Is japan going to end its lost decades and return to [more independent] imperialism or embrace socialism?
duderium
joined 5 years ago
Brb moving to vuvuzela
Every third white guy looks like vaush.
Source: am white guy
Some AI images I’ve seen are so disturbing, they’re becoming intrusive thoughts.
Sorry but, the treats will END. — JDPON Don
I watched the first season, and I just saw the first episode of the second season, and this was a day after watching the new BBC documentary about settlers in the West Bank. I did notice how the aesthetics of the little patsoc enclave in the last of us match those of the isn’treali settlers; i.e., wearing machine guns all the time, dressing like cowboys, dehumanizing the enemy and blowing them away even when they aren’t attacking you and then laughing about it, living in a walled town, etc.. I only watched this because my younger son was into it, and after the first episode, we watched a little of the BBC documentary together, and he was also shocked at the parallels.
Isn’t it always toilet paper, for Freudian reasons?
We’ve all noticed the r-word making a comeback but even terms like “lame,” "dumb," and "stupid" are ableist and should not be used. Colonial terms like “looting” and “thugs” and “savage” always piss me off. Using the word "dark" to refer to anything negative is obviously not okay.
I can’t stand when people use “child” or “childish” as an insult. No one is easier to radicalize than kids. And it’s not because they’re ignorant or underdeveloped, it’s because they haven’t been propagandized into loving capitalism. Even relatively wealthy kids get very little out of capitalism. Kids are addicted to video games because they have no other control over their lives and are desperate for any kind of escape from this hellhole. Video games provide a world where work actually results in obvious achievements, while the vast majority of humanity is trapped in a world of endless toil with all the results and benefits going to a tiny minority.
It drives me crazy when people say your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25. Bruh our brains never stop changing.
Body-shaming when we all know that beauty is a social construct.
I thought of the prison sequence in the first season of Andor.
The Wire still humanizes cops and barely mentions the racism inherent to policing though. There’s like one racist cop who gets reassigned immediately. The entire show spends maybe five minutes on him. I think the reality of cops is that they are rich, racist, cowardly buffoons who nonetheless follow almost any order. We never see them depicted in this way in any corporate media.
This is one of my friend’s favorite movies. I can’t help liking it even though politically it’s really bad. It’s a white savior movie, pretty similar to Glory, directed by the same guy. at the end when the white guy somehow saves the emperor and the samurai from the emperors’s evil assistant, I can’t help thinking: and then what happened?