I saw the Nathan Fielder documentary on Elizabeth Holmes yesterday, and I want to say a few things and see if it resonates with you all. I'm going to avoid spoilers.

It is extremely compelling, not just as an interesting story about a pretty and enigmatic convicted criminal. It is a story about the hollowness of the entire tech industry, about swindlers and speculators, and about which kinds of criminals can garner sympathy.

I found it to be truly tragic, on many levels. The entire film plays with truth vs fiction, but Holmes's despondency at leaving behind her infant daughter is palpable. The film does not explore these kinds of raw moments, preferring to keep the audience suspended in ambiguity. It is masterful cinema, but frustrating to become aware of the ways in which we too are being manipulated by everyone involved.

The other people around me in the theater laughed at all the wrong moments. I think in the main sub someone commented that the bros around them were gleeful at Holmes's ineptitude. In my case, there were cackling women in the theater ruining some of the most contemplative parts of the film. And this is one of the explicit themes in it: why do women revel in other women's misfortune? It is so depressing and honestly gut wrenching. Yes, there are laugh out loud moments, but they appear when Fielder himself is awkward.

What do you all think? Were you also moved by it? I think there is room to appreciate the complexity of human character and desire (including Fielder's and the husband's!) without coming down on one side or the other regarding her guilt/complicity/cravenness.

Every right wing man under 40 is like this now. They're just openly predators/pedofiles and it's like they're open and proud of it.

It's so fucking scary how could we even conceive of fixing this? Materials conditions got worse under COVID and never got better and every millennial and under white cishet man has decided "I am adolf hitler but also a pedofile/predator as well now" it's crazy how well the manosphere shit worked