thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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1·4 years agoDisney has been in bed with the military since WW2. Part of the reason Captain Marvel was even made is because they did a huge ad campaign for the Air Force and the DoD lent them locations to shoot. Iron Man was still under Paramount when it was made and released. By Iron Man 2 he goes completely Libertarian and literally says “I’m tired of the liberal agenda” in regards to philanthropy and stuff. It’s also about the Air Force getting a badass Iron Man suit which is actually more responsible because Tony was being a dick and a drunk. A military officer stole his suit and they never confront that ever again in the series. Other than some throwaway line about how if Tony didn’t actually want Rhodes to have it, he would have set a different password. Which actually doesn’t help their image as much as they think. Blaming the individual for not protecting themselves against eminent domain is pretty cringe.
Winter Soldier doesn’t ever criticize the military with the Hydra thing. All the CIA people stand up for Cap while the evil Hydra mercs hold them hostage. Project Insight is revealed to be a Hydra plot and not the kind of status quo mass surveillance and drone warfare that everyone in government is fine with. Cap’s line about how “This isn’t security, it’s fear” or whatever falls flat in the face of that.
The Marvel movies can sometimes give the illusion of a greater commentary, but it’s just a writing sleight of hand. It never actually challenges anyone’s beliefs or makes a real statement other than military good.
That being said I don’t dislike the Marvel movies like a lot of other leftists. They’re hit and miss but there are some good ones.
0·4 years agoIt’s just nonsense with key words thrown in to make it sound insightful.
- Most people are unaware and do no care about gender politics. Because most people are not online dweebs like the people who regularly visit 4chan. The entire world turns without caring about these issues that are most pressing to 4channers.
- Autonomic means something happening you’re unaware of. So they’re saying “most people are unaware of the feedback loops they’re unaware of.” But throwing in autonomic sounds good and they probably read “autonomic intelligence” in some trash rant on /pol/ or some pop sci article about AI.
- Word salad. the unconscious intelligence controlled market is moving to content marketing and that means narratives and narratives are bad because I have a 4th grade understanding of philosophy. Hey, it’s all narratives. A biology book is a bunch of narratives. Materialism is a narrative. Everything we know about the world is a story we tell ourselves. This guy is literally writing a narrative and praising a narrative from a video game while lamenting how everything is narratives.
- Blames the lack of shared cultural narrative, aka lack of homogeneity, and corporate idolatry. These are idealistic conceptions of what’s happening. In other words, they view things happening based on ideology (diversity) and bad religion (idolatry) rather than material conditions. It’s not the profit seeking nature of corporate entities that’s the problem, it’s the individuals who worship corporations. It’s not that the only way to make money creating content, is to create content that sells. And if the desire isn’t there, it’s not that companies create the desire through marketing. It’s the SJWs trying to erase ‘cultural identity’ aka not suck off the Western Canon in every bit of media or artistic pursuit. It’s a child’s view of the world.
- As others pointed out, the “This is why SJW stuff is hitting hard…” line is absolutely stupid. This is someone who can recognize corporate overreach and how media is a problem, but they attribute the wrong causes and even the wrong outcomes. Companies relying on an experiment to predict the markets creates a nightmare of world economies relying on hearsay from dumb machines and everyone having to pretend it’s right just so everything doesn’t come crashing down. Then there’s hypernormalisation (pretending I didn’t get that from Curtis) where world leaders create a false reality rather than acknowledge the real complexity of the world. Those combined means SJW stuff happens? Bananas.
- “I’m not saying it’s going to be Terminator, but it’s going to be Terminator”
- “People have their lives contextualized by inhuman machinations” so fucking close to getting it. It’s not even funny. Then hard curve away from class consciousness into absolute ahistorical nonsense about religion being diminished.
- What bizarre way of thinking. Nazis and Commies are fanatics who would be in monistaries living peacefully if we just had a more culturally homogeneous society. And if the world was broken up in to many homogeneous societies. And we had pure capitalism (aka no communism). If we had no communism, a shared cultural identity, no SJW stuff, proper segregation, then of course Nazis wouldn’t have had to do the holocaust like the algorithm told them. They could have been like nice fanatical monks. But the computers that made the false autonomic systems forced them to eliminate all that stuff from their society.
- Muh russia. Muh russia + Adam Curtis + crypto fascism + vidya channer. What a confused individual. This is what happens when you don’t know shit and are trying to piece together a cohesive world view from tons of media. All the while being very careful to not actually learn anything, just memorize a bunch of…narratives that you can string together into incoherent rants about how the world really works.
- Russia has avant garde propaganda. China censors. The US simply has too much information flowing freely. loving every laugh. No mention of one of the largest and most active intelligence agencies/propagandist in the world. Talk about narratives. The US is just too pure.
- “I want mass violence to happen, for the people causing the SJW stuff to be harmed by a mob, so I can watch from my computer screen and feel like I’m in a cool cyberpunk world. Just like my vidya Deus Ex.”
This person is insufferable. The good news is that they probably don’t bother many people with this outside of 4chan.
By buying into the brutalism = oppressive society shit you’re buying into a chud framing of beauty. Join a gang for that, chump. Go wank over an ionic column.
1·4 years agoEven in the US colonies, it was mushroom ketchup. I don’t think tomato ketchup became a thing until the 1800s.
Communism and killing lots of birds, name a better match.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/my-first-helping-of-canada-goose/246881/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/d75n8z/we-should-be-eating-more-canadian-geese
https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-eating-goose
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pa-food-bank-director-would-welcome-ny-goose-meat
Nearly 1,700 Canada geese were rounded up and gassed last year. This year the goose meat will be sent to Pennsylvania food banks.
This is the real “Americans used a $1M dollar pen, Soviets used a pencil” story that should be going around.
It is actually a cool and okay thing to wish death on certain people.
Trump lived a life of luxury you or anyone you know will never experience. His life has been tremendously easy. He fell backwards into unimaginable wealth and power simply because he was born to the right family. He has already lived a life longer than 3/4 of my grandparents. Even if he died choking on fluids right now, his life was still more comfortable than you or your kids lives will ever be. There is zero (0) reason to feel bad over people wishing him death, unless you really think God would strike someone else down for your personal callousness. In that case, why not celebrate?
Yeah but you gotta have the dilemma to own vegans online.
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You know why more men die in war? Other men. Men made the rules that women can’t do anything physical. Men run the countries that enter into war. Yes women (ie Thatcher) can enter into war too but my point is that all these things that feminists supposedly deny is caused by other men. Trying to equate feminism as a force for toxic gender politics at the same level as the toxic society men created and maintained for hundreds of years is pretty disingenuous.
This whole thing comes off like a chud trying to be neutral as possibly by admitting that men can be a little rambunctious but we need to seriously talk about this tumblr screenshot I found of some caricature of a feminist saying all men need to be castrated. Because that kind of toxicity is the same as women not being allowed to ride a train because their uterus might fall out.
And there’s a fundamental economic component to “left-winger” that you can’t leave out. Telling people that being a left winger means you do both sides shit in culture war debates is wrong and hurts online leftism more than open a door for pipeline purposes.