The real incentive was having a group of yes men running it for grift etc., the bait and switch was just a bonus. I think the original organization pre-dated his second term.

You gotta work on your reading comprehension.

I figured there had to be shenanigans afoot. He's always come off as a decent man, aside from his prison time.

He always plays bad guys, his son said it was the chance of playing a good guy for once that made him rush in. He's 82 ffs this is elder abuse.

You should answer the question. Unless you can't cause you don't have the facts, then you should say that when confronted.

Dude worked with them before on Mr. Birchum.

Dude knew what he was getting into and famously he just takes jobs for money without questions. No shade, actor's got to act and make money and he's not the only one that just takes on roles without much thought to them.

Just take money and the backlash man. FAFO.

This is a little different. There's a clear possibility that this is elderly abuse and Danny Trejo really doesn't know what's going on. He should say something himself, but we can wait a bit for things to sort themselves out.

Oh I'mm 100% with you: an old man being fooled and not having the will or energy to fight it is something different than the closest thing we have to "morally evil" and its fan club.

I've met rocks smarter than you.

So you're "meeting" with rocks? And I'm the one who isn't smart here? Yikes.

Oh more damage control I see. I've seen the internet suddenly circlejerking all over Danny Trejo since this thing hit.

There's a post doing the rounds on reddit right now how he takes any role including the most ridiculous shit to "support up and coming film creators". Like give me a fucking break.

I'm not fucking buying it either. Seen how internet has suddenly been flooded with feel-good Danny Trejo stories?

Another family of leopards may feast.

Ok lets answer your original un-edited stupid ass question

"Do you know that he isn't walking away from it?"

Yes, read the article.

You would have been able to answer your own question if you had any ability to comprehend what you read. Assuming you read it at all.

Now please go back to playing with the other rocks.

From what I read in another article he’s in a lot of debt and filed for bankruptcy not too long ago. I want to assume the people that walked off set don’t owe millions of dollars.

Well, thanks for answering, but there's a reason why I edited.

Also the article says that his son said that (by account of the San Fernando Sun) by contract he's barred from leaving or speaking out against the production.

If we're to even believe that is accurate - which given your vast intelligence and the source that this is coming from, you undoubtedly already used your critical thinking to discern that this is likely ragebait from the Huffpost or they don't even have their facts straight. (Wouldn't be a shocker coming from a sensationalist paper and an article that lacks any source more than a twitter post edit:[a screenshot of a twitter post]) - it's not even second hand knowledge it's coming from a third party and we should take that with a grain of salt.

So do you have some better sources to back up what you were saying originally or are you just being an ass because you have some vague notion of superiority over people you've never met?

I’m betting the “criminals must die” clause isn’t invoked for this one.

The internet has been doing that because the guy is legit nice, and fairly uneducated. He's the kind of person I'd believe he got duped, especially since daily wire isn't exactly known for ethics and morals

The guy is 82, what do you expect from him?

If its okay for the Cheeto at 80 to do stupid shit, isn't it possible that Trejo did something stupid without understanding what was going on?

What a title

Danny Trejo is a guy who had an abusive father who taught him in the most textbook way of "toxic masculinity". For a very long time Trejo kept up that sort of tough guy alpha male behaviour until, quite late in his life, he pretty much broke it all down learning it's complete bullshit.

Since then he's been trying to turn his life around. Trying to be more open and sensitive, trying to undo the things inside him that were put there by his father.

So... I do t blame the Internet for giving this guy the benefit of the doubt.

he was not duped, he worked for daily wire on SEVERAL occasions by that time already.

trejo couldve done any number of low-budget cameo roles in hollywood, that wouldnt damage his reputation. but he basically did this as his core beliefs.

And that's when you leave. When you find out you're actively being scammed.

Shit man, they may even have a case for a lawsuit against the production company if they all got together.

Go to hell. Literally, STRAIGHT TO HELL.

I had a major lawsuit against a previous employer. We're talking very large amounts of money. When I was looking for a lawyer, I had to contact multiple lawyers, because it was hard to get them to take my case.

When the first lawyer responded that they wanted to take my case, they sent over a contract for me to sign. I didn't have knowledge about legal language, and I had almost no resources. I put the contract into several of the major AIs, and they each told me basically the same thing, that the contract was extremely predatory, and NOT to go with this particular lawyer.

I did not sign that contract, and ended up going with another lawyer with a better contract.

This was DESPERATION, and it completely saved my ass.

HOW THE FUCK DARE YOU tell me I wasn't allowed to use my only available resource to protect me in that vulnerable position I was in.

You are WAY out of line. WAY out of line. Your response was not IN ANY WAY appropriate.

Please read this response, and reconsider:

https://lemmy.world/post/53111318/26366214

The problem had literally jack shit to do with me "tacitly supporting unparsable, complicated contract language".

The problem had to do with me being in a disadvantaged position(particularly having just lost my job and having no money), and having no options.

What the hell else was I supposed to to do solve the very real problem I was facing.

Before you judge in the way you just did, put yourself in the other person's shoes. People with no options using the only option available to them are not doing anything unethical, and to claim that they are is just flat-out disgusting.

This just in, Danny Trejo let's a man who believes vaginas dont get wet boss him around.

Lmao, shut the fuck up, AI gooner.

I literally described a situation where I was a victim and didn't have any alternative but to use AI and that it helped me avoid being abused.

You are the kind of person who taunts abuse victims.

You have made that clear.

The problem had everything to do with the predatory contract being unparsable, complicated contract language, because if it wasn't, you wouldn't have needed AI to summarize it. You could have simply just read it yourself. That's all I'm saying. I'm not judging you, I'm not claiming you did anything unethical. I'm pointing out that using AI to read contacts is merely addressing the symptom, not the cause. I'm glad it worked for you, and if people need to use it in the near term out of necessity, so be it, but I think it's important to point out the actual cause and get people to think of ways to address the actual root issue.

once is understandable, but working for daily wire on multiple occasions, he knew.