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Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 1:23am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 1:34am

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Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 1:47am

Russell Crowe had a reputation within the Oz film industry as a complete arse from the moment he appeared, BTW.

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 2:18am

Cusack’s Twitter just got hacked by a spammer:

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 2:27am

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Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 2:42am

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Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 2:43am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 2:49am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 3:01am

So much of the Trump phenomenon is about history. Fueling the divide between pro- and anti-Trump camps is exactly the fact that we’ve never had a real reckoning with either our terrible past or our similarly bloody present. The Trump movement culturally represents an absolute denial of our sins from slavery on – hence the intense reaction to the removal of Confederate statues, the bizarre paranoia about the Washington Monument being next, and so on. But #resistance is also a denial mechanism. It makes Trump the root of all evil, and is powered by an intense desire to not have to look at the ugliness, to go back to the way things were. We see this hideous clown in the White House and feel our dignity outraged, but when you really think about it, what should America’s president look like?

Trump is no malfunction. He’s a perfect representation of who, as a country, we are and always have been: an insane monster. Frankly, we’re lucky he’s not walking around using a child’s femur as a toothpick.

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 3:47am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 4:36am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 4:47am

Making use of the Cusack amplifier again:

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 6:08am

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/917130796049338371

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 7:27am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 8:59am

Two perspectives in Australia:

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 10:21am

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 11:43am

I’m sure they’re out there, but some American Akalas would be a very useful thing.

Killer Mike and Ta-Nehisi Coates et al are good in their own way, but I can’t think of a prominent US local who can quite match Akala’s combination of passion, rhetoric and knowledge. The global perspective is unusual.

MalevolentPixy · October 9, 2017, 10:02pm

Wanderfound · October 9, 2017, 10:32pm

MarjaE · October 9, 2017, 11:18pm

Thoughts?