Assistant HR Director of Antifa

I feel like I don’t have a sense of what the canon/critical-consensus ranking would be, you could tell me almost any order for these and I’d buy it

Because the consequences never entered into the frame. Everyone knows people imbibe it, but they simply imagine those people as consumers or political messengers; we all “know” about them. No one thinks they are actually affecting the world because they don’t listen to the targets of their bigotry.

not that anybody asked:

1. Boogie Nights
2. Phantom Thread
3. OBAA
4. TWBB
5. Punch Drunk Love
6. Magnolia
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Hard Eight
9. Inherent Vice
10. The Master*

*brilliant and flawless from a craft/performance perspective but so frustrating that I disliked the experience of watching it

Full endorse. Also: The evidence is that it *does* matter. Trump is unpopular! Which is part of why he loses so often!

Most people don't like bigots and Nazi-lovers, but they also don't pay much attention to politics and are not inclined to believe stuff like this. So seeing hard evidence matters.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

this is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

5 Points on the Trump Admin’s Threatened—And Real—Government Shutdown Layoffs In an effort to try and make good on their threats and...

The plan seems to be to keep shooting the hostages (in this case, important government services) until the public prevails on Dems to do something about Vought shooting hostages. It's convoluted, and seems to depend on the public thinking the shutdown CAUSED these layoffs, which it didn't.

The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.

i can use my OWN words to thank Dave's teachers (who, i assume, are other cats, and mostly understand the language of treats)

a prompt from Google saying “generate your next big idea with Gemini” and offering as an example “help me write: thank you note to my child’s teacher for teacher appreciation week”

Lawrence (Diedrich Bader) in the movie OFFICE SPACE saying “shit, no, man, I believe you’d get your ass kicked saying something like that.”

In the movies, you can usually identify the villains because they’re the ones who want to level an entire town of innocent civilians to “send a message” that dissent will trigger extreme violence

Anyhow, imagine cheering for those tactics

these guys simultaneously believe
(a) there's a natural hierarchy of human merit and worth that means some people are entitled to impunity, comfort, and dominion over others
(b) they're the ones atop it

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You reckon Patrick Wilson ever looks in the mirror and thinks “I know him! What’s his name?”

RIP

“Racial resentment has been a driving force behind College Republican recruitment for years, but at this point it’s really all they have left to offer…This is the state of the GOP leadership pipeline.” www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

this is exactly it. they scream about this because they believe this is how government should work

“zero news experience and never been a reporter” is just straightforwardly descriptive and 100% accurate

is there a bigger red flag for sheer assholery than “enthusiastic to be involved as a young person in Trump-era conservative politics”?

Netanyahu gave Trump the headlines and applause he wanted then got right back to the business of ethnic cleansing

Our university system has been without doubt our single greatest source of soft power worldwide, and (for both better and worse) often the source of our hard power as well.

And spiteful conservatives are burning it all to the ground.

I knew it would be bad, but... so bad! So quickly!

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

salute to my fellow Gary

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Here's Deb Haaland in 2019, saying why, to her, changing the name of today's federal holiday from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day isn't about erasing history at all. It's about correcting history.

T! 🙌

we now cut to a live feed of Gen Xers at the memorial service

Bari Weiss puts a lot of evil out into the world but, like Charlie Kirk, if it wasn't them it would be someone else with the same backing. Neither is/was charismatic nor even photogenic. They just have the backing of the people who decide which views are legitimate and amplified.

The main reason why Vought is so angry is that he is not just after political power in a narrow sense but obsessed with status and cultural domination. He believes there is a “natural” order of white male Christian domination in all spheres of life – and America is supposed to follow it.

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

and with an ostensible ally doing the screwing-over