An Indian film company has announced a film mocking scores of Kashmiri teenagers blinded by pellet guns in 2016. I wrote an essay on it at the time. Assuming people still read long form in the age of hate cinema.
https://t.co/UILQKZg2Zy
Odié el fútbol cuando los jugadores se convirtieron en empresas, pero el mundial me hace amarlo de vuelta cuando saca a relucir las historias humanas.
Me conmueve profundamente este señor así como el gol de Curazao y cada equipo chiquito dejándolo todo porque se sostiene en la esperanza de su gente y la alegría de los suyos que desde cualquier lugar seguro miran orgullosos.
Me gusta cuando esto recupera el sabor a barrio, a horizantalidad y cuando los favoritos tienen que reconocer la grandeza de sus rivales.
(jodete trump)
Héroe absoluto de la clase obrera internacional, el sur global, los pueblos oprimidos por el imperialismo genocida y los libres del mundo cuyas rotas cadenas hacen tronar el cielo todo. Gran arquero también.
Treating a woman as the central tragedy of your life while becoming emotionally inseparable from a sophisticated man and refusing to examine what that might mean in an aggressively French environment #noticing
Lotta movies right now are about dealing with distorted reality or not believing what you’re seeing… Backrooms, Obsession, Iron Lung, Hokum, etc… wonder what could possibly be going on in the zeitgeist that has people feeling like they can’t trust what they’re seeing
It doesn’t matter how many books you read (or pretend to read), it only matters how many ideas get inside of you and become permanent architectural features of your inner life, and what the quality of those ideas is.
Renowned Director Ken Loach Delivers Powerful Words at Cannes on Israel's Genocide in Gaza
"The worst thing is not the violence of the bad, it is the silence of the good.
there’s a reason our ancestors risked their lives and were murdered bc of reading + the elite are doing everything to make sure our kids are illiterate. our ancestors understood that liberation/organizing and literacy/education were synonymous.
Again, been saying this for 10 years. They locked working class people out the game so you have nothing to relate to, just idols to worship with rags-to-riches, Cinderella stories for you to escape into fantasy, rather than inspire change in confronting reality.
I remember someone on here saying this generation has a crippling case of moral ocd and I can’t help but agree. You’re never going to be able to enjoy anything ever if you insist on navigating the art/media this way
the massive uptick in Achilles, hamstring, and ACL injuries in elite sports is just a coincidence guys. sporting executives would NEVER endanger player health for more profit.
we need MORE games. MORE incentives to play more games. that’ll do it.