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31 Dec 21, 5 tweets, 1 min read
"I was aghast at how awful it was. I hated the whole thing. My son hated it. God hated it."

Hm, @drewmagary has not made me excited to watch the new Boba Fett show. sfgate.com/culture-column…
Wow, the tepid defenses of this show make me even less excited to see it than the scathing review. They sound very, very similar to people's reactions when I pointed out what a monstrous, unholy puddle of shitbarf Episode IV was. "Oh, it was fine." No, it wasn't.
AAAAHHHH I mean Episode IX! Obviously IV is an all-time classic. Worst typo ever.
All right, I watched the Boba Fett show. I agree that the review in the OP is unduly harsh. I'm not sure "God hates it" -- it's not terrible, merely meh.
I do agree w/ my 18yo, though: every new Star Wars property is a "snake eating its tail," forever recycling references from the original three movies. It has gotten truly absurd. We were playing Tatooine bingo.

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I never see TV ads except when I'm watching football w/ the 18yo. These car commercials, y'all ... such a sweaty, try-hard, over-compensating masculinity. It inspires intense fremdschämen for the entire country.
Some of these trucks make me lol now -- the grills have gotten so high, the entire thing so hulking, as to be wildly impractical. These things are not for "work." They're designed to be intimidating, to make sad suburban dudes feel tough at the expense of others' safety. Image
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Interesting discussion of the shift from ownership to everything-as-a-service. I used to be very bullish on this trend, but of course like everything else it's evolving into a dystopian corporate shitscheme. gizmodo.com/in-2030-you-wo…
I'll say this: if hardware is simply going to become a temporary delivery vehicle for software services, quickly deprecated, then hardware manufacturers should have strict take-back requirements.
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31 Dec 21
Good thread, but this is the main & most irritating thing: the pretense among cancel-culture warriors that they are simply applying content-neutral principles ... yet somehow this leads them to devote 98% of their energy to small liberal arts colleges.
Today & throughout history, it is fundamentalists & reactionaries & defenders of existing unequal systems that do the bulk of the censoring, because they don't want reigning dogma challenged. This is Politics 101. History 101. Psychology 101. There is something truly surreal ...
... about the fact that a bunch of people are pretending otherwise. It makes sense though, because what narrative better serves the powers-that-be than the notion that trans people, POC, professors, & students are the real source of suppressive power? Of course they elevate it.
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29 Dec 21
This "national divorce" talk is dumb for a zillion reasons, but the main one is that there are no red & blue states to divide up. The blue country consists of city centers & the red country consists of exurban & rural areas. There's no way to separate them.
Nevertheless! It's worth musing a little over what those countries would be like. The blue country would be diverse, dynamic, & wealthy. The red country would be poor, declining, & utterly dependent on aid (just like it is inside the US).
The blue country would be a multiracial democracy bound by rule of law, respectful of learning/knowledge, w/ a robust social safety net. The red country would be an authoritarian theocracy marked by social darwinism & systemic oppression of immigrants, women, & POC.
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28 Dec 21
Help me make a playlist!

The criteria: songs that contain two distinct singers, directly addressing one another about matters amorous. (Respond to this tweet w/ candidates.)

First up: "Don't You Want Me," by Human League (she comes in at 1:32)
Next up: "Nothing Better" by the Postal Service. (She comes in at 1:30.)

(All the examples I've been able to think of have a man & woman in dialogue, but of course I'm open to same-sex examples!)

Next up: "Somebody That I Used to Know," by Gotye. Absolute classic of the genre. (She comes in at 2:33.)
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26 Dec 21
This Schmeck guy (the "let's go Brandon" guy) offers another good chance to think about RW whataboutism. This is a textbook case.

So, righties are now saying, in response to criticism of Schmeck, "well, liberals said 'fck Trump' for years! Whatabout that?"
If you're enough of a sucker to respond (hi), there are 3 levels of response.

First is to point out that, even at face value, the comparison doesn't hold. Random tweeters saying "fck Trump" is obviously different than saying "fck you" to the president's face ...
... when he's literally calling you to give your kids a holiday surprise! No elected D said "fck Trump" in public but practically every R elected is giggling about & echoing "let's go Brandon." More to the point, the RW has been organized around *contempt* for opponents ...
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