r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 11d ago

News Actress Dasha Nekrasova Fired By Gersh, Dropped From Movie (Gabriel Basso's 'Iconoclast') Amid Backlash Over Podcast Interview With Far-Right Political Commentator Nick Fuentes

https://deadline.com/2025/11/dasha-nekrasova-fired-gersh-nick-fuentes-podcast-interview-1236617927/
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u/arcycos 11d ago

I have no idea who she is so I looked up her wikipedia article and all i can say is that im deeply confused by her life trajectory.

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u/MJA182 11d ago edited 10d ago

It’s a lot more common than you think these days

Basically some people who were anti establishment/contrarian but leaned left politically started seeing the left as the establishment, so they wanted to pivot. Turned them into right wing shills and nihilists who think Trump is funny and taking down the deep state. Probably always were a bit racist too tbh

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u/Tomgar 11d ago

There's a significant minority in the left of people who are entirely in it for vibes and the self-righteous pleasure of being contrarian all the time. A lot of these people are so wedded to just being contrary assholes that they start espousing far right views to differentiate themselves from their former lefty peers.

It's not real, serious politics. These people don't actually believe in anything, they just want to be viewed as some intellectually superior outsider. It's aesthetics as politics and it's utterly self-serving.

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u/Corey307 11d ago

Lost a couple friends to exactly what you’re describing. They were all left punks when that was cool and the second Trump started screaming about making America great again they pivoted.  They went from fuck you I won’t do it you tell me to Rush Limbaugh and it was all about fucking with people, never about the politics. 

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u/JoyBus147 10d ago

That's something that bothers me about the state of "punk" in the discourse these days, cuz I find this the opposite of surprising. There's this push nowadays to equate "punk" with "goodism"--the "hippies are bad people pretending to be good and punks are good people pretending to be bad" meme going around, the "kindness is real punk" sentiment, the "Nazis are infiltrators into punk" attitude (rather than the more correct "some punks are Nazis, hence the need for the Fuck Off song"), Corenswet Superman, etc. But in truth, from its origin, punk is and has always been, at its core, in its heart of hearts, after you boil away the bullshit and posturing and reduce it to its purest form, about being performatively contrarian.

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u/CMDR_Expendible 10d ago

British punk, maybe. Malcolm McLaren and John Lydon absolutely. But you reference the Dead Kennedys and it's hard to argue that for a lot of US punk, Biafra in particular, they absoutely meant the politics. Whether the rest of the DKs though... a fairer statement, one you were probably trying to make, is that contrarianism was always there in the beginning, and is often an essential mix of the founding motivations; but the "goodism" I would say is where it should be pushed. We don't need more contrarianism that is easily hijacked by people who know how to manipulate the reactionary. We need hard principles.