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Yeah, true.

But, when slop confirms my bias, surely that makes it valid.

/s

Thanks for calling it out. Welcome to the next stage of the 21st century. I call it, “Ashes, ashes. We all fall down.”

Hudson Hawk, widely panned, is fun; just refuses to take itself seriously.

• iMDB: 5.7/10

• RT: 30/100

• Metacritic:17/100

I don’t care. That’s what I think of any film rating system. It’s a report, but not the experience itself.

See also: the Southland Tales, The One (2001), Lost Souls (2000). All are, objectively, bad films. And yet… I remember them to be re-watchable.

This write-up is on a site for and app and ends up shilling for that app, but it makes some useful points, confirmed by my years of poking around:

Trust Metacritic most for prestige drama, arthouse cinema, and Oscar contenders.

Trust IMDb most for genre films.

Use the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer as a quick pass/fail for critical reception.

Use the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score cautiously.

Full disclosure: I don’t have the app, don’t want the app, and don’t care about the app. Also, I skimmed the article in 2 minutes while watching my kids bounce on a trampoline.

In addition to the other thread descendants, staring with u/[email protected]:

For all the bitching about capitalism, which basically every country on Earth uses for an economic system

This is only the case because it was instituted at gunpoint. The exploration, colonization, settlement, expropriation, amassment, warfare, thievery, and conquest of the world’s economy is soaked in blood, laden in exploitation of people, places, and things and destruction of the commons. You’d know that if you were subject to it. Or, if you’d paused to read, ask, or think about it for 5 seconds.

And, I can’t believe I’m saying this in public, “just because everyone is doing it, that doesn’t make it right.”

• We can vilify, undermine, and lead smear campaigns against unions under capitalism.

• We can break, or prevent, unions under capitalism.

• Our governments can attack us using local, state, provincial, and federal police forces whenever there is a perceived threat to capitalism.

Everything works fucking horribly with those 2781 billionaire capitalists robbing the world blind while blaming the victims.

Imagine that.

Joseph Gedeon at the Guardian reports that Matthew Dowd was fired from MSNBC for stating:

“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions, … You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”

Richard Luscombe at the Guardian reports:

Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, a junior strategist at Nasdaq and a worker for a prominent NFL team.