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Are Netflix’s Recent Difficulties a Case of ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’?

by Toby Young
21 April 2022 6:22 PM

For the first time in its history, Netflix is showing signs of vulnerability. The streaming giant has lost 200,000 subscribers in just three months, while shareholders of the U.S. firm have been warned to expect another two million subscribers to leave in the three months to July. What’s gone wrong? As Netflix unveils a new series about a pregnant man – ‘He’s Expecting’ – is it a case of ‘Get Woke, Go Broke?’ MailOnline has more.

The rapid rise of rival Disney+, which has seen billions of dollars of investment in recent years, has seen competition in the streaming market increase dramatically.

And other services like Amazon Prime Video, which has captured a share of the live football market in the U.K., and AppleTV+, which has seen success through football comedy Ted Lasso, have also seen people turn away from Netflix.

Meanwhile, the streaming service has also been accused of liberal excess, with outspoken Tesla billionaire Elon Musk yesterday claiming the ‘woke mind virus’ was making Netflix ‘unwatchable’.

But perhaps its biggest problems is that a streaming service that once attracted viewers with widely-praised exclusives such as Stranger Things, House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black now finds itself in somewhat of a content crisis.

The streaming service, which is now competing with $15 million-an-episode Disney+ blockbuster series The Mandalorian, appears to be pinning its hopes on its own big-money exclusives.

But several, including Red Notice – its most expensive project ever – and the newly released Anatomy of a Scandal, come under fire from critics – even if they have been well watched.

And Netflix is also facing another expensive outlay in the form of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, having shelled out for a $100 million deal with the couple in September 2020.

As of yet, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are yet to produce any published content for the streaming giant. But the company will be pinning their hopes that their upcoming series documenting the recent Invictus Games will prove value for money.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Amazon PrimeAppleTV+Disney+Netflix

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Libertarianist
Libertarianist
3 years ago

This is funny and true!

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

No longer true. The movies suffer from the same thing. And the games are going down that road as well.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Read Classic real literature – watch classic films- ditch the Woke crap!
Restore sanity “Culture Counts” ( R. Scruton)!

Last edited 3 years ago by David Beaton
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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Do you believe classic literature any more than you believe current “Woke crap!”?

Classic literature was the “Woke crap” of its day.

FFS, we need to learn from history, not repeat it, that includes not condemning “Woke crap” just because it’s “Woke crap”.

There needs to be an argument, not just finger pointing and name calling.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

The whole problem with woke crap is that they close down debate and argument!

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MizakeTheMizan
MizakeTheMizan
3 years ago

The BBC should be broke too.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

It is morally “broke”.

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The real evil people are Ofcom … who far from doing their duty and insisting on impartiality, push programmers to be racist, sexist and basically woke.
(Most people don’t care about race, the woke are the real racists & sexists)

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Star
Star
3 years ago

Netflix subscriptions are for the unintelligent. You can download almost any film you like for free (your own copy – imagine!) and save it on a hard drive for watching whenever you like, offline.

Think of Not Using Netflix as similar to going to the toilet without putting your hand up to ask permission and without getting helped by Mum or Dad wiping your bum. A Netflix subscription is a combination of a lead around your neck and a potty.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

I can get almost any car I want for free (my own copy – imagine!) and save it in my lock-up for driving whenever I like, uninsured.

Of course, it does rather rely on not rewarding anyone for having made it.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Theft and driving uninsured are crimes.
Downloading films and then watching them isn’t (whatever the Motion Picture Association would like you to think).

Last edited 3 years ago by Star
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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Refuting what that I didn’t say rather suggests that you have no counter-argument to what I did say.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

“Of course, it does rather rely on not rewarding anyone for having made it.”

Someone made it and profited. You bought it, someone profited, unless you stole it, then you alone profited.

If you want to discuss ‘rights’ to material, I’m happy to point you to the ‘rights’ pharmaceutical companies have over covid vaccinations and their ability to impose them on humanity.

Like many things, including the scientific method, patents are a concept developed in a bygone era which have never been scrutinised because they benefit the wealthy who can spend fortunes on patent protection while the rest of us struggle to get a product to market.

Reward for anything is enshrined in ‘first to market’. Protection of that is an abomination of free enterprise.

