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I literally have no clue lol, I don't think it's referencing anything in the movie
Yeah I was surprised to see her here because it doesn't really seem like other movies she has done. She was good, no complaints about her, but she's only in it for like 10 minutes
Post Script: Reading the Letterboxd reviews for this are making me mad because everynoe is saying the Academic Nazi is hot, I'm losing my mind 
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And not in a good way.
The movie is written by Nick Pinkerton, who I've never heard of before but is apparently associated with the Red Scare Pod in some way. The movie is a mumblecore surrealist comedy loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, where the main character travels through different parts of the United States and meets different characters. It's got some funny parts and it held together well enough in the beginning but it starts to drag by the second vignette and really starts to broadcast where it leans politically.
The main character essentially acts listlessly throughout the entire movie and calls things and people ableist slurs. While other characters are supposed to...I guess represent different political positions in the US? I don't really know what the point was meant to be, but the vibe is "caring about things is dumb". There's four main vignettes which boil down to the following:
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A group of anarchists that never actually profess any political beliefs besides not working and eating food from the garbage. The main anarchist character is immediately shown to b a sex pest and the group then goes out to a field to fight Nazis that aren't there. (This is the only representation of the political left in the movie)
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An academic Nazi who takes in our main character and lets her live in his house. He is given ample time to espouse his ideas and does not attempt to sleep with the main character which is shown to be a big deal. She lives with him as a tradwife for some time, and is like happy with it I think? But eventually runs away
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Two New York film makers who are making a period piece. Sorry I really don't know what this one was trying to say it just felt random, but the film shoot ends when Nazis shoot everyone.
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An Arabic guy who saves the main character from the shooting, but oh no! It turns out he's locking her away to be his wife and also he lives in a terrorist training camp.
And then finally the writer of the movie shows up as a Catholic monk to save the main character and talk about miracles for some reason.
Maybe I don't get it because I don't really vibe with this kind of art. But genuinely this movie was pretty boring and it feels gross when you know the politics behind it. I will give them credit though, I was anticipating a TERFy joke the entire movie and I didn't catch one.
The others like Disco Elysium and Signals have been said so I'll add Tunic! I love the artstyle and the puzzles in this game are insane, definitely not everyone's cup of tea but one of my favourites.
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decoding the Trunic language was one of the most accomplished moments I've had in gaming, along with solving the golden path. And then learning there's an entirely different hidden language in the music of the game is a whole other level of insanity
They're running a shareholder vote to pay Elon something crazy like 52 Billion dollars. The pay package was initially struck down in a court case after it was approved by the board of directors so now it has to be voted on by shareholders. Many institutional shareholders are voting no because it would tank the value of Tesla's stock while the insane retail investor cultists are voting yes to transfer their own money to Elon Musk
Just cause the post-Cold War government sucks and there were Nazi collaborators present doesn't mean there aren't/weren't anti-imperialist figures from those nations. The Baltic SSRs couldn't have existed without local Communist parties run by people from the Baltics. Just look through the leadership of those parties, for example Johannes Lauristin.
Also don't forget 
Disco Elysium was made in the Baltics and is influenced by how bleak these countries feel for the people who still believe in a better future
This genuinely might be more of a PR blow to Israel than if they just got kicked out initially
What I would give for a Band of Brothers style show about Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front or about Chinese Communists in the Civil War. I know that the amount of historical war movies that Hollywood puts out is part of the propaganda machine but I'm such a sucker for it. Maybe as Chinese cinema hits its stride in the next few years we could get something to satiate me
I'm not one to go on about how great presidents used to be because they all suck in different ways but goddamn this Biden drama has reminded me of this Abraham Lincoln quote. Like just imagine any president in the last 50 years saying anything close to this coherent:
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
Like that goes hard and actually uses poetic language, meanwhile politicians now can barely form a sentence
Cuno would get me too high and then tell me I was gonna feel like that forever
Like the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement which began actively protesting and gained support in the 1960s, pretty soon after the referendum?
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I'm treating this like adult Pokemon and my friends aren't getting my excitement when I find a new bird.
Also I've been checking in on some juvenile Bald Eagles near me here's a picture I could get of one:
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Today I have learned sodium lauryl sulfate can cause skin irritation after the top layer of skin in my mouth has sloughed off an hour after using mouthwash