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YouTube video by Chariot Weapons: The Darkness Kept Inside

Today's video is live and it's a short review and analysis of Weapons, a really neat horror film that came out this year! Please enjoy.

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YouTube video by Chariot Until Dawn: Adapt or Die

Today's video is live and it's my review and analysis of the Until Dawn film adaptation where I dig into why this film is such a fun and well-crafted experience.

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(1) this NPR piece is bad and dumb. They should be embarrassed.

(2) Everything is "AI" now. The Independent Center doesn't have some fresh new technology that is going to make centrist third-party candidacies suddenly viable. This is just the latest rebrand of a tired playbook.
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Can we get this boosted

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*woman

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I've noticed there's some overlap between the rhetorical style of transphobic posts and erotic doujinshi titles. "Do You Really Think A Woman Can Have A Penis And Be Happy In Her Relationships?" "This Is The Future A Certain Movement Will Create." "A Women Naturally Wants To Do Womanly Things."

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

Parents do not do this to their children, even their adult children, on accident or incidentally to their other views. This is a reification of something they feel in their relationship and they are acting it out on their son. I don't think it's good that this is content. It should not be.

"We need to have conversations like these because this is where we are" well we need to have conversations ABOUT a lot of endemic problems in our society but I wouldn't monetize the fuck out of the verbally abusive act itself. At a certain point you have to draw a line.

Have a little self-respect and consider the ethics of your content model. This is over the line. Parents telling their kids they should be murdered by the government and getting platformed by them is like watching a famous woman repeatedly bring her husband on her TikTok so he can smack her.

*YOU* are the one not living in reality if you are acting based on a faith-based belief that either these elderly people don't believe these awful things or that this is healthy. At a certain point I wouldn't go to your family gathering if they were invited and I won't watch those videos either.

The podcast's tagline is, "Family therapy through politics." Frankly, I think it's some sort of sick debasement ritual to stick this out. They can call the parents stupid, but who are the stupid ones, the morally nihilistic authoritarians or the ones expecting them to change? Let's get real.

sabakos Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them. And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further. And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

Imagine it being your dream to be an animator and overworking yourself at a studio but ultimately making stuff you're proud of only to have massively evil corporations make it utterly unwatchable specifically because they have contempt for the idea that people like you deserve to have your jobs.

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don't worry you guys the grand wizards of tech are definitely not doing this completely invisibly and unaccountably with their bullshit machines — that would be even crazier than the out of this world flavor of pringles potato snacks

I would agree with this with the caveat that it might make us more insular as anything more than a temporary measure -- while we know these things, a world full of people who don't marches on -- and that debate is a humiliation ritual to be reserved for desired recipients of humiliation.

...and of course, when they're bolder, they're less easily ashamed and truth matters to them less and less. They performatively engage in denunciation of even obvious facts or the ability to know them, and openly embrace fallacious thinking. It's hard to "debate" someone like that.

The way that right-wingers and reactionaries (in this sense even the left-wing ones) clout chase has also adapted to our media environment. It seems like fascists have embraced their political ascendance as no longer a bug but the nascent feature of the right-wing. It's made them bolder.

I was originally anti-debate until I took the tact that it's better to have people out there doing it at some competent level than not at all, but while that's been happening the political right has changed. They're more willing to brazenly lie than ever before, which is saying something.

It's a tough double-bind; one the one hand, "the left won't debate" was catnip to people who fetishize the appearance of rationality (a lot of young men) and probably didn't help, but on the other hand, you really can't directly engage with someone that obviously bad faith.

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"lower their IQ"

...dude what

Now this is journalism.

Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

YouTube video by Chariot One Battle After Another: What Critics Are Missing

My analysis of One Battle After Another and what it does and doesn't take from Pynchon is now live! It's a great film and one of my top five of the year easily. Check it out!

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sorry i put this elsewhere but i might as well share it here in case people here need it for future internet arguments

this is what it's like, yeah.

thinking about the ana valens debanking situation and the DOGE ratfuck and the whole ice/cbp situation have been and how much these ppl in power want to just have a heavily centralized Everything That Is You that can be turned off from society with a wave of a hand with no ability to refuse/object