then it ends with her sister skiing in the alps thinking about joining the board of a ~~Philanthropic Nonprofit~~ and this is portrayed as the decent ~~middle way~~ between nihilism and zealotry
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
I liked Sneakers taking the piss out of this kind of ending, like after Robert Redford tells Ben Kingsley he will not allow him to use the Black Box to roll the dice on collapsing all power structures and gives it back to the proper authorities... it turns out he actually kept it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
you see, this is the kind of moral question i actually give a shit about--between accelerationists and incrementalists, say pressing and difficult questions of tactics between similarly-oriented people, not the choice between "do nothing" and "EEEEVIL!"
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
That's the funny thing, they actually fooled you for a sec into thinking they were gonna go full on "Accept the status quo and just be kind" No one can be trusted with the Black Box so all they can do is hope the current hegemonic power will lock it up to preserve the status quo
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James Earl Jones will never actually use the box because the risk of its existence becoming known will threaten his power and that's the best we can hope for, like the balance of power with nukes And then the swerve
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
damnit arthur now i want to go watch SNEAKERS again because that movie remains a banger
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
The funny thing is this is very close to my current political beliefs I would be quite happy to accept a world where things stay *mostly* the same except the Republican Party ceases to exist completely, forever To me, that's the compromise, that's the modest request
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
if you take the long view for even a few seconds it becomes evident that the survival of american democracy requires the extinction of the republican party as it currently exists
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luckily this can probably be accomplished with a series of straightforwardly small-d democratic reforms which would have the net effect of making the gop electorally unviable in most of the country
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Replying to @perdricof @NussbaumAbigail
The Democrats have been *begging* to split into two (or more) parties for so long Whichever faction of the Democrats you identify with it's so obvious this is sorely needed They only exist right now to be the "Everyone but the zombies" "faction"
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Like can we just have every election be a Clinton vs Sanders election, or a Sanders vs Buttigieg vs Harris vs Warren election Is that not more than enough "pluralism" and "political diversity" for a multiparty democracy
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Do we need to constantly be having a debate with the Cordyceps itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
unfortunately there are a lot of cordyoceps out there and the structure of the system is currently very pro-parasitic-fungus, so
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