HoChiMaxh [he/him]

I think Skinamarink is the scariest flick I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever. I think the the sense of worsening dread as the plot develops and savagery and hopelessness ratchet up is pretty unique.

I think you’re right about the depressing :doomjak: feeling too, it stuck around with me for a few days. The fact that they’re so young, and thus haven’t fully developed a consistent set of rules for how the world definitely should be, means they begin adjusting their sense of normal to this heinous scenario that the audience understands to be completely demonic.

Really great, no notes I thought it was perfect. The Hammer and Podcast fellas did a review on it last weekend (these are the guys that used to do film reviews with Breht on Rev Left Radio Back in the day.) Taylor has an interesting interpretation of the spirits as an embodiment of ideology itself - while I wouldn’t phrase it exactly like that, I do think that line of thinking is what made it stand out to me.

If you’re going to try watching it, go to a theatre, don’t watch it on your laptop while scrolling Hexbear, it is made with the expectation you pay attention and allow the horror to sink into you

In prison Ocalan became a theory head, and he synthesized a kind of hodge-podge anarcho-feminist revolutionary theory that Rojava is ostensibly based on. I’m not familiar with the specific quote but in context this is likely about challenging the assumed role of men in society to uplift women’s position.

You can stream it for free from Kanopy if you have a library card

You can just not care about Youtubers it’s like so easy you just go live your life it doesn’t change anything

This isn’t even a hard determinism argument - it’s genetic determinism. A hard determinist wouldn’t argue that changing an individual’s environment to one that has a support network is pointless, they’d just argue that whether you do or don’t wasn’t really your choice

You’re the problem, my friend, not an example of the solution. You were ready and equipped for rehab. I applaud you. But it is cruel to say dad’s love was the magic sauce. His genes played the main role. The rest is scenery. You impede solutions by hallucinating they exist.

I swear The Selfish Gene by Dawkins did irreparable harm to a huge cohort of smartdumb psychos.

#1 has to be Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras, about the fascist coup in Greece in the 60s. Comrade made, you can just feel the anger of all the people involved. People talk about old movies feeling slow, this movie fucking pops. You can watch the whole thing for free in good quality here, honestly if you’re not all in after the first 5 minutes, or really after the title card that says “any similarity to real person or events is not coincidental; it is intentional” followed by the speech at the fash gathering in a smoke filled room, then you won’t like it.

If you like that, his State of Siege (1972) is also a classic, about when the Tupamaro urban guerrillas in Uruguay abducted US torture specialist Dan Mitrione. Just total :based-department: stuff. Filmed in Allende’s Chile.

I’ll second the people who mentioned Casablanca and The Bicycle Thief.

Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957) and Wages of Fear (1953) are also cool.

Peeps here recommended the :wtyp: episode on Rhodesia, definitely helped me gain some fluency with the whole thing

This is great - anyone have the og link? I’d love to share this

jucheguevera is a great handle. That shit was just sitting there I can’t believe I never saw it

Dogs don’t piss on my vegetables

Comrades uncritical support for picking your neighbour’s fungi, but that close to the sidewalk you know they have dog pee on them

it’s a joke about the Ramanujan summation which argues the top one adds to infinity but the bottom adds to -1/12

Holy shit thank you

I feel like I’ve scoured this image for hints. Who tf is Joanne and in what way is she related to this screenshot?

Daily reminder that actual anarchists you meet in the wild are cool, have good praxis, and are nothing like these nerds. Here’s to my anarchists comrades :maduro-coffee:

I know he’s not supposed to be a depiction of a principled war resistor, but he is supposed to be a depiction of a GI that blew away his commanding officer. I’m just saying it’s an ahistorical representation of the type of person who actually did that.

I never thought about it before but Full Metal Jacket is kind of retrograde the way it portrays the guy who blasted his CO as a sobbing incompetent moron. In reality there was a lot of resistance and direct murder of COs by GIs during the Vietnam War, but it wasn’t done by antisocial mouth-breathing idiots but principled resistors.

Sir, No Sir is a great documentary about GI anti-war resistance whose thesis is that it was actually the internal resistance to continuing the war at all levels from infantry to intelligence that forced US withdrawal.

What would fighting back have entailed in this case?

How did Obama give up an appointment?