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ex film student, some kind of leftist, ambiguously chinese. he/they/any.
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ok this has been bothering me because what 40s noir was this face in. he's too twinky and doesn't have that matinee idol look. this is the face of a 50s musical sidekick
opposite of iphone face. a face that should've been in 1940s film noirs.
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An emperor from 1,500 years ago may have died from long-term ingestion of alchemical elixirs, archaeologists found. Additionally, for the first time, the appearance of an ancient emperor was reconstructed through technological
#archaeology
, as Chinese archaeologists revealed the
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Kamala Harris told governors to unify behind Biden and said "this is about saving our fucking democracy" - WaPo reporter
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@tusionni
in order to dunk on capitalism bro manages to propose two of the most hipster and bourgeois things possible and that's before having them run 24 hours
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DOWN WITH FORMER GIFTED KIDS
7/7/74 A People's Daily article "exposes the lies of child prodigies" such as a 7-year-old Tang Dynasty calligrapher ("fabricated nonsense").
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@Srirachachau
grudgingly bringing back the "why didn't they show the japanese" discourse: it makes more sense now, hiroshima/nagasaki was never the key conflict for him and indeed this movie like we thought it'd be. it's always been about "stealing the fire" and its world-ending implications
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he was also a 30s singing cowboy. if he were to lead a 50s musical though, he'd need a really good partner and also a top hat
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haha wouldn't it be funny though if that time he was wearing the croatian jersey for some reason he also said oh wait he did
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anita's takes were basic, often reductive and sometimes completely wrong, but on the other hand with just 20% of her power she pissed off the worst of the nerds and utterly destroyed the worst form of media (gaming) ever known to mankind, for which she will always have my respect
This is what passed for popular mainstream critically acclaimed and praised Feminist media analysis in 2012
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@NotABigJerk
Trying to look at shipwrecks has always had the potential of not being a good time
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prediction for how China would vote as a US state👇
🟥Trump: 63.9%, wins 1375 counties
🟦Biden: 36.1%, wins 802 counties
prediction for how the UK would vote as a US state👇(colours are increments of 5%)
🟥Trump: 51.89%, wins 410 constituencies
🟦Biden: 48.11%, wins 240 constituencies
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@TheAlexSylvian
one day we'll look back on the era of 3d showoff shots with nostalgia like we do with technicolor today
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@docno1r
people who are like "foreign cinema is better than hollywood" clearly forgot about this genre of foreign cinema that just apes hollywood and is made by massive creeps
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@JFrankensteiner
unfortunately they were a bad match and orson was not exactly the best partner so this whole thing did not have a great ending. smooth was not quite enough
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@Picklemaddierix
it was done almost exclusively by a czech person who's become significantly less active on wikipedia since the S34 finale. i think it broke them
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BERLIN, Nov. 22 (UPI) - The East German Parliament today unanimously elected Daniel Kretschmann, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, as chairman of the Council of State, making him in effect head of state of the German Democratic Republic
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@PetreRaleigh
fits the whole the picture perfect american family isn't all that it seems angle as well. highly important thematic reasons for everyone to keep reminding them how hot they are and how they're meant for each other
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native american version of get out in which a white character goes, unprompted, "i would let you kill me if it really came down to it"
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@TNOQuoProQuid
i live in new york and i remember this although i was never on one of these cars. i was however exposed to this a year later -- apparently this was more acceptable to everyone
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@opinonhaver
when they talked about funding they also name dropped a guy called peter thiel in that movie, wonder how he turned out
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@lefttwick
Let's also not forget, by royally screwing over the Spanish and the Portuguese, he inadvertently ensured Latin American independence. Accidental decolonizing hero
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@legotrillermoth
it's funny that the game actually gave the characters more room to breathe, offering the voice actors (and their mo-capped faces and bodies) more time to simply just act the shit out of it
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Imagine emigrating to China as an American and making TikTok videos mocking the Qing Dynasty dressed as Sun-Yat Sen.
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@PetreRaleigh
it all went downhill when movie people got into prestige tv and started doing this stuff honestly
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(this is just a map of china's internal net migration btw)
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@Ramen_102
it's such an honor to meet a real expert of still living in 2014, who would call someone "tumblr" in 2023
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@Srirachachau
But I also fully agree that he's made a conscious or subconscious attempt to avoid facing the specific consequences of those bombings, choosing instead to elevate his agony to a grander level which is perfectly in line with his self-importance. So it's not all mutually exclusive
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@TheAlexSylvian
He developed a superhuman ability to meticulously manage his own image ever since he jumped on Oprah's couch
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@PJ11819211
it's funny because up until his ascension he was more seen as this dull individual who would doom the monarchy simply by being so uncharistmatic
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@nodrectionhome
now to be fair it did seem very wise when the stat-driven approach was not as prominent in sports. it was certainly a step up from the old method of just getting the guy who looked very good on TV
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@Srirachachau
Oh yes absolutely, but it's interesting to me that even in that scene (the victory speech) all he sees are American victims and American horrors. While it makes sense because it's his perspective, it also shows that for him this is much bigger than just Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Novi Yorka mayor Erik Adamšić will not fight the floods that have inundated the town. "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of mayors," he said, invoking King Canute, "for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws."
