#William Z. Foster

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read desc !

here’s my modern au joncon and his foster kids (l/r: aegon, satin, dany, sam, gilly, and gilly’s kid)

In the au joncon adopts Aegon after Rhaegar dies and then starts fostering kids who were victims of abuse or trauma. He and Dany work at a restaurant called Taste of Essos (based off of those ass amalgomated asian restaurants in suburban areas). Satin works at a thrift store and Sam works at a bookstore and helps the old owner around. Aegon just plays Grand Theft Westeros all day (Joncon bought him a copy of Super Marwyn brothers last christmas and hes mad because hes ‘too old for that dad🙊🙊’) (Super Marwyn brothers was made by @tragedy-peanut-gallery) Aegon is nice but kind of addicted to videogames in the gen z sense. Joncon used to live in Essos and joined the golden company (maybe its a band) and i KNOW he wears his pablo honey shirt everywhere. Satin is a bit zesty and is dating Jon(something joncon is a lil pissed abt since he hates jons uncle) he has an ungodly amount of hailey williams posters and wears skinny jeans and does Dany’s nails every weekend in exchange for her doing his hair and spilling the tea. Dany was taken from an abusive household and gave birth to a stillborn kid at 15 (were aging her up chat) and good lawd this girl suffered alot omfg. she loves to hang out with satin and has a little friend group with margaery loras and sansa. Her main gossip source is varys bc i said so. Sam and Gilly are dating and sam helps raise gilly’s kid (yes its her kid not mances) and they are the sit on the same side of the wendys booth pookie bear type couple and give joncon a headache but he loves them. Sam is a little nerd and loves helping kids w homework around the neighborhood. Gilly loves watching mamma mia with joncon and dany and she loves to knit scarves and hats (this girl needs more personality georgie poo) anyway i love my pookies

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You mentioned at one point that the CPUSA had 100,000 members. Did they ever become a serious electoral threat to FDR or later?

No. They did try, but they never threatened FDR.

The CPUSA did try to torpedo FDR's electoral chances. After flip-flopping on the New Deal for a while, they settled in support of it as part of a Popular Front strategy. This lasted until 1939, when the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. Moscow had directed the CPUSA to not support Polish resistance against Nazism (notably before the Soviets invaded Eastern Poland). After the cash-and-carry system of 1939, Moscow again directed Earl Browder, the general-secretary of the CPUSA, to directly campaign against FDR's foreign policy. But FDR handily won the 1940 election against Wendell Wilkie.

The largest electoral threat the CPUSA posed in the USA was not to FDR but Harry Truman. The Democratic Party was splitting between the pro-integration faction and the Dixiecrats under Strom Thurmond. Left-wing PAC's in the US lined up under the banner of the Progressive Citizens of America, and launched former FDR VP Henry Wallace (fired on 20 September 1946 from the Truman administration due to vocal disagreements with Truman over the Truman Doctrine) as a fourth-party candidate of the newly formed Progressive Party, many of its administrative staff handpicked by William Z. Foster. They hoped to capture the non-Dixiecrat vote and launch their new political party into the White House. While Soviet influence was present to a large degree and foreign policy for the Progressive Party was dominated by conciliatory policies towards the Soviet Union, the disastrous 1946 Midterms and Strom Thurmond also loomed heavily on many left-wing American minds.

However, the 1948 election would not go the way anyone in the Progressive Party suspected. Wallace was openly lavishing praise on the Soviet Union, including complimenting the Dalstroy labor camp. After the Soviets overthrew the Czechoslovak government in a coup, Wallace defended the action and this lost him a lot of popular support. Non-Communist leftists thought Wallace was, at best, a puppet, and either backed Truman or coalesced behind the Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas. This helped to bolster Truman in the polls, as Republican criticisms of Truman as too soft on the Soviets fell flat against the fact that he fired Wallace primarily for his concilatory policies toward the Soviet Union and support of Soviet human rights abuses and expansionism in Europe. The Progressive Party scored a scant 2.4% of votes in the electorate. A revitalized Truman captured the support of most of the New Deal coalition and roared into life, defeating Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election. Ironically, the threat ended up being an electoral boon to Truman, who was able to shore up one of his primary weaknesses. The 1948 election really was wild stuff.

After that, the CPUSA faced a long slide into irrelevance. While the common refrain is that McCarthyism caused the decline of the CPUSA, in truth it faded in 1948 after American attitudes, never friendly to begin with, began to harden. The outbreak of the Korean War made the decline terminal, and by the time of Nagy's Hungarian Revolution, the party had only about 3,000 members.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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Crossover Ships Tournament Contestants

Alright, after putting it off for a bit (due to real life being busy and also I got lazy), I’ve finally gone through and prepared the list of ships for the tournament! Congrats to the lucky 64, and apologies to anyone else whose ship didn’t make it in. I did appreciate every single entry that followed the rules, though, and all the infodumps made me smile!

Before the list, however, I wanna say that this post and the eventual bracket matchup post are going to double as places to post your propaganda via replies and reblogs (or even asks). Going forward, I will use whatever propaganda people add to the posts/send via asks with permission to add as propaganda on the eventual bracket matches. By adding any sort of replies/tags/etc to any further tournament-related posts, you are consenting to having that propaganda added into the tournament. If you are uncomfortable with this, please state it outright on any posts/asks you might send.

Also the rule about fanart for the ships still remains; if you send/provide fanart, please also provide explicit permission from the original artist or proof that you made it yourself. Otherwise, I will not feel comfortable using it in the tournament.

With all that said, let’s meet our 64 ships for the tournament! Please let me know if anything is misspelled or any information is incorrect:

Bayonetta (Bayonetta)/Palutena (Kid Icarus)

Beastman (Masters of the Universe)/Lifeweaver (Overwatch 2)

Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)/Rex Salazar (Generator Rex)

Chibiusa (Sailor Moon)/Kid Trunks Briefs (Dragon Ball Z)

Damian Wayne (DC Comics)/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Miraculous Ladybug)

Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)/Jevil (Deltarune)

Ash Williams (Evil Dead)/Crawford Tillinghast (From Beyond)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How To Train Your Dragon)/Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)/Wolf O’Donnell (StarFox)

Jake Long (American Dragon: Jake Long)/Juniper Lee (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)

JD (Heathers the Musical)/Nathan Prescott (Life is Strange)

Jigglypuff (Pokemon)/Kirby (Kirby)

Johnny Bravo (Johnny Bravo)/Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack)

Leonardo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Yuichi Usagi (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)

Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Miles Morales (Marvel)

Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)/Toriel Dreemur (Undertale)

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera (Ducktales 2017)/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Gyro Gearloose (Ducktales 2017)/Hazel Rainart (RWBY)

Gandra Dee (Ducktales 2017)/Winter Schnee (RWBY)

Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Whitley Schnee (RWBY)

Mogar (Xray and Vav)/David (Camp Camp)

Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron)/Timmy Turner (Fairly Oddparents)

Jane Porter (Tarzan)/Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet)

Max Goof (Disney)/Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Huey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Wakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)

