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Author & researcher: horror film & literature, contemporary culture, and the ghosts of utopia. UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    Dec 15, 2025
    The Haunted House on Film, an ongoing series.
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    Jon
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    Mar 11, 2022
    ah yes, famously pro-war author *checks notes* Leo Tolstoy
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    Jon
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    Jan 14, 2022
    okay, screw it, let Zizek host the Oscars
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    Jon
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    Jul 1, 2019
    I will be thinking about the words "pro-camp protestors" for a very long time.
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    Jon
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    Sep 13, 2018
    the complete and total inability of these people to conceive of literally any relationship in terms other than an economic exchange is genuinely horrific.
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    The Hill
    @thehill
    Sep 13, 2018
    Bezos to launch network of preschools: "The child will be the customer" hill.cm/vbGuP4H
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    Jun 5, 2020
    Why is every city budget in the USA just the dril tweet about candles but for hyper militarised policing.
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    Ryan Dorsey
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    Jun 5, 2020
    Budget hearings begin Monday morning. Here’s a quick sampling of how your money is proposed to be spent.
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    Dec 9, 2024
    Wrong.
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    Dec 7, 2024
    being on the left means you should hate sports btw
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    Jon
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    May 3, 2016
    Shakespeare understood Twitter trolls better than anyone
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    Jon
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    Nov 10, 2023
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    Sep 4, 2018
    American capitalism totally not resembling a decaying empire.
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    May 24, 2019
    Look, do I think Theresa May was a good prime Minister? No. But do I think we should respect her as a public servant and extend her some sympathy on what must be a difficult day? Also no.
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    Sep 6, 2023
    Reading Brecht again and found this in the uncollected poems from the war years
    To Walter Benjamin who, fleeing from Hitler, took his own life. 

At chess, sitting in the pear trees shade 
Your favoured tactic was to wear the opponent down
The enemy who drove you from your books 
Will not be worn down by the likes of us.
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    Jon
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    Dec 29, 2023
    rest in peace, king.
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    DepressedBergman
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    Dec 29, 2023
    Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky on his 37th death anniversary.
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    Jon
    @TheLitCritGuy
    May 12, 2018
    Existential comics introducing Musk to socialism by owning him publicly: