The Eight Hundred: Directed by Hu Guan. With Zhizhong Huang, Junyi Zhang, Hao Ou, Xiaoguang Hu. From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
We decide X is "bad" and then you're bad if you do it or use it.
There are certain elements of this whole lark that the far right understand better than us. The whole "ride the kali yuga" shit is fascist cringe but there is a nugget of value to pull out of it and adopt within the left and that is to figure out how to go with the flow, how to absorb things, how to accept certain elements of the left being messy if it advances the overall more immediate goals of the left. We can fix a lot of bullshit later if it advances us towards revolution in the meantime.
This is actually essential if we're going to get wider and mainstream.
We decide X is "bad" and then you're bad if you do it or use it.
There are certain elements of this whole lark that the far right understand better than us. The whole "ride the kali yuga" shit is fascist cringe but there is a nugget of value to pull out of it and adopt within the left and that is to figure out how to go with the flow, how to absorb things, how to accept certain elements of the left being messy if it advances the overall more immediate goals of the left. We can fix a lot of bullshit later if it advances us towards revolution in the meantime.
This is actually essential if we're going to get wider and mainstream.