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Why am I facing so much hatred for simply stating that I found her language disgusting? At no point did I justify her arrest. I also explicitly condemned the threats sent her way and called out the state’s overreach. What’s truly baffling is that the same morally outraged voices... who were recently demanding jail time for a YouTuber over a leaked private joke are now defending such blatantly provocative and offensive public commentary. I had no issue with that YouTuber then, and I have no issue with this young woman now. If I find something unappealing, I simply choose to ignore it. But I do reserve the right to express my view, which is all I did. And the kind of personal attacks and insults I have faced since then? Unbelievable. Anonymity really does give trolls a kind of courage they wouldn’t dare show if they had to look me in the eye.show more

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DarKnight1 year ago

Because you shoudnt have found her language disgusting. In times like this, one needs to pick sides. No moral lessons. You said you didn't support her what she said in video, problem lies there. India has no blasphemous laws, so she can speak if Muslims can

Animesh tewary1 year ago

Many people may agree with your view on the language used — and you're well within your right to express it. But in this moment, when someone is facing clear state overreach, it’s less about agreeing or disagreeing, and more about standing against injustice first. Timing matters.

Gurugrammer1 year ago

I am with you on this, she started out as an attention seeker only and all those abusive rants were for reach only.

Eklavya 🇮🇳🚩1 year ago

Dear Sonam ji, everyone knows she speaks more Gali than normal talk but I also don't like her talks and many more as so But I support her freedom of speech. Plz remove this video its not the time to show her old videos and weaken the fight. It's against cherry picking arrest🙏

BeakyPlinderr1 year ago

Today you are siding with Momins but remember for them you are just another Kafir. Soon they’ll come after you too, then we’ll see

Khaleesi 🐉1 year ago

I found her language extremely disgusting as well.

DH20781 year ago

Swearing is like a goddamn pressure valve for soul, I’m all for letting “fuck” fly at least fifty times a day. Everyone is wired differently, what is a verbal gut punch to one is just spicy banter to another. Simple as that

Anish1 year ago

Because one doesn't need to do monkey balancing to sound more correct. One must understand the bigger cause and understand the filthy of the opposite party and chose to stay shut in some cases

Yogesh Kumar1 year ago

This is not time for ideological sermons when life of a person under threat… that’s the difference

Sparsh Hardik1 year ago

Well said. Your point is very valid. But reason of her arrest is not abusive language. The reason is speaking against Jihadistani ideology.

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George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

DepressedBergman

56,916 views • 6 months ago

When I was at the pizza shop, a mom came in with her 3 kids. She ordered a small cheese pizza for the kid’s dinner, without judging her, I saw she pulled up in an older sky blue Dodge Caravan, it was missing a hubcap and a little rusty. The kids were clearly excited about the pizza, that tells me they didn’t get it often. I knew what I had to do. I invited the kids into the kitchen , I gave them each a medium pizza dough in a pan and told them to make their pie pizza however they wanted and that would show them how. I ladled some sauce on each of their pizza crusts and then told them to put some cheese on it, and they were having a blast, made a nice mess too but it’s cool I didn’t really care. Then I had them top their pizzas. The youngest one put four pepperonis on the whole pizza in which I intervened and told him he should space it out and put more so that he could have pepperoni in each bite. I also showed them how to make breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. The mom was so happy that her kids had a blast and I knew I did the right thing. I didn’t put her on blast I made it into a learning day for the kids and fed them well. Like this lady I grew up poor too, I know what it’s like to be hungry, and a hungry child is a sad sight to see for me, it reminded me of my own experience too much. So I always say to myself that if I can fix that I will. Am I going to solve world hunger? No, but if I can make a difference in somebody’s life I will. I’m sure you would too. This woman clearly has her heart in the right place by feeding the kids in the neighborhood, she is truly leading by example.

When I was at the pizza shop, a mom came in with her 3 kids. She ordered a small cheese pizza for the kid’s dinner, without judging her, I saw she pulled up in an older sky blue Dodge Caravan, it was missing a hubcap and a little rusty. The kids were clearly excited about the pizza, that tells me they didn’t get it often. I knew what I had to do. I invited the kids into the kitchen , I gave them each a medium pizza dough in a pan and told them to make their pie pizza however they wanted and that would show them how. I ladled some sauce on each of their pizza crusts and then told them to put some cheese on it, and they were having a blast, made a nice mess too but it’s cool I didn’t really care. Then I had them top their pizzas. The youngest one put four pepperonis on the whole pizza in which I intervened and told him he should space it out and put more so that he could have pepperoni in each bite. I also showed them how to make breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. The mom was so happy that her kids had a blast and I knew I did the right thing. I didn’t put her on blast I made it into a learning day for the kids and fed them well. Like this lady I grew up poor too, I know what it’s like to be hungry, and a hungry child is a sad sight to see for me, it reminded me of my own experience too much. So I always say to myself that if I can fix that I will. Am I going to solve world hunger? No, but if I can make a difference in somebody’s life I will. I’m sure you would too. This woman clearly has her heart in the right place by feeding the kids in the neighborhood, she is truly leading by example.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