Webby Vanderquack (Ducktales 2017)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Max (Camp Camp)/Phineas Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)/Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet)

Angus McDonald (The Adventure Zone)/Shigeo Kageyama (Mob) (Mob Psycho 100)

Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)/Nepeta Leijon (Homestuck)

Applejack (My Little Pony)/Hol Horse (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders)

Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)/Cinderella (Cinderella)

Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yonder)/Wilt Michaels (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)

Ditzy Doo (My Little Pony)/The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)/Timothy Q. Mouse (Dumbo)

Sam Winchester (Supernatural)/Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)

Bowser (Super Mario)/Dr. Eggman (Sonic)

Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa)/Venti (Genshin Impact)

Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)/Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Alex Mercer (Prototype)/Desmond Miles (Assassin’s Creed)

Adrien Agreste aka Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)/Berry Shirayuki aka Mew Berry (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony)/Shockwave (Transformers Prime)

Floyd Leech (Twisted Wonderland)/Kanata Shinkai (Ensemble Stars)

Skales (Lego Ninjago)/Starscream (Transformers Prime)

Selina Kyle aka Catwoman (DC Comics)/Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s)/Wally Franks (Bendy and the Ink Machine)

Megaman (Megaman)/Pit (Kid Icarus)

Merida (Brave)/Rapunzel (Tangled)

Ange Ushiromiya (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)/Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Stay Night)

Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine)/Cuphead (Cuphead)

Luca Paguro (Luca)/Maisie Brumble (The Sea Beast)

Princess Peach (Super Mario)/Samus Aran (Metroid)

Blossom Utonium (Powerpuff Girls)/Dexter (Dexter’s Laboratory)

Daffy Duck (Looney Toons)/Donald Duck (Disney)

Kefer (Egyxos)/Dragon Shiryu (Knights of the Zodiac)

Gaz Membrane (Invader Zim)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Gregor (Star Wars the Clone Wars)/Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

Sally “Thorn” McKnight (Scooby Doo Franchise)/Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Metalocalypse)

Astro Tenma (Astro Boy (2009))/Wilbur Robinson (Meet The Robinsons)

Apollo (Percy Jackson)/Clark Kent aka Superman (Superman)

Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)/Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

[tokiwarcube]

Masterlist II

Key:

💚= Headcanons 🧡 = Drabble 💜 = Fic (2k+ wordcount) ♦️= SFW ♠️ = NSFW

Nathan Explosion

General NS/FW HC's 💚♠️

Fluff Alphabet (K) - 🧡♦️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

Audience be Damned - 🧡♠️

Pickles the Drummer

Kisses! 💚♦️

The Bad Kind 💜♦️

Rinse and Repeat 💜♠️

Fluff Alphabet (A-Z) - 💚♦️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

Skwisgaar Skwigelf

Kisses! 💚♦️

Dog Dad! Skwisgaar 💚♦️

Someday 🧡♦️

Later 💜♠️

It's all You - 🧡♠️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

High Sex /w Skwisgaar - 🧡♠️

Toki Wartooth

Kisses! 💚♦️

Bathtime 🧡♦️

Velcro 💜♠️

As above 🧡♠️

NS/FW HCs - 💚♠️

Cybergoth! S/O 💚♦️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

William Murderface

NS/FW HCs - 💚♠️

More like Love - 💚♦️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

Date Night Drabble - 🧡♦️

Charles Foster Offdensen

Fluff Alphabet 💚♦️

Contradiction 🧡♠️

Reverence - 🧡♠️

NS/FW HCs - 💚♠️

Relationship HCs - 💚♦️

Something Sweeter - 🧡♦️

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The activities of A.T. Hill during these years provide an example of how many socialists at the Lakehead reacted to the changing circumstances in Canada. Like many, Hill had re-evaluated his ideological position following the end of the Winnipeg General Strike and during the tumultuous years when the One Big Union (OBU) and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) had fought for hegemony in the region. By early 1920, he no longer believed that either the syndicalism offered by the IWW or the variation espoused by the OBU would result in the social change he desired. Travelling to Superior, Wisconsin, where he had worked in the past as a harvester and lumber worker, he enrolled in the American Finnish Socialist Federation’s school. There he and fellow future prominent Finnish Canadian Communists fell under the influence of Emeli Parras, editor of Työmies and secretary of a local unit of the American Communist Party. Parras’s courses spurred Hill to join William Z. Foster and Charles Ruthenberg’s United Communist Party. Shortly after, he became one of its many members who flooded the Canadian borderlands speaking to workers about Leninism and the Communist movement. At first, Communist efforts focused on former IWW strongholds and those towns and regions where growing dissatisfaction with the OBU was greatest. Hill began agitating in Fort Frances, Ontario. Gradually, building on his earlier reputation as an organizer throughout the Lakehead area, he became a leading radical throughout the region. Often pitting himself against William Arnberg, a former organizer for the OBU and now a Wobbly agitator, he argued that the Soviet state, as constructed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, was a necessary precondition for the transformation of capitalism into socialism. Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDPC) activists such as Richard Loughead (also referred to as Lockhead), William Checkley, and Harry Bryan followed Hill in seeing the Communist Party as a way to preserve and develop the radicalism they had developed before 1918.

...

The Worker's Party of Canada [the first name of the Communist Party of Canada] consisted of groups of five to ten members, which, on reaching ten, formed a branch. Two or more branches formed a local that belonged to a subdistrict within a larger geographically designated district. Theoretically, each group possessed an elected “Organizer,” and these in turn formed the “Branch Executive Committee.” This committee elected a “Branch Organizer,” who in turn led the formation of a “Local Executive Committee.” The committee’s representative, a “Local Organizer,” joined with others to form a Sub-District Committee that, along with any “Language Section District Committees,” acted on the District Committee that sent a representative to the Central Executive Committee of the party.

Unfortunately, this structure rarely worked as planned. The highly centralized structure envisaged by Communists came up against the deeply rooted realities of ethnic and regional politics. Adequate organizers were often difficult to find and the more successful ones tended to be moved to those regions deemed most important. Factionalism also emerged almost immediately. Rooted in the differences that had existed among the organizations before the founding convention, it would form a consistent thread through the 1920s and early 1930s, often manifesting itself in the ethnic differences that existed within the new party.

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The CPC leadership focused on consolidating its position within the Canadian left and establishing party unity. This was no small task, considering the disparate elements brought together under its umbrella. By 1922, most of the Socialist Party of Canada’s membership had joined the new Workers’ Party of Canada. Disillusioned members of the OBU, the SDPC, and the IWW joined from all parts of the country. Very early on, the various ethnically based language organizations that had once been associated with the SDPC and the OBU became the backbone of the WPC. Owing to their strength, language sections with a certain level of autonomy were established to stave off the divisions that had plagued the SPC and the OBU in earlier times. One of the earliest language sections to be formed, and the one with the greatest influence at the Lakehead, was Finnish.

