In hindsight it's kinda nuts that Marvel's direct followup to Endgame was their most experimental project to date then just... never did anything remotely close to it again
Star Wars making the central figure of their new movie a 50yo baby constitutionally incapable of growing up is a little bit on the nose as critique of their fans
A Marvel TV show is getting lots of critical praise meanwhile Martin Scorsese is an AI partner and a cameo in a failing Star Wars film
What a timeline to be in
I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage
Person who has an elevator that goes directly into the living room of their NYC apartment:
Israel must exist as an ethnostate because nowhere is safe for me i am a uniquely oppressed person
The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.
for forty years there were just six star wars films. at one point, something new from star wars had an air of mystery about it. then disney took over and churned out so much shit in a decade that no one cares anymore.
Piece of art perfectly captures one of the saddest moments in the book, AND one of the best examples of how this is not an apolitical story, statement. Oooohhhhh this one is good