I don’t think a leftist being opposed to a brutal dictatorship dressing itself in the facade of communism and marxism is particularly “jumbled”. I mean, that’s kind of the point of the book – Stalinism was just replacing one brutal, uncaring elite with another.

Which version of Rush is your favorite?

Your friend sounds toxic as hell.

Well gosh, that doesn’t sound manipulative at all.

Geddy Lee’s voice.

In a civilized country, she would already have been gone and probably in jail.

On positive notes from the show, the TikTok sketch delivered for me again, but the real highligh of the was Villasenor’s Cesar Perez. Also, poor, poor Carlitos, that freaky embarrassing little man.

Brooks knew how to run interference between the director and studio. The studio wanted to cut some of the dream sequences in Elephant Man after seeing an early cut, and Brooks wrote to them saying “We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that…

A Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, but for Dune?

On one hand I get the temptation, but on the other hand the thought of social media as state media is absolutely terrifying

That’s nonsense and you know it. Lots of people are bullied and grow up to be perfectly polite and humble adults who are quite capable of self-reflection.

How high are you right now?

After four years of Trump, fuck that juvenile bullshit. 

People are high if they think Musk would buy Twitter to delete it. He would buy it to make Twitter the State TV of corporate fascism.

Imagine having $41 billion and this is what you choose to do with it. 

Or the widely heard comments in a radio show where some orange guy said he’d f--k his daughter if she wasn’t his daughter.

None of this is based in reality. Be quiet, and let your betters talk. 

This is an interesting insight into the priorities of a person like Cruz though. In a stupid hypothetical, he broke because the need to say the correct thing and also the need to make sure he doesn’t say the wrong thing are in opposition. He can’t be pro world hunger, but he also can’t have a sound bite of him saying…

Kidman’s “I’m too lovely-yet-spooky af, look at me”

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