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In the Algorithm We Trust, 2.5 stars. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: HUMANS DO NOT NEED CONSTANT STIMULATION!!

Dinner and a Show, 2 stars. We're all disposable in the spectacle of war.

Bye, Bye Sadness, 2.5 stars. To experience real happiness, we need to experience real sadness. Have we learned NOTHING from Brave New World?!

The Unknown Writer, 2 stars. Unfortunately books don't sell as well as funny dog videos or sex.

We See You, 3 stars. Scary, how quickly we become so desensitized to acts of violence against women, so much so that instead of preventing it, we film it.

Love, the Way God Intended, 4 stars. Why guns and pocketknives are more normalized in schools but than books depicting queer and trans people is beyond me.

A Baby is Born, 4 stars. Whoever thought that capitalism and advertising have a place in parenthood was a freaking idiot.

The Termination Bureau, 4 stars. Absolutely horrific, how the productivity and exploitability of unborn bodies for the state are seen as more valuable than actually living people, who are treated as nothing more than carriers of men's property. This one made me nauseous.

The Crumbling of a Nation, 2 stars. Once the environment is gone and capitalism has won out, every recreation of our prior reality will fall short.

Preparing to Die, 3 stars. Death really is a business.

It Was Just Another Day in America, 3.5 stars. Scarily realistic (both the normalization of gun violence in schools and our country's way of addressing it by integrating police, military bunkers, and guns into every aspect of our lives).

A Million Times Over Again, 2 stars. Soulmate stories are just not my thing.

Amber's Son, 3 stars. Does the United States really need protecting?

Tommy Longhorn, 3 stars. Loved the set-up for a space-exploring alien trying to find the good on Earth, but a mass shooting for the ending?! And a really poorly-written ending, too? Really?

“DC-the city from which grown men and women ordered children to fight battles on their behalf in a land a mil-lion-billion miles away.”

read this bruh