Till director Chinonye Chukwu denounced the film industry for “upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women”, LOLOL
At least the actual Maoists got in the streets and got their hands dirty, our Red Guard Lite aka the Marxist-Narcissists have their PR agents issue a ritual denunciation then go sulk at Nobu Malibu and blame The Man if the waiter forgets to validate their Identity. (While making bank as long as the studios need someone "diverse".)
I gotta go I've been upholding my whiteness all day and it's time for bed.
Take Marxcissist and run with it. I want that word to spread. I rather suspect it will throw them into a rage by hitting them where it hurts, the way 'cuckservative' reduced National Review to impotent sputtering.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no chance you'll wake up to a world where this travesty is not merrily going on 😇 Our life in the long recent is satire on steroids triple-boosted.
Best thing I have read in a long time. Had me alternately laughing and crying (over the absurdity). This is just your best writing form. Thanks for this.
I guess the women of color did everything required except perform excellently in a quality movie. I have no idea. I really don't watch movies anymore. Back when I did, it seemed that the movies/actors that were nominated were outstanding for one reason or another. Then for a long time they weren't really. But, you know, whiteness is the root of all evil. Right?
When current events and the 24x7 political circus we now witness get me down, I tend to gravitate back to the 1970s "paranoia" genre: Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The Verdict, And Justice For All, Twighlights Last Gleaming, Capricorn One, Soylent Green, etc. Movies with "the system," evil and corrupt, and usually a lone protaganist - often a tragic hero - struggling for redemption against that system.
My goodness...the Greeks were insightful in their storytelling.
That very much comes to mind in the last scene of that movie. But then I remind myself, the NYT was whitewashing Stalin in the 1930s, because their Moscow bureau chief was a socialist, presenting a propagandized view of life in the Soviet Union. It leaves us to wonder: Was the NYT ever virtuous enough to be worthy of their perch atop the U.S. hierarchy of civil liberties?
It's about Pfizer and Moderna, I promise you. Spoiler alert, it's about a man who sells pharmaceutical products that kill people. And he knows it, but he's completely happy about it, because the money is so good.
I finally got around to it in the early 90s. The real mystery is, why the jaunty theme music? It's rightfully famous, but sounds like it was written for a different film.
That was exactly my thought: why isn't "excellent acting in a really good movie" part of the list of requirements?
In a way it is the essence of "head girl" syndrome laid bare. "We checked all these boxes of things people who win are supposed to do, so why didn't we win!?" Never mind that they missed kind of the big one, or that the check boxes are just for symptoms of success and don't actually create success.
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
Also, your caption! I'm dying. Love you, Chris. ❤️
🗨 Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast".
Oh sure yes, the fate is sealed for modern Alice: she would immediately question a sacred leftist dogma or another, and be cancelled right away 🤷 No way she navigated the richly stuffed minefield aka our cultural landscape.
From "Deadline": "Marc Maron is standing by his To Leslie co-star Andrea Riseborough and lashing out at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its decision to conduct a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s Oscar nominees — a reaction to Riseborough’s left-field, grassroots nomination.
After news broke that the Academy will review its rules for online campaigning — Riseborough received a groundswell of support from fellow actors in the weeks leading up to the nominations — Maron took to his WTF podcast to speak out.
'Apparently, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences or whatever the f*ck it is has decided to investigate Andrea Riseborough’s grassroots campaign to get her the Oscar nomination,' Maron said, 'because I guess it so threatens their system to where they’re completely bought out by corporate interests in the form of studios.’”
Though I sometimes listen to and enjoy his podcast, Maron is a fairly woke lefty. I wonder if he'll walk this back on Thursday.
These idiots are so stupid. Blame whites for blacks not getting nominations by an industry run by Jews. They didn’t get nominations because Kanye West opened the eyes of a good portion of the black community to how they were being manipulated by Jews, and the Jews are mad that they no longer control the black narrative. That is from the Jews own mouths. News headlines and all. It’s ridiculous as well as insulting.
I have reached a point where I truly try to ignore everything Hollywood. The number of actors whose leftist ideology has pissed me off so much I refuse to even watch their movies anymore keeps growing and growing. Chris you have a wonderful way of attacking absurdity from both a humorous and vicious many at the same time. Love it.
My user name speaks for itself on what I think of the race baiting industry. I was born in VA around DC. Moved to rural SE GA with my fam as young kid in the early 70s (Dad/Uncle startup electronics biz). My Dad's fam had roots there from the 1700s on. Culture shock from what I experienced in VA/DC as a kid. I quickly learned about the deep south on all fronts. The "grievances" were subtle back then. But they were growing. Now...........uh yeah. Outta f'n control. Aside story for the "hopers" out there. I'm among them. Our daughter and her boyfriend were wanting to show us all the changes in nightlife in Savannah in recent times (we moved to W NC in 18). So, we were out on the town later one night with them. We saw a group of black men in their 40s also out on the town. Our groups were around a unique outdoor art piece. They were lookin' to do a group pic. My wife spoke right up and offered to take the snap for them. Then, they reciprocated for us.... Jovialness all around ensued. And, in a few after that, we parted ways. I heard one of the men say, "you know, that's the way it should be"..........My wife and I were moved by that. It's sad those sort of things are, it seems, out of the pale..........Wow.
Unlike an Oscar winner, I am speechless. Really. All I've got is "I'd like to thank the Academy for inspiring the Guardian to write an impossibly Orwellian article that gave Chris Bray the impetus for writing this tragicomedic masterpiece."
And here I thought Women Talking was going to take all the award nominations this time. So not only is racism on display with this unjust nomination of an underdog white oppressor, but the patriarchy has also raised its toxic male head.
Is anyone else extremely tired of having to listen to every culture including race hating whites whinging about everything white people are doing, have done, and will do? I’ve got a grand idea!!! How about you go back to whatever shit hole nation your culture came from and quit appropriating Western Civilization en toto. You hate whites so much leave. Western civilization was build by and for White people.
The real rub is that we have wiped your collective asses and through our character flaw of altruism, tried to help you along. The inherent greed and utter lack of a quantifiable degree of intelligence as well as inability to develop impulse control past that of a white toddler leaves only the truth. You are decidedly incompatible with our culture because you would rather have everything under the sun handed to you instead of through determination and will of your own.
I think this is a good opportunity to permanently cancel the oscars. Why do movies stars need awards? Don’t they realize that awards are unfair. Maybe they could have an annual participation dinner where every gets a plastic statue and a hot dog?
A decent effort by Hollyweird, but still not melting-Dali-clock surreal enough for my erudite taste.
Perhaps next year they can experiment with multi-segregated awards show. "Best BIPOC Genderqueer Acting Person in a non-binary role." I'm sure the competition will be fierce.
Thank you for continuing to deconstruct the propaganda. I now realize that it is essential that this be done even though I once felt otherwise. As one of those who felt we had had more than enough semantic deconstruction of globalist propaganda but not enough action, I was taken aback when I read this passage recently:
"At first the citizen may say to himself, “All this is just nonsense—pure double talk,” but in the very act of trying to shrug it off, he has become subject to the power of the inherent suggestion. That is the trick of double talk; once a man neglects to analyze and verify it, he becomes lost in it and can no longer see the difference between rationale and rationalization. In the end, he can no longer believe anything, and he retreats into sullen dullness." -- "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing" by Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo.
No one can deny that Meerloo knew whereof he spoke. Not only was he a medical doctor and psychoanalyst, he spent most of WW2 under Nazi rule in Europe - no small part of that time as a prisoner being subjected to mental and physical torture. After the war, Meerloo became the "go to" expert in the trials of soldiers who broke down under Communist "brainwashing" during the Korean war.
To me, Meerloo's words boil down to this: We know our enemy uses words as weapons. but maybe we didn't know that we cannot win by ignoring our enemy's message. The antidote to poisonous lies is to analyze the lie until we understand exactly how words meant to communicate have been repurposed into a deadly poison; a poison that kills, not the body, but the mind.
The problem of not knowing whom to believe is real. The government seems to lie to us nonstop, as does regime/ MSM media. Simultaneously, alternative media sources are often inaccurate or pursuing their own agenda. Easier to be paralyzed into inaction when you have no trust in the data stream. And of course, the administrative state knows this and capitalizes upon the public’s uncertainty to advance their agenda.
Till director Chinonye Chukwu denounced the film industry for “upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women”, LOLOL
At least the actual Maoists got in the streets and got their hands dirty, our Red Guard Lite aka the Marxist-Narcissists have their PR agents issue a ritual denunciation then go sulk at Nobu Malibu and blame The Man if the waiter forgets to validate their Identity. (While making bank as long as the studios need someone "diverse".)
I gotta go I've been upholding my whiteness all day and it's time for bed.
I've been looking for a name for these fucking people that's more meaningful and descriptive and your comment just triggered it: Marxcissists.
That's it! Perfect term for them!
yes! i love and plan to steal, w your permission of course
Take Marxcissist and run with it. I want that word to spread. I rather suspect it will throw them into a rage by hitting them where it hurts, the way 'cuckservative' reduced National Review to impotent sputtering.
"Pharmapsychopaths" is available for other purposes, if you wish.
HA! just spit my coffee.
Excellent.
There it is!
I like that! Good job!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no chance you'll wake up to a world where this travesty is not merrily going on 😇 Our life in the long recent is satire on steroids triple-boosted.
Best thing I have read in a long time. Had me alternately laughing and crying (over the absurdity). This is just your best writing form. Thanks for this.
So agree.
Agreed - you could not have cast it in a better satirical light !
I guess the women of color did everything required except perform excellently in a quality movie. I have no idea. I really don't watch movies anymore. Back when I did, it seemed that the movies/actors that were nominated were outstanding for one reason or another. Then for a long time they weren't really. But, you know, whiteness is the root of all evil. Right?
I'm down to about an annual movie, now, not counting the times I re-watch "The Third Man." Which, come to think of it....
https://youtu.be/l64JIcG-O-k
Every time.
When current events and the 24x7 political circus we now witness get me down, I tend to gravitate back to the 1970s "paranoia" genre: Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The Verdict, And Justice For All, Twighlights Last Gleaming, Capricorn One, Soylent Green, etc. Movies with "the system," evil and corrupt, and usually a lone protaganist - often a tragic hero - struggling for redemption against that system.
My goodness...the Greeks were insightful in their storytelling.
Yeah, remember when the NYT was considered a legitimate news organization (Three Days of the Condor)? Good times.
That very much comes to mind in the last scene of that movie. But then I remind myself, the NYT was whitewashing Stalin in the 1930s, because their Moscow bureau chief was a socialist, presenting a propagandized view of life in the Soviet Union. It leaves us to wonder: Was the NYT ever virtuous enough to be worthy of their perch atop the U.S. hierarchy of civil liberties?
Probably not - back then, it was an illusion of honest reporting.
Exactly. NYT had the illusion of being a righteous rag of information.
They loved Hitler too if I’m not mistaken
And it never disappoints 🙂
I guess I'd better watch it sometime.
yOu hAVeN't wAtChED thE ThiRD mAn!?!?!?
It's about Pfizer and Moderna, I promise you. Spoiler alert, it's about a man who sells pharmaceutical products that kill people. And he knows it, but he's completely happy about it, because the money is so good.
Oh...by the way...thanks for the spoiler ALERT!⛔️ Lol!
A documentary, eh?
I burn with shame. It's clearly a movie for the times in which we live :)
Except now even the Swiss are in on it.
So long, Holly.
I finally got around to it in the early 90s. The real mystery is, why the jaunty theme music? It's rightfully famous, but sounds like it was written for a different film.
Yep. Never saw it. I was too young when it came out. I do like "The Third Man" theme music though. --- I need a recor player.
It's also the movie that invented the term "fixer"!
That was exactly my thought: why isn't "excellent acting in a really good movie" part of the list of requirements?
In a way it is the essence of "head girl" syndrome laid bare. "We checked all these boxes of things people who win are supposed to do, so why didn't we win!?" Never mind that they missed kind of the big one, or that the check boxes are just for symptoms of success and don't actually create success.
Sound like their might be some kind of "election denial" going on?
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
Also, your caption! I'm dying. Love you, Chris. ❤️
🗨 Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast".
Yes! Alice's response is probably the most poignant part of this passage, though the Queen would certainly fit well in today's world.
Oh sure yes, the fate is sealed for modern Alice: she would immediately question a sacred leftist dogma or another, and be cancelled right away 🤷 No way she navigated the richly stuffed minefield aka our cultural landscape.
From "Deadline": "Marc Maron is standing by his To Leslie co-star Andrea Riseborough and lashing out at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its decision to conduct a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s Oscar nominees — a reaction to Riseborough’s left-field, grassroots nomination.
After news broke that the Academy will review its rules for online campaigning — Riseborough received a groundswell of support from fellow actors in the weeks leading up to the nominations — Maron took to his WTF podcast to speak out.
'Apparently, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences or whatever the f*ck it is has decided to investigate Andrea Riseborough’s grassroots campaign to get her the Oscar nomination,' Maron said, 'because I guess it so threatens their system to where they’re completely bought out by corporate interests in the form of studios.’”
Though I sometimes listen to and enjoy his podcast, Maron is a fairly woke lefty. I wonder if he'll walk this back on Thursday.
"...completely bought out by corporate interests."
This is the heart of the matter: the frequency with which wokeness corresponds with corporate power and privilege.
These idiots are so stupid. Blame whites for blacks not getting nominations by an industry run by Jews. They didn’t get nominations because Kanye West opened the eyes of a good portion of the black community to how they were being manipulated by Jews, and the Jews are mad that they no longer control the black narrative. That is from the Jews own mouths. News headlines and all. It’s ridiculous as well as insulting.
Gee I’m Jewish. I didn’t realize I had so much control!
Gawd.
You’re no better than blacks blaming whites.
SPACE LASER
I have reached a point where I truly try to ignore everything Hollywood. The number of actors whose leftist ideology has pissed me off so much I refuse to even watch their movies anymore keeps growing and growing. Chris you have a wonderful way of attacking absurdity from both a humorous and vicious many at the same time. Love it.
My user name speaks for itself on what I think of the race baiting industry. I was born in VA around DC. Moved to rural SE GA with my fam as young kid in the early 70s (Dad/Uncle startup electronics biz). My Dad's fam had roots there from the 1700s on. Culture shock from what I experienced in VA/DC as a kid. I quickly learned about the deep south on all fronts. The "grievances" were subtle back then. But they were growing. Now...........uh yeah. Outta f'n control. Aside story for the "hopers" out there. I'm among them. Our daughter and her boyfriend were wanting to show us all the changes in nightlife in Savannah in recent times (we moved to W NC in 18). So, we were out on the town later one night with them. We saw a group of black men in their 40s also out on the town. Our groups were around a unique outdoor art piece. They were lookin' to do a group pic. My wife spoke right up and offered to take the snap for them. Then, they reciprocated for us.... Jovialness all around ensued. And, in a few after that, we parted ways. I heard one of the men say, "you know, that's the way it should be"..........My wife and I were moved by that. It's sad those sort of things are, it seems, out of the pale..........Wow.
Hilarious 😂 parody in real life...."I couldn't buy my Oscar therefore its racist that I didn't get nominated" 😂😂😂😂
Unlike an Oscar winner, I am speechless. Really. All I've got is "I'd like to thank the Academy for inspiring the Guardian to write an impossibly Orwellian article that gave Chris Bray the impetus for writing this tragicomedic masterpiece."
And here I thought Women Talking was going to take all the award nominations this time. So not only is racism on display with this unjust nomination of an underdog white oppressor, but the patriarchy has also raised its toxic male head.
Is anyone else extremely tired of having to listen to every culture including race hating whites whinging about everything white people are doing, have done, and will do? I’ve got a grand idea!!! How about you go back to whatever shit hole nation your culture came from and quit appropriating Western Civilization en toto. You hate whites so much leave. Western civilization was build by and for White people.
The real rub is that we have wiped your collective asses and through our character flaw of altruism, tried to help you along. The inherent greed and utter lack of a quantifiable degree of intelligence as well as inability to develop impulse control past that of a white toddler leaves only the truth. You are decidedly incompatible with our culture because you would rather have everything under the sun handed to you instead of through determination and will of your own.
I think this is a good opportunity to permanently cancel the oscars. Why do movies stars need awards? Don’t they realize that awards are unfair. Maybe they could have an annual participation dinner where every gets a plastic statue and a hot dog?
A decent effort by Hollyweird, but still not melting-Dali-clock surreal enough for my erudite taste.
Perhaps next year they can experiment with multi-segregated awards show. "Best BIPOC Genderqueer Acting Person in a non-binary role." I'm sure the competition will be fierce.
Race is all these NPCs see. It's their hammer and the world is a nail.
Just curious, out if all their complaints did they ever mention acting ability? Or I guess they didn’t matter anymore.
THAT'S CRAZY TALK
I know. I’ll probably be convicted of micro aggression and spend years in the federal pen.
Hopefully I will be allowed access to substack....
Thank you for continuing to deconstruct the propaganda. I now realize that it is essential that this be done even though I once felt otherwise. As one of those who felt we had had more than enough semantic deconstruction of globalist propaganda but not enough action, I was taken aback when I read this passage recently:
"At first the citizen may say to himself, “All this is just nonsense—pure double talk,” but in the very act of trying to shrug it off, he has become subject to the power of the inherent suggestion. That is the trick of double talk; once a man neglects to analyze and verify it, he becomes lost in it and can no longer see the difference between rationale and rationalization. In the end, he can no longer believe anything, and he retreats into sullen dullness." -- "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing" by Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo.
No one can deny that Meerloo knew whereof he spoke. Not only was he a medical doctor and psychoanalyst, he spent most of WW2 under Nazi rule in Europe - no small part of that time as a prisoner being subjected to mental and physical torture. After the war, Meerloo became the "go to" expert in the trials of soldiers who broke down under Communist "brainwashing" during the Korean war.
To me, Meerloo's words boil down to this: We know our enemy uses words as weapons. but maybe we didn't know that we cannot win by ignoring our enemy's message. The antidote to poisonous lies is to analyze the lie until we understand exactly how words meant to communicate have been repurposed into a deadly poison; a poison that kills, not the body, but the mind.
In short, keep up the great work!
The problem of not knowing whom to believe is real. The government seems to lie to us nonstop, as does regime/ MSM media. Simultaneously, alternative media sources are often inaccurate or pursuing their own agenda. Easier to be paralyzed into inaction when you have no trust in the data stream. And of course, the administrative state knows this and capitalizes upon the public’s uncertainty to advance their agenda.
Yes the temptation is to walk around sh!t when you see it on the sidewalk, but someone else will step in it if it is not removed.