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thinking about the funniest clickhole article
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try harder. the saudis threatened to 9/11 Canada through their diplomatic account and this is the best u can do? lame
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It is all about family. Family is a man and a woman and children.
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it's really funny that people on here "esoteric hidden knowledge" their way into believing basically evangelical Christianity
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I think the real issue with a lot of contemp horror (sans Dave Eggers) is they love to evoke "religious imagery" but express an active disinterest in the meaning/stakes of these images
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this is unquestionably at its worst with Sylvia Plath
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I truly think the tumblrification of reading literature in search of aesthetically consistent snippets then tailored for “relatability” has been a disaster for genuine empathy with texts
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a sizeable portion of the "Marxist" bad takes about Roe are people who seem to think there's a room where all the capitalists hang out and go "the rate of profit is failing, we gotta ban abortion to undo that"
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the funniest moment ever in a tutorial was when this kid started talking about "horseshoe theory" and the TA said "I don't think that's serious political theory. seems like something people post about on online"
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at the risk of putting too fine a point on it, i think people need to realize that libsoftiktok and its ilk are basically a form of pornography
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Libs of TikTok when a minimum wage employee jokes about attacking the most powerful people in the world vs Libs of TikTok when someone assaults their grandchild
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"Lynchian" is not "weird" Lynchian implies a specific relationship with Americana *and* surrealist/expressionist stylistics
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@tamphopho i can't believe my students who are all working part time or full time jobs while in school are not as enamored with the liberal humanist values I have
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new atheism's worst excesses wasn't that it was "cringe" or that it was "atheist" the problem with it was that it was philosophically/historically/politically illiterate and a method of rationalizing endless brutality in the Middle East from a secular perspective
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virgin russia vs chad saudi arabia
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the reason I think people default to jokes about "Eastern European" art films when imagining a fake movie is they know it'd be (correctly) seen as wildly xenophobic to make the joke about a lot of other places
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made a better version of the meme
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reading feminist oral histories is a lot of fun because one woman will be like "well you know, we had all these demands, but we wanted to make sure we didn't appear as bra-burners" and then the next woman interviewed will be like "well, as Chairman Mao says ..."
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this is so close to being 90s queer theory
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They encounter the hole of death
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it's gonna be funny when Barbie ends up being like the world's most 3 out of 5 movie ever made
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when u reply to those conservatives saying like "leftists don't read OUR intellectuals" you're making a serious error if you think they're talking about like Burke or Hobbes or whatever. they are, at best, talking about Jordan Peterson
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is it just me or is everyone becoming a chauvinist
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50something academics after referring to a person in a hypothetical as “her”:
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Lol
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history memes are the worst shit
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@tamphopho i feel like profs on here also really want to pretend they don't by and large have a massive amount of power over students
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The Wiitch stands in beautiful contrast, because it is actually interested in reconstructing a 17th century puritan settler view of the world
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@tara_chara post-reunification not knowing you're unified because your only news source is a priest
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the smartest filmmakers understand that religion isn't just a collection of spooky symbols but a living/breathing collection of community practices, and that these practices are often apt for monstrous things
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"no I'm Catholic/Eastern Orthodox/etc." nope you're a weird culture war reactionary and honestly you will fell the call of the evangelical
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most Martin Scorsese movies are only fully understandable if you're a woman
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I'm not an anarchist and am pretty critical of some anarchist propositions but can you people stop pretending that 15 year olds bad tweets are emblematic of anarchism as a position
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i think people need to understand that the most annoying feminist classmate they had was more correct about the world* than anyone else
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@steelydante this would be like if when Orson Welles died it said "Orson Welles, star of Transformers the Movie died"
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For everyone who’s like “well I’m a left wing Christian who reads radical theory (tm)” there’s at least 1000 guys frothing at the mouth to murder trans ppl so forgive ppls cynicism about your religion a bit
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"wow i can't believe this is the left's messaging on this issue. no wonder they're irrelevant" - a guy reading tweets written by literal teens
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@f_freaker i love this idea that advertisements in the 1990s were prefiguring "the great reset"
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How did I miss this insane reply yesterday
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that's not politics man you just saw some tweets and want to be a conservative about it
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Consider how many liberals of the family-having age view children in bars, restaurants, coffee shops, or public spaces as a gross imposition that detracts from their “freedom” to enjoy their espresso martinis. Many think of kids as a burden rather than the future of society. 4/
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what gets me is this is about a TWENTY YEAR OLD
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Absolute state of this in the Mail on Sunday
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one of the most universal gen-z experiences is finding out some guy you went to HS with is trying and failing to be a rapper
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"politically ... of its time" is a very funny thing to say because that describes every movie ever made
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wow, epic!
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Desperately need the shirt Robin Wood has in this picture
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@tara_chara Italian villager mindset
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25 year olds love to post about how gen-z is irreconcilably tainted by puritanism
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the sheer gleeful sadism of it ...
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@HenryKrinkIe feels too archaic in form to be a meme about Biden. it has a certain tea party energy to it
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the desire for "fluffy gay movies" is a really de-politicizing one that I think we need to regard with some amount of cynicism
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and I think that's why I find something like the Wiitch feminist in a way like Longlegs can only grope at
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I was curious what sort of scare mongering bullshit this article was, so I had to take a look, and then broke down laughing at the top comment
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BACKYARD RITUAL: When a woman set up a trail camera with her grandpa to capture wildlife, she never expected to capture what would fuel her nightmares.
