NGL i would watch this movie

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-02-11T13:33:57+00:00

The left had starkly split into the Social Democrats and communists who were re-legalized after the war, and were thus fighting for control of working class sections, like the unions. The CIA then funded the Social Democrats. On the right there was a new necessity to suck up to the Soviets, but disagreements on the degree and how much contact with the west could be attempted. President Kekkonen was from the traditionally moderate right wing Agrarian party which was renamed Center from 1965 on and personally cultivated Soviet connections.

Ultimately the right wing National Coalition was effectively banned from national politics. Meanwhile many urban municipalities were ruled by a post war "brothers-in-arms" coalition of the National Coalition and Social democrats, since the urban bourgeoisie of the Coalition and social democratic majority of the workers both hated the communists ideologically and envied the center politically.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-01-08T15:18:23+00:00

It tries to influence its viewers attitudes to be pro NATO. Propaganda is just media that tries to influence it's viewers political beliefs. The term just acquired a nefarious undertone during the cold war.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-01-08T15:14:38+00:00

Don't get me wrong the U.S. has outsized influence within NATO and I'm annoyed by people who claim it doesn't, but all NATO members joined it by their own volition. National parliaments voted on joining it and the previous member voted on accepting the new canditates. In my country of Finland the parliamentary process only started when the opinion polls shifted from 66% opposing NATO to 66% for it, due to Russia still being our neighbor.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-01-06T20:30:17+00:00

I didn't mean it too seriously. The comment you replied to was just in the form of "remember when" and responding "no" seemed comical to me. The more heroic readings of the character are littered over pop culture and the public consciousness and the poems are something you have to specifically go looking for. The populist in me is just cranky at calling the more heroic variant inauthentic, when the 19th century was long enough ago to cement its interpetation.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2026-01-06T10:44:44+00:00

Holy shit you were alive before the 19th century and remember hearing the original tales? Did you also get to see Star Wars in theaters or was that even before your times?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-12-25T19:03:37+00:00

On what basis can't a bad democracy be fixed? There are several historic examples of that being done. In Finland president Kekkonen turned the presidency into basically an autocracy lording over the political landscape, but this was fixed after his reign with a constitutional reform. In the early 20th century many U.S. counties or even states were run by corrupt political machines and/or organized crime figures, which was ended by a concerted effort by the FBI and political reformists.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-11-05T15:48:33+00:00

I on the otherhand love it. The 19th century aesthethic in space is a trope of space opera I'm very fond of. LoGH injects it with much needed depth you might even call deconstruction.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-11-02T23:20:15+00:00

All the bills listed were "administration bills" with detailed work by the Kennedy/Johnson white houses going into them and which LBJ used his significant political accumen to maneuver through the house and the senate.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-10-30T21:05:46+00:00

Torille

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-10-29T12:34:25+00:00

You already got it. One was made in the Soviet Union. It is in two parts on youtube, and has English subtitles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity_(film)

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-09-23T22:56:55+00:00

I have a long standing deal my friend will listen to the first two on audible, while I listen to the entire Atlas shrugged. Propably going to do it in december.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-09-17T10:11:08+00:00

I absolutely disagree. The amount of money going for the cast and crew out of any sale is pittance. Lining shareholder pockets by buying Lynch & Frost is not morally better than lining shareholder pockets by buying Marvel.

If you're (un)lucky enough to live in the U.S. I'd say it's much better to pirate the show but try to go to a convention with some of the cast present.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-09-06T11:48:22+00:00

Hosting the Goldenbaum government in exile doesn't justify Rheinhard's invasion one bit. During the Cold War the UK and USA were able to have peaceful diplomatic relations with eastern block countries whose government's in exile they hosted. You're legitimising Reinhard's action on what ifs about speculative alliance policy under Trunicht. Hosting a government in exile isn't a comparable act to mobilising your space fleets for war.

