As a Jewish man, we need to talk about antisemitism in the black community.

America is a vast self-reinforcing culture of deliberately ignorant malignant lunacy so high on the prospect of fame and fortune without effort that they’ll literally do nothing but thirst for attention and pound on their keyboards while a dystopian police state run by a handful of white oligarchs establishes itself…

I think people being too dumb to:

“He was trying to educate himself”

True its not limited to black men but these two dumbasses do kind of highlight how that mindset impacts us. Their comments show not just their love for the patriarchy overlaps with white supremacy, even though they really believe they’re pro black. I think its worth exploring.

America is a vast self-reinforcing culture of malignant lunacy.

This isn’t limited to Black men. Latino American men have shown slightly more favorable support for Trump over Biden, while Latino American women is overwhelmingly against Trump. 

This is a fantastic piece. But I want to add that I think this (“If you’re a man who represents the socialized ideal of Peak Masculinity—brash, cocksure, manipulative, unapologetic, seductive—you can have your way with us.”) goes across the board with males, regardless of color.  Most of those white dumb dumbs at…

I watched it in high school, so I imagine a lot of the guys who were getting “confused” likely did as well, or early college. I think it’s really easy for young men/teens to readily identify with “outsiders” who are “misunderstood”; provided they see enough of themselves reflected in these anti-heroes, they will…

They assume they have no intelligence because the bugs are the other. But at the end of the film, they discover that the bugs do in fact think. They capture a “brain bug.” Instead of considering ways to negotiate a peace, they celebrate that the bug is afraid and then vow to keep fighting until they’ve “killed them…

Because anyone in tournament play should be perfectly capable of unscrambling a word, and they can avoid a scrabble list with a ton of expletives from being published and meme'd.

Seems like they’re making the tournament rules family friendly.

I don’t think there is anything “half” about what Verhoeven was doing in the slightest. Any jingoistic action in the movie is a direct criticism/satire of it. He saw through Heinlein’s bullshit and applied his own history. He lived through a Nazi occupation and every part of this movie related to “the Federation” is a…

I believe that Verhoeven inadvertently captured it better than he intended, since Heinlein himself was always half serious, half sneering about the things he depicted. So by turning it into a confusing half satire/half jingoistic action film, Verhoeven backed into the original intention.

If I have to guess it’s to stop actually publishing offensive words. Even though it is good intention to say “word” is banned some people absolutely think that writing “word” to say it is banned is still offensive. Since these are official rules they can’t just say “Hey b word that rhymes with pitch is banned” you…

Over the years, the number of guys (and it’s always men) that have said, “YOu know that movie, starship Troopers? We ned to do something like that. We need to have some sort of test for people who want to be citizens.” have been truly frightening.

Oh no, it very much is. But there’s a way to portray it that shows the weakness in the mentality. It’s so blatantly nationalistic/militaristic that it ends up contradicting its main points.

Rewatched Robocop last year for the first time since high school (so +20 years) and boy did I “not get it” the first time I saw it. I mean I enjoyed it, but definitely not for the “right” reasons. Rewatching it as an adult — “whole other level” and all that. Looks like Starship Troopers is another one I need to get in…

Also, the original script for Flightplan has the parent as the father. Foster thought the doubting of the other passengers played more realistically to the idea if "hysterical woman" and unfolding some of those assumptions, and so it not being ambiguous to the audience was important in terms of characterization.