Hill’s election to the nine-person provisional executive in December assured both the legal and illegal parties of affiliation with the FOC. He figured prominently in the formation of the first Finnish Socialist Section of the WPC, was integral to the Finnish Organization of Canada’s [FOC] decision to affiliate directly with the WPC in 1922, and assisted in its reorganization on a club basis. In the months following the formation of the WPC, Hill and other well-known socialists, such as Alf Hautamäki, began making periodic trips to Northwestern Ontario, extolling the virtues of the Comintern and scouting locations for potential branches.

Hautamäki is an intriguing character who, in many respects, is symptomatic of the Finnish socialist experience. Nothing is known of his life before he appeared in Ontario lumber camps in the early 1920s as an organizer for the fledgling Lumber Workers Industrial Union of the One Big Union. Like many Finns, he appears to have migrated from Finland in search of work, but with a strong belief in socialism, particularly the version emanating from revolutionary Russia. Following the OBU split in 1920 and the formation of the CPC in 1921, Hautamäki joined as an organizer. He quickly rose to prominence as a leading member of the FOC and editor of the Toronto-based Finnish Communist newspaper Metsätyöläinen (the Lumber Worker). He became head of the CPC’s powerful lumber workers’ union, and the leading Communist figure at the Lakehead. Within the twin cities and in the surrounding countryside, he was just as well known for his worker-poetry and plays that focused on topics such as lumber camp life, love, strikes, and alcoholism. His plays were frequently performed in Finnish halls from Sudbury to the Manitoba border. Hautamäki’s story ended just as mysteriously as it began. He disappeared from the record in the mid-1930s, like so many migrant Finnish workers during the period. In keeping with his personality, the meetings that Hautamäki organized with Finnish socialists at the Lakehead in the early 1920s were open and frank. They included members from the Finnish Support Circle of the OBU, with which many of the Communists had joint memberships. In February 1921, through a morphing of the Finnish Support Circle and the Finnish Association, a branch of the FOC was formally re-established and immediately affiliated with the WPC. Although the FOC would join “in its entirety as the Workers’ Party Finnish Section in February 1922,” many Finns preferred in 1921 to affiliate only with the Trade Union Educational League, a “non-partisan trade union auxiliary, interested only in the ‘renovation’ of a declining trade union movement.” The Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA) also eventually affiliated with the WPC, and constituted the second largest ethnic section, after the Finns. Formed in late 1917 by Matthew Popovich and other Ukrainian socialists as the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party, by 1919 the Winnipeg-based organization had established a number of branches in Northern Ontario and western Canada. Its strength remained, however, in the Rocky Mountain mining region and in the cities of Winnipeg and Edmonton. The spread of the ULFTA had been hampered during the final years of the First World War when the Canadian government declared it an “illegal Bolshevik Organization.” When it re-emerged in the early 1920s, it did so slowly and cautiously, often choosing to infiltrate existing organizations. Such was the case at the Lakehead. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, Ukrainian socialists chose to work through the Winnipeg-based Workers’ Benevolent Association (WBA). Just months after the establishment of the WBA in Winnipeg, a branch appeared in West Fort William. A second branch followed in April 1923 and a third, in Port Arthur, by April 1926. As indicated by Popovich’s role as its president, a connection between the WBA and the ULFTA existed from the start. Not surprisingly, shortly after the ULFTA’s affiliation with the WPC, the WPC used the WBA as a beachhead within the Ukrainian community. Ukrainians associated with the ULFTA at the Lakehead would reflect the national composition of the CPC and form the second-largest regional group, after the Finns."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 92-96.

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HOW THE IMF KEEPS AFRICANS POOR

Financial rights activist Alex Gladstein dissects the IMF’s African operations in this video. Drawing on the case of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he reveals a pattern of the IMF appointing its own officials to oversee African treasuries, fostering export-led economies, devaluing local currencies and striking deals with dictators.

This is the same playbook allegedly at work in Kenya. Protesters accuse the government of destroying the country’s future by selling out to the IMF’s neocolonialist agenda. Kenya’s tech-savvy and well-educated Gen Z is leading the charge against financial imperialism - coming out en masse repeatedly to denounce proposed tax hikes that the IMF is urging President William Ruto to adopt.

Their resistance to the so-called Finance Bill - basically, the country’s draft 2024 budget - has seen it already watered down in parliament. Now, the protests have evolved into a call for the US-leaning Ruto to drastically change direction and curb wasteful spending by the government.

Regardless of political, social, and religious differences, Kenyan citizens have united in rejecting the treasury’s budget. They point the finger at the IMF for the significant tax hikes. The international lender has injected a substantial $3.5 billion in loans into the East African nation, but these funds come with strings attached. Some US Congress members were even in Kenya’s parliament, monitoring progress on the Finance Bill.

Could the determined efforts of Kenya’s Gen Z mark the beginning of the end of their country’s economic exploitation?

[derekfoxwit]

The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1951-1979)

Here is Part 3 of my “Best Picture My Way” series. The last two are found here. My stipulations can be found in Part 1.

For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.

Also, if you’re wondering why there are more years listed here than the other two, that’ll be answered in the next part.

1951

Rashomon - Minoru Jingo

Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder

A Place in the Sun

Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock

A Street Called Desire

1952

High Noon

Forbidden Games - Robert Dorfmann

Singing in the Rain - Arthur Freed

Moulin Rogue

The Quiet Man

1953

Roman Holiday

From Here to Eternity

Shane

The Big Heat - Robert Arthur

The Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder

1954

On the Waterfront (still)

Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

The Caine Mutiny

Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock

Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray

1955

Marty (still)

The Night of the Hunter - Paul Gregory

Rebel Without a Cause - David Weisbart

The Long Grey Line - Robert Arthur

Mister Roberts

1956

Tea and Sympathy - Pandro S. Berman

The Ten Commandments

Giant

The Killing - James B. Harris

The Searchers - Patrick Ford

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai (still)

12 Angry Men

Nights of Cabiria - Dino De Laurentiis

Witness for the Persecution

The Seventh Seal - Allan Ekelund

1958

Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati

Touch of Evil - Albert Zugsmith

Auntie Mame

The Defiant Ones

1959

Ben-Hur (still)

Anatomy of a Murder

North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock

Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder

The Diary of Anne Frank

1960

The Apartment (still)

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock

Elmer Gantry

The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges

The Alamo

1961

West Side Story (still)

Through a Glass Darkly - Allan Ekelund

The Hustler

Judgment at Nuremberg

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Martin; Jurow; Richard Shepherd

1962

Lawrence of Arabia (still)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Willis Goldbeck

The Longest Day

1963

8 1/2 - Angelo Rizzoli

The Great Escape - John Sturges

Lillies of the Field

America, America

Cleopatra

1964

Mary Poppins

Dr. Strangelove

My Fair Lady

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Mag Bodard

Woman in the Dunes - Kiichi Ichikawa; Tadashi Ono

1965

The Sound of Music (still)

Doctor Zhivago

A Patch of Blue - Pandro S. Berman; Guy Green

Darling

Ship of Fools

1966

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof?

