Why I’m not clapping for Luigi Mangione

From Freedom News by Sonia Muñoz Llort

Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty”

The last days have been full of news about Luigi Mangione, the shooter of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson. So far have we have understood that this is a young man from a very privileged background with some mixed political views to say the least.

TOTW - Our Problematic Faves

In the outside world where trees grow and birds sing, young people refer to role models in pop culture who have troublesome characteristics or pasts as "problematic faves."
This is a term that acknowledges an individual's imperfection while still embracing the person as being more than the sum of their shortcomings.

“I’m Not A Marxist, I’m An Anarchist”

from Deadline by Anthony D'Alessandro

The movie, which Östlund bills as his “end of Western Civilazation,” follows a fashion model and her model casting agent partner, played by Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson, who wind up on luxury yacht, the poorest of those setting sail, and are ultimately stranded on a deserted island. Woody Harrelson plays a Marxist captain who gets drunk with a Russian oligarch, reads from the Communist manifesto and sends his yacht into rough waters until the passengers crap and vomit. Talking about how he feels about the character, Harrelson quipped “the character is Marxist. I’m not a Marxist, I’m an anarchist so in that sense we differ.” Then getting serious, “I’m guy who just thinks its abominable when a super power with all this military might with no provocation attacks, unprovoked, a country that is Ukraine,” said the Cheers alum and 3x Oscar nominee about Russia’s war.

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