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Feb 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Looking at the replies and QTs, and in a few years we've somehow gone from "lol they twice rebooted a 10-year-old movie, Hollywood has run out of ideas" to "omg check out this ancient relic from 2002"
Tbf I remember a conversation with someone who was like 10 years younger around 2012 and their response was "but that's what I want to see, movies that update movies from a few years ago with more CGI" so 🤷♂️
Feb 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One possible way to characterize the coming divide could (and probably *should*) be “progressives vs populists.” Neither mutually exclusive - they’ve often coincided - but each suggests a distinct trend more to do with presentation than policy.
In fact one of the problems the more hostile/outsider crowd has right now is a dearth of populist spokespeople. Their mantle is more often taken up by contrarian individualists with a broadly civil libertarian profile which doesn’t really address the reasons for bifurcation.
Feb 3, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It seems increasingly likely that there will be a significant split in the online left - "Force The Vote" was just a preview.
Was thinking this even before picking up on a lot of today's drama. What is frustrating is as I've been saying repeatedly lately I think a two-pronged approach is healthy. But there are two ominous aspects of the sort of split that seems likely.
May 7, 2018 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
Oh my God, listening to the interview part now and it’s so enormously frustrating. She’s talking about Republicans like they’re some persecuted religious faith and not the dominant elite of the country.
Oh no, the poor actors who sat in make-up rooms listening to people mock a powerful multimillionaire! While he was, you know, running a catastrophic war that has killed millions.
Feb 28, 2018 • 835 tweets • >60 min read
#10YearsOfLostInTheMovies begins right now - a 100-day trip through my archive leading to July 16, 2018, the 10th anniversary of my site. I will share 10 posts each day, moving chronologically from 2008 to the present. Hope this provides an interesting way to explore my work.
I will thread the links so you can scroll around, hopefully pretty seamlessly (though of course Twitter is not always great at handling this type of navigation). When there are interesting images to incorporate, I’ll add them in a subsequent tweet.
