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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • Easily torrented.

    I watched it recently and the film didn’t age well in the current social climate. Good script, great cast, but the story is about a “magic pill” that will make old people young again. That in itself is not a bad thing, but the end of the movie sees all the old people making the selfish decision to leave their loved ones for their own eternal bliss. I know it was supposed to be a metaphor for death and heaven and such, but now it just looks like Me Generation, head in the sand, fuck you I got mine, Boomerism.

    Wilford Brimley’s grandson pleads for him not to go and tries to stow away on the heaven boat. And then Brimley’s like “nope, I choose to never see you again, go fishing by yourself.” If I was a grandpa, every moment with my grandson would be worth giving up an alien immortal orgy. Geez.









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    I might be out of the loop - is this a known fascist, a public figure whose politics we know?

    Either way, he is a Master Sargent in the US Marine Corp. He took an oath to defend the Constitution and not a single person or party. His power is bestowed by the people he is sworn to serve. If he is wearing that uniform with honor, that uniform is most definitely anti-fascist.











  • Thanks to everyone who posts the archive link!

    The why from the article: "According to the German statistical office, the “sharp decline” in car production was in part caused by the later timing this year of annual closures at car plants for holidays, as well as production changeover.

    But a profit warning by German carmaker BMW late on Tuesday was the latest reminder of the industry’s structural challenges as it struggles with the transition to battery cars, weak sales in China, competition from Chinese rivals and US import duties.

    Germany’s economy has been stuck in stagnation for more than three years."