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@Srirachachau
the total silence (scientifically accurate and artistically stunning) in the huge theater after the bomb goes off was one of the most memorable moments i’ve had at the movies. hundreds of people all held their breath and the earth stood still
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@LolOverruled
We were at a specific cultural moment in 2013 when it was cool to hate the "girlish" and "affected" Anne Hathaway and love the "tomboyish" and "real" Jennifer Lawrence. Times have also changed much since then
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@McKay4Senate
@souljagoytellem
you can extend this to artists in general lol because they're so well known for having a clue when it comes to politics
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Brian Cox says Marcus Licinius Crassus was “truly terrible” in the Battle of Carrhae
“I think it’s totally his fault. I would have fought it a lot better… I think he’s well named. Crassus…Crappus... crappy. It’s a sort of crappy performance”
Brian Cox says Joaquin Phoenix was “truly terrible” in ‘NAPOLEON’
“I think it’s totally his fault. I would have played it a lot better… I think he’s well named. Joaquin…whackeen... whacky. It’s a sort of whacky performance”
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@AliceAvizandum
Even if you're already dead, you're not out of the woods if your son is a bad poster
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@TheTumboy
2005 was like the last time he had a big controversy with the couch thing and the psychiatry thing, but afterwards he just turned into the most meticulously managed figure who only talks through studios and lawyers. Feels like a very deliberate strategy on his part
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@0liviaolive
there's a frank sheeran vibe to ernest burkhart except we're let in a bit more on his motivations and thought process in general, which i think brings his hypocritical and pathetic nature into sharper relief. and i do think marty does that precisely because he hates his guts
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been thinking hard about this: why is the climatic third act a confirmation fight and the "villain" some wannabe mandarin? it's because our doom will be an explicitly political outcome, and it will be brought forth by legitimately smart and capable humans. someone like strauss
i've seen people be confused by how OPPENHEIMER goes from being about the making of the nuclear bomb to DC confirmation and clearance fights, but the *pettiness* of the power politics is part of the point, I think. these men hold the power to destroy the world
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the exact reason you don't hear about korean victims is because of how successfully japan has framed itself as the victim in the past eight decades, a notion way too many of you have lent credence to in the past few months. you don't get to cut japan out of this discussion
Japanese civilians aside, 50,000 of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Koreans who'd been taken there against their will as forced laborers. Truly vile take.
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dunkirk is still fascinating to me as it is, on a formal level, a dry run for oppenheimer. both employ a kind of multi-helix narrative structure in which storylines splinter, crosscut and converge, down to the use of one-off titles and no more explicit indicators afterwards
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politely engaging with this, i think this is a bit reductive as mao's "blackpilling" largely came from his reflection and course-correction following the excesses and failures of his most ambitious political projects, compounded by power struggles and international isolation
Later Mao Zedong is probably the only time a world leader accidentally blackpilled himself by being too good at philosophy
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@KarnesMellagio
>jingoistic about "best korea"
>has "sea of japan" on the map
it's like saying how great china is but then has taiwan in a different color
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this is totally correct ever since i moved to new york and started losing my grasp on mandarin chinese and in turn the bio-connection to my land, i can no longer commute using the gravity-defying qinggong and have to take the subway instead
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@C_hoffmanni
the classic imperialist way, a mixture of direct administration (military and civil) and puppet states under japanese protection and control
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@nonalignedem
nah dressing up as an emperor (especially as this emperor) doesn't really carry that kind of connotation there lol. like the aesthetic is seen as cool but no one is actually into monarchism
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@LiberalDsa
i'm a sub 200 follower lowbie how are they this passionate about fighting me (and not knowing how ridiculous that sounds). scorsese should have hired these guys for the irishman, they clearly know more about de-aging
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@nodrectionhome
[grunts in disagreement] i like it precisely because he is the god of war AND goes to therapy
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@PetreRaleigh
reminds me of that spielberg quote in which he said video games would be art "when somebody confesses that they cried at level 17". i think a lot of the people in the industry (even the game-friendly ones) just haven't touched a game since the 80s
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@PopulismUpdates
Also not talked enough about: this all began when bro had a massive breakdown after flunking the imperial exam, then had a vision in which he was given a holy duty (along with a holy sword) to rid the world of evil. He had read a few Christian pamphlets, but not the Bible.