529,452 views • 5 days ago

Jacob Tierney discusses his process for writing Heated Rivalry and outlining season two: "The book [Heated Rivalry] is in five parts and very quickly I was like, part one, episode one. Part two, episode two. It was very clear to me. …So in this case, I actually did not outline. Because I was just using these parts of this book, and I knew these books so well at this point. Something that I did, and that I'm trying to do again now when I'm writing the new season, is I'm trying to use—Because there's a dreaminess to this show, I try to use my memory as a guide. I'm like, what do I remember? And then I try to give primacy to the stuff that I remember and that has stuck in my brain all these years with this story. So I’m like, oh I have to do that! And that's a nice way for me to kind of center things. Where if I have to do that, then it means maybe I don't have to do this, and it maybe means I want to combine or collapse different things. Because if this is going to take up—If one incident that I'm thinking of is going to take up the space in an episode that I think of as the heart, …then you don't need to do a first version of it in the same way, you know? Little things like that. That being said, for this season because I'm working with a co-writer as well, we have outlined everything. And every time, I do approach outlining like a teenager, where I'm like, [modulates voice] I don't want to. But then when I do it, I'm always like, why don't I always do this? It makes everything so much easier. So I kind of gaslight myself in that way." ✍🏼 transcription via Heated Rivalry News & Updates. Please credit if reposting. 🗣️ quote via q&a with Stage 32 on March 24, 2026. 🔗

Jacob Tierney discusses his process for writing Heated Rivalry and outlining season two: "The book [Heated Rivalry] is in five parts and very quickly I was like, part one, episode one. Part two, episode two. It was very clear to me. …So in this case, I actually did not outline. Because I was just using these parts of this book, and I knew these books so well at this point. Something that I did, and that I'm trying to do again now when I'm writing the new season, is I'm trying to use—Because there's a dreaminess to this show, I try to use my memory as a guide. I'm like, what do I remember? And then I try to give primacy to the stuff that I remember and that has stuck in my brain all these years with this story. So I’m like, oh I have to do that! And that's a nice way for me to kind of center things. Where if I have to do that, then it means maybe I don't have to do this, and it maybe means I want to combine or collapse different things. Because if this is going to take up—If one incident that I'm thinking of is going to take up the space in an episode that I think of as the heart, …then you don't need to do a first version of it in the same way, you know? Little things like that. That being said, for this season because I'm working with a co-writer as well, we have outlined everything. And every time, I do approach outlining like a teenager, where I'm like, [modulates voice] I don't want to. But then when I do it, I'm always like, why don't I always do this? It makes everything so much easier. So I kind of gaslight myself in that way." ✍🏼 transcription via Heated Rivalry News & Updates. Please credit if reposting. 🗣️ quote via q&a with Stage 32 on March 24, 2026. 🔗

Heated Rivalry News & Updates

60,684 views • 3 months ago

(After entering 30, I feel less need to explain when there’s an “issue” Actually I can take action if I want to but I just let it slide.) I find it tiring to do so. Sometimes I just can't be bothered. The thing is I've been with my fans for quite long, around 4 years, I believe that my fans know who I am and it turns out that they really know me and know how to manage when there's an issue. What I like very much is when many people said that it's her personal matter and her type. So basically I didn't have to say anything. #EngfaWaraha #อิงฟ้ามหาชน

(After entering 30, I feel less need to explain when there’s an “issue” Actually I can take action if I want to but I just let it slide.) I find it tiring to do so. Sometimes I just can't be bothered. The thing is I've been with my fans for quite long, around 4 years, I believe that my fans know who I am and it turns out that they really know me and know how to manage when there's an issue. What I like very much is when many people said that it's her personal matter and her type. So basically I didn't have to say anything. #EngfaWaraha #อิงฟ้ามหาชน

Me_Myself_and_I

22,070 views • 4 months ago

BREAKING: Trump Says Letting Hillary Off Was a Mistake—She “Should Pay a Price” for Russia Hoax New emails suggest Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia Hoax. Now President Trump says he regrets giving her a pass, and this time, he won’t make the same mistake. “So, you know, we had her and I had her right under the sites.” “And I told the people, look, you can’t do this to a president’s wife, an ex-president, and she was secretary of state. But you can’t do this to the wife of a president.” “If you remember, it was at a rally and it was after the election, and they said, lock her up, lock her up. And I said, no, no, no, look, we won. Just relax.” “And I didn’t do what other people would have done, what they would have done.” But Trump says that decision cost him and the country. “And then they went after me and they meant it. I said, you know, it’s amazing. I felt, I always felt that you shouldn’t be doing this stuff. And I let Hillary off the hook. I totally left her off the hook.” “And then I come in and they did the same thing to me. The difference is they actually meant it.” “They hurt a lot of people, a lot of people. And it was all a hoax. And now they have it in black and white.” “No, I think they should pay a price.” “By the way, it’s a very big price. It could be the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

BREAKING: Trump Says Letting Hillary Off Was a Mistake—She “Should Pay a Price” for Russia Hoax New emails suggest Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia Hoax. Now President Trump says he regrets giving her a pass, and this time, he won’t make the same mistake. “So, you know, we had her and I had her right under the sites.” “And I told the people, look, you can’t do this to a president’s wife, an ex-president, and she was secretary of state. But you can’t do this to the wife of a president.” “If you remember, it was at a rally and it was after the election, and they said, lock her up, lock her up. And I said, no, no, no, look, we won. Just relax.” “And I didn’t do what other people would have done, what they would have done.” But Trump says that decision cost him and the country. “And then they went after me and they meant it. I said, you know, it’s amazing. I felt, I always felt that you shouldn’t be doing this stuff. And I let Hillary off the hook. I totally left her off the hook.” “And then I come in and they did the same thing to me. The difference is they actually meant it.” “They hurt a lot of people, a lot of people. And it was all a hoax. And now they have it in black and white.” “No, I think they should pay a price.” “By the way, it’s a very big price. It could be the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

Overton

72,026 views • 11 months ago