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it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

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one of my favorite things about sinners is how we see elijah using the gun to kill the grand dragon of the kkk while still maintaining a connection to heaven where he sees and hears annie and their baby girl. the rejection of the idea that killing someone like that white supremacist character would lock the doors of heaven for someone like smoke. no. he still belongs there. absolutely he does.

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“I’m an equal opportunity offender. I make fun of everybody.” - Guy whose identities all align with the systemically dominant power groups in his cultural and geographic context

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a distressing number of leftist (or "leftist") people seem to believe in the possibility of a perfect dictatorship where all the people they personally don't like get smited and the dictator never does anything that goes against the person's specific beliefs or does anything wrong at all ever

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"Stop an American and begin to make some serious criticisms of our society, and nine times out of ten his final defense will be: 'But this is the freest and finest country in the world.' When you probe into what he means by this, it turns out that what he is really talking about is the material goods that he can acquire in exchange for his birthright of political freedom. That is, he is free to have an automobile, a TV, a hi-fi, and all kinds of food, clothing, and drink as long as he doesn't offend anybody he works for or anybody in an official capacity, and as long as he doesn't challenge the accepted pattern of racial, economic, and political relations inside the country or its foreign policy outside. On these questions most Americans absolve themselves from any responsibility by saying that all that is 'politics' and 'I am not interested in politics.' What they really mean is that they are afraid to assume political responsibility because it would mean jeopardizing their economic and social status. No people in the world have more to say about the lack of free speech in Russia, China, Cuba, and Ghana. The reason is that as long as they have these other places to talk about, they can evade facing the silent police state that has grown up inside America. If you casually mention the police state to an American, the first thing that comes to his mind is some other country. He doesn't see his own police state.

That is because in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, every man is a policeman over himself, a prisoner of his own fears. He is afraid to think because he is afraid of what his neighbors might think of what he thinks if they found out what he was thinking, or what his boss might think, or what the police might think, or the FBI, or the CIA. And all because he thinks he has a lot to lose. He thinks he has to choose between material goods and political freedom. And when the two are counterposed, Americans today will choose material goods. Believing they have much to lose, Americans find excuses where there are no excuses, evade issues before the issues arise, shun situations and conversations which could lead to conflict, leave politics and political decisions to the politicians. They will not regain their membership in the human race until they recognize that their greatest need is no longer to make material goods but to make politics."

-James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook, 1963. (emphasis added by me)

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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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there's no such thing as a medicaid freeloader. everyone needs healthcare. it does not matter if you don't believe someone has a valid reason to not be working or in school- they are still a human being and human beings need healthcare. even if someone IS this strawman ""just lazy"" unemployed person, they deserve healthcare. sorry but i do not believe that the right to medical treatment without financial ruin is predicated on someone's "usefulness" to society. it's depressing that this is apparently too radical a belief.

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my Game Theory™ for space balls 2 is that mel brooks started it now like 40 years after the original and at 99 years old because he is fully aware of and counting on his own mortality halfway through production because it'll be funny. decades-later cash grab sequels where the original cast is visibly too old to be doing this like they used to in their prime has basically come to define the thing that space balls is parodying, and star wars too encountered problems involving a key actor dying in the middle of production because of it. mel brooks will play a pivotal role in space balls 2 as director, producer, and lead actor, and he will die during filming, and either he has specific contingency plans for that or he trusts the people he's working with to handle it but either way he knows it's the funniest possible way to go and now is the perfect time to make Space Balls 2: The Search for More Money

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I think it was bad actually for Morpheus to try to wake up Neo. He should’ve let Neo figure it out on his own, really none of Morpheus’s business. It’s kind of problematic to make jokes about waking up from the Matrix, it pressures Matrix-aware men to wake up when maybe they don’t want to.

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Please. *Please* as this story gets more coverage, please remember that Texas didn't ask for this. The people here don't deserve this. This isn't FAFO. This isn't karma. This isn't divine punishment.

This is a reminder that very often the people who are in the most danger from the Republican gutting of FEMA and warning systems and infrastructure- are the young, the poor, and the already embattled residents of the "red states."

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out of context transphobic ganon

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Why did "lmao" stick around but "rofl" die. Any theories on this

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Sometimes I think about how a bunch of anti-egg joke crowd were really into treating the Streamer F1nn5ter as their little pet freak. "This guy puts on dresses and make up, lives femininely, and passes pretty well but guess what he's still a cis guy and not transfem!"

Like some generally explicitly found F1nn not being transfem the main part of the appeal.

And then F1nn eventually did come out as a genderfluid transfem and so many of those people dropped her like spoiled milk.

And a few of them were happy to say it was explicitly because she came out as transfem being the reason why.

"Well, when she was a gnc guy that was more interesting and subversive. Being feminine as a transfem is just conforming to gender."

Like regardless of how you might feel about F1nn that kind of naked transmisogyny is fucked up.

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