Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

The revolution will be supervised.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

No Justins, No Peace

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

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So many documentaries from the previous thread- many of which I have not seen before. I was a little surprised that no one mentioned Koyaanisqatsi.

Regardless, I took all your suggestions into account, and am currently watching… Extraction II with Chris Hemsworth on Netflix.

I have always identified as a straight male, so I don’t know where on the straight to gay continuum this is, but I don’t want to fuck Chris Hemsworth, but if he wanted to hug me and tell me everything is going to be ok I would not decline.

I’ll leave you with that thought.

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  5. 5.

    way2blue

    Late to  the party.  But.

    The Rider [not a documentary, but could be] from Roger Egbert »

    “The Rider,” is the kind of rare work that seems to attain greatness through an almost alchemical fusion of nominal opposites. An account of rodeo riders on a South Dakota reservation, it is so fact-based that it almost qualifies as a documentary. Yet the film’s style, its sense of light and landscape and mood, simultaneously give it the mesmerizing force of the most confident cinematic poetry.

     

    Merchants of  Doubt from Wikipedia »

    …  inspired by the 2010 book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The film traces the use of public relations tactics that were originally developed by the tobacco industry to protect their business from research indicating health risks from smoking. The most prominent of these tactics is the cultivation of scientists and others who successfully cast doubt on the scientific results. Using a professional magician, the film explores the analogy between these tactics and the methods used by magicians to distract their audiences from observing how illusions are performed.

  6. 6.

    different-church-lady

    I don’t want to fuck Chris Hemsworth, but if he wanted to hug me and tell me everything is going to be ok I would not decline.

    I’ll add a note to your account.

  10. 10.

    Johnb

    once i was looking for a new exercise app, saw hemsworth’s, thought it was just a cynical attempt to build a celebrity app.

    but it turns out that i really love the workouts and the instructors and even though he only shows up very rarely i love him too

  15. 15.

    Bupalos

    Someone def mentioned Koyaanisqatsi. Actually if I remember recced the trilogy while saying “surely you’ve seen Koyaanisqatsi, but the others are also worth it…”

  17. 17.

    Citizen Alan

    After decades of grappling with issues of sexuality, I finally reached the conclusion that I am an asexual homoromantic. I don’t particularly want to have sex with anyone. But I crave validation from guys who I think are good looking and/or cool. I don’t have anything against women. I just don’t crush on them.

  19. 19.

    Bupalos

    @different-church-lady: well, don’t love your framing.

    The pastor was happy to let trump blabble IF IT WOULD SERVE HER PEOPLE. When it turned out he turned it another direction, she cut that off.

    It’s an important distinction. Because the version that is about pwning Trump and the wingers really sells this woman short. She’s doing something mich more important than humiliating Trump.

  21. 21.

    patrick II

    I am just getting to a recording of tonights ABC evening News. Rachel Scott is doing one of her hallway interviews with Tommy Tuberville. Man is she pissed. I am not sure I have then seen a network correspondent go at a U.S. senator like that. Good for her .

  24. 24.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Put Brian Tyree Henry (Paper Boi from Atlanta) in that category for me.  He just looks and seems like such a nice guy and probably gives a great hug.  He’s also a really amazing actor.

  26. 26.

    UncleEbeneezer

    On the topic of documentaries:

    Grizzly Man

    Paradise Lost (story of the West Memphis Three)

    OJ: Made In America– The ESPN OJ Simpson documentary

    Jeen-yuhs- The Kanye documentary- it has amazing footage and is fascinating because he really seemed like a fairly normal, nice dude, back in the day.

  27. 27.

    oatler

    The Holy Modal Rounders doc  “Bound to Lose” is currently on YT, though without the extras like “Bridge And Tunnel Girls”.

  31. 31.

    Jay

    @Citizen Alan:

    I am about 95% cis het.

    I have a type. None of the women I have had a relationship with are my type. It’s all in the EQ that get’s me. So I have had some great relationships with women who arn’t “my type”. Currently married to one that I love insanely.

    Over the years, I have met a few men who hit that 5%, but it’s all EQ and not looks.

    You do you.

  34. 34.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    I could use a good hug period. Stressing with financial anxiety. Self employment is a roller coaster. I will likely be ok but ugh.

  35. 35.

    Tony Jay

    I thought exactly the same thing about Chris Hemsworth too, and at first it was everything you’d imagine; thoughtful, funny, surprisingly lemony, but after a couple of hours of very comfortable snuggling and one too many Tim Tams he always – always – starts in with the “Why didn’t you want to lift my hammer, Liam?” bitterness and it all quickly spirals into spittle-flecked rants about “Wouldn’t even grow a proper beard!” and “Cavill’s cast-offs are laughing at you, bro!“. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

    You’d be better off doing what I did and sticking with Scarlett. If you can divert her away from yet another circuit of the “Did you know I write and perform my own songs?” carousel and never, ever, ever mention how funny you think Ryan Reynolds is (Yikes!) she cuddles like a giggly, room-temperature collection of perfectly plumped pillows.

