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Atrocious Joe posted:Kanye does have some weird interactions with activists in Chicago, so he's not completely cut off from real left wing thought. It's a sort of tense relationship tough, that can go from friendly to hostile real quick. liberals are literally less self-aware and more interested in making this about themselves than Kanye West glad to like that guy for once though
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:https://twitter.com/philiplord/status/1271570912442068998 every kid who went to school in Miami is taught that Cuba was a utopian beacon of liberty before the revolution
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ElNarez posted:okay but why release two albums that suck poo poo yea im glad that hes spared us from his shtick at this time but taht doesnt really explain all the poo poo hes been doing for the last few years very well. when he first started wearing the hat a few years ago lots of rappers like TI said that they tried to talk him out of it and he just didnt actually know anything about current politics, he just thought that trump and candace owens were cool. also the crucial information about him is someone saying it on something called 'the red pill podcast'. kanye is a land of contrasts
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Jun 16, 2020 03:36
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frankly I've felt for a while now that Kanye hatred is extremely overblown. everybody brings up him being a dick to taylor swift in 2009, which... lol. he mildly embarrassed a world famous pop star at a fuckin awards show. obviously all the poo poo with trump is wack but the Kanye hate started way before then. I've always thought it's a strange remnant of anti-rap sentiment in the early 2000s; remember people who listened to "everything except rap and country?" it's a quaint notion now that every top 40 song is either Atlanta trap or whatever you call drake's music i dunno, it's hard to get too worked up about a rich, out of touch, mentally ill guy having confused political opinions when Chris brown made it to #5 on the charts last year
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Jun 16, 2020 04:03
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Kanye gets pointed out by some people because there's other people who hold him up as some sort of genius. Overblown by both sides in my opinion. I think some of his music is great, but that's as far as I go, I'd rather not know any more about his life.
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Jun 16, 2020 04:49
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interrupting that award show was one of the all time great Kanye moments
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Kanye basically plays the heel to everyone The world makes a lot more sense considering we're in one big pro wrestling storyline
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starkebn posted:Kanye gets pointed out by some people because there's other people who hold him up as some sort of genius. Overblown by both sides in my opinion. I think some of his music is great, but that's as far as I go, I'd rather not know any more about his life. I definitely think this has a lot to do with it. More importantly, Kanye likes to call himself a genius and god of music when he’s manic and, seeing as how people can’t even let that poo poo slide when their bipolar family members are doing it, you know they’re not gonna stop to understand the delicate situation a ten figure stranger is operating within.
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i will however grant that his last two albums were terrible
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Aglet56 posted:i will however grant that his last two albums were terrible I stopped listening to his full albums around Graduation and even then, when friends declaimed their belief that he is one of the greatest studio musicians living today, I just took their word for it because his music sounded fine, but not revelatory in any way. 13 years on and he just kinda comes off as a billionaire dickhead with an unmanaged medical condition.
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Aglet56 posted:i will however grant that his last two albums were terrible he did produce daytona tho
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mysterious frankie posted:I stopped listening to his full albums around Graduation and even then, when friends declaimed their belief that he is one of the greatest studio musicians living today, I just took their word for it because his music sounded fine, but not revelatory in any way. 13 years on and he just kinda comes off as a billionaire dickhead with an unmanaged medical condition. So JayZ without a handler?
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watched the tarkovsky solaris for movie night on a scifi discord. i liked the book and i liked stalker but i don't think solaris holds together as well as stalker does- it's much closer to the book than stalker is to roadside picnic, and while thats not a bad thing since the book is fantastic it means that it suffers more on a direct comparison; and maybe im just a philistine but tarkovsky's glacial editing seems like it works a lot better for stalker's bizzare suspense than solaris' existential horror
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I just watched Ad Astra and man that is really not a good movie.
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vyelkin posted:I just watched Ad Astra and man that is really not a good movie. There was so much wasted potential with moon pirates, killer space baboons, and fuckin' rocket hijackings.
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Taintrunner posted:There was so much wasted potential with moon pirates, killer space baboons, and fuckin' rocket hijackings. Yeah it was like they kept hinting at interesting things happening around the edges of the movie but then instead give you two hours of Brad Pitt doing his best not to show any emotion whatsoever.
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Jun 18, 2020 04:20
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I went to see Ad Astra for the production and set design, and I was sort of satisfied with that. Everything else was trash. Ruth Negga was criminally underused.
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What is Ruth Negga actually good in I’ve seen Preacher, Loving, and Misfits and she doesn’t really pop off in any of it
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General Dog posted:What is Ruth Negga actually good in Warcraft
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ad astra needed to be 50% weirder or 200% dumber i wonder if you have to wear a mask at space applebees
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Oh gently caress I forgot about malls on the moon
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vyelkin posted:Yeah it was like they kept hinting at interesting things happening around the edges of the movie but then instead give you two hours of Brad Pitt doing his best not to show any emotion whatsoever. What is it with sci-fi movies convinced you have to have the most boring possible white male lead even Guardians of the Galaxy realised you can just make Han Solo with issues the white male lead and it suddenly becomes fun
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Atrocious Joe posted:I went to see Ad Astra for the production and set design, and I was sort of satisfied with that. It's like they created an interesting world where it seemed like cool stories would be happening all the time, then used it to tell the most boring story imaginable.
