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@Quibblicious @grahamtomkovick @micsolana Itll take this kid years to understand that burn

@grahamtomkovick @micsolana You obviously have a very racist view of the world and can’t get out of your little cave. The shadows you see on the wall aren’t reality, they’re just flickering echoes of a poor education and limited world view.

friend’s daughter is currently learning about the gold rush in a bay area elementary school. did you know the main thing about it was racism?

@pinkulovel @jadetheesupreme Weaponizing a truth in an argument is unproductive, and cuts deeply. It is actually evil. Truths told, if they are genuine should be told outside of arguments and anger.

@jadetheesupreme No sé por qué tienes que meter que Jules es queer trans cuando en esta escena no tiene absolutamente nada que ver, Rue le dijo una verdad que le dolió en el fondo y a Jules no le pareció lo que le dijo.

the ciscourse around jules truly breaks my heart. ppl truly do not understand certain aspects of living a queer trans experience and they don’t want to either. it’s easier to villainize than try to understand #euphoria

@se7enInchNails @vivalarevolz James Cameron is a terrible director

@vivalarevolz James Cameron (he doesn't even like to acknowledge Piranha 2 lol)

what director had a bad debut film but kept improving and started making great movies as their career went on😮‍💨

@shxtsngigsss @GruntingWiglet @gallivanting55 @spencerpratt Everyone on the right knows you all laughed and still laugh about it. Its hilarious that most of the people on the left denied that happened, haha like cowards. Not you tho, obviously.

@GruntingWiglet @gallivanting55 @spencerpratt Still laughing, quite frankly.

Hey guys, why don’t they wanna talk about why I need a hotel in the first place? Karen Bass let my home burn down. Also 6,000 of my neighbors. NBD.

@pope2023 @cjsnowdon You can appreciate his contribution to cinema and not like his work. Dismissing him completely is childish.

@cjsnowdon Don't get me started on this. People I previously thought are intelligent have been seriously downgraded by me over their worship of Interstellar, Tenet, the Batman guff, and worst of all Oppenheimer. Good job I never paid money to watch his films.

Watching The Dark Knight for the first time in 18 years. People were going crazy about it when it came out, but it’s still a POS. Christopher Nolan is such a charlatan.

@EDellevigne @memeticsisyphus @jojo193713 Its all pop oriented bs. Bansky is a low level artist who grifs of major ideas. If you find meaning in his work, you are shovel fed information and think it tastes good.

@memeticsisyphus @jojo193713 carlin was not popular with us. eddie murphy was.

George Carlin infected Gen-X with this horrible apathy towards everything. The statue doesn’t just mock nationalism but belief itself. Any ideology, any group, any loyalty. It’s like they think they’re the first person to discover ideologies or positions all have tradeoffs, and because they’re not perfect it’s better to stand against them all. It’s as childish as it is false. A few minute conversation with anyone who puts on this front will quickly reveal which ideologies they feel are above such critiques. When exposed that John Stewart wry smile turns into the most vitriolic anger you’ve ever seen.

@bennpeifert Cure

scary movie recommendations while camping?

@lyssasphere Y Joan Didion

@lyssasphere Going to pop Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace in here next to HST. Contemporary masters. I also like Michel Houellebecq.

Authors everyone should be familiar with, imho: Edgar Allen Poe George Orwell Hunter S. Thompson Isaac Asimov Ken Kesey Lewis Carroll Ray Bradbury Are there any others that belong on this list?

@beatmastermatt Fear it at the fed gov level or the state level. Rever it at the community level.

Most people who tell you to fear socialism can’t define the word.

@DrugGovoruna @beatmastermatt You need to find better words to describe socialism. I like it at the community level, I hate it at the state and fed gov level. Fundamentally, its just about community. Activists love it bc its against capitalism.

@DonnellMaclean @beatmastermatt Do you know the ancient dirty joke about the hunter and the bear? If the hunter always goes back into the woods and things always ends up the same way, then he is not there for the hunting. Same with socialism.

@DrugGovoruna @beatmastermatt Thats not what socialism or communism is…you are pointing out modern attempts at socialism or communism.

@DonnellMaclean @beatmastermatt Who do you think owned all factories, grocery stores, and employed almost the entire population of the Soviet Union, East Germany, Cuba? Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution and Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring allowed some private business.

@Midshevik @awoidance @storageinator @beatmastermatt Explain how either Marx or Engels could consider 20th century failed attempts at socialism or communism. At just fyi, disagreeing with socialism is not “right-wing”.

@DonnellMaclean @awoidance @storageinator @beatmastermatt a lot of you right wingers LOVE to confidently assert that Marx or Engels did not consider something they explicitly considered

@MFImJordan @CinemaTweets1 Abstractions are a part of everyday life. Its not a matter of “want”. Telling stories, film making, writing, is akin to infinity. You are just simply a pessimist.

@DonnellMaclean @CinemaTweets1 People don't want abstractions. The 60s were a long time ago.

Every movie studio would benefit if they accepted the following statement: audiences are smart. They have strong memory, attend to detail & notice the little things. So treat them like it. Stop giving audiences recycled, reused stories. Try something original. Exhibit A: Weapons.

@DrugGovoruna @beatmastermatt But you are wrong, you shouldnt be using the term “government”, and you are being so basic it fails to capture anything meaningful. I dont disagree, but you are wrong.

@beatmastermatt Government ownership of the means of production and distribution. There, I defined it. 40 years ago, I was a Soviet schoolboy.

@panda_cree69213 @beatmastermatt It really only works at the community level.

@beatmastermatt Marx's definition was that socialism was the intermediate phase required for communism to be achieved. It's the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in which wealth is seized and redistributed en masse.

@awoidance @storageinator @beatmastermatt This is the exact problem. You think the heady, wordy definition of socialism matters. “you dont understand socialism”, “you didnt read the communist manifesto”, “you should read Engels”…its great reading, but it doesnt translate to a field in Iowa, or the smokies…grow up.

@storageinator @beatmastermatt Ok so you didn’t give the definition

@Myrminki @beatmastermatt A lot of people hate doing the work of studying how socialism or communism works in reality…instead they like the soft and subtle words, in a written body of work, about socialism, to help them think.

@beatmastermatt Socialism is an economic and political system where the means of production are owned or regulated by the community as a whole, but it always turns into the government stripping the individual of real power and centralizing it in itself, then using it to crush dissidents. Lovely.

@check_chedda @beatmastermatt Thats not socialism, that is just your basic governing body. Real socialism, is sharing all things, care, food, work, love, and it really only works in small communities. Socialists love to conflate the two, in reality, socialism is not scalable.

@beatmastermatt The government can give you nothing because it produces nothing. It can only take from me to give to you. Theft is wrong, no matter who does it. As a young hardworking man, I hate socialism.

@cjsnowdon @pope2023 What a moronic thing to say.

@pope2023 He has done more than anyone to ruin cinema