Marc

Movie lover. Voracious reader. Leninist. Working paycheck to paycheck

[Marc @MarcBatte]

@NBAMemes Tripped up? These announcers are sitting courtside…

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@Variety Bari Weiss strikes again

[The Beekeeper Movie @beekeepermov]

He’s been busy. The Beekeeper 2 - only in theaters January 2027.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I have no respect for this idea that art is somehow separable from politics. ALL art is political when you live in a genocidal dystopia, because all your expression exists in relation to our freakish civilization.

If you were on fire, any action OR inaction on your part would necessarily be happening in relationship to the urgency of your situation. If you chose to stand there strumming your guitar while the flames consumed your body, nobody would try to argue that your artistic expression in that moment was somehow separable from your failure to address your urgent need for extinguishment. Your inaction would be a self-destructive act, and your final song would have been about burning to death — whether you sang anything about fire or not.

In exactly the same way, western artists who ignore the abuses of the western empire are taking a political position and sharing a political message. They might be singing about romance or dancing or the Sandman, but their actual message is, "Here are those circuses you ordered, you vapid NPCs, you mindless empire automatons, you shambling zombies consuming the flesh of the third world. Distract yourselves from the burning ecosystem, from the screams of Gaza, from the suffering of the poor and the marginalized, from the AI-assisted surveillance system they are constructing all around you right this very moment. Pretend everything's fine and capitalism is working out great for everyone. Here you go, you empty-headed human livestock, sedate yourself with some catchy rhythms while our rulers turn our world into a desert planet so a few billionaires can become trillionaires."

Real art tells the truth, and facilitates a deeper connection with reality. It pulls us into intimacy with parts of ourselves we'd been neglecting, draws attention to aspects of the human experience we'd avoided, directs us, rebukes us, inspires us, encourages us, emboldens us and reassures us as we crawl forth on our adventure across this mysterious blue planet during our short few decades between birth and death. And in a healthy world it could do all these things without ever getting "political", because the most urgent needs of the moment would typically just involve our feelings, our interpersonal relationships, and our struggle toward self-actualization.

But we do not live in a healthy world. We live under a tyrannical world-eating empire that is fueled by human blood and suffering. That is our reality, and your art is either real about reality or it isn't. You're either telling the truth about reality or you're normalizing it.

It's easy for the rich and the propaganda-addled to believe we are living in a healthy world where everything's basically fine, but for everyone whose eyes are open to the reality of our situation as a species, it's a five-alarm fire. A real artist is in tune with reality, and in this particular slice of spacetime our reality contains horrors that should be treated with the same urgency as we would have if our clothing caught fire.

Telling artists to shut up about politics is telling them to stop being artists and start being propagandists for the empire. It's telling them, "Don't say anything unless you have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say. Your job isn't to incite, your job is to distract and sedate. Your job isn't to blow on the embers of human brilliance, your job is to play the fiddle while we smooth the pillow of a dying world."

Fuck that. Make art. Be brilliant. Fight the empire. Free Palestine.

[Marc @MarcBatte]

@CBSNews Just another “thoughts and prayers”requiem with no substantial policy changes, mass shooting brought to you by the second amendment and gun lobby that owns the govt.

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@LakeShowYo Mamu looked like a 6th man candidate

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@LakeShowYo Thybulle looked really bad offensively in the preseason

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@filmstofilms_ American Graffiti is so much better than The Sting. Apocalypse Now so much better than Kramer Vs Kramer

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@filmstofilms_ The Sting is a weak link

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@Fracturepoint26 @BelleMusic23345 From their earliest work with Mustaine on Kill em All and Ride the lightning and beyond they tackled socio-political themes

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@Fracturepoint26 @BelleMusic23345 Tell me you’re not a fan of protest songs without speaking. Metallica tackled themes of war and injustice whether you like it or not. You being selective doesn’t make you right.

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@Fracturepoint26 @BelleMusic23345 lol, Fire With Fire, Blackened, One, The Shortest Straw, Battery, Disposable Heroes, For Whom The Bell Tolls, No Remorse, etc etc

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@ProudSocialist I agree with Lenin-trade unionist/ progressive politics is a bourgeois-capitalist construct to throw the working class a bone

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@clashreport Genocide= “conduct” also your administration gave them a blank check

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@PopcornPost_ Ali

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@lfcwemby Joker

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@filmstofilms_ Scarface is way too cartoonish…”choot this piece of chit” not even close to Pacino best work. I’d rather save Pacino in the godfather. Or dog day. Or serpico. Or panic in needle park. Or Donnie Brasco.

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@filmstofilms_ De Niro

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@ComicDaveSmith Kulinski is a moron. He’s an internet commentator Chad bro with minimal critical thinking skills who built up a platform appealing to young kids