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

A lot of stuff on Netflix is available on more4 or the iPlayer.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

It’s called competition.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Have you got rid of Faceberk, Twitter and YouTube? Have you switched from a Google search engine? Do you watch the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5?

These (and others) are, to one degree or another, pushing this anti-human, anti-truth garbage. So, have you got rid of all of these?

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Yes, except I’ve occasionally wandered on to YouTube. Got rid of my TV in 2001. Just kind of drifted away from it over time.

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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

You did right.

I find the irony of more channels, less choice, and more cost, quite staggering.

Our TV now only engages us for live sport.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Of course! Never subscribed to most of them!

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Sky TV are the worst for their self-righteous pushing of all things woke. I made a complaint about the disproportionate number of black presenters and pundits they had and gave them some dates and times of dreadful/embarrassing c0ck-ups said presenters had made.

I was invited to terminate my contract if I don’t accept their stance.

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Superunknown
Superunknown
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

I agree, I had Netflix on trial. It seems very limited in scope with regards to pretty much everything. Even movies you would assume that would be on there, aren’t for some reason, and putting on parts two and three of a trilogy, but not the first? Madness.

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Massimo Osti
Massimo Osti
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

MagnetDL dot com + Flud (Google Play Store) + SuperVPN (Google Play Store) = FREE Netflix.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

“Unintelligence” is Schwab’s and Gates’ programmed future for us all!

“Own nothing – be a moron- and be happy”

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The “unintelligence” of “Schwab’s and Gates’” programmed future is an opportunity for the rest of us to exercise our intellectual capacity.

Without a challenge, mankind is nothing.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Sadly, 99% of people are stupid sheep and easily led

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 

19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 

20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 

21 For although they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 

22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 

23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, 

25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 

27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 

29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 

30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 

31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 

32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practise such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practise them.

(Romans 1:18-32 ESV)

Allow me to pre-empt the meat sacks who will inevitably scream in their rebellion to their Creator. If you do not believe in this, if you think it is folly, that I’m talking about a ‘sky daddy’ (there’s sophisticated atheism right there!), then by what standard do you judge the folly of a man thinking he’s pregnant? So what if a man thinks he’s a treacle and has a womb? Is there some Darwinian imperative that says this is wrong? Granted, on a Darwinian scheme, one’s ‘purpose’ is to propagate one’s genes, but given atheistic assumptions, whence lies the imperative to propagate one’s genes? Why ought the human species keep on moving?

In short, ugly bags of mostly water have no business ranting about oughtness.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Uptick for the Non-Historical-Documents reference, the rest of it was just wizard jabber.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Define ‘Non-Historical-Documents reference’, Meat Sack.

So what if it’s ‘wizard jabber’ (not a wordsmith, are you?) Is there some imperative compelling us not to indulge in ‘wizard jabber’? Do explain, Meat Sack.

Now, Meat Sack, how about you interact with my philosophical arguments? Are you a troll? No? Then take my philosophical arguments and deal with them.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

5 ‘downticks’, no replies.

5 cowards.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Deranged zealot. One reply is enough.

No, I didn’t bother downticking you.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

That’s an assertion begging for an argument. Surely you have an argument? I challenge you to refute me.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Argue away. But begin from recognising that I don’t know what “Jock” means. Is it something like “Meat sack” or ‘Sweats”.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Still waiting for an argument, Sweats. You’re not very good at this are you?

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

According to you I was begging for an argument:

That’s an assertion begging for an argument.

I responded:

Argue away.

You didn’t.

Point made, and you conceded the argument.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Oh my. No, Sweats, it’s the assertion that is begging for an argument, i.e., it, being a mere assertion, demands an argument.

Good grief. You really are quite dense, aren’t you? You are so dim that it didn’t occur to you that it was your bare assertion that needed an argument.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

You never give up, and never surrender, do you?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Is that an argument?

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Libertarianist
Libertarianist
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

I like the star trek reference.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

Well done for noticing that, my friend.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Boldly going where no pregnant man has gone before 🖖🏻

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

I don’t know if he/she/it was being serious or extracting the Michael.

“Meatsack”. No idea what it means or what it’s supposed to imply relative to religion.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

It’s called an internal critique, Sweats.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

See my response below.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Saw it. Wasn’t impressed.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

It took me few words to unimpressed you. It took you a rant to unimpressed almost everyone on this blog.

