Michaela | theoretically filmmaker | CA woman now I guess (god I'm 27) | look guys I'm really trying okay | average queer / basic bitch | hmu 🖖🏻
swallow me whole
they told her good friends are like stars: you can't always see them, but you'll always know they're there. she said that this was bullshit. no one can touch the stars and who are we to say that stars are not the loneliest beings in the entire universe
or if they spend their entire existence just dreaming of a single fiery embrace?
better to be a black hole than a star. then you'll never let go of the bones.
god people on twitter are so fucking dumb someone said (correctly) that it sucks that oppenheimer yet again focuses on the emotional experience of yet another tortured white man genius and completely glosses over the people actually impacted or killed by the atrocity of the bomb and the entire process of its creation (literally correct!!!!)
and everyone has been spending the next several days gleefully dunking on them like “oh so you’re mad the oppenheimer film was about oppenheimer? what did you expect?” “you want christopher nolan to make a film centering japanese voices? 🙄 lmao sure that would have gone well” “there is already a huge body of work in japanese cinema made by japanese filmmakers about their experience of the bomb, arguably all japanese cinema since that time had been affected by it, just say you’re personally uneducated and go”
and i’m just like. you are all SO dumb and being purposefully obtuse to dunk on this person and make them sound unreasonable when the actual point is like. we (society) should stop giving american white man cinematic auteur filmmakers massive budgets to make tortured white man biopics centering the emotional experience of what was it like for this tortured white man when he was committing atrocities!!!!!! the point is we’ve made enough of these films! hollywood has been making them forever!!! make something else!!
also everyone conveniently focused on the fact that the original tweet mentioned japanese people bc there is a wealth of japanese cinema about the bomb but they conveniently ignored the other group the original tweet mentioned which was native & hispanic americans who were massively impacted by nuclear tests done in secrecy in new mexico which is something a lot of usamericans aren’t even aware happened let alone something that hollywood is clamoring to make blockbuster films about. and like… yes oppenheimer is tortured on the day of the trinity test because of the existential horror of the bomb and i’m sure this is featured in the film, but that had nothing to do with the fact that the first bomb they dropped was on usamerican soil or with the real physical horrors that he actually inflicted on the usamericans downwind of the test site.
(and the tweet ALSO mentioned interned japanese americans which there ALSO is a dearth of stories about in usamerican media because there is no tortured white man at the center of it, it is just a horrific inhuman thing that the american government did to its own citizens, and the scotus decision that enshrined it in usamerican jurisprudence remains (well, functionally) on the books to this day with a direct straight line drawn to trump v hawaii in 2018. like. no one’s making blockbuster films about this in america despite this being a USAMERICAN story, not one that japanese cinema in japan should tackle, because it is not interesting to hollywood without a famous recognizable figure to place at the center of it. the stain of it is too fucking great and addressing any of this properly would be too “anti-american” so no one is going to touch it. that film COULD NOT and would not get made by any big studios.)
it’s so wild that the only way people can conceive of criticism of oppenheimer (or honestly any film) is within the film’s own existing framework, i.e. a massive blockbuster about oppenheimer directed by christopher nolan on a $100M budget with an insane marketing push (“you want christopher nolan to shoehorn in japanese voices into that??? wtf??? idiot”), rather than as a critique of what kinds of movies get funded and made in hollywood, and which filmmakers get to make films in the american film industry.
ATLANTA — Attorneys for the former chair of Georgia’s Republican Party argue their client shouldn’t be prosecuted for the actions he took to support Donald Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election.
Lawyers Craig Gillen, Holly Pierson and Anthony Lake sent a 13-page letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Tuesday that argued David Shafer’s actions were constitutionally protected and the state lacks the proper jurisdiction to pursue charges.
Shafer, who oversaw the Dec. 14, 2020 meeting where 16 Georgia Republicans cast Electoral College ballots claiming Trump won the election, is a person of interest in the election investigation being handled by Atlanta prosecutors.
Willis is expected to announce indictments in August, and at least half of Georgia’s Trump electors have taken immunity deals, according to court documents.
The district attorney’s office declined to comment on the letter.
The attorneys — who argue that Shafer is protected by the Georgia Constitution as well as the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution — included an “expert declaration” from George Mason University law professor Todd Zywicki.
Zywicki, who has published work on laws governing presidential elections and transitions, said Georgia’s Republican electors “acted in a responsible, proper and lawful manner.”
“Any suggestion that they could be ‘criminal’ ignores legal and historical precedent, the reasoned advice of legal counsel received, and the plain language of the Constitution, federal and Georgia law,” Zywicki wrote.
This is NOTHING like what happened with Hawaii in the 1960 election. That all happened out in the open, and in fact the governor of Hawaii ended up certifying the Democratic slate of electors. In addition, Kennedy had already won the electoral college, so this made no difference in the election.
The fake slate of electors was a covert coup attempt by Republicans that was coordinated through Trump and his operatives across several swing states based on false information about “rigged” elections. In other words, FRAUD.
Other constitutional law professors have rejected the argument that Shafer’s actions were protected. Georgia State University College of Law professor Anthony Kreis said the questions surrounding Shafer are centered around what he knew and how much he knew about the Trump team’s larger plans involving electors rather than constitutional rights. “This is constitutional weak sauce,” Kreis said. “If people make a mistake and they make an honest error in submitting something to the government, it’s not necessarily criminal. But as soon as you have the intent to defraud and as soon as there’s evidence you’re part of a larger scheme… then those innocent mistakes are criminalized.”
Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.
If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.
I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.
