#anti ryan reynolds

[shitswiftiessay]

it should be known that taylor’s bestie blake lively is also a s*xual abuse apologist

she called w**dy allen “empowering” in a 2016 vanity fair interview and has made NO apology or retraction of that statement since then.

that was 2 years after woody’s stepdaughter opened up in that NYT op-ed about how he s*xually abused her.

there’s also the fact that blake and ryan got married on a literal fucking plantation and then tried to act like they didn’t know it was a plantation despite the fact that the venue has “plantation” in its name and has shit like this on the premises:

so yeah, it really shouldn’t be surprising that taylor doesn’t care about her new friend being a SA apologist. if anything, that probably sealed the deal for her. taylor LOVES surrounding herself with problematic, nasty people.

#anti taylor swift #anti blake lively #anti ryan reynolds

[jewishbarbies]

Well swifties think Ryan and Blake are good actors, which they’re not so… I wouldn’t trust their opinion on movies and acting to begin with 🤷🏻‍♀️

they can be good in certain settings, Ryan moreso than Blake. like, a LOT of actors play the same person in every project because that’s just how that actor acts and the trouble comes when you put them in a project that doesn’t align with their acting style. the rock is fine in a project that needs the rock, etc. Ryan is good in things like Deadpool where he’s able to use his acting style to its fullest potential. Blake was great for something like Age of Adeline but you put her in something more action or horror (like that shark movie she was in) and it’s just not a good fit. when actors start throwing themselves in random projects because they’ve reached stardom, that’s when they start being bad actors because they stop being choosy with what work they take.

#Asks #anonymoose #anti taylor swift #swifties dni #anti ryan reynolds #anti Blake lively #this is not me defending them at all #it’s just my opinion in general on actors

[pinkblink]

Unfollow me if you think Ryan Reynolds is still funny . Dude has one shtick, and it got old 10 years ago. I can't get along with people who feel sated by the exact same jokes over and over. You are feeding the capitalism machine by mindlessly laughing and clapping along to lazy media. It was funny the first time. Its not funny anymore, it's just sad that y'all keep buying it.

#anti Deadpool #particularly Deadpool movies #the comics are fine #anti Ryan Reynolds

[serendipititties]

Seriously theres SO many actually talented white actors but the only ones I ever hear from are the Chris Pratt- Ryan Reynold types and I fucking HATE it.

#gonna make a list of all my favourite white actors soon #the ones who are actually great at it #celebrity #wren rambles #anti ryan reynolds #anti chris pratt

[joesalw]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SwiftlyNeutral/comments/18plevw/ryan_reynolds_pr_expose_taylor_swift/

thoughts?

I'm still processing this

#swifties dni #anti ryan reynolds

[cieric-of-chaos]

I am not a hater but I hope Deadpool 3 flop I hope it sucks I hope it becomes the biggest flopped movie ever I hope it disappoints everyone that is going to watch it I hope every jokes they are going to say in that "film" is worst than any jokes that jokoy says In the Emmys I hope that movie fails at everything and I hope it kills the mcu for good I hope every dudebros that is going to defend that movie have the worst day of their lives

#i hope that Zionists directior chokes on his food #i hope Disney fails at whatever marvel movie they are going to do in the future #the script is probably full of unfunny jokes #anti zionisim #probably deleting this #anti mcu #anti disney #boycott disney #boycott marvel #deadpool 3 #Deadpool boycott #marvel #ryan reynolds #wolverine #deadpool and wolverine #Hugh Jackman #x men

[rottentiger-art]

Reynolds = Bougie Mcpoyles

I made the mistake of looking up "deedennis" on Twitter and instead of finding any kind of content I came across countless tweets whinning about the ship. One caught my eye tho, it said something about why ship deedennis when the Mcpoyles already exist in canon, and it made me laugh bc, I already consider the Reynolds to be pretty much the Mcpoyles if they had money and -according to them- class.

It's so hilarious to me bc Dee and Dennis 100% think their incest is better than the Mcpoyles' bc they think they're not gross about it like them (they are) and they are simply better than that family (theyre not)

Dee and dennis are incestuous rapists, just like the Mcpoyles, they're just more hygenic and beautiful with a rich upbringing

#deedennis #dee reynolds #dennis reynolds #liam mcpoyle #ryan mcpoyle #dee x dennis #this is not up for discussion btw im right #antis dni

[chelseajackarmy]

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING

#holy fucking shit #deadpool #wolverine #marvel #stoked #superheroes #anti hero #hugh jackman #ryan reynolds #marvel studios #disney plus #cinema #movie #film #so happy #can't wait #dream team #marvel comics #come together #deadpool 3

[msclaritea]

More proof. Pissy is as pissy does. The thread is full of childish insults, the usual tool of high tech trolls. The #NFL and #siliconvalley really fucked up, trying to use A list actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, in their attempts to gaslight the American public. Using Christ, using religion, as a joke and a prop, is the epitome of being anti-Christian.

