change the goddamn tagline already, bezos, brandish your fucking class interests or you're a coward. 2018
I believe the truth has power and it takes constant vigilance to drown out that truth with noise
The greatest lie ever told is that the word as it exists is at an equilibrium, that history has ended and the status quo is this unshakeable monument.
The reality is that this order they've erected is a house of cards, a paper tiger, a magic trick that serves as nothing more than a stop sign in the face of the inevitable march of history.
Earlier this month, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley tweeted, “Art for arts [sic] sake is never for arts [sic] sake-it’s for the sake of the status quo. This is why the CIA funded Jackson Pollack [sic].” Set aside the vaguely totalitarian suggestion that art must, by its nature, exist either in support of or opposition to the political establishment.
Sic sic sic sic yeah we know it's a quoted tweet you condescending prick.
Also, how is it "totalitarian" to point out that art has a political component? I hate WaPo so much.
WaPo using words like "totalitarian" and "authoritarian" to describe random things like I would use seasoning in my cooking to emotionally spice up their article
Maybe we should start doing that...look how authoritarian it is that my surplus value is stolen
look how authoritarian it is that my boss steals my surplus value
look how authoritarian it is that insurance companies steal all of my money when i get sick
look how totalitarian it is that my landlord steals half my paycheck and the bank wont let me get a loan for a house that i cant afford to begin with
All I can.say is that nobody ever looked at a piece of soviet social realist art and said, "yeah, my six year old could do that."
Set aside the vaguely totalitarian suggestion that art must, by its nature, exist either in support of or opposition to the political establishment
What?
'Set aside reality and come join me as I meander through my field of carefully curated brainfarts'
why would they need to do that again? It's still working from the first time around
I don't know, even conservatives are beginning to wonder why they have to suffer when the economy chokes while the guys running the company don't seem to be affected at all.
Of course their answer seems to be national socialism.
The writer is a film critic. How can you be a pro red scare film critic? lol.
In the wake of the red scare? How can you not be? Everyone else got scared out.
It never stopped the anticommunist shit. Communism and socialism are becoming more popular because, to put it in terms even a journalist can understand, people's standard of living is decreasing and their lives are getting worse so they don't see why they should support the status quo if it doesn't work for them. Interest in the far right is growing too, though of course the Washington Post is behind giving them surface to air missiles and small arms.
also it keeps being used as a put down for popular things which obviously is going to create positive associations. The good aspect of just want healthcare libs who identify as socialists is that there are a lot of them and they make the word less scary
Yup. Decade after decade of american pundits rabidly screaming that the slightest concession to the working classes is communism has lead to an awful lot of people wondering whether if all this good stuff is communism then maybe communism is good.
This dude is from DC and went to school at University of Virginia. Makes me wonder if he has some ties that he’s not being open about.
University of Virginia? Isn't that the school that held the Nazi rally that ended up killing a person and injuring several?
I find it to be a poor excuse tbh Isn't Charlottesville a college town where not even a fart goes by without the University making a decision on it? They literally just let a Nazi rally happen on account of them willing to allow 'discourse' and free speech.
The only part of the rally that took place on campus grounds was the tiki torch march, which to my knowledge only happened there because it wasn't announced and secretly planned. The permit given for the main rally which took place in the park where the Robert E. Lee statue was removed and another park after was given by the city council, who also conspicuously choose to not ban weapons at it despite recommendation by the VA secretary of public safety. The university to their credit had everyone stay away from campus nearby. Disclosure that this is what I was told from family who lives there.
The best part is that this chucklefuck ignores that at the same time the CIA was fighting a "cultural war" it was fighting a clandestine war.
Remembering the culture war stuff without the other stuff being brought up is a subtle disavowal of the CIA's bullshit at the time and part of the narrative that drives "yeah we did bad stuff back then, we don't do it anymore"
Are they talking about Operation Gladio? Or the various assassinations they conducted, around the world, and which are still ongoing? Perhaps their manipulation of the news media (Mockingbird)? Or the lying to Congress whenever they open their mouths?
Even Truman, who authorized the creation of the CIA, later regretted it.
There should be a wiki page for Crimes of the CIA. CIA is (de jure) legally a "continuing criminal enterprise" just for the drug trafficking alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_Criminal_Enterprise_Statute
This is why capitalism will lose and communism will win. It will always come down to material interests. You can't feed people on culture and ideology.
"You see, the problem is that we aren't doing enough brainwashing of our populace."
My friends always tell me "It's just an editorial" which I think is just nuts.
Publishing an editorial is endorsing an editorial. I would simply not publish the editorial :very-smart:
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Slap him up and shake him up and then you know
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Slap him up and shake him up and then you know
Let him off the flo' then bait him with the dough
You can do it funk or do it disco, why'know how this go
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Boots Riley
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