Funny that people are ridiculing Melania for plagiarising Michelle Obama's speech, given that Michelle didn't write her own speech either
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
...plus increasing levels of Political Correctness. I'm centre-Right economically, but it's as far to the Right as I've gone.
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Replying to @IainJamesRobb
I take elements of left and right. Free-market economy with social safety net and regulation. Absolute free speech also.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
...All state, or public, funded art in human history has been politicised mediocrity. Postmodernism is this generation's ...
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Replying to @IainJamesRobb
Tarvoksky's films amazing, even if they were created under an abhorrent regime. Free-market art is better tho.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Oh, yeah, of course. Actually, film is the only medium in which art of any quality existed in Collectivist regimes.
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Replying to @IainJamesRobb
And literature. Master and Margarita, 1 day in Life of Denisovich, etc. But yeah political restraint is worse than commercial
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Back to Marxist directors, though, I am a Pasolini fan.
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Never see Pasolini. What do you like about him?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Cinematography mainly, and the novel-like sense of busyness. His films are like strings of theatrical vignettes.
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Replying to @IainJamesRobb
Sold. I'll check him out. Thanks for the head's-up.
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