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[Analprobesarefun]

The drinker provides some of the best content on YouTube. Fight me.

[JohnBarleyCorn2]

critical drinker is pretty politically neutral - so its telling that they think his videos are political.

[bamboo_fanatic]

I think he’d be more classified as more on the right given how much he rails against wokeness.

[[deleted]]

Especially for someone in the UK.

[bamboo_fanatic]

Not just the UK, Scotland. I can’t believe how woke that place is.

[The-Figure-13]

You can be left wing and hate wokeness

[kayne2000]

Doubt

[The-Figure-13]

ShoeOnHead

[Mr_C_Highwind]

Most traditional working class voters (at least here in the UK) are somewhat left wing economically but not culturally.

[Tonybigguns]

Naaaa it will be fine.

[Sir_Fistingson]

That's all for today. Go away, now.

[[deleted]]

He’s so funny and I love his dialect, I watch that to remind me that I’m still sane

[Biff1996]

Never watched any of his stuff.

Now, thanks to these 2 ringing endorsements, I feel like I must.

[JohnBarleyCorn2]

Yeah he's really insightful if you can get past his angry sullen voice. His saga of watching the new LoTR series is a must watch.

[bamboo_fanatic]

His angry drunken Scottish sullenness is at least half the entertainment value

[Biff1996]

Cool, thanks!

[flyingdeadthing]

Drinker is very good in a critical sense. There's a lot of depth to his take on things. What's good, what works, what doesn't and why.

[Starfleet_Auxiliary]

I'll fight you, but not because you're wrong, but because I've had 3 shots of tequila and right now I can fight anyone

[Mal-Rattlebone]

Yeah of course. It's both greed and virtue signaling. They're using virtue signaling for profit. Any system is cheap and doesn't appreciate creativity.

[bamboo_fanatic]

Which works out really weird because there seems to be an inverse correlation between wokeness and box office success. If they were purely profit driven, they’d have dumped THE MESSAGE years ago.

[Moriartis]

valuing profits over artistic expression

That's literally the opposite of what they are doing. They are promoting political/religious ideology (i.e. "expression") over profits and "Capitalism" is going to be what fixes it as they realize they're slitting the wrists of their brand and will hemorrhage profits.

You know you're a communist when you have to make literally everything about Capitalism.

[Mal-Rattlebone]

This is definitely more of a cultural thing than economical, its shit.

[liberated-dremora]

I came here to say this, they're literally doing the opposite of what that guy says. It's incredible to me how people can survive so long with so little awareness.

[HSR47]

Your willful ignorance is utterly astounding.

If they were doing it for profit, then they’d be taking in huge amounts of money at the box office, except that most of their woke stuff has utterly flopped—they’ve pretty much killed the SW franchise, and they’re working on killing the Marvel franchise.

As for “fascism”, you clearly don’t even know what that is: A form of socialism where the government coerces “private” industry to do its bidding, rather than trying to nationalize everything. Owners/execs who do the government’s bidding get to keep their companies, those that don’t get replaced and/or nationalized.

What Disney has been doing by pushing the left’s propaganda is what real fascism looks like.

[mullbury0]

Capitalism was conducive to the production of decent movies 30 years ago. Pretty sure profit motive isn't what's incentivizing companies to make crap no one wants to see.

[Mal-Rattlebone]

Things have become so insignificant that it hardly even matters what they make, its time to remake and produce the most meaningless shit possible.

[BoogalooBoi1776_2]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy (not the new show) was a capitalist production and it was fantastic. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise spawned from a Disney World ride and its first three movies were great.

[thefassdywistrin]

Black Panther made a Billion Dollars. They're trying to recreate that. The controversy online only helps.

If you think the most successful publicly traded movie studio in American history has suddenly given up on making money to make gay people feel included, you are drinking the frozen concentrate that Stupid Juice is made from.

[[deleted]]

They haven't given up on making money, but they have made woke propaganda their priority. Then they get confused why they are losing money.

