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Substack Has An Insurrection Problem - Extremism from Los Angeles to the Internet
By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist
“I love LA!” The saying goes. In the land of the stars anything seems possible, but it would be hard to notice that Hollywood hasn’t become a little more diminished in our media landscape even before the writing and acting unions went on strike last year threatening to halt production. The effects weren’t immediate, and perhaps the highlight was Hear in LA journalist Tony Pierce capturing actor Ron Perlman rebuking studio executives who had been caught suggesting their striking workers should lose their homes. It was a watershed moment of mass frustration, of righteous anger.
“There’s a lot of ways to lose your house, some it is financial, some of it is karma, and some of it just figuring out who the fuck said that, and we know who said that, and where he fucking lives,” Perlman said in the viral video clip, in what some would later remark could be a threatening tone from the Sons of Anarchy actor. Perlman was talking about a studio executive, but the equation that loss is brought on my one’s own conduct, and that the source of a remark could be determined. Perlman didn’t know where the anonymous studio executive lived, but he was ready to take action in the fighting spirit of the common man being oppressed unduly by the overly powerful.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-62-substack-has-an-insurrection
“I love LA!” The saying goes. In the land of the stars anything seems possible, but it would be hard to notice that Hollywood hasn’t become a little more diminished in our media landscape even before the writing and acting unions went on strike last year threatening to halt production. The effects weren’t immediate, and perhaps the highlight was Hear in LA journalist Tony Pierce capturing actor Ron Perlman rebuking studio executives who had been caught suggesting their striking workers should lose their homes. It was a watershed moment of mass frustration, of righteous anger.
“There’s a lot of ways to lose your house, some it is financial, some of it is karma, and some of it just figuring out who the fuck said that, and we know who said that, and where he fucking lives,” Perlman said in the viral video clip, in what some would later remark could be a threatening tone from the Sons of Anarchy actor. Perlman was talking about a studio executive, but the equation that loss is brought on my one’s own conduct, and that the source of a remark could be determined. Perlman didn’t know where the anonymous studio executive lived, but he was ready to take action in the fighting spirit of the common man being oppressed unduly by the overly powerful.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-62-substack-has-an-insurrection
Substack throwing the Nazis under the bus so fast wasn't completely unexpected, per say...but what happens next in Los Angeles?
Zachary "Obama" Ellison out!
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