people will tell you absolutely vile shit their parents did so casually and leave you feeling like an asshole cuz you were annoyed at your mum for interrupting an episode of your show
everyone rightly criticised the 2018 world cup. everyone rightly criticised the 2022 world cup. but lord forbid someone tries to criticise this world cup.
Ca să punem în perspectivă: Armenia, cu 3,1 milioane de oameni, riscă o invazie rusă doar pentru că oamenii vor să intre în Uniunea Europeană. Și, cu toate presiunile și amenințările muscălești, armenii au votat în proporție covârșitoare în favoarea Europei. Asta pentru că știu că Rusia e anatema civilizației, e kriptonita democrației. Aici e o lecție și pentru suveraniștii noștri.
In the film “Borat” the villagers were not actors; they believed it was a genuine documentary
They were told that it would focus on rural life. After the film was released, they considered suing the Israeli actor Sacha Baron Cohen
"We thought they had come here to help us, not to mock us."
making fun of morality police in Saudi Arabia — valid, brave, speaking truth to power, anti-imperialist.
making fun of morality police in Iran — invalid, cowardly, imperialist propaganda, islamophobic.
In my experience, a lot of Westerners want people in the rest of the world, women especially, to exist within a simple framework so that they can project their agendas unto us.
Satrapi was a human being and she was complex — and she wrote a book about human beings being complex.
Leftists aren't even pretending to be in love with misogynists and theocrats anymore they just stare at you dull-eyed and lifeless when you suggest that women should have autonomy and the world shouldn't be ruled by clerics.