I remember watching that movie and thinking “There’s no way that people would be so stupid that they’d keep going in the water when they know there’s a deadly shark in the water!”
And then 2020 hit, and holy shit. So many idiots wouldn’t even wear a mask until it allowed them to beat up immigrants.
I was never a fan of scary movies because I always thought they were unbelievable. 2020 opened up a whole new genre for me. Some of them are even rather utopian at this point.
There was a sort of meme I ran across a while ago that was about how Covid ruined a lot of sci-fi movies.
Movie trailer: In the year 2032, a race of aliens descended on Earth to harvest water…
Guy: Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Movie trailer: and so humanity united to-
Guy: No the fuck they did not
The US president from 2016 to 2020 is the president now.
This is why it’s so important to vote in all elections.
But the other candidate wasn’t going to wave a magic wand and solve all problems forever! That makes her just as bad!
Yeah but [excuses]
It’s really only important to vote in your local elections, because the state and national elections are largely gerrymandered and you have no real power nationally without a billion dollars.
i wish i had enough money to buy a politics.
No one believes me when I say that the mayor is the bad guy in Jaws. It’s not the shark.
Right. The shark is just a shark doing what they believed sharks did in those days (Peter Benchley himself later became an advocate for shark preservation and once said that if he’d known at the time what we know now, he’d never have written Jaws). The mayor is the one who sees truth as an inconvenience in the way of profit and so creates the situation. Even the shark is a victim, being killed because it stands in the way of capitalism.
The novel iirc goes further in revealing that the mayor is in debt to the mob and needs the money from July 4 to pay them off. So there’s two kinds of “sharks” swirling about…
I think we would be friends.
No one? It seems to be a popular opinion in my media diet…
Not mine, sadly. Although one of my proudest moments is when I got a group of friends to watch the first three movies (hey, they were into it, so I let it keep going after the first one–don’t judge me) and they actually enjoyed it and discussed it. Best drunken hotel night I’ve had yet.
Yes, he did end up getting some people killed… But he also kept the island from implementing bike paths, so he’s got my vote.
He’s not the mayor of the ocean
Movies reflecting reality
Except, you know, the whole bs shark part.
But the than that, totally!
In fairness, the Mayor did eventually eliminate the shark.
I actually prefer to vote in local elections. The people and the power are closer to you. Your town/city provides you public transit, water and waste management (and snow removal here). They can install new bike paths and create new parks easily. They can pass environmental laws like banning fire places, or certain chemicals.
Maybe it’s just because I want my city to become more livable and a better place, a 15 minutes city, but to me this shit is much more exciting than elections on higher levels of government, where they fake interest in public transit and active travels. The provincial government here renamed the “Ministry of Transports” to the “Ministry of Transports and Sustainable Mobility” but the only sustainable thing they have is for cars.
Whatever I vote on the provincial, or federal level, nothing seems to change much. But at the municipal level, oh boy, can I see the difference!
LOL I work in transportation planning in northern Canada at the territorial level and it’s crazy trying to get big changes surrounding sustainable transport to happen. Hell, any kind of transportation change up north is tough. Up here, it falls on the municipality to start, work on and complete transit and active transportation projects, we mostly just come in to assess, catalogue and maintain as territorial gov. Public transit isn’t even a consideration for us outside the “big” city, besides where buses travel on the highway network, which is ~40kms on a network of nearly 5000kms.
If you want to make a difference in your homes transportation network, VOTE IN YOUR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, because if its anything like my experience, your provincial/territorial/state government probably won’t bother much with it until it’s already been done.
Totally.
But also fearmongering about the even the deadliest of possible sharks is no basis to judge on or vote for a mayor.
Look at what they strand for, their character, and their work/delivery.
(Also don’t pick celebrities, pick workers. They should work. Any informed decision-making is a lot of work.)Especially in IL. Johnson should be a one term mayor. (Chicago)
