Joker 2019 perfectly captured the cultural moment because it perfectly understood the vibe of the country, viz, that we all wanted to go crazy and kill ourselves and everyone around us, however precise or imprecise our understanding of why SOCIETY made us feel that way. The cultural moment of 2024 is so much different because the Biden era has seemingly foreclosed all possibility of that kind of antisocial rebellion. The national mood is not one of unfocused violent passions, but rather of being asleep at the wheel as we drift into inevitable crisis. When we fantasize of adventurism, we cannot bring ourselves to imagine a crowd of Sickos cheering us on, as at the end of the first Joker - instead there is only the crowd of mindless sheep, as at the end of Nashville. Capturing that vibe shift would be an incredibly difficult pivot for the coming second Joker film to make, even putting aside the creative exhaustion that almost invariably accompanies sequel films. So as much as I loved the first film, I will enter the second with low expectations.
La Paz, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) The former head of the Bolivian Army and ringleader of the failed coup on June 26, Juan José Zúñiga, seeks to hide his guilt by claiming he was “high” at the time of as events unfolded.
>La Paz, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) The former head of the Bolivian Army and ringleader of the failed coup on June 26, Juan José Zúñiga, seeks to hide his guilt by claiming he was “high” at the time of as [sic] events unfolded.
Every number in this article reads like somebody accidentally typed an extra zero
Jacobin is by and large good. As another commenter pointed out, they give space to all kinds of lefties. That leads to some pretty lib takes now and then, especially in the online edition. If tendencial purity or hard-line anti-electoralism is your chief desire then sure, not for you. But I think generally it's good for promoting left unity, discussing historical and current events, propagating trade union news &c. It's probably the closest we've got to a mass left publication in the US.
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to shit ourself. And to agree that there are things and tools available to us to get shit out our doodoo ass into our pants.
The troubled North American regime made no promises to address the nation’s deepening divides at the Chicago gathering.
>The troubled North American regime made no promises to end genocide, or address the nation’s deepening divides, at the star-studded Chicago gathering to nominate its next presidential candidate.
by Patrick Gathara for Al Jazeera, archive link
Exactly halfway between the Trump rate and the Clinton/Bush/Obama rate, incidentally. Literally doing the half-a-genocide centrist meme
Bowing to mounting media and intra-party pressure, Joe Biden suspends campaign; Trump to be Democratic nominee
nah this one is all czolgosz. his aim aint what it used to be tho
It's true, we fan't beat them
I didn't know who Alfred E Neuman was until the Buttigieg thing. Not sure i knew what Mad Magazine was either. Am 25
I mean it kinda is under their bed, if they look down at a bit of an angle
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❌❌❌ 38. Jane Adams (thinking of fmr. first lady Abigail Adams, possibly mixed up with ACLU co-founder Jane Addams)
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Karl Marx is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself
It is getting genuinely scary, I am pretty sure that if a politician was attacked or killed
Oh no, not the politicians!
In keeping with the benevolent scientist theme, we could have an academic institution tasked with translating constituent opinions into selections of philosopher kings. Maybe it could be called something like "Election College"
A reindeer with a RED nose rises from his low social standing by drawing on his unique talents. But instead of pursuing personal aggrandizement he gives according to his ability and in so doing becomes the literal vanguard of an egalitarian project to distribute wealth to all the good little boys girls and enbies of earth on the basis of need, against all notions of capitalist rationality. He casts a bright red light serving as a shining example for all good comrades to follow !Care-Comrade
Uhh let me pee here
Found this a bit of an interesting rabbit hole. Archive link: https://archive.ph/NHCjE
>As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.” > >But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/nyregion/yale-police-fliers.html
