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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

Examples of posts that are welcome

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4774626

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The total runtime is about two-and-a-half hours, split into two parts. There are two official YouTube uploads of the film โ€” one which splits the two parts into different videos, and one which stitches them together into one video. I figure it's probably best to go for the two-video upload so we can stretch our legs and take a leak at the intermission.

Plot description from IMDb: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in 1980. A young musician (Bananan) falls for a mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves a 19th Century assassination plot.

I can also mention that this movie has a lot of musical numbers and experimental scenes, and is often looked at as a turning point for perestroika and rock music's position in Soviet popular culture.

Content warnings for I guess age gap romance, there's some very brief man ass in one scene, there's murder and other violence, "moderate profanity", and "mild alcohol, drugs & smoking".

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[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

tonight you mean? Damn. Wish it was any other night. Looks like a cool film

[โ€“] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently Blorptube is migrating to a new host tonight, so depending on whether that whole process gets done by like, I dunno, 1 AM CET, you might get your wish!

Edit: Blorptube is back!

[โ€“] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Due to the delay, we're watching part 2 on Sunday, if you'd like to join then!

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ooh, not sure


what time roughly?

[โ€“] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Presumably 11 PM CET or 5 PM EDT like last time.