Shouldn't have done #AHSNYC so close to #Monster.
Just makes them both seem so much more prurient.
I believe in both cases they're trying to say something but then I remember #1984 which never had a point, or #AHSRoanoke which all it was, was saying "I have a point" over & over
"Red Tide"/"Death Valley," which I love, was a reset for the show in a lot of ways but chief among them is now instead of saying "Why can't this just be Murder House some more" I'm starting to say "Why can't we do Double Feature again?"
I know everybody on the show dies, that's been true since S1. But them dying was always the least interesting thing about the show. Now it feels kind of like the ONLY thing about the show. 80% of it now & it's just been several maniacs & everybody has HIV, which I also hate.
I always assumed #POSE would be like, the misplaced quasi-woke liberalness of #Monster or #Popular, crossed with a really good show. But if this is Ryan Murphy's 1981 then I feel like POSE would be just too damned sad to watch.
At least it's not #AHStories, which had a couple of bangers in the first season but seems a lot less centered this year. I'm not too far into S2 of that, though. I can't deal with Bella Thorne right now I got too much on my MIND

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Nov 18
the only thing I ask, on what I'm considering the last day of Twitter, is that somebody, somewhere, RT just once one of my millions of pathetic canva ads to become Washington Post TV Critic.

why not pick your favorite and just go for it!?
i'll be there for you Spoof of the Friends logo f...
tossed salads + scrambled eggs A spoof on the Fraser logo ...
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Nov 17
This is true.
Dunning-Kruger, "my kid could draw that" syndrome, on a massive scale.
They hate elites and authorities because they want to BE elite and the authority--and they can't figure out why that's not working out.
(The answer is that it takes work to be an expert.)
But like a child's understanding of driving a car (or Trump's of driving a truck!), they don't know what they don't know.
They have a child's understanding that thinks it's fully grown.
That's one reason for the mask stuff - do your own research, claim medical expertise
Trump is their ultimate fantasy:

Somebody who doesn't know what a car is or how to drive it, and gets to drive it ANYWAY.
All that horsepower, in the hands of a child who got away with something.

See also: Elon & Twitter.
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Nov 15
There was no Red Wave because there is no electoral college for them to cheat with.
It's about the popular vote, and MAGA isn't popular.
So what's funny is all the mini-Trumps thinking the key is to act like him, when it's all about cheating like him but not ACTING like him
Trumpism made MAGA types think they were more popular than they are, but it turns out the only role you can win with Trumpism is President, because it's the only vote that isn't about popularity.
That's hilarious because it's so emblematic of conservatism as a whole right now:
Willing to blow off anything that doesn't fit your narrative or alternate reality -- "yeah yeah electoral blah blah" -- and then get aggrieved when the "blah blah" you blew off comes down to being part of actual reality: "you're nuts if you think America is as nuts as you are"
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Sep 10, 2021
Trouble is we thought vaccination was about sovereignty when really the metaphor is POVERTY. That's how the antivax think about Covid: Like poverty it's something that will happen to you if you are 1) unlucky or 2) of low character - that it's mostly something that happens to POC
And just like the poor hate the poor, they hate the people who "have Covid," which is POC. It's just that they're used to hating them, so we don't think about it.
white supremacy is a huge part of antivax for this reason - white people with covid are the aberration, not the rule
The numbers don't bear it out, of course, but they never do. An antivaxxer with Covid is like a temporarily embarrassed millionaire -- that's why they don't want it on the death certificate or in the paper. Because they failed to uphold white supremacy by getting the illness.
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Sep 10, 2021
the antivax, antimask crowd are motivated purely out of 1) spite and 2) fear that the rest of us think they are low-class trash.

problem is, they are. it has nothing to do with money and everything to do with them being filthy and having dirty nasty families & spreading disease
normalize bullying the antivax just like you would any other racist or nazi because the line is paper-thin at this point and these people are actively choosing violence and murder over something inconsequential
sorry if that seems harsh but the both-sidesing of this is driving me crazy. bottom line, antivax people are gross, with gross bodies that harbor illness, and they walk through life not caring if they hurt anybody else with their preventable disease. that's not a 2-sided issue
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Sep 7, 2021
I watched all of American Horror Stories on Sunday, the Lord's day, and I must say it made me feel yucky in a way AHS seldom but sometimes makes me feel yucky, but for almost the whole time. Some moments of genius but mostly I never understood why it was happening & still don't
I really liked the grindhouse one and the hype house one and I have been saying "Bro means 'brother'!" pretty regularly. but the murder house ones either tried too hard (#3) or not hard enough (#1 & #2). It all suffered from the stylish #RedTide binge that preceded it maybe
Because MAN could I watch 13 episodes of that. Just gorgeous
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