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Boom. BOOM. B. O. O. M.

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lovely words here so happy to have found the page. left or right - people must be able to speak openly :)

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I think some of the left is actually business as usual capitalist ideology but with emotive images of equality/justice as an elaborate disguise.

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I think that's an accurate description.

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OK -I’m gonna get it- have been wondering. Thx.

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Oh, yeah, they are IT.

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I remember that Polley film - really good. And nice to know you know MUBI - sometimes a bit hit or miss but I’ve seen great stuff there.

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Yeah, the Criterion Channel app is where I stay busy!

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Excellent performance by Ulrich Mühe - who, when asked how he got the part so right said “I remembered”. Sadly he died not long after that film. I subscribe to MUBI - a good platform for less mainstream films. That’s where I saw it.

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I'll check it out. Sarah Polley's "Away From Her" is on Mubi. I recommend it.

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Mubi is great!

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PS - just rewatched “The Lives of Others” - fantastic films

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Is that the German one?

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Yes.

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100 million times agree. And love the spare but powerful poem

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Thank you, Leigh

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Powerful!!

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Thank you!

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Perfect.

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Thank you!

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Incisive. Nothing more needs to be said. Good job!

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Thank you, Kate.

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And in an odd sort of way, "a gun is an empty book."

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Yes!

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Beautiful poem Sherman.

After reading/listening to the article you posted "When Anti-Racism Comes for the Anti-Racists" I thought it was yet another example of how separated we have become, moving only in the circles of people/things which we approve of, all others be cancelled.

I really, truly, fear people cannot have open discussions anymore.

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I hope it changes.

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I hope too. In the meantime...I'll just try to listen.

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I fucking love this. Go ahead...ban me.

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Thank you, Emily.

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Twenty words say it perfectly. This is art.

You're absolutely right about the actions of the left. I'm a life-long liberal who, at 85, has been at this for a long, long time, but astonished (not for the first time) that anyone in our realm would think it's okay to change even a word of a writer's work to reflect a muddied version of our own time rather than a reflection of their own.

The stupidity is baffling. Who do they think they're satisfying? The other side? We don't give a shit about the other side. We despise the other side. Are they afraid of the other side? Then they need to stop pretending they're us.

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Yes.

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Bam!

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Yes!

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