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BluesBrother81

@The_Ontologist

Aspiring human being. Recovering academic. Swamp-brained Floridian. *Cor aut mors.*

Florida เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2013
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@AVARY The health of cinema aside, Fuqua is underrated. He’s not an “auteur” so he goes unnoticed, but he’s one of the last pure movie entertainers. He even made a “pt. 3” in an action series that was damn good. I don’t know if others’ll miss him when he’s gone, but I certainly will.
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Roger Avary
Roger Avary@AVARY·
Further proof that the Hollywood Entertainment Factory is alive and well in 2026 is Antoine Fuqua’s biopic Michael, that despite being a puff piece is an entertaining and moving musical experience that had me, and anyone else who loved Michael Jackson, choked up and grieving the loss of his light all over again. Not an easy movie to pull off, and Jaafar Jackson bravely fills the shoes. A Hollywood that puts this film into theaters, and has audiences leaving happy, isn’t dead. Sorry.
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Covfefe Anon
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon·
@JohnHMcWhorter Now explain Haiti Use as many words as you did for that bullshit
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@DisaffectedPod It has, or had, its uses in its proper place, but indeed, the way it has fully erased “I think” and linguistically (and thus insidiously) propped up a feminized philosophy of weaponized emotionality makes a categorical self-ban on the phrase a crucial part of good mental hygiene.
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Disaffected
Disaffected@DisaffectedPod·
I can't respect you if you say "I feel like." Goes double for men. -J
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@MovieDweller An old favorite of mine that I also saw in a mostly empty theater and still rewatch probably once a year. Men of culture know the order of rank between The Arrival and Arrival.
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Walter
Walter@MovieDweller·
Now rewatching this, a movie I first saw at the Cineplex Odeon at Menlo Park Mall in the spring of ’96. It was a nearly empty opening night, but we lucked out: Twohy went on to make a couple of the greatest sci-fi movies of the 21st century. In Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
Walter tweet media
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@conan_esq This is why I don’t love shows, even good ones. People say “it gives more time to explore nuances and characters,” and it does - in theory. Typically, though, more space is required for the format than the story and characters require. The inevitable result is soap opera shit.
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Conan, Summer Aesthete
Conan, Summer Aesthete@conan_esq·
I’m watching True Detective Season 1 and I’m at the part where I’m begging the writers please, please move off the soap opera SHIT and solve the murder mystery
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Gareth Harney
Gareth Harney@OptimoPrincipi·
Russell Crowe on Gladiator 2: ‘They failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand what made the first film so successful: it had a moral core. Here’s the thing, most people want that. On the surface, they might go for entertainment, but if they’re going to love something and keep it with them forever, like that movie? …The love for that thing is because of its moral core. All guys want to be that man who can stay that strong, and all women want a man who can love them in that way.’
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Conor Stark
Conor Stark@StarkConor·
I’d like to imitate the Problems (one of my favorite Peripatetic texts): Why is it that the buzzing of flies is so irritating—indeed, to the extent that we seek their death, something we do less readily in the case of other animals and irritants? Is it due to some peculiarity of the vibration alone, or is it because they remind us of decay and death?
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Devon Eriksen
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_·
@KyleKulinski Communists shouldn't exist and neither should socialists.
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Alex Priou
Alex Priou@alexpriou·
The historical root of this is the Cold War. The horrors of WW2 made “fascist” a bogeyman term. And it also allowed the left to hide its sympathies for the Soviet Union. They used the moral high ground to escape accountability. And so they overran the academy and beyond.
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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
When someone tells you black is white what they are really doing is threatening you. They're confronting you w/ the prospect of having to oppose someone for whom the truth means nothing at all & who values only power. For ordinary people this is an intimidating prospect indeed.
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Amanda Milius
Amanda Milius@AmandaMilius·
I will personally pay the Obsession art director chick at this point if it makes this discussion die off my timeline forever.
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@alexpriou I agree with you, but Hume is still pretty enjoyable. In the first philosophy class I ever took - a hardcore analytic epistemology class (didn’t know what I was getting into) - the only reading I enjoyed and got anything out of to fuel my nascent interest in philosophy was Hume.
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BluesBrother81
BluesBrother81@The_Ontologist·
@ArtemisConsort Yep - the old "I'm not touching you" game, which is the left's entire playbook until they have enough power to just "touch" you without fear of consequences.
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
>Posted on a platform invented by Whites >On the Internet invented by Whites >Using a phone or computer invented by Whites >Powered by electricity that was first harnessed in an industrial capacity by Whites >In a country that was established by Whites >Writing in a language that was invented by Whites >Arguing a moral worldview (“racism is bad”) that was universalized by Whites You’re like a fish that doesn’t know anything about water other than that it hates it.
♠️ ©hayton@dlthug_

white people are so lame their only legacy is being racist on twitter

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Auron MacIntyre
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre·
The fight isn’t over until McCarthy is viewed as a weak moderate unable to do what was necessary
The American Tribune@TAmTrib

McCarthy was right about the communist subversion of the United States As he was warning of communist infiltration of the United States government, the State Department and OSS/CIA were actively aiding Ho Chi Minh and the communists in their fight against the French and Western civilization

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Wylfċen
Wylfċen@wylfcen·
Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.
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Eirini Malliaraki
Eirini Malliaraki@irinimalliaraki·
I increasingly think AI has created a new cultural category: consumption experienced as production. You can spend hours prompting images, code, videos, stories, and ideas and feel intensely engaged throughout the process. It feels active rather than passive. But often what is happening is that you are consuming an endless stream of machine-generated novelty, customised precisely to your tastes. The cultural challenge of AI may not be distinguishing human-generated content from AI-generated content. It may be distinguishing genuine authorship from highly personalised entertainment.
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