Giancarlo Esposito will be answering questions in a Reddit AMA, starting at 2:30. (The thread is already huge!)
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I think it’s really interesting that I brought the price so close to stealing and made the movie so easy to get and made it so clear that it’s a human offering it that it sparked a debate about pirating.
[T]o steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or view the act differently. One way is to remove “Someone” from the equation. You’re not stealing from a person. Big companies do a lot to help people view them as less than human. I heard a speech by Noam Chomsky who said that corporations are like super humans. They cannot be hurt like a human can and they never die. They are not susceptible to scrutiny or accountability. this makes them more profitable. If companies want to enjoy these benefits to some degree they have to live with what else comes with being not human. you miss out on compassion, forgiveness, camaraderie, empathy, trust all kinds of shit.
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Louis C.K.—who made his latest special available for download for only $5 on his website—makes an excellent point about internet piracy and corporate personhood (from his Reddit AMA thread)
Generally speaking, people feel much less compunction about stealing from Geffen and CBS than they do from their favorite artists. We want to support the creatives, not the executives.
Warner Bros. has preemptively purchased the high-concept pitch “Rome, Sweet Rome” from first-time scribe James Erwin, an author and two-time “Jeopardy!” champion from Des Moines, Iowa.
Erwin’s pitch sale came about as a result of several postings on the website Reddit.com, an online community and social news aggregator where users vote to determine which posts land on the site’s home page.
Erwin set out to answer the question: “What if a unit of current U.S. Marines are suddenly transported back to ancient Rome and forced to do battle with the Roman legions?” Pic will follow the Marines as they’re flung into the past where they encounter one of the world’s most legendary villains and disrupt history. To return home, they have to set history back on the track they altered.
Madhouse Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner spotted Erwin’s “Rome, Sweet Rome” posts once they reached the top of Reddit and moved quickly to contact the writer and begin working with him to develop the concept.
1. No way!
2. I can’t believe time traveling Marines is going to be a thing.
3. There must be some very depressed aspiring screenwriters out there right now.
"….Empathy shouldn’t be connected to your identity; I’m not a decent human being to others because I’m expecting to list them as a reference on my resume, I do it because I respect our common humanity, and there’s nothing about the internet that should filter out that humanity. It’s sad to me that this attitude is scoffed at, and people throw up their hands like “what can you do?” The acceptance of the present state of affairs amounts to victim blaming."
— Reddit comment about the idea that anonymity will automatically lead to horribleness (Trigger warning for the thread in question, which discusses rape, victim blaming, misogyny, and violence towards women)
[S]omebody….tried a little experiment….on Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit: claiming to be a “long time lurker and closet-convert to the MRM [with] some thoughts to share that I’ve been working on for a long time,” the (ostensibly male) prankster cut-and-pasted the excerpts of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik’s manifesto….and presented them to the Men’s Rightsers as if they were his own writings.
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So how did Breivik/Fjordman’s views (not identified as such) go over….? Pretty well, it turns out, with the post receiving….about twice as many upvotes as downvotes from the locals.
So not surprised by this.
Girlfriends aren’t sex dolls
Reblogging with the entire post because it’s fucking epic. I’ll put most of it under a break since it’s pretty long. Emphasis added by me (via):
I actually sucked it in and registered for a reddit account just so I could say this to most of the replies on this thread: FUUUUCCCKKK YOUUUU. I can’t think of any thread I’ve seen which better represents what female redditors mean when they say reddit hates women. Almost every single comment in here either treats women like objects exclusively for male sexual pleasure (“how can you rape your girlfriend?!”) or treats women as so feeble-minded and weak as individuals that the decision-making couldn’t possible be left up to them.
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AS FOR THE REST OF YOU. First of all, “doesn’t sound like a rape to me”? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you think that just because somebody doesn’t grab you in an alley and hold a knife to your throat, it doesn’t count? This isn’t her begrudgingly agreeing to have sex when she isn’t really in the mood. She said NO and he did it ANYWAY. She did not want him inside of her body and he put himself in her body anyway. End of story. She was raped. There is no fucking ambiguity here. “How can you rape your girlfriend anyway?” SERIOUSLY? I thought (hoped) trolls like you died out after the courts realized a husband can in fact rape his wife. Just because somebody has sex with you once doesn’t give you a fucking free pass for life. Just because somebody decides to become your girlfriend doesn’t mean she gives up her right to decide what happens to her own body. GIRLFRIENDS AREN’T SEX DOLLS. I feel like you guys don’t understand what the awful part is about rape. Hint: it isn’t having a knife up against your throat or a gun to your head. The whole reason rape is awful and soul-destroying is because you no longer have autonomy over your own body. You no longer get to make decisions about the most intimate aspects of your mind OR your body. Her boyfriend decided that his needs and wants and desires were so important that hers were obliterated. Now she is not only probably in physical pain, she feels utterly ignored and disrespected by her partner - because she was. If she absolutely did not want him inside her and he put himself in there anyway she was raped.
