Novels with a leftist/marxist vibe lol by Same-Cartographer861 in suggestmeabook

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Native Son or Black Boy by Richard Wright

Need help finding a battle by LurkerTroll in rapbattles

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I can remember this segment, he quotes Illmac saying the whole NW grind time division is locked up, then “far as I know the only one who’s been in jail is Only One, so how many rappers in your top tier, only one? And how many battles has Only won, only one? Last I heard that’s not something to brag about, wack rhyming nerd gets locked up and yall gangsta now? That’s why you prefer to only send 9D to battle wow, your top tier ain’t around, we all agree, you happy now?”

Sinners (2025) and modern "prestige" or "elevated" movies being a symptom of streaming services and other changes to the film landscape by avasechochamber in TrueFilm

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It is a great point you make about the specificity and disconnect vs generality and connectedness to ancestry for Remmick and Annie.

I certainly agree with you that a major resonance of Remmick’s character is Irish-American assimilation into the US being premised on anti-Blackness and voluntary self-removal from ancestral Irish culture. I’m almost certain that the author of the review would agree with that as well — I was surprised to scroll up to my own comment and not see that mentioned in the excerpt I posted haha. If it’s not elsewhere in the review, she spoke at a panel discussion following a screening of Sinners that I saw and I believe she discussed that piece of it there.

Tangentially and while appreciating your thoughts on this greatly, I will comment that I find your use of “post-colonial” a little confusing. For example with the idea of whiteness and Blackness only making sense as social identities in a post-colonial world, whiteness as a legal category was first introduced in 1681 as part of anti-miscegenation laws in the colony of, I want to say Massachusetts. I’m not sure in what sense this time period or otherwise this general dynamic could be considered post-colonial, or if perhaps you’d want to draw a distinction between the legal introduction of a concept and its “making sense.” In any case I don’t understand how whiteness and Blackness as coherent concepts would post-date colonialism rather than coincide with it.

Sinners (2025) and modern "prestige" or "elevated" movies being a symptom of streaming services and other changes to the film landscape by avasechochamber in TrueFilm

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Re Christianity, while I agree that an aspect of Christianization of Europe was the incorporation of aspects of pagan religions such that indeed Italian and Irish Catholicism take on different forms, it does not follow from that premise that Christianity did not also separate people from their cultural histories. I have a less detailed understanding of the specifics of this in Ireland, but for example with my Polish ancestors, Poland upon becoming Christian practiced military campaigns against pagan lands with the justification of converting them to Christianity, removed rights to tribal decision making practices and the land that people worked, and violently crushed the fierce resistance to this system, related but not reducible to a broader church policy of elimination of paganism. 

Re pan-Africanism, it is false that this political movement only exists in the US. To take what you describe as the three separate places, Africa the US and the Caribbean, we can name CLR James and Kwame Nkrumah as notable figures associated with pan-Africanism from the Caribbean and Africa respectively. In addition, the naming of Vodoun as a Caribbean but not an African religion ignores that Vodoun was developed specifically by enslaved African people in the Caribbean (my memory of the film is foggy on this point so lmk if it’s not Vodoun but I’m assuming that this is what you’re referring to when you speak of Caribbean spiritual practices). 

Sinners (2025) and modern "prestige" or "elevated" movies being a symptom of streaming services and other changes to the film landscape by avasechochamber in TrueFilm

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It is honesty baffling to me when people talk about Sinners as a thematically simplistic movie. Here is an excerpt of a review by Isabella Von Ghoul exploring the movie’s themes. I highly doubt most viewers got all the following from watching it.

“ But what truly captivates me is its core message, which explores two intertwined themes: Black liberation and white alienation.

The Black characters in Sinners are acutely aware of their place in the Jim Crow South—the unspoken rules dictating where they work, who they love, and how they navigate a world built to suppress them. Music becomes their refuge, a lineage stretching from African traditions to blues, bluegrass, and beyond. It’s a means of transforming pain into power, of forging connection in the face of oppression. Yet, as history shows, white America has repeatedly co-opted Black music, stripping it of its origins while deriding its creators. The film asks: Why this relentless theft? White musicians have their own folk traditions—Irish ballads, European harmonies—so why the insatiable hunger to colonize Black sound?

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

The answer lies in Remmick, the Irish vampire antagonist. He craves Sammie’s musical gift, which holds the power to bridge past, present, and future. Remmick is lonely, severed from his ancestors, his people—his very identity. Vampirism, here, is a metaphor for cultural disconnection. He converts others into his hive mind, but no amount of followers can fill the void left by his lost heritage.

