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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Literally my first post was this:

Note the phrase: “It is ALSO (ALSO) going to hurt that they push politics. What does the word also mean? It means that clearly there are other contributing factors. And yet, here you are in your last response saying

So my very first post, which is noticeably absent from your most recent rant, assumed other contributing factors, and here you are saying that I framed it as if it was THE issue. That is not my argument, never was my argument, but you treated it as tho it was. This has been your debate from the beginning, not mine. I brought ESPN up as an example of how pushing politics hurt ratings. And I was right about that. Nothing more. You made it something more by contributing to me arguments and motives that weren’t mine. The reason I posted “whatever you say” is because you were debating a straw man and not me. I’m not going to defend a position that isn’t mine.

As I said, this is a strange debate that you, and only you, are having as I never said that politics was the only reason. You made that up.
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Again, this is crazy disingenuous.

The discussion started off about Disney flooding the market with their own movies and hurting themselves with this post.
Devo182 said:
At some point saturation and market cannibalism is going to have to slow this train down. It's crazy.
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Then you brought up the politics issue.

I posted that Disney doesn’t genuinely care too much about politics that don’t affect their bottom line and that politics creeping into their movies has more to do with pandering to target demographics.

Then you made the discussion about ESPN and politics as if that was their biggest issue,
Bassmaster_Vol said:
Yeah... people don’t care about that. Just ask ESPN.
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Doubled down when it was pointed out that there are bigger issues facing ESPN
Bassmaster_Vol said:
So I’m imagining that ESPN president said they were cutting out the political talk because they had lost viewers because people didn’t want to watch it?
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And then backtracked once other pointed out the same.
Bassmaster_Vol said:
Nobody said there weren’t other factors.

But there’s also this

ESPN president: 'Our fans do not want us to cover politics'
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And now you’re ranting about the definition of the word also and acting like your 2 OPs were mentioning Disney/ESPN downturns in the context of other factors? C’mon, man.


You tried to act like Disney is set to have a downturn because of politics and ESPN’s struggles have been due mostly to politics. And then you got butthurt, backtracked, and withdrew from the discussion when I (and others) pointed out that the issue is more complex.

But hell there’s a good chance I’m wrong about all this. You said I made it up and last I checked you’re the RF’s resident expert on make-believe.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
Again, this is crazy disingenuous.

The discussion started off about Disney flooding the market with their own movies and hurting themselves with this post.



Then you brought up the politics issue.

I posted that Disney doesn’t genuinely care too much about politics that don’t affect their bottom line and that politics creeping into their movies has more to do with pandering to target demographics.

Then you made the discussion about ESPN and politics as if that was their biggest issue,

Doubled down when it was pointed out that there are bigger issues facing ESPN

And then backtracked once other pointed out the same.



And now you’re ranting about the definition of the word also and acting like your 2 OPs were mentioning Disney/ESPN downturns in the context of other factors? C’mon, man.


You tried to act like Disney is set to have a downturn because of politics and ESPN’s struggles have been due mostly to politics. And then you got butthurt, backtracked, and withdrew from the discussion when I (and others) pointed out that the issue is more complex.

But hell there’s a good chance I’m wrong about all this. You said I made it up and last I checked you’re the RF’s resident expert on make-believe.
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Alright, that's enough of this debate. Never spoken to anyone before who knew what I was thinking or what I meant more than I do. This whole thing has been strange. Have a good evening.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Politics contributed to ESPN's drop in ratings, just as it will contribute to a drop in rating for Disney movies if they choose to go that direction because people don't watch entertainment to hear about other people's politics. . All I said. All I meant. This whole discussion has just been weird.
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And from the very get go you shifted the goalposts to ESPN and refused to even consider that Disney can continue to be insanely profitable with their movies (despite political messages) as long as they are high quality or that what goes for one entertainment medium (movies) may not go for another (sports).


Oh, and now I'm a hypocrite and disingenuous because I didn't defend a position that wasn't mine in the first place.
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The bolded part is “made up,” as you’d like to say. But the first part of that sentence has always been true.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Alright, that's enough of this debate. Never spoken to anyone before who knew what I was thinking or what I meant more than I do. This whole thing has been strange. Have a good evening.
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HEY EVERYBODY!

BASS JUST IMPLIED THAT THAT GOD ISN’T OMNIPOTENT AND THAT HE DOESN’T LISTEN TO PRAYERS.

BURN THE WITCH!
 
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The whole ESPN discussion is hilariously outdated and blasé. Michael Sam kissing on tv, Ms Jenner, minority rights. Shiz is so 1990s. It's sad any of it is even seen as political and not just normal FFS.
 
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Big Sun said:
Politics suck. Religion sucks. All our main institutions suck. It ain’t hard to see. What is wrong with you people?
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