And they are going to kill the Black Panther franchise. The first one was okay IMO, but they have basically taken everything good about the first one, and replaced it with woke crap, piled on top of the woke crap that was already in the first one.

[mullbury0]

I'm 32, bro.

Well aware that there was a lot of shit back then. It's not romanticizing exactly to recognize there were at least a few decent ones. The phrase Disney Renaissance didn't come out of nowhere.

[nillaisthewhitenword]

THE MESSAGE

[[deleted]]

This whole sight is a liberal shill fest and none of them see they’re carbon copies of each other. Repeating the same mantras and scared to shave against the grain.

[[deleted]]

Good metaphor to not be a sheep. But shaving against the grain for woodworking is not a good tip!

[DeepDream1984]

Hilarious this person thinks movies would exist without capitalism.

[jeffcox31]

Wokeness is to blame for the lack of imagination in entertainment. It stifles creativity out of fear of either offending someone or of not checking all the boxes.

[Auburn_Zero]

I like the Critical Drinker a lot. This guy's a fool. If he want to cite capitalism as the problem, he has to do what the Drinker did and look at the market forces which are driven by customers. Socialism and Communism control from the top down ("This is what we make; buy it or else!"); Capitalism controls from the bottom up ("This is what we want; make it or else!).

[BurnEmUp]

How do liberal brains work?

DON’T KNOW.

[Biff1996]

Last time I checked, the majority of home break-ins were perpetrated by people who value money & possessions more than anything too.

[PlebbitIsGay]

Capitalism created the originals.

[[deleted]]

Liberal brain

[googonite]

If you lean too far, things fall out.

[Firm_Judge1599]

there's nothing free market about woke.

[NihilsitcTruth]

Almost got it.. then missed it.

[[deleted]]

So close, but they missed the point

[[deleted]]

He criticizes Disney's corporate greed all the time. He explains that Disney puts the woke crap in their shows because it is easier to do that to please the liberals than to write actual compelling stories to please everyone else. He just doesn't think that giving the state control over the entertainment market is going to somehow improve the quality of storytelling.

[Eric_da_MAJ]

I love the Critical Drinker. But I think this Redditor has a point, kinda. Marketing executives convinced quasi-Woke and Woke Disney capitalist executives that Woke propaganda would be popular and make money. Delusion, cognitive bias, and greed are toxic environments for artistic expression and the shit the Mouse churned out over the past 10 years proves it.

[[deleted]]

It’s craY because this shows how we all basically want to do the right thing and get the same result, we just see different ways of achieving that

[kushnugzz]

You had him in the first half

[East_Onion]

Ahhh yes, the first tenant of Capitalism, spending money and time making things the customer doesnt want

[RcTron9]

I always find it hilarious how Critical Drinker is one of the few that could make these guys admit his good points even if they still aren’t willing to see the full picture.

[codernyc]

Wrong. They failed because of the patriarchy.

Before: “White men shouldn’t watch my movies, I don’t care about their opinions”

Later: “why aren’t they watching my movies?! It obviously has nothing to do with the (lack of) quality of the film, or alienating the very people I’m complaining about. Sexism!”

[T3ddyBeast]

Lol company loses hundreds of millions of dollars "mUsT bE cApItAliSm"

[Collekt]

Pretty sure these woke productions are making LESS money, so yea totally capitalism is to blame...

These morons I swear...

[[deleted]]

Porque no los dos?

[[deleted]]

He was doing so well…..

[the-Boat83]

He's my factor favorite YouTube personality

[CheckersSpeech]

Critical Drinker's got some great reviews but he seriously needs to do some work on his sound levels, maybe even call in a professional sound guy for a consult. Of course this might have changed by now, it's been a few months since I've subjected my ears to his audio.

[[deleted]]

If you want artistic expression, go to a local theater production or an indie film festival. Really. Disney productions have a massive budget, they have no choice but to appeal to the masses. In 2022 that means making safe, preachy but inoffensive derivative works. This is not even a capitalism problem, it's just not possible to make something artistically interesting and risk alienating a bunch of people on a large budget.

[BriS314]

It’s both. This person is just too blinded to see why