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Morgan Lightle
@morganlightle.bsky.social
I wish I knew how to quit you…

He/him, aspiring to something, kindness is nice, cinephile and writer @ https://boxd.it/548J
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Every single thing described here — criticism of politicians, boycotts, protests, requests for updated language — is a normal tactic for social change.

These accusations could have been levied (and were!) against suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, gay marriage campaigners, you name it.
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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i don’t want my children to have to be “resilient” to racism, i want them to not have to experience it
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
For real though, this movie is chilling.
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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That is the key promise of Trumpism, after all: “You will get to abandon all norms of decency, ignore all conventions of social behavior, and rage against those you despise, the most vulnerable - and exert power over those you regard as lesser. You will dominate and be revered or you will punish.”
November 20, 2024 at 12:22 AM
It’s disgusting this hateful rhetoric is the casual norm for the foreseeable future now.
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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"A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law." But hey, what would happen if we just yoinked that pillar out because a lot of people like this one guy?
November 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Had a Blitz double feature of all things.

In Hope and Glory, childhood innocence turns war into another facet of mundane life going on.

Amusing, resonate, and frustratingly one-note in its mawkish rosy-eyed lens.

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A ★★★ review of Hope and Glory (1987)
Hope and Glory defies the idea that wartime experiences are always stalwart, hellish, and tragic. Director John Boorman remembers his wartime experiences as a dangerous but adventurous aside in an oth...
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November 12, 2024 at 9:51 PM