1 – 0

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Is that an argument, Sweats?

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

No. Statement of fact.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Define ‘fact’. What is a fact?

Still waiting for some argument, Sweats.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Sadly, you missed my Galaxy Quest reference, which means we can’t be friends.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Sorry, Meat Sack, that’s just wizard jabber.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

The man thinking he is pregnant isn’t folly it is manipulation. It is not about the pregnant men, so to speak. It is about about training us, especially the young, to not state obvious facts. To self-edit. Once that is conditioned in its just a question of then loading in the next verboten concept that uses your now-ingrained habit of hesitating.

Why do you think we have a Behavioural Insights Team?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

The man thinking he is pregnant isn’t folly it is manipulation.

It is both.

It is not about the pregnant men, so to speak. It is about about training us, especially the young, to not state obvious facts. To self-edit. Once that is conditioned in its just a question of then loading in the next verboten concept that uses your now-ingrained habit of hesitating.

Why do you think we have a Behavioural Insights Team?

I don’t necessarily disagree, but this is not relevant to my point.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Your point being?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Put the single malt down, Sweats.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

I’m teetotal, and I don’t sweat. Well, not much.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Then you have no excuse for your stupidity.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

What stupidity would that be, precisely?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Your inability to comprehend and respond to philosophical argumentation.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

There is no purpose in biology as that’s a philosophical category. Mammals are hardwired to propagate their genes, ie, this is going to happen as side-effect of activities they’re going to undertake if the opportunity arises.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

There is no purpose in biology as that’s a philosophical category.

Which is my point. Obviously.

Mammals are hardwired to propagate their genes, ie, this is going to happen as side-effect of activities they’re going to undertake if the opportunity arises.

I’m not sure what it is you think you are saying here, but needless to say none of this negates my argument.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

What the words express, would be my suggestion (I realize the idea that words mean what they do mean is strangely unfamiliar to a lot of people but that’s not my problem). Propagation of genes isn’t even an activity, let alone a conscious activity. At best, it’s an ex post factum rationalization for something animals are wont to do regardless of its biological consequences. A question of oughtness doesn’t arise.

Considering this, if it’s human and pregnant, than, it’s not a man, and its own stated beliefs are immaterial here.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

What the words express, would be my suggestion…

Okay. And?

(I realize the idea that words mean what they do mean is strangely unfamiliar to a lot of people but that’s not my problem). 

So what if ‘words mean what they do’? What is ‘wrong’ with others coming along and ‘changing’ the ‘meaning’? Is this ‘meaning’ grounded in an objective reality?

Propagation of genes isn’t even an activity…

Yes, to propagate one’s genes would by definition be an activity.

…let alone a conscious activity.

Define ‘conscious’. What is that? Whence does ‘consciousness’ arise?

At best, it’s an ex post factum rationalization for something animals are

wont to do regardless of its biological consequences.

Irrelevant.

A question of oughtness doesn’t arise.

Then why are you here? Ought I not believe in oughtness?

Considering this, if it’s human and pregnant, than, it’s not a man, and its own stated beliefs are immaterial here.

‘Its stated beliefs’ is entirely relevant here, since these fruitcakes are de facto running the show. So, on your world view, what is your rational objection here?

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Let me try it this way:

Assuming Helen Keller is alone in the woods and gets hit by a tree, does this make a sound?

Try looking up principle of charity. That’s a necessary precondition for an honest, rational discussion.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Let me try it this way…

You really are intellectually dishonest, aren’t you?

Assuming Helen Keller is alone in the woods and gets hit by a tree, does this make a sound?

Yes. what’s your point? Have you honestly resorted to the contrived ‘Tree’ ‘problem’?

Try looking up principle of charity. That’s a necessary precondition for an honest, rational discussion.

I well understand the principle of charity. It simply means one ought to look at an opponent’s view in the best possible light. I’ve not violated this principle. Furthermore, why ought I adhere to this ‘principle’? Are you sticking an ought on me, Meat Sack?

Do you have a point?

You’re a phoney, pal. Save the piousness for a more gullible individual. I’m the one having an honest, rational discussion, and you’re diligently swerving my arguments.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Define “Meat Sack” please.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

It’s called an internal critique, Sweats.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Internal critique of what?

