“You don’t need every shot to be in focus in your movie. That’s why 30% of the shots in every movie I make are completely out of focus.”

It captures the vibe of Stimson’s interest. There was a pretty big list of targets and Stimson kept pushing Kyoto off the list even though his survey team kept putting it back on.

The military leadership were all against the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stimson was the civilian head of the War Department and he and Truman enacted the plan against their interests.

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Not really? It went from flop to break-even this week.

It’s also not a hit, it’s just surprising people that it’s still making money. It’s made 400 on a 200 million budget. That means it “conservatively” has just broken even with marketing (unless the reason no one watched it is a lack of marketing).

“Women who love the way they look in a world that hates the way they look are just too proud to admit that the world is right.”

The exact same crap with Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Secret Invasion. Someone writes something clever, the producer says Americans are too stupid to get it, they rewrite it into something insultingly simple that ends up being politically detestable, audiences hate it, the producers complain that Americans were…

It also made the odd choice of giving Megatron actual character development, making him care for his fallen & diminished comrades and become depressed when he is replaced as leader. Of course even after saving Optimus’ life from Sentinel Prime and starting to actually talk about peace between the factions, Optimus…

Huh, Edomondo is an actual name? That’s what this kid in elementary school used to call me all the time...

“I do not support striking, I don’t. I think that it is a reductive negotiating tactic and I find the entire thing incredibly frustrating.”

Batman is a bleeding heart liberal and card-carrying member of the ACLU. CW’s Green Arrow was a serial killer.

People aren’t arguing about whether Viola Davis or Sarah Silverman are wrong or right on what should be or should not be allowed during a stirke. They’re criticizing Stephen Amell saying “Strikes are bad, m’kay.” Because striking is the most powerful, if not the only, tool that labor has against ownership. And he’s…

I was following Feminist Frequency weekly/bi-weekly up until a few months ago. You could see the threads and workload starting to reach its peak. Kat Spada was brought in as co-host of the podcast last year and she’s been doing a lot of heavy lifting, so it should be able to keep going for a while.

Why is “wanna-be” in front of the fascist? Fascism is an ideology, not a club you apply to. DeSantis is an actual fascist.

DeSantis wouldn’t even be the one debating. He’s trying to goad Harris to lower herself to the level of his goon and elevate his own status to the national stage. Honestly, the amount of head-flapping chirpiness the world would be subjected to as DeSantis tried to spin his way out of a white hood would be too much for…

Kind of annoyed that First Person Adventure games got rebranded “Walking Sim” to be honest. If you had a frozen screen to navigate it would just be a Point-And-Click Adventure game. But the moment you can move in 3-D it’s a Walking Sim...

MTV learned that it can milk the same reality stars for 20 years.

TFW nigh-useless capitalism golems actually make a fair fucking point...

Reminder: absolutely no one in the US military leadership thought the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified, the War Department’s own US Strategic Bombing Survey in 1946 thought it was not only pointless but that no invasion or blockade would have even been necessary, and July 12th of that year Truman wrote…