Ross Freedman

Writer, artist and film historian and critic. Adrift and looking for the inspirational and the challenging.

[Ross Freedman @rossfreed]

@BigBlockVette69 @thenation Don't confuse Hamas and its operatives with innocent civilians. The fact that Hamas still exists at all proves Israel's practicality rather than its intransigence. October 7th happened despite every anti-Israel activist's desperate attempts to write it out of modern history.

[Ross Freedman @rossfreed]

@Mbakaza4L Is October 7th considered a "crime" to you?

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@FrankConniff A. We've had chicanery in local elections since the 1800s. B. I hope you understand that's not what Citizen Kane is about. However, two great movies about smoking room politics are The Great McGinty (1940) and The Dark Horse (1932).

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@_Zaraquin "Speaking for the unheard." "Human rights advocate." Bullshit.

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@BohemiaStable Close Encounters. I've always found it over-rated. I don't like its regressive qualities.

[Ross Freedman @rossfreed]

@iamharaldur The whole anti-Israel campaign with its lies about genocide is an epic psy-op campaign and you all fell for it. After decades of preaching about 'micro-aggressions' it gave you all a chance to revel in bigotry and bloodthirsty hate while still appearing noble and morally just.

[Ross Freedman @rossfreed]

@intothecrevasse The long, leisurely digressions in Moby Dick are what baffled its original readers, bores non-literary types today, and what makes the book great and unique.

[Quentin Tarantino News @QTarantino_news]

Taxi Driver 50th anniversary reunion. Legendary.

[Ross Freedman @rossfreed]

@isaiah_bb The only Dem candidate who will get the presidential nom will be the one who stands behind Israel's right to defend itself against jihadist terrorism without any throat clearing. To mollify the left they'll substitute a lot of Netanyahu bashing and frankly I'm fine with that.

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@BilgeEbiri I think it was Truffaut who said once you become a filmmaker you suffer as a critic because now you have a specific goal you want to achieve and artists pursuing different aesthetic aims is curiously irritating. Also don't discount the jealousy in being compared to anyone else.

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@doublegee___ People who post this monotonous rage-baiting sludge need to be able to say explicitly what happened on October 7th and what Hamas' goals specifically are. That way you can tell they either don't know what the fuck they're posting about or share jihadist sympathies.

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@313wayfarer @RamAbdu @decolonize_this How to tell if you're losing the argument:

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Remembering Joan Rivers on her birthday 🕊️

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

A simply superb paragraph by Sam Harris.

[Variety @Variety]

John Lithgow is now the oldest man to have ever won a competitive acting Tony.

He took home Best Actor in a Play for “Giant” at tonight’s #TonyAwards.

https://t.co/It4QItdlwC

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@JoeMama_v27 @JacobinBen You didn't answer my question or attempt to define 'terrorism.'

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@JoeMama_v27 @JacobinBen You're spouting irrational medievalism and then try to put the word objectivity in quotation marks. Why do you think you can say what you said about Jews but no other minority? I know the answer but you probably don't.

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@JoeMama_v27 @JacobinBen Both your claims are objectively wrong. You need to define specifically what terrorism is because you obviously don't know. Words and what they mean are important.

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@thetweetbeat365 @KhalilJeries Define a liberal democrat and then define a fascist. You can't do it.