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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

Someone gonna community-note this that the definition of treason is uh different than that Or has he rendered himself immune to those things

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:09 UTC

I saw this meme and now all of Treksky must as well

#JusticeForTuvix
#StarTrek
#Voyager

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

Pretty sure the burden of proof is on you here. The Wayback Machine exists. And the 2-minute spotcheck I just performed for the fuck of it does not support your contention. And a desire to forget 2016's Twitter hell is not nefarious.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

The world just goes Hawk Tuah And spits on that thing 😢

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:28 UTC

Anyway here's the latest tonally perfect weird shit from co-screenwriter Efthimis Filippou, whose presence is a reliable indicator that even among Yorgos Lanthimos flicks, this is gonna be one of the weird ones. We loved KINDS OF KINDNESS.

#film

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

President Biden claims we can trust him to have the wisdom to respect the limits of the powers of office. That trust goes both ways, old man, and it means you can't be a candyass about em either. You're the king now, sir, and it's your crown to hand off permanently.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

But I'm just some guy with a poli sci degree who reviews movies, and these are just the things I have off the top of my head which fall short of "summarily arrest and detain your political opposition", a line that Trump will definitely cross on the first day of his administration. But DO SOME OF IT.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

Release audio of their private phone calls with their bribe-lords, which the NSA definitely recorded. Expose every corrupt deal and flagrant violation that Trump engaged in during his presidency. Show us his laughter at his base as he robbed them blind and pretended to care about their god.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:04 UTC

Let them see how many powers the president has to endlessly fuck with them *within* the confines of the law.

Release all of their tax returns publicly. Right now. Dump em on Whitehouse.gov. Reveal all their LLCs and obfuscations and bribes. Show us the receipts. (9/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

Call them illegitimate every single day because - every single day, that is what they are. Their word is not law. They are corrupt, compromised jackals trying to devour our democracy, and every edict they issue is a stain upon the flag they wave upside down like the meaningless prop it is to them.

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

"Wreck this illegitimate court and its Republican priest-kings who steal our rights" should not just be a campaign slogan for Biden, but his administration's singular focus for every remaining day of his time in office. Stymie them in every conceivable way. Expose their darkest secrets. (7/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:00 UTC

To glibly summarize Biden's speech as "vote harder" would be inaccurate. To glibly summarize it as a call to action or a plan or presidential leadership of any specific kind would be inaccurate as well. (6/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:59 UTC

American patriotism, as it exists today, is as illegitimate as the court which cites it as evidence that our nation's founding wisdom and fundamental principles conveniently coincide with their most rapacious desires. And I think Biden did the right thing by rejecting it vocally (5/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

I can't switch off the part of my political brain that says, the funniest drone strike ever...would also be our last laugh for a while, and the start of dark days that may outlive us all. Particularly Biden, whose robotic "god bless the troops" at the end didn't exactly fill me with confidence (4/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

Do I enjoy idly fantastizing about political violence now that our institutions are clearly playing a game of right-wing calvinball in the service of legitimizing the principle that the rich can shuck and devour us with impunity? Sure. (3/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

If Biden were to violate the law to oppose the Republican coup, I would be more worried, not less, than I am today, because once we throw out the law, every escalation makes the situation worse and harder to go back from. (2/x)

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FilmWonk @filmwonk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

Me watching the Biden's speech😬 It's good he rejected it. It's good he promised to defend the founding, aspirational principle of our constitutional republic that no one is above the law (even if a good chunk of them were ignored or held in bondage by it, but no matter). (1/x)

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