• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    I’m building a ‘Warrior’ line, where I will go back in history from pre-greek days, as far back as I can,” the actor explained. “I’m gonna have famous quotes from warriors of all ilks, including the terrible ones. Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners. So everybody from the great ones to the infamous and terrible ones.”

    Ah, creating fake controversy to drum up publicity for your bs, got it.

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    My friends and I were discussing earlier how being a Power Ranger seems to be a curse, between gay bashing behind the scenes, oddly high rates of death by cancer, former rangers going crazy and stabbing people to death…

    Now Hitler quotes

    The fuck is up with Power Rangers? Is it a cursed role or something?

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      I mean given how absolutely unlikely that a “teenagers with attitude” martial arts children’s show, not just based off, but using existing Japanese footage became one of the most successful franchises of the 90s and continues on until today… Maybe this is some weird monkey’s paw shit…

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      I recently found out Saban is a Zionist billionaire and not just a person making kids shows.

      Also power ranger actors are a step above child actors… Essentially no names who “retire” into making yearly appearances at the power rangers convention. Yeah I’m not surprised when one goes crazy.

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        Seconded for Haim Saban being a piece of shit. I’d like to add that Austin St John, Walter Jones and Thuy Trang were fired for asking for more money. They were essentially making minimum wage while being the stars of one of the biggest children’s shows of the 90s.

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          From what I understand, Yost was wanting to walk as well, but was worried that Saban or another coworker would out him in retaliation.

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    A movie about the actors who played the Power Rangers would be much more interesting than another Power Rangers movie.

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    shades

    When readers hate the word “slams”, but you still need a word that fits the same role.

    “Shades” means protecting something from the sun. Isn’t there a better word that doesn’t mean “protects”? Lol

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      The expressions “throw shade”, “throwing shade”, or simply “shade”, are slang terms for a certain type of insult, often nonverbal. Journalist Anna Holmes called shade “the art of the sidelong insult”. Merriam-Webster defines it as “subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someone—sometimes verbal, and sometimes not”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_shade

      Its been used for hundreds of years mate, get with the times.

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        Thanks for that!

        I’m not from the US, and the usage from the 1800s was “to throw a shade on”, and all the other usages on Wikipedia’s article are from the 1980’s and later. I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s been used for hundreds of years.

        The 2015 popularization sounds about right for when I first started hearing “throwing shade”, but this is legitimately my first time seeing “shades” used like this in its own.

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      Well slamming means closing a door so it also means protects.

      It is, unfortunately, a property of the English language that every word means everything.

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    “Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners.”

    Wtaf

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    I saw power rangers many years later and was amazed at how horrible it was. Why did we ever think this was fun?

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          Imagine having to portray every emotion using nothing but the varying frenzy of your arm wavings.

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          That would probably be because they hired martial artists to act instead of teaching actors to do martial arts. For better or worse I respect that decision. Even if Haim Saban is a homophobic Zionist piece of shit.

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      cause we were dumb kids and had the power of imagination.

      Now we’re adults with failing health, beaten down by life and full of regret, and we cast a longing eye back to our better days and can only see the flaws,as we have long since lost the wonder.

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      Because back then, it was different from everything else. The over the top movements, 5 little robot dinosaurs turning into a giant robot, the monsters being eclectic.

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    Title is a bit misleading. He recognizes that hitler was evil. He just wants to take quotes from the good and the bad and put them on t-shirts.

    edit it seems some people think I’m defending him. I’m not, I’m just stating that the title is misleading as it makes it sound like he is only selling t-shirts with hitler quotes.

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      If you’re walking around with a shirt with a Hitler quote on it, I’m gonna assume you’re a nazi.

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      The title is 100% accurate, she is responding to the thing he is doing. It doesn’t matter what he thinks about Hitler if he is putting Hitler quotes on shirts.

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        If you had read further than just the title you would’ve also seen this:

        As of publication, no merchandise with Hitler quotes is featured on St. John’s website.

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        It’s literally not 100% accurate. He is not selling the shirts…as of yet.

        This is just a fact check, not a defense of Idiot Ranger.

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        I didn’t say it was inaccurate, I said it was misleading. I’m not a Hitler supporter and I don’t think the actor is either. I think he just didn’t think about what he was doing. He even denounced Hitler in the article.

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      Your edit is a bad take. It doesn’t matter if he’s also selling shirts with MLK and Ghandi quotes. Nazi shit is Nazi shit. Doing Nazi shit, no matter what his own stupid rationalization, makes literally everything else he does irrelevant.

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      I urge you to take step a back and ask what kind of person wants to wear - let alone sell - a motivational t-shirt with quotes from Hitler.

      Like take your mind out of internet land. Ignore the arguments and need to defend your position. Just assess the situation as-is, take it at face value, and reflect on the mountain of caveats and considerations needed here to interpret this as something not-heinous.

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        I’m not a Hitler supporter and I don’t think the actor is either. I think he just didn’t think about what he was doing. He even denounced Hitler in the article.

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          Denouncing Hitler doesn’t change the fact that he’s selling motivational quotes from Hitler. “Acta non verba” dude. If I say I am a huge supporter of LGBT people and then cut checks to anti-LGBT organizations my words don’t mean shit. He is literally profiting off of selling Hitler gear. This isn’t complicated.

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            I’m not defending him. My original post just said the title was misleading. Not inaccurate just misleading.

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              I didn’t say you were defending him. I’m saying this entire discussion is pointless. He knows what he’s doing. He isn’t an edgy teenager. There is no reason we should give him the benefit of the doubt when he is clearly leveraging the outrage to make sales.

              It’s deeply alarming that he thinks there is a market for people who want to wear Hitler quotes. The sad truth is he’s right. And there are people who will wear these shirts just to “own the libs.” Or because they genuinely like Hitler.

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      Title is a bit misleading.

      Title lead me to believe Red Rover over here was the kind of person to say:

      “Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners.”

      and what do you know, he is (and he shouldn’t be).