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    The one person who was going to see it will be so disappointed!

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    She served in the Israeli occupation forces. Would you watch a movie with a Russian actor who served in the military?

    Israel is guilty of genocide, and illegally occupies Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese lands. The movie should be banned in more than just Lebanon.

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    The Gal Gadot hype in the 2010’s was always overdone. Reviews of Wonder Woman at the time noted her lack of acting skills and that the same lack of skills made it hard to take that Justice League movie seriously.

    Rhea Ripley should have been Wonder Woman. Then again, she got lucky by avoiding that god awful anti-communist sequel.

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    Oh no. They could have almost broken even if only they had made it into the Lebanese market.

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    I bet she just can’t wait for her beach front property built on the bones and blood of dead Palestinian children. I personally boycott her (and many others) movies, but banning a movie no body asked for, nor wanted is giving it more hype than it’s do.

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    While I have no interest in this movie and I think Gal Godot sucks, banning movies is akin to banning books.

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      it’s a remake of gal gadot and it has disney in it, it’s absolutely the best idea to ban it

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        Banning books, like banning movies, is a great way to admit publicly that your position is so weak you can’t tolerate any dissent. Let the power of your ideals stand on their own.

        Edit: ok I’m going to leave this up here because I’m a masochist, but ok I get it. I’m with you guys. Boycott Gal Godot. Ban is functionally a boycott. In the US, this movie would never get banned, but I would 100% boycott it. I didn’t fully think this through and I agree with most of you guys.

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          Except in this case, the thing being banned has no message they’re trying to repress. They’re targeting a person who’s in it.

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          first they came for the disney remakes starring war criminals or whatever, and there was no one left to speak

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          So a blanket ban of any books that acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people and banning a single Disney movie for having a war criminal lead actress are exactly the same thing to you? You really can’t tell the difference?

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          Yeah sure just debate Nazis in the fReE mArKeTpLaCe Of IdEaS! I’m gonna end it there because what I have to say is much less civil.

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          I need you to understand that Mein Kampf is a banned book and so you are currently claiming the case against literal NSDAP Nazism is so weak it can’t tolerate dissent.

          You need to either do some self crit and disentangle yourself from liberal idealism or get the fuck out of here.

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            What? Mein Kampf is not banned almost anywhere in the world barring few exceptions mostly regulating it’s copyright or printing new copies.

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            Mein Kampf actually isn’t banned in the US or most of the world. It’s banned in Germany for obvious reasons.

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              Why are you repeating what I just told you as if you’re contradicting me? Mein Kampf is banned, and not because of any weakness in the case against it.

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          How about we don’t let Disney try to profit off a movie starring a Zionist in a country that just got invaded by the Zionist Entity?

          Do you think the abstract concept of dissent is the only reason to censor something? Because be clear here, the film isn’t proposing dissent in Lebanon. It’s slop made for a quick bit of money to go on Disney’s big pile of money, and it stars a war criminal who worked for an agency that likes to kill Lebanese people . Yeah Gal Gadot dissents against the idea that Lebanon shouldn’t be sent exploding pagers

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            Yeah I guess ban and boycott mean different things to me, but you’re right. Functionally this is a boycott and I support boycotting this movie. Fair point.

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          Let the power of your ideals stand on their own.

          “Fascism will die in the marketplace of ideas” has been conclusively disproven.

          This is not because fascism is a strong idea, it’s because the marketplace of ideas (like most markets) ranges from “doesn’t work very well” to “rigged.”

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            Lol fascism got into power because there is a revolutionary mood in the air and the capitalists have spent a century banning the idea of socialism at every turn. I feel very confident that socialism would have become popular if there wasn’t an active effort to stymie it’s adoption by the masses.

            So yes the marketplace of ideas is rigged.

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      There’s a huge difference between the reasons for such a ban. This wasn’t a movie with political content antagonist to Lebanon government. This ban is probably to make a statement for both outside and inside the country. To show how normalized the violence against them is widespread in our media industry. But you can read in this action whatever you like… Sure…

      Ps. Have you seen Waltz with Bashir? Hell of an animated movie.