This is true. Helen Joyce is a journalist who does a good job of analyzing this phenomenon from a big picture perspective. I found these two points enlightening.
These are my summaries, not direct quotes.
Men with autogynephilia are the activists primarily driving the insistence on pronouns, entry to women-only spaces, and childhood transitioning. They need validation that they are women, which requires everyone else to participate in their view of reality. So they need to be able to function in society as women, which means going into women's spaces because they are "women." These are the people that also push the transitioning of children because they believe that they have always been a "woman in a man's body", even as a child. Since they have "established" that children can be transgender, they advocate for transitioning during childhood.
The saddest commentary is that parents who allowed or encouraged their children to transition will also continue to drive transitioning of children. If childhood transitioning is exposed as harmful (human rights abuse), they won't be able to live with knowing that they have irreversibly destroyed their children's lives and future, and their own as well. She says that this is also the reason why some organizations support transitioning children. If there is even a single person in an organization that has a transgender child, especially if they are high up in the hierarchy, no one feels that they can speak out in opposition to transitioning.
I've only checked it out for streaming content and how they are funded. It looks like they are viewer/crowdfunded, but I didn't dig into it.
Agreed, they are unique and impressive.
Labeling providing the option to purchase tickets for people who may not be able to afford them only as a sketchy way to inflate ticket sales is not truth. It is just a cynical opinion.
The truth is that the revenue is more important than the number of viewers in the first days and weeks, because if the theaters don't make money, they will pull the movie. Paying it forward increases the revenue and extends the time the theater runs the movie, regardless of the number of viewers.
As it should be.
Check the Angel.com website for your locality. If it's showing there, the theaters will pop up. If it's not showing where you are, you may need to wait until it gets there or Angel.com starts streaming it.
That depends on how it is streamed. I doubt that the big streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon will pick it up, although I was surprised to see so many theaters showing it. So I may be wrong. Angel.com streams from their website, I think. I don't know how many normies would know about it or visit it to see the film.
The purpose of releasing this film was to expose the horrors of human trafficking to the general population. The distributors and theaters took a financial risk by showing this film, especially during the "summer blockbuster" period.
The revenue taken in by the distributor and the theaters is more important than the number of viewers, especially during the first few days/weeks, which is the true benefit of paying it forward. If they lost money, they would stop showing the movie. The longer the film stays in theaters, the more people see it and its popularity spreads by word of mouth. As the number of people talking about it increases, pressure increases on the MSM to talk about it as well. This creates a dilemma for the MSM, because ignoring or disparaging the movie further diminishes their credibility.
Butts in seats only matter when empty seats mean less revenue, like on an airplane.
This is a sad revelation on your world view that you see donating tickets to the less fortunate only as a sketchy way to inflate ticket sales.
TDS appears to be anger, but it actually comes from existential fear of exposure. DS isn't just angry or wrathful with Trump. They know that his next term as president will destroy them, their money, power and control, and their sick way of life, so they need to neutralize him. Yet everything they throw at him boomerangs back on them. 🪃
It seems unfair from a human perspective, but God loves and values every one of us so much that He accepts us anytime we turn back to Him. He doesn't play the numbers game or the greater good game. He is the shepherd will leave the flock of 99 to find the 1 lost sheep.
My personal opinion is that the person who lives a life of evil but repents on their deathbed must suffer overwhelming guilt, regret, and fear if they are truly penitent. I think just looking back at the life they spent in pursuit of evil would be punishment in itself. The thing is that God forgives all and wipes the slate clean. We are the ones who can't fully forgive or let go, even for the sins we commit ourselves.
This is more bait.
According to US Marines, there aren't any "former" Marines.
2001? I think I would have requested a refund after 22 years.
The deposit is still $100, equipment is $600 and monthly service is $120 in my area.
DS doesn't care that this will boomerang on them. Making the process the punishment is their go-to tactic. Just like with the Trump indictments, these will fail, but the people targeted will be dragged through the court system and possibly bankrupted. Those filing the charges will continue to waste resources on punitive cases because they can.
Not yet available in my area, but supposedly coming in 2023.
Trump announced this already. I believe he will do it, but announcing it now is bait.
There are also the interviews with young women swooning over Kamala and her policies, except they can never name any of them. And their opposition to straight white male rights, but they can't name a single right that men have that women don't have.
That's likely what is driving attendance.
It's scriptural.
Luke 1:41-45
[41] And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: [42] And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. [43] And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? [44] For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. [45] And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.
Great Jim Caveizel movie
that was creepy
same here
This.