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AJ
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Anti-intellectualism is as American as apple pie.
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Rabble rousing recently minted Chicagoan. Founding Writer of laborpainsmedia.com. De vez en cuando publico en español para mejorar mi gramática.
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AJ
@snarkyspice.bsky.social
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Anti-intellectualism is as American as apple pie.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
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What would happen if we stopped applauding racist white women for their one or two times of mediocre decency
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AJ
@snarkyspice.bsky.social
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Old episodes of The Read. Any episode of Bob's Burgers. The first 9 seasons of RHOA. All 4 seasons of RHOSLC. Joel Schumacher's Batman movies from the 90s.
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AJ
@snarkyspice.bsky.social
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"I know right from wrong."* *(But I'm going to continue to be an active participant in genocide).
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Kelsey Atherton
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a neat feature would be a "timed mute" for accounts you want to keep following except when they're clearly on one, like I am today
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Brooke Binkowski
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Guess what though, we don't have ten years
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AJ
@snarkyspice.bsky.social
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So you can propose a bribe, wait for them to decide in your favor and then follow through on your pre-decision proposition! Got it. Adding this to my "Absolutely Not Corruption" notebook.
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Michael
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the conservative movement's roots is an alliance of business interests livid about the new deal, southern racists livid about the civil rights movement, and church ladies livid about the sexual revolution. scotus will continue unabated until they've rolled all those back (or democrats stop them)
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SpiderDork
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feel so privileged to be part of a voter demo in the US who are simultaneously not large enough to bother courting but also powerful enough to throw the election to the Republicans if we don't back whatever corpse the DNC staples to the podium
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Corey Brickley Illustration
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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AJ
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Any job a white person didn't get and thinks they were robbed of due to DEI. 🫠🙃
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AJ
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I'm not watching either, to be clear! The app was just promoting it heavily when I signed in to watch Veep.
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AJ
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If you have the Max app, you can watch it live through there. I'm sure a good chunk of the audience is not your typical cable subscriber.
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it's gita time
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Many internet beefs just amount to “had opinions I disagreed with the years ago” and I think it’s more wise to just block people you don’t like online
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David Slack
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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.
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AJ
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The last season of Veep.
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AJ
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Gotta love a kid who is all about his high fiber diet before he can spell the word "fiber." 😂
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AJ
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It's the allure of forbidden "fruit." "If everyone keeps trying to take this from me, then CLEARLY there must be something great about it! They just don't want me to have any fun."
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Hayes Brown
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I don’t love that the robots have access to knowledge that we don’t
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Secretoriginz
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Affected talent should sue for the damage to their careers. People make a tv series & it vanishes completely afterwards, the perception could easily be that the project was a failure. No one goes into a project thinking it could be wildly successful & still vanish.
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Pope of Chili Town
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“Sure, take the deduction this year. But it will now be infinitely harder for you to profit off this piece of media in the future. I bet you’ll feel pretty silly if it becomes a beloved cult classic and everyone can get it for free!”
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Pope of Chili Town
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“If you make a piece of media unavailable for tax reasons, it immediately falls into the public domain” would be a good rule.
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Linda Holmes
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Just another opportunity to bang my favorite drum, which is that there are ways to discourage this kind of thing via the tax code. And if you don’t believe me, think how many things are ENCOURAGED via the tax code.
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merritt k
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop
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AJ
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[Nene Leakes voice] YOU ARE NOT. SMART.
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AJ
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"Media literacy is a dying art" is going to be my hobbyhorse until my back and my sense of equilibrium give out.
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AJ
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"Franchise-dependent." As if there aren't like... 13 iterations of Friday the 13th INCLUDING A FREDDY KRUGER/NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET CROSSOVER.
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AJ
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Before I even moved here last year, I made peace with the fact that I'm never going downstate unless I'm heading to St. Louis. There's way too many ways for me to wake up dead.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Incredible line from MTA board member Norman Brown (a former Long Island Rail Road machinist and union delegate, later transportation policy scholar) from a longer pro-congestion-pricing retort at the board meeting: “If you live in the car, you think of the windshield as the end of your universe.”
