Now you’re saying the New Deal never existed?

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So, while we wait for the inevitable revolution, why not bring back the New Deal?

lol!

Look who is talking about dreaming.

Have a nice day and don’t hold your breath until the revolution.

Movies used to be a lot cheaper to make. Taxi Driver cost about $1.5 million back in 1976. Faster Pussycat Kill Kill was made for about $45,000.

Quick lesson. The old model was to open a major movie in a prestige theater [ie Radio City Music Hall] where it would run for as long as it was profitable. After that it would go to smaller houses, and eventually become a double bill. People waited on line for years to see ‘The Exorcist’ because it was only showing at a few places.

Jaws was the first summer blockbuster. The studio planned to open it up in a lot of theaters on the same day. The plan worked. About the same time, the VCR started becoming popular. Thise two things changed the way movies got distributed forever.

You’re ignoring the part where I said everyone has a high standard of living.

A fun way to get started with a story is to take two actors and put them together.

Natalie Portman and Keanu Reeves are the stars of the story. Now tell me the plot.

Or we could be doing asteroid mining and getting raw materials from off-planet.

Marx and Lenin never wrote about that because they both died a century ago.

So?

If the workers have a 25 hour week with universal health care and great pensions who cares if the billionaires have spaceships to Mars?

I do stuff offline.

All you guys ever do is argue. Name one thing you guys have done in America in the last 50 years.

van Rijn wears flashy clothes and loves to eat, but he’s almost always the smartest guy in the room.

Have you tried China Mieville yet?

‘UnLunDun’ is set in a mirror universe where the plucky sidekick finds herself the unhappy heroine of the story.

‘The Scar’ is pretty dark, set in a future where magic and technology collide.

Good question.

Keep on arguing on the interwebs.

Maybe someone will notice.

Maybe.

When Star Wars first came out it ran in the theaters for two years.

Gone With The Wind ran at one theater in Georgia until 1969.

Yes, we should definitely not have something like Sweden or the old New Deal. We should let children grow up in poverty, let old people suffer, and let the planet burn while we sit around discussing Trotsky and the Second International in hopes that the revolution will come.

iirc de La Cruz got less than 100,000 votes.

“Trader To the Stars.”

Three stories where van Rijn shows his stuff. Like I said, he’s much smarter than Mudd, and a lot more fun.

Let’s start of list of great authors/projects that have never had a single movie.

I’ll start. Poul Anderson. He created Dominic Flandry, a smooth, cynical playboy diplomat who, as an Agent of the Terran Empire, fights to keep the decadent Emperor in power for a few more years. Another great character is Nicolas van Rijn. Imagine if Harry Mudd was a little fatter and a whole lot smarter. He’s head of a galactic trading company who outwits various aliens and humans in the name of sweet cash money. Anderson also created dozens of alien races and imagined the worlds they lived on.

I go even simpler.

The New Deal.

Make the GOPs explain why we could pay salaries that let one earner support a family of four in 1940 and can’t do it today.

Of course, you could just talk about “Tax The Rich” or “Bring Back the New Deal” but then how could people know you read Karl Marx?