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Matt Sherwood
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"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this." ~ Martin Scorsese
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americanincan.bsky.social
What war? Do you mean the genocide?
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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abtnatural.bsky.social
Incredible scene.

FBI: Do you like Marx?

Mhmood Mamdani: I haven’t met him.

FBI: No, no, he’s dead.

MM: Wow, what happened?

FBI: No, no, he died long ago. ... He wrote that poor people should not be poor.

MM: Sounds amazing.

www.warscapes.com/conversation...
BS: How was that? How long were you in jail? MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
July 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
americanincan.bsky.social
Well, I’m just biologically confused
July 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
americanincan.bsky.social
On an unrelated note, I’ve stopped searching for Doctor Who
June 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM