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Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:55 pm
by der kulterer
rischka wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:12 pm they're going to have to kill me and i've been saying this since the 80s
don't forget CoMoPoland.
you can always make "THE REVOLUTION OF THE GNOMES".
arm yourself with irony!

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:30 am
by rischka

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:32 am
by rischka
i remember the clinic bombings and murders of doctors and i wonder where we're headed

it's great to see young people aren't tuning out. we still outnumber the fascists. never forget

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:34 pm
by rischka
no one comes here anymore because of my unhinged rants lol

i was at the grocery store stuck behind some asshole with a PATRIOTS shirt - WE ARE MANY, THEY ARE FEW - THEY CAN'T KILL ALL OF US

and i just wanna say - WE ARE MANY TOO - but i didn't and now i'm gonna be angry all day D:

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:34 pm
by rischka
i got some chocolate though.

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:58 pm
by der kulterer
keep ranting, fellow ranter!
remember, even diggers dig your rants!

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:56 am
by sally
i forgot to post this, but for CoMo, couldn't be a better month

https://twitter.com/jimrosecircus1/stat ... 3984567298

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:40 pm
by rischka
lol i think this country is too big for such action. i well remember 2016 when some women i knew and considered friends told me they could never vote for a woman. i still have pro-life friends. we don't discuss it. i'm looked on as a radical nut (in fact i was called a psycho last week for saying trump should be locked up)

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:02 pm
by rischka
First thing I always see here is kanafani saying don't be a jerk lol

I did try 😅

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:05 pm
by rischka
A lot of people on twitter are happy the US will now be destroyed. I can't feel that. Sorry 💔

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:31 pm
by rischka

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:20 pm
by rischka
one wonders if segregation can be far behind...

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:53 am
by wba
^^ probably not. I'm sorry that you have to live in that country.

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:37 pm
by rischka

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:38 pm
by rischka
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status ... -1iZNhfHcw

these people have not even read the constitution

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:06 pm
by rischka
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1 ... eTk_skF05A

in case anyone had any lingering doubts of the legitimacy of the supreme court

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:13 pm
by rischka
good news everyone! trump won't be running again

LOCK HIM UP!!!

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:40 pm
by rischka
i wonder how much of this is on the baby boom generation - the activists of the 60s are now ultra conservative retirees. this cohort is too large to be overcome by today's youth. i hope to visit europe before the wave overtakes them as well. sigh

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:23 pm
by rischka
living in the trumpie midst - i do get it. they want to make the world safe for WHITE children. evolution - always a competition

sadly baby booms allowed bushes to steal an election in 2000 or we'd be on a far different course (one hopes)

ok gonna watch a film. the humidity is murderous rn

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:53 pm
by rischka
i don't know what wth i'm talking about. but i watched a movie

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1542 ... htXWPgmn7w

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:16 pm
by Silga
Ronald Reagan - a lousy president and a lousy actor.

Which reminds me of this clip from Grumpy Old Men. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khxUZph3-wo

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:32 pm
by nrh
tennessee is maybe the only movie where i don't mind reagan, if only because everyone in late dwan acts like an alien anyway (although payne is much better at playing into this than ronnie is) and the two male leads are so ambiguous in so many ways...do wish we can get a decent print of it one day, or there would be some sort of revival screening (i missed the dwan series at moma because of work), because even in this format the alton photography is really something...

strange to think back and realize that the 2000 election was the first political event i was old enough to be really follow (i'm in my mid '30s), and both the supreme court's decision and the dem party followup (not to mention the cowardly approval of the iraq war) was enough to delegitimize both institutions in my mind...and of course the wave of happiness with obama's victory quickly turned sour with the botched response to the financial collapse and the disastrous attempt to pass market based healthcare reform...so it's not a surprise to see a lack of any serious opposition at all but still very disheartening.

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:53 pm
by rischka
reagan is really not good and esp compared to john payne who i never paid much attention to otherwise

the film is beautiful and crying out for a 4k restoration

i still ahve a flickering hope that roger stone might get what's coming to him. but i doubt it

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:02 am
by rischka
but i think the biggest issue remains that they are clearly willing to do things that we will not do. like make death threats and intimidate people and make up baldfaced lies to repeat endlessly on fox news and social media

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:03 am
by rischka
afaik fascism has never been defeated by laws

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:08 am
by rischka
and as we see this week, they now control the laws

i'm not sure what can be done about it aside from expanding the court and we need a better majority

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:14 am
by rischka
i hope we don't do that thing again where a bunch of people vote third party (unless it's GOP ofc). i actually think it would be hilarious if GOP nominated someone else and trump ran anyway :lol:

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:22 am
by nrh
the gop primary will be a shitshow no matter what, but i don't think it will particularly harm them.

biden really shouldn't run, but he will anyway. not sure they have anyone else in the party who seems like a natural candidate.

even if real action is impossible is at least some effective theater too much to ask for? anything beyond sending more campaign funding emails?

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:25 am
by rischka
yes. i know what you're saying and i sincerely hope biden doesn't run. i'm so tired

https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status ... KaE4kIhK2Q

Re: Everything is Political

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:30 am
by rischka
not sure we're gonna make it