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@RosasCatMimi "exposed to anything sexual" is such a sinister framing because it covers everything from like, serious crimes to seeing a woman without a top on
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if the CIA did actually do modernism I would have to hand it to them actually
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Did a time traveller from 2005 write this
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In his new book, Slavoj Žižek advances a provocative understanding of Christianity as a progressive, secularizing force. It’s classic Žižek — by turns brilliant and infuriating.
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Post-punk band 1979 : rambling about the situationist international, dada etc Post-punk band 2000: Joy Division was pretty cool I guess :)
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I don't think being interested in the stakes *requires* being religious (if anything the bog-standard Christian worldview might blind you to the stakes)
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People complain that our politics are on new levels of divisiveness and yet nobody kidnaps ambassadors anymore
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like really no difference in tone or content between it and what they used to call "tranny porn"
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@bloomfilters I think the issue with a lot of the "magical girl deconstruction" shows is that they are extremely surface level at understanding what is appealing/interesting about the genre
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it's really funny that Black Mirror was always stupid
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@trendy_gwendy that's why Obama picked em too
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Film twitter feels increasingly animated by masculinist hero worship, and it just annoys me very deeply
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I feel like a lot of dudes who "get into psychoanalysis" start acting like they have the Sherlock mind pallace about how women and queers act
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I just learned from a very credible source in France that there is a very high possibility of a Situationist International 2 being created in the next 5 years. This is huge
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@_Sheehogue_ I feel like Aronofsky is a misanthrope in like, the most facile ways
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seeing people reduce critique of the family to "lol bedtime abolition" makes me genuinely sick
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these are the people lecturing you about gen z being cringe puriteens
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I also make really dumb t-shirts
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Nathan J Robinson is living the dream of constructing his own whimsical existence so it's hard for me to ever hate him when he says dumb shit
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@lumpen_princess she has become this really weird icon in a way that superceeds actually thinking about feminism or her writing, it's very strange
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@muenzenberg_w if Lee Harvey Oswald was alive rn he'd drive this
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@praisegodbarbon "i never knew this was a popular view on the left" come on man
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Dune was a good film but it'd be a great film is Paul turned to camera and said "I'm a maoist now"
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for the most blatant example,
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Not to keep harping on this but like wow he is one cocksure moron
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I do think James Lindsay's pretense that he's some serious scholar of Marxism is really funny
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People always find the Zizek "i don't watch the movies I talk about" thing funny but it's always struck me as like exceptionally bad scholarship/form
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@ObamaEraCons like a parody of pro-lifers or actual pro-lifers, i know that isn't Obama
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okay not the main thing here but "fabulous" being said by a 4 year old is such an obvious lie
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Vivian, Elon Musk's daughter, speaks on her father's lies (on Thrеаds).
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Really painful to read those “Marxist” twitter threads that are just like “you sound a lot like an idealist, Marx hated idealism only materials are real” with no other elaboration or explanation
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Increasingly have no patience for lefties who react to people like JD Vance with "well if he actually cared about birth rates he'd support [generic socdem policy]"
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dislike doing this but highly rec everyone report this account tbh, this shit is fucking vile
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@Liv_Agar what the fuck is this guy just running around doing the same copy paste at people
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How did I miss this insane reply yesterday
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transphobing your way into making a phrenology app is so funny
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@NeeedlesEye the TA printed out stuff on Adorno and an expert from "Reactionary Modernism" by Jeffrey Herf to read
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A lot of the theory jokes you people make on here are one step away from being Epic Rap Battles of History bits. I hope you all know this
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@bloomfilters people compare Madoka to Evangelion a fair bit but Evangelion is written with this clear like deep affection for the trappings of mecha anime, whereas Madoka always comes across as sort of contemptuous of the form
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it is interesting to me how often "the poors don't like [smart things]" is an argument
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I fucking despise this shit
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most important day in Canadian left twitter, probably
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embrace ur inner annoying feminist, you will be right about the world way more than you will be wrong
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"the left has nothing to say about jobs [just schools and hospitals]" is such a tell lol
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@resurrecti0ns Also despise a forced distinction between "whimsy" and darkness. A lot of whimsical fiction is actually quite dark!
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people on this site seem to unironically think the worst thing about it was that it was "cringe" or "too mean to Christians" lol
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this is a funny way to say "teacher forcibly outed a student to their mom"
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Here is a redacted "Gender Support Plan" in place in a NY middle school district, sent to me by the mom of a 12 year old girl. The school district kept this "gender change" secret from mom, and mom might not have known about it at all, but for the guilty conscience of a teacher.
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Kafka is a very good example too
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@heshidicjudaism really disgusting rhetorical shift from "feminism as justification for imperial war" to "feminists are the ones doing imperial war"
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@ZeroSuitCamus one of the worst songs in the classic rock canon imao
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it's really funny when people say "that goes against the spirit of the olympics" when the spirit of the Olympics is like bizarre eugenics-ass racism
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@coherentstates the guy's whole sthick is like "trans people are just mad on twitter a lot ... that's not real life" but he also seems convinced they're like an existential threat
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a really interesting discovery through the Oppenheimer "discourse" is that a lot of people believe that biopics are not like, particular interventions in a historical figure, but are just straight from the forms renditions of reality
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anyone who's like "actually P W.S Anderson is better than PTA" is a victim of film twitter brain worms sorry
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@b1g_damage Punk was constantly based on a rhetorical denunciation of hippie baroqueness, Utopianism and presented itself as a return to “raw” and “primative” aesthetics so nothing fascist possible there
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@SummerOfFilm if you go back and watch any of the old Nostalgia Critic videos they're like, cosmically unfunny
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