If the 20th century Idea of cinema was the concatenation of the aristocratic category of art and the political category of the masses - a ‘mass art’ - the current degradation of the Idea can be written as ‘social media’. The false unity of the social attempts to cover up the unbinding of the masses who share no identity, and the substitution of media for art allows for the vulgarity of communication to take primacy over the logic of beauty.
my favorite meme is when conservatives are asked who their favorite band is, they excitedly proclaim their lifelong love for _____, a journalist rushes to ask _____ their reaction, ______ promptly tells conservative to fuck off
Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) article responding to Paul Ryan was a masterpiece
i think clinton sycophants approving of attacking syria proves one thing above all else: the only thing that matters to them is their own comfort
they never cared that clinton would provoke wars as long as they weren’t hurt at home (read: didn’t have to think about it), just like they weren’t hurt under obama
they do not care
they never cared

Freedom of Speech as ideology is very different from Freedom of Speech as legal concept and very clearly the former is bullshit nonsense spread by people who honestly believe they should face no consequences from other people for the terrible shit they do and say but the latter also is what’s preventing communists from just being rounded up and arrested and we should recognize that.





