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Jon
@TheLitCritGuy
Author & researcher: horror film & literature, contemporary culture, and the ghosts of utopia. UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
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Joined January 2012
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    The Haunted House on Film, an ongoing series.
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    ah yes, famously pro-war author *checks notes* Leo Tolstoy
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    okay, screw it, let Zizek host the Oscars
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    I will be thinking about the words "pro-camp protestors" for a very long time.
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    the complete and total inability of these people to conceive of literally any relationship in terms other than an economic exchange is genuinely horrific.
    Bezos to launch network of preschools: "The child will be the customer" hill.cm/vbGuP4H
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    Why is every city budget in the USA just the dril tweet about candles but for hyper militarised policing.
    Budget hearings begin Monday morning. Here’s a quick sampling of how your money is proposed to be spent.
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    being on the left means you should hate sports btw
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    Shakespeare understood Twitter trolls better than anyone
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    American capitalism totally not resembling a decaying empire.
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    Look, do I think Theresa May was a good prime Minister? No. But do I think we should respect her as a public servant and extend her some sympathy on what must be a difficult day? Also no.
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    Reading Brecht again and found this in the uncollected poems from the war years
    To Walter Benjamin who, fleeing from Hitler, took his own life. 

At chess, sitting in the pear trees shade 
Your favoured tactic was to wear the opponent down
The enemy who drove you from your books 
Will not be worn down by the likes of us.
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    rest in peace, king.
    Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky on his 37th death anniversary.
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    Existential comics introducing Musk to socialism by owning him publicly: