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🗓️ 28 February 2024
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0:00.0 | Well, folks, our movie on this episode is a super delegate pick. |
0:04.0 | A plurality, is it a plurality? |
0:06.5 | A segment of... |
0:08.0 | No, it was a majority. |
0:09.0 | It was like 5149. |
0:10.0 | It was like close vote. |
0:12.0 | A majority of a plurality of, you know, through whatever flawed process of democracy we've implemented, |
0:18.0 | our movie on this episode that the superdelegates have chosen is 1998's |
0:22.1 | Ants, Starring Woody Allen. |
0:24.9 | You know, when you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any |
0:30.0 | attention. |
0:30.7 | I mean, how's it possible? |
0:32.0 | This is what the official ideology of the 1990s was. |
0:35.6 | It was like bourgeois liberal individualist. And it's so funny that so many |
0:40.4 | 90s movies, the way they engage with this is not to be like, okay, but the problem is that we have |
0:45.9 | the wrong type of individualism. We have a type that's actually very parochial and is kind of, you know, |
0:50.5 | its parameters are circumscribed by consumerism and by other institutions. |
0:55.7 | Instead, these movies, like, they look at, like, the spiritual desolation of the 1990s, just the |
1:00.6 | fucking wasteland of the 1990s. And, I mean, you know, I feel bad sort of getting all this in |
1:06.4 | at the end of ants, which is a film that I enjoyed a lot more than, like, you know, fucking |
1:10.4 | American Beauty or something like, you know, fucking American |
1:10.9 | Beauty or something like that. |
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