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3 months agoYup. Everyone has to buy something. The point is to direct people to do that at places that are LES evil rather than giving in and saying “nothing matters I guess I’ll just do whatever.” Defeatism is collaboration.
Anise (they/she)
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9·3 months agoWhy not keep your defeatism to yourself? Be part of the solution or stfu.
13·11 months agoAlways has
21·1 year agoAdvertisers: OK. Call.
That is a good analysis. I think it ignores the obvious components that the conservatives are well funded precicely because conservative dogma is all about protecting the owner class. Wealthy business people are not going to fund efforts to impose progressive taxation, mandatory sick time etc.
Sure there are rich people in the arts who lean liberal at least in public, but they are outnumbered and out-spent by capital owners.
The left will never be able to spend as much on communication so the approach has go be completely different. Using the products of capitalism like social media has been effective. Peer-to-peer organizing is slow but costs little. Tacking pro-worker policies onto the platforms of the otherwise pro-business Democrats as a differentiator has lead to some success.
Reaching the mass media reach of the far right is so difficult to do without the capital backing though. The left really needs to get into the talk radio game. NPR tries but they are inevitably quite centrist.
Ah spring! Flowers blooming, bird songs… BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA… Goddamn leaf blowers.
EV weight is a legitimate concern both in terms of road and tire wear. However, this is a problem more generally given the current market trend towards driving a siege tower around to go grab some groceries.
If he cared about the grid he’d put solar panels up.
Hybrids: am I a joke to you?
4·1 year agoNo. Being politically active is of the upmost importance to me right now. I’m exhausted, but this election year is a matter of survival for queer people.
That’s weird because all except prusa are Chinese made. My issue with Bambu is that it is a closed ecosystem, but they are undeniably very capable machines.
I really had no idea what I was getting myself into with that one, coming from Player of Games.
4·1 year agoIf you were only 17 when you watched it and found it immature, you are unlikely to enjoy it this go-around.
Cloud Atlas did much better as a book than a movie. I am genuinely surprised that they tried to adapt it; it was never gojng to be anything but a confusing mess without the benefit of the long-format of a book to guide you. I’m curious why you considered it propaganda. It had an obvious central theme but that is the case for most cinema. It reads as communalist, which is unusual for most modern cinema which takes its cues from out hyper-individualist culture. Perhaps you see it as propaganda because it is so different from “normal” rugged individualist cinema. Do you consider Batman, The Punisher, Man on Fire, and Taken to be similar propaganda for individualist militant violence-as-solution ideas? Because they are. Aren’t American Gangster, Pursuit of Happiness, Wolf of Wallstreet, etc. capitalist propaganda? It’s easy to miss propaganda when it is reinforcing beliefs and values that you already have.
Him and Joss Whedon with the feet…
Directing students to go out into society and experiment on nonconsenting strangers is so gross. It’s very mild in the grand scheme of unethical shit that some scientists have done over the years (ex:Tuskegee Syphilis Study) but still, it is a lazy and thoughtless way to gather data.
Society wasn’t ready for Brokeback Mountain. It was important because of that though.
Oh yeah I’m a sucker for campy SciFi too. I ironically loved it when it came out, but I was much younger; it probably doesn’t hold up as well anymore.
lol. Intimates are poorly constructed, but we also ask a lot of them. In all seriousness though, I have repaired undies and bras and gotten another 6 months to a year out of them.