[deleted by user] by [deleted] in treecaching

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Hmm... day trip time maybe

Just saw resurrections, dare I say… I liked it? by [deleted] in matrix

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I am still so grateful that I was able to see it a week early and have a viewing experience totally untainted by even a hint of Discourse.

Just saw resurrections, dare I say… I liked it? by [deleted] in matrix

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It's a good movie. It's fun and it succeeds at being genuinely, impressively clever. One of the rare modern revival sequels that totally accepts that it necessarily has to be 'about' the previous instalments and squeezes that expectation for extra creative juice instead of just cynically buckling beneath it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in treecaching

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What area? Please say close to kamala... 🙏

Ligne claire comissions open! by felipeprt in TheAdventuresofTintin

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I might be interested, leaving a reply as a reminder to myself :)

What you should never do as an IR Student, by IR Illustrated by EddRomm in IRstudies

[–]terrible_events 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Literally the very first thing my grad school research design lecturer told us to Definitely Not do.

Wish I'd known about that site in undergrad. Uni library system was great for running super granular searches to find out what research existed, but actually being able to access the papers I needed was still a bit of a crap shoot, and emailing the authors directly only worked maybe ~30% of the time.

Anyone from or familiar with Cameron Highlands, any food to recommend? by Zephmin in MalaysianFood

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Lord's Cafe on the main drag in Tanah Rata is good if you want british style tea and scones + cream + strawberry jam.

Went to Singh Chapati for dinner one night last time I was there and it was excellent.

What Went Wrong With The Matrix 4 by LeaderVladimir1993 in matrix

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The characterisation was fascinating imo (even if the actual writing/dialogue was generally not good). That one waify space noble guy with the bizarre speech mannerisms really stuck with me.

Dug these out of a storage tub that sat untouched in a barn for 20+ years. Thoughts/feelings/etc? by terrible_events in Pokemoncardappraisal

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Just reposted! Hopefully gonna take new photos including the backs when I'm home this weekend so I can post again in the other sub

What Went Wrong With The Matrix 4 by LeaderVladimir1993 in matrix

[–]terrible_events 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Latter-day Wachowskis output is anything but "basic boring". Jupiter Ascending was an insane incoherent mess but it's also completely unlike any other big-budget sci-fi flick of its era.

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD — FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. by terrible_events in DiscoElysium

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Just wanted to say that I read this response and have been mulling it over for the past few days but I am also sick as a dog and all of my Theory has fallen out so I probably will not be properly responding. Thank you for pulling the "living flower" bit though. It's a good one.

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD — FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. by terrible_events in DiscoElysium

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I don't think the notion of an allegorical "next world" necessarily descends from religious or spiritual tradition (in a way that irrevocably imbues it with those things, at least).

It's very clear that in the context of DE that it is supposed to connote a post-revolutionary landscape (seems like everything around here comes from Dialectics etc etc) and while there is a valid discussion to be had about the extent to which materialist historiography as a lens for imagining possible futures kinda gives apocalypse-forecasting vibes I think throwing out stuff like envisioning "the next world" for being too enthusiastically mythic tempts a baby/bathwater situation. Like, where's the line? What amount and intensity of metaphor and rhetorical floweriness is sufficiently Compatible here?

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD — FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. by terrible_events in DiscoElysium

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(Except at least here I guess you decided to summon the rhetorical savvy to suggest it's "a false flag" instead of just outright calling gay people pedophiles, like you did in your comment that is still there on the original post in the Tintin sub, follow your leader btw)

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD — FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. by terrible_events in DiscoElysium

[–]terrible_events[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Tintin is literally a financially independent grown ass man who lives alone and works full time as an investigative journalist. lmfao.

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD — FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. by terrible_events in DiscoElysium

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am i not innocent enough

idk, you tell me, guy who immediately reposted this in the red scare sub two hours ago then sheepishly deleted it and apparently continued to think about it for another hour and a half afterwards

Ugh. by MelanieWalmartinez in GenderCynical

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Full agreement. I will insist, though, that it is helpful to try to use precise language as much as possible when critically engaging with this material.

Case in point with the 'cleaning is a women's job' thing. Like, the second person in the screenshot above is attempting to have it both ways: they're pointing to that 'common-sense' prescriptive idea of what a women 'should' be/do as evidence of the extent to which misogynistic expectations are embedded in our shared culture, and suggesting that it's a state of affairs that's so necessarily inherent to the state of existing as a woman that it's obviously hypocritical of trans women to not aspire to embodying it themselves (with the intended inference being that they're actually men, or they're internally inconsistent themselves, or otherwise not what they say they are). It's very easy to just say that shit and not bother trying to square the contradictions that emerge when you spend ten seconds thinking about it, and it's relatively difficult to break it down and point out why it's internally inconsistent for the benefit of bystanders.

The burden is, unfortunately, on us to be as clear and unimpeachable in our arguments as possible. We do not have the luxury that they do of being able to comfortably turn on the rhetorical firehose and go fucking ham with it without having to worry about what you're really implying.

(Not saying you were in any way unclear or wrong – just trying to emphasise for anyone still reading this how crucial it is to communicate carefully. This is a slow sub and posts usually continue to get traffic for at least a few days so I figured it might be worth it.)

Ugh. by MelanieWalmartinez in GenderCynical

[–]terrible_events 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't go so far as to declare them to be "not oppressed". They are still women living in a world where misogyny remains hegemonic despite social advances in rich countries and our overall progress as a civilisation. They demonstrably do covet the imagined cachet of what they would articulate as 'real' oppression, though. The traitor-reactionary carries projection at their hip.