Because he was Russian.
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Because he was Russian.
Spain did, though it took 40 years. I’m leaning towards thinking something similar will happen in the U.S.—many decades of some form of authoritarian government that eventually peters out.
Dave Bautista by a long shot.
It’s what plants, and bees, crave.
Trump isn’t invading DC or Chicago or LA to distract from the Epstein files or how his economic plan will mean pain and ruin for the working class, many of whom voted for him. He’s invading these cities AND causing economic pain AND protecting himself. There is no strategy, just destruction.
Is it Brawndo?
Not exactly, but point taken.
My weird dreams keep involving famous film theorists being closet murderers; I have to help cover for them.
A serious question from someone who couldn’t have taken your class: can genocide be conducted in a way in which intent is clear if unstated but means are indirect (not deliberate)? That is, are hallmarks always obvious?
“Thinking you’re good at something” is a really curious definition of arrogance.
Pump the brakes. I am a fan, believe it or not, but you don’t have the impact that FLW did to quote this even ironically.
Sounds like a good idea, but I have no experience in this matter. I hope it worked out for you.
I never watched FARGO, so can anyone tell me if Noah Hawley’s dialogue is always this painfully expository? #alienearth
He probably was. Unfortunately he did. Yes he is. I have no doubt he visited Epstein Island and was friends with Epstein. Definitely release the files.
Even at the time, reports were that he left no manifesto and that no one in his social circle knew of his politics or plans. Stop behaving like QAnon believers—don’t fill in gaps with suspicions or fantasies.
General Zod to most, Terence Stamp will always be Pasolini’s Visitor to me. May he rest in peace.
Oh yes we will.
Seven of my articles were used by Meta to train AI, without my knowledge let alone permission.
Seven of my articles were used.
Slightly diminish a band: Grateful In Hospice
Well, this is certainly is a take.
I’m not sure a fascist or neo-fascist regime has ever won a majority of the vote; it always just manages to outpoll the feckless liberals (or kills leftists in a civil war). @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.org FUCKING READ HISTORY. FUCKING STAND GOR SOMETHING
Ah — it showed up as a response to me. Yes, unless the administration provides actual services, this is a set-up to disappear the undesired.
No worlds left to conquer? How about the world of listenable music. I’m 55 and thus squarely in his demographic, and every single Offspring song exists solely to make Green Day sound like “real” punk. Offspring’s offspring is Good Charlotte.
The ship foundered many years ago. ICE would not be possible otherwise. It’s time we started thinking about a new ship and a new course. I’ll still vote against those whose new course is “National conservatism,” but nostalgia for a “real” past republic is not productive.
Hunh? I think you missed my point.
I am not a fan of Lemmon (too much of a used car salesman) or Wilder (dialog is a bit too clever), but my heavens is this film as emotionally honest as anything Hollywood ever produced.
Off the Wall>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thriller
What kind of addiction and mental health treatment is being offered? If it is legitimate counseling, then I will give the administration its props. If it’s “accept Jesus or die” conversion therapy, then the administration is just looking to imprison or disappear people.
Counter argument: youtu.be/8_CCaiVDQdQ?...
Number 4 is a mitigating factor. Number 1 is impressive, considering the standard set by Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan.
If you’d told me this was a sculpture made of shaved ham, I’d have believed you.
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000. La Dolce Vita is one of the greatest films of any decade, and I will fight to death anyone who says otherwise, and I will win.
Shame that the first film is such a turd.
I might have had too good a time at dinner. The world spins if I’m at more than a 60* angle. This is not a pleasant experience.
Oxford commas are themselves barbaric; rather than craft clear sentences to begin with, we resort to unnecessary punctuation that slows the reader down.
Wasn’t that more or less what Harris ran on? A sizable percentage of voters have never experienced a functioning U.S. govt—the GOP has been in some form of obstructionism or checks/balances flaunting for at least 30 years. What does “restore” mean to them?
Yes, we’ve seen this or similar jokes for days. Why don’t you and the Dems make some positive moves rather than posture?
I am not a big FF fan but think the series has a lot of potential cinematically. While the decision not to make this an origin story is wise, the decision to make Reed a middlebrow Tony Stark (genius inventor, no arrogance) and the others personality-less was double-plus unwise.
By crime Cotton means “black people walking around freely.”
Probably nobody cares at this point, but Fantastic Four: First Steps is really bad.
Yes. We live in a fascistic kakistocracy, with “worst” here covering morality, intelligence and (if we’re lucky) capability.
I made pretzels for the first time this weekend. The recipe called for 1 tablespoon of barley malt; the local brewing supplies store carries only three pound bags. Luckily I enjoyed making pretzels.
Does that matter? They were still trying to convert.
New Atheists were easy to caricature. It’s why they inspired many to laugh about “sky daddy” & alienate religious people who might’ve been allies. A former atheist friend minimized religion as motivation in MLK Jr’s civil rights work bc nonreligious reasons *could* support such goals.
They were the public face, but I know *a lot* of people who looked up to them and began mocking religious people for their belief in “Sky Daddy,” calling Jesus a fictional character…. New Atheism was a response to religious right of 1980s, but it was a bad response.
I’m an atheist and strongly believe that if atheists had not been such jackasses in the late 20th/early 21st century (Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, etc.), evangelicals wouldn’t have grown as they did. Treating all religious people as an enemy made a lot of enemies.
I know this is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but Ellie Kemper deserves better than Kohl’s ads.
It was an interesting investigation of gender dynamics for sure. It’s sort of developed on the last half but leans more into horror trope than I’d have liked.
As you might guess, the subterranean and superhuman aspects strain even horror conventions for me. But the scenes with Richard Brake and the supermarket clerk and his neighbors were so good.
By the way—I do like the film. Even its less-strong elements have strong points, and I’m excited for Weapons.
I will look forward to the post-film thoughts.
It’s solid for maybe 60 minutes. After that—don’t question, just accept that it’s as well-written as everyone says.
Drop on old person that you’re going to turn into. My students may think I already have.
I am so sorry. Hopefully he will chicken out again.
Anyone I know on the East Coast willing and able to rescue this sweet dog?
I thought Chett went to Randy.
So Dennis Quaid gets no children now? Seems unfair.
Sometimes I wonder if “turn off your phone, keep it off, and while you’re at it, shut your piehole” would be a more effective message at the beginning of movies.
As a recent interlocutor on the subject: I don’t think it’s any kind of solution to the crisis of democracy. It’d be a good thing to have, but that’s it. I might be a leftie, but I’m not a magical thinker.
As I said to someone else, Trump isn’t an aberration, he is the legacy of the GOP’s last 40 years; Reagan said liberal Repubs should leave party & govt was problem, lied about all sorts of things; Gingrich laid path for McConnell’s Party of No; Bush II falsified data and smeared opponents.
…and reduces reasons for challenges to licenses (fewer potential legal headaches for networks). This doesn’t create political talk radio, but it and ownership-law changes make it more viable. It’s an article of faith among Reagan Repubs that 80s deregulation had few if any downstream negatives. 2/3
FD was imperfect (and used by Dems against small-town/rural conservative stations more than by GOP against leftists), but at root it was about media’s civic responsibility in use of finite public resource. End of FD severs media/civic responsibility link… 1/2
Unfairness Doctrine? Try Unfun Doctrine!
While the FCC didn’t require a 1:1 ratio, expectations were greater than “token opposing view at 3 a.m.” Sunday morning panel shows didn’t go unheard, and more than a few stations felt enough responsibility/pressure to air opposing views at reasonable times.
Disinformation and brainwashing are not the same thing. The U.S. has a long history of conspiratorial thinking.
We are not helping anything if we refer to our political opponents as inherently brainwashed.
I was there.
And end of FD ended any need to offer counter arguments. Thus buying stations up is less risky—no national risk of orders to add other voices, more viable to build monovocal network.
Indeed, as I am a poor academic, sir. But I’d bet the comfy footrests and lounging in first class encouraged uncouth manners as well.
It is, indeed, a bop, as the kids say.
I gotta be honest, I’m not sure that legal history or arguments are going to register with this interlocutor.
BTW, saw shameful amount of shoeless feet on transatlantic flights a few weeks ago. We might disagree on talk radio, but on this issue we are in lockstep.
It does make sense, and I think we might be more in agreement than it seems. You’re focused on content, I’m pointing to *spread* of content. End of FD allows monovocal content; ownership rules allow that to spread.
Look for sources I posted elsewhere in thread.
… and end of Fairness Doctrine helped create infrastructure, political cover for networks of political radio. It didn’t *create* political talk radio, it fostered its spread.
Collapse of AM music important (though it survived into the late 80s; my dad had a K Car with only an AM band and found lots of oldies stations, hence my memories of him driving while miming cracking a whip and singing along to “Mule Train”). But shift in ownership rules… 1/2
PS: I was alive in the 80s, have done research in deregulation and its impact on media. I’m astute enough to know that, despite the hopes of other Reagan Republicans, Trump is not an aberration in conservatism: he is your legacy, the result of 40+ years of demonization of govt, others.
Also Pickard, America’s Battle for Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Liberalism and the Future of Media Reform. I’m not saying any of the above *caused* right-wing talk radio. But the creation of an infrastructure for it absolutely has connection to the end of ownership rules, Fairness Doctrine.
Try Barnard, Hacking Hybrid Media, specifically “Channels of Distortion: The End of the Fairness Doctrine and the Resurgence of (Domestic) Information Warfare” and Clogston, “The Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and the Irony of Talk Radio,” Journal of Policy History 28:2 (2016).
I have!
Oh dear God, please make an argument.
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Yes, see my final parenthetical.
Simplistic answers aren’t helping anything, especially those involving pat pop psychology.
Not everyone wants to move away; some are happier remaining close to home, and factories/agriculture/mining gave them stability. It isn’t just rural; Ypsilanti, Flint and other MI communities (for example) have suffered due to car plant closures. Residents still have civic pride tho.
I’m sure simple categories are more comfortable for you, but we don’t have enough boat-buying car dealership owners in this country to constitute a core for anything. And I’m old enough to remember visiting rural and rural-ish communities that did well enough to survive. 1/2
Mostly in the 80s. Rules that had limited foreign ownership of media outlets were repealed (crucial to the growth of NewsCorp), and then limits on the number of outlets that could be owned. The end of the Fairness Doctrine helped spread right-wing radio (though not Fox News channel).
She identifies an important segment of his appeal—people who have seen their communities falter, even if they aren’t doing as badly. But I don’t know that those are Trump’s *core* necessarily, as it doesn’t explain his suburban support.
Fox primarily, though Sinclair fits too.
I never said forgotten. I said that *a* large proportion of people who bought into the propaganda were blue-collar workers. Not all, but surely not insignificant. Are elderly voters the most devoted MAGA now? Could be. But they’re not the entirety.
A large proportion of the people who bought into the propaganda *weren’t* affluent—they were blue-collar workers who saw their jobs disappearing and their communities crumbling under neoliberal economics. The irony is that neoliberalism created the networks feeding them the propaganda.
I might end every lecture this semester with “Carthage delenda est.” #memeingtheendoftherepublic
…and the band breaks up before Abbey Road. Time heals wounds, and by the mid-70s, they reunite.
After watching the Peter Jackson doc, here’s my Beatles what-if: Billy Preston doesn’t show up to jam. In the doc, the Beatles are clearly desperate to please him, which leads to their renewed if temporary commitment to the band. If Preston doesn’t arrive, their egos/ill will continue to fester…
Kansas City, Raleigh and Detroit.
No argument there.
Meh.