They just seem to enjoy imagining someone telling them this and working themselves into a righteous fury about it. Copypasting US culture war topoi into a context in which they are literally nonsensical. (No doubt silly stuff in their native land, but at least somewhat intelligible there I guess?)

You see this in other areas too. For instance a lot of our homegrown British yutzes now like to yammer on about the 'war on Christmas' and how dare the woke left tell them they can't say merry Christmas, when obvs nobody has ever told them anything of the kind.

Tbh i am still struggling to comprehend how they can be so bad. Ineptitude and groupthink and spite towards the left just don't seem like sufficient explanation. Surely if nothing else self-interest should lead to occasional breaks in the continuous stream of cataclysmic fuckups? But it does not.

Yes. Always amazed at their seemingly total inability to address the issue at hand. Never a word on what should happen, just endless flimflam about the snootiness underlying whatever the hated metropolitan elites had to say about it

You're right that bull durham is good, and last time I saw waterworld I found it a lot less bad than i remembered. Untouchables and JFK haven't aged well I think.

Yeah, field of dreams got a level of critical adulation quarters that I never understood, and it certainly doesn't seem all that highly rated now

The last few years have brought many injuries, but I remain unreasonably annoyed at 'performative' degenerating into a fancy-pants synonym for 'just for show'

interesting. 'the air loom gang' by mike jay has some amazing material along similar lines.