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Rated PG-34 posted:I stopped watching the good place after it went from capitalism means no one is morally good to world is too complicated for anyone to be morally good what a loving dumb take the actual take is the world is too complicated for people to understand that capitalism means no one is morally good. but also specifically the bad place is manipulating the results and hiding the manipulations in the increased complexity also its pretty loving clear that neither the good place or the bad place hold any actual authority over truth or reality and are just whiney ignorant children, so forming any take-aways from just their nominal explinations is pretty dumb and counter to what the show is actually trying to present (and the show is a really low level of presentation of the time knife) Reverend Dr has issued a correction as of 17:42 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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refleks posted:who the gently caress doesnt like dougie. i will fight them Dougie's wife owns more. At least so far, I haven't finished the season yet. Borrowed it from my local Library.
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 22:53 |
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Twin Peaks season 3 is just "I miss Dale Cooper please turn back into Dale Cooper no wait no STAY DOUGIE FOREVER".
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 23:38 |
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MokBa posted:Twin Peaks season 3 is just "I miss Dale Cooper please turn back into Dale Cooper no wait no STAY DOUGIE FOREVER". its this, which also makes it so satisfying when he finally shows up - even if black lodge coop and dougie owns in their own right
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:08 |
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https://twitter.com/CCIGTKUA/status/1191460268527833088?s=20
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:02 |
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Instead of whatever they are doing with episode 9 what if the whole movie was kylo digging up Palpatines corpse and putting it on trial
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:06 |
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refleks posted:who the gently caress doesnt like dougie. i will fight them my roommate at the time almost quit The Return early over dougie the fool the absolute rube dougie owns
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:08 |
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i have the sudden urge to wear ninja turtle pajamas, sing the theme song obnoxiously loud and go around hitting people with a stick
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:38 |
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I just watched The Wave on Netflix. It's a German show about some juvie convict who shows up at a high school on day release, and brings a bunch of misfits together to form their own teenaged Baader-Meinhof group. They mostly just do political pranks and the show has a very "culture jammer" mindset - but it does go over a lot of problems with left wing organizing broadly and cell-organizing specifically. Doesn't pull punches on Nazis or cops either.
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 02:58 |
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I went to see The Lighthouse this weekend, So very strange and so very good
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 03:17 |
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I haven't seen it, but i watched that King movie on Netflix, and you've got to give Robert Pattinson props for going from the guy from twilight to a pretty good actor. He's character was so close to over the top in that movie, but still good.
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 03:33 |
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oh so thats why people were so excited about it i could not for the life of me figure out the enthusiasm for this movie i knew it had the call me by your name guy but even then it seemed overhyped
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 04:09 |
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i watched The King last night, it's a pretty good period piece with excellent costuming and combat and acting. plot's not much to speak of and it's somewhat inaccurate with character motivation but i had a good time. i could watch the duel in the beginning over and over it's insane to me that the younger brother never reappeared after they had a major falling out, i was anticipating him to be a villain also stereotypical french are dumb and haughty
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i say swears online posted:also stereotypical french are dumb and haughty gently caress this English bullshit
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 04:38 |
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Random thought I had today: The early-to-mid 2010s had popular political dramas that were embraced by the liberal influencers, based around a clever man or woman who operates the political system like a chess master who's twenty moves ahead like anyone else. If nobody coined shows like Scandal and House of Cards as Late Stage West Wing, I'd like to do it now. I call it Late Stage West Wing because it's sort of a mutation of the West Wing-y liberal imagination; once pretensions of serving the people or democracy are dropped entirely. It's more important that political operatives are seen as ruthless and competent than altruistic. (Kind of telling that doctors hate medical dramas; cops hate cop shows, lawyers hate legal dramas, but political grifters LOVE West Wing and Late Stage West Wing...) The Underwoods weren't even depicted as ruthless cynics who had ultimately altruistic ends; they did not. They only wanted power for power's sake; and liberals, including the then-president Barack Obama, openly embraced this power fantasy. The first season had a plotline where the Underwoods used their political gifts to out-maneuver the Teachers Union; who were actually treated way more sympathetically than they ever were in The West Wing. But their defeat only served the purpose of showing how badass and interesting a character played by pedophile supposedly was. "Late Stage West Wing" can also be seen as a short-lived period (transition?) before shows literally about royals like Game of Thrones and The Crown were fully embraced by shitlibs as analogues to real politics. But it still lingers even in that recent Brexit movie. It's not surprising that they played up Dominic Cummings as a master cynical operative, but the film went to great lengths to depict him as one of the more sympathetic Brexiteers despite his unethical methods, because the movie was kind of asking Remainers, "Don't you wish you were this clever?"
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 05:09 |
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miss sloane is another good example of what youre talking about maybe designated survivor too which i havent seen but descriptions ive heard make it sound very succ
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 05:15 |
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I've watched most of the first season of Designated Survivor, and also its Korean remake, and there isn't really any character comparable to Frank Underwood or Olivia Pope. Maybe the Chief of Staff considered himself hyper-competent, but I never felt like the audience was supposed to agree. Maybe in later seasons it happened?
