christ

ah yeahhhh

A related feeling is how Looney Tunes or Animaniacs would reference Orson Welles or something, and I'd be fascinated to know what these adult cultural figures and their concerns were

It's a great film, but I'll tell anyone who will listen to watch Watkins last film Paris Commune because it is absolutely amazing and instructive. True cinema as praxis

What they didn't do beforehand was lie to people correctly to justify the war. They didn't spend the requisite points in the game of civilisation to create a cassus belli: they just killed a load of fishermen and said they were terrorist drug dealers.

America might be a dying empire led by openly evil men, but we are their simpering servants and we have been since the end of World War II. This is what that looks like, in practice. It’s ugly as fuck, isn’t it? Well, the time to do something about this was the 2000s. We are now co-conspirators.

Thank you so much for this 🙏

likely a photogram and photomontage, rather than a photograph. László Moholy-Nagy was very good at it