@aniobrien 1) who cares, we’re better
2) the restrictions are not just on same day enrolment, they are on all enrolment in the last fortnight. people have been able to enrol in this period for longer than I have been alive
AOC on a movie that made her cry
PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry?
AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.
I was on a plane. I was literally going to a rally or something like that. This was a while ago. And I was watching Arrival on the plane.
I had no idea that it was that emotional. And I don’t even cry like that at movies.
On the plane, sobbing, dude. I had to put sunglasses on.
Then the movie ends as the plane is landing. They go, “Bing bong,” whatever—seatbelt sign, you can unplug it. So everyone’s standing up, and I’m like… I put the sunglasses on. It was so embarrassing.
But really good. Really, really good.
Arrival.
Goes to one Knicks game and they lose for the literal first time in 2 months. Calls the head of FIFA to make him overturn a red card and then the US loses in one of the worst matches of the tournament. No one does it like him, it’s actually amazing
One of the dumbest claims you'll often hear is NZ First has become the working class party in NZ.
They're actually the exact opposite.
They're a culture war party & they create divisions within the working class.
sexism, racism, transphobia etc exists across the entire political spectrum. we cannot and should not ignore the different lived experiences of members of the working class. leftists who ignore these interlocking forms of oppression because they take “no war but class war” to mean the exclusion of an intersectional approach to class politics are not building a united front. they’re leaving people behind and exposing the holes in this so called broad coalition building