Barack Obama endorses Gavin Newsome for President in 2028 (basically). He also supports Cal-Exit and American balkanization (effectively). (hexbear.net)

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Really looking forward to Newsome putting the homeless people in Los Angeles into concentration camps for the 2028 Olympics, and then beating J.D. Vance in a landslide a few months later.

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[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago

uh let me do A24 Civil War

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago

Civil War had the baffling decision to have California and Texas team up against Washington and when asked about it, Garland said something along the lines of one would hope a team of rivals could work together to defeat a dictator and that the movie wasn't about politics anyway

[-] meatballs12345@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I gotta recommend The Morbid Zoo's excellent video essay on the movie: Journalism and the Passive Aggression of Civil War . I love Alex Garland movies, but Civil War's themes are fairly simple (to the point of being reductive and incorrect) as addressed in the video.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I would give anything to be able to throw a cat without it snagging its claws on anticommunist drivel like when this lady feels the need to characterize "communist newsletters" as completely uninterested in truth and falsehood, only in subversion, and via diagram explains that they are completely outside of the frame of "legitimate disagreement" while the entire American "consensus" is inside of it. Before you say anything, she was using this model as a framework to explain how she thinks things really are, rather than to refute it.

I swear to god it's so inescapable to hear any kind of political commentary from one of these fucking "video essayists" without it at some point devolving into lazy anticommunism.

Edit: The one thing I really appreciate is how she's evidently a big fan of Manufacturing Consent (see the floor shots), which can tell you a whole lot about the reception of that book.

Edit 2: The idealist screed at the end is also annoying, but honestly I can gratefully say those are usually relegated to people such as video essayists who have forgotten what the material world is.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

I swear to god it's so inescapable to hear any kind of political commentary from one of these fucking "video essayists" without it at some point devolving into lazy anticommunism.

Cultural fascism strikes yet again. WeSSterners are cooked.