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38yo maelstrom of light fighting against the dark inside and out striving for a softer world and self yes, even now more than ever 💜 “It matters to this one.” https://tommyspaulding.com/it-matters-to-this-one/

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Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 16d

When I get my shit together and start my channel, that’s where I’ll work: looking to empathize, approaching subjects with curiosity instead of shoving them into a box.

Am I leaving the left? Hardly.
I don’t think I was ever truly part of this version of the left.
And I think mine is more radical.

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 1d

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 19h

Does the stream that's happening RIGHT NOW count? :D

Mothra is a cool person with cool art doing cool streams and generally just being very cool to hang out with while providing a sorely needed black enby perspective on things. Check them out!

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d

Los Angeles has just declared a state of emergency.

Not because of wildfires. Not because of riots. But because of an invasion by federal government troops.

We can see where this is going.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

oh god I've already watched 35 movies this month @_@

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

I think that gives us more to consider, tbh

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

And you can say that the MCU isn't political, but to feature Malthusianism in that way when so many conservatives had been using that same logic to justify the kind of thinking that's directly led to what we have with ICE now?

Just... no. I can't give it a pass, ever.
Especially now.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe, but I can compartmentalize. I adore the F&F franchise and fully embrace the junk food nature of it while still recognizing how F8 dropped the ball. I just hate everything the Russos did. WS, CW, and IW are painfully bad to me just as movies.

I think they need to quit drama and return to fun.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even believe in that as some kind of absolute. I don't even think that about Joker, despite all of the people who were freaking out about it at the time. I judge case-by-case.

But this franchise and message in 2019?
You can disagree, but the #thanosdidnothingwrong trend proves my point.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

But most of all, it's about how the Russo brothers suck ass, as is very apparent from their track record since leaving the MCU.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

See, this is why I don't get into these conversations. Obviously, that's clear to US.

But that's not what I'm concerned about and it's not my point. You're still arguing from your own perspective. It's about the perspectives of others who don't share our moral compass.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who agrees with Malthusianism can watch the movie and feel like it was made to make them feel right. That's BAD. In Trump's America, that's irresponsible at best, actively malicious at worst.

Infinity War is every Nazi's favorite MCU movie.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

The movie explicitly states that his approach works and the only argument against it from the heroes is "but killing is bad." Thanos is validated.

Fast forward to today.
At least Thanos had the decency to see it as a difficult burden instead of posing gleefully at concentration camps.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

It's AT BEST an aggressively mid action-espionage movie that happens to star people's favorite action figures.

Civil War was an insult to all of the characters involved and the relationships that their previous handlers had built. "He killed my mom" is such a bullshit "kill the dog" shortcut.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

and fuck any notion of "oh you don't have to say the bad guys are bad because it's implicit" BULLSHIT

Anyone who has the gall to look at America right now and say something as stupid as that because of their precious nostalgia deserves to get fucking hit.

The phase 1-3 saga deserved better.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Other than bland direction, awful writing, flat deliveries, tonal dissonance, and paper-thin relationship beats? Other than the fact that its emotional beats were as lazy as killing the dog a dozen times over?

Not just changing the plot to Malthusian propaganda, but VALIDATING it in the Trump era.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

fucking AGAIN??

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't trying to "put you in your place" or something, I was backing your assessment. 💜

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

No no, you actually helped me realize that my post could potentially be viewed as conspiracy-think. 😅

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

As someone with 15 years of experience in tech (half of that in datacenters): exactly.

A lot of people have no idea what a fucking miracle most of the sites they use are.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

There are very few things that I will go "thing bad" about rather than just a difference in opinions and people are allowed to like what they like, but I fucking H A T E Infinity War with a burning passion.

Don't get me started.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's back.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

It might be back up already. I only checked because I couldn't access metacritic. lol

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. It's not a conspiracy or something, but there's definitely something going on that's hitting them all at once.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

At least Benioff and Weiss crashed and burned spectacularly enough so that Star Wars never fell into their hands.

Milena @mzmilena.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Russo brothers tank their reputation to the tune of hundreds of millions in the years since Endgame has been so validating.

I will die on the hill of their MCU entries being ass. The only reason they were successful was the talent and franchise they were propped up by at Disney.