It’s like some kind of dare. How patently stupid can the ruling class get and still receive their fawning profiles from corporate journalism? “Lately Thiel has been obsessed with lederhosen and falconry.”
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
I hate to give Mamet any credit on anything, but someone really needs to give congressional democrats the Alec Baldwin GLENGARRY speech. Get mad, you sons of bitches. Schumer = Shelly Levine.
Precisely. Also, the signs are a context-specific rhetorical gesture. The right pretends that their hatred represents "normal" "family values." For middle-class suburbanites, displaying the sign is a way of disputing that distortion. Is it enough in itself? Of course not. But it serves a purpose.
you're a corporate restaurant chain, you have no personal values nor lifestyle
Sorta watching "Vladimir" and to me it just seems like a lot of crashouts, none of which are remotely valid.
If there is a cultural complex worthy of being called TDS, it has to do with the way liberal elites recoil at his gaucheness rather than his specific policies. This is where the Greenaway film is prescient — bad taste is timeless, in an almost Kantian sense. The cringe is the misplaced confidence.
Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't
As a general rule, beware of anyone labeling themselves Dr. Bill Betty Soandso, PhD. It’s not a degree sandwich.
What a tragically MAGA response. Attack attack attack, I’m a powerful white man and therefore above criticism. I kinda hope he does make one final film and goes away.
You’ll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
But I brushed my teeth with dynamite
And I don’t know where I went last night
France is gonna TOTALly take them up on it. That’s a petroleum pun.
This is the kind of fresh new thinking that a new ayatollah brings to the table.
Well, they feel entitled to the base's support. They offer nothing but "whatcha gonna do, vote for the fascists?" Black women in particular have been betrayed by the Dems so often they might as well be Kurds.
Donald Fagen voice:
Is there a lot of pressure on the car?
Yes, there’s a lot of pressure on the caaar…
SIRĀT is broadly divisive though. I can’t imagine anyone actively disliking the Pereda film. Some may find it slight, I suppose.
Yeah yeah whatever, anyway I would bet the proverbial farm on you digging the new Pereda. Watch out for it.
I'm pretty sure EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE is the best film Nicolás Pereda's ever made. It's like the very best Hong films: sculpted, sardonic, poetic, somehow both kind and pitiless.
it used to take a lifetime to find a way to watch the two dozen films I've seen on Criterion over the last year or so, and I am a certified college dropout Midwestern oaf
there is a Look at This Fucking Hipster post in all our heads. It must be destroyed
Oh well, then he is certain to assume this new role with utmost equanimity.
Megan Ellison has been pretty quiet since her family staked its chips on fascist oligarchy.
inflatable horse ("stag")
STAGFLATION
It's rainy and there was nothing on and I just didn't give a shit.
Is this a new "feature" on Letterboxd?
I mean, the thing bombs children now. And the combox warriors want you to know that’s great.
One way to insure that we won’t ask “can a computer make Guernica?” is to create a deskilled human race that will never produce a future Picasso. Advantage: Musk!
When a human being responds to legitimate objections by saying “cope,” congratulations! You are now a consciousness that Grok made. And yes, if you are indistinguishable from a racist AI, you are a waste of food.
AI proponents are claiming that artificial human consciousness is imminent. But part of their plan is to lower the bar on actual human consciousness. Machines that eradicate humans’ critical thinking, that make us talk like machines (“seggs,” “unalive”) are major components of this battle.
One of Dave’s greatest moments.
Even Bluesky wouldn’t yield a take this bad. I think Pam is on a heel turn.