    On the topic of documentaries, I don’t know if it’s available on BBC America (or whatever you guys have over there) but we’re enjoying both ‘Gravity and Me – The Force That Shapes Our Lives‘ with Professor Jim Al-Khalili and ‘Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths‘ with the eponymous Doctor Fry. Parts of the gravity one Blew My Tiny Mind, and I’ll freely admit that, quite apart from her obvious love for and affinity with the awesomeness of maths, I could listen to Fry read The Collected Works of Buzz Killington and still have to pull the car over every ten minutes for a breather.

  37. 37.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Mike in NC:

    “Thor Ragnarock” is a hilarious movie.

    The sequel was disappointing though–it’s as if there was a threshold of silliness beyond which the audience would stop caring, and Ragnarok went right up to that line but Love and Thunder stepped over it. It also didn’t have Hulk, and the double act of Thor and Hulk was a lot of made the earlier one work.

  38. 38.

    JML

    @Matt McIrvin: Part of the problem with the Thor movies is there’s this segment (especially in the critic commentariat) that craves the silliness, and wants the films to lean in on it so they can talk about how “fundamentally dumb” super-heroes and comics are. This has only gotten worse in the current era, where the critics are sick of having to go to and review these movies that most of them didn’t like from the jump. But there’s also a significant part of the fanbase that wants the lean in to the mythological aspects and the epic nature of Thor as a character. And the two things are very hard to mix.

    Ragnarok handled it well, but even there it had fractures (casually killing off the Warriors Three like they were a joke, and not understanding the setup behind Skurge at Gjallerbru for why it’s such a big moment in the comics and expecting people to go wild for it in the movie). Love & Thunder tossed out a lot of the character growth for Thor both in Ragnarok and in the Avengers movies that followed so it could be silly again and have bumbling oaf Thor, which falls flat.

    Ah, well.

  39. 39.

    Citizen Alan

    @JML: Ragnarok was one of my favorite MCU movies, but I utterly hated L&T. My pet theory is that it was all chris hemsworth’s fault. He loves doing comedy, but seldom gets to do so as an action star. And he had way too much fun playing party thor in the thor centric what if episode. So he insisted the next thor movie be like that. The problem wasn’t the presence of comedy, but rather the fact that it was all sophomoric, almost frat boy comedy. And worse, It was juxtaposed against storylines involving terminal cancer and a sympathetic villain who had to watch his daughter starve to death. The whole movie was weirdly schizophrenic.

  40. 40.

    opiejeanne

    @Redshift: koyaanisqatsi brings to mind an earlier movie that may have been missed: Mondo Cane. it documents all sorts of human/cultural weirdness.

  42. 42.

    Ejoiner

    Just wanted to jump in with my $.02:

    Loved Thor Ragnarok – my favorite MCU movie and easily in my top 10 all time favs…

    Also really liked Love and Thunder – thought it was just more of the same and lots of fun…is it perfect? No, but I don’t get the hate…I chalk it up to Waititi backlash…

    And on that topic, just rewatched Hunt for the Wilderpeople…what a glorious, wonderful, silly time :)

  44. 44.

    tihotm

    Didn’t see Fire of Love (Hulu) or The Painter and the Thief (HBOMax) listed. Loved both of them. Are any of you letterboxd fans?

  45. 45.

    Jess

    I missed the original documentary thread, so I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but I just watched “Gather” last night (Netflix) and thought it was great. I’m doing a deep dive into sustainability issues b/c I’ve been tasked with creating an interdisciplinary sustainability studies program at my university. I’m realizing that this has been a (often unspoken) driving force in politics the past 30 years, mostly on the corporate right, who are terrified of how this issue will probably overturn everything they believe in. I wish we could start a regular post on the subject here.

  46. 46.

    VOR

    re: Thor: L&T vs. Thor: Ragnarok. Here is a video comparing the play within the movie scenes in both movies which explains how one (Ragnarok) served the overall plot while the other (L&T) was a waste of time.

    Re: Documentary. The Netflix series “Dirty Money” is a collection of 1 hour documentaries. One of the people involved is Alex Gibney, the documentary filmmaker behind “Going Clear” and a number of other documentaries. Some of the topics covered in the series are:

    • The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal
    • The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Did you know there was a cartel controlling the maple syrup market? Think OPEC, but maple syrup.
    • Payday loans.
  52. 52.

    JML

    @VOR: as amusing as i found the plays in both movies, the second had a lot of “people loved it the first time so we’re doing it again!” stink on it. If there’s anything Hollywood is good at it’s running back a good gag until it’s not funny any longer…

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