Rolling Afghanistan Thread
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- #squadgoals allahu ackbarz barry chateau battle rhymes bit of a pickle come mr taliban tally me banana designer fundamentalism do not face allah alone when astral projecting every possible contingency is biden's fault follow the white high-tops islamic magic jihaute just do it lord miles moon demon popping down to afghanistan roadman mask servis cheetahs that spring we lived on bowls of risotto the hexing of an oppressive regime the taliban's secretive one-eyed spiritual leader the whitest most out of touch witchcraft tl;dr
I like this film for the very reasons given in the article, that it’s a critique of…didn’t know it had been received with ovations in the mid west for waterboarding - this can be a problem of filmmaking when you’re stating something and it gets projected upon by audience emotion, in this instance as pro violence propaganda…Haven’t watched it for a long time so can’t comment further. (Bigelow choreographs crowd violence well♥️… but is herself an appropriator of white male power through the unfeminist means of marriage, which is problematic but then again maybe feminist to seize power?…I went to a Lizzy Borden talk once, she said NYC white straight male downtown artists back then (she was a Bigelow contemporary) would give money to the (white straight?) women artists to help them because of the pay/ job gap). I guess Bigelow might have handed the movie to co-direct with an Afghan woman director but that wasn’t her mission
How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War
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luka
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one of thoe most interesting things about twitter was that it presented every possible opinion so that it becasme increasingly impossible to consider yourself as an indiviudal and this produced a corresponding pressure to find the impossible opinion, the opinion between opinions. i noticed this first with crowleyheads music opinions which were clearly nothing to do with enjoyment but all to do with placing yourself on this infinitely complicated chessboard but now it applies to politics above all things.
sufi
lala
@HannahB have you read this excellent piece?
olivercraner.com
‘Everyone Middle East is here’: The British in Iraq
The real difficulty here is that we don’t know exactly what we intend to do in this country. Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you’ll be there to ta…
olivercraner.com
Mr. Tea
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Like, duh.
No but will read later, Bell is awful and was going to mention her@HannahB have you read this excellent piece?
‘Everyone Middle East is here’: The British in Iraq
The real difficulty here is that we don’t know exactly what we intend to do in this country. Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you’ll be there to ta…
version
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It's true. I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I don't disagree but I feel that that is quite a big ask.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Oh I should have read on a bit.