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<3

The belief that the 'majority' of the American public connects all but one element from the list (and not a 'national health plan' precisely but inchoately-expressed improvements to the existing regime) to the improvement of their 'material lives' is about the most desperate, time-wasting shit I can imagine.

― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:29 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you and nerdstorm ought get in on a podcast together, clueless moderates much less erudite than yall are raking it in

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:27 PM

have to appreciate a posting style that imparts nothing on first pass other than the understanding that it's not worth trying to figure out the point being made

Leaden irony is the worst.

have to appreciate a posting style that imparts nothing on first pass other than the understanding that it's not worth trying to figure out the point being made

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:21 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was grabbing things from the fridge aisle at trader joe’s and had my headphones on, as is my want, but still definitely overheard the young woman next to me say, “he’s a muscle man” and flex. 💪💁‍♀️

― map, Friday, March 16, 2018 11:04 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah well you misspelled wont, ya meathead

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive)

this is so good

How do you fix it so it’s just uninterrupted cats all the way through pic.twitter.com/ksBYaAxdYy

— Lynn Coady (@Lynn_Coady) March 18, 2018

Zing!!!!

I would argue that the fact that you don't think there's anything to talk about with a Meghan Trainor or Jason Derulo record, or that their popularity "doesn't say anything about music or society," means that you need to think harder. You're claiming that mumbly nihilistic teenage bullshit "says something about society" but the music that non-teenagers listen to doesn't, but society is not exclusively made up of teenagers. And I doubt your readership is. (I don't know where you're employed as an editor, sorry.) I would argue that writing about xxxtentacion is, in fact, the lazy choice, and that if you really wanted to spend time seriously analyzing popular culture, you'd analyze it in its uncool/off-trend/selling-but-to-the-"wrong"-people aspects.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 10:27 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

board zing

step 2 me I'll roll u up sleepingbag
then take u camping and forget u at the campsite and never call to see if u turned up

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, March 25, 2018 6:37 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

UMS = one of the best ilxors
sleepingbag = absolutely the worst

lmao thats ace

omg that is beautiful

idgi

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), 30. marts 2018 15:23 (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We know

― Frederik B, Friday, March 30, 2018 6:57 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"decent people," kiss my ass Ken B also yr Baseball & Jazz docs essentially sucked

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 7, 2018 6:14 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you ever going to watch this or are you just going to haunt this thread like Jacob fkn Marley

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, May 7, 2018 6:19 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ken Burns' docs DO suck though...

the new york one is awesome

that by his brother, though

Ken Burns' docs DO suck though...

― Dan I., Tuesday, May 8, 2018 6:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ok this is my least favorite challop. Not saying they're anything special artistically but theyre well researched and hit their target, maybe except the jazz one

They all have their problems but are ultimately good

They're propaganda for the supremacy of the concerns of white dads

What's his next one going to be about, classic American cars & the rise and fall of Detroit? shit is trite

everything is trite when you try to target it to an audience

i watched the civil war one again recently, it was absorbing and affecting, not trite imo

that’s actually the only one i’ve ever seen tho, the others suck for all i know

oh actually i’ve seen the roosevelts too

i liked that one!

ashokan farewell, the civil war theme song, can bite my ass

3.17: API changes to support Zing

― stet, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:38 (eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his docs are dece from an entertainment and factoid perspective, his politics and analysis are awful tho, poor history

the civil war and vietnam ones are particularly egregious in their apologetics for genuinely awful people/regimes

which is too bad! since theres not a lot of ppl out there making ten part series abt important historical events

politics could be worse, and i would think it could be argued that striking a more equivocal tone allows him to reach a larger audience etc

i don’t know much about historiography tho

So this morning my wife and I were both teleworking and I’m upstairs and she’s downstairs. She likes her background noise when she’s not doing conference calls and so she puts on a movie that’s full of explosions and shouting (that’s all I can hear anyway) and after a little while I asked (hollering from the study) WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? And I hear “Civil War, (garbled)” and I thought, wow, damn, I haven’t seen that series in forever, did it have cool sound effects and I forgot? So I say THE KEN BURNS THING?!? And she says CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR and I’m like, oh.

I watched a couple eps of Civil War a couple years ago but I didn’t retain anything (my fault) and I really can’t in good conscience listen to a single word from the mouth of Shelby “Lost Cause” Foote

He’s an alum of my alma mater though, kind of. I don’t think he graduated.

politics could be worse, and i would think it could be argued that striking a more equivocal tone allows him to reach a larger audience etc

― the late great, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:29 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the politics were worse then it wldnt hit that sweet spot of appearing reasonable while seeking to humanize monstrous actors and obfuscate their awful motives in defense of american exceptionalism

also prob wldnt work as daddy dozing entertainment to give a full account of the brutality of our history

the west is a lot more frank than his other work in the depiction of how awful our policy of westward expansion was towards the indigenous peoples who lived there, pretty tough to watch compared to his other work

well, that’s good

i haven’t seen the vietnam one but i remember during the civil war one thinking it was good that he didn’t seem to pull any punches about slavery

y'all should get in on the popular thread Ken Burns' THE VIETNAM WAR documentary, started by ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius) in september of 2017

i’m not caping for ken burns here, i just personally enjoyed the civil war show and am genuinely interested in your take on it

xp as a rule i avoid those threads

the main crime of the civil war one was as sibly said giving time to shelby footes lost cause theory which says that the south really fought for honor and tradition and so forth and not that much for slavery, a theory which became wildly influential and which really got its first wide mainstream dissemination through that extremely popular ken burns documentary, i bought my dad* the damn coffee table companion book of it for his birthday he was so obsessed with that shit at the time

*my dad is not at all a confederate apologist but he was crazy for the series all the same

ultimately burns prob just believes very deeply in the mythos of american exceptionalism

Thinking about @SenJohnMcCain today and how empowering his love for our country is. So proud to call him a friend.

— Ken Burns (@KenBurns) May 6, 2018

sick burns

lost cause theory which says that the south really fought for honor and tradition and so forth and not that much for slavery ... really got its first wide mainstream dissemination through that extremely popular ken burns documentary

it was a pretty good documentary tho by the standards of the 1870s

i see

i wouldn’t expect it to be otherwise

(low standards)

can’t believe lagoon’s dad is a confederado

i mean dont get me wrong ive watched that shit all the way through twice at least but i also have a shameful dad history documentary habit, its cool how he lays all the events out but its just unserious and sometimes bad from an theory standpoint

lag∞n otm like crazy (sounds like i shd watch The West)

Burns' haircut sez a lot about him

the Baseball doc was p good about Ruth and Jackie Robinson, but it's hard to fuck that up

stevie's endless love for my being shot at is touching