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of course Oppenheimer gets all the awards.
Eventually Christopher Nolan will be correctly and ignominiously remembered as a great propagandist instead of an artist
Christopher Nolan He’s a technically impeccable director, but I’ve always seen his films without soul, and without identity. His brother who writes the scripts for his films he knows how to create interesting plots and cool ideas, but he doesn’t know how to create a decent ending or keep the story going long-term.
I saw the film when it came out, apart from the cringe inducing communist house party scene I thought it was alright, pointing out how cold war hysteria reached absurd levels in the US.
communist house party scene
The what? I’ve never seen the movie and don’t intend to. Care to elaborate?
Theres a scene where Oppenheimer is invited to attend a party hosted by some communist friends of his brother. He has some silly conversations with them where they talk about abolishment of property and ownership, mainly making a lot of smugness all around. Tough to explain but it just feels off, try and find a clip of it if you’re curious.
Also the first woman of the movie is introduced in this scene, 3 mins later she is already naked, its so absurd.
What I don’t see many people talk about is how in my part of the world, and plenty of others, the film was actually censored to remove all of the nudity, so I didn’t actually get too bad of an experience in that regard. But the way it was done was bizarrely technical, to the extent in a film that put so much effort into practical effects, that the heaviest amount of CGI used in the film was applying clothing to nude actors, pretty funny.
The scene where Oppenheimer is being interrogated and she’s on his lap staring right at his wife will haunt me for the rest of my life. I understand the metaphor, but it still sucks.
Nolan infamously cannot write women, at all. It’s like he descended from a womanless planet. scary stuff
I’m back, everyone.
Finally reading State and Revolution. Wish I had picked it up years ago!
i read it quite recently too! my copy is like 99% covered in highlighters now ha
Hehe, mine’s an old copy printed in China in the 1960s, so plenty of underlines and notes from previous readers!
Are you Chinese?
Should have specified, it’s an English copy printed in China
Yea its a really good book, one of the best
I found myself putting my other books on hold while I read it!
Indeed.
First time getting into Marxism-Leninism?
-Leninism yes, Marxism no, hehe
This might help:
Copy-pasta
CPUSA Reading List - 2022
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/VJlD0b3eh4gMJovaypGkuW4m3Au-aksj+6oNDi50UFI/embed/
Communism Reading Guide
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/eAFqVc1JC8v8T5AEEWSPQ9YD4FR8tK6E97XEy+v78KQ/embed/
Thanks, comrade!
No problem. Consider looking through the second one, at least.
Aloha!
Another week
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Another week another nickel
Knaken accumuleren
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade 🫡
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Where is this?
I googled Patagonia
You too!
And the same to you comrade.
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You too comrade
You too 🐇
you too, Chinese phone manufacturer
we really do be yearning for liberation
Oppo, I hope you have the best week
I am not peeing this time!
But you are scared of the wind
I mean this sounds accurate though.
You too :D
This is my origin story
Can the hospital please finally call today?
I called them. Still no news. I was told my email was forwarded to them. The person who picked my call also said he will call them and email me the outcome. This is such a mess and management at my work also needs to know to organize around, so they keep asking me, and idk either. Very stressful.
They said they’d send me an email with an update, but I didn’t get one and I think their shift is over or will be over soon. Can my suffering please end…
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“This man may look smart but in fact is stupid.” Guess who said this and who is refering to 😂
Deng > Gorby
PSA: Please do not ask facts to an LLM especially political facts. They are all incredibly censored. I would be interested in Chinese LLMs and they are mostly neutral.m
what did you ask?
Political questions, capitalism, western hypocrisy, some LLMs have online access so they pick up whatever news are more popular and regurgitate it. For example you can try this https://pi.ai/talk pretty good llm but ask about current events and find out. You can talk to it without an account. try it.
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Intrigued by the whole Kate Middleton drama that is stirring up right now. Proper weird UK behavior again.
In the UK, All Royal family reporting is pure theatrics, similar to when the US starts randomly pushing UFO stories. In both cases theres usually something actually important they don’t want people to look into.
Where is
Peng ShuaiKate Middleton?Will we see protests at Wimbledon even after she says she’s fine?
Is this the whole she posted a photo shopped picture? and this is breaking news somehow?
Yes. It’s news because she hasn’t been seen in public for quite a while now and the royal family wishes not to speak about her whereabouts. Rumours has it that she had a surgery which failed and she is now in a possible medical induced coma.
To calm the rumours the family decided to release this picture but it now appears to be photoshopped or AI. And in a response to the backlash, a press statement by Kate was made saying that ‘she sometimes likes to edit pictures as a hobby’.
this feels like a spiral that does not need to be. This hardly feels news worthy
It’s Holodomor week at school!
may Stalin watch over you
I need the strength. Spoiler alert, Stalin was shit on the entire class today and it sucked, they even made fun of his lemon trees. I made a post for those curious.
Ask them about the Dust Bowl in USA in 1930s
This particular course is about genocides, so famines in general aren’t really talked about (except this one). I can bring it up to him just to test the waters, see if just any famine can be considered a genocide or just the “holodomor.”
Ask about the history of famine during the period of the Russian Empire.
I am tempted to ask him about Churchill’s Famine and if that’s a subject worth discussing in our Genocide class.
I smoked weed for the first time, got high, not overrated
smoking with comrades rocks
Burkina Faso gives me hope for a better world.
This was me during my history class today:
