Martin Scorsese on the U.S. Election: “Democracy Could Continue, or This Experiment Could End”

[lovelylaura23]

Martin Scorsese on the U.S. Election: “Democracy Could Continue, or This Experiment Could End” https://t.co/wGhlUQfP55
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 8, 2024
“When we filmed Gangs of New York at Cinecittà, we depicted a violent, bloody 19th century America, with a brutal character - Bill the Butcher, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. People like

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[fauxkaren]

Taking this moment to say that I hate the electoral college with every fiber of my being.

[hallyujah]

mte DEI for small states/rural white voters.

[invisiblegirlx]

It's a relic of slavery and needs to be made irrelevant. Just have the states distribute their ec votes proportionally.

[swissbeauty23]

it truly is the root of all evil

[ty]

He is not lying.

All those rights people are enjoying, including the right to peaceful protest? Slowly will go away.

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[lurkurheartout]

and freedom of speech

[ty]

and I will not be surprised if they chip away at same sex marriage. "Give it to the states" so it can be taken away in half the states.

[anyaroses]

Many already have. Look at all the people who were arrested for protesting for Palestine/against Israel.

[fauxkaren]

I try not to fixate on polling too much but I am weak so... oops. I def look at it more than is good for me.

ANYWAY, I am trying to figure out why Gallego is curbstomping Lake in the Senate race, but Trump is beating Kamala in AZ? WHO ARE THESE GALLEGO/TRUMP VOTERS? Have their brains been examined?

[invisiblegirlx]

Split ticket voting is a thing but I don't think if the senate race is a 10 point spread that the other party will win for president. It's not possible in this climate. Unless Republicans are just going to leave the senate choice blank.

[icetypejim]

a film about violent clashes between immigrant ethnic groups fighting for control of New York and, metaphorically, America.

I get the point he's making here, but in the same way it ends up obscuring the nature of the violence to call what is happening in say, Gaza, a "war" rather than a one-sided campaign of extermination against civilians, it is similarly obscuring the nature of the violence in America to act like the current conflict is a "clash" between ethnic groups, rather than a cohort of varying ethnic groups uniting under the banners of whiteness and white supremacy to one-sidedly terrorize other, more racialized groups of people in the US who are mostly minding their business, but being scapegoated as boogeymen.

[sisterruth]

You're right, but it's a one-liner phrase that's not able to capture any nuance and, to be honest, it doesn't even capture what is depicted in his own film, which is basically an Anglo-Protestant "Native" group versus the other-ized Irish, with the Draft lynch mobs occurring simultaneously and Black Americans being hanged because the Irish feared job competition.

[x_falsetto]

I'm terrified we're in for a repeat of 2016, but worse because Trump is crazier and the supreme court enabled him to basically do whatever the fuck he wants. And that shithead creep Vance absolutely scares the shit out of me, too.

[fauxkaren]

Trump has been showing signs of a pretty steep cognitive decline + the people he is surrounded with now are even worse than who he staffed his 2016 administration with + he's old and could die leaving us with President JD Vance.

President JD Vance.

Let that sink in.

[crawdadddy]

absolutely terrifying

[lurkurheartout]

My mom is terrified of Vance simply because he is so young and he could be around longer and more lethal.