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@pluralistic “Some days, it's hard to have hope. Some days, it's so obvious that everybody knows, all that I can muster is fury. Fury is not a full substitute for hope, but it'll do. It's a far superior alternative to the fatalism that "everybody knows" and thus nothing can be done.

“Some fights you win, and other fights, you just fight, because surrender isn't an option. Everybody knows, right? If everybody knows, then everybody might just decide to do something about it.”

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maybe i'm nothing but a grump but this just feels like another entry in the Fucked Up Practical Gore Arms Race that defined the evil dead remake and basically every single post-2010s horror movie with an inferiority complex about the pg-13-ification of the genre. i dunno man i'm just not convinced. this doesn't look new at all and i'm BEGGING modern cinematographers to please ask anyone in grip/electric to put even a single fucking light on set

youtu.be/mwfK0OvBdfs

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because the thing is that if it's really such a great movie (maybe it is idk the trailer sucks) then it will have precisely one effect: there will be more evil dead movies, and more movies trying to be like evil dead

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if it's blazing such a scalding hot new trail then why's it an evil dead sequel

i don’t think it’s “going too far” to say that nazis should not have any political input whatsoever! if you apply that logic to the modern day then you come to the inevitable conclusion that any revolutionary government in the us, for example, would have to disenfranchise vast swathes of the population in order to maintain political power, and that wouldn’t be a bad thing

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Did you know there’s a department of every state government that seizes dead people’s houses and sells them to pay hospitals they died in, leaving their children with nothing?

LRB: THAT'S what shen yun is??? no wonder that shit is fucking everywhere!

but then again i'm a communist film student who wants everyone on wall street strung up dead in public so i guess i might have some bias

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i'd be more compelled by the "economics is really complicated" line if all the titans of industry and venture capital weren't secreted out of a waste bin in nevada with all the intelligence of a video game npc from 1996

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i think it would be cool if the government didn't subsidize the gambling addiction of the bourgeoisie ("the economy")

the dems just keep letting each hostage get killed and saying 'if you dont vote for us theyll kill the next one too!!!'

"Look, if you think the fact that my Internet of Shit door-lock failed because the company that designed it made no plan to let me into my house if they went out of business would make me sympathetic to that company, you are out of your fucking mind. If that happened to me, it would make me want to tear the lock out of my door, hunt down the CEO of the company that made it, set the lock on fire, and throw it through their front window."

@pluralistic on 🔥 🔥

pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon

podfeels got me emotional about my silly little homestuck fanfiction

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slur, important news for the "She topped me!" fans 

OH MY GOD the "she topped me!" panel comes directly after betty calls veronica a shemale. holy fuck. it was on purpose.

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i've had two twitch ad revenue payouts this year and i haven't logged into that website in a year and a half! i can't even REMEMBER the last time i got ad revenue from youtube!!

we showed sam sinkdog and they got very upset and said when they heard sinkdog they thought it would be like this

the response to my hays code vid is encouraging. maybe i can make this youtube shit work again after all

assuming that i can avoid getting disastrously sick every single time i release a new thing, as i have done the last three times i released a new thing

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