I don't know if it's the one you're thinking of, but this guy does motion comic stuff and makes fun of superheroes:
Looks like what I'd want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.
I had to go look them up, but it seems that some have protested manufacturing plants, though not in a terribly effective way. The protests seem to be short-term, and none of the other things I mentioned have been done anywhere I was able to find.
I've seen plenty of stories involving protests uselessly blocking main thoroughfares however.
But there definitely are though. Why wouldn't you, say, protest the factories where these things are made? Not just hold up some signs outside, but blockade those businesses in.
Maybe find out who their major shareholders are and publicly shame them. Dig up dirt on them. Do anything you can to stop them.
Maybe find the neighbourhoods that those shareholders live in and blockade those.
Protest at the schools that their children go to letting them know their parents are murdering people overseas.
It took me like 3 minutes to think of those and those are far more effective than what is going on in this news story. Are protesters in America really that short-sighted but they can't think of anything better than annoying other normal people and making enemies?
This is like protesting the food in a prison cafeteria by beating the shit out of your cellmate, and then calling him complicit because he ate food yesterday.
They're not targeting the right people, they're simply turning normal people off of their message.
March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
And yes, it does make me feel better.
With 400 permutations of "Fuck this clown" and "how can I block mentions of him" in the comments.
Unfortunately, shitty billionaires make the news. Get rid of billionaires and they won't be in the news.
And maybe a less brutally aged console to play it on.
If I may ask, what would you be running if you had to pick today?
You had me at apolitical.
Counterpoint: They used to be able to memorise the works of Homer.
There was no judgment being made. I simply restated what you had said in a slightly sarcastic style.
A judgment would be "What you were asking is painfully stupid and therefore maybe you're too dumb to actually go to college."
There's a substantial difference.
AceTKen
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But they are portrayed differently and there are entire threads about how "modern audiences" don't like the American Pie way.
The three things you mentioned there in The Boys were not for titillation, they were played for humor or shock as was the (overwhelmingly) male nudity. And the actions are mostly done by the bad guys. A butt shot of a Starlight body double in the most recent season isn't comparable and is a stinger to someone being raped. Sex and sexuality is portrayed poorly and as kinda gross throughout.
American Pie had a scene for titillation and the actions were carried out by the protagonists. Sex and sexuality is portrayed as fun, nothing to be ashamed of, and a normal part of life.
The OP is correct. It was never about not being able to reference creepy sex practices by bad people. That was never off the table.
Things are different now, and I would argue in a very unhealthy way.