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ayo wtf @snuffbait.bsky.social gets suspended and i immediately gets this on my ig tl

screenshot of my instagram tl suggested for you which is itself a screenshot of a bites u poast on bsky dot social

November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM

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#filmsky 🎥

Four nights of a dreamer 1971
Rewatched Nov 24, 2025

5 stars

Watched the 4k restauration with my dad in the cinema. He thought it was a good film but not great and, well, you know my thoughts already.

Also I love my girlfriend and I could never leave her like that. I miss her dearly.

November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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and i mean, Mamdani's vibes are damn good, that much is true, but vibes based analysis is not analysis

"oh he quoted sankara" see state and revolution by lenin chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1! YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO READ THE WHOLE BOOK!

What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they claim, educated the labor unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of waging a predatory war!

November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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ayo this is gonna be peak @chatpileband.bsky.social

screenshot from rateyourmusic of the chat pile and hayden pedigo album in the earth again which has a 4.44 from 11 ratings

October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM

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haha heyyyy :3

get to know my film taste for every like i will post one film i love heart emoji

October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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hold on this writing is fire

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October 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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?????????

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misleading (show/hide dropdown)

the holocaust happened

September 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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being a mreowist

cat in a makeshift red guards uniform with the "maoist hat" and a caption i cannot read because i dont know chinese

September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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picture of an opposum screaming with the caption "FAGGOT!"

September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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share your favourite b&w movie

still of the Jean-Luc Godard film "À bout de souffle" from 1960

September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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they made this to count some of you girls

September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM

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im lesbian

map which says tell me where you are from only using 2 words

September 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM

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New review of film

Review by Lexi

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians - 2018

5 stars, heart
Rewatched 04 Sep 2025

The great French director François Truffaut once said in an interview that there couldn't be a truly anti-war war film because to show something is to make it more noble. He was correct in his assessment. This is a film (just like "Aferim!" also by Radu Jude which I didn't like but which I should honestly rewatch and reassess) which treats on how films represent history. Both of them are about representations of a past which, in all truth, isn't really past us. That is its stylistic or thematic purpose if you consider his other works. Another clear purpose is to demonstrate that we have not grown past the ills which caused the Shoah and the Roma Genocide (Porajmos, Samudaripen). The film being set in Romania doesn't change its crux. I am not Romanian, statistically speaking, you who is reading this, is not either. I do, however, live in a racist society, one which partakes in much negationism, just like you do, one where trivialisation of massacres and crimes against humanity is more than common, this being done, of course, by bringing up someone who did something similar, as if two wrongs made a right. I digress.

This is a truly anti-war film because of its structure. It begins by showing news clips from 1941 (when the Odessa massacre took place), with similar clips appearing elsewhere throughout the film. Immediately after, the actress who plays Mariana Marin (Ioana Iacob), presents herself, explains a few things and then Jude's clipper claps, time for a new take and a proper entry into the film's contents. Marin is a theatre director who is directing a reenactment of the Odessa Massacre, in which the Romanian army murdered almost 20,000 jews. She is tasked with showing a massacre, which she decided to put on display in a public setting. Between then and the showing she has to go through bureaucratic hoops who don't want the Romanians to be shown to be responsible for the massacre, actors who negate everything and defend the Iron Guard and its leaders (who openly called for the massacre of jews, including in the title of the film, where the foreign minister of romania at the time said: "I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians" before the massacre, when the orders were sent in, showing a clear responsibility), racism on set with the racism against the Roma being more than a problem...

The film itself dodges the issue of making war more noble by showing it through a double lens of a play within a film (which I'll get to) but also through these terribly unsettling still shots of pictures of corpses and massacres as well as two different hanging bars. These stills are, at times, silent, in other shots, they contain dialogue, but not that much. These stills themselves are extended to force us viewers to intake the destruction and tragedy. These are unmoving shots where all you can see apart from the image is the grain of the camera moving a bit.

destruction and tragedy. These are unmoving shots where all you can see apart from the image is the grain of the camera moving a bit.

Jude, through his de facto stand-in within the film, Mariana, says this: "Reality was far more gruesome, impossible to represent." This, to me, is an admission of his knowledge of the Truffaut quote, but more importantly, the implications of showing Odessa on screen in situ (or a reenactment of it being done for the movie representing it in 1941) rather than showing a reenactment done within the confines of the movie. The movie doesn't make it more noble, the reenactment does and we can clearly see its purpose when the audience of said reenactment cheers at the jews being massacred as well as the cheers for Antonescu, antisemitism and even the Wehrmacht (which was also responsible for massacres - do not buy into the clean wehrmacht myth).

I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians is a very compelling satire, an examination of the Romanian past, but also of our common past as humans. Tragic, funny, beautiful, it is all I love about Jude's directing and writing style. Its colour schemes and shots are beautiful, but its contents say much more than its pure images.

This is why in my reexamination of it, about 18 months after watching it am giving it a 10/10.

September 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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live brezhnev dog reaction

sad dog with big puffy eyebrows like leonid brezhnev and also medals like brezhnev

September 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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posting this for no reason whatsoever

film poster of Tout va bien by Jean-Luc Godard

September 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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screenshot from the film "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" by Radu Jude (2018) in which the main character Mariana Marin (Ioana Iacob) takes a picture of two mannequin soldiers together, one with his mouth on top of the other's penile region. the one doing the fellating is i assume in romanian uniform but the german is in the nazi uniform.

September 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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In the United Kingdom, you get put on the sexual offender registry if you’re trans, but not if you actually rape someone

North Korean defector Park Yeonmi on Joe Rogan, whose appearance sparked many memes of “in x they y”

August 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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north ameriKKKan "progressive" mayors obsessed with bike lanes seeing their progressivism leave their body whenever it's time to send a hitlerite police force against minorities: