“they should teach media literacy in schools” english class “they should teach students how to spot misinformation” it's english class “they should teach kids critical thinking” its called engish class
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No antithesis. No corrective negation. No paragraph pinning. No parataxis. No summary beats. No rhetorical crutches. No negative parallelisms. No negative anaphoras. No contrasting pairs. No rule of three. No em dashes. No throat-clearing openers. No landing sentences. No setup/payoff constructions. No parallel sentence structures within a paragraph. Vary sentence length unpredictably. No stacked noun phrases. No filler intensifiers (genuinely, really, truly, actually). No corporate-register verbs (leverage, underscore, reflect). No nominalization. No hedging qualifiers. Write for the spoken voice. No performed enthusiasm.
It’s actually gross the amount of money China spends on things like unlimited clean energy for its citizens when it could be sending that money to Israel instead.
A politics of liberation is fundamentally transgressive in a world that profits off our repression. Happy Monday! Time to recycle shit that’s already broken af
@alokvmenon is one of the greatest thinkers of our generation and has pushed our understanding of liberation with so much beauty, elegance and depth. It’s very moving.
After watching Oppenheimer and The Odyssey you can tell Nolan has a lot of existential dread about the state of humanity and how we treat each other. Real.
@AyoCaesar Yes, there are horizons Nolan does not cross. Infant murder would also just straight up take us into Gaza genocide territory. I would love a woman director to take on the classics and even movies like Gladiator. That would be sickk
Last thing I'm going to say about it (I promise) – if Nolan's Odyssey had included more from the source, e.g. the murder of the infant Astyanax, executing a dozen of Penelope's slave girls, all the shagging around, it would actually *be* the turbo woke, feminist film people were screaming about.