Yep. Been on a John Woo kick lately, just finished A Better Tomorrow II and I think I've hit all the essential stops by now.
Hard Boiled is where he really starts to fully embrace his hostility to realism and just lets the bullets fly where they may. The DNA of Face/Off is here in Hard Boiled and the hospital scene remains one of the best action sequences of all time.
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” ...
Canada is dropping the EV tariffs and will be importing 50k Chinese EVs per year. Carney quoted as saying by 2030 an EV in Canada will cost $35k which is a sure shot more affordable than buying the latest $80000 Child Obliterator
Apparently it's based on the pre-tarriff market share, and that it can be increased if the target is met but I'm just an idiot so don't take my word for it
One of the best parts of the original Fast and Furious is when it came to naming their annual guerrilla desert race series no one in the production process thought "Race Wars" was a bad idea
If it makes you feel better, while I find his interviews innervating I find his writing quite annoyingly tough to read.
Like Parenti speaks simply, and his writing is mostly adapted speeches so he reads easily. While Rockhill shit talks his critical theory background as being bourgeois and obscurantist my experience is he struggles to write outside of that register.
Haven't checked his new book yet though, and I'm still considering it - I hope he's learned to streamline his style.
I read it last year. It's good if you can get by the ways in which anarchists trend toward incoherent stuff like hierarchy. If you can shrug that stuff off there's lots of great weaponry for your args.
Best movies last year surely must have at least mostly been Hollywood flicks. We will look as far afield as once Stellan Skarsgaard film because we've learned who he is recently.
I'm reading Red Plenty with a book club of mostly libs, and my job is to keep my temper down and also know more than everyone else about central planning. ...
If you call yourself a leftist but you're bothered by "Death to AmeriKKKa", then you don't hate AmeriKKKa ENOUGH. ...
Scene from the TV show Arthur where his sister is at the door of his room looking at the sign on the door (edited to say "anti-colonial room, fragility not allowed; western chauvinism is a bad thing"). She (labeled "global north "leftists" (liberals)" responds "That sign won't stop me, because I can't read!
Minute Cryptic - 14 January, 2026
"Original Big Bad Wolf is foremost huffing and puffing creature" (8)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (85,313 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/
Was gonna make a joke about how the 90s were cool bc they had a guy named Joey Buttafuoco and he was like naw I'm gonna rock with this name but then I decided I should look up why he was famous and jfc this guy did not make the 90s cool.
Hard Boiled Is The Most Unhinged Action Movie Of All Time ( www.youtube.com )
Shot
chaser https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6b21ee81-982b-4b80-8807-ab05c9e60936.png
In this house
Angela Yvonne Davis - Novo General Megathread for the 23th-29th of January 2026
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” ...
An op ed in nature thats just complaining about the user experience of using chat-gpt to turn academia into a farce
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 ...
Canadian liberals need to stop being like this.
I can't wait for the American Empire to die so that the liberals can finally eat shit like they have always deserved.
Canada is getting BYD folks, you love to see it ( www.ctvnews.ca )
Canada is dropping the EV tariffs and will be importing 50k Chinese EVs per year. Carney quoted as saying by 2030 an EV in Canada will cost $35k which is a sure shot more affordable than buying the latest $80000 Child Obliterator
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - Novo General Megathread for the 15th-22nd of January 2026
Rosa Luxemburg ...
Sad...
Anyone have any good recs for learning about Cybersyn?
I'm reading Red Plenty with a book club of mostly libs, and my job is to keep my temper down and also know more than everyone else about central planning. ...
The Cards Against Humanity revamp is really weird.
The sign is useless, because Americans are not literate
If you call yourself a leftist but you're bothered by "Death to AmeriKKKa", then you don't hate AmeriKKKa ENOUGH. ...
The New Epstein McCarthyism
https://dersh.substack.com/p/the-new-epstein-mccarthyism
Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025
Today its his Birthday juche-WPK ...
Even cap knew back then
Amerikkka: "You will witness Public Executions and you Will be Happy"
tweto ...
uh oh, the zionist entity is going to get me
in my heart this is the real bari weiss wasting her nazi time reading my tiktok comments ...
Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-7th of January 2026
Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro (far left) and Che Guevara (center), in Havana in 1960. ...