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Liel Leibovitz in the Free Press: "As a work of art, One Battle After Another is irredeemable. It feels like the sort of thing written by a committee of socialist college sophomores cracking each other up ... "Paul Thomas Anderson seems interested more in purring for his fellow progressives than in making interesting movies ..."

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I think Dave Roberts did not hear those rants, because people were extremely afraid to expose verboten views to someone who would deem them transphobic. So when the vibe shifted, it seemed astroturfed rather than authentic. But it was not only extremely authentic; it was the majority view I encountered.

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

nobody reasonable actually thinks that trans women metamorphose into biological females you fucking retard. the ask is not "believe that men are women", it's "don't be an asshole". you don't have to like trans people. you do have to leave them alone.

The news about Cesar Chavez raping underage girls and Dolores Huerta is bleak, but expected. This phenomenon, the creation of fucktoys of the revolution, is extremely common, and nonpartisan. Wherever you get a movement or group that is insular and hostile towards outsiders, which demands intellectual purity on threat of expulsion, centers itself so thoroughly in the lives of its members that it becomes a social or even familial community in and of itself, and is centered on a charismatic male figure, sexual assault and the exploitation and objectification of women becomes not just a bug, but a feature. You saw it in the young women that leveraged their youthful bodies for Bernie Sanders' primary candidacy, his supporters that accused foes of being "vagina voters," and then the reports that his female staffers had been assaulted and paid less than men. You saw it in the Socialist Workers Party in the UK, when Comrade Delta was accused of rape. The Party's Disputes Committee prioritized party unity, leading to a mass exodus of members. You saw in it FLDS, where Jeffs dominated a town politically and socially, controlling all familial and sexual relations, abolishing private property and owning nearly all land in a trust, and creating a harem of underage girls. You see it in the O9A/764 Networks, where leaders promote revolution and compel members, typically underage or young women and sexual minorities, to commit crimes after extorting them with sexual blackmail material like self-produced child pornography. The truth is, when it comes to political movements and the abuse of women, they can operate so much like cults that they are functionally indistinguishable. The relationship between power and sexual violence is so pervasive and undeniable—it is rare to see a man who strongly desires absolute social or political power that will not soon turn his abusive gaze upon women's bodies and lives.