Oh No! Ben Shapiro discovered Hollywood's plan to only make movies that make conservatives angry!

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He speaks fast and says a bunch of shit to thrown any opponent off track because most people are not mental and like to deliberate what they are saying. Unfortunately, when one side speaks fast, it often moves the other side into the uncomfortable area of speaking fast and they are more prone to mistakes. This is what Shapiro capitalizes on.

The key to diffusing tools like this is to force the pacing to be exceptionally slow. If he speaks fast, ask him to say it at a normal pace, and he'll just take it down a notch. Then, ask him to repeat the same thing slower still, forcing him to return to a normal conversational speed. He does not want that because normal speed and pauses means that the other side can see he is talking shit because they have time to digest it.

When cornering that little shit, just like with people with borderline personality disorders, you make him answer your questions. When trapped, he resorts to redirection, which most people will follow because they are not skilled at dealing with people with disorders. Once you know he'll redirect when trapped, he'll then lose his shit if he is cornered to answer a question. If he changes the subject, return to the original topic, he'll try and redirect again, by the third time he'll realize there is no escape and his mind will go haywire.

Slowing down his pacing and preventing his redirections are keys to making his tiny brain short circuit.

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I watched The Happiest Season last night. It was cute.

The Christmas House is about a gay couple.

I can't believe people take this con man seriously, but I know many that do.

of words, to not say much of anything.

charisma.

I am sure that there will still be lots of movies about near feathers meeting Gawd or Jesus. Soon I suspect there will be movies about what a great person Trump is. Got to those Benny. There should be plenty of seats available.

I actually love it. It's very good.

One of its classic scenes is the two main characters being disgusted about their accidental same sex touching. It's almost shockingly homophobic in retrospect. People watch it, recognize the time, move on.

Ben Shapiro is a fucking snowflake.

it seems more people like to watch movies that might make conservatives mad. What does that say....

Identifiably conservative OR Christian - in fact, they modeled pretty therapy-centric pablum and no church scenes or church references. The writers extended the usual christmassy sappy circle to have the girl meets girl end happily and even extend to reuniting the married couple whose husband was having an affair under his wife’s nose. Pretty conservative and pro-marriage. All with O Holy Night playing in the background. There was also the typical gay male best friend playing the stereotypical role of the gay male best friend.

So yea it was pretty Hollywood-ish since every single character became a better person by end of movie, and happiness wins through.

I get his point, though. Hollywood has fought the culture wars on behalf of gay people and to the extent that any battles were won, Hollywood has won them for gay people. Good for them. I feel justified in continuing to watch.

He's worth two hours of worthless crap just to see five minutes of him.

(Not saying the movie is bad because I haven't watched it yet. I just really enjoy Levy.)

It's not the David Lynch blood-on-the-streets version of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" that I somehow survived when I was young and very naive.

Some of the characters in my life's movie were better people in the end because they were dead and no longer able to inflict their hellish Christian "values" on anyone else.

One of the worst days of my life was when my girlfriend's girlfriend tried to kill herself in my bathtub, one Thanksgiving weekend more than forty years ago. One of the better days was her stepdad's funeral. It's possible people were pissing on his grave the day after, maybe even that night.

One learns forgiveness, realizes that not everyone has the strength to break away from the cruel faiths hammered into them by others, but along with this one also realizes there are certain people who embrace these faiths, or are embraced by these faiths, because they like to hurt people.

Kristen Stewart’s fate when coming out. Levy’s character’s fate was horrible ... thrown out of his father’s house. While the movie does not emphasize the horrible, it’s definitely there.

The movie does not specifically point the finger at faith-based (the faith excuse for) homophobia but we all know it’s a large contributor.

I give you credit for even trying to forgive. Sometimes I just say nope.

I guess Ben could fund a movie that does the opposite - woman brings her girlfriend home for Christmas, and the family kicks them out. Or alternatively, they come home, and everyone is just repressed and on edge about the situation throughout the entire movie, and everyone goes home on the 26th with no plot advancement. The second one has been my family a few years.

Or if you don't want to be that close to reality, they find boyfriends for both of them, essentially getting them to overcome their sin.

I listen to a podcast of three (normally - sometimes they have guests) atheists hilariously breaking down Christian films like, "Saving Christmas," "God's Not Dead," and even more low budget ones. I'm sure they've tackled a movie like what I'm describing. Called God Awful Movies.

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As I recall, he got his start in conservative punditry by whining that his attempts at being a screenwriter after law school were thwarted because liberal Hollywood wouldn't produce his scripts.

And it's hard to sell what nobody wants to buy.

A lot of sour grapes because Shapiro can't write his way out of a paper bag. He thinks that it was because he is conservative that he couldn't get a break. No Ben, its because you have no talent. There are conservative actors, directors, and producers who make it in Hollywood. I mean Clint Eastwood has horrible political views, but Unforgiven was a good movie and Grand Torino. Vince Vaughn is a decent comedic actor. Gary Senise is more libertarian but still, he is a good actor.

Shapiro sucks, but he thinks he is being discriminated against for his politics. No dude, it is simply because you are horrible.

You are a lousy market with no clout and no one wants to make products for you... aside from adult diapers, guns for the erectile challenged, reverse mortgage schemes and craptastic pillows.

capitalism (they deliver the product that customers want to pay for), and the right wing loons just CANNOT convince them to take on a money-losing product.

Youd think the citizens of Galts Gulch would fucking understand how this works lol...

His voice alone is sooooo annoying, without even getting to his content.

Being pissed off at everything seems to be the default condition for today's conservative. So...well yeah, Hollywood makes a lot of movies that piss right wingers off, simply because you can't avoid pissing them off.