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November 13th, 2023 
Awake Goy 
The strike which lasted almost four months shut down production across the industry. It’s resolution comes on the heels of the writers strike, which lasted 148 days. SAG-AFTRA guild members still have to vote this Tuesday on the proposed 3-year offer to end the strike, but they’re all sheep. Whatever their guild leaders tell them to do, they’ll do.
Some people are happy about the strike’s end. Some aren’t.
Guild president Fran Drescher called the proposed offer “historic.” Said Drescher, “It is such a triumph, such an extraordinary contract with so much in it that makes it meaningful for the lives of all of our members.”
Justine Bateman (you might remember her from Family Ties) said the proposed deal failed to address actors’ concerns of being replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Bateman, who serve’s as the guild’s AI advisor, said actors should vote in favor of the offer only “if they don’t want to work anymore.”
Bateman says the proposed offer allows studio executives to use actors’ images in any way they want without compensation. “Soon they’ll have customized films for you based on your particular viewing history. And they won’t bother to copyright them because it’ll be like Kleenex.”
With the news of the strike’s end, late night television hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, and Stephen Colbert all returned to their shows. How is that a win for anybody?
Maybe I’m conspiracy paranoid, but seeing this story dominate the local LA news cycle and completely overshadow last week’s news of four Los Angeles County Sheriff’s employees all committing suicide within a 24-hour period strikes me as highly coincidental.
There’s actually a lot of shady business going in Los Angeles since Sheriff Robert Luna supposedly won an election over Alex Villanueva in 2022. Villanueva refused to enforce mask and vaccine mandates. He told the public not to call his office if their neighbors were entertaining family guests for Thanksgiving or Christmas. He was very vocal about the entire phony pandemic. Then he “loses” a shady election?
Under Luna, crime has risen considerably. Shoplifting is rampant. Mobs of “youths” randomly ransack stores with no fear of arrest. But, hey, the actors just received an “historic” pay raise.
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