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      It did!

      Alan Moore wrote it as a rather pointed excoriation of Thatcher’s Britain

      It’s one of the reasons that Moore distanced himself from the film, because he believed that it made the story too broad to actually have a point

      I don’t disagree with him on that

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    Surprised Tobias still has a twitter account after that one, usually Musk’s MO is to ban folks who dare question is gigabrain intellect billionaire-tears

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      If u want part of that soap opera - go to twitter

      “You should have to post at the personal playground and revenue source of a bad person if you want to talk about a bad person” galaxy-brain

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          Of bad people, containment is better than expansion.

          Because that works so very well with /pol/ on 4chan galaxy-brain

          what does the picture mean ?

          Use context clues to figure it out.

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            Fascists have Zenkai boosts so if you deplatform them they come back 10 times stronger,Please ignore they fact no one talks about Milo Yiannopoulos anymore

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              You’re almost there.

              And, again, where does “containment” actually work on the internet?

              Even if “containment” worked (it doesn’t), you’re not going to force anyone to stop talking about a politically important fascist on an unapologetically political forum, no matter how much that upsets you.

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      The post should probably be in the dunk_tank where people who don’t want to see this kind of thing can just unsubscribe from that comm. But it would be silly and counterproductive to deny people here catharsis and the ability to shit on elon’s delusional fascism (or other any strain of fascism for that matter, regardless of how rich and famous the person expressing that fascism is. ahem.)

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        I understand we are a somewhat enlightened audience, but attention is what created him, and is what sustains him.

        And it trivialises his malevolence, focus on his trolling the gullible.

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          but attention is what created him, and is what sustains him.

          Then why recommend people go talk about him on twitter, where it might actually feed and sustain him in a tiny way, as opposed to here, where he will never know of it? Also, while I do think there are the type of people who thrive on any kind of attention be it positive or negative, it seems clear that elon actually cries, whimpers, and rages inside at being thought of as the pathetic dumbass that he is, and requires the fawning and worship of his sycophants as positive affirmation to maintain his ego against reality, against those who say of him what is true. Talking of his malevolence doesn’t trivialize his malevolence.

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      The man’s face literally looks like a giant fucking tit and I love giant titties and yet I hate even glancing at him

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      I read it when it came out

      Even then I was like “yeah that kinda sucked” and moved on lmao, and i was in middle school

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        i did a middle school presentation on the first book but couldn’t get past the first chapter so i used sparknotes

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          “What if you were better than everyone else and that made you so special that the bad people persecuted you for your specialness?” smuglord

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            I have grown to hate this trope with a passion. Like okay I get it, True Blood came out when gay marriage wasn’t legal in the US. So something something allegory. If you actually had vampire/werewolf/farie powers, you wouldn’t be a persecuted minority. We wish we could turn people gay by biting them, but that’s not how it works. If gay people could fly and lift trucks, they would have never been in the closet in the first place.

            My point is True Blood was at least tolerable for a few seasons. And my tolerance for this shit has worn out. Being non-white isn’t like being in X-Men. The trope is always about white characters feeling persecuted for having super powers. In reality, if white people had special abilities, they’d immediately use it to justify white supremacy and go around killing people without powers. Like they do now with their non-super power.

            “Wow I’m so different I can turn people into frogs and shoot fucking lightning from my eyes and the world just can’t handle someone like me who exists outside the non-ability paradigm an—” no shut the fuck up. Fucking worthless writers and their chosen one bullshit sysysyaidisiebajaassaasdbabvxuwisondnkd

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              I used to be quite a fan of the X-Men series, but around the time the soap opera dragged on and on between Jean, Scott, and Logan, I started to step away, and any time I peeked in, the stories went more and more in a “woe is us, we have awesome powers and the inferiors resent us for it” instead of the older metaphor of “we were born different and many of us don’t want to hide anymore or feel afraid” which was actually a great metaphor for LGBTQIA+ struggles that somehow got lost in the power fantasy sauce over time.

              “Wow I’m so different I can turn people into frogs and shoot fucking lightning from my eyes and the world just can’t handle someone like me who exists outside the non-ability paradigm an—” no shut the fuck up. Fucking worthless writers and their chosen one bullshit sysysyaidisiebajaassaasdbabvxuwisondnkd

              One of the most demoralizing things about contemporary writing for me is knowing that I put so much effort and thought into what I put out there and what I typically see actually getting exposure from algorithmically-driven online publishers is “little did Mary CuteButAwkward know that she was the LAST OF THE STARSEEKERS™ and she has a DESTINY which involves a DANGEROUS BUT HANDSOME PROTECTOR to guide her through a very special world of special people that are better than the inferiors” YA slop.

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                Then you get to the isekai harem slop that infests anime and manga. It’s what sells (merchandise especially), so for every decent show there’s like a dozen “chosen one gets sent to a magic world where he’s overpowered and big tiddy waifus fight over his affection.”

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                  For some reason it especially disgusts me how those incel-pandering treats offer magical escapist worlds without the burdens and suffering of contemporary capitalism… then almost always the isekai protagonist brings the burdens and suffering of contemporary capitalism to that magical escapist world.

                  There’s often layers of “everyone but the isekai protagonist is NPCs so all the cruelty and suffering is okay for real” too. my-hero

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    This is just a shitty version of my meme.

    Mr. Musk I will be seeing you in court for theft of intellectual property.

    btw this motherfucker is the richest man on earth and thinks he’s the scrappy underdog agony-yehaw

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    Musk’s rebel fetishization is disgusting and pitiful. He genuinely seems to believe himself to be oppressed by society, despite wielding immense power over it.

    He’s a Nazi, through and through.