#NFL #Jay Z #Silicon Valley #Twitter Hate Trolls #Cult of Scientology Network #Sports betting #Artificial Intelligence #Las Vegas #Gay Federalist Society #The Book of Clarence #Football #Freemason Same Sex Grooming #Football Biggest Secret #Anti-Family #Gambling Addiction #Ryan Reynolds #Deadpool 3 #Marvel Jesus

[webbedtoeddoll]

If Deadpool 3 doesn’t start or make reference to anti-hero by Taylor swift I’m going to fucking riot and set someone’s eyelashes on fire or something like that

#taylor swift #taylor’s version #ryan reynolds #deadpool #marveledit #midnights #anti hero #marvel #mcu #deadpool 3 #Deadpool 2

[onceuponaweirdo]

Random teen: who's your favourite super-hero?

Me: Deadpool.

Random teen: but deadpool isn't a...

Me *covering their mouth*: shhhh, I said Deadpool...

#favourites #superhero #favourite superhero #anti hero #deadpool #wade wilson #ryan reynolds #anti #hero #my favourites #are the ones that aren't quite heroic #super hero #morally ambiguous

[reginaphalange2403]

God he’s so me fr🤭

#was literally JUST talking to my brother about how rr makes the same movie over and over #lmfao #I’m forever anti ryan sry #ryan Reynolds #Evie talks

[jewishbarbies]

Also Betty went back to James like -

Again ehy would they give their daughter's name for THIS song? Like if it were some other wholesome song then ok but

#Asks #anonymoose #anti taylor swift #swifties dni #anti ryan reynolds #anti blake lively

[iwanthermidnightz]

a superhero lgbt icon?

https://x.com/sapphic_ts/status/1708861491791716457?s=46&t=OnZ0f24mD0XxPzNjM5Rv8Q

Her inviting some of the ‘cast’ and the director makes sense if true. I read filming should start soon so I guess we’ll see.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Capitalists hate capitalism

As the Marxist agitator Adam Smith once said, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

Smith understood that capitalists hate capitalism. They don’t want to compete with one another, because that would interfere with their ability to raise the prices their customers pay and reduce the wages they pay their workers. Thus Peter Thiel’s anticapitalist rallying cry, “competition is for losers,” or Warren Buffett’s extreme horniness for businesses with “wide, sustainable moats.”

These anti-capitalist capitalists love big government. They love no-bid military contracts, they love ACA subsidies for health insurance companies, they love Farm Bill cash for Cargill and Monsanto. What they don’t love is markets.

Case in point: pharma giant Merck. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a provision that allows Medicare to (finally) start (weakly) negotiating the prices it pays for (a tiny handful of) drugs. If you’re scratching your head and wondering if you understood that correctly, let me assure you, you did: the US government is currently prohibited from negotiating drug prices when it bargains with pharma companies.

In other words: Medicare simply pays a pharma companies — whose products build on billions in publicly funded basic research, whose taxes are reduced by billions in research credits, whose patents are backstopped by billions in enforcement — whatever it demands.

To do otherwise, you see, would be socialism. Markets are “efficient” because they “discover prices” through bidding and selling. In the case of publicly purchased drugs, the price that Uncle Sucker “discovers” is inevitably “a titanic sum” or possibly “add a couple more zeroes, wouldya?”

Enter the IRA. Starting in 2026, Medicare will be permitted to negotiate the price of ten (10) drugs. The negotiations will use the prices of other drugs from the dysfunctional, monopolized market as a starting point and go up from there. The negotiations go on for three years, and there are multiple stages where pharma companies can hit pause with court challenges:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-05-11-regulators-bungling-drug-price-reform/

The system will not consider the prices that Medicaid or the VA (which are allowed to bargain on prices) pay. Nor will it consider the prices that other governments pay — the US is alone in the wealthy world in offering the anticapitalist price-taking posture when dickering with the pharma companies.

But this isn’t enough for Merck. They are suing the Biden administration over the IRA’s drug pricing plan, arguing that it is an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth Amendment:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/merck-sues-biden-administration-over-medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html

Merck is represented by Big Law firm Jones Day, who made their bones by representing the RJ Reynolds from smokers with lung-cancer, arguing that the smoking/cancer link wasn’t scientifically sound. That’s not the only fanciful argument they put before a judge: Jones Day also represented Trump in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election (they also hired Trump’s counsel Don McGahn as he exited the White House’s revolving door).

