Watching an old GDR red western and one of the cracker villains looks like a young

Comms one

Is it just me or have the boards been slow since the struggle session

Arguing on a format that is not at all built for even clearly displaying who is talking to whom

Kates is a real one that sucks she has to go through this

How much of season 2 do you have to watch to get it

IDK I think it's important to acknowledge a lot of these types of movies also significantly glamorize the protagonist. It's not typical that the film is 100% critical of the character and dumdums just completely misunderstand it, usually they're also given cool lines, cool music underscores their actions, cool aesthetics, they're shot in flattering ways, played by beautiful movie stars, etc.

The Return of the Mack

Thank you for the effort-post comrade

It's been on my list, I finished Liberalism: A Counter-History over the summer and it's interesting to hear you describe Settlers as a good companion piece.

I've never read Orientalism, but have been hesitant because it seems like it might be very theoretical and hard to read. The way you describe how it made you feel makes me think I should put it on the list too!

The ultimate bad guys in contrast are the intelligentsia. Most working-class conservatives, for instance, don’t have much use for corporate executives, but they usually don’t feel especially passionate about their dislike for them. Their true hatred is directed at the “liberal elite” (this divides into various branches: the “Hollywood elite,” the “journalistic elite,” “university elite,” “fancy lawyers,” or “the medical establishment”)—that is, the sort of people who live in big coastal cities, watch public television or public radio, or even more, who might be involved in producing or appearing in same. It seems to me there are two perceptions that lie behind this resentment: (1) the perception that members of this elite see ordinary working people as a bunch of knuckle-dragging cavemen, and (2) the perception that these elites constitute an increasingly closed caste; one which the children of the working class would actually have far more difficulty breaking into than the class of actual capitalists.

It also seems to me that both these perceptions are largely accurate.

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Conservative voters, I would suggest, tend to resent intellectuals more than they resent rich people, because they can imagine a scenario in which they or their children might become rich, but cannot possibly imagine one in which they could ever become a member of the cultural elite. If you think about it that’s not an unreasonable assessment. A truck driver’s daughter from Nebraska might not have very much chance of becoming a millionaire—America now has the lowest social mobility in the developed world—but it could happen. There’s virtually no way that same daughter will ever become an international human rights lawyer, or drama critic for the New York Times. Even if she could get into the right schools, there would certainly be no possible way for her to then go on to live in New York or San Francisco for the requisite years of unpaid internships. Even if the son of glazier got a toehold in a well-positioned bullshit job, he would likely, like Eric, be unable or unwilling to transform it into a platform for the obligatory networking. There are a thousand invisible barriers.

• David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

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Is Keith Richards cool like that?

I'd be interested in knowing how you think Settlers compares to Liberalism: A Counter-History

Yeah you can tell by the forehead size

Yeah he's in the back there see

Chapo Traphouse is a podcast featuring Amber A'Lee Frost, Matt Christman, Felix Beiderman, Will Menaker and Virgil Texas

The Jakarta Method is a great book, even if it's a little lib in places he brings it all together in the end.

Have you seen Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing (2013) or The Look of Silence (2015)? Some of the best documentaries I've ever seen and great companion pieces to The Jakarta Method.

Vincent Bevins' new book If We Burn (2023) is a great read as well.

Nice. I just read The Lathe of Heaven last month, my first from Leguin. She can really write! I was impressed by her prose.

Hell yeah

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Can you name literally any element of the song that would make it not R&B?