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citizenfour

CITIZENFOUR is a major work on multiple levels, and a deeply unsettling experience. When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time, Poitras brought her camera with her. The result is a 100% real-life espionage story unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

u stupid

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov

now what…

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest […]

Friend-zone…

“Okay Flaming Dragon, friend-zoneface. First, take a big step back… and literally FRIEND-ZONE YOUR OWN FACE! Now I don’t know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you’re trying to pull here, but Asia Jack, is my territory. So whatever you’re thinking, you’d better think again! Otherwise I’m gonna have to head down there and […]

i am ballplayer.

i used to be jact.lift.weights. six feet, two-fifteen, seven percent body-fat… bdus. i used to think that i was elbadass. mountainbiking down jagged cliff faces on thursdays and jump out of planes after stepping out of exotic cars and driving… big trucks. im currenty realizing that this whole time people have been beating the shit […]