I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.
Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP The War Game (1966) La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000) Privilege (1967) Punishment Park (1971)
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
Wear The Peace@wearthepeace.bsky.social · last yr.A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
i think this might be the actual worst tv theme song ive ever heard
Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D
The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me
#TodayInQueerHistory May 23 (1988) BREAKING NEWS! Lesbian activists interrupt the live broadcast of the 6 o'clock news. They were protesting Section 28, a law that forbade the "promotion of homosexuality". “We could not get the news to report on it so we thought, ‘Well, we’ll just be the news."
Jack Shoulder@jackshoulder.bsky.social · last yr.#TodayInQueerHistory May 22 (2015) Over 62% of Ireland vote to legalise same-sex marriage. Although Ireland was the 20th country to legalise these unions, it was the FIRST to do so via a public vote. There are now 38 countries which recognise same-sex marriages.
From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.
Show us the last four albums you listened to. #last4albums
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1459
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Looks like Elon Musk needs that yearly reminder that The Matrix is a trans allegory written by two closeted trans women. “You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2y agoI don't think Musk has understood a single movie he has ever watched...
more recently, probably this dumb comic from 2023 that I threw together in less than an hour thinking "haha everybody agrees that a lot of superhero movies are propaganda right" and it turned out many people are VERY defensive about the most popular and highest grossing franchise in the world
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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My B.ENO strip is done. You can read the whole thing and a steaming pile of other goodies on my Patreon. Patreon.com/frasergeesin
Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
The Gentrification of Video Game History
We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas
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I've always found it baffling when people chuck out their DVDs because they've got streaming now. Half the stuff I own has never been on any streaming platform, and the other half I don't trust to stay on there. Streaming is a replacement for rental, not ownership.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2y agoRichard Brody on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw out their collections just yet.
