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Once upon a time there used to be colorful soviet fantasy epics, like "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1967), directed by Aleksandr Ptushko

Hey @Grok, did Israel poison Palestinian water wells with deadly typhoid bacteria in 1948?

@RogueScholarPr I'd say attraction towards capitalism wasn't inspired by Chuck killing communists, but by the quality of enertainment industry/consumerism, which wasn't that established in Soviet Union. Colorfull optimistic cartoons, clothing, tasty sweets, gadgets, Metallica in Moscow, etc.

@onenewnail In Russia perhaps. Not in the Balkans, which makes sense since Russians were not exactly loved there

This documentary is about how pirate copies of 80s action films inspired resistance to communism in Soviet countries This is the only vision of America that can do this. Woke Hollywood achieves the opposite, make communist squalor seem preferable in comparison

@mortalenema Nose

@Aliathewhite They literally had the line "You gotta keep them separated" about Blacks (because they were throwing bricks at guy's car IRL)

You gotta give The Offspring credit, they tried to shame White kids for larping as black idiots and stop wiggers from ever breaking into the mainstream. Now the kid they were mocking in that video is basically the default setting for every Zoomer and younger kid out there.

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” ―Philip K. Dick

Hermann Hesse on Russian Man:

The skies in William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. (director of photography: Robby Müller)

@LestatDeTata Колись марихуаною Пей героин половником Был самым лучшим в мире Когда-то крокодил А щас произносить нельзя Теперь он стал наркотиком Любили его дети И я его любил

Да вы блять издеваетесь! На спотике, который сука даже к рф не имеет отношение отцензуренный Опиум!! Они блять реально вырезали слово ОПИУМ из песни ОПИУМ ДЛЯ НИКОГО из альбома ОПИУМ!!! Мы живем в мире Оруэлла и Бредбери 🤬

@SandyofCthulhu Two Jews meet. - I listened to the Beatles, I didn't like it. They lisp, they sing out of tune, why do people like them? - Where did you hear them? - Moshe sang "Yesterday" to me.

Here is a Russian joke about food shortage, told to me BY a Russian Jew. Everyone is standing in line at the butcher shop, because there is a rumor of meat. After they'd been waiting in line for about an hour, an official comes out and shouts, "There is not enough meat for everyone. All the Jews must go home." So, moaning and sad, all the Jews head home. After another hour of waiting, the official comes out again and shouts, "There is STILL not enough meat. Everyone who is not a Party member must go home." All the non-Party members go home, cursing their luck. After yet ANOTHER hour of waiting, the official comes out one last time and shouts, "Well, there isn't any meat at all really. Everyone go home." So Ivan turns to Yuri and says, "See? This is how it always is. The Jews get all the breaks."

@SandyofCthulhu Tom Bombadil casually playing with the Ring is a powerful moment, he is a godlike sinless creature, no wonder he is a deus ex machina if he is indeed a deus. Is Christian God also a deus ex machina for you?

Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil. Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold. What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction. I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.

The manosphere is depressingly shallow. They sell a fantasy of eating steaks, driving fast cars (with a woman in a bikini), having big houses with stereos and a sauna (filled with women in bikinis), eating more steaks, and dying. No art, no life of the mind, just animal grunts.

@StrangerFTruth @ebu_golubei @goode108 У того, кто в детстве не мечтал о GTA в России, нет души. У того, кто во взрослом возрасте не мечтает о GTA в России, нет души.

@ebu_golubei @goode108 То есть города за окном тебе мало или что? Никогда не понимал челов, которые живут среди этих убитых хрущевок, потом приходят и играют в игры про хрущевки. Это предел их фантазий походу. Вот тебе другие страны, эпохи, даже планеты, нет блт нам надо мод с хрущевками. Это диагноз!

Такой ГТА 4 вы ещё не видели. Интересное будущее нам готовит NVIDIA 💀

This invokes a fascinating world of upper floors connected by bridges. Amazing

@FishLikesFlicks @SandyofCthulhu @DeafCrocodile youtu.be/4YmQn6q36HQ?si… - 4K

@onenewnail @SandyofCthulhu @DeafCrocodile No, I mean the original should get an HD release if it hasn't already. Good reminder for me to take a look.

The USSR’s only horror movie.

@FishLikesFlicks @SandyofCthulhu @DeafCrocodile Forget it, the original was unique and memorable, the remake is a generic hollywood slop. There is a Polish or Serbian version which they seem to be very proud of, Zloe Misto or something, I didn't watch it yet.

@SandyofCthulhu I know there was a remake but hadn't seen the original re-released. Seems like a good option for @DeafCrocodile after their other period releases.

@hell_left Литералли Джон из фильма "Война" Балабанова

Краткий пересказ оскароносной документалки: Массовик-затейник решил съебать в заграницу, но, не знает как это сделать и тут из кустов появляется иностранный режиссер со словами «porabotai esche»