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It reminds me of Breaking Bad after The Wire.
Technically, there is no question The Wire is the superior offering in every way imaginable, but Breaking Bad spoke *specifically* to angst white men have about not getting what they they think they are entitled to.
Ergo, Cranston's character was elevated to some anti-hero and Breaking Bad was lauded as one of the greatest shows ever.
Ha, neither of which are true. White guys just could "relate" to it.
That formula works... as The Joker shows.
Willow
Twitter admits email address and phone number given for security purposes was used for targeted ads
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-emails-phone-number-advertising-privacy/
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After the hype non-white, non-straight movies and shows have been getting (Killing Eve, Pose, Black Panther, Moonlight, Crazy Rich Asians etc) over the last few years I would not be surprised if The Joker won an Oscar. Nah, I'm serious.
There is *always* a white backlash to the success of films that don't center the white gaze. ALWAYS. That's what America is.
It doesn't matter it always leaves us worse off then when we started. A big part of white identity is just to cause undue suffering.
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The Joker is just another example of how media companies enables the completely made up and and/or self inflicted torments of white men as if it there is some deep, esoteric reason for their current condition.
Meanwhile, no such deference is given to any other social group in America that has actually experienced real oppression and societal rejection.
The Joker gives white men another pat on the back and tells them their violence and resistance to reason is OK.
Because... life is hard.
neville park
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're anti-anti-fascist, you're pro-fascist
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I was in Oakland this weekend and walked by a few theaters that were showing The Joker and it was just lines of young white dudes.
Never believe they don't know what they are doing. They are literally cashing in on all of the white angst fomented by 🍊 and his ilk.
Todd Phillips knew exactly what he was doing when he framed criticism of his flick as 'leftist'.
But watch how they will feign ignorance when another white guy shoots up a place.
Gus TT Showbiz
My best friend from high school made this documentary about a tribe of Ojibwe that live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and he's released it on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/359880892
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LOL, so Bethesda is going to release a Fallout Complete bundle to try to distract from the dumpster fire that is 76.
I just cant get over how they fucked up so bad after the 4 because they had built up so much good will.
All those resources and they literally released a broken game and charged *full price* for it.
I get why people are pissed. I honestly think Bethesda doesn't care.
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@ArtistMarciaX It's not a bad show, but it's wildly overrated. And it just doesn't have the cast that Hannibal does.
It looks great but comparatively speaking, I think Hannibal is the better show. I think a lot of it has to do with the deification of Neil Gaiman, which I've always found so odd.
Yeah, he's pretty good, but the way people fellate him is wild.
🍤El Presidenite🍤
OH SHIT!!! Sanders just proposed Kshama Sawant’s public finance proposal!!!! 👀 👀 👀
El Norte Recuerda 🇵🇷
@popstar when we could be dismantling white supremacy and capitalism instead, and reinvesting in indigenous modes of sustainability, a tradition :/
The research fairy 😷 🧚♂️ 🌈
Reminder:
> For future reference, whenever a techbro talks about “disrupting an industry,” they mean: “replicating an already existing industry, but subsidizing it heavily with venture capital, and externalizing its costs at the expense of the public or potential workers by circumventing consumer-, worker- or public-protection laws in order to hopefully undercut the competition long enough to bring about regulatory capture.”
https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2019/06/05/on-techbros-in-healthcare-and-medical-research/
Darius Kazemi
People have asked me if having local-only posting somehow discourages federated posting.
I finally did the actual queries on our instance database, and after about a year of having local-only as an option we are at almost exactly 50/50 local vs federated posts.
65% of our accounts have been active in the last month, which is on the high side of normal for an instance with 80 accounts.
We post about 2x more *federated* posts than other instances with ~40 active users.
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Whew. So what did I miss?
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@djsundog thanks homie
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@alice LOL, just let me know who I’m giving the keys to.
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@BrokenBiscuit Hm. Ok.
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@denikombucha And who is gonna read all that?
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@denikombucha That’s a great analogy. That’s what it feels like.
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@mood I do a TON of those exercises as well when I'm feeling on edge. They really help to turn down the volume so you can find your footing again. Ha, yeah, it's a hard process, but every inch you gain counts. You just gotta keep pushing.
No worries. You're definitely not alone and it will get better.
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