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a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich gq.com/story/tony-kus…
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Corey Atad
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Corey Atad
@CoreyAtad
Freelance writer @DefectorMedia, @thebafflermag, @esquire, Air Bud admirer. [email protected]. follow me on Bsky @ https://t.co/xNmcb79MzC.
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Ekim 2008
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@mr_sanford_lyl yeah, but i'm just talking about the millennial cutoff. the commonality between a millennial like me born in 88 and one born in 95 was still witnessing the birth of the online era. a kid born in 98 doesn't really know a pre-internet world except some bits left over.
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@CoreyAtad Fair. I see it more as a “did you get to become an adult before you took the internet with you everywhere you go”
Sure most Gen Z remembers the time before smartphones were everywhere, but except for the very oldest of them, the smart phone was ubiquitous once they became teens
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the divide is simply whether you knew a pre-World Wide Web reality, which technically is 1993, but took a bit to catch on
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I’ve been radicalized into the belief that millennials and Gen-z are the same generation. At most it is a 1A, 1B situation
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@mr_sanford_lyl i think that's more the gen alpha cutoff, tbh. the youngest gen z would likely still have gotten a view of the smartphone (and app-based social media specifically) cementing itself in the early 2010s. alpha knows nothing else.
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@CoreyAtad I think it’s a pre-smart phone reality. The internet used to be one room in the house and now you can take it with you wherever you go
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@DiplomatOfNight yeah that one is more plainly doing defence for Israel. the weird thing with the NYT one, especially watching the full thing, is that it becomes clear she went in with a plan to soften him up and then get him to slip. and it's like, girl, he's been doing this for decades now!
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@CoreyAtad In the Economist interview it is very frustrating that he just says repeatedly wrong things with a clear racist implication but because the interviewer is fixated on the health of Israel's public image she comes across as the indifferent and cruel one
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it’s actually because not a one of them presses him when he says stuff about “bloodlines”
Emissary Of Night (new account)@DiplomatOfNight
Increasingly coming to the conclusion that Carlson's beat down of both the Economist and NYT interviewers is less because of any independent skillset he possess, which he clearly does, and more because these interviewers make themselves look ridiculous on first principles by refusing to condemn the murder of Palestinians
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@DiplomatOfNight it’s insane, there’s parts where he just straight up says the most obviously racist/fascist shit, like right to her face, and she skips right over it because for her to call it out would be revealing her own opinion that he’s a racist. WELL WHY THE FUCK ELSE DO THE INTERVIEW?!??
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@CoreyAtad Incredible to me that nobody asks him what he substantively means when he tries to cleave Israel from his imaginative West
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@BrendonKleen14 right! he’s not winning that interview because she’s confused about Palestine. in fact, she avoids offering her own opinion on all matters, to the point that when Carlson says brazenly racist shit to her face, she doesn’t call him on it!
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@CoreyAtad He explicitly said Fuentes' racism was irrelevant and had no influence and deflected the topic
All while shrugging and giggling like a comic villain
It's a weird thing where he has gone so extreme that he knows no traditional media is actually willing to engage with his views
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there’s nothing particularly smug or condescending in asking Carlson about a figure he supports who’s gaining intellectual popularity within the party on the premise that he’ll outdo Cruz et al in the “I’m literally Hitler” department
trouble is, she refuses to point that out
Emissary Of Night (new account)@DiplomatOfNight
And the NYT interviewer is even worse. Smug, condescending, totally unable to look at what Carlson says about, say, Ted Cruz vis a vis Iran, and make any coherent response.
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interviews premised on the idea that if they ask him enough good faith questions, he’ll slip up and reveal himself to be a Nazi, meanwhile in every one he’s talking about blood and soil and nobody asks him directly to explain that
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@BrendonKleen14 it’s all bullshit. even that Cruz vs Fuentes bit is bullshit! he lies about the character of Fuentes’s politics and his association with it, but the interviewer operates like maybe if she tries hard enough, he’ll slip.
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@CoreyAtad He's incredibly gifted at performative naivete, to the point that he somehow appears to have the intellectual upper hand anyway
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weirdest thing in Michael is anytime is cuts to a concert audience and they all just look like kids with iPhone face at a Sabrina Carpenter show in 2025
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@LanceRanises_ can't be questioning my bona fides, i saw it twice in theatres x.com/CoreyAtad/stat…
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me with the floorshow
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in the same way gen x was just a bunch of boomers with some millennial qualities, millennials are a bunch of would-be xers with gen z traits, and i'm guessing that's just how it works
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crazy how the movie where Robbie Williams is a chimpanzee manages to be a more artistically rewarding, emotionally complex, insightful look the damaged psychology of a pop star than the Michael Jackson biopic
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y'know, obviously in context this works better, but it's also much worse, because it's one of several examples of the movie skipping time to show Michael suddenly owning some new style, without any attempt to show how he arrived there.
x.com/offthedestiny/…
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Jackson is one of the great artists and public figures of the twentieth century, and even for all the awful shit, he deserves a better portrait than this surface-level karaoke. it’s sad that people find this acceptable, but i guess they’ve been taught not to expect better.
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it’s amazing how little narrative momentum there is in Michael, and how passive his relationship to his art seems. it’s kind of an insult to his talent despite also giving all his collaborators short shrift. there’s no insight into his craft, or the development of his taste.
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last night I dreamt of a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? remake starring a grumpy and smoky and charming James Gandolfini and now I feel unmoored
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feels appropriate to turn 35 on the same day I’m watching A.I. on 35mm, Spielberg’s funereal reflection of trapped and stolen youth amidst the cruel passage of time in a technofuturistic hellscape that’s closer to our reality by the day. happy birthday to me!
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@johnsemley3000 it carries it, but only because at a certain point you’re just trained to wait for the next one. the scenes in between get so dull by the end. it’s like 40 minutes shorter than Elvis, but felt way longer. the impersonation was genuinely the best i’ve ever seen. kudos there.
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@CoreyAtad I thought this too. it barely even depicts him having musical ideas. the whole thing is carried by the constant music—which, to be fair to that music, DOES kinda carry it.
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