A Man for All Seasons

The Professionals - Richard Brooks

The Sand Pebbles

A Man and A Woman - Claude Lelouch

1967

Persona - Ingmar Bergman

The Graduate

The Jungle Book - Walt Disney

In The Heat of the Night

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

Oliver!

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Rosemary’s Baby - William Castle

1969

Midnight Cowboy (still)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Z

The Wild Bunch - Phil Feldman

Easy Rider - Peter Fonda

1970

Patton (still)

M*A*S*H

Five Easy Pieces

Love Story

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Marina Cicogna; Daniele Senatore

1971

The French Connection (still)

The Last Picture Show

McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Mitchell Brower; David Foster

A Clockwork Orange

Fiddler on the Roof

1972

The Godfather (still)

The Emigrants

Cabaret

The Heartbreak Kid - Edgar J. Scherick

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Serge Silberman

1973

Cries and Whispers

The Sting

The Exorcist

American Graffiti

Paper Moon - Peter Bogdanovich

1974

The Godfather Part II (still)

A Woman Under the Influence - Sam Shaw

Chinatown

The Conversation

Blazing Saddles - Michael Hertzberg

1975 (kept the same)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (still)

Barry Lyndon

Dog Dag Afternoon

Jaws

Nashville

1976

Rocky (still)

Taxi Driver

Network

Mikey and Nicky - Michael Hausman

All the President’s Men

1977

Annie Hall (still)

Star Wars

The Goodbye Girl

Eraserhead - David Lynch

3 Women - Robert Altman

1978

The Deer Hunter (still)

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Express

Days of Heaven - Bart Schneider; Harold Schneider

Dawn of the Dead - Richard P. Rubinstein

1979

Apocalypse Now

All That Jazz

Manhattan - Charles H. Joffe

Alien - Gordon Carroll; David Giler; Walter Hill

Kramer vs. Kramer

[purpleboytournament]

Round One Polls

Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs William Afton (Five Nights At Freddy's)

Waluigi (Mario) vs Grimace (McDonalds)

Spyro vs Jeff Wiggles (The Wiggles)

Spike (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) vs James (Pokemon)

Willy Wonka (Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory) vs Slam Tasmanian (Loonatics Unleashed)

Professor Plum (Clue) vs Adam West's Batman (Batman)

Purple Crewmate (Among Us) vs Prince

Tinky Winky (Teletubbies) vs Thanos (Marvel)

Ultra Lord (Jimmy Neutron) vs Barney The Dinosaur (Barney And Friends)

Cheshire Cat (Alice In Wonderland) vs Skeletor (He-Man)

MewTwo (Pokemon) vs Hawkeye (Marvel)

Chowder (Chowder) vs Zumbah (Boobah)

Count von Count (Sesame Street) vs Ferb (Phineas & Ferb)

Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome To Night Vale) vs Randall (Monsters Inc)

Bob (Animal Crossing) vs Purple Link (Legend of Zelda: Four Swords)

Kokichi Oma (Danganronpa) vs Espio the Chameleon (Sonic The Hedgehog)

Souma Kanzaki (Ensemble Stars!!) vs Stan LaVey (Monster Prom)

High Geologist Shaggy (Tumblr) vs Darkwing Duck (Darkwing Duck)

Ichimatsu Matsuno (Osomatsu) vs Gengar (Pokemon)

Beerus (Dragon Ball) vs Austin (Backyardigans)

Darius Deamonne (The Owl House) vs Lotor (Voltron Legendary Defender)

Nagihiko Fujisaki (Shugo Chara) vs King Amethar Rocks (Dimension 20’s A Crown of Candy)

Stacy/Stacaesar (Zenkaiger) vs Kafei (Legend of Zelda)

Virgil Sanders (Sanders Sides) vs Purpled (DreamSMP)

Jason Grace (Heroes of Olympus) vs Gerard (Monster Prom)

Repliku (Kingdom Hearts) vs Aaravos (Dragon Prince)

Purple Yam Cookie (Cookie Run) vs Eduardo (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)

Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach) vs Nidoking (Pokemon)

Gen Asagiri (Dr. Stone) vs Purple Pieman (Strawberry Shortcake)

Essek Thelyss (Critical Role) vs Ryuga “Shark” Kamishiro (YuGiOh Zexal)

Gentoku Himuro (Kamen Rider Build) vs Dionysus (Hades)

Frank "Doc" DuFresne (Red VS Blue) vs Fujitora (One Piece)

Mike Afton (Five Nights At Freddy's) vs Kaito Momota (Danganronpa)

Weyoun (Star Trek Deep Space 9) vs Shockwave (Transformers)

Lelouch Vi Britannia (Code Geass) vs Enderman (Minecraft)

Big The Cat (Sonic) vs Cyclonus (Transformers)

Marx (Kirby) vs Ramattra (Overwatch)

Kurloz Makara (Homestuck) vs Kratos (Tales Of Symphonia)

Shinsou Hitoshi (My Hero Academia) vs Marv (Going Under)

Tallest Purple (Invader ZiM) vs Leone Abbacchio (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Liam de Lioncourt (Monster Prom) vs Kamui Gakupo (Vocaloid)

Mayoi Ayase (Ensemble Stars!!) vs Genya Shinazugawa (Demon Slayer)

Alois Trancy (Black Butler) vs Lucifer/Hanzo Urushihara (Devil Is A Part Timer)

Rick Shades (Epithet Erased) vs Evillustrator (Miraculous Ladybug)

Frank Zhang (Heroes of Olympus) vs Taako (Adventure Zone)

Therion (Octopath Traveler) vs Yuri Leclerc (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Shinobu Sengoku (Ensemble Stars!!) vs Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)

Henry (Fire Emblem: Awakening) vs Klug (Puyo)

Juan The Small Magical Latino Cat (Monster Prom) vs Ravio (Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds)

Louie the Lilac (Batman 66) vs Prince Kanata (Go Princess Precure)

Epel Felmier (Twisted Wonderland) vs Adonis Otogari (Ensemble Stars!!)

Chase (Kamen Rider Drive) vs Trunks (Dragon Ball Z)

Rosho Tsutsujimori (Hypnosis Microphone) vs Rui Kamishiro (Project Sekai)

Galvatron / Megatron (Transformers) vs Orphaner Dualscar (Homestuck)

Tedd Verres (El Goonish Shive) vs Lewis Pepper (Mystery Skulls)

Preminger (Barbie Princess & The Pauper) vs Mason 'Siris' Wu (Red VS Blue)

5 (BFB/XFOHV) vs Jiang Cheng (Mo Dao Zu Shi)

Kumon Hyodo (A3! Act! Addict! Actors!) vs Purple (Animation vs Minecraft)

Chu Chu (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs Goliath (Gargoyles)

Star Platinum (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Caius Ballad (Final Fantasy)

Wakiya Murasaki (Beyblade Burst) vs Henchman (Cuphead)

Narancia Ghirga (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Reo Mikage (Blue Lock)

The Arcanist (Flight Rising) vs Hino Eiji/PuToTyra (Kamen Rider OOO)

Face (Nick Jr.) vs Prince Humphrey (Harpy Gee)

Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios (Star Wars Rebels) vs Kars (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Prince John (purple outfit edition) (Adventures Of Robin Hood 1938) vs Prince Humperdinck (purple outfit edition) (Princess Bride)

Cooler (Dragon Ball Z) vs Skull (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Dabi (My Hero Academia) vs Skywarp (Transformers)

Ryuutaros (Kamen Rider Den-O) vs Sebastian (Stardew Valley)

Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko) vs Aroma (Go Princess Precure)

Erin Ruunaser (Aurora) vs Endrance (.hack//G.U.)

