A lot of people posit that they're doing the construction work because the shows weren't selling and they needed to stop hemmoraging money and bad publicity. If you were tracking their ticket sales you'd see they couldn't move tickets at all after Trump kicked out the old board.
Like many any media tied to a specific culture, it assumes a familiarity with the culture - in this case shinto beliefs and japanese folklore. If you're unfamiliar with those things then a lot of the rules and situations seem to be random and come out of nowhere.
A similar scenario would be like watching Scream or Scary Movie without having seen the movies they make references to. You might still enjoy the movie, but without the context of the films they satrize/parodize you won't fully appreciate what the movie is doing.
It makes it an understandable criticisim, accesibility of a movie is a valid complaint. However, I don't think it's one that necessarily reflects on the quality of the movie, but rather is a warning about who will appreciate it.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for your opinion.
Personally, I don't think you're wrong, but that's also not really the point of the movie. It's not trying to make a spiritual world with hard rules per se. It's more about growth and uses the spirits to set the stage for conflicts for the main character to overcome (with the consistent stake of losing herself/her identity)
Like many studio ghibli films, it's about facing pivotal times in our lives and overcoming fears so we can better face the challenges of everyday life.
My neighbor Totoro has the kids moving to a new place and dealing with a sick parent, spirited away is about moving to a new city, whispers of the heart is about first love and how to decide what to do with your life, Kikis delivery service is about heading out into the world. In many of these movies, the fantastical is used to present these challenges in a more approachable way, but the "stakes" are almost always internal and personal.
Actually most job growth has been in Healthcare, a field that is very resistant to AI right now. So if you remove that I think the trend is even less significant (and probably not anything that holds up to much scrutiny).
Yet again, very damning and revealing of his character, but just a statement (so no evidence the event actually happened) and also about a married woman (not underage girls).
If you want harder evidence it's better to look at the court cases - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations. The number of court cases, the evidence brought up through them, how they were handled, and the mysterious circumstances some were "resolved" is what gives the access Hollywood tapes their weight.
I mean, if you've got hard proof of the pedo stuff please share.
As for the rape, I think he was found liable in a civil case where the burden is less than in a criminal court. Looking into it he was found to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a civil case. However there is a sworn deposition from his first wife's 1989 divorce disposition in which she states he raped her (Source), however that was never prosecuted.
I personally don't need more evidence than that, but sadly America doesn't seem to be swayed by this kind of information.
The pedo stuff is still not "proven" and things like Iran he's still somewhat removed (was it him vs hegseth, was it intentional). The thing with this is it is unabashedly in the open and he's the one directly calling the shots.
Not saying that it makes it better or worse, but there is no whitewashing it. He's directly paying himself and his cronies from taxpayer dollars, he's literally saying it himself.
Typically we judge people on how they handle the event and not the event themselves.
Trump isn't blamed for covid, but how he handled it. Biden shouldn't be blamed for inflation (it was bound to happen given covid spending), but how he addressed it.
Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is not the the result of any one president's or congress' actions, but a consistent systemic issue with both.
I would argue Biden was doing a lot more for the people than Trump is currently. The real issue is that proper policy takes time to enact and sometimes longer to have an effect.
Yeah, if you look at many stats things started getting worse under Trump, accelerated due to Covid, then peaked midway through Bidens term, and continued to get better until Trump took back over. Under Trump most stats have stagnate or gotten worse (inflation, wage growth, debt, etc.).
I'm not familiar with how womens rights developed in Hungary, but even from the Wikipedia page it says:
The series satirizes and parodies sexism, with many of the strips involving Jucika navigating unwanted attention from men and her efforts to get the better of it.
To me that's a strong indication that the strips are supposed to be critiquing sexism, which means there is a message. Maybe Hungary was more progressive at the time, but in most of the world in the 1950s women had a rough time of things. Showing a strong female character who frequently outwits the men (and sometimes women) around her would definitely be seen by many in that time period as being pro-women/women's rights.
You're not paying attention if you think this is him backing down. This is probably even better for him as it gives his allies a slush fund to ensure the midterms or at the very least ensure their continued support.
He isn't due anything for the leak, it did zero reputation harm and he had promised to release the anyways.
A lot of people posit that they're doing the construction work because the shows weren't selling and they needed to stop hemmoraging money and bad publicity. If you were tracking their ticket sales you'd see they couldn't move tickets at all after Trump kicked out the old board.