Most people are only ready to cross that line once it's too late, unfortunately. If any of us knew how to effectively radicalize libs we'd be out building a worker's state and suppressing capitalists instead of posting on an obscure internet forum.
I must make a small change...
instead of posting on the best, obscure internet forum.
I wonder how many Babadooks there are on Twitter. Here's another: they/them might be giants ☭ (@babadookspinoza).
I heard that he was dreamed up by someone high on marijuana edibles.
I don't strongly remember, but I think it brought the feeling that you really only have one chance to escape or get revenge, so you need to be really careful and make it count or make it loud. There's also lots of snitching and cruel group punishments. Characters that "misbehaved" often had cruel punishments like a finger cut off or eye removed or were executed.
I think it can work as a dog whistle because the underclass does violently retaliate sometimes.
it's season after season of misery porn. Every season is 80% misery porn, 5% based action that might spark revolution, and 15% putting down the resistance so really 95% misery porn. Rinse repeat every season.
Any thoughts on which parts to watch that are the 5%? Maybe the last episode of each season?
I would be 100% down to watch a "show bad but here's a montage of the bad guys drowning in their own blood"
Hard for me to remember lol. The good parts come at different moments across each season.
I wonder how many chuds mistake the first tweet as meaning the women in Handmaid's Tale don't deserve rights because they resort to extremism.
It’s really good if a little hard to watch at times, especially with real life politics being what they are. My partner and I waited for ever to watch the newest season bc we were like “idk if I’m in the mood for the onslaught of bad vibes that’s gone be coming” lol
If only the dems could do something other than fundraise off the horror. The ad is called "GOP Handmaid's Tale"...
Republicans are getting very upset people keep retweeting this ad so I figured I would post for any of you who haven’t seen it yet and then I am going to retweet myself tonight.
The thing I've noticed about Handmaid's Tale rhetoric, just like most rhetoric on threats to abortion rights, is that it's casually transphobic by excluding our trans comrades who also need abortions.
Yes but I mean irl. Organizing around abortion has centered gendered rhetoric that implicitly looks over men, non-binary people, etc - anyone who can get pregnant and therefore anyone who needs abortions.
It's understandable in that the anti-abortion is grounded in misogyny, but it's also something that I would expect to be better among comrades (versus libs), and it honestly really isn't.
Oh for sure. What I mean is that "gender traitors" in Atwood's work are rareish by virtue of being exterminated (I think there are lesbian characters but not too much queerness) and the work being a 'product of her time.' By extension, people who don't have the vocabulary or impetus to be inclusive don't have a pop-culture media property to push the language on them (fans would be quick to meme a transman character if he existed).
It's a vehicle for focusing on their preconceived notions. Libs and Radlibs are notoriously educated by fiction works, unfortunately.
I'd argue it's because of some of the brainworms that star wars and DC comics (perhaps inadvertently) put in their heads. They are liberals so they are the Light-aligned Jedi or Batman. Fash are the Sith or Joker. Their "goal" is just to cause misery for the sake of it, but if people go too far in trying to stop them, they "win" because "A-HA! I just proved you are just like me!" "a-HA! You needed to use the dark side to beat me, that proves the Sith are stronger!"
Dragon Ball Z never had such problem, there was a good monologue on how it is not evil to fight for the right cause, and Frieza knew that the Saiyans could fight back at any time.
