falgscode
joined 3 years ago
agentic and non-agentic
like context, I too am excited to see this person boil off
objectively the moderate wing of fascism
Like people will be like this guy but fail to make the connection that the current Vietnamese state is literally the north Vietnamese government.
idk that he's failing to make that connection, he's literally flying the flag of South Vietnam compradors behind him talking about 'all those who lost their lives fleeing oppression in Vietnam'. it's a defeated comprador recuperation of Liberation Day, journey to freedom
they're just riffing on their idols in the 
you know, de-escalating through escalating and all that
textbook case of the limitations of satire tbh
also lmao @ that shithead game 'dev' failing to understand what models do
liberals have been pushing great replacement for almost 20 years as well. they just call it 'trends in demographic changes'.
My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I'm kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype.
me irl
imagine writing a 10k word literary critique of that gender essentialism when you were a teen and not once thinking that the essentialism was problematic, but just a faithful re-creation of the source myths. or even once considering the eurocentrist/colonial depictions of the non-whites. couldn't be me
it's a good hate-read. imagine wandering through the psycho-sexual power fantasy of a dyed-in-the-wool randian
but wizard bdsm pet play is a central part of the storyline of the first book (and some/most of the ones after that) which your comment got me thinking about.
yeah, and gendered correctly after that. Jordan shouldn't get credit for this, and it's not necessarily woke, he's just cribbing norse mythology, also not woke.
but in the modern social context the books were written in, not including any jokes/misgendering of the character is notable. also notable that the character that gets this treatment is a villain, and it's a forced feminization done by ~~satan~~saitan as punishment for failure
more like 'she ditzed, ditzily'. I guess it's the same thing
the older I get the more I think Goodkind was just a more self-aware version of Jordan lol