It's a film striving to mean everything, and to be emotionally charged *every single minute* and it ultimately collapses under the weight of itself, because there isn't really much going on under the hood.
And the narrative arc doesn't even make sense, when you break it down.
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Forget the aesthetics and risky humor and ask: is the overall storytelling and narrative arc unlike something you might see in the MCU? I don't think so.
Is the film elevated by its aesthetic? Absolutely. But it's a lot of smoke and mirrors at the end of the day.
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The one criticism of EEAAO I legit don't understand is that it's like the MCU which...did we watch the same movie? I can't imagine Marvel ever doing anything as weird and risky as EEAAO.
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The fact that it's The Year of Our Lord 2022 and there isn't a release of Holy Motors is a crime against God.
Nancy Pelosi’s husband just bought $5 million dollars in Nvidia stocks while she is pushing congress to vote for a bill that’ll give $53 Billion dollars in subsidies to semiconductor companies, where Nvidia will get the largest share of that money.
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Yeah, that's not how capitalism works bro.
Maybe actually do something other than Tweeting.
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My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.
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You can regulate a pregnant body but not a coal plant. You can control the free speech of a teacher but not the money-as-speech of a corporation. You can coerce a child to pray in school but you can’t keep guns out of their classroom. What a world this Supreme Court is making.
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If your ‘rights’ are tentatively entrenched and need to be ‘protected’ every 2-4 years, is it reasonable to call them ‘rights’
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And then there are the Christians who say “now our work begins…let’s care for them.” That’s terrifying: if you can’t care for people until you win, then your theology never saw their humanity in the first place. They were only pawns in your game. That’s not of God or Jesus.
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NO DONATIONS UNTIL LEGISLATION.
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Things Biden could do:
1. Set up abortion clinics on federal land inside red states (’s idea)
2. Federal telehealth service for free abortion pills
3. Funding for abortion clinics and travel vouchers in nearby states
None of this is “waiving a magic wand”
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"vote" is democrats version of thoughts and prayers
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this would be a situation where an actual left-wing party would be coordinating with unions to mobilize demonstrations and work stoppages and prep for a real strike, because that's how you apply political pressure when you have a popular majority
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I Photoshop paddington into a movie or TV show until I forget: Day 469
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You can learn a lot about the state of the U.S. through this chart.
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I'll never not be pissed off about drivers just STOPPING with no crosswalk and trying to wave pedestrians by.
Just fucking drive and I will cross when I can. You Midwestern idiots are just causing accidents by deciding to stop. #Midwest #Minneapolis
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Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.
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When an assault weapon is used in a mass shooting, it results in six times as many people shot than when other guns are used.
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I don't think congressional Democrats understand that voters see them as the cops standing around outside the school.
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If y’all didn’t grow up around guns/gun owners and you want another reason to be mad: every private conversation they’re having today paints themselves as the victims in all this. The law-abiding gun owner whose life just got more complicated. I sat through a million of these
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NRA Contributions to GOP Senators
Mitt Romney (UT) $13,647,676
Richard Burr (NC) $6,987,380
Roy Blunt (MO) $4,555,722
Thom Tillis (NC) $4,421,333
Cory Gardner (CO) $3,939,199
Marco Rubio (FL)$3,303,355
Joni Ernst (IA) $3,124,773
Rob Portman (OH) $3,063,327
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Beto O'Rourke interrupted the Republican sheriff-cosplay guns-are-still-great press conference in about as understated and calm a way as possible and yet it was still so much more than we're accustomed to from Ds that it's being held up as a revolutionary act. Lesson there.
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just because i'm thinking about it at the moment i feel compelled to say again that filibuster does far more to impede bipartisan legislating than it does to facilitate it
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Confront every Republican politician the way that Beto just did.
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JUST IN: CNN reporter Alisyn Camerota just confronted a Republican Texas state representative who said gun reform is unnecessary because we should just “convict” the shooters: “Sir, you can’t convict him. He was killed along with 19 children in the school behind me.”
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The footage of O'Rourke confronting Abbott really does show how cossetted these assholes are. They're justly and fairly mildly called out on permitting and fostering conditions for routine slaughter and it's like a bunch of drunks in a clubhouse bar being told they're cut-off.
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I can't get over how cops confronted the shooter at the door, let him get by them, then made up a story about body armor. While a teacher gave her life trying to defend her kids. The difference could not be clearer.
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“Spare me the bullshit of mental illness,” says Sen. Murphy of the United States. “We’re not an outlier on mental illness, we’re an outlier on firearms”
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Aren’t you slated to headline a speaking gig for the NRA in three days - in Houston, no less?
You can do more than pray. Faith without works is dead.
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Conservatism leads to abuse because conservatism *is* abuse. It is the protection of hierarchy and unearned privilege at the expense of those without power, and the protection of institutions at the expense of the people who inhabit them.
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In 2015 I decided on a whim to check out Tesla's battery swap station that was earning the company 9 figures in California ZEV credits, and found it wasn't real. Instead Tesla was using diesel generators to charge cars. Here's how this changed my life 🧵
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I found today's bad film take!
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I have finally seen Tenet, or as I call it “all the ways Inception could’ve gone wrong.” It’s been forever since I saw a movie where I asked things like “Wait why are they here? What are they after?” Basic storytelling blocks are either ignored or purposefully made convoluted.
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