Xerxes Break (Pandora Hearts) vs Mr. Kat (Kid vs Kat)

Bonnie (Five Nights At Freddy's) vs The Purple People Eater

Hawkmoth (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Fire Emblem)

Sonic (One Punch Man) vs Atsushi Murasakibara (Kuroko no Basuke)

Eridan Ampora (Homestuck) vs Juandissimo (Fairly OddParents!)

Fear (Inside Out) vs Akira Otoishi (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Emperor Zurg (Buzz Lightyear) vs Soundwave (Transformers)

Gamzee Makara (Homestuck) vs Shaun Gilmore (Critical Role)

King Dice (Cuphead) vs Prowler (Into The Spider-Verse)

Asgore (Undertale) vs Miguel Barragan/Bunker (DC Comics)

Mollymauk Tealeaf (Critical Role) vs Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)

Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Tarantulas (Beast Wars)

Shuu Tsukiyama (Tokyo Ghoul) vs Nelson (LEGO Ninjago)

Parado (Kamen Rider EX-AID) vs Cyno (Genshin Impact)

Vaati (Legend of Zelda) vs Mafuyu Asahina (Project Sekai)

Ai / Dark Ignis (Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains) vs Huntsman (Lego Monkie Kid)

Kirune (Cevio) vs The Wizard (Stardew Valley)

Yesod (Lobotomy Corporation) vs Blinky (The Hatchetfield Universe)

Pocketcat (Fear & Hunger) vs Professor Purple (Gloomverse)

Garry (Ib) vs Sara Toujou (Confession Executive Committee)

Ongo (Jelly Jamm) vs Damien Ramsey (Magical Diary)

Me (Baba Is You) vs Luntik (Luntik)

Purble (Flight Rising) vs Chiko (Kikoriki)

Kanatsune Ame (Entropic Float) vs Penn Guindel (Dreaming Mary)

Cockroach Boy (Nekra Psaria) vs Wally (Kikoriki)

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When a rich man’s son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Tom Mullen: Mel Gibson Katherine Mullen: Rene Russo Det. Jimmy Shaker: Gary Sinise Agent Lonnie Hawkins: Delroy Lindo Maris: Lili Taylor Sean Mullen: Brawley Nolte Clark Barnes: Liev Schreiber Cubby Barnes: Donnie Wahlberg Miles Roberts: Evan Handler Agent Kimba Welch: Nancy Ticotin Agent Jack Sickler: Michael Gaston Agent Paul Rhodes: Kevin Neil McCready David Torres: José Zúñiga Jackie Brown: Dan Hedaya Bob Stone: Allen Bernstein Wallace: Paul Guilfoyle Fatima: Iraida Polanco Roberto: John Ortiz Reporter Guest: A.J. Benza Nelson: Peter Anthony Tambakis Agent Sam: Daniel May Wong News Reporter: Donna Hanover FBI Agent: Anton Evangelista Cop #1: Joe Bacino Cop #2: Carl S. Redding Cop #3: James Georgiades Cop #4: Christian Maelen Cop #5: David Vadim Bank Manager: Michael Countryman Science Fair Coordinator: Cheryl Howard Science Fair Judge: James Ritz Radioman: Craig ‘Radioman’ Castaldo Liquor Store Cop: Joseph Badalucco Jr. Liquor Store Perp: Dell Maara Man at Party: Mike Hodge FBI SWAT Team #1: Mick O’Rourke FBI SWAT Team #2: Henry Kingi Jr. FBI SWAT Team #3: Roy Farfel FBI SWAT Sniper: Lex D. Geddings Don Campbell: Todd Hallowell Film Crew: Director: Ron Howard Screenplay: Richard Price Screenplay: Alexander Ignon Producer: Scott Rudin Original Music Composer: James Horner Director of Photography: Piotr Sobociński Editor: Mike Hill Editor: Daniel P. Hanley Casting: Janet Hirshenson Casting: Jane Jenkins Production Design: Michael Corenblith Art Direction: John Kasarda Costume Design: Rita Ryack Set Decoration: Susan Bode Tyson Second Unit Director: Todd Hallowell Producer: Brian Grazer Stunt Coordinator: Jeff Ward Stunts: Mic Rodgers Stunts: Peter Epstein Stunts: Paul Bucossi Stunts: Gregg Smrz Stunts: Andy Duppin Stunts: Steve Mack Stunts: Don Picard Stunts: Manny Siverio Stunts: Keith Leon Williams Stunts: Elliot Santiago Stunts: Norman Douglass Stunts: Cheryl Wheeler Duncan Stunts: Jophery C. Brown Stunts: Bill Anagnos Stunts: Tim Gallin Stunts: Jim Lovelett Stunts: Janet Paparazzo Stunts: Scott Wilder Stunts: David S. Lomax Pilot: Robert ‘Bobby Z’ Zajonc Pilot: Alan D. Purwin Pilot: Al Cerullo Pilot: Joseph R. Brigham Unit Production Manager: Carl Clifford First Assistant Director: Aldric La’Auli Porter Second Assistant Director: William M. Connor Production Supervisor: Michelle Morrissey Camera Operator: Bruce MacCallum First Assistant Camera: Jay Levy Second Assistant Camera: Christopher Norr Steadicam Operator: Larry McConkey Camera Trainee: Jennifer Stuart Still Photographer: Lorey Sebastian Video Assist Operator: Peter A. Mian Sound Mixer: Danny Michael Boom Operator: Andrew Schmetterling Cableman: Anthony Starbuck Assistant Editor: Guy Barresi Assistant Editor: Richard Friedlander Assistant Editor: Glenn Allen Assistant Editor: Joe Binford Jr. Location Manager: Jan Foster Second Second Assistant Director: Jeffrey T. Bernstein Script Supervisor: Eva Z. Cabrera Production Coordinator: Liz Newman Assistant Production Coordinator: Miriam Schapiro Assistant Production Coordinator: Eric Jacobson Unit Publicist: Julie Kuehndorf Production Accountant: Michael McCormick First Assistant Accountant: Louise DeCordoba Payroll Accountant: Kathy Welch Post Production Accountant: Liz Dykhouse Chief Lighting Technician: Russ Engels Best Boy Electric: Michael F. Burke Electrician: James C. Walsh Electrician: John Smith Electrician: Walter Fricke Jr. Electrician: Robert Connors Electrician: Doug Dalisera Rigging Gaffer: Ken Connors Key Grip: Dennis Gamiello Best Boy Grip: Brian Fitzsimons Dolly Grip: Edward W. Lowry Grip: Michael Finnerty Grip: Martin Lowry Grip: Richard C. Montgomery Jr. Grip: Gerry Lowry Grip: John Ford Rigging Grip: John Lowry Property Master: Tommy Allen Assistant Property Master: Diana Burton Supervising Sound Editor: Anthony J. Ciccolini III Dialogue Editor: Louis Cerborino Dialogue Editor: Bitty O’Sullivan-Smith Dialog...

