RollaD20 [comrade/them, any]
Probably the only video game that I’ve played that has moments which stick with me the same way that my favorite movies and books do. On top of the great writing and fun gameplay, I loved being able to play as a jewish dude just fucking up nazis.
Recently started putting Quinoa Tabbouleh salad, chili red pepper hummus and sauerkraut on a dark multigrain. Shit slaps.
Goyim Defense League
If I run into a nazi and he tells me that he’s part of the Goyim Defense League I would assume I was being pranked. Sounds like something out of a Mel Brooks movie
Yeah it just seems so terminally online and out of touch with the real world. to go out into the real world and call yourself the “Goyim Defense League” demonstrates such an intensely warped worldview that just screams 4chan idiot in a way that has to drive away potential support (right???). There are genuinely scary and dangerous looking fash groups in the USA that are almost certainly as bigoted as these dumbasses, but they are better tapped into the American fascist aesthetic.
Propaganda from Russia
BBC Newsnight - Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine (2014)
VICE News - Under Fire with the Azov Battalion (2014)
The Guardian - Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp (2017)
NBC News - Ukraine’s Hyper-Nationalist Military Summer Camp for Kids (2017)
DW Documentary - Women and the Azov battalion in Kyiv, Ukraine (2017)
BBC Newsnight - Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia (2018)
Associated Press - Nationalist camp in Ukraine trains kids to kill (2018)
TIME - Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine (2021)
VICE - Why the Far Right Joined the 2013-14 Ukraine Crisis (2021)
I think Nolan wants to critique the lack of artistry in Hollywod but is unwilling to meaningfully criticize profit hungry executives (whether purposefully or just through ignorance). Profit motive is ruining film/tv as everything must be perfectly engineered to maximize profits. A certain degree of mass appeal is fine but a lot of movies and TV are just hollow. Hollywood has always had a tension between the commercial and the artistic but lately the artistic has increasingly been losing out, and this has almost certainly been intensified in the past few years due to fears of the lack of profitably of streaming sites. It’ll be curious to see how the strikes end up playing out. If they go poorly, it may lead to the creation of a new independent filmmaking scene/institution by the displaced workers.