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 05:21 |
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the most notable thing the king on netflix is how falstaff is now portrayed
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 05:47 |
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the next fantastic beasts movie is going to be filmed in brazil thanks jk
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Echo Chamber posted:I've watched most of the first season of Designated Survivor, and also its Korean remake, and there isn't really any character comparable to Frank Underwood or Olivia Pope. having watched the first season, Designate Survivor's non-actiony parts isn't so much about "Late Stage West Wing" as it is a reification of actual West Wing
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Uncle Wemus posted:the next fantastic beasts movie is going to be filmed in brazil thanks jk are they setting it there too i can only imagine how stupidly ignorant it will be of brazilian history when rowling cant even keep english and american history straight
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 10:55 |
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never forget that time rowling retconned voldemorts pet snake into being a korean woman for gently caress knows what reason
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Uncle Wemus posted:the next fantastic beasts movie is going to be filmed in brazil thanks jk Wizarding didn't really take off in South America until around the mid-40s
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 11:01 |
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Isn't JK a lib dem who thinks Corbyn goes "too far"?
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Forceholy posted:Isn't JK a lib dem who thinks Corbyn goes "too far"? absolutely
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 12:35 |
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Ardent Communist posted:I haven't seen it, but i watched that King movie on Netflix, and you've got to give Robert Pattinson props for going from the guy from twilight to a pretty good actor. He's character was so close to over the top in that movie, but still good. I got dragged to twilight back in high school and tbh Robert was pretty good in it, it was enjoyable to see someone on screen who didn't want to be there as much as me
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Kayvan/status/1188509684094906377
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gradenko_2000 posted:having watched the first season, Designate Survivor's non-actiony parts isn't so much about "Late Stage West Wing" as it is a reification of actual West Wing
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Echo Chamber posted:Haven't seen Madame Secretary, but I get the vibe it's also a re-if of West Wing, but with Hillary. It's been a long time since I've watched it, but by my recollection, Madame Secretary is different from The West Wing in that Tea Leoni's character actually gets poo poo done, while also avoiding House of Cards's issue with making the protagonist into a malevolent force. We're made to understand that the Madame Secretary is a good person, and has good policies. The problem, of course, is that "good" here is measured by the standards of Obama-era liberal internationalism.
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Echo Chamber posted:"Late Stage West Wing" can also be seen as a short-lived period (transition?) before shows literally about royals like Game of Thrones and The Crown were fully embraced by shitlibs as analogues to real politics. i'm positive most poo poo libs would 100% support a return to monarchy as long as the "right" person were in charge, regardless of how much they might say otherwise. all their wailing and gnashing of teeth over trump is just because he doesn't share their world view, not that he's actually a narcissistic solipsist in the dementia stage of syphilis the myriad ways they venerate musk or jobs or any of the other scions of silicon valley is my proof
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i'm positive most poo poo libs would 100% support a return to monarchy as long as the "right" person were in charge, regardless of how much they might say otherwise. all their wailing and gnashing of teeth over trump is just because he doesn't share their world view, not that he's actually a narcissistic solipsist in the dementia stage of syphilis they ran hillary for a reason
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https://twitter.com/Disney_PIus/status/1191740311082549248?s=20
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i'm positive most poo poo libs would 100% support a return to monarchy as long as the "right" person were in charge, regardless of how much they might say otherwise. all their wailing and gnashing of teeth over trump is just because he doesn't share their world view, not that he's actually a narcissistic solipsist in the dementia stage of syphilis Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i'm positive most poo poo libs would 100% support a return to monarchy as long as the "right" person were in charge, regardless of how much they might say otherwise. all their wailing and gnashing of teeth over trump is just because he doesn't share their world view, not that he's actually a narcissistic solipsist in the dementia stage of syphilis The bourgeois could only rise to the new ruling class by negotiating with the aristocracy in the wake of Napoleon's defeat, and collaborating with the reactionary monarchies. All liberals really care about is that they're left to mind their own business while the actual affairs of politics are being performed in their favor sight unseen.
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https://twitter.com/MuseZack/status/1191562008916709376?s=20
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# ? Nov 5, 2019 19:26 |
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all of a sudden its so obvious why the post cameron terminator movies suck
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# ? Nov 6, 2019 01:26 |
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people tend to forget before he became James Cameron, he was just a truck driver. Basically all of his works outside of True Lies - itself a remake - and his documentaries, which are just “oceans are cool as poo poo, guys!” are very working class views, like “corporations and the traditional power structures that have existed are inherently evil and dehumanizing and I like to blow them up”.
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Ardent Communist posted:I haven't seen it, but i watched that King movie on Netflix, and you've got to give Robert Pattinson props for going from the guy from twilight to a pretty good actor. He's character was so close to over the top in that movie, but still good. He’s always been a great actor, it’s just with Twighlight he had nothing to work with. Check out “Cosmopolis”, it’s one of Cronenberg’s better movies that don’t involve gun vaginas or heads exploding.
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Echo Chamber posted:I've watched most of the first season of Designated Survivor, and also its Korean remake, and there isn't really any character comparable to Frank Underwood or Olivia Pope. is the korean remake good? or is it as bad as the source
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Your Gay Uncle posted:He’s always been a great actor, it’s just with Twighlight he had nothing to work with.
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