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  • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Is today like weird take day or something? Is there some random thing I should pick and write a screed about how as leftists we should all hate it?

    • sam5673 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Fuck it we should all hate tables it's a symbol of the patriarchal power structure as well as a symbol of colonial oppression as people were regarded as savages for not using tables, as well as this they are inherent to the classist idea of table manners

      Am I doing it

  • kfc [any]
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    3 years ago

    This isn’t a bit. I don’t watch comedy movies. I think they’re grotesque. They celebrate disgusting humor, usually and quite often at the expense of women and people of color. They’re celebrations of things nobody should celebrate and intended to shock and disgust. Ideally, the resources put towards creating comedy films would be put to use creating films of a chaotic and darker nature, exploring the human spirit.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    ⬇️ Marx uses the language of horror stories to describe the capital class. Horror would be less reactionary under socialism but still existent

    “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks”

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Well, duh, that's the first thing you learn at Antifa Vampire Hunter Academy.

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    In an ideal socialist society, all positive media would be banned as antithetical to revolutionary spirit and an attempt to sap the workers of their revolutionary discontent.

    Horror movies will continue as training guides for how to properly deal with fae-beasts and operate torches & pitchforks.

    • sam5673 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      What's a traditional name for the fae: the lords and ladies.

      This goes all the way to the top

      • Zoift [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I will accept no gentry, be they highborn, lowborn, or neverborn.

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    What about Dracula? It's a pretty direct allegory for the bourgeoisie.

    Also movies shouldn't all be uplifting - showing the breadth of the human experience is one of the things that art does really well.

      • 5bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Isn't that more like torture porn? Sure, subset of the genre for all it's worth but this seems like claiming metal is bad because there's shitty metal bands

    • sam5673 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Actually the western vampire tradition started with Polidori as a metaphor for how Lord Byron slept around with a bunch of women on the promise of marrying them and therefore was bad

    • Bedulge [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Dracula is more about the old feudal aristocracy, and no so much about the Bourgeois, isnt it? Some of the main protagonists, like the Texan guy, Quincy, are literally Bourgeois

  • Clicheguevara [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Horror is just about the only socially conscious movie genre. I would posit that just about all of them say something, regardless of whether the creators intended for them to do so.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Not every horror movie is in the Friday the 13th series. Horror movies are a pretty broad genre as well. You can't really make the same judgement between say, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Halloween 4, The Thing, Creepshow and The VVitch. They're all horror but very very different.

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Ideally, the resources put towards creating horror films would be put to use creating films of a harmonic and friendly nature, uplifting the human spirit.

    The problem is that under this logic we should also ban reality television. Actually, wait, you might have something here.