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- Lars Von Treer is abusive and Dogville was garbage
- Tarantino is washed up
- Jarmusch is a vacuous hipster
- the Coens are fine but cleverness is not a substitute for depth
I will never understand critics' adulation for these boring white guys.
- Tarantino is washed up
- Jarmusch is a vacuous hipster
- the Coens are fine but cleverness is not a substitute for depth
I will never understand critics' adulation for these boring white guys.
Any cineaste who praises Dogville or Dead Man gets an immediate side-eye from me. I cannot fathom what anyone sees in either.
Reminder that saying a movie cannot be bad because it is made with great technical skill is like saying a novel is great because it has good spelling.
Let's talk about Andy Ngo and limits of strategic nonviolence.
Something Bob Altemeyer mentioned in The Authoritarians is that people get more authoritarian when confronted with violence of (almost) any kind.
I covered this in my livetweet of the book:
I covered this in my livetweet of the book:
When people fear society is getting more violent, they turn to the authorities to keep them safe. This increased trust in authority can be highly exploitable, which is how we get the War on Terror and why white nationalists insist Black and brown people are going to kill us all.
OK tweeps & twerps: It's been some time, but today we resume #IanLivetweetsHisResearch with David Neiwert's Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump.
(For any concerned parties, since finishing my livetweet of The Reactionary Mind I have read Fascism Today by Shane Burley and Healing from Hate by Michael Kimmel, and am currently a few chapters into Terror, Love, and Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein. I just didn't livetweet em.)
(You can hear more on my Research Masterpost.) innuendostudios.tumblr.com/post/183630744…
This interview made the shockingly useful observation, which I'd never put together before, of why antisemitism is so core to the modern Far Right, despite being one of the biggest impediments to recruitment. jewishcurrents.org/undercover-wit…
Namely, that the things white people are disaffected about are the same things as everyone else: lack of job security, growing wealth inequality, rising cost of living, and all the other horrors of late capitalism.
And they're not fools when it comes to the causes of these problems. And it is natural that they would feel some sympathy for Leftist arguments.
So Pauline Kael once argued that, from a pure consumer advocacy standpoint, the only useful things a reviewer could do were a) pan a big movie or b) promote an obscure movie.
There was no value in recommending a movie you were probably already going to see, or in panning a movie you'd never heard of. Telling you to see something you would otherwise miss, or avoid something you'd otherwise see, was what reviews were good for.
She said this in response to people convinced she was just a contrarian, who only liked rando arthouse movies and hated everything big. In reality she liked many big movies and hated many obscurities, but saw no use in writing about them.
Jesse Singal continues to be trash.
Advice for how to help @ElloEllenOh and @ElleOnWords while they're getting dogpiled by Singal and his friends:
Also:
"[Postmodern conservatism's] recent proliferation isn’t really extricable from the rise of chan culture... 4chan didn’t cause this thinking, but sites like 4chan reveal it in its most concentrated form."
100 commenters: "why u blame 4chan"
100 commenters: "why u blame 4chan"
"I disagree that this is caused by 4chan."
Yeah, so do I, in the text of the video you're commenting on. 🤨
Yeah, so do I, in the text of the video you're commenting on. 🤨
Sometimes I wonder why I try to be nuanced, since people will just hear the least complicated version of what you're saying anyway. Scripts would be a lot shorter if I just made sweeping statements.
I can't sleep so I'm finally watching @PhilosophyTube's video on antifa, and... fuck, I see why don't folks thought my video on fascism was ripping him off.
We use, like... all the same arguments and most of the same examples. 😮
We use, like... all the same arguments and most of the same examples. 😮
(I know I'm late to the party, it's just that hour-long videos are daunting.)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm still thinking about @Hbomberguy's stream and what was so special about #ThanksGraham, so here comes another thread.
I'm a little underslept so let's see if I can string sentences together.
I'm a little underslept so let's see if I can string sentences together.
I've been getting some CuriousCat questions asking if this proves anger and spite are great motivators and whether the Left should rely on them more.
But what strikes me is how, despite being framed as "let's spite Graham," the tone of the stream was anything but spiteful.
But what strikes me is how, despite being framed as "let's spite Graham," the tone of the stream was anything but spiteful.
Something I've been thinking about a lot in the last year or so is how anger is, indeed, a very motivating emotion, and how much of the time that motivation is precisely *why* people get angry.
New video essay! Reactionaries will say seemingly anything to "own the libs," often gleefully contradicting themselves. Are they all just nihilists? Or are there beliefs they simply won't admit to?
If you like this video and would like to make sure the series keeps coming out, throw me a buck on Patreon. patreon.com/InnuendoStudios
This video is an indirect answer to the oft-asked "why do you use the 4chan logo to represent the alt-right?"
Slides for the next Alt-Right Playbook are done. 290 in total.
Last video was 334, so I guess this is progress.
Last video was 334, so I guess this is progress.
I woke up this morning remembering a half paragraph I think I forgot to draw slides for, so I guess it's gonna be more than 290 slides.