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@souljagoytellem
people gotta stop letting francis ford coppola movies and call of duty black ops gas them more like
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noooooo he didn't say the tirana of america it's over
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@lefttwick
obviously can't speak for everyone in china but my impression is that people see them as a little brother of sorts, are aware it's more a marriage of geopolitical convenience, and are a little embarrassed because they remind us of how we were like during the cultural revolution
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obligatory: if you see an old chinese source saying 20 thousand people, it was probably just "a lot of people". like when they said 9 times they often just meant numerous times
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the chinese map as presented here suggests that in 2024, china will:
1) relinquish its claim on arunachal pradesh
2) abandon its maritime claim within the nine-dash line in the south china sea
3) sink hainan island into the bottom of the pacific in a nuclear test
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you know you're dealing with an expert in asian history when they break out the chinese takeout font
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@mike_senters
yeah while she did get some specifics wrong and like they often say, it was just feminism 101 stuff, she was right about the bigger picturein general. but apparently pointing out how women could become part of a reward mechanism was a major affront to some people's core identity
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@souljagoytellem
what did you do when you were young grandpa
oh not much, i worked a desk job and also called people i didn't like on the internet pedophiles and then i got my friends to back me up. it's really fun and really worth it, you should try it too
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@McKay4Senate
twitter maoists: it is right to rebel, mao himself said this
mao himself: fuck this shit they're rebelling against my homie. it's over. the rapprochement is over and we're getting our asses kicked by the soviets now
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some 70% of american silent films are considered lost. that fact alone does not fundamentally undermine film's artistic merit in the long term, and i think video game, a very young medium, is just going through the same growing pains. many of the factors are even similar
Don’t wanna restart “are games art” discourse but sometimes it’s hard to argue in favour of a medium where a bulk of games from the PS3 era and before just. Aren’t playable on any modern platforms
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let's gooooooo
Trying to undermine the PRC by appeals to the ethnic minorities are silly because if the history of every multinational state teaches us anything its the leading ethnic groups (Serbians, Russians, German Austrians, Turks) who you've gotta convince of their own oppression
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@PunishedFredda
i suppose the soviets did have an advantage but it would have been a terrible (or idk, "unthinkable"?) idea and stalin definitely knew. he was actually quite pragmatic after the war, i mean he wouldn't even directly intervene in korea and had to ask mao to do it
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@lefttwick
Happy to concede he did not help the whole Latin America but because of what he did , the Spaniards did not have the army, navy or money to crush South American revolutionaries like they did before
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@souljagoytellem
he could have deployed this weapon all this time, the restraint was admirable
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@Ramen_102
oh i don't know, maybe it's very funny that someone's feminism 101 videos, often inaccurate but not completely without merit and otherwise harmless, would rile people up so much in 2014 and still get some to complain and bring up a no longer relevant website in 2023
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@ProvincialProle
yeah and it's also not unheard of for sources as ancient as the romans' to, for lack of a better word, smear someone as gay or female back in the day so this is just quite poorly thought out
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@merovingians
this person has "National-Socialist" and "Shintoist" in bio so yes, this is exactly what they're implying
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@nodrectionhome
it's kind of amazing ford just gave a b-movie guy the zoom you'd do when you were bringing out someone like gable lol. and it was well deserved
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(non-derogatory)
Patrick Liu刘诚勇, Chairman of the German Daoist Association, hosting a rituals in the Grand Daoist Temple, Wuhan.
He began practicing Qi Gong, meditation and martial arts as a child. In 2016, founded Wudang Pai Germany. In 2019, opened Wudang Temple Germany - Yu Zhen Guan.
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these are the top comments under the weibo topic over there
nah i get why the chinese have their own internet you people are mentally ill
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don't siege vladivostok, take it immediately
Xi Jinping could pull an absolute genius move right now by recognizing Taiwanese independence, then invading Siberia to take back the Amur lands Russia stole in the 1800s. He would look strong domestically while possibly seeming more reasonable to the rest of the world. Win-win.
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@Ramen_102
thank you, i'll take the badge for idiots please. means a lot getting it from someone who has not matured a single bit in 9 years
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@aquaimperium8
you missed the best part, it was two medical students who watched spielberg's lincoln, decided to do some research then found out that a clerical error meant they never officially ratified the amendment when the state did it way way back in 1995
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@KarnesMellagio
yay once again a whole thread of westerners debating chinese stuff by dropping tidbits they read online
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