the new batch of love for john mulaney here on tumblr has got me thinking how critical costume design is once again. john mulaney is a good comedian, but so much of his power comes from how his humor plays off how he’s dressed. we don’t expect a man dressed like a 1960s news announcer, all clean scrubbed and tight-wound professional, to describe in minute detail the visit where a doctor shoved a hand up his ass. imagine any iconic john mulaney set but given in jeans and a t-shirt, and is it as funny? i don’t think so. his humor spreads like wildfire on this website because the image of a man in a buttoned-up shirt and a tie and slicked back hair with fairly narrow lapels on his three-piece suit is fucking hysterical when paired with “years later I’d be in college about to go down on some
rockin’ twink and i’d be like what would leonard bernstein do”
well I do recall a comedian telling about how he accidentally joined the russian mafia on a school trip in college, and this was made more believable by the fact that he was shirtless with a beer belly while telling this story
i have no fucking clue what to even say about this like this is just absolutely stupefying
this is why i will always make fun of vegans
Chelsea Manning. Committed. Treason. She put American lives at risk. This is a fucking joke.
She exposed war crimes you fuck, including video of the US military killing journalists (some of whom were Americans to follow your point) and civilians including children, showed the awful conditions and tortue of the prisoners in Guantanamo (again including children as young as 13 and journalists), and revealed the civilian deathtoll from Iraq and Afghanistan to be in the 100,000’s
American lives are not inherently more valuable than any other. It is not treason to expose the crimes of your government; blind, obediant patriotism is much more harmful as it allowed the US to put even more of its citizens into a war zone to die.
Even then, none of what she leaked endangered a single troop on the ground as none of the files had anything to do with current military operations.
As Chris Hedges eloquently writes in his book Wages of Rebellion:
“Manning, if we had a functioning judiciary, would have been a witness for the prosecution against the war criminals she helped expose. She would not have been headed, bound and shackled, to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
But the government effectively shut down Manning’s defense team. The Army private was not permitted to argue that she had a moral and legal obligation under international law to defy military orders and to make public the war crimes she had uncovered. Because the documents that detailed the crimes, torture, and killing that Manning revealed were classified, they were barred from discussion in court, and so the fundamental issue of war crimes was effectively removed from the trial. Manning was forbidden to challenge the government’s unverified assertion that she had harmed national security.”
Some other things to consider:
*Manning was prevented from presenting her motives to the court- that could only be raised at the time of sentencing but we all know that’s too late
*The restrictions placed on her and her defense team prevented Manning from using the Nuremberg Principles in her favor – principles created post world war II by the United Nations to determine what constitutes war crimes
* Had she been able to appeal to the Nuremberg Principles she would have been set free since under them military orders do not exonerate you from committing war crimes
*Empirical evidence now shows that Manning’s actions did not harm the U.S.’s empire building, war-loving ways
So besides being innocent she was fucking shafted by this twisted, servile to the military industrial complex judiciary system we have that so many of us are proud of. This country is pathetic.
y’all know moonlight is a black gay film. not a “queer poc” film. right?
And I’m a Greek Lesbian. Anyone calling me or anyone what there aren’t will be lynched… oh wait thats wrong? taking this shit to its logical conclusion to uts extreme but inevitible end? division is bad? I’m a person more than anything? The fact I’m human is more important than any race, sexual orientation, or gender? That dividing people is actually the enemy of peace and getting along? I’m fucking done. I’m done with your blog I’m un-following you. I’m sick of you and the rest of tumblr using identity politics to divide people into smaller and smaller groups to make us unable to vote as one and actually make a difference. The Republicans own this country from the smallest elected positions to the presidency, and yet you attack the Democrats the weak the people who are trying to help. Why? I get that it’s frustrating but attacking those who are trying to help drives us away not brings us closer. You want to make progress? Do it without me or without my vote, because I for one do not want to fight over which group is the most oppressed anymore.
liberals are dealing with a lot of political cognitive dissonance rn
Specificity, especially when it comes to recognition of accomplishments, is important for visibility to happen. It is not divisive. Notice OP didn’t say that queer poc films are bad or that those generalized groups are bad. They were saying that we should give proper crest where credit is due.
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