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In this time of blatant attack on women's rights, and many others, it's messages like this, and the clarity of them, that is where we need to be. Thank you
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#TheSubstance takes on this broad theme as well (via celebrity culture rather than sex work) but in a very different way. There's no ambiguity, no room for interpretation. The director tells the audience and the industry exactly what she thinks about all of that and what we can all go do with it.
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She's entirely one dimensional, despite what all the reviews say, and her role in the film feels like it is to justify and amplify the rest of the (predominantly male) characters.
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We can see she wants to be married to this rich Russian boy, though we don't know if it's because she truly loves him or for the Cinderella of it all (or both). We don't know anything else about our protagonist that can't be summed up in a word or two.
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In their acceptance speeches, both the director and lead actor Mikey Madison thanked sex workers, but it feels hollow when one of the main messages of the sex worker rights movement is that nobody is defined by their job. All we really know about this main character is that she is good at her job.
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(SPOILER) The more I think about it the more I dislike #Anora. It seems to criticize the Cinderella / Pretty Woman myth, until the message at the end seems to be to root for the working class guy rather than the foolish rich idiot. Ok, fair point, but not at all what the movie proclaims to be about.
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Satirical body horror and gore is certainly not for everyone. If it's up your alley, even a little, watch #thesubstance
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What is, is that it delivers us the main character, and apparently it's key message, firmly planted in the pov of its male characters, all the way to (and especially at) the end. How disappointing. #oscars 2/2
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This post isn't about being afraid of ai, or robots, or space exploration. It's asking - earnestly - are we ok sacrificing our present and near future and that of the earth, for a future that may still be decades away and possibly not on this planet? Because this is what we are warned is underway.
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I'm kinda thinking we need to really brush up on this stuff and get together and figure this out. When we're talking machine learning, a lot can happen in 4 years with ~already~ a combined pool of over a trillion dollars pouring into these projects, which inform each other.
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And everyone who votes for these guys thinking they will save them from taxes, vaccines, pronouns, whatever other petty worries, thinking they have the little guy's best interests at heart, better think again.
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First stage in colonizing future time and space are these massive AI data centres that have just been announced, and they need mega fuel. And our feelings about the environment, or our sovereignty as a neighbouring nation, will mean nothing to the bigger picture.
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Yes it sounds crazy! But these are literally the kinds of visions and motivations these people have, and freely share, and have already talked about at length publicly. It's not a conspiracy. There's plenty of sources if you want to read about it.
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We're being sacrificed for a future in which they see themselves as the heroes of humanity. Probably even see themselves living on, generations from now, in their cryogenically frozen heads, somewhere in a data centre in space.
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Anyone who isn't willing to bend the knee, or with the audacity to take up space advancing our own cause - people of colour, women, lgbtq+ people, disabled people, all other marginalized people - are getting shoved out of the way. It won't end by appealing to them in any way, that misses the point.
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They have loftier goals. We are insignificant to them, and totalitarianism is efficient. They plan to colonize future time and space, they have already been working on it for some time already, now they have a green light to do whatever they want, at whatever risk and loss to us tiny citizens.
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So many people having a hard time accepting fascism unfolding before our eyes, because they're not being fascist just for the sake of it. Yes they're megalomaniacs. But they're not simply being villains to scare us into submission - though that is a definite consequence for us and perk for them.
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These highly dangerous views are almost a religion for Musk, Sam Altman (OpenAI / Stargate), Vance, Trump, and many Silicon Valley techbros... and is also possibly the fate of us all, unless we can comprehend and deal with what exactly we are up against here. Fascism isn't even the worst of it.
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On xhs though most commenters i see engaging with foreigners say this is fake news meant to keep us separated, and they ask people to stay.. what do folks think of this? Here's a couple examples of responses to dispute so called rumour
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It is little known, but the first book burnings in Nazi Germany didn’t target Jewish writers. It was the burning of the library of the Institute of Sexual Research, which was a safe home for trans people.
It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5