Well, some of them. Not all of them lol.

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Seeing all the people who are shocked that Emilia Perez won a bunch of Globes while Anora won nothing has me thinking that @greffistaf.bsky.social and I should be sharing our text messages as a public good.

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People know that killing one guy isn't going to actually do anything to fix healthcare, but they enjoy the suffering and fear of people they don't like as an aesthetic experience: a smart guy i think once suggested that "all efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war"

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Benjamin's point was that resentment is a cheap thrill which is willingly granted by the powers that be, because it's ultimately a self-destructive impulse: you can make war if you really, really, want to, but a lot of people make a lot of money off of war, so they're ultimately fine with that too

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i'm not going to pretend that the united healthcare ceo was emitting zero bad guy particles, of course, but the point is that there is no objective standard for who emits how many and so it is hard to see how you end up anywhere better once you yield to this kind of thinking

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