Any other substacks you might recommend? I'm wondering if I can curate a feed, it would be with it too sign up
i received an exceptional rating for my year end review, which is accompanied by a 3.25% raise this year. im glad my hard work made me 0.15% richer ahead of inflation!
i actually checked the wh.gov and the TTM inflation for december 2023 was 3.4%, so im not actually richer lol. also 2022's TTM was 6.5%. The average person's income must be 10% higher than in 2021 just to keep up with inflation
i haven't seen a few of the other best picture noms, but i agree with this. especially if you are comparing barbie and poor things directly. on its face poor things is better visually, in its direction/acting, and in its plot. beyond that it grapples with its narrative topics better than barbie, chiefly feminism.
bella has more agency as a character than all of the barbies, even as the 'mental toddler' as others describe. and that agency only grows throughout the movie/with her character development.
well said. this type of liberal pacifism isn't pacifism at all, but rather a preference for the slow, abstract violence of the status quo to revolutionary violence. I'm reminded of the twain quote you had in the mega a few weeks back.
I feel as though anyone with an appreciation for history must acknowledge the necessary role of violence (or the threat thereof), in the slow march of progress
its so hard not to feel alienated or experience derealization
im curious if anyone's met the call to condemn hamas with a simple 'no'. how did it turn out for you?
I just bought Vincent Bevins new book if we burn, and it supposedly deals with this kind of thing. How the mass protests of the 2010's ultimately failed because of a lack of organization, which left these movements able to be co-opted by media or right wing groups.
Where did that bring you? Back to me 
it me 
but for real im trying to ditch the laziness and do more locally
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I know people who see and acknowledge this kind of thing but fell headfirst into the ruzzia bad narrative following the smo, absolutely scoffing at the idea that the western press isn't free or independent. I have a really hard time getting americans to carry over any skepticism from one "media event" (for lack of a better term) to another. its infuriating.