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i quite liked ad astra but it suffered from a case of not really knowing what it wanted to be. it has this melancholy story of a man dealing with his daddy issues while traversing the solar system, but its punctuated by these moments of action, terror and high violence that don't quite fit with the slow and blue tone of the overarching story. the ending is worth the rest of the journey imo, but the movie wanted to be two things at once and never succeeds at fully being either of them. feels like studio notes to me
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quote:On election day, Cam's victory appears certain until Marty exposes the Motch brothers' intent and promises to preserve Hammond if elected. Cam still wins and remains congressman due to rigged voting machines owned by the Motch brothers. While Cam gloats, Marty shows his large scars to Cam and reveals that he looked up to Cam in school for getting rid of the dangerous slide. Realizing he has strayed from his true objectives as a politician, Cam withdraws from the election and Marty wins by default. Cam earns back Mitch's respect, and Marty later appoints him his chief of staff. Hollywood political comedy is so hilariously out of touch with reality.
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dado is the latest buisniess entity to back the protests. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5740 He seems to be far more sincere about it then many. 
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https://twitter.com/Russian_Starr/status/1273979663120052224/photo/1 wow the soviets just remaking birth of a nation here with this horrifying scene where they underrate how racist the south is
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starr is a huge fan of Ukrainian fascists he’s a fascist.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/philthatremains/status/1274272303421980672?s=19 metalcore was always the worst genre of music totally anti-dialectical
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https://twitter.com/MixsterM/status/1274343238061654016 This was the worst one of the whole thread.
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loving liberals
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Can't believe that I'm mostly agreeing with Clymer on a take about Lenin
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I've decided to use my recent unemployment to read all 300 issues of Cerebus and try to figure out where Sims' hallucinogenics abuse resulted in a psychotic break, where he attempted to reconstruct his brain and ended up scared of women, and where he made his own abrahamic religion out of bits of the big three plus his fear of women.
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mysterious frankie posted:I've decided to use my recent unemployment to read all 300 issues of Cerebus and try to figure out where Sims' hallucinogenics abuse resulted in a psychotic break, where he attempted to reconstruct his brain and ended up scared of women, and where he made his own abrahamic religion out of bits of the big three plus his fear of women. I peaced out after the big fight in jakas story, there is some insanely legit stuff in high society and church and state tho E: for those unfamiliar, frankies post is a flatly factual rendition of the authors mental progress sebmojo has issued a correction as of 03:04 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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sebmojo posted:I peaced out after the big fight in jakas story, there is some insanely legit stuff in high society and church and state tho He's such an intriguing figure whose mental collapse and reconciliation, in many ways, presaged the various strains of weirdos currently influencing popular fascist\right wing thought. Not the giggly 4chan creeps, but the deeply troubled and self educated "intellectual" DE types. I've read about him, but never read him, and I have nothing but time atm. Yesterday I saw a picture of Cerebus looking moody on stone steps in the rain, which led me to realize I've been wondering what the hell Cerebus actually is since he showed up in an issue of Spawn when I was 12. Then I saw I could read it all online for free, so here I goooooooooo. FUN FACT: Dave Sim is from Kitchener, which is where my wife's family is from, and she is in no way impressed by that piece of trivia!
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It starts as a Conan ripoff, becomes a fairly nuanced parody of a us election campaign, then a surreal feverdream of a satire of mediaeval pope politics, then spends like 40 issues in a single building, then it, idk, starts getting weird. It's a whole thing.
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i never really got the misogynist read of cerebus personally because cerebus is consistently presented as such a monstrously grotesque avatar of toxic masculinity its hard to read him as sympathetic funny for sure but never sympathetic like right after the legendary issue 186 we get a whole sequence where a godlike figure fucks with the premise in such a way that cerebus could actually get a happy ending but then cerebus screws it up anyway due to his own builtin personality flaws
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Some Guy TT posted:i never really got the misogynist read of cerebus personally because cerebus is consistently presented as such a monstrously grotesque avatar of toxic masculinity its hard to read him as sympathetic funny for sure but never sympathetic My understanding is that Sim himself says he's not misogynist, is "anti-feminist", and that the West started going off track in 1970 because of increased feminist interference in culture. The assertion people who have read the series make is that issue 186 is Sim essaying through a fictional character and it is his personal belief. Assuming that's all accurate he's not misogynist in only the most pedantic, merriam-webster kind of way; ie he doesn't hate women. He just thinks they are incapable of rational thought and consume male vitality to create negative value. Whether the comic is misogynist I can't say yet. I'm six issues in and so far the only female character is a Red Sonja parody in issue three who is obnoxious, dumb and her company is a fate worse than assassination- enough so that the client still pays Cerebus his fee when he finds out the target is alive & marrying her. The very next issue has an Elric of Melnibone parody that is essentially Foghorn Leghorn, so I dunno. So far it's just pretty good parody of fantasy staples.
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