As Ryan Cooper writes for The American Prospect, Merck’s argument is that the “fair market” value of its drugs can only be discovered if its single largest customer — Medicare — simply pays whatever Merck demands of it:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-06-08-merck-negotiating-drug-prices-unconstitutional/

They explicitly denounce the idea that a powerful buyer should use its market power to extract price concessions from sellers like Merck: “leveraging all federal insurance benefits (amounting to over half of the prescription drug market) to coerce companies to abandon their First and Fifth Amendment rights is a quintessential unconstitutional condition.”

Rebutting this argument, Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “negotiating for the best price is as American as apple pie. Since when is competition in this American system a bad thing? Why should we be the patsies around the world and pay the highest prices for medicines?”

The irony here is that Merck itself is a very powerful buyer. Whether negotiating commercial leases, raw materials or wages, Merck is ruthless in extracting the lowest prices it can from its suppliers. The company attained its massive scale the old fashioned way: buying it. By drawing on its nearly limitless access to the capital markets, Merck bought out dozens of its competitors:

https://mergr.com/merck-acquisitions

Anticapitalist investors funded these acquisitions in the expectation that Merck would be able to use its market dominance to pay suppliers less, charge customers more, and use some of the resulting windfall to corrupt and bully its regulators so that it could buy still more companies, charge still higher prices, and impose crushingly low prices on still more suppliers.

The IRA’s drug-bargaining provisions are extraordinarily weak. When they were first mooted in 2021, I talked about how Democrats were caving on muscular drug price controls that would benefit every American (except a handful of pharma shareholders):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bipartisan-consensus/#corruption

They did so despite wild, bipartisan support for imposing price discipline on Big Pharma, and ending the 300% premium Americans pay for their drugs relative to their cousins abroad. 95% of Democrats support strong price controls; so do 82% of independents — and 71% of Republicans:

https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2021/11/healthcare-affordability--majority-of-adults-support-significant-changes-to-the-health-system.html

No one believes Big Pharma’s scare stories about how this would kill R&D: 93% of Americans reject this idea, including 90% of Republicans. They’re right — nearly all US basic pharma R&D is directly funded by the federal government, with pharma companies privatizing the gains:

https://khn.org/news/article/public-opinion-prescription-drug-prices-democratic-plan/

Despite the fact that really whipping the shit out of Big Pharma would be both popular and good for America, the Dems’ final version of pharma bargaining is a barely-there nothingburger where ten drugs will become slightly cheaper, after the next federal election. This is called “political realism” and it’s a fantasy.

The idea that limiting drug controls to the faintest, most modest measures would make them easier to attain was obvious nonsense from the start, and Merck’s anticapitalist lawsuit proves it. Merck will settle for nothing less than total central planning — by Merck. For Merck, the role of the federal government is to wave through a stream of mergers culminating in Merck’s ownership of every major drug; patent extensions for these drugs to carry them into the 25th century and beyond, and unlimited sums paid for these drugs on Medicare.

Given all that, there would have been no downside to the Dems passing an IRA that subjected the drug companies the same modest, commensense, market-based discipline we see in Canada, or the UK, or France, or Germany, or Switzerland.

But that’s not the IRA we got. Instead of defending a big, visionary program in court, the Biden admin is facing down Jones Day and Merck to defend the most yawn-inducing, incrementalist half-measure. What a wasted opportunity.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck#price-giver

[Image ID: A caricature of a businessman with a money-bag for a head and a stickpin bearing the Merck logo, standing atop a pile of bundled $100 bills. At the bottom of the pile, a frowning, disheveled Uncle Sam offers up a $100 bill.]

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#pluralistic #merck #guillotine watch #big pharma #markets #anticapitalism #capitalism #pharma #whiners #bargaining power #price makers #price takers #uncle sucker #inflation reduction act #ira

[theavengers]

Jennifer Garner is picking up Elektra’s sai once again. After a nearly twenty-year hiatus, the actress is returning to the role of Marvel Comics’ assassin anti-heroine for Deadpool 3.

The Marvel Studios’ production is currently shooting with Ryan Reynolds reprising his fan-favorite part of the fourth wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth. Hugh Jackman has come out of Marvel retirement to play Wolverine once again.

Garner first played the Marvel assassin in 20th Century Fox’s Daredevil, the 2003 feature that starred Ben Affleck as the Man Without Fear and was one of the few women to lead a comic book movie for a studio with the spinoff Elektra two years later.

Her involvement in Deadpool 3 hints at some sort of multiverse angle to the film that has long been rumored, and it is possible that other characters from Marvel films made by Fox could pop up. But this being Deadpool, one can’t rule out some meta, self-awareness either.

#jennifer garner #deadpool 3 #marvel #news