i find it ironic that there are so many musicals about the poor and destitute, yet usually the only people who can afford to watch them are those who could never understand the sentiment
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Dasha explained what the interview was like. “When I realized I was on Infowars,
I was excited because I figured they would say something crazy and
funny,” she said. “It wasn’t hard to ‘own’ Ashton because nothing she
said made sense or even followed a logical train of thought. I was
honestly stunned when she started talking about rats, so a lot of what’s
happening with me in the video is sheer bewilderment.”
She also
explained her “worms in your brains” comment: “When I said, ‘I just want
people to have healthcare, honey,’ one of their reporters said
off-camera, ‘That’s what Hugo Chavez said,’” Dasha said. “And when I
looked in their eyes, they seemed so sick and crazy, like they had
parasites in their brain that were making them say all this stupid,
confused sh*t.”
Dasha went on to share why she expressed her
support for free universal healthcare, saying, “As an uninsured person, I
feel personally victimized by the idea that anyone should be denied
healthcare. Poor people shouldn’t get sick and die because they can’t
afford to see a doctor, obviously,” she said. She also made a point to
distinguish her socialist beliefs from mainstream liberalism.
“When Infowars
posted the clip on YouTube, they titled it ‘Liberals Defend Socialism
at Bernie Sanders Event,’” she said. “It seems like there is a lot of
conservative confusion and conflation of ‘liberal’ and ‘leftist.’
“I’m
a democratic socialist and a Bernie supporter and believe in things
like wealth redistribution and socialized healthcare,” she said. “I’m
not even an especially political or radical person — I read Marx in
college, which affirmed my views that capitalism is evil and responsible for many of our social ills, which feels to me like common sense having experienced poverty.”
An Infowars post appears to indicate that the original video of Dasha has been removed. But Dasha wanted to make sure future generations could see her answers.
“I
posted the video on my Twitter for posterity,” she said, “and I thought
it was funny [that] they took it down because they’re such failures.”
I was thrilled to pieces when I saw this scene. Disney could have written Gideon off like some bully character who never really amounted to anything, or got what was coming to him like a lot of those characters do in their movies. Gideon made something of himself. He’s a pastry chef, something that’s not traditionally a job for men in media. And as soon as Judy speaks to him, he immediately apologizes to her. He doesn’t try to shrug it off as no big deal, or say that it was just boys being boys or whatever; he knows he hurt her, and he owns up to it. And Judy immediately forgives him.
Well done, Disney.
Also the language that he used is not something that he would have most likely grown up hearing/using. Describing his failings as self-doubt that manifested into “unchecked rage and aggression” sounds SO MUCH like therapy speak. So he’s either gotten counseling to help him with some of his problems, or sought out literature to help himself. A++ disney :)
Winona Ryder did not defy her agent, her parents, the Pope, God and get a makeover at the Beverly Center Macy’s in 1986 all so she could play Veronica Sawyer in Heathers for it to be remade into shitty reboot in 2018. She deserves better than this.
This video pisses me off because everything about it is perfect. It’s extremely well shot and composed. Every decision that went into it from the choreographed sunglasses throw to the bass boosted Nickelback seems deliberate and incapable of improvement.
Nothing I ever make will be better than 12 second long shitpost.