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Raila and Ruto to Address Gen Z Concerns.

National Dialogue Initiated by Raila and Ruto to Address Gen Z Concerns: A Step Towards Unity and Progress In a significant move towards fostering unity and addressing the concerns of the younger generation, political leaders Raila Odinga and William Ruto have agreed to initiate a national dialogue. This dialogue aims to tackle pressing issues highlighted by Gen Z, marking a pivotal moment in…

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Assigned Reading List for Psychopaths (that want to read and learn to do other things good too)

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time / The Universe in a Nutshell (Steven Hawking)

Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

Something Deeply Hidden (Sean Carroll)

The Philosophy of Time (Robin Le Poidevin)

The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)

The End of Everything (Katie Mack)

Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)

The Swerve (Steven Greenblatt)

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

Not “A Nation of Immigrants” (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

Caste (Isabel Wilkerson)

The Fox Wife (Yangsze Choo)

The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)

Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Marquez)

tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)

A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)

The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)

Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)

Lolita (Nabokov)

The End of Alice (A. M. Homes)

Exquisite Corpse (Poppy Z. Brite)

Tampa (Alissa Nutting)

Cows (Mathew Stokoe)

The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

White Fang (Jack London)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

Paradise Lost (John Milton)

The Crucible (Arther Miller)

Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Sabrina (The Graphic Novel) (Nick Drnaso)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)

The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)

Aesop’s Fables (Aesop)

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)

[hamidthepro]

Charting Success: 8 Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs in 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of entrepreneurship, staying ahead of the curve is paramount to success. As we navigate through the dynamic challenges and opportunities of 2024, entrepreneurs need to arm themselves with knowledge, inspiration, and innovative strategies. To aid in this pursuit, we've curated a list of the eight best new books for entrepreneurs to read in 2024, offering a roadmap to success in the digital age.

1. "Disruptive Innovation: Harnessing the Power of Change" by Sarah Johnson

In this groundbreaking book, Sarah Johnson explores the concept of disruptive innovation and its transformative potential for businesses. Drawing from real-world examples and cutting-edge research, Johnson provides actionable insights on how entrepreneurs can leverage disruptive technologies to propel their ventures forward.

2. "The Growth Mindset Blueprint: Unlock Your Potential for Success" by David Chen

David Chen delves into the psychology of success in "The Growth Mindset Blueprint," offering practical strategies for cultivating a growth mindset in entrepreneurship. Through inspiring stories and actionable advice, Chen empowers readers to overcome obstacles, embrace challenges, and unlock their full potential for growth and achievement.

3. " 7-Figure agency mindset" by Hamid Mahmood

Hamid Mahmood, a luminary in the digital domain, has been orchestrating a transformative wave in the online business sphere. With a discerning gaze for opportunities and an unwavering commitment to innovation, he has solidified his position as a trailblazer in the industry. As a Digital Consultant, Hamid's expertise defies conventional limits, steering companies toward triumph with his astute insights and progressive approach.

Embark on an enlightening voyage through Hamid Mehmood's magnum opus, "7 Figure Agency Mindset A-Z." This literary gem is a guiding light, ushering readers from conceptualization to the zenith of success. Laden with invaluable insights and strategic acumen, Hamid's narrative unveils a roadmap tailored for aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals alike. Each chapter serves as a beacon of inspiration, beckoning readers to unravel the enigma behind achieving unmatched success in entrepreneurship.

4. Thriving in a Remote World" by Alex Smith

As remote work becomes increasingly prevalent, Alex Smith explores its implications for entrepreneurs in "The Future of Work." Smith offers practical advice on building and managing remote teams, fostering collaboration, and leveraging technology to thrive in the new era of work.

5. "Purpose-Driven Leadership: Inspiring Change and Impact" by Jessica Patel

In "Purpose-Driven Leadership," Jessica Patel explores the role of purpose in driving organizational success and creating positive societal impact. Through compelling stories and actionable insights, Patel demonstrates how purpose-driven leadership can empower entrepreneurs to build meaningful businesses that make a difference in the world.

6. "The Innovation Playbook: Strategies for Creating a Culture of Innovation" by Mark Williams

Mark Williams presents a playbook for fostering innovation within organizations in his book "The Innovation Playbook." From ideation to execution, Williams outlines practical strategies for creating a culture of innovation that drives growth, inspires creativity and ensures long-term success.

7. "Financial Freedom: Building Wealth and Security for the Future" by Rachel Lee

In "Financial Freedom," Rachel Lee provides a comprehensive guide to building wealth and achieving financial security as an entrepreneur. From budgeting and investing to entrepreneurship and passive income streams, Lee offers practical advice for navigating the complexities of personal and business finance.

8. "Resilience: Overcoming Adversity and Bouncing Back Stronger" by Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson explores the power of resilience in entrepreneurship in his book "Resilience." Through inspiring stories and actionable strategies, Johnson demonstrates how resilience can help entrepreneurs overcome adversity, navigate uncertainty, and emerge stronger in the face of challenges.

In conclusion, these eight new books offer invaluable insights, inspiration, and strategies for entrepreneurs looking to succeed in 2024 and beyond. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your journey, these books serve as essential guides for navigating the ever-changing landscape of entrepreneurship and achieving your goals.

[crossovershipstournament]

CROSSOVER SHIPS TOURNAMENT BRACKET

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Finally, the bracket for the Crossover Ships Tournament is here! I'm so excited to finally get this tournament going, so I'll keep this short and get to the match-ups, with a quick reminder that will be included on the polls themselves as well:

That being said, let's get to the match-ups:

SIDE 1:

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera (Ducktales 2017)/Clover Ebi (RWBY) VS Gregor (Star Wars the Clone Wars)/Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS JD (Heathers the Musical)/Nathan Prescott (Life is Strange)

Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)/Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) VS Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)/Toriel Dreemur (Undertale)

Ange Ushiromiya (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)/Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Stay Night) VS Max Goof (Disney)/Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)/Jevil (Deltarune) VS Astro Tenma (Astro Boy (2009))/Wilbur Robinson (Meet The Robinsons)

Damian Wayne (DC Comics)/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Miles Morales (Marvel)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)/Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet) VS Jimmy Neutron (Jimmy Neutron)/Timmy Turner (Fairly Oddparents)

Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine)/Cuphead (Cuphead) VS Johnny Bravo (Johnny Bravo)/Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack)

Mogar (Xray and Vav)/David (Camp Camp) VS Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Whitley Schnee (RWBY)

