Scooby Doom

Maybe my first good week of the year

These people are insane. Mad. Psychotic freaks untethered from reality. The equivalent of ranting lunatics on a street corner running the government

She has been the life of the party on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills recently

Are you fine with the death penalty in some cases? Most Americans are alright with it for serial murder, which is what US immigration policy currently is

Look we’re just gonna need to kill, via legally sanctioned processes, some of the people responsible for this and that’s alright

The lack of self-respect you are exhibiting by just sitting there and taking this shit.

Have you considered that the doctor patient relationship is inherently parasitical and high key problematic??

They don’t tell you that Night and the City (1950) is one the best films ever made. Nobody tells you this, they teach you “algebra” instead.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Megalopolis, somehow the crowd was worse than the movie

Used to mow my parents awful suburban lawn with this blaring in my ears, thinking I was cool for listening to a band from “the 60s”

It is mostly because femininity is a much more “precious” commodity that needs to be guarded and controlled in a patriarchal society. It is very telling that trans men may as well not exist in the current political debate

The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.

This is obvious to anyone engaged with American politics as it actually exists, everyone else is just pretending to care about politics when what they actually care about is philosophy

Being able to finish Saltburn and wonder *whether it thinks it has a twist ending or not* is a complete failure and it’s mostly down to how she frames things

Saltburn is failed almost exclusively by how badly everything is directed. There’s a world where that script does work.

Perhaps not coincidentally, Obergefell was decided in 2015

Interesting for Professor Feldman to say this. Since fairness is bunk, I wonder if he thinks grades should be assigned based on whether you sleep with your professors or not!

Good example here of how all the cabinet folks are just press secretaries. Bondi’s the attorney general, her job has nothing to do with the stock market

If they were making up the numbers, why would they make them bad?

Scalia spent his whole career raining torrential bigotry and lawlessness down from the highest court in the land; the world is more in his image now that ever was when he was alive

Saw a post where someone asked who “the king of digital cinematography” was with no Dion Beebe works pictured . . . what’s going on in our schools

SAVE Act could genuinely cause a 40 point Democratic wave so I’m a bit conflicted about this

They end up self-critical in important ways - ways that keep them interesting - and that’s something foreign to modern conservatism for sure

Something I’ve been mulling over is whether the Safdie Brothers work embodies these principles in some way

I love Gillian Anderson but I do not think her very cultivated quasi ethereal persona would vibe with the Muppets, this is a good take

I did know that, because it is obvious, because a Democratic win in 2024 would have prevented it.

Voting is not the end all of political strategy but you should always vote for the least fascist candidate with a chance to win. It is easy and takes no effort and does marginally more than throwing it away.

Was the current ethnic cleansing campaign be waged on our streets occurring under the previous administration?

You’re just moving the goalposts though. Democratic ineffectiveness and compromise just helped enabled this moment, as does throwing away your vote and letting overt fascist candidates win. But fascists are ultimately responsible for their actions and must be defeated at all costs.