't be my number 1 priority, would be a number 2 at best.
Appreciate the caveats, but in the age of AI fabrication like breathing, if the only source is a nazi twitter post, makes a lot of sense to wait for the larger context. Whitmer hasn't really shown this in her character, so we will see.
Doesn't hurt that OP has a pretty fraught post history on top. Some good philosophy mixed in, but someone who is definitely lost in middle of it all.
You don't understand how lead ins work (article mentions both news and morning show working under traditional models) AND you're trusting the numbers of CBS, a known corrupt, non-credible entity in the process dismantling it's long meaningful reputation.
These things aren't calculated 1:1, that's a child's POV.
Fuck this data center moment generally, but where is source of lead image/headline, OP? This is the only quote from her in your article?
"I will only ever open Michigan to companies that respect our strict environmental standards and protect our air, land and water, the Barn meets all those high standards," Whitmer said. "Here in Michigan, we are setting an example for the rest of the nation, the rest of the world, for that matter. We have the right guardrails to ensure responsible adoption of AI and create jobs."
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at groundbreaking for Saline Twp. data center
Bold of you to try to make a distinction between this admin and corporations. But of course, they'll hedge. My point is that they do so uphill and slowly, without the research, subsidy/tax incentives and media praise that would typically accelerate progress towards such an obvious next step
In spite of the idiocracy
Don't embrace and repeat the business media buzzwords built to give the CNBC ticker fill text. These terms are created to forgive executives and BODs of the guilt they feel - "It isn't that we are treating people like shit, it's that they are ungrateful little piggies and there's just no winning so why not double down on our cruelty?"
I know it's an easy draw, but don't reinforces their lazy bullshit, redefine it. When they say quiet quitting, you say no, you're getting what you fucking deserve. Act better, and we will consider doing the same. For now, feel empowered to work in active defiance of your shitty job. Stop complying. Show up, do the minimum. Give them the quality and frequency of labor that they deserve. Give them that without apology, excuse or buzzword. They are terrified that you are done adhering to the social contract that they have openly broken while giving you the finger, so be done.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go shake my mouse and type and delete a few characters in a slack message to demonstrate a minimum level of engagement for the algorithm tracking my productivity to determine if my employee number is included in the next batch of names recommended for mass layoffs to juice the stock price.
Elmo loves to say the quiet part loud, let's see what today brings... Hope for quiet.
It was the canary in the political coal mine—a flashpoint event when Adolf Hitler played upon public and political fears to consolidate power, setting the stage for the rise of Nazi Germany. Since then, it’s become a powerful political metaphor. Whenever citizens and politicians feel threatened by executive overreach, the “Reichstag Fire” is referenced as a cautionary tale.
This was used as the excuse to fully start what became the Holocaust.
Hitler blamed his perceived enemies for the fire (that he likely had started himself). All of this after he was insufficiently punished for an insurrection/coup attempt called the Beer Hall Putsch.
Let's hope this stays a historical reference with current US admin seig heiling on stage and looking for any excuse to invoke martial law.
We currently have the following lead images for this community:
Icon:
Banner:
With enough heavy things going on in the world today, let's have a focus on something light. I'm opening up discussion for a week or so on if you think these images are representative and should stay or if you think we should change one or both. If you support change, please submit alternative images for either image type and maybe we can throw up a poll at the end to vote.
Seems aligned with the core values of this community that we should join the currently discussed movement to ban links to Twitter/X, including screenshots, on c/Antiwork
That platform's owner (through purchase) essentially started the more recent wave of unprecedented layoffs in tech giving cover to others that quickly followed along blaming interest rates, but likely just seeing that investors were excited about it and using the cover. He failed to pay promised severance packages to former employees, publicly attacked them, provides notoriously poor and measurably dangerous work environments and is just generally hostile to labor. More than most communities, feels we have a strong mandate to have some clarity in our rejection of these actions, and this small movement has built around sending this message.
While there has been much discussion in recent days about the platform and actions of the person that bought and is in the process of fundamentally changing it (not to say it was perfect prior, but objectively declining since purchase), the platform has been a general point of contention online for a long time and for many reasons. Misinformation and hate speech are more prevalent than ever on that platform.
If no objections to discuss, we would establish the policy with a new community rule in the sidebar and of course, we can always evaluate positions like this in the future, should any meaningful change(s) occur.
Some are also banning the use of links/screens of Meta owned properties as well, something we can consider and discuss here. I'll leave this thread pinned for about a week. Please share your thoughts if you have them and then a decision, and potential changes, will be made.
They've told you with the "eating the dogs" comments and hundreds of other examples... They aren't afraid to confidently lie to win...
They've told you they believe they are in a way that they would die and kill to win...
Remember, years of false, unsubstantiated outrage is meant to dilute challenge to actual crimes and horror. Some things to think about...
We can have measured confirmation, without conspiracy. We will review this election and make evidence-based arguments.
The richest man in the world owns thousands of SW engineers that remain in his companies (after all with any morality have been purged through years of labor abuse). He joked with carlson about how he was completely fucked if trump didn't win. What do you think the richest man in the world is capable of in that moment?
At $200... Maybe.
AI slop video, no faith in what will (or likely won't) be delivered.