https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1d6akq2/i_traveled_back_in_time_from_when_communism_20/ good thread

Great documentary from 2005 on war resistance during Vietnam, posing the thesis that the main reason the war closed was due to active and passive resistance at all levels.

Force any lib who calls you classist for criticizing US vets to watch this. These mfs were straight up killing their COs. Watch for free at 1080p here.

Boots Riley wrote the song Captain Sterling's Little Problem for the soundtrack (with Tom Morello), and it remains one of his best tracks.

They're making it too easy

Like they're so shamelessly blatant about who their reader base is nowadays I just can't

Here's the article if you want to read it I can't summon the energy https://web.archive.org/web/20240507210734/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/magazine/retire-early-saving.html

Finally got around to watching it with my partner last night. The premise is what if you accidentally found a time rift and your dumb friends found out and you get to watch all the different personalities learn how it works in real time. It's a very fun movie with some genuinely impressively planned scifi elements, they squeeze an impressive amount of juice out of the premise.

It's done as if it was one continuous single take, but to work that on such a small budget they hired a theatre troupe for the actors. It was a great choice because the timing of everything is so intricate that hitting all the specific cues must have been critical. All the supporting cast are very funny and bring this excited frenetic energy as they're all juggling learning from the future with repeating their future acts in real time for their past selves, all on perfect 2-minute intervals. It all plays out like a wild magic trick.

Only 70m long too. Recommend this for a movie night with your friends and you will be cool.

Time to celebrate by [removed]! Happy Ides of March everybody!

Eat shit imperialist swine

Episode 195: David Leonhard and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine.

The quote (from Jacob Bacharach) goes: Yeah, one of the effects, it’s to transform the news from being a precursor to political action into being merely social commodity, which is to say that what strikes me about these newsletters for the majority of their consumers is that what I think they’re really designed to do is to turn current events into a kind of social currency that can be used for conversation, that can be used to position oneself as sort of being in the know, understanding what’s going on, being relatively savvy about, you know, what’s happening within politics. But by reinforcing the sense that politics is a distinct and professional domain of politicians and maybe some media people that is sort of, like, separate from life/work management, personal economy, etc. And so one of the things that it does is it takes that sort of that self-flattering, centrist self-image of a lot of the people who consume these products, and it says politics is a profession. It is a thing that exists siloed from the rest of society, and those who attempt to act politically, outside of the professionalized realm of politics, and outside of occasionally, you know, voting, I guess, are disrupting a sort of natural order of things like why can’t they just take their ration of news that they get each morning and do what normal people do with it, which is exchange it with other people over dinner at a restaurant.

I feel like this is a sort of Baader-Meinhof syndrome situation where now that I have this as a lens I can't not see it. It's like a Rosetta Stone of liberalism.

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