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I think it wouldn't be what Tulsi was doing as much as establishing the left as a distinct force and creating a counter narrative in the wide swaths of the country the left currently has no presence outside of election season.

In the absence of that Biden will shit the bed for 4 years and the republicans will simply say the left is the more extreme version of Biden. Nobody will care that some twitter accounts with hammers and sickles really hate Biden or something, if the left wants to be seen as opposition it has to be the people the left actually put in office.

I agreed with most of it, but I think ultimately if the squad and Bernie are not willing to go around the country and tell people face to face that Biden and his ideology are responsible for all this suffering then the Republicans who will do that will control the backlash. The half in half out approach is killing us.

I don't think mainstream or maybe film in general has the language to do satire in the way people would find effective. Like with fight club you can talk about the subtext of it but it's overwhelmingly still cool sexy people doing interesting things. The people who look at it on that level aren't really missing the point, they are grasping what most of film making is designed to do. All of things that we think about as making a good movie are things that elevate whatever you are portraying.

It's just kind of insane to be like "We cast these super attractive people, we made them more attractive with makeup and costumes, we lit everything to make it nicer, we tried to make the dialogue as well paced and engaging as possible, we tried to make every shot beautiful, but oh yeah you are not supposed to feel positive in that audience seat. This movie is about how all these things we made beautiful and entertaining are bad."