Rebel Liberal

The Culture Wars are so dumb and yet we are all destined to fight them. 💍

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Impeach and convict.

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

The size of the gates in Jurassic Park suggests they were always planning on letting the dinosaurs out.

[MobstersDaily @MobstersDaily]

Just watched The Sopranos S3E4, “Employee of the Month,” and I genuinely need to sit in silence for a minute because what the hell was that.

That might be one of the most insane episodes of television ever made, not because it’s loud or flashy or trying to shock you for no reason, but because it puts you in the worst possible emotional position as a viewer.

The entire time, you know exactly what Tony Soprano is capable of. You know what would happen if Melfi told him. You know he would not call a lawyer, file paperwork, or wait for the system to correct itself. He would handle it in the most Tony Soprano way imaginable, and the terrifying part is that the episode makes you want him to.

That’s what makes it so disturbing.

The show spends years telling you Tony is a monster, then creates one situation where you catch yourself begging for the monster to be unleashed.

And then Melfi says no.

That final “no” might be one of the strongest moments in the entire series. Not dramatic. Not cinematic revenge. Not some Hollywood justice scene where everyone claps. Just a woman sitting across from the one person who could destroy the man who hurt her, choosing not to hand her pain over to a gangster.

It’s brutal because it denies the audience the exact thing we think we want.

Most shows would’ve turned that episode into revenge porn. The Sopranos does something way more uncomfortable. It forces you to sit with the fact that justice doesn’t always happen, rage doesn’t always get release, and morality is only real when it costs you something.

Dr. Melfi could have crossed that line and nobody watching would’ve blamed her.

But she doesn’t.

That’s why this episode is so fucked up and so brilliant. It makes Tony’s violence feel tempting, then reminds you why giving in to that temptation would mean losing something even bigger.

This show was operating on a level most television still hasn’t caught up to.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell found alive!!!!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First teaser for the 4K IMAX re-release of ‘AKIRA’.

In theaters this September.

[Sopranos World @SopranosWorld]

Jason Kelce leaving Travis and Taylor’s wedding after drinking all the alcohol in MSG

[F$ @Flexdaubrey]

since i found out make up sex was better than regular sex all i do is start shit

[Goth @KittenFood77]

"this nice cute girl thinks I'm attractive and cool. I'm going to see how much of a faggot I can be until she loses interest"

[Laurasia, Pangea @AdvilCherry]

therapist really said "what does it take to to get suicide off the table" like it was an business proposal

[didi @_meraam]

ending on bad terms saves you from romanticizing what you had lol

[Rebel Liberal @NicholasJOlaya]

@RadioGenoa She hit him first.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

No-fly list immediately

[chichi @even_scarecrows]

Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville, and this is Telling Her How You Really Feel

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

If you call yourself a conservative and you're staying quiet about all the money Trump is making off the presidency after all your whining about the Bidens, the Clintons, and the Obamas, you're a fake-ass bitch or you're truly in a cult.

I assume both.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[kelsie @iPad_Latino]

We had a really mean python at work and I gave him back to his owner and was like “he was trying to kill me” and his owner said “well, he only has so many ways to interact with the world. All he has is a face” and it Moved Me

[Rebel Liberal @NicholasJOlaya]

@TRHLofficial Do trump next

[Rebel Liberal @NicholasJOlaya]

@carpathea14803 @ksorbs Yes they could.

[Rebel Liberal @NicholasJOlaya]

@ksorbs Pissed off does not mean correct

[. @playboicurrryy]

high difficulty level escape room concept: u are laying in bed and u have one hour to get out of bed