And what does “Sweats” mean?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

A godless world view.

Don’t be coy.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

I don’t know what you mean by “coy” either. You are talking in riddles. Not very good ones either.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Are you a bit simple? ‘Coy’ is a long-established term in the English language. Riddle? Good grief you’re dim.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Fair point.

Let’s put it this way. I don’t understand why you’re accusing me of being coy. What have I to be coy about. Or don’t you want to say?

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Stop playing the innocent victim, Sweats. You’ve been avoiding the philosophical debate from the beginning.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

You assume those of us who don’t hold your beliefs are atheist’s.

I equate any deity pronouncing themselves as the one and only to follow, the same as politicians announcing they are the one and only one to follow.

It doesn’t mean I don’t think there is something more to human existence than life on earth, it means I’m not gullible to fall for mankind’s concoction of various manifestations of him to the point that I’m willing to kill people for that belief.

How many religions are there? How many God’s are there?

The whole concept of there being one God is juvenile and conformist.

I’ll face any maker, or all of them if need be, and answer for the way I have conducted my life. The consequences are of my own conscience, not theirs.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

You assume those of us who don’t hold your beliefs are atheist’s.

No, I don’t. Are you dense?

I equate any deity pronouncing themselves as the one and only to follow, the same as politicians announcing they are the one and only one to follow.

Category Error. Try thinking metaphysically.

It doesn’t mean I don’t think there is something more to human existence than life on earth…

Explain this ‘something’. You sound like a hippy.

…it means I’m not gullible to fall for mankind’s concoction of various manifestations of him to the point that I’m willing to kill people for that belief.

You mean you’re not so gullible that you would fall for mankind’s concoction that the universe and all of life, with its intricacy and complexity, arose by purely naturalistic processes?

How many religions are there?

Loads.

How many God’s are there?

One.

The whole concept of there being one God is juvenile and conformist.

As opposed to multiple gods being mature and nonconformist? Do you have an argument up your sleeve, Meat Sack? As it stands you’re living off assertions.

I’ll face any maker, or all of them if need be, and answer for the way I have conducted my life. The consequences are of my own conscience, not theirs.

You hero! You martyr!

May I ask, So what? Who on earth are you talking to, and why should they care?

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

If you do not believe in this, if you think it is folly, that I’m talking about a ‘sky daddy’ (there’s sophisticated atheism right there!)

Category Error. Try thinking metaphysically.

The excuse for any alternative opinion.

Explain this ‘something’. You sound like a hippy.

Truth and love man. Or doesn’t your thunderous, evangelical lectern pounding recognise this?

You mean you’re not so gullible that you would fall for mankind’s concoction that the universe and all of life, with its intricacy and complexity, arose by purely naturalistic processes?

Right – so God’s responsible for Boris, Ardern, Macron, Schwab, and the Canadian womble who want to impose authoritarianism on us all? Thanks for that God, I’m sure we’re all grateful for your wisdom.

How many God’s are there?

One.

Yea right – yours. Which makes my point. You are small minded. Fortunately my Christian parents and Church raised me to understand there are many God’s, to many people.

As opposed to multiple gods being mature and nonconformist?

Errrrr…..Yep.

May I ask, So what? Who on earth are you talking to, and why should they care?

That’s my point dimbo, “they” shouldn’t and don’t care, It’s me that should care, and me that answers for my sins, to myself. I am my own God and on the day of retribution I must reflect on my own behaviour. But you are too dense to work that out.

FFS. Have you not by now yet recognised that the only person in judgement of you is yourself?

Clearly not judging by your introductory rant.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

The excuse for any alternative opinion.

No, you utter cretin, I pointed out your genuine category error. Are you this dense or are you just dishonest?

Truth and love man. Or doesn’t your thunderous, evangelical lectern pounding recognise this?

Define ‘truth and love’. Do you not possess the courage of your convictions? Are you a coward?

It never ceases to astonish that random blobs of protoplasm would worry about ‘thunderous, evangelical lectern pounding’ (even though I’m merely offering a point of view regarding truth.

Truth implies exclusivity.

Right – so God’s responsible for Boris, Ardern, Macron, Schwab, and the Canadian womble who want to impose authoritarianism on us all? Thanks for that God, I’m sure we’re all grateful for your wisdom.

