I saw "Dunedin" and thought it said "Dúnedain" ("Men of the West" in the Tolkienverse) and thought that's just what we're calling white people now

Way to maintain the spoiler tag 😂. Yeah, that's what happens. The movie could be interpreted as vaguely lefty up until that point, but that cements it as centrist drivel, its messaging boils down to "noooo, the actual nazis win if poor POC and police fight, we must rally under the national flag one and all and defend civilised, polite France instead of playing into their hands and fighting one another".

Except for the dogshit twist at the end, when it is revealed that:

I was under the impression that Marx never really mastered English, despite spending a good while in England. May just be a misconception I picked up then.

no, they actually hooked up an Xbox controller to it

Thank you, strigine comrade

Typical commie DE fan with no imagination (i actually have a very different name and profile picture i use on other sites, didn't want to replicate here, and couldn't think of anything better for the moment 🤷‍♂️)

I haven't had the pleasure of reading any of her novels, but considering her biggest success in comics was a series about a woman who is inspired by 9/11 to join the U.S. army and then become a space cop (Green Lantern), not all that surprising, is it?

As someone from the country not only am I shaken by recent events, but also by people's analyses and "takes" on them. I know people are rightly disturbed by the shootings, especially the first one, and hurting because of that, but you see them broadly lamenting the state of our society and finding the fault lies with anything from trivialities like video-games to some vague notion of "western influence". That's not going to help. It's scary.

Jesus Christ what the fuck

Him being Greek aside, none of what the r*dditor said about the Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian or Russian versions/spellings of the name is correct, it's not even Slavic originally, for that matter. How are people that confident about things they're clueless about?

I typically enjoy the movies that come out of it, though in all honesty I think the last year or two have seen more duds than any others. As for the other stuff... I don't think we should really evaluate a studio based on its brand and who it tries to appeal to. What matters more is the finance behind it, what is the model that allows A24 to put out weirder or more unique movies than Disney or Universal or whatever, and is that changing? Last year, they got a 255 million dollar investment and took the guy behind it on board. They are set to release a huge Civil War epic by Alex Garland pretty soon. When you make movies like that, expensive, large-scale movies instead of off-beat character-focused stories, you need a lot of cash. And people who are likely to provide you with that kind of cash usually want to have a say in where their money goes (e.g. compare Eggers' movies produced by A24 at the height of their independence, and The Northman). I think that the next couple of years will see A24 become less of an indie darling and more of a normal studio like Searchlight, not overnight and not immediately on the same level, but it's hard to see how the things they've become known for can fit with their new ambitions and the model that they require.

By putting themselves in the same boat as the Israelis, rather than the Palestinians, the Ukrainians are ceding a large chunk of the moral high ground.

Žižek really said "the optics are kind of yikes"

Unfortunately, Palestine doesn't have any weaponry to spare

Holden Caulfield?

:soviet-heart:

Here is a great video by Le Monde showing how some of the first "photoshopping" was used by the French government to denigrate the Communard regime.

For those of you who don't speak French, the auto-translated CC is just fine, dw.

I completely agree with everything you said. There is also the dimension of the politicians of the liberal democracies in the EU and US not wanting to be seen as standing idly by while the war goes on, so they impose sanctions and tell their people it's a worthwhile thing to do. Otherwise their ratings might drop if the people are angry about the situation in Ukraine, and their leaders seen as uninterested.