All of the societal effort that goes into making the wealthy happy is like if every year 50% of the money generated in Canada went towards teaching thousands of dogs to become cardiothoracic surgeons.

It's not going to happen, it hardly creates any jobs, and it's fucking up the dogs.

He and the Pope are just Blue Turtlin'.

He's still an idealistic absolutist, but those ideals are "sex with underage girls is actually okay" and "you must sell me pierogies".

Yeah, that tapeworm bit was… UNPLEASANT. I think the movie can be filed under: I'm not even sure I *liked* it, but I'll probably remember it more than 95% of other stuff I saw this year. It does a good line in memorably ugly imagery.

Though one bit reminded me of Gummo, which is never a good thing.

I think the best description I read was that he sounds like a vacuum that just sucked up a coin.

Man, remember all those trans rights speeches Harris did on the campaign trail, there were so many I lost count

Great piece, and boy does this film sound off-putting. So I should probably watch it.

Oh, she "ended up" doing that, you say