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Al! posted:my first exposure to the wire was my undergrad political science teacher made us watch the entire first season when only seasons 1 and 2 were out and immediately became patient 0 "guy who demands everyone watch the wire" before that was a kind of guy wait he made you do that in class instead of lecturing can undergrad teachers really do that
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Some Guy TT posted:wait he made you do that in class instead of lecturing can undergrad teachers really do that my upper division anthropology (globalization class) teacher basically just put on animated zizek talks and like lord of war and stuff most of the movies or shows he put on were pretty good (like low) so i can't complain
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on this very website i had a avatar of council/mayor/governor Carcetti with Obama's 2012 or 2008 election campaign tagline under it.
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netizen posted:Got half way through Spaceman and got bored. Even Paul Dano as a weird space spider couldn't do it for me. I've read Blindsight and nobody will do space spiders better than that. Someone told me the concept of those spiders and it was a super cool idea. will have to check it out. thought they were part of Tchaikovsky's Children trilogy originally. I enjoyed Andy Weirs' book Hail Mary which I'm guessing Spaceman burrowed heavily from was better than The Martian imo. and the alien was super interesting Durf has issued a correction as of 06:41 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Yhwachwasright/status/1764832903966433333?t=qB2FmWFNGPNYxQivIHPK4Q&s=19
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A Buttery Pastry posted:She should've been played by Pokimane, of Free Guy fame. find the full streamer cast list here https://twitter.com/Nan_dre_/status/1764851348519235719
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Yhwachwasright/status/1764832903966433333?t=qB2FmWFNGPNYxQivIHPK4Q&s=19 have her played by gal godot, everybody's happy
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i say swears online posted:find the full streamer cast list here hmm..... yeah ok
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Al! posted:hmm..... yeah ok
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i watched the wire s01 e07 because of the thread and i liked how the limited bust actually backfires because it didnt occur to the cops that there were other plausible reasons they could pinch the driver aside from the wire so that not doing so ended up being more suspicious than if theyd just gone all the way s01 e06 was actually the last one i saw months ago maybe someday someone will discuss a random slur that appears in the eighth episode so ill watch that one too
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I thought it was a great payoff when they threw McNulty a big parade for being right in the last episode.
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My partner has gotten deep into Law and Order series and so I'm having her watch The Wire cuz it matches up in timeline and content she likes. She's never seen it and has only vague awareness of it. We're not even halfway through Season 1 and she loves Wallace, Bubbles, and Lester and most of the time Kima, but nobody else. I think we sometimes forget in hindsight how quickly and consistently the main cast are established as enormous gently caress ups and pieces of poo poo, and that it's not very sympathetic to the system. It's still pretty lib and could be even harsher on the cops, but I think a lot of "The Wire is poo poo" backlash comes from it being adopted by libs and the overall cultural impact of Prestige TV. I am not emotionally ready for her to see the end of the Wallace story
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Telluric Whistler posted:Iam not emotionally ready for her to see the end of the Wallace story You mean when he becomes the King of Wakanda and then gets couped by a guy working w the CIA? Yeah that poo poo was rough but also the typical story of any african nation trying to better itself (yeah the wallace story is rough)
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He was a boxer first. Seriously, that storyline is rough.
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i say swears online posted:find the full streamer cast list here Playing Cyberpunk proved streamers can't act for poo poo.
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I have a small paperbook copy of the 1997 book The Corner by David Simon & Ed Burns, which talks about the effects of the War on Drugs & Baltimore drug trade. Of note is a section of how specific law enforcement policies have ruined a generation of policing skills and the community. I took photos of the relevant pages with my crappy phone & hands, as I couldn't find the relevant book excerpt, so apologies for the quality. Click on the linked image to view a larger copy.The last three links are on the exact topic below, the other ones are about the dehumanising of drug addiction, hard line sentencing for all drug crimes & police brutality at a certain district. Anyway, thanks to the War on Drugs, police now get extra court pay for any arrests, no matter how minor: this includes arresting local drug addicts for "Loitering In A Drug Free Zone" (marked with helpful signs covering a very large radius). Not only does finding one vial of heroin on the local with a drug addiction give you extra court pay as you have to then just hang around until a judge processes their case, it officially counts as a "Drug Arrest" and towards your anti-drug stats. Simon & Burns note that not only is this pointless, but it has ruined a generation of police officers, who legitimately don't know how to write a search warrant or check it's actually the right address, or learn how to fill out a proper investigation form so it's not thrown out in court, or know how to do covert surveillance, because why bother? You make less money actually serving your community & get yelled at for not achieving your "drug arrests" doing those things, so why not make a local addict turn out his pockets & arrest him for being within 50ft of a sign? This was in 1997, so imagine how much worse things have gotten since then. https://ibb.co/K0cv6Wz https://ibb.co/10bYqjM https://ibb.co/fNCtS0v https://ibb.co/3RG3L3N https://ibb.co/Hgj4kSq https://ibb.co/PwmjGMN https://ibb.co/VMWzV8q https://ibb.co/JHQLChZ https://ibb.co/Pmcy7r6 https://ibb.co/Zmsfy3g https://ibb.co/FDrW5cH Livo has issued a correction as of 11:58 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Okuteru posted:You see that as far back as season 1 yeah but it becomes like the entire show by season 5 (except the Marlo vs Omar stuff, which is still cool)
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Popy posted:on this very website i had a avatar of council/mayor/governor Carcetti with Obama's 2012 or 2008 election campaign tagline under it. Oof, calling Obama Martin O'Malley is just rough
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The purpose of a system is what it does. what a dumb catchphrase
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Yhwachwasright/status/1764832903966433333?t=qB2FmWFNGPNYxQivIHPK4Q&s=19 Is this about Zendaya in dune2?
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The beauty of The Wire is you can watch it and then go to Netflix's The Crown and every time Charles looks cross or sullen you can just fill in "The gently caress did I do?" And assume it's him reacting to killing his wife.
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HootTheOwl posted:I don't want to click through who's made at what here? rebecca ferguson. she's a space version of martin freeman's cia agent in black panther.
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Xaris posted:yes my Sociology professor showed us Society of the Self and it blew my frikkin mind
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tristeham posted:what a dumb catchphrase See: every goon project
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who the gently caress is druski and why is he everywhere
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Xaris posted:yes My international relations professor used to show us Friday by Rebecca Black and weird poo poo he saw from World Star. He also used to be an advisor to the Reagan administration. Total rear end in a top hat. Okuteru has issued a correction as of 15:44 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Yhwachwasright/status/1764832903966433333?t=qB2FmWFNGPNYxQivIHPK4Q&s=19 They really didn't. I wonder how they would react to Children or God Emperor.
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I don't know who the anime in the av is but just from the appearance it's a pretty good post/av combo imo
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they didnt see the movie theyr just posting, its praxis
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loquacius posted:I don't know who the anime in the av is but just from the appearance it's a pretty good post/av combo imo It’s an overly aggressive mid tier bad guy from Bleach. He’s name was Grimjaw Jaggerbagger or something like that.
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tristeham posted:what a dumb catchphrase the purpose of the catchphrase is to annoy the goon
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tristeham posted:what a dumb catchphrase i don't think that's a catchphrase, a catchphrase is like "Did I do that?"
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The purpose of a system is what it does is a pretty useful way of looking at cybernetic capitalism, considering the kind of people who put together the war on drugs it seems hard for me to disagree that it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Making police into stupid armed thugs that don't know how to enforce the rules as written, hence degrading the importance of the old ruleset, seems pretty well in line with the project of increasing police power and oppressing and brutalizing vulnerable people and keeping them stuck in poverty and addiction, as is one of the main functions of the police in the late capitalist state. Also those teenagers getting mad about a movie where white people manipulate and betray a society of Muslims because they casted white people to do it are always going to be around, they are the result of insufficient education in meaningful anti capitalist thought. Still good for demonstrating the magnitude of the task facing anyone in the west who might be interested in ever trying to improve anything.
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Flournival Dixon posted:The purpose of a system is what it does is a pretty useful way of looking at cybernetic capitalism, considering the kind of people who put together the war on drugs it seems hard for me to disagree that it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. ZOO WEE MAMA!
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