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Tina Melquist
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TMtinamelquist.bsky.social

It was actually PG and regularly shown in its entirety on network TV after its release in theaters.

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Coincidentally, it was another Steven Spielberg film, Indiana Jones, and the Temple of Doom released in 1984, in which a guy rips out another man’s beating heart, that provoked the creation of PG-13. As someone who was not quite 13 in 1984, I remember this distinctly.

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TMtinamelquist.bsky.social

It was only PG. It came out in 1982, before the invention of PG-13.

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Why does Harris keep doing things that may appeal to persuadable voters when they frustrate those who are definitely going to vote for her?

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Lord. What did I miss now?

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TMtinamelquist.bsky.social

And that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t push within the system for a change of some policies (e.g., arms embargo) and force Bibi to get arms from somebody else. And morally, I do believe that would be the right thing to do. But it doesn’t stop the genocide. And shouting is a complete waste of time.

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They can’t. Honestly, I don’t even think the protesters during Vietnam did much good. They just pissed people off and gave Nixon the presidency in 1968. It was the daily reading of the names of dead US soldiers that eventually stopped our involvement, nothing to do with dead Vietnamese or Cambodians

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TMtinamelquist.bsky.social

Please ditch X and come here instead

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this mythical republican party vance keeps describing that cares about things like child care and health care is interesting to me as a lover of alternate history scifithis mythical republican party vance keeps describing that cares about things like child care and health care is interesting to me as a lover of alternate history scifi

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I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.

What Is Fascism?
The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Tina Melquist
@tinamelquist.bsky.social
I know I need a new profile pic, but I only recently downloaded this app and am not sure how “me” I want to be on it. (If you can’t tell I’m not a bot, that’s on you.)
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