The angels in america beach scene is still to this day the most devastating critique of the Republican Party that has ever been written, said, or thought.
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seriously though, he summed up 50+ years of the Republican party, down to the present day, in one scene. A genius. Do what is right for you. Be brave, defy morality, be selfish, give into power, don't be ethical, be happy. And then you'll come back to me.
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and then when he beats the shit out of Louis. At the end of day it is power. At the end of the day it is always power. Whether not you intend to exercise the power it is the knowledge that you have the power, which is what privilege is, which is what Republicans are.
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He never hit anyone before but if it ever got bad enough, painful enough, brutal enough, he always could.
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but then, that is in a way the consummation of Louis and Joe, because Joe needs to have his essential violence revealed to himself, and Louis needs to be punished. It is just... so many layers deep. Flawless doesn't begin to cover it.
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and still, Belize is the least real person in the story. An angel. An idea. A read. An all-seeing faggot. But hey, at least someone said "I hate America." That's what we get from the best white artists. A little bit of our truth in exchange for being the grounds of their fantasy.
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in exchange for making up 75% of you, I'll see 25% of you, and that 25% will actually get seen because I'm white and I have access. That's been the bargain since Nigger Jim and frankly the percentage ain't gone up much since.
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But, "we impose our phantasy on one another." But, contrary, the slave knows the master better than the master knows the slave. Among all the things that Trumpists are fighting against, that bit of Hegel is towards the top of the list.
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