Iminhere3000

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Would be cool if the world of Columbo was real and being a detective was all about busting snobby rich upper class sickos in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Damn watching the second episode and this evil lawyer lady just said "we have a nice middle class jury, they dislike the insurance company second only to their distaste for working class people" ouch

How'd all this class consciousness get in this TV show? Damn

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Would be cool if the world of Columbo was real and being a detective was all about busting snobby rich upper class sickos (hexbear.net)
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Need a modern remake where Columbo uncovers the Epstein/Maxwell sex trafficking ring. Who would play Columbo tho? Nobody can get close to Peter Falk, what a cool motherfucker

Edit: been thinking about it and I think Lil B should play Columbo, absent mindedly rolling blunts the whole time

Listening to Love's Forever Changes and thinking about the narrative that Arthur Lee was a crazy paranoid person in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Lol, yeah I love McGowan. His work is real speculative ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ "just asking questions". But his role as a citizen reporter, clipping articles out of papers and finding strange patterns was definitely valuable. If nothing else he pointed out that almost all of the hippie rock stars were the apolitical (or openly right wing, looking at you Zappa) sons and daughters of the US elite, who were catapulted to success to neuter countercultural movements.

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Listening to Love's Forever Changes and thinking about the narrative that Arthur Lee was a crazy paranoid person (hexbear.net)
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The dude could just see how fucked up that whole scene was. Might have been paranoid but for good reason considering all the creeps (mamas and the papas etc), hacks (the wrecking crew studio band were the actual musicians on a ton of records coming out of this scene, while a lot of the bands couldn't really play at all) and agents (operation midnight climax is a good/insane example of what was going on in California at the time).

He was one of a small handful of black LA rock stars. Had to know that if anyone in that scene was going to end up in jail for drugs etc it would be him (he did end up going to jail btw).

Edit- Jesus Christ I forgot that Bobby Beausoleil was an early member of Love

Best movies with intentional/unintentional Marxist themes? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

A lot of old film noir basically had a premise of "there are no ethical or humane choices a person can make in this fucked up world". From what I recall though, quite a few of the people writing and directing these did actually have socialist politics, a lot coming from Europe during the world wars. But the way they created these bleak, inescapable capitalist hellscapes is very effective at getting some complex ideas across.

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The US left being a counterculture sucks (hexbear.net)
 

I always feel like I'm hanging out in a punk/hardcore music scene (various anarchist groups, psl to some extent) or with lame improv nerds (dsa). I don't see either of these groups connecting with very many working class people. This is obviously a huge problem but (at least where I am) there is very little attempt to organize or recruit people making minimum wage, fast food workers, service industry, manual laborers etc. I mean shouldn't this be the main priority right now? I don't know I'm just venting but I'm baffled by how bad at organizing these groups are. Do they really just like being this cliquey group that is hard to get into and that's what really matters?