Greater Boston Tenants Union – Fighting Landlords since 2020
I’m not a member but only because we never drafted the papers. I intend to be once I move into my next apartment because we’ll be there for more than a year hopefully.
hrngmhgd nothing more frustrating than the specific genre of post you get on here where the op is writing essays about how (particularly old) media that you do really enjoy is Actually uniquely progressive or groundbreaking or something but they're so clearly working from a (genuine, probably unconscious) desire for it be Morally Good Actually that they're overlooking or wildly re(mis)interpreting all of these bits of it to fit a specific highly simplistic picture of things they have in their head where bias & mistakes & bigotry etc etc don't exist except for the author to criticise them. to the point that any actual bad or date aspects somehow get transmogrified into something where actually the author is proving a point against that thing! and then it gets like 35k notes and you (nuance enjoyer) (guy who is aware of & thinks a lot about the flaws in his interests) have to see this like. I love & post about this thing a lot but you're literally wrong. I am not affiliated with you guys
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Whenever I try and relate the core problem with the Barbie movie to somebody, I just say the phrase "BARBIE GENOCIDE MONUMENT". It's pretty much been burned into my brain from thinking about that one detail so much.
the implications of this are astounding. this is such a bizarre and perverse intersection of American chauvinism, Capitalism, and progressive aesthetics lacking any meaningful critique of anything. I am more preoccupied by this than anything else in the Barbie movie. The fact that nobody thought maybe this would come off this way is so damning.
When someone does something good, we applaud them. Even if you hate that person, otherwise why should they ever bother trying to be a 'better person". Especially if when they are being a better person, you give them shit for it, you are disincentivizing them from becoming better.
Be better yourself.
(I know, Dick isn't being a 'better person', he just thinks Trump is terrible for everyone, including rich assholes like himself.)
Griff, I'm a be real with you. If Adolf fucking Hitler warped in now from right before he domed himself an said "Vat is zis orange fuck? I'm telling all my Nazis to vote for anyone but him!" I'd politely swallow my fucking desire to finish doming him, shake his hand and say "Thank you Mr. Hitler."
And then after Trump lost, I'd see to helping Hitler finish ending himself.