mclengthyname.bsky.social
Editor by day. Film critic by night. Internet Puddleglum 24/7.
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ICE is full of cosplaying men who fantasize about being Hollywood-ready war heroes but are too inept and/or cowardly to join the military. They join ICE so they can have fun with their boom-booms and pew-pews without having to risk their own safety or be accountable to anyone.
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surprised and frankly disappointed that I haven't seen an edit of "M. Gustave in the zombie apocalypse" floating around YouTube already
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Just imagine some other British scenery chewer (Tom Hardy or *shudder* Andrew Scott) in that role and the whole second half completely falls apart.
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half of *Twitter users*
honestly, I'm surprised the fascists aren't winning this poll by an even larger margin than they are here
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"Didn't expect that being part of a community involves certain obligations beyond posting in an internet forum"
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... assuming, of course, that our generation won't be obliged to work until we die at our desks, ha ha ha
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I am going to putter around SO HARD that I warp the fabric of space and time
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2) If someone makes claims about "Christianity" (according to Definition A) while simultaneously pretending not to understand someone who objects to those claims because they understand "Christianity" according to Definition B, then at least one of those two ppl is being incredibly disingenuous
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A couple of important points to make in this discussion:
1) There is a big difference btwn "Christianity as a set of broadly agreed-upon doctrines, beliefs, and propositions about spiritual & physical realities" and "Christianity as a cultural force that comprises both the heretical & the orthodox"
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In a hundred years, people are going to read about common food-packaging practices in post-WWII America with the same incredulity we have when we read about pre-1900s medicine
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FoxNews people really are unfathomable. Why does Rutherford Longstreet III of Boise, Idaho even care about fast-food workers in NYC getting $30/hr and a few free canisters of Similac?
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I dunno, I kinda liked this Mamdani guy until the writer who can afford to split his life between NYC and France told me about how scary grocery stores can be
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...what's a "baby basket"
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No one has deserved the following emoji more than WaPo:
*ahem*
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You could probably fill out this ballot entirely with 2007 films and have a defensible list. I had a hard time leaving ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES... on the sidelines
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tbh, the No Country/TWBB duo feels a little basic, but '07 cannot be denied. Insane movie year.
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When the TRAINSPOTTING sequel came out last decade, I was sad because it felt like Danny Boyle—always a daring filmmaker, even if he had as many misses as hits—had finally given up and was just coasting on his past hits. After 28 YEARS LATER, I might have to go back and give T2 a chance after all.
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It's genuinely a beautiful word; you could build a poem around it. Which is part of the reason I dug 28 YEARS LATER's music-score choices for those sequences.
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"Ossuary" is such a great word, I love it
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Breaking Bad fans took flak for how many of them saw Walter White as a hero held back by his shrew wife and mediocre acquaintances, but we could stand to talk more about how many Mad Men fans got really into cocktails and men's fashion because they saw Draper et al.'s lifestyle as aspirational.
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(Also, Zapp is definitely more annoying than appealing, but Elmo is several sub-basements below wherever Zapp lives)
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The thing about weird nerds is that they base relationship decisions not on personality traits or social skills but on shared interests. So the important thing isn't whether Elmo is charming or fascinating; it's whether he likes and cares about the same things they like and care about.
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He doesn't have enough charm to be Zapp. He's more like one of these guys:
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when Jamelle blatantly disrespects HOT FUZZ
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Lots of overlap btwn these people and the conservative Christians who argue that Jesus didn't *actually* teach that we should sell our stuff & give the money to poor people.
Which drives them crazy, because they think their better politics should mean they're better people than those conservatives.
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I'm also annoyed by that last sentence, which is an utterly weightless bromide. Oh, so we're supposed to put wrenches in the machinery of wickedness, but do it *peacefully.* Sounds great! Next question: what does that look like, practically speaking, under an authoritarian regime?
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Plagiarists, unsurprisingly, are usually weak writers and so don't understand how an attentive reader will immediately notice a shift in voice even though obvious red flags (e.g., character names) have been disguised.
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Editor here. Especially when the plagiarism is verbatim, it's usually not hard to clock an abrupt change in writing style at the point where the stolen material was inserted.
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Kind of sounds like garden-variety fundamentalism to me - bans on games and music were happening in American Christian circles before the Taliban existed.
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For me personally, that detail was the tipping point between "this is bad, but maaaybe I can reconcile with it if there's sincere contrition" to "okay, no, I do not want this guy to be my bishop"
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That one stuck out to me, too. Also the bit about the abuser that the Bp. ordained even though he KNEW about the guy's criminal record and was ALREADY taking heat over the Rivera situation
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Most historians think chess was invented in Asia. The current world champion is Indian. His predecessor was Chinese. The best female chess player in the world is Chinese. There are two Muslim grandmasters in the world top 20. The Russians dominated the chess world for most of the 20th century.
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This is probably not a good conversation for a public-facing social media thread, but man I need to talk to (/unload on) somebody about the reputation-rehab tour that I've noticed is spinning up in advance of the upcoming ecclesiastical trial.
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always helpful to know which so-called thinkers have outed themselves as having absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation!
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Looks awesome, Joel. That cover from Brianna rocks.