Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
The Fly was the first Cronenberg movie I’ve seen, and it blew me away. I’m definitely going to look at the rest of his movies. I’ll probably watch The Reanimator next, because Jeffrey Combs is a national treasure.
I’m really intrigued by those Fulci movies, too. International films often have a way different perspective, and that’s always interesting to me.
I forget that The Shining was an 80s movie, it feels very 70s in it’s execution. What a picture though.
The only other I’ve seen on your list was Return of the Living Dead. I loved Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, and this one wasn’t at all what I was expecting. Still a fun campy horror movie though.
I’ll look into the rest, thanks for the recs.
Jeffrey Epstein?
Don’t tell anybody, but I never saw Evil Dead, only Army of Darkness. I should really fix that! I love Raimi’s style. He’s definitely a b-movie director who knew how to get the most out of his budget.
I’ve never heard of Basket Case, but, like I mentioned, I love b-movies. I’ll check it out!
Maybe I don’t understand what you mean, but it seems pretty reliable to me. In what way do you envision it failing? Lasers or mocap would seem to make it less reliable due to the required processing.
And hey, Mike Johnson is keeping the Epstein investigation files sealed during this shutdown. So chin up little MAGA, your pedo president is being protected by you getting stranded in the Des Moines airport.
Money money money
Must be funny
In a rich man’s world
I sized her up when she covered for Trump for his first impeachment.
She’s a lying, manipulative, amoral climber who will do anything to advance her profile.
Her helping try to overthrow the government on Jan 6 showed that I had her figured right.
She’s one of the worst vipers in the whole nest.
Same.
It really begins to get at the depravity of the man.
🎵🎶There goes my gyro
Oh that guy is a paranoid loser. I think it’s also an alt for (among many others) Universal Monk.
The implication was that they’re smarter than “the educated.”
Edit: Here’s the full quote:
We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. We’re the smartest people, we’re the most loyal people, and you know what I’m happy about? Because I’ve been saying it for a long time. 46% were the Hispanics—46%, No. 1 one with Hispanics. I’m really happy about that.
It’s an old fascist saw that folk wisdom is better than book-learning.
From They Thought They Were Free- the Germans, 1933-45:
Because the mass movement of Nazism was nonintellectual in the beginning, when it was only practice, it had to be anti- intellectual before it could be theoretical. What Mussolini’s official philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, said of Fascism could have been better said of Nazi theory: “We think with our blood.” Expertness in thinking, exemplified by the professor, by the high-school teacher, and even by the grammar- school teacher in the village, had to deny the Nazi views of history, economics, literature, art, philosophy, politics, biology, and education itself.
Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own— that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous— not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk- ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society.
It’s been a pretty decent week.
People can be led by the nose if you confirm their bigotry and make them think they’re smart.
I was just making a joke. Lighten up.
You’re right, I should double down.
Ok, but hear me out:
If you accelerate something into a freefall orbit, then it stands to reason that the projectile would deal falling damage (equal and opposite force, you know) which maxes out at 20 d6.
You have to spring for the french fry cuffs.