My personal favorite is the story of Lenny Bruce doing a set the night of the assassination, starting with a long, pensive pause, then saying, “Boy, is Vaughn Meader (famous JFK impersonator) fucked.”
"Christmas Carol adaptation where Scrooge makes salient financial points and everyone who hates him isn't so perfect themselves" is such a cartoonishly perfect movie for the new anti-woke Paramount to greenlight.
As someone who thought this sucked in 2010, it's wild to see people defend it as "you need the context for how vulgar rap was then."
No, it really wasn't. 2010 was such a massively diverse and creative paradigm shift year that Reggie's "point" (which sucked) was very outdated.
RIP to the eternally great Screaming Mad George. Every time I bemoan the loss of goopy, disgusting VFX, I’m usually picturing one of his creations. Nobody better.
I think the most sensible thing to do in this situation is to dig up Dobby’s body and bury it someplace else. Or cremate it, throw it in the sea, just leave him out, etc.
AOC isn't talking about microaggressions and language policing, she's talking about the moderate and real structural demand to defund the police and factual statements like "the police are a racist institution"