Are you dense? Do you understand the concept of primary and secondary causes?

Moreover, is there something wrong with Ardern, Macron, Schwab, et al?

Yea right – yours. Which makes my point. You are small minded. Fortunately my Christian parents and Church raised me to understand there are many God’s, to many people.

Wow. Then your ‘parents’ and ‘church’ are utterly smallminded and feebleminded, since they deny truth.

Errrrr…..Yep.

Ockham is turning in his grave. You really are quite moronic. Please provide your argument for multiple deities over and above one deity.

That’s my point dimbo, “they” shouldn’t and don’t care, It’s me that should care, and me that answers for my sins, to myself. I am my own God and on the day of retribution I must reflect on my own behaviour. But you are too dense to work that out.

You refute yourself while walking. So why are you bothering all of us with your Meat Sack nonexistence? What in the world does ‘sins’ mean? Is there some objective standard of right and wrong?

FFS. Have you not by now yet recognised that the only person in judgement of you is yourself?

That’s question begging since this is a very point in dispute.

Moreover, you appear to be sitting in judgement of me, so you once again refute yourself.

You are not very bright are you, Sweats?

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago

I wasn’t aware of this.
I’ll be cancelling my family’s subscription immediately.
Edit: Done. And I told them why.

Last edited 3 years ago by NeilofWatford
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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

Good man!

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

You cancelled your Netflix subscription because of a blog post?

You might want to think about that.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
3 years ago

For a bit of context Netflix lost 200k out of a total of 300m+ subscribers. Every other streaming service would kill for those numbers.

Given the increasing competition for content, raising prices and economic uncertainty the numbers are not as bad as people make out.

But they certainly will struggle if they keep shifting increasingly woke.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

A proper perspective on the matter. Thank you.

Could the MSM possibly be lying to us?

Or the alternative media as well?

Does anyone know who controls alternative media?

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

They missed their projection by -2.7million subscribers, for a company who’s valuation is based on future profits and massive growth (sky high p/e ratio) that’s not a good quarter. Although the pandemic bump would eventually come down and the costs of living is a place to start looking for stuff you can live without admittedly.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

……that’s not a good quarter

No one ever bet the farm on a quarter.

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epythymy
epythymy
3 years ago

Honestly, I am pretty tolerant of trash tv and even I am sometimes put off by the sheer INYOURFACE way Netflix appears to talk down to their own subscribers, pushing an agenda so aggressively it gives you whiplash. Stopped watching a few things due to this. It’s boring and predictable.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

What really concerns me is the fact that, given the current climate, I cannot with 100% certainty say that you are jesting!

Now, If that is not an indictment, then what is?

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

It is a joke meme. But I agree. It’s only a matter of time.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

No it’s not. Don’t be silly. Unless you’re 13 years old you know all this WOKE shit is just another fad we have gone through innumerable times in my 65 years of life.

It will pass over. Then the next lunatic fringe will move in.

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago

Assuming the majority of Netfix users are in the northern hemisphere and hence (a) spring has arrived and (b) much of lockdown has gone, I wonder if this is just natural wastage.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

Especially lockdowns. I suspect that didn’t do their bottom line any harm.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

I cancelled my subscription because there just wasn’t anything on there to watch that was not propaganda. They really cannot produce anything without making it a political statement on race or gender. And to this date they have not had a single white actor play a black character, or a single man play a female character. But they had any number of black actors play white characters, women playing male characters, and trans actors play female characters.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

LOL. Really good point.

“Black Panther” played by a privileged white man instead of a privileged black man.

And by the racist definition of “privilege” by BLM, every successful black man/women must be privileged because they are successful.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Speaking of Black Panther, interesting how there were no white citizens of Wakanda… They insisted that the characters in Wheel of Time be racially diverse, even though they were supposed to be completely isolated for hundreds of year, but they didn’t do the same with Wakanda…

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

And an outcast tribe. How very inclusive.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Black Panther is outright racism, if there was a White Panther there would be hell on.
Bring back the good old days of Black & White Minstrels and Planet of the Apes!

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

All total BS – don’t engage!

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Are you seriously expecting me to engage?

