StuporTrooper [he/him]

If you don’t steal from your boss, you’re stealing from your family.

“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Min

This is actually hilarious.

This needs more love.

:liberalism: We need a strong Republican party! They’re reasonable people.

Kurzed gatz was crying in the comments “actually I’m a small business owner and I listed sources.”

But we don’t see any affects of that. The Metal Bending police aren’t shown oppressing non-benders. The Council isn’t shown making decisions that favor benders. They aren’t shown doing anything really other than responding to the Equalists. It’s a purely liberal understanding of government where representation is all that matters, aesthetics.

For instance the victory for non-benders is shown to be having an (I think elected) non-bender president. But what actually changes from that? Metal Benders are still the police, benders are still the military. My complaint is that they only show the surface level, which is why the Equalist movement feels so hollow.

I wish Korra actually showed that life was worse for non-benders. Other than the one scene with the gangsters Korra fights in episode 1, we don’t see at all how benders are the ruling class. We should have had scenes of proles walking to work while waterbenders surf past on a magic wave and drench them all in slime water. We should have seen non-benders struggle for warmth in their apartment that doesn’t have power, while a firebender lights a cigarette outside. Or a bricklayer breaking their back while an earth bender walks by and casually tosses it aside as a joke. Instead it seemed like most benders tooks care of most public utilities: metal police, electricity bending power grids, water bending healers. Give the Equalists a good reason to fight, don’t just cop out with “there are gangsters who bend.”

Another one I hate is that Disney basically told us that Movie Thanos’s* ecofascist plan was right and worked but is still bad. In Endgame society hasn’t full on collapsed from the sudden death of half the planet, people are just sad.

Falcon and the Winter Soldier is far worse. It starts with the premise that the Earth was better for the five years after the Snap. There was housing and food for everyone! Everyone banded together! Not like there were terrible structures in place which would have perpetuated inequality and famine in favor of greed.

And the pseudo-Anarkiddies** who are the villains preach about the communal good, giving power back to the people, etc…then bomb a random building because reasons. Plus the Anarkiddies’ reasoning doesn’t exactly make sense. They were people who enjoyed the 5 years with half the planet dead, but they got moved into concentration camps when the rest of the people came back? Wouldn’t it make way more sense to keep people where they were, then have the newly houseless people returned from the dead be put in concentration camps? No, because we have to have the main villains say “Thanos is right”. Which in the fiction of the universe, he was.

*Comic Thanos’s plan was way cooler. Killing half the universe wasn’t his major plan, it was just a thing he did on a whim because he wanted to impress Lady Death. Dude was crazy and it didn’t even work. Rational eco-fascist nut face from the movies is #notmythanos.

**Love for my anarchist comrades, was one once. But it’s funny call these pseudo-anarchists kiddies.

What they’re going after is just not their right.

People having individual choices can’t be sacrificed for the greater good, c’mon. Definitely no hidden ideology in there.

Had to look this up, and I guess eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia haven’t fallen off like I assumed. But I will say I’m glad that the beauty standard of women starving themselves has at least decreased. I’m not shaming skinny women, but when I was growing up in the 2000s it seemed like eating disorders were glamorized and endemic to women. Genuinely feels like women in the west are at healthier weights now, but I don’t have data to support that.

California is the most hated state.

Should it really be “damnthatsinteresting” if it’s not at all a shock revelation?

Unfortunately “ending dependency on Russian Oil” is already a talking point with neoliberals. And it’s an argument for more fracking.

The original Digimon is about the death of imagination and childhood innocence in a capitalist system. Before the jump into the digiverse, they live in 90s Japan (Tokyo maybe?), it’s all grey tones, and every one of the children’s parents is distant, many of them because of issues of capitalism. The Digiverse provides a literal escape from 90s capitalist Japan, but also a mental escape from the monotony of growing up to reproduce capitalism. No I will not elaborate, and Wizardmon goes hard.

Lindsay Ellis’s shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven’t appropriated Mel Brooks’s lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Nazis do not love “Springtime for Hitler” in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don’t have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.