Ash Williams (Evil Dead)/Crawford Tillinghast (From Beyond) VS Skales (Lego Ninjago)/Starscream (Transformers Prime)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How To Train Your Dragon)/Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians) VS Jane Porter (Tarzan)/Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)/Wolf O’Donnell (StarFox) VS Webby Vanderquack (Ducktales 2017)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Chibiusa (Sailor Moon)/Kid Trunks Briefs (Dragon Ball Z) VS Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa)/Venti (Genshin Impact)

Applejack (My Little Pony)/Hol Horse (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders) VS Jake Long (American Dragon: Jake Long)/Juniper Lee (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)

Princess Peach (Super Mario)/Samus Aran (Metroid) VS Kefer (Egyxos)/Shiryu (Knights of the Zodiac)

Alex Mercer (Prototype)/Desmond Miles (Assassin’s Creed) VS Gandra Dee (Ducktales 2017)/Winter Schnee (RWBY)

SIDE 2:

Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)/Timothy Q. Mouse (Dumbo) VS Max (Camp Camp)/Phineas Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)/Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony)/Shockwave (Transformers Prime)

Daffy Duck (Looney Toons)/Donald Duck (Disney) VS Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yonder)/Wilt Michaels (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)

Jigglypuff (Pokemon)/Kirby (Kirby) VS Merida (Brave)/Rapunzel (Tangled)

Leonardo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)/Yuichi Usagi (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles) VS Megaman (Megaman)/Pit (Kid Icarus)

Floyd Leech (Twisted Wonderland)/Kanata Shinkai (Ensemble Stars) VS Adrien Agreste (Chat Noir) (Miraculous Ladybug)/Berry Shirayuki (Mew Berry) (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)/Rex Salazar (Generator Rex) VS Bayonetta (Bayonetta)/Palutena (Kid Icarus)

Gyro Gearloose (Ducktales 2017)/Hazel Rainart (RWBY) VS Sally “Thorn” McKnight (Scooby Doo Franchise)/Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Metalocalypse)

Blossom Utonium (Powerpuff Girls)/Dexter (Dexter’s Laboratory) VS Angus McDonald (The Adventure Zone)/Shigeo Kageyama (Mob) (Mob Psycho 100)

Selina Kyle (Catwoman) (DC Comics)/Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) VS Apollo (Percy Jackson)/Clark Kent (Superman) (Superman)

Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)/Cinderella (Cinderella) VS Huey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Wakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)/Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) VS Gaz Membrane (Invader Zim)/Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Sam Winchester (Supernatural)/Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) VS Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s)/Wally Franks (Bendy and the Ink Machine)

Ditzy Doo (My Little Pony)/The Doctor (Doctor Who) VS Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)/Nepeta Leijon (Homestuck)

Bowser (Super Mario)/Dr. Eggman (Sonic) VS Beastman (Masters of the Universe)/Lifeweaver (Overwatch 2)

Luca Paguro (Luca)/Maisie Brumble (The Sea Beast) VS Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)/Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

The tournament will begin proper sometime over the following weekend (07/01 - 07/02). I should have a more specific day and time by tomorrow!

[neurathsboat]

Unstorying the Organizer

To be honest although I have a rough idea about what this paper project will be, the core argument is still very hard to articulate. The general sense that there’s a lingering attachment to the modern Subject and the storying of it in social movement space is interesting, but how does it manifest in the cases I am looking at? Yesterday I revisited an episode of the Laborwave Radio entitled “How to Revive the Labor Movement”. In there the host, Alex Riccio, mentions his article on Organizing Work that critiques the popular idea of “militant minority” , particularly the one articulated by William Z Foster, within contemporary US labor movement and how it limits mass mobilization. In the similar vain of Jane McAlevey’s idea of “deep organizing”, he holds that unionism is ultimately about organizing a militant majority. While McAlevey’s work focuses more on a critique of professionalism and minority union leadership style that equates unionism with rights advocacy, Riccio looks at the “radical” side of the minoritarian spectrum. It seems like the main critique here is well summarized in the following:

“The primary problem with the militant minority tendency is it misunderstands the central premise of unionism, which is that in order to win meaningful gains as the working-class it’s necessary to organize a militant majority. Unionism, in this way, requires one to adopt an attitude that believes in both the capacity of any ordinary worker and their ability to change over time.”

So a couple things are worth highlighting here. First, the militant minority view themselves as the intellectual vanguard, with superior analysis and strategies over the mass. Second, they don’t believe in mass capacity to grow and develop, thereby advocating for bypassing the mass to win through some sort of party politics at the top. Thirdly, they don’t think mass power is necessary for the cause, not to mention an end in itself in this liberation work. What worries me is that without concrete description of what this points to, his critique lumps together different models of organizing: militant rank-and-file organizing, liberal labor advocacy, community reformist organizing, opportunist communist caucus, and populist business unionism, etc.. The “militant minority” under critique here is a weird and contradictory combination of characteristics of the others, but the differences and similarities here are important enough that I think are worth exploring. To begin with, it is a cliche to critique business unionism in the US at this point. The problems of political defeatism, concessions, and neutralization of class antagonism need not be further elaborated. More often than not, critics of this post-depression cooption amidst rapid unionization focus on this method’s intentionality: perpetuating and stabilizing imperialist-capitalist system instead of waging class wars against the ruling elites. What’s simultaneously addressed is the way business unionists organize their shops, until the recent decades. With increasing attention paid to the corruption, bureaucratization, centralization, and hierarchization of labor unions, particularly as organizers collectively reflected upon the industrial union defeats in the late 20th century till today in the US, there is a general call for union democracy in today’s labor unionist discussions.

So two things are at stake here, organizing method on the one hand, and organizing objective on the other. Various competing alternatives are organized around a matrix of these two axises roughly listed in the chart below. A lot of participants in these strategy discussions imagined themselves to be in a space of agency and narrative self, one that allows them to live and enact stories they tell through these debates. What troubles me is more often than not, the arbitrary boundaries between the stories they setup are not helpful in thinking about the differences in organizing styles. And “radical” “deep organizers” often too readily and easily fall into the other categories without acknowledging it themselves.

My goal here is not to argue that one is better than the others, but to observe the common storytelling habitus shared among all these organizing philosophies and practices. That is, they all inhabit a certain persistence of the modern Subject, one that despite its vulnerabilities, hope for and insists on its autonomy. Instead of going down the rabbit hole of the structure versus agency debate, which thousands have exhausted, I want to think along with da Silva about how the condition of possibility for discourses on agency overdetermines the discourses themselves. The problem lies in the organizer identity, whose volitionalism and beliefs in meritocracy create a specific and ungeneralizable sample of individuals. Essentially, it seems to me that the performances of debate in these differentiation of strategies exceed the cognitive dimension and cannot do without a careful look at the affective undertone. These stories all aspire to create certain versions of the human that fits within the labor movement. And behind the stories there is the common message, “My story is better than yours because it leads to wins, it’s more ethical, and/or it centers and enacts justice.”

