TimHauck

Yes I agree, if the amount doesn’t change whether he’s there or not then I wouldn’t really count that as paying for him. That said, the fact that we’re paying them at all seems contradictory to the claim that “we can’t force them to send him back.” I’m sure if we withheld some payments they’d probably send him back pretty quickly.

Ok, that doesn’t answer my question though. Are we paying for him to be imprisoned there?

This post makes zero sense. You start by saying “you can’t possibly believe that they weren’t going to have little people in the movie” But end by saying “they could have just come right out and said we’re not putting little people in the movie.” Do you mean they should have responded to Dinklage that they’re “not NOT putting little people in the movie”? If so, newsflash, pretty much all of MAGA really thought they weren’t putting little people in the movie (well except for one), and thought Disney “replaced” the dwarves with the “7 diverse people,” as @EternalShinyAndChrome calls them. And he STILL thinks that was the plan. I did too originally but now realize the 7 diverse people were separate from the dwarves all along. In fact the second link you shared, which I already shared earlier, is proof of that. To be clear, Dinklage’s comments came out when there weren’t really specific details known yet other than some of the cast. So he was basically mad the movie was being made at all, and was just working off the assumption that dwarves would be involved. In fact he even said this: “He would enthusiastically support a more sensitive retelling of the 85-year-old film with a "cool, progressive spin on it" but wasn't otherwise convinced“ There is no evidence Disney changed anything based on Dinklage’s comments in particular since the rumors of the reshooting came out almost 2 years after his comments, and their response at the time even makes it seem like they had already been “consulting with members of the dwarfism community.”

Serious question: can non-legal residents get work permits?

Maybe you should move there

True, we probably shouldn’t expect laws to be followed here if they’re actually going to blatantly disregard the constitution by trying to have him run for a third term.

Wait, if the guy is a citizen of El Salvador and they won’t send him back, then why are we paying them to keep him there? Where is DOGE when you need them?

Also, the only thing I was “searching” for was reviews of the movie, found that dude with 2M YouTube subscribers (I’d assume you know him considering you claim to be a movie expert), and despite absolutely trashing the movie he pointed out that the Bandits were completely separate from the dwarves - and the male love interest was one of them (which made 8 total, but being a straight white male many of the anti-woke commenters cropped him out of the photo), more evidence that they were planned to be in the movie the whole time. So I just thought it was funny to see yet another example of MAGA being duped by fake news.

@EternalShinyAndChrome, do you think Dinklage’s criticism was about not having actual little people play the dwarves?

There weren’t even 7 bandits, people cropped the picture

I proved I was right, @EternalShinyAndChrome just doesn’t believe it

There weren’t even 7 bandits, people cropped the picture lolololol. And the link I just provided was from 2022 before the picture went viral. But you are welcome to prove me wrong with something other than “people are saying.” Unlike most here I admit when I’m wrong.

Here’s an article from 2022 confirming Disney was looking for “voice actors” for the “magical creatures.” AKA they were always going to be CGI. https://www.thewrap.com/snow-white-peter-dinklage-disney-response/ @EternalShinyAndChrome, will you admit you were wrong?

Well apparently there was a whole thread about it which got deleted, so not sure what if any proof was in there. Here is the thread about that one being deleted - I do vaguely remember the discussion, but IIRC, the “proof” was all stuff like this article, which was just a bunch of skyscreaming from conservatives based on a picture, with no proof that those people were actually replacing the dwarves. TBH I think I even fell for it initially. https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/disneys-live-action-snow-white-under-fire-for-replacing-seven-dwarfs/ In fact, in October 2023 you even said a tweet shared by @Reality from Benny Johnson “appears to be a complete fabrication.” And that “They literally just released a trailer for it yesterday or the day before. The only thing they've done is moved it to 2025 now, instead of 2024. I couldn't find any links, but maybe you have some?“ No surprise that @Reality was once again reading from his script without doubting anything he’s told. But I don’t see any links after that. In fact even searching the words “Snow White” from you only returns 3 total results all in the last month. So yes, please link confirmation that the 7 diverse folks were replacing the dwarves. Because all I see is evidence the bandits and dwarves were 2 separate groups.

Lol. You’re the one that’s revising history and just straight making stuff up. Please provide a link that that’s what happened. That’s what MAGA thinks happened because they saw a photo. Dinklage’s comments were in January 2022. It’s clear that his comments are actually saying that he doesn’t like the fact that dwarves are in the movie at all: You’re progressive in one way, but then you’re still making that f*cking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together? What the f*ck are you doing, man? So if anything, the 7 “diverse” people would have been a better response to his criticism because then it wouldn’t be stereotyping dwarves. All signs point to that those people were always “bandits” from the beginning, but MAGA jumped to conclusions yet again.

Yeah I made a thread about this before I even knew they were making a movie about it. It was more in jest in response to whacko conservatives trying to ban harmless Childrens books (no they aren’t all harmless but many are), but when you think about it, the original Snow White story is pretty outdated and not politically correct, even by pre-“woke mob” standards IMO.

Wait, was the viral photo of the “dwarves” cropped to remove the normal looking white dude, who was also one of the bandits and a central character in the movie? MAGA overreaction confirmed. https://x.com/Jebus/status/1681660986657218566

And here’s an article from way before that in 2022. People thought “a different approach” was the 7 LGBTQ things but it was really just CGI. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-dinklage-disney-responds-snow-white-criticism-1235080612/

Here is evidence they were always the Bandits (from around the time the photo was going viral): https://x.com/MyTimeToShineH/status/1696267450596131009 I’m sure they did take out some woke stuff, but looks to me like the 7 LGBTQ things were always planned to be in addition to the dwarves. Yet another example of MAGA claiming they “were right” despite getting a major fact wrong.

No, I don’t think Zegler is responsible unless she actually had a say in the script which I doubt. Is the claim that the 7 LGBTQ things were supposed to be the dwarves and then they changed them after the backlash? I’d need some proof of that if so.

This feels like Lightyear all over again. Yeah I’m sure her comments didn’t help, but sounds more like the movie just sucks. This seems like a good summary - the guy talks crap about Zegler as a person but acknowledges she was probably the best part of the actual movie. Also did we talk about how the 7 LGBTQ things weren’t even the dwarves??? Talk about a MAGA overreaction.

This about sums it up. My kids loved it, I thought it was decent. Laughed a few times but overall it was kinda weird (I don’t play the game know some of the stuff). As far as kids movies based on video games I’d put the Mario movie an easy #1, with the Sonic franchise slightly ahead of Minecraft.

Yup, stand by what I said

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