Any people or practices that anchor cult followers to the rest of society can also act as lifelines, a way for the cult member to escape once they realize they're in a cult. One of the biggest red flags that a group identity or organization is morphing into a cult is the insistence from leaders that the followers cut themselves off from the rest of society. MAGA is morphing from a mere political movement to something closer to a cult. Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics? Subscribe to her newsletter Standing Room Only. Ask all the musicians who sold more records because of the "parental advisory" sticker back in the '90s. Pissing off cranky old people is a well-worn way to make a product seem cooler. If anything, getting that right-wing outrage is good for a brand. They only care about the bottom line, which is fatter when a brand appeals to a younger, hipper crowd.
Corporations, after all, aren't engaged in what the right demonizes as "woke" marketing out of some moral impulse. As Republican are keenly aware - and indeed, it's why they're in a full-blown demographic panic - they are an aging, shrinking minority. These various and seemingly endless right-wing "boycotts" of the most ordinary parts of middle American life really aren't about political pressure, as much as Republicans may say otherwise. Today: Wife is out of town so raise that white flag. Yesterday: Disney has declared war on America's children.
The very next day, however, he gushed out how much he loves "Star Wars," which is owned by Disney. Vance tweeted that he intended to "boycott" Disney. The inability to understand how boycotts work was hilariously illustrated last week when Republican Ohio Senate candidate J.D. RELATED: "I do not like gay cookies": Conservatives vow to boycott Oreo over new ad A more recent example was the targeted boycott of Wirecutter, in which the union asked readers to avoid the site during their strike. The most famous example is the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, in which Black residents of the Alabama city refused to ride the bus until it was desegregated. It's an effort to cause economic pain for a company or other entity, with an eye towards pressuring them to change their political behavior.
A genuine boycott is much like an economic sanction, except imposed by organized citizens instead of governments. Like every right-wing "boycott" before - from the one against Starbucks to the one against Gillette to the various Twitter "boycotts" to this current Disney "boycott" - the Oreo "boycott" isn't really a boycott. Ideally, you also issue a lecture on the evils of homosexuality to the poor checkout girl who didn't even ask why you were going with Nillas instead of Oreos for your cookie purchase today. Well, not the actual company - Oreos are owned by a multinational corporation that owns hundreds of everyday brands - but just the cookie itself. As Ashlie Stevens reported at Salon on Monday, the usual yapping heads of the right are so furious at the brand for sponsoring a pro-LGBTQ short film that they are calling on their followers to "boycott" the company. Like life itself, The Fifth Element only makes sense if you don’t look at it too carefully.Add the humble Oreo cookie to the long and growing list of ordinary bits of Americana the self-declared patriots of the MAGA movement now are expected to shun. On close inspection, the whole thing reveals itself to be an absurd romp barely held together by the thinnest string of logic and causality.
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Set in the year 2263, The Fifth Element sees fighter pilot/taxi driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) team up with universal superbeing Leeloo Minaï Lekatariba-Laminaï-Tchaï Ekbat de Sebat (Mill Jovovich) and obnoxious radio DJ Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker) to find four ancient sacred stones that can hopefully be used to defeat a giant space-borne ball of black flame that is basically pure, concentrated evil. Opposing them is Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman having the time of his life), a military industrialist, and his army of alien mercenaries.
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There’s a full cast of anxious priests, menacing goons, alien opera divas, and these things that look like robot ducks: The film skips blithely from early 20 th century Egypt to far-future New York City to an alien beach resort and several points in between, never letting logic or plausibility get in the way of a cool shot or stunning special effects vista. Sci-fi films generally fall into three broad categories: Movies That Look Like Blade Runner, Movies That Look Like 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Bloody Star Wars.
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