I thought I was the only one immediately sceptical when I heard domains, without content, bought for multiple thousand dollars just for ad revenue? How does that even work, surely there cannot be lots of legitimate traffic for a site that shut down 10 years ago?
Did both the president and vice president attend past dinners? I thought protocol was to rarely have them in the same location, in case of something like this.
Is it even "far right"? iirc the far right conspiracy was that "illegal immigrants were undermining american workers, stealing their jobs". It was far more of a left point that "the rich are using any tools they can to undermine workers".
Reality of course sitting somewhere in-between.
You want a real rabbit hole? Many of Britain's national dailies (eg. Daily Mirror, Daily Express) were bought up by Pergamon Holdings in the 1980s, a publisher that would eventually be known as Trinity Mirror and finally, Reach plc. Reach became a major stakeholder in Daily Mail (DMGT) after their acquisition of Local World in 2015, exerting even more control over British media.
And who owned Pergamon Holdings? None other than Robert Maxwell, triple-agent of the Mossad and father of... checks notes ...child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
I found a channel on YouTube that shows quick breakdowns of CG work in modern films. At first, most of it was impressive. Lots of things I had no idea were CG. But, now that I think about it, it’s probably the main reason modern film seems so cheap and unimpressive. Like I can tell less effort was made than in the movies from the 80’s that I adore. Why scout areas or film on location when you can green screen or just film somewhere cheap and edit in post?
AI will make that lazy crap look like the golden years.
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