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in season 3 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Crime and Punishment oversimplified -

Everyone: You’re just a normal guy

Raskolnikov: No I’m not

Everyone: Yes, you are

Raskolnikov, smugly: Well, could a normal guy do this? *kills two old women and goes batshit insane for 800 pages*

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this feels like a bit. i know it’s not but this is so absurd that it feels like it’s right out of arrested development

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When will Americans stop making their shitty "the invaders feel sad and traumatized about doing war crimes" movies?

Coming to theatres in March 2025, Warfare is another shitty movie from Alex Garland and an Iraqi war veteran about fascists murdering countless nameless Iraqis and looking cool as fuck just blowing shit up left and right.

And I get the feeling this shitty movie is going to be all over Tumblr because the cast includes Tumblr faves Joseph Quinn and Kit Connor.

Nearly a million Iraqis died from the unlawful and illegal American invasion of Iraq. Civilians were raped, tortured and murdered with still no accountability till today. The country is still suffering from that war. Bush and co should have been tried and convicted of war crimes at the Hague.

And here Americans are making yet more movies depicting Arabs as the faceless, nameless, dehumanized baddies getting mowed down.

Let's be clear, the Americans are the invaders here, they don't merit any fucking sympathy. It's like making a movie about the Germans as the good guys during World War II - would that ever happen? No. But because Americans still think they are the good guys while massacring countless millions in other countries, we get shitty movies like this.

If you want to watch a war movie about Iraq, watch a movie from the perspective of the people whose country was being invaded:

Mosul (2019)

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Warfare

I don't think I will ever watch this movie. I've seen reviews, trailers, interviews, and the whole song and dance.

As a Iraqi girl who's parents suffered the events, aftermath, and consequences that Iraq was left with during and after the war, and who's visited Iraq multiple times including within the past 2 years. This movie is as tone-deaf as it gets.

I respect American soldiers for one reason and one reason only, and it's because they were just a bunch of unassuming Americans who were chosen in their youth to go and risk any sort of future they might've had for a country who lied and chose to use them as pawns for things deemed as more valuable than their souls and the people they were fighting. These people's lives are forever ruined and there isn't even a justification for any of the sacrifices they made, they left the country worse than they entered it, and it's something they have to live with for the rest of their lives.

American soldiers hold more guilt than any of the actual people responsible for this war ever will.

That said, I cannot express this well enough through a keyboard, but I am fucking sick of watching Iraq and it's war be exploited for the 6th millionth time ever.

Go and fucking search a movie about the goddamn Iraq war and bring me one fucking movie that isn't about the American perspective. None. And that's pretty fucking rich knowing there is well over 20+ movies made about it. THE WAR IS BARELY 20 YEARS OLD.

The only stuff talking about the Iraqi perspective are documentaries, ones that no one's heard of or watched. And to be fucking frank, who's gonna pick a goddamn documentary about a sad country they know nothing about, when there's a movie about guns and shit with Bradley Cooper as the main character.

I've heard the American side and I truly grieve for what they've seen, but what about the children, mothers, fathers, futures, landmarks, houses, businesses, hospitals, and stories of the goddamn civilians in the country where said war happened? Destroyed with no one left in the world to listen to them or make amends.

This war has affected the Iraqi population so deeply that people are still trying to fix the damage themselves without any help from the US. While American soldiers got to go back to safety, Iraqis still had to deal with the dismantled government and destroyed land that the USA left in it's cool cinema-worthy tank tracks.

Warfare wasn't even filmed in Iraq for fucks sake.

Why is it that whenever we are told the Iraqi perspective it's incoherent and foreign? Why is it not simply just human?

If English is the issue then there are English-speaking Iraqis, there are translators, there are a million ways to get it fucking across. Chernobyl (Ukrainain) was acted in fucking English, I'm sure we can give the Iraqi characters clear and intelligible screen time.

And on top of it all, warfare also gets a spectacular cast pick. Ugh like what the fuck is the point anymore? Is the US running low on soldiers again?

How many times do I have to see the catastrophes that my country went through get acted out like it's some play by white men who usually get paid to play house on camera.

I understand the movie is trying to show you how bad and horrendous war is, and in some expensive and weird way it's Ray Mendoza's attempt at expressing his trauma to warn others off of war. But, I wished he expressed a trickle of political and emotional empathy. Instead, it's nothing new. It's just another Iraq war movie. Yay.

There are a million Iraqis who will gladly tell you about their lives during the war. They'll tell you every detail, every traumatic moment, every loss they experienced.

You can make a movie about that. You can go ahead and show Iraqis as more than dirty barefooted children who scream and play in one scene only to get bombed in the next.

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They need a pride flag for this

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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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HATE when you’re inserting your email somewhere and literally from the first letter the website is like “invalid email address” like yes i know. I’m typing it right now. My email address is obviously not just the letter ‘m’. Stop

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friendly reminder that this is how lestat opened his own book, so expect the highest level of fuckassery on the show

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Episode 3 in a nutshell

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Only Neil Gaiman would make a character who is a gay cat god who wants to fuck a repressed Edwardian boy

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why can half the shows i watch be explained by this one picture

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love this sentence because it makes it sound like he’s lying about his height. Lestat is six feet tall (source: Lestat)

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Nevermind

I do have something to say about Baby Reindeer, and it's not about the show itself but about the viewers

STOP TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO THE REAL-LIFE ABUSERS ARE

Just saw someone on tumblr getting mad over people trying to find out who Richard Gadd's stalker was, but not because that's creepy, no no no, they were mad because they thought that more people should be trying to find out who his sexual abuser was instead because that person is more evil.

Babe...

Has anyone thought that maybe (just maybe) we should not be speculating about any of these people at all? Because that's not the purpose of the show or why Richard Gadd is sharing his story. Plus it's not anyone's business lol, you're meant to watch the show as a viewer. Not as a cop, therapist, or hero. Dunno, just food for thought. Internet mob mentality is seriously ill.

You're not fucking Batman. I'm pretty sure Richard Gadd would not want his abusers to be brought back into his life or tied to him in any form at all. You people are making this so much worse than it should be. Leave this poor man alone and just enjoy the art he has made.

If you wanna analyze it as a work of fiction go ahead. But trying to connect this to the people in Gadd's life is fucking ill and you're no better than his actual stalker (ok maybe that's extreme, I just mean it's fucking creepy)