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every death by a preventable illness, every overdose, every homeless person suffering exposure to the elements, every suicide, every accident caused by overwork, every debt incurred by poverty, all of these and more are a failure of the state, not of the individual

the freedom sold to us by our leaders is the freedom to pick from a short list of jobs where you will work yourself to death for someone else's profit. rugged individualism is a trap: we are all victims of capital

as an independently intelligent and well read and informed american journalist i can tell you with grave certainty that we are going to have to do something about the menace in the east at all costs. specifically the cost of more american lives and labor. break your back upon the stone so that we may break china's back! die for our riches, humunculi

personally i find it quite alarming that china isn't willing to appease the blood god capital with more human sacrifices. what concerns me as an average american is the fact that the chinese government isn't allowing the mass death of its human capital stock. not very American!

i hate our society and culture

me, a proud self-styled revolutionary fighting back against the bourgeois state in a brutal war of attrition: if you say the words "vanguard party" to me i am going to report you to the FBI

peaceful protest is gonna pay off any day now, i can feel it

no one:
me: i don't think it's fair that media so frequently demonizes guys who have a psychosexual addiction to racist hit-and-runs :/
everyone: what
me: and now i'm being persecuted!

breaking new ground by becoming the first white woman artist to develop a substance abuse problem

it's like they say, you can't spell "lol, lmao," without MAO 🇨🇳😤

zeroing in on "it seeks to give them a general education and a political education." i think a key point to emphasize in critiquing contemporary cinema today is that *all* cinema is fundamentally educational. the question is to what end that education is aimed, and to what extent that education is being made explicit. thinking a lot here about how cautionary fables were scrubbed of their complexity for simple binaristic disney narratives- a new lesson, even unstated, takes the old one's place

returning to the early writings of sergei eisenstein for a vision of a cinema that works for the people. as always, this was a very good choice

eisenstein was 28 years old when he wrote this in 1926

https://content.cosmos.art/media/pages/library/film-essays-and-a-lecture/450070820-1601363851/eisenstein_sergei_film_essays_and_a_lecture_1970.pdf

hey watch this video about it/its pronouns, especially if you've ever thought it would be cool to end an academic essay with a t4t werewolf sex scene
https://youtu.be/7DzjEE0ZuKM

the most relatable thing joe biden has done as president is catch the novel coronavirus