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AJ
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And 2: All of the best storm photography opportunities happen out in the middle of nowhere. "I'm not trying to turn up missing in a cornfield in Klansman County, Nebraska."
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AJ
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We joked about me becoming a storm chaser as a job a few weeks back. The joke is multilayered because 1: I can't drive (never learned, not super interested in learning right now)...
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AJ
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Chicago is surrounded by """former""" sundown towns. My mom asked me if I had visited some tourist attraction out in the suburbs and I had to send her a list of places I'm not willing to go without a white escort.
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AJ
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I saw your reposts and was about to ask how high you are right now, but this post answered that question. Not high (probably?) just feeling yourself.
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AJ
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They didn't discuss the AIDS epidemic head on, but the Legacy Virus was a feature of numerous X-Men storylines for 8 years. Stop expecting entertainment properties to spoon feed you and go develop your own personal politics. It's very intellectually rewarding!
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AJ
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I know I said I was only going to talk about 1 flawed aspect of this, but I also have to say that Marvel Comics generally doesn't address real world diseases that often because it fucks up the mechanics of their in-universe (in-multiverse?) problems.
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AJ
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Its staying power was negligible EXCEPT in that it primed people to make even more excuses for demonstrations of colonialism abroad, which became fascism here at home.
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AJ
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Think about all of the "immediate aftermath" media about 9/11 and the War on Terror we got in the mid-00s. Most of that shit was TERRIBLE from a narrative standpoint and reactionary from a political standpoint.
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AJ
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Entertainment (not news, not live media) should not be produced on an Amazon Prime schedule. Because ideation, creation, production and distribution TAKE TIME. If you expect media to be created as rapid response to the biggest political issues of the day what you're actually expecting is propaganda.
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AJ
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M*A*S*H* was about the Korean War, which ended in 1953. The movie was released in either 1969 or 1970 and the TV show started airing in 1972. We didn't get a critical mass of movies about the Vietnam War until the back half of the 70s.
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AJ
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Re: the first known case Docs didn't know it was HIV/AIDS at the time and that discovery only came decades later after they ran tests on preserved blood and tissue samples.
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AJ
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We didn't start getting movies about the AIDS crisis until the tail end of the 80s and the early-90s. Even though the first HIV/AIDS cluster was discovered in 1981 and the first known case in the US was in 1969.
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AJ
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So many issues with that screenshotted post re: media literacy. I don't have the bandwidth to tackle them all, so instead I'll stick to the first one that comes to mind: Visual mass media production (TV and film and comics to a much smaller degree) in the US exists on a 7-10 year tape delay.
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ratwife
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most of you would be better served by developing a set of personal ethics instead of just huffing the morality juice laying around the internet in unsealed red cups
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Alan Henry
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I'm dead. I have died. I am deceased. I am no longer on this earth. Remember me fondly
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grace
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i was active on tumblr from 2009-2014 and twitter from 2013-2023. you cannot scold me in a way that matters.
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Karl Bode
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love that we've ceded control of our primary voice networks because we're too corrupt to pass and enforce rules that don't upset telemarketers and debt collectors
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merritt k
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i think the mistake a lot of people make is thinking that fighting climate chaos is a popular position. i don't think it actually is the US/Canada/UK etc. maybe it is in the abstract but the second anything becomes inconvenient (e.g. reducing usage of cars) people will fight it
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Cooper Lund
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One major shift in the last ten years is that everyone - politics people, sports people, movie people - have at least in part stopped being able to talk about the thing they're actually interested in and have succumbed to the idea that marketing is the thing that matters
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AJ
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This is similar to what's happening in my mom's hometown. Except now they're getting their first taste of racial demographic changes for the first time in living memory and people are freaking out.
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AJ
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Qualified immunity means they're not getting sued.
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