Manic recession is a frustrating mess

The only news today is about the dark-skinned immigrants showing up where rich white people live.  Nothing about the railworker strike or lack thereof.  This is very strange.  If it's actually happening, people would need to be told.  If it's not happening, you'd think at least some media would be promoting that fact as well as looking into on what's being/needs to be changed to make sure such a thing never happens again.

Is the work so easy that they'll shut up if you just throw money at them?  I find that hard to believe but what other option is there?  That they are on strike and that's being hidden from us?  That's actually believable but only that the rulers would order that and all leftist media would obey.  There are outlets that aren't leftwing.  Just censoring people for pointing it out would create a backlash.

There's no reason to hope for anything.  At best, maybe they're going on strike regardless.  Now *that* I could see a complete silence about, they're just not going to show up to work next week and the few people who know that also know that it'll create mass panic if that comes out.

I'd totally support them if that's what's happening but it's probably not.  That would be too beneficial for the resistance, to finally draw a line and say we've had enough of the tyrants.  I would definitely prefer advance notice like we were given that something might happen, it would give us time to prepare, but to have them just not work would be a big surprise, particularly since the rulers insisted everything was fixed thanks to them.

Because we need a resistance movement more than we need a functional train system.  That should indicate how important this is.

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□ [“Disney’s Latest Woke Remake Under Water as Public Weighs In, Over a Million Dislikes and Counting"]

I'm positive this is part of their 'cult' mentality although obviously I have no idea what the purpose is.  I never saw The Little Mermaid but if I had and I liked it, there's no part of me that would say 'it must be remade!  It must be remade in live action!  It must be "woke"!'

The original movie is still there for people who want it, but for some reason Disney is doing this with their animated movies.  As far as I know, they're not redoing the original movies, the ones that made the studio what it was, no Bambi or Snow White.  They might have finally gotten around to a sequel to Fantasia which Walt always wanted to make, but that's not what these are.

Ok, looking it up, they have done some of the original classics.  Tim Burton directed 2019's Dumbo, which was not successful.  Cinderella was definitely a hit in 2015.  Lady and the Tramp was released on the streaming service in 2019 so nobody bought tickets for it.  Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks just released Pinocchio a week ago, finally putting it on streaming   Snow White is due out in 2024.

There's also Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and the Jungle Book which were all hits.  It looks like the practice started in 1996 with 101 Dalmatians which was also a hit.  There are also other remakes but I don't know if anybody but Disney really qualifies them as Disney's major cartoon movies.  Some have or are getting sequels.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out in 1988, a wonderful movie which we all loved.  This could be where the 'multiverse' aspect was officially established and is known to be where Disney got back into animation, leading to the last couple decades of animated movies and their live-action remakes.

Is it narcissism of the actors who just want the acclaim cartoon stars get?  Is it the studio's inability to come up with any stories people would actually want to see?  Are they trying to claim the rights to every popular story in history?  Maybe to an extent, at least that is somewhat believable, but what other reason could they have?

Yes, I'm making up a conspiracy theory, that's obvious.  Doesn't mean I'm wrong because Disney is definitely involved in whatever the real conspiracy is.

□ [“Germany seizes control of Russian oil refineries"]

This is still going on.  The government took over some of the subcompanies of Russia's fuel empire which are responsible for about 20% of Germany oil production.  That's not going to increase Russia's fuel supply for Germany, it's just the government taking over what it wants.

I'd ask what they think this is going to lead to, but government seizing businesses is what they're all there for.  They're not doing this for a NATO member, not for a member of the EU, this is because it's what they want.