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Trump Fans Urge Boycott of Star Wars "Rogue One" Over Reshoot Claims

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:13PM   
from the may-the-trump-be-with-you dept.

stormwyrm writes:

The BBC reports that supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, next week, over claims that scenes had been reshot after the election to make the film more of a thinly-veiled jab linking the president-elect to racism.

Supporters of Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, due for US release next week.

The campaign began with a series of tweets from activist Jack Posobiec, who claimed the writers changed the film to add scenes linking Mr Trump to racism.

Screenwriter Chris Weitz said that this was "completely fake", though he and another writer have tweeted their opposition to the US president-elect.

#DumpStarWars has been retweeted 120,000 times in the past 24 hours.

In a Periscope video, Jack Posobiec, who is an activist with Citizens for Trump, claimed the writers had said the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organization like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them".

"They're trying to make the point of using this movie to push the false narrative... that Trump is a racist." he said.

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• And that is a good thing and here is why And that is a good thing and here is why (Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 12 2016, @10:57AM

  by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday December 12 2016, @10:57AM (#440304) Homepage Journal

  https://theintercept.com/2016/11/12/dissecting-a-trump-presidency/ [theintercept.com]

  When a presidential candidate is elected and they start to receive these briefings from the intelligence community, this is where the dark world of the kind of parallel national security apparatus in the United States thrives. Once someone comes in, particularly someone like Trump, never been in the military, never held elected office. They are going to overwhelm him — intentionally — with all sorts of dark scenarios of what can happen if he doesn’t renew this program or expand this program.

  It is definitely not a presidential thing to do, to ignore all the briefings, but it is not the worst thing either. Trump is reacting like a businessman and he isn't as stupid as liberals want everyone else to believe.

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• Re:And that is a good thing and here is why (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday December 12 2016, @06:50PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Monday December 12 2016, @06:50PM (#440500)

  Trump is reacting like a businessman and he isn't as stupid as liberals want everyone else to believe.

  I'm not sure why not even reading the reports of a subordinate would be considered smart. It's one thing to question the reports of your subordinates and to not trust them (which I highly recommend doing as a businessman - many CEOs don't do that enough). It's another thing entirely to not even both reading or hearing what they have to say. Even if you don't think they're telling you the truth, you can pick up what they're trying to make you think, and make it possible to catch the liars.

  I have a similar tack to diplomacy: Talking to our enemies via diplomatic channels isn't something to be feared. Even if there's no deal made, by going through the negotiations, you can at least figure out more about what they want. The only reason it would be a problem is if our negotiators are complete idiots, which they mostly aren't.

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  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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