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[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

EP 5 on the founding of the Republican Party has been live for just over a week. It’s my most viewed episode yet and I think folks from all perspectives will find it edifying.

https://t.co/twGaEv1OqU

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@LordBotha @DiscussingFilm The question becomes whether there is some objective aesthetic rule that makes any adaptation that diverges from the source material not a “real” adaptation. I think you’ll have difficulty producing it. You’d be indicting adaptions you like.

Be serious.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@LordBotha @DiscussingFilm He literally says “if the barrier of entry is whether I do a one-to-one port, then in that regard I’ve failed.” So with respect to that specific aesthetic standard, he agrees with you.

[SuperSisi @SuperSisi]

Good luck finding a street art better than this

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

This guy can’t be serious.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

🙏

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

Just gonna drop this here too, unrelated…

https://t.co/2HdXjjciq4

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

Ah, Bourne-heads indeed (the films aren’t that great 🤷🏻‍♂️). I’d encourage you to keep going all night, you’ll get to all the duds and the sad thing about Damon is his acting is about the same in the hits as it is in the misses. The reason I pick Leo is his performances and range.

[The Vanguard @vanguard_pod]

Matt Damon’s filmography has to be 10x more rewatchable. Ocean’s trilogy and Bourne trilogy right off the bat and that’s before we get into Good Will Hunting, Rounders, The Departed(Damon mogs DiCaprio), his cameos in Kevin Smith projects, Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, I could go on all night.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@vanguard_pod Ya’ll some big Bourne-heads or something? This is certainly a take. I’ll take Damon’s politics over Leo’s but…filmography-wise it’s not close at all.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine thinking Joe Walsh and Brett Stephens know more about what is or isn’t genocide than Omer Bartov, described by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as ‘one of the world’s leading specialists on genocide’, or Martin Shaw, author of the book ‘What is Genocide?’

Sheesh.

[Sam Seder @SamSeder]

Thinking,as i often do, of Michael Brooks today. Hard to believe its been 6 years. RIP

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@EmmaVigeland Nolan is red-green colorblind. Because of this, he prefers cool blue and yellow palettes and it’s why his films feel so “grey” and flat sometimes.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@mtaibbi @RoKhanna More on this here:

https://t.co/OhivUBePdp

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@mtaibbi @RoKhanna Except that wasn’t what he was asked. He was asked if they had the right to target soldiers — which they do under IHL. He could have simply acknowledged that right while still signaling his normative preference for non-violence. So easy. Not sure why he refused.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

Except that wasn’t what he was asked. He was asked if they had the right to target soldiers — which they do under IHL. He could have simply acknowledged that right while still signaling his normative preference for non-violence. So easy. Not sure why he refused.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Kudos to @RoKhanna for refusing to back off nonviolent beliefs and endorse the october 7th attacks, just because Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill are pitching tents over Baader-Meinhof fantasies.

https://t.co/OIc52R5Rhc

[Maximilian Dood @maximilian_]

We used to be a country. A proper country.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

@MattPolProf I’m with Ben on Batman Begins and I’d also say The Prestige is slept on and I’d personally place it higher than Inception and Interstellar. So very happy to see someone who recognizes how bad Tenet was though. Nolan recently said he’d love to take a stab at horror — already has!

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

“I want each movie to be everything.” Explain Tenet. That shit made me question your entire filmography.

[Art Hits Hard @nightwriter22]

Christopher Nolan on Quentin Tarantino's 10-Film Rule:

“I think it’s dangerous to look at it that specifically. I mean, Quentin has his reasons, and I respect those enormously. But I’m hoping that he won’t stay true to them. Every film that I do is the last I’ll ever make—and one day I will be right. So every time I want to put everything into the project at hand. I’m never thinking, ‘Well, I’ll save this for the next one.’ I don’t ever want to think like that. I want each movie to be everything.”

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

The episode explains how Lincoln’s Republican Party championed an active government that sought to protect equality of opportunity when the private property protections of enslavers threatened the country’s founding ideals.

[Better Left Said @BetterLeftHost]

EP 5 on the founding of the Republican Party has been live for just over a week. It’s my most viewed episode yet and I think folks from all perspectives will find it edifying.

https://t.co/twGaEv1OqU

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is really bad