I think the key to appreciating the Knives Out movies is accepting that they take place in a setting where “world’s greatest detective” is something a person can be rock-star-level famous for. Everything proceeds from that. “Oh, but it’s not plausible that the Louvre would let Elon Musk rent the Mona Lisa” like, maybe not in our world, but that doesn’t matter. These folks don’t live in our world. We’re playing by Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe rules here – of course shit like that happens.
listen, if you believe Glass Onion’s message of bashing super rich people is a form of “self”-critique, then you clearly don’t understand who the 1% are.
When Rian Johnson calls out fake Elon Musk in his fun detective movie, this is not an attempt at “self-deprecating humor”. Rian Johnson is “I own nice houses”-rich, he is not “I control nations, wars, economies, and the livelihoods of millions”-rich like Elon Musk is.
Rian Johnson is closer in his wealth to you than he is to Elon Musk, by far.
I am all for holding rich people accountable, I support calling out the Hollywood industry. But we *need* to learn to tell billionaires and millionaires apart, or our criticism of the political system will be fraught.
people in the notes who disagree with this take claim that I must be a Rian Johnson “stan”, because they cannot come up with a single reason why else somebody would point to the disproportionate difference in power between billionaires and millionaires.
To everyone who is willing to listen: nowhere in this post did I absolve millionaires. Nowhere in this post did I say that wealth inequality is a good thing. What I did say was, essentially: It’s billionaires who make the world run like it does, and they will gladly sacrifice millionaires in order to distract us.
We can abolish billionaires AND tax multi-millionaires out of their millions, those two things can and should co-exist.
What I believe is: If all millionaires disappeared tomorrow, nothing would change. The billionaires would simply create new millionaires if it served their agenda.
If all billionaires disappeared tomorrow, it would change the trajectory of the world. Imagine Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos all disappearing without anybody being able to step into their place. Space X? Cancelled. Facebook/Meta and all the connected surveillance tech? Gone. Amazon workers no longer in the chokehold of a monopolist? Unions arise.
If Rian Johnson disappeared tomorrow? It’s a couple obituaries and that’s it. That’s the difference.
man you guys have got to stop getting mad at people for tagging your post as whatever annoying thing. tags used to be sacred. you weren’t supposed to see it. it’s the culture. “Stop tagging this as [character]”. No!! You have no right to make demands on me!! I can do whatever I want in the tags. Just cause Tumblr decided to set up a camera in my house and broadcast it live doesn’t mean you get to make fun of me for going “wheee!!!” when I get into bed it’s my fucking house and my fucking business!!!!!
If you really don’t want to see people’s tags in your activity feed, there’s an option to turn them off:
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EDIT: also I just wanna point out that tag viewing has been a feature included in Missing E and XKit from the start, and Tumblr adding it as a toggleable feature natively was them giving something the userbase has overwhelmingly wanted. If you’re in the percentage that doesn’t want it, you’re in the minority. Just turn it off. There’s nothing wrong with curating your experience on this site. You are not beholden to the way the majority wants it.
seeing daniel craig doing a silly accent and walking about with gay little clothes after being james bond for so long feels like watchignm an old timey gangster who was released from alcatraz after fifty years going on a ferris wheel
never ever underestimate the capacity rural folks have for coming up with creative solutions
But if it’s weight triggered on both ends, what does it actually stop?
Cows
But cows are heavy, surely they’d lift the gate
See those little slats? Cows recognize early on not to step on them or their legs go through.
If you ever seen one of these on a rural road thats why they are there. To keep cows in one area. They don’t have the coordination to cross it. Sometimes you can just paint the lines on the road if cows are used to these cattle guards and they won’t attempt to cross.
That gate up there is very heavy. A cow would have to step on the proper slats with all of its weight for it to open, once it moves it comes back down. 99% unlikely for a cow to get through it
Could not a cow easily walk through this gaping hole in the fence?