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Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 1/28/2018

TW LW ARTIST – SONG

1 2 H.E.R. – FACTS (1 week @ #1) 2 1 Tom Misch – SOUTH OF THE RIVER(3 weeks @#1) 3 5 Miguel/Travis Scott - SKYWALKER 4 4 Jhene Aiko – WHILE WE’RE YOUNG 5 6 SZA - WEEKEND 6 3 Roy Davis Jr./Preven Everett – GABRIEL (LIVE GARACE MIX) 7 7 Ne-Yo – ANOTHER LOVE SONG 8 8 Stefflon Don/French Montana – HURTIN’ ME 9 10 Syd – ON THE ROAD 10 11 Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated, & Valleyz – PINE & GINGER 11 9 Jax Jones/MNEK – HOUSE WORK (3 weeks @ #1) 12 12 Jessie Ware - MIDNIGHT 13 21 Kelly Clarkson – LOVE SO SOFT 14 13 SZA/Travis Scott – LOVE GALORE (3 week @ #1) 15 14 Major Lazer/Travis Scott/Camila Cabello/Quavo – KNOW NO BETTER (4 week @ #1) 16 26 Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign – SOMETHING NEW 17 15 The Weekend – ROCKIN’ 18 16 GoldLink/Brent Faiyaz/Shy Gizzy – CREW 19 19 Selena Gomez – BAD LIAR 20 34 Sam Smith – TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES 21 17 KDA/Tinashe – JUST SAY 22 18 Calvin Harris/Pharrell Williams/Katy Perry/Big Sean - FEELS 23 23 Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - LOYALTY 24 24 Kanye West – REAL FRIENDS 25 35 Bonobo/Innov Gnawa – BAMBRO KOYO GANDA 26 38 Bryson Tiller – SOMETHIN TELLS ME 27 20 Thundercat/Michael McDonald/Kenny Loggins – SHOW YOU THE WAY 28 31 Chip/Ghetts – GETS LIKE THAT 29 39 Lil Uzi Ver/Oh Wonder – THE WAY LIFE GOES 30 22 DJ Khaled/Jay-Z/Beyonce – THE SHINING (4 weeks @ #1) 31 41 Empire of the Sun – ON OUR WAY HOME 32 33 Dan Auerbach – MALIBU MAN 33 25 French Montana/Pharrell – BRING DEM THINGS 34 27 Russ – LOSIN CONTROL 35 42 Kendrick Lamar/Zacari – LOVE. 36 28 The Killers – THE MAN 37 29 Ten City – THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS (UNDERGOUND MIX) (1 week @ #1) 38 46 MGMT – HAND IT OVER 39 30 Kraak/Smaak/Cleopold – ALONE WITH YOU 40 32 Zedd/Troye Sivan - PAPERCUT 41 50 St. Vincent – LOS AGELESS 42 36 Spoon – CAN I SIT NEXT TO YOU 43 37 The Arcade Fire – EVERYTHING NOW 44 44 Rihanna – LOVE ON THE BRAIN 45 40 Grizzly Bear – MOURNING SOUND 46 43 Foster the People – DOING IT FOR THE MONEY 47 45 Solange/Lil Wayne – MAD 48 47 Dan Auerbach – SHINE ON ME‘ 49 --- N.E.R.D./Rihanna - LEMON 50 --- Bruno Mars/Cardi B – FINESSE (REMIX)

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Celestial Chemistry: Exploring the Optimal Horoscope Combinations for Love Marriages

Introduction

Love, the universal force that transcends boundaries, has been a topic of fascination for centuries. In the realm of astrology, the alignment of celestial bodies is believed to influence various aspects of our lives, including love and relationships. While astrology doesn't dictate our choices, it can offer insights into compatibility and dynamics between individuals. In this blog, we'll delve into the astrological factors that constitute the best combinations for love marriages, providing a nuanced perspective on the role of the cosmos in matters of the heart.

Also read - Decoding the Secrets of Jaimini Astrology: A Journey into Vedic Astrology's Hidden Gem

Understanding Love Marriages in Astrology

Love marriages, where individuals choose their partners based on mutual affection and compatibility, have become increasingly common in modern society. In astrology, the dynamics of love marriages are explored through the study of the planets, signs, houses, and aspects that influence the romantic connection between two people.

Harmonious Sun and Moon Signs

The Sun sign represents one's core identity and ego, while the Moon sign signifies emotions and instincts. Harmonious Sun-Moon combinations, such as Sun signs that are compatible with the Moon signs of potential partners, indicate emotional understanding and mutual respect. This harmony lays a strong foundation for love marriages.

Venus: The Planet of Love

Venus, often called the planet of love and beauty, plays a pivotal role in romantic relationships. When Venus is well-placed in the birth chart and forms positive aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine) with another person's Venus or personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mars), there's a natural attraction and alignment of values, fostering a deep emotional connection.

Mars and Passion

Mars, the planet of energy and desire, influences our approach to passion and sexuality. When Mars aspects are in harmony between two individuals, there's a balance between assertiveness and receptivity, creating an exciting and harmonious romantic connection.

Mercury: Communication and Understanding

Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful relationship. Mercury, the planet of communication and intellect, influences how well two people understand and communicate with each other. Positive Mercury aspects facilitate open dialogue and mental compatibility, contributing to the success of love marriages.

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Shared Interests and Aspirations

When the Sun, Moon, Venus, or personal planets of one individual fall into the same astrological sign or house of another person's birth chart, it suggests shared interests, values, and life goals. These shared aspects contribute to a sense of unity and understanding, fostering the growth of a deep and lasting bond.

The Composite Chart

The composite chart, created by combining the birth charts of two individuals, provides insights into the dynamics of the relationship itself. Planetary placements, aspects, and house positions in the composite chart offer a unique perspective on the strengths and challenges of the relationship, giving a holistic view of the potential for a love marriage.

Case Studies: Famous Love Matches

Exploring the astrological charts of famous couples who have had successful love marriages can provide valuable insights. For instance, the compatibility between Beyoncé and Jay-Z is characterized by harmonious Venus and Mars aspects, indicating a strong romantic and sexual connection. Similarly, Prince William and Kate Middleton's composite chart shows compatibility between their Sun and Moon placements, indicating mutual emotional understanding.

Cultivating Love Beyond Astrology

While astrology can offer valuable insights into love marriages, it's important to remember that compatibility is multifaceted. Factors like mutual respect, effective communication, shared values, and personal growth are essential for a successful relationship. Astrology serves as a tool for self-awareness and understanding, helping couples navigate challenges and celebrate their unique bond.

Conclusion

Astrology, with its rich tapestry of planets, signs, and houses, provides a captivating lens through which we can explore the dynamics of love marriages. While it doesn't determine our choices or guarantee the success of a relationship, astrology offers valuable insights into compatibility and the potential for a deep and meaningful connection. By examining harmonious Sun-Moon combinations, Venus and Mars aspects, shared interests, and the composite chart, we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the celestial influences at play in matters of the heart. Remember that love is a journey that requires effort, understanding, and mutual respect—qualities that extend beyond the stars and into the depths of the human experience.

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