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This looks so bad and loaded with everything that makes modern online and pop identity politics insufferable. Why do this?
What I don’t get though is why not just name it something else? Why do these new “creatives” refuse to make anything new but instead have to rely on borrowed emotional response of things already iconic and beloved for anything they make to get attention or relevance?
Even worse i hear it’s not even a continuation of the old miniseries but instead is meta commentary on the old series and movement. So I’m sure it will mostly complain how the old series and original civil rights movie wasn’t intersectional enough and they are improving on both
This is important for a couple reasons:
1. Congrats to everyone on Twitter pushing the envelope - we are literally helping
2. Listen to @DevinNunes say “We have long had concerns with what was happening overseas...”
It maybe premature, but I’ll take a guess at what #2 means...
1. Congrats to everyone on Twitter pushing the envelope - we are literally helping
2. Listen to @DevinNunes say “We have long had concerns with what was happening overseas...”
It maybe premature, but I’ll take a guess at what #2 means...
I traveled overseas quite a bit - I went to approx a dozen countries in Middle East & North Africa *after* Arab Spring...
Pro-tip: There are very few actual secrets in MENA!! Everything, eventually, gets out.
So... I was aware of who were were arming - everyone was!
But...
Pro-tip: There are very few actual secrets in MENA!! Everything, eventually, gets out.
So... I was aware of who were were arming - everyone was!
But...
... what really struck me is that by talking to people on the ground, I realized that Arab Spring wasn’t the organic uprising that media/govt. sold!
I could easily see the parallels with what happened in other ‘revolutions’.
... it was clear that our State Dept played a role!
I could easily see the parallels with what happened in other ‘revolutions’.
... it was clear that our State Dept played a role!