Also apparently that's the first thing on my mind upon waking because I am a dull motherfucker.
Also apparently that's the first thing on my mind upon waking because I am a dull motherfucker.
final tally is 293, barring additions/revisions during the edit
I have not researched this thoroughly, and I am also cis, so I'm only going to cover the major bullet points. If you tweet corrections and/or additional nuance, I will add them to the thread. (Transphobes will be blocked.)
Let's talk about puberty blockers.
Let's talk about puberty blockers.
If a prepubescent youth comes out as trans, or as being uncertain or confused about their gender, they can delay the onset of puberty with puberty blockers.
This is not the same thing as transitioning.
This is not the same thing as transitioning.
In the 50's and 60's, the top marginal tax rate for J. Paul Getty was between 70 and 92 percent and he was still the richest human alive. 
Resistance to tax increases is about the principle of the thing. The people Ocasio Cortez' tax plan would affect will never feel the pinch.
They just don't like having a big number when they could have a huge one.
They just don't like having a big number when they could have a huge one.
They will still be the richest people on Earth in the richest country on Earth.
there is a big-ass adventure game sale on GOG right now gog.com/promo/20190116…
Night in the Woods and Unforeseen Incidents are both quite good, FYI.
Always good to bear in mind.
I'm finally playing Hyrule Warriors, and it's entertaining anime trash, but I am very surprised to find that Linkle is my favorite character?!?
Surprised and ambivalent.
The final move of one of her combos is raising her crossbow in the air, throwing her hood back, and singing the Zelda series victory tune out loud - "der der der derrrr!!" - like a fucking dork.
She's awesome.
She's awesome.
Against my better judgment, I'm going to weigh in on Louis CK.
CW: physical and sexual abuse.
CW: physical and sexual abuse.
There are two easy responses to CK's complaint that today's young are boring because their idea of rebellion is talking about pronouns.
First: I understand, to your generation, that Millennials are forever seventeen, but most of the people talking about pronouns are in their twenties and thirties, and they aged INTO it, you has-been.
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This is why I don't title videos "Has Cultivation Theory Been Disproven?" and suchlike. More people will see the title than will hear the argument and come away thinking the wrong thing.
Framing your argument such that it will be properly understood is often at cross purposes to how The Algorithm wants it phrased, which will be covered in a future video.
Innuendo Studios Year in Review:
This year I had a video break 1 million views for the first time. Just this morning, another video did as well. A third is on track to break a mill in Q1 2019.
My channel broke 100,000 subscribers.
In fact, I did the math and gained roughly 70,000 subs this year, which is about the same as my entire career to this point.
So in 2018 I doubled my sub count.
In fact, I did the math and gained roughly 70,000 subs this year, which is about the same as my entire career to this point.
So in 2018 I doubled my sub count.
It is an honor to be on this list, and I agree - with one exception - with everyone's inclusion.
However...
However...
Maybe we should stop letting Rob Marshall make movies.
I did not hate Mary Poppins Returns. Emily Blunt is about the only person who could play Mary and she lovely, as is Ben Whishaw. And it has a number of interesting ideas.
But its ideas didn't cohere and it was mostly boring.
But its ideas didn't cohere and it was mostly boring.
Oh, and the one Big Emotional Moment rang so false I was kind of disgusted.
Like, dude, don't give me fake sentiment and a mediocre some reprise when you're mourning a lost family member.
Like, dude, don't give me fake sentiment and a mediocre some reprise when you're mourning a lost family member.
Expanded my horizons the most: OK Computer
Took my musical tastes the furthest afield: The Richard D. James Album
Took my musical tastes the furthest afield: The Richard D. James Album
Prior to OK Computer I had no taste in music to speak of. And I didn't GET Radiohead, but people whose taste I admired told me it was great, so I listened to it again and again and again...
until I eventually fell in love with it.
until I eventually fell in love with it.
It wasn't as hard to get into Aphex Twin after Radiohead opened me up to stuff outside of, I dunno, blink-182 or whatever I was listening to. But The Richard D. James Album, that altered my whole idea of what constituted "music."
female-presenting nipples > nazis
most everyone likes nipples and most everyone hates nazis, yet the internet devolves into a puritanical space that hides what people like and serves up what people hate while the nazis claim the people advocating for more nipples are the real puritans
I would like to disembark the log flume ride we call late capitalism plz
Ralph Breaks the Internet does character-arcs-over-multiple-films better than 95% of Marvel movies.
It's a messy, overstuffed, tonally inconsistent mess, but what it ends up being about legitimately builds on the themes of the previous movie, using the ending of Wreck-It Ralph as a jumping-off point.
When it works, it works.
When it works, it works.
The only Marvel character with a character arc over multiple movies is Iron Man, and you have to ignore 4 movies to see it.
Also Anthony Burch but that's just by assholes who can't tell two cucks apart.
Come to think of it, I don't think anyone gets mistaken for me...