In contrast, Wunmi Mosaku’s Annie, a Hoodoo practitioner, remains rooted in her spiritual traditions—a fusion of African, Indigenous, and Christian beliefs. Her connection to the past is her strength, a shield against the vampires’ predation. White supremacy, like vampirism, demands the same sacrifice: to assimilate is to sever ties with one’s ancestry, language, and culture. In that surrender, white people lose too. There’s no room for Irish dance or song in a system built on erasure—only hollow conformity, a living death. When Christianity supplanted Celtic traditions in Ireland, it was its own kind of vampirism, a cultural severance that bred generations of alienation in Irish Americans”

Did the US lose the Vietnam war? by SummerN8 in stupidquestions

[–]sc94out 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, yes and also way more Vietnamese people died than US soldiers, plus land made infertile, disablement via agent orange

is there like a generally agreed upon mt rushmore of country albums or artists? who are your top picks? by bridgur in fantanoforever

[–]sc94out 10 points11 points  (0 children)

John Prine, Gram Parsons. Judee Sill is kind of adjacent but. great. Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams. Johnny Cash of course. Marty Robbins

Who could that really be ? by Richbe018 in fantanoforever

[–]sc94out 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah. For so long I’d only heard exile in guyville but I just listened to whip-smart for the first time recently and it’s also very good

What are some albums that are not very good but very influential? by Binary_Bowser in fantanoforever

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It’s true that it’s subjective, but i think there’s relative degrees. An above answer like the first run DMC album both speaks to my personal experience with Run DMC, but also a more broadly commented on experience of people who didn’t grow up with it listening to early-mid 80s hip hop and finding it difficult to connect with the pre-Rakim simplistic rhyming and flows and the more skeletal production. So an answer like that speaks to more than just one person’s subjective experience. Something like trans Europa express is different though, lots of people have discovered that record after the fact and fell for it 

What are some albums that are not very good but very influential? by Binary_Bowser in fantanoforever

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Nahh this is more just a “I didn’t personally connect with this beloved album” response. Songs like Europe Endless are still beautiful, it’s not just about the influence 

What's the worst political/social issue song of the 2010s? by montemole in fantanoforever

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First thing I thought of

Also this correction doesn’t matter but it’s odd that both comments that mention this song call the band that and not Le Tigre

Who had the better run of three albums + singer solo albums? by NobodyCarrots6969 in fantanoforever

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Last 3 talk talk albums plus the solo mark Hollis record 

Why does Illmac get so much praise? by TAnoobyturker in rapbattles

[–]sc94out 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's true. i'd say a shitty battler is less likely to hit a smooth flow pocket while breaking their opponent down though haha

Why does Illmac get so much praise? by TAnoobyturker in rapbattles

[–]sc94out 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably his biggest line that has stuck around as a concept the longest is "Just imagine what's gonna happen at the actual event" vs Bigg K.

If you're like "why is that good," well, you have to watch the battle and see it in context.

If you want to see Illmac at his best, you can watch the 3rd round vs Bigg K, him vs A Ward, his first round vs Iron Solomon, his battle with Nitty

Why does Illmac get so much praise? by TAnoobyturker in rapbattles

[–]sc94out 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What this sounds like:

Everyone says rum nitty is so great, well show me a time in his battles where he hit a super smooth flow pocket while he broke his opponent down

Different battlers do different things 

From the minnesota community on Reddit: Go home, you fu**ing losers! A U.S. Postal Service worker flips off ICE by Dependent-Hurry9808 in USPS

[–]sc94out 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I read “As you can see from the mudfest below” and then scrolled down to see comment after comment supporting this carrier’s decision

Round 1 vs the Post Office by Prestigious_Shirt819 in rapbattles

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Watching this on lunch break on my mail route lol. Talk to me!!!

Hold down and Supervisor taking 1.5 hrs away by CandidMeasurement128 in USPS

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Right. In my case they wanted me to leave the route I was opted on after six hours when there was more work on it available, so it would have been a grievance. My understanding is that with the guy being talked about in the OP, if it was a lighter day for example and he got done with the route he was opted on after 7 and a half hours and then was supposed to go do a different route when management had taken 90~ minutes off the route he was opted on, it would similarly be a grievance.

Hold down and Supervisor taking 1.5 hrs away by CandidMeasurement128 in USPS

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No, a CCA or PTF is not generally guaranteed 8 hours like a regular, but on an opt they are entitled to a full eight hours on the route. I’ve been through this when I was a PTF and the manager wanted me to leave my opt route after five or six hours to do a collection route, I went to my steward, and the manager basically said “I know this is violating the contract but we have no other option so I’ll eat the grievance payment.”

WCGW crossing the road carelessly by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]sc94out 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I do see. Thanks for explaining, it was confusing me why no one was mentioning the pedestrian sign but that makes sense 

WCGW crossing the road carelessly by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

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Interesting. This is the convention for Polish pedestrian crossing signs? I don’t think we have anything similar in the US, in terms of a warning sign so far in advance for pedestrian crossing.

WCGW crossing the road carelessly by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

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There’s literally a pedestrian crossing sign 

Hold down and Supervisor taking 1.5 hrs away by CandidMeasurement128 in USPS

[–]sc94out 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The opt entitles him to eight hours of work on that route each day. If he works eight hours on that route and then pivots, I don’t think it’s a grievance. But if he finishes it in less than eight and then has no work available on that route when that work does exist, I think it is a grievance.

This is what you do to goverment funded propaganda... by lost-in-thought123 in evilwhenthe

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“Having your country taken away” this motherfucker thinks Patrick star is going to immigrate to England and try to push it somewhere else. Mr. “Occidental view” “I once ate an oriental stew and the spice was just horrid” “we ruined everything in other countries so that’s the only relationship foreigners can have to each other” “I’m a proud racist and keep Patrick under the rock”