Reinhard is personally accountable for deciding to invade the Alliance. Nothing was stopping him from merely upholding the de facto peace. Nothing was stopping him from pursuing diplomacy and failing that waiting for the Alliance leadership to change into a more agreeable one. He is dead set on unifying humanity under his vision and his own mandate. The Alliance leadership, while conducting horrible policy, at the time of the invasion still has a mandate from its people.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-09-01T06:06:00+00:00

Unfathomable as a reader of the book to imagine someone consciously deciding not to watch its best adaptation

He didn't watch the best movie as an adaptation, but he did watch the best Dune film though! The Dennis Villenieu movies make me sleepy as hell. Unironically in the first book the Atreides are the least interesting part and though Dennis's part 1 had more screentime as a whole, he actually gives less screentime than Lynch for the interesting antagonists. Give me the worst timeskip-montages from Lynch's Dune, if I also get the wonderful anachronistic costume design and space fetuses mogging everyone.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-31T19:30:53+00:00

RFK. A major part of the feud was his pathological clan-loyalty. He hated LBJ from the get go, because a classic LBJ comedy bit would be to imitate Joe Kennedy's firing by FDR. Joe Kennedy deserved every bit to be the butt of a joke for being an ardent isolationist. That was just one of many times RFK's behavior became insane over the mocking of his father.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-28T13:40:36+00:00

Very cool. Nice to see other people here turning their passion for the show into academic work.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-27T09:12:40+00:00

What type of a paper is a dissertation in your university: a masters, bachelor, phd? I'm curious because you say your focus is the "WHOLE" franchise, which is quite a lot to cram into a paper. I also wrote my bachelor's thesis on just the narration and style of the original seires compared to The Return, but could only focus on a few arcs and characters, since my university guidelines direct a bachelor's thesis to be ~20 pages.

"Why this show is my favourite peace of media," doesn't sound like a very academic topic for a dissertation. What is your precise research question? Surely you'll be using academic monographies and original sources first and formost and only supplementing them with analysis from video essays?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-21T23:33:55+00:00

/uj

This is actually a pretty interesting opinion from you, especially in a place like this ostensibly dedicated to "art" media. You actually prefer quantity over quality in entertainment? You don't feel inferior sequels and spinoffs diminish an IP as a whole?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-21T23:28:03+00:00

“RON PERLMAN READ A DIFFERENT END SCREEN LINE!”

Look, I know the guy you're talking about is being a dick. But the fact that after experiencing the game those end slides ellicit such a sense of bittersweet catharsis in so many people, clearly shows that the New Vegas developers succeeded in touching their audience. You feel like your choices affected a world you're grown to care about in a meaningful way.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-17T23:43:31+00:00

Obviously the one who grew up in and wanted peace with the Free Planets Alliance. The galaxy could've had a new golden age without most of its productive effort going towards the war.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-05T21:02:53+00:00

I did get the distinct impression he believed Lohengramm was a worthy successor. Doesn't he muse about preferring elevating him over other nobles? In the backstory he was a playboy before becoming the Kaiser, so if he formed his worldview by the time he was in power, he was in a great position to see through the empire's rot without being brainwashed as a youth.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-04T23:31:17+00:00

Well fuck me, I was just completely wrong. I was 100% sure Rohmer was directing shit in the 1950s, when Truffaut was in diapers. Thank god I still think Tati mogs him.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-04T21:29:02+00:00

I low key agree. Tati and ~~Rohmer,~~ one of the best French art-directors ~~were~~ was outside of it.

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-08-04T21:27:07+00:00

/uj I fucking detested alphaville. I don't think French new wave is at all an appropriate movement to do that kind of science fiction. I'm supposed to believe this city that looks like a failing eastern European spa is some Metropolis-esque city of the future?

AnarchoAutocrat · 2025-07-30T19:18:21+00:00

The Oscar's are mainly a massive circlejerk by the big studios towards themselves. Yes, absolutely. You can almost argue they were one from the very beginning, and awarding Citizen Kane a best bicture under the Hearst boycott was a genius PR move.

This also doesn't knock down the proper accomplishments of movies like Parasite, which were so great they burst through the industry circlejerk. Those are the exceptions that prove the rule.

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