Yep. Even in the "best case" scenario where none of the "talent" at Tenet was being directly told what to say, the disinfo people being like "Hey big dog, love what you're doing. Here's an ungodly amount of money to keep doing it," isn't functionally any different. It only means they potentially didn't directly commit the crime of being an unregistered foreign agent or whatever the wording is.
They just found somebody prominent that was already saying most of what they wanted to pay someone directly to say and basically got them for a discount because they didn't need to convince them to say it.
He's an alt-right pundit that tries to pretend he isn't right wing. But who only ever seems to have mild disagreements with right wing figures while he attacks the left. His Wikipedia article has a "Views" section that does a pretty good job illustrating why he is... Not great let's say.
Yeah there wasn't a good reason to make Einhorn trans. I don't think they intended it as a broad commentary on trans people generally and that it was just supposed to be "this guy was so messed up after that botched kick that this is how far he went to get revenge." But it doesn't really matter what they intended if the result was just having their villain be an unhinged trans woman.
That's not even to say you can't have the villain be a trans woman either. They could easily just have had the broken Ray Finkle get therapy, realize that he was actually she and rebuild her life, then finally as she's got her life back and she was finally happy again who happens to show up and ruin everything yet again? Dan fucking Marino. Basically the entire fucking movie could have happened the same way. She could even still have killed Podacter for finding out about "her past" as they more crudely put it, but you'd probably want to make it where he was going to blackmail her or something. Idk.
Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.
My wife who often looks like a butch lesbian stereotype loves starting out with new people referring to me as "my partner" then switching it up and talking about her husband and kids. I find it hilarious and apparently the looks on their faces as their brains short circuit are amazing.
Less assuming it is one or the other than guessing which one seems more likely of the two. Probably I'm hoping that it's just the pee tape because it's the most funny option I've seen laid out. That all of this stems from an act that in and of itself registers at "okay, that's kind of weird" but isn't like omg your life is over y'know?
Wouldn't have to necessarily be that much depending on when school cutoff was for her. Like I didn't skip any grades at all and I turned 17 during my senior year just because of when my birthday falls in the year. I was born just before the cutoff and was allowed to start kindergarten at 4. So it really wouldn't take much as all for someone in a similar boat to what I was to graduate at 16.
To answer your other question, there are a ton of people who think that literally the only reason someone male presenting would talk to a woman is to try to have sex with them.
I still kinda want it to be the "pee tape" everyone was speculating about last time around. Because that's the funniest possible piece of kompromat I can think of that Putin could have on ole Donnie Boy. Realistically though considering his longstanding friendship with Epstein...
Yes, T9 as opposed to just texting with the 9 keys on the number pad tried to guess what you were typing so you only had to press a number once rather than the multiple times you would have had to use with regular texting. So assuming she put Adorra in the dictionary then it would be one of the options that appeared if you pressed 236776
Source: I'm old enough to have texted a girlfriend extensively with a T9 phone.
The thing that pisses me off about that statement most is him trotting out that anecdote about the 90s like the situations are in any way comparable. If you bought a game in the 90s even if it cost $80 you got the whole fucking game. You know damn well that at the end of the day that $80 game nowadays is going to end up totaling closer to $200 after all the shit they remove to package up separately and sell as DLC.
The cynical part of me says it's probably because cameras grab everyone. Compared to human enforcement which can be... Subtly encouraged to only enforce the speed limit on the "right people"
Another insane entry for the pile of cuts made because they're just doing a Ctrl-F for whatever buzzwords they can think of and cutting anything they find on that list I guess...
Out of curiosity, when did they show that? Every interaction with demons I remember from it they are shown to be manipulating people at best.
The "Diplomatic Envoys" were literally trying to figure out the town's barrier so their master could come in and slaughter them.
The "little girl" in the flashback with Himmel outright says that she called out for her "Mommy" despite demons literally abandoning their young once they're born because "that word stops humans" and nothing more.
Like yeah it's inherently difficult writing something that looks human as actually an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction because dehumanizing vulnerable groups is pretty much always the first step in real life genocides. But I don't recall any instances of demons in Frieren actually showing "humanity" for any other reason than to manipulate and kill humans.
Yep. Even in the "best case" scenario where none of the "talent" at Tenet was being directly told what to say, the disinfo people being like "Hey big dog, love what you're doing. Here's an ungodly amount of money to keep doing it," isn't functionally any different. It only means they potentially didn't directly commit the crime of being an unregistered foreign agent or whatever the wording is.
They just found somebody prominent that was already saying most of what they wanted to pay someone directly to say and basically got them for a discount because they didn't need to convince them to say it.