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  • Shit has never felt more off (stream of consciousness warning)

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  • I’ve started calling it Time Compression. It feels like it did in 2020 just after the pandemic kicked into high gear. Every day feels like a week and a week feels like a day. It feels like you’re unstuck from reality and everything takes this absurdist tint and everyone is holding their breath including you. Like just existing is causing mild dissociation. The streets are empty and cold even though they’re filled with people and the summer heat is strangling you. Past memories of how things “should” have been or could have been merge and overlap with the here and now. Hauntology in waking life.

    I’m not necessarily a believer in any kind of literal collective unconscious, but it feels like it did exist and someone unplugged it again.

    Anyways, I felt it start to settle in at the beginning of the year and it hasn’t let up much yet.

    In reality though I’m probably just getting old, read too much news, and don’t have enough friends.

  • Analysis on Zohran Kwame Mamdani

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  • I’m not hoping for anything other than marginally increasing class consciousness in a handful of people. Electoralism won’t accomplish anything, but if he can shift the Overton Window just a smidge to make Socialism be a bit less scary to some people while at the same time showing how the “lesser evil” democrats will fucking annihilate anything to the left of Bush Jr. then he’ll have done his job.

    I just hope that leftist groups in the US, particularly New York, see this as an opportunity to stuff some actual theory down the gullets of all the baby birdies lined up gawking at Zohran and what the democrats are gonna do to him between now and November.

  • What are some of your favorite shows? I'm looking for recs

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  • The Expanse is a wonderful show. It’s a slow burn with how they rearranged some things, but seasons 3 & 5 in particular are some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen. They take the great premise but questionable execution of the books and turn it into something truly amazing. It also has a hard sci-fi foundation that is quite rare and follows it pretty faithfully.

    In particular I absolutely adore how they handled the first entry into ring space and particularly Drummer and Ashford in season 3. They combined a lot of characters and plots, gave them a more realistic foundation, and trimmed the fat. And in turn we get a story with white knuckle pacing where the antagonist isn’t a villain, but a person trying their best in an impossible situation.

    Battlestar Galactica is another I'll always recommend. It has plenty of issues, but despite those flaws it manages to achieve incredible heights. You can still see its influence on sci-fi today. People love or hate the ending and last season and what they did with some characters and blah, blah, blah. There is a reason people still argue about this show nearly 20 years later. It’s worth arguing about.

  • What are some of your favorite shows? I'm looking for recs

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  • Completely agree. It’s a slow burn, but genuinely one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

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    Another based ML community on Reddit banned

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  • Not surprised, there had been a lot of shitty memes flooding the sub the past week or so that were shitting on AES countries. Makes sense now that the mods were MIA and not filtering out the fed bait anymore.

  • What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?

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  • Event Horizon. The trailers made it seem like just another 90s sci-fi horror flick trying to ride the Alien high, but it ended up being such a good movie with a tight script, beautiful set design, actually smart characters, and great acting.

  • What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?

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  • The chemistry between Kevin Costner and William Hurt was so perfect. This is one of those hidden gems that I like to recommend people to surprise them with just how good it is.

  • Breaking Bad season 5 is really bad

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  • That isn’t to say that the show has any kind of extra-personal analysis, it doesn’t. The show is rooted in and based on liberal vibes based non-analysis. It understands that there is something wrong in the American culture that produces people like Walter White, filled with cowardice, impotent rage, greed, and pride, but never thinks about analyzing how, why, or what is wrong with American culture. So the show falls back on intra and inter-personal analysis. How Americans abuse each other because they can’t address their actual issues because of pride and cowardice.

    The Wire does a much better job of analyzing the larger picture, even if it is also a fundamentally liberal analysis. But as much as I love The Wire it doesn’t foment the white-knuckle tension and rage as well as Breaking Bad does. But that mostly comes down to storytelling style I think. The Wire plays out very realistic while Breaking Bad uses Tarantino-esque hyper-reality as dramatic flair to heighten the narrative.

    Anyways this is just rambling now. I like the show a lot, for a lot of reasons but mostly for the drama and cinematic flair of it all, not because of its biting criticism.

    That all said I did have issues watching it the first time. I had to stop in the middle of season two because I hated Walter White so much. But when I went back into it with the understanding that Walter was the antagonist and Jessie was the protagonist I enjoyed it quite a bit.

  • Breaking Bad season 5 is really bad

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  • I’d have to disagree. The whole show is about how Walter allows his pride devour his life. He’s too prideful to accept the handout from his former business partners. He gets a taste of being powerful and good at something, something he felt was stolen from him by said former business partners, and his pride feeds on it.

    The show only wants you to root for him in the first season. By the second season Walter is the antagonist and Jessie is the protagonist.

    As Walter’s ambitions become more grand and his pride grows and grows he eventually gets got, all his mistakes and failures finally ruin him.

    The last episode puts this plainly. Walter rescues Jessie not to help Jessie, but to try and clear his own conscience. He only does it so that someone, anyone, looks at him fondly. Since he destroyed his family that just leaves his protégé.

    Then he shows his true colors by crawling into the lab, his place of contemplation and pride and destruction, and finally dies.

    Walter White is a man only to be pitied and reviled. Chuds look up to him because of course they do, they can’t understand that the show is mocking them and showing them that their own arrogance and pride destroys everything around them. Almost every time Walter is “badass” is when he’s abusing others or he’s lying. He’s the definition of a coward and paper tiger.

    You’re supposed to hate him, not love him.