@hoshizorarock Ohio and Michigan (as states) have enmity dating back to a foundational territorial conflict that has some reverberations today. For information on its origins, you can see this video (turn on closed captioning and auto-translate to Japanese): https://t.co/Nfjt0BK8ty
India vastly in excess to the benefit we're getting by having another medical doctor. Instead, we ought to bolster our medical schools so that Western demand for medical doctors can be met by Western countries.
Brain drain debunks the humanitarian case for third-world immigration into Western countries if we go by the logic of the economic/"elite human capital" argument. If Indian doctors such a great practitioners, they ought to be treating people in India or we are doing harm to...
@LouisLaborist Don't forget intentionally murdering an American citizen via drone strike without any form of due process, intentionally providing firearms to criminals in Mexico (Fast and Furious), and stoking racial tension by publicly commenting Trayvon Martin could have been his son.
@BigFish3000 It's technically not a library but a "presidential center". I won't further comment about the implications of the decision that the only black president made to have his museum not be a library and prominently feature a basketball court. https://t.co/XJGkGLMjnA
@SkllKnghtGonWld@DAKKADAKKA1 Brutalism is a style of architecture that was at its most popular under communist regimes. It is an aesthetic that is designed to impress in the viewer the goals of communism. To show that there is a collective that towers over the individual; to crush the individualistic drive.
movie is more or less in interpreting it in light of your experiences or expectations. It has great subject matter for its target demographic (and I'm a bit too old to be the target audience), but I think on the whole it's technically good but not great in the slightest.
For all the hype I've seen about Obsession, I think it's massively overblown. There's a handful of genuinely tense scenes, but the movie is obviously written for streaming with characters providing needless recaps; the characters are frustratingly stupid; and its value as a....
Battleship Potempkin is a mediocre piece of heavy-handed propaganda with some half-decent cinematography and editing.People who have seen a number of silent movies that can be counted on one hand convince themselves it's a masterpiece because they can sit through it.
@RX_9999_2 The White liberal worldview starts from the belief that the course of history is a march of progress to the inevitable creation of their dream world. The supreme hubris behind this view causes them to regard those who dissent as mortal enemies. The Japanese generally dissent.