Why do stories that may start out so promising and suggestive seem to always turn to crap towards the very end? Because any consistent working-out of problems tends towards communism. Such a consistent working-out has to be sabotaged, thwarted; to do that, the principle of consistency itself has to be chucked overboard. A counter-revolutionary ending has to be passed off as a happy ending, meaning whoever represents the revolution must turn out to be a villain, no matter how implausible or visibly tacked-on this characterization is. Erik Killmonger, Daenerys Targaryen, Alma Coin, and Lady Trieu all break bad sort of inexplicably, punishing the viewer for supporting the power-claim of someone with good politics. The message is unequivocal: “Having good politics doesn’t make you fit to rule! Having no politics does! The restoration of the status quo is the best we can hope for.”
You know, this was my discussion about Gaddafi with the lib I worked with; I told him of all the stuff Gaddafi did for his country and he was just sitting there, waiting for me to be like 'but he DID.....'. I could see the that impassable void, that impassable hole that needed to hear that Gaddafi actually had like this one really evil thing that I hadn't mentioned yet, because otherwise to him it seemed inexplicable why we would overthrow him.
EDIT: As far as I'm aware, the government accused him of having killed 10,000 people and having given viagra to African mercenaries to rape people (nothing we all find more terrifying than black people apparently; because 60's racism is trendy again). EDIT 2: Amnesty international was on the ground when these accusations were made and said to the effect of 'no they're not'.
When I first mentioned some of this stuff, he was hesitant to believe it so we googled it, and every one of the things on the list was coming up true; A Somali colleague of ours even confirmed the point number 12 about every Libyan citizen receiving straight to their bank a portion of every oil sale. Oh, and the last point? About the great man made river project to make water readily available throughout the desert country? NATO bombed it; there were civilians taking shelter around the (pipes?) who were killed in the bombings, and a (Libyan?) journalist confirmed this saying he was personally among the people pulling dead children out of the wreckage.
Repressing protestors and being corrupt, as if the West really has any problem with these things. They justify his murder by saying he was "killed by his own people" and "opposed by rebels in his own country," ignoring that these "rebels" were racists armed by NATO. It's like saying the Sandinistas were "overthrown by their own people."
Gadaffi did some good things, but let's not forget that he also went completely fucking insane and started arguing stupid shit like that real socialism is when women stay in the kitchen.
If you think Daenarys Targaryan represents any kind of revolutionary or socialist force you need to reread the books. She is literally an avatar of monarchic power and aristocracy. She is four different kinds of the chosen one and special and unique by virtue of her blood, birth and station. Her return to power is literally the return of a people who rule over a continent by virtue of their literal special blood and their ethnic identity,
If their motives are better than the heroes, how are they a villain?
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You know, this was my discussion about Gaddafi with the lib I worked with; I told him of all the stuff Gaddafi did for his country and he was just sitting there, waiting for me to be like 'but he DID.....'. I could see the that impassable void, that impassable hole that needed to hear that Gaddafi actually had like this one really evil thing that I hadn't mentioned yet, because otherwise to him it seemed inexplicable why we would overthrow him.
What is it the CIA accuses him of having done?
Also, tell me about the good stuff. I wanna troll libs with based gaddafi facts
EDIT: As far as I'm aware, the government accused him of having killed 10,000 people and having given viagra to African mercenaries to rape people (nothing we all find more terrifying than black people apparently; because 60's racism is trendy again). EDIT 2: Amnesty international was on the ground when these accusations were made and said to the effect of 'no they're not'.
Parenti had a list about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7c41is/16_things_libya_will_never_see_again_by_michael/
When I first mentioned some of this stuff, he was hesitant to believe it so we googled it, and every one of the things on the list was coming up true; A Somali colleague of ours even confirmed the point number 12 about every Libyan citizen receiving straight to their bank a portion of every oil sale. Oh, and the last point? About the great man made river project to make water readily available throughout the desert country? NATO bombed it; there were civilians taking shelter around the (pipes?) who were killed in the bombings, and a (Libyan?) journalist confirmed this saying he was personally among the people pulling dead children out of the wreckage.
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Repressing protestors and being corrupt, as if the West really has any problem with these things. They justify his murder by saying he was "killed by his own people" and "opposed by rebels in his own country," ignoring that these "rebels" were racists armed by NATO. It's like saying the Sandinistas were "overthrown by their own people."
Wasn't he also accused of being behind the Lockerbie bombing?
Yeah, as if the US were against terrorism.
Gadaffi did some good things, but let's not forget that he also went completely fucking insane and started arguing stupid shit like that real socialism is when women stay in the kitchen.
THANK YOU. this perfectly put into words frustrations I've had with media for years
If you think Daenarys Targaryan represents any kind of revolutionary or socialist force you need to reread the books. She is literally an avatar of monarchic power and aristocracy. She is four different kinds of the chosen one and special and unique by virtue of her blood, birth and station. Her return to power is literally the return of a people who rule over a continent by virtue of their literal special blood and their ethnic identity,
its the Bane problem. Contrived "evil" acts that don't really fit the motivation
also really doesn't fit the elder god aesthetic, which I would have understood to just be alien/unfathomable goals and motivations.
To libs that's communists
Because the hero's paycheck says so