Yeah, Atlanta is pretty awesome now. Maybe all those tiny towns that got burned down.

Who is the "we" in that sentence? The government?

It's so historical!

You know I used to think it was emotionally healthy that we didn't, like, hold a parade through Atlanta every year to celebrate the burning and the south's ignominious defeat. Maybe we should have been.

Any sense of patriotism can be bigoted. It's about embracing the best and purging the worst.

I mean define "we". I think confederates are loathsome traitors and their current worshippers are repugnant.

I think we've been specifically condemning Nazis for quite a while now though. As, I said before, the lack of fig-leaves is itself awful and scary. It shows confidence that they didn't have before.

Which doesn't mean the ideal doesn't exist or is valueless. It gives force to denunciation and a reason to fight. Because even if we haven't gotten there, it's worth trying. I refuse to cede the "true American" title to Nazis.

I think we as a nation were at least good enough to denounce nazism loudly and unequivocally since at least, oh, 1945?

It's possible to have something be an ideal while still failing to live up to it.

Oh definitely. But the lack of even the usual fig-leaves scares me.

Our president and head of state wouldn't have offered weird, non-committal statements about it, if Clinton had won.

So it did change tonally.

Then why was it cut to pieces? The editing was so nonsensical. Are you saying that was Ayer's plan? Plus, there's the obvious Joker/Harley changes.

Well, in all honesty, totalitarians seem to be super into clothes. They wore snappy leather boots during a brutal Russian winter for fashion! Commitment!

Didn't they? It sounds like it was originally much more bleak. Which is probably part of why none of the emotional beats hit right.

There are people who make scenes in restaurants to get their meals comped. I doubt they are poor.

I don't think anyone should be shamed for doing what they want to do with their life. And that includes little boys who've been bashed over the head with what is and isn't a manly enough job for them.

The way girls and boys are raised? The assumptions about what they "should" do with their lives? The unconscious cultural prejudices we all have which are particularly dangerous when "we" are recruiters, teachers, professors, hiring managers, and supervisors in charge of promotions? It's not enough to have…

It's possible, I guess. The phrasing though seems really weird to me. Lynch's weird phrasing usually seems to get at a kind of reality for how people speak and think, where this just sounded strange. It's possible though that later scenes will bring it all into focus and make disassociation make sense.