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Encierro
Encierro
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

I have noticed a change in the use of “different types” of actors in most tv series. Even adverts cannot show what famly is now. Everything has to be “mixed”. In reality that is not the case in the majority of house holds.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Not just mixed. Couples are almost always portrayed as a black male and a white female. You rarely see a white male as a father or husband. It’s almost as though they’re trying to subliminally suggest to white women that they should avoid white men, which is creepy.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

All black families and all black adverts such as Just Eat are now becoming the norm. Just like PC, if you don’t bite back then the scope keeps creeping

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Bill Hickling
Bill Hickling
3 years ago

Brigerton was just laughable with half the cast in Regency England black!

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Musk is right. Netflix is a bit shit. It’s basically like the telly. You get the odd decent thing but mostly crap.

With every additional subscription service, be it the licence fee, Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, whatever, you get a bit of good stuff and big load of garbage you’ll never want to watch.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I order enough crap from Amazon to justify my subscription. Movies (very few) are a bonus.

I despise the call for Amazon boycotts whilst most of them calling for it evangelise for free trade.

I remember when Amazon was an obscure book club, and I was probably it’s only customer!

Remember when Yahoo and AOL were criticised for their dominance of the internet?

Amazon is already yesterdays internet man.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Worse still for us football fans was the decision to break up coverage for “competition”
Instead of one sky sports subscription you now need that, BT Sports and Amazon Prime to catch all the football which has more than trebled the cost.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I thought people paid not to see Harkle and Markle?

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

The sad truth is that they are now the “Real “Wannabee Celebrity ” Face of Pseudo “Royalty” 2022.

What with their “B Grade” behaviour and Andrew, the “Royal Bubble” has truly been burst!

Of course, we also now realise that as Charles is a life-time supporter of Schwab – we know exactly what he really thinks of us ‘plebs’.!

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago

Frankly, if you have perused Netflix or Amazon Prime videos, you will be lucky to get a decent new movie once every six months.

Far better to get a VPN and download from Pirate Bay.

The exodus has little to do with what they produce, but the amount of dire repeats they offer.

The millennials now know what the last 40 years of the BBC was all about.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Not really in the spirit of good programming to deny them the funds they need to make better shows!
That said I used a VPN to get my porn.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Netflix” Obama-Clinton TV?

Who needs it?

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

Gave up on Nonceflix around the time they started promoting Cuties.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

I find the very premise of ‘He’s Expecting’ extremely insulting and offensive.

Now if I made a complaint on those grounds – not that I ever would – why should my case not succeed?

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago

I think it’s more a case of people having bugger all else to do during lockdown but now rediscovering pubs, theatres, cinemas and normal(ish) life.

Last edited 3 years ago by tom171uk
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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

And dogging is back on

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

Seems to be a bad week all round for woke media.
Goodbye CNN+!

Last edited 3 years ago by Gregoryno6
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pjar
pjar
3 years ago

Their impenetrable cataloguing system probably doesn’t help… and, after a year of watching what appeals, the algorithm that suggests ‘things you might like’ inevitably drives you into a cul-de-sac of mediocrity. They’re victims of their own success too, perhaps, in that people like to binge watch a series but then aren’t prepared to wait for a year or more to catch the next installments?

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago

I was planning to get Netflix, but then it went woke, and nothing I could see of the content appealed to me anyway. I have a cupboard full of more interesting DVDs we bought for the kids years ago.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Recent difficulties? I would call a 64% drop in one’s share price, over three days something other than a difficulty.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago

Not just a pregnant man, he’s also a chink. Straight white men continue to be the victims of positive discrimination

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eyesee
eyesee
3 years ago

Started watching Anatomy of a Scandal. Oh my God, where to start. Terrible direction, clunky, childish level script that thinks a 20lb sledgehammer represents subtlety. Leftist good, Tory bad. Endlessly. And the little touches that the Director probably thinks are exquisite, like one scene has a side lamp turned on and suddenly we are in another scene where someone has just, yes, turned a light on. Might just be me, but I really hate it. Plus I absolutely and quite simply, didn’t care what happened to the characters or ‘plot’.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
3 years ago

I heard one of them say, that the idea isn’t that the robot gives you an orgasm but that you will give the robot an orgasm. That is the objective if you open your eyes.

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