Here's something interesting I discovered when I read the book, after loving the movie for 10+ years: Moss meeting the girl at the motel pool wasn't in the book. In the book, he picks up a teenage hitchhiker, they travel together for a couple chapters, they bond, he gives her a chunk of the money, she expects him to want her to 'earn it,' he says no, she's sort of playfully offended he doesn't want to boink her. Ultimately they do stop at a motel where they meet their fate. But the Coen bros decided to jettison all of that and replaced it with the motel pool scene. Can't be a coincidence, they must have consulted w/ McCarthy on it.
Any rational person got that, you don't need to explain.
I understand that there are profound challenges in the public school system, but my god, the failure of schools (or, something sinister, if one wants to go that route) is absolutely catastrophic.
No, not super peachy. You are right. But there was real learning happening.
Right? Intellectualism has been hijacked by conformity (all as accelerated with social media). “Believe this… you are smart…. Believe that… you are stupid.” Just parrot out the talking points ad rehersed, and wham! You are smart and automatically accepted into whatever crowd.
It’s really mind-boggling. And they just can’t see it. That said, this problem has plagued humanity since the beginning. Now, it’s just on steroids with social media. These are the types that were the Purtains. The inquisition.
It would be hilarious if he not only bought it, but then he made it into the most balanced, least divisive, most accurately reported network on television. A true throwback to when journalism was a lot closer to reporting both sides of every issue as objectively as possible, but perhaps mixed with some modern longer form podcast style interviews as well.
To be fair, trying to run a social media network is like trying to run an insane asylum
Without the Trump political commentary I think it's more a sign of societal shift than Trump/political. The same already happened in UK etc and likely soon Australia too.
Isn't there already such things? Things like Fox News, etc?
Fox News is heavily biased, just in different ways
But if Musk buys MSNBC then what makes you think things won't be biased?
Nobody knows but if you are still betting against him after he somehow turned Twitter around then I'm not sure what to tell you
Why is it always the motherfuckers who don't use Twitter who say this? Twitter is still as biased as ever, it's just now for the other side and the aggressive push on political content is worse than ever.
Are you implying I don't actually use Twitter LMAO
You musn't, or must be biased yourself if you think anything has improved under Musk other than the pendulum just swinging to other side and political content being gamed by the system.
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Don't try that shit with me, I acknowledge twitter used to be left leaning but at least before I could avoid politics stuff seeping into my things. Now it's right leaning and every damn buzzword and "thing you should be angry at" constantly seeps into pages now, not to mention the AI "curation" instead of trends being completely politics obsessed.
Whose fault is that?
Absolutely. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian have put out some interesting content regarding the problems with the left.
This so much.
