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24 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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"As a kid all I wanted was to kill a man
Cause my daddy did it, eyes bloodshot"
Y'all don't appreciate my genius
"Crying on my momma's phone swearing he a different man
Talking to me monotone, hardly ever coming home
Knew he was the villain never been a fan of Superman"

- Mark to Omni-Man

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26 Apr
"Sanctimony literature errs, then...because it displays no genuine curiosity about what it really means to be good, and is blind to the distinction between morality and moralism, and exhibits no doubt about its own probity" libertiesjournal.com/now-showing/sa…
I haven't written a book so I'm probably not one to comment but my position on this has always been that these novels/written are naturally more interested in the aesthetics of certain politics than the life itself, and the writers are too afraid to condemn their characters.
I know why people like sanctimonious books but they're barely interesting. Even worse is the opposite, the supposedly provocative books that are just the status quo presented as shocking.
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26 Apr
This has been the hidden fact behind the lack of many covid photos here and the defense that it's about consent. It exposes who is accepted as a human being with dignity and who isn't. They were waiting, questioning, and frustrated that Africa didn't have a catastrophe with Covid
And that's not to let the governments off the hook because the virus is killing a lot of people and they're helping it, but Western media REALLY wanted it to be bad in the continent so they can take photos of the dead and point and say "look at those uncivilized savages dying".
I would even say that the Western world needs to continue painting Africa as Joseph Conrad did, the land of savages, in order to maintain the idea of itself as the place of civilization and enlightenment
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25 Apr
Mortal Kombat was a lot of blah but I just want to say that Sub-Zero was undefeated one on one
Sub-Zero (Bi-Han, Kuai Liang and Noob) have always been the best MK characters. Full disrespect to everyone else.
"It's mindless fun" also seems to have replaced "let people enjoy thing" as the go to defense for obviously badly done movies and entertainment.
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28 Mar
I think this is sometimes described as fear of the other, but it's really the same bigoted fantasies of killing minorities. Guns, huge trucks, doomsday bunkers. It's not fear of a dystopian world more than the possibility of acting out the hate without judgement.
It's the same fantasies that play out when minorities protest and the police are thrilled at the chance of abusing people. The thrill that's behind the border conversations. And that's clear in white supremacists talking about a new civil war.
I always feel that it's weird that people like this are open about their fantasies of killing minorities, and yet that pleasure aspect is hardly ever pointed out.
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27 Mar
It's too much. We need to regulate and break them up.
Do something @SenWarren
Steve Nash walked into the cushiest first year job I've ever seen
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27 Mar
"Eric Lott argued that...blackface minstrelsy gave white working-class performers a way to tap into the insurrectionary potential hiding within their fantasies of blackness while simultaneously reasserting their supremacy over the Black people..."

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Reminds me of how hard I squinted when I saw people tweeting about how great that "Soul" movie was
I said "oh no" as soon as I saw Adrienne Rich's name come up. Reading and learning has never made me happy.
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