Let's celebrate Marcia Lucas and how she's seemingly erased from history by erasing Leigh Brackett. Man, I hate this nonsense. I mourn the loss of a truly great editor but I don't need to piss on George Lucas and the achievements of everyone involved in his films, to prop up the great job she did.

If they were fans of Marcia Lucas they would care about literally any of her other work besides her star wars work. But they don't because they hate George Lucas.

Threads about not devaluing the work of expert filmmakers that devalue the other expert filmmakers

Where did you address the part where Marcia Lucas herself nixed your whole 'SW was saved in the edit' thesis?

Unless those countries start doing something I feel like their denouncements will not amount to much of anything. Countries have been sanctioned for way less than this and have even gone to war for less as well.

#nzpol should really pay attention

Adding my two cents to this discourse since I've become aware of it in the last hour, what this really boils down to is consumption as praxis. The only perceived effective way liberals have to respond to something under capitalism is to either consume it (endorse it) or refuse to consume it.

This is really the worst fucking thread I've ever seen. Holy fuck.

The US has a pedophile president and the movie thats a monument to a pedophile musician is doing gangbusters. Truly, we are the United States of Epstein

#StarTrekOnline can we get some love for the Cardassians please? We still don't have Cardassian ground weapons. The Galor/Keldon and the Victory is Life Cardassian Intel ships need a remaster. We don't have an omni-directional spiral wave beam array. I want some stories set on Cardassia.

This ceasefire is a positive development. If the US agrees to or abides by every demand, US hegemony in the West Asia region will be officially over. This will also weaken it abroad (East Asia esp.). If otoh this is a ploy to rearm and attack later, the US will still fail.

I read and watched the adaptation to The Martian and thought it was a great story about man overcoming extreme adversity through technical ingenuity but ultimately it's cooperation and self-sacrifice on behalf of others that gets him home. Extremely weird to think as a writer he has no point to make

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

I don't really care for any kind of Firefly/Serenity reboot project. I used to like it back in the day but everything that's come out about it, Joss Whedon especially just soured me on it, Serenity the movie itself was mid and the show itself did not age very well either.

If Netanyahu is dead get ready for some truly insane hagiography by the western media and political class.

This is actually, genuinely, insane. And another manifestation of American exceptionalism, this time in theology. Imagine 'tricking' or 'forcing' God to start Armageddon lol

Just watched an interview where an Iranian gov't official said that Khamenei refused to be moved to a safe location unless 90 million Iranians were moved first. He elected for martyrdom, and the Epstein bourgeoisie played right into his hands. Genuinely inspiring.

Seeing a large uptick in zero or low follower accounts made in the last five minutes reply guying to any post that talks about this conflict, either to do a 'nah uh' 'fact' check or to crow victory. Both here and on Twitter. The ruling class must be panicking. Things are NOT going well.

Fuck this country too. This US State department written 'statement' would have been prepared in advance and shows Albo and his gov't is complicit.

Israel is a terrorist state. If Australia had any credibility it would cease all diplomatic ties with them and expel their ambassador.

If we have any journalists with ethics left, they'd better be asking our "leaders" how much pine gap had to do with this. They should never stop asking

Fuck America and fuck Israel. I hope Iran responds with maximal force that topples this piece of shit fascist empire.

Fascism is not just a personality driven phenomenon. It arises from deep economic contradictions. Social inequality and permanent war policies fuel authoritarianism. Liberal democracy cannot solve the crisis. The only alternative is socialism.

Diablo 2 got its first major content release in 25 years. Kinda bums me out that WW3 might happen before we get the next one 😔

Proof that this was first and foremost a politically motivated endeavour that'll result in a go-nowhere do-nothing conclusion not anything substantive related to the terrorist attack last year.

This is an interesting development coinciding with the decision to charge the embattled nonce formerly known as Prince Andrew

China's space program is legitimately cooking here

Cops with fascial hair

Brisbane.

Social fucking cohesion for Anthony ‘genocide’ Albanese #auspol

“I arrived at Sydney Town Hall to protest against the war criminal invited to Australia. I was given a lesson in how quickly our country can be transformed from a free and fair democracy to a police state. Lines of police blocked every access” #Auspol

free palestine rally opposing herzog’s inexplicable invitation to visit australia parliament house, adelaide, south australia #PalestineRally #FreePalestine #Herzog #auspol

Solidarity with all those protesting genocide on this continent.

A big marker for my petit bourgeois parents' complaints about communism when I was growing up was hearing about shiftless workers and complaining about not being able to bully service staff. These were the 'horror stories' I heard about socialism. Underpinning this is simple entitlement/resentment.

Protesting Herzog's visit is a good and necessary first step. What's going to be the next step?

Solidarity with Minneapolis, standing on the frontline against American fascism, doing it strong, on behalf of all people fighting to be free, fighting for a better way. Good people from those parts. It's nationwide strike time, America, the Democrats are not coming to save you.

Everyone down here has already said it but I might as well add my voice to it: it's really, really QWHITE interesting how an attempted terrorist act on Australia/Invasion Day targeting a First Nations rally has been reported in the press, compared to other similar terror acts.

Fuck Wil Wheaton. He is the Ur-Liberal. Privileged White Man With Opinions, lecturing us on supporting a Flawed US Democracy (that's whisper mode committing a genocide of brown people as we speak). Very much not in the crosshairs of imperial aggression.

It's too hot today *looks at the BoM website* the fuck do you mean it's going to be *hotter* later tonight??? That means it's going to be hottest after the sun goes down!!!

What a line.

When the US collapses what do you think will be the catalyst? Insurrection in Minnesota? Military strikes in Iran that result in rumbled and humbled retaliation across the region? Something stupid in Greenland? EU economic schism? We're living in a paragraph of a history book.

The Labor government’s complicity in these war crimes, genocide & human rights violations damns their party forever, there’s no coming back from this I will hate & oppose them all my days #auspol

This is the same shit Castro, Che, Mao, Chávez, Sankara—and basically every victim of colonialism—have been saying for nearly a century. The western neoliberal world order is cannibalising itself, so now all of a sudden, you’re hearing the same critiques coming from the EU and Canada.

Carney's speech is interesting in that communists have been saying the same stuff for literal years - decades in some cases - like 'rules based order' is a lie, international justice has selective enforcement, if you're 'not at the table you're on the menu' etc. But we've always been ignored.

Me: "I am a Communist." Random western liberal or conservative: "But Communism means violently taking wealth from the rich, abolishing private property, and giving all that wealth away to poor people." Me: "I am already a Communist. You don't have to sell it to me."

I think it is funny that when America does American things Americanly Americans like to blame *foreign influence* rather than a single second of introspection.