This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.

The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.

The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.

  • legion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    11 months ago

    This is how conservative arguments work. You simply assert something over and over, preferably with a catchy phrase. Actual evidence or proof is not required, and in fact the very idea of evidence being an important thing is rejected outright.

    It doesn’t matter that there’s little that actually supports the notion of “go woke, go broke”. You just say it over and over again so that it FEELS true, and thus it becomes true.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeah that seems to be how it goes, I’m still waiting for any example of Obama being a “Race Baiter” or Kamela Harris actually being the nitwit they claim her to be. I don’t think I’ll ever actually get either.