Amy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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having seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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She and Tina Fey are standing in sweatshops and laughing.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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Ah, comrade, the depiction of the follies of liberal democratic administration has revolutionary possibilities. The mystified bourgeoisie will regard it as an amusing diversion that reinforces the misbelief that individual autonomy still triumphs over bureaucracy, but real revolutionaries will understand each miniature play as a revelation of how the struggles to humanize an inhumane system only legitimize that system and contribute to the misery of the strugglers.eumaas wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:43pmhaving seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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A truly sad story...
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It's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...eumaas wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:43pmhaving seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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That his treatment of his disabled daughter maybe wasn't the worst thing Joe Kennedy ever did says a lot about how much of a villain he was.
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I was thinking pretty much the same thing as I was reading the book. Rosemary spent the remainder of her life living in a home for the disabled that is about 40 miles from my house in the relatively small town of Jefferson, Wisconsin.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 2:26pmThat his treatment of his disabled daughter maybe wasn't the worst thing Joe Kennedy ever did says a lot about how much of a villain he was.
It's just a really sad book and it is hard to not just get really angry at Joe and even Rose Kennedy.
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I always thought the characters were supposed to be indictments of those viewpoints, but maybe I'm biased.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 2:25pmIt's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...eumaas wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:43pmhaving seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
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At some point the show stops also making fun of Knope and turns into believing in Knope. That's where I jumped ship.Kory wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 3:08pmI always thought the characters were supposed to be indictments of those viewpoints, but maybe I'm biased.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 2:25pmIt's a funny show, albeit one with terrible politics. When your most likable character is a capitalist libertarian...eumaas wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:43pmhaving seen Parks and Rec, counter-revolutionary is accurate.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:36pmAmy Poehler: Counter-revolutionary siren.Silent Majority wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 1:11pmYes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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— Clashy
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That's not an uncommon problem. Understandably, the writers/producers start to like the characters and the tone shifts. The Simpsons really went that way, from a bunch of generally fucked-up and weird people to goofy-but-decent all-Americans. To a lesser degree, in its last season Mad Men shifted the tone to give its characters some kind of happy ending after spending the decade showing them mostly as privileged rats.
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I pinpoint the shift as really happening at the end of the "recall knope" storyline.
In any case, I enjoyed the show. Amusingly written enough that it's lack of political rigor didn't make my brain explode.
In any case, I enjoyed the show. Amusingly written enough that it's lack of political rigor didn't make my brain explode.
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Yeah, I did dig it all the way to the end.
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The shark jumping in P&R occurred for me when it suddenly morphed into a Bildungsroman about April, the real female hero of the show. I loved Ron Swanson, though, and never once got the impression he was anything other than a ridiculous caricature.The time he ate a young girls lunch in order to explain to her how government worked was outstanding comedy.
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I think they definitely softened Ron up over the course of seasons. I'd say he ended up in almost ideologically appealing position: suspicion of centralized power but a commitment to broader social development. It would have been interesting if the writing team had actually had the political acumen to draw that out further.Low Down Low wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 4:51pmThe shark jumping in P&R occurred for me when it suddenly morphed into a Bildungsroman about April, the real female hero of the show. I loved Ron Swanson, though, and never once got the impression he was anything other than a ridiculous caricature.The time he ate a young girls lunch in order to explain to her how government worked was outstanding comedy.
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