Asking for a friend :fedposting:
sitting at home and pretending im a social revolutionary when i dont actually get involved in any social causes because im too afraid to talk to people
The way I see it, even if some lib piece of shit gets in, it makes leftist work easier to achieve, at least? It's all dogshit, but I'll pick a small pile of dogshit over a flaming pile of it.
In the Parliamentary period of Russia, the Socialist party participated in elections at every level they could. They didn't limit themselves to elections because they established Soviets to build dual power, but they were interested in siezing the levers of power however they could.
Liking problematic shit doesn't make you a bad person; trying to justify it does.
That's a great of encapsulating it. I have a friend who likes Woody Allen movies, mainly the ones before she found out about the things he did.
She'll freely admit that he's an unforgivably awful person and if she's ever curious about the new movies, she watches them in ways that don't benefit him in any way
any particular faves (non problematic preferred but ill try anything)
Gintama is a comedy slice of life with battle Shounen characteristics and the episodes just get fucking wild. One of my favorite episodes has several characters that are trying to duel but they all have to take a shit in a public toilet that has no tp, it's then a race as they try to figure out how to wipe so they can be the first out of the stall.
based take on gender. I'll check it out, sounds fun.
I was reading an article this morning about some mummified conjoined twins in Japan that I think one of the characters in this show was based off so it's good timing
Elder Scrolls games. Sure, they have some room for political interpretation and individual choice, but there's a consistent "status quo is good and desirable, and if that is not possible, coming back to something as close as possible to the status quo is desirable" narrative that goes back to TES1 Arena and never quite left. Even the deicide in TES3: Tribunal is something of a removal of a recent status quo with an older status quo. Typically, the goal is the maintenance or restoration of the Empire, and that's pretty damn :LIB: .
I enjoy most of the TES games all the same. :cat-confused:
I still play through the Mass Effect and Deus Ex games without much intrusion of critical thought.
For some reason I have a much harder time ignoring the ideology in Mass Effect. :zizek:
Deus Ex's later installments are in some ways far too similar to real life, except that real life Bob Page and his associates are a lot more cringe and stupid and prone to kiddie diddling, yet their power is uncontested.
That's how I feel about Deus Ex.
As a dumbass 14 yo, adding the layers of "you're half man, half machine" PLUS the Illuminati PLUS the Templars PLUS but WAIT THERE'S MORE LOOK ALIENS was cool as fuck.
Now, as a slightly less dumb adult, those layers are painfully obvious anti-semitic tropes (among other things), and just can't be ignored.
Dangit, don't ruin TES for me. Look, it's a fantasy world, magic is real and so are eternally genuinely benevolent imperial reigns. THAT'S MY HEADCANON GET OUT MY HEAD.
We shall speak for the law and the land, and drive the mongrel dogs of the Empire from MORROWIND.
Did you get the false Sunder?
Shame
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYikYIxud0
how much of that is TES specifically rather than a genre convention at large? i feel like most fantasy comes set in a semi-static world unless they're explicitly themed around wars and that isn't even a good sign as far as politics go. other common direction is protagonists remaking the setting by becoming the ruler and i don't much prefer that to serving some dusty despot.
The Divinity series tends to have lasting cataclysmic events that cause the rise and fall of civilizations and that redefine the world and even its cosmology game by game, as an example of doing it differently.
I haven't had brunch in a while, but it's very tasty. A mimosa is a great way to start the day.
Liberals don't get to own getting day drunk and eating breakfast burritos. That's going too far.
Play guitar
Have a green mohawk
Watch true crime and cooking shows
They make me happy, and I've had a mohawk for well over half my life. Its just, if you didn't know I was a commie, most non-leftists would just think I'm one of those "blue haired liberal SJWs"
This is why we have our owl/corgi alliance :tofu-cool:
Now for your mohawk, do you shave just the fur on the top of your head or do you have a line of green fur going down your neck and back as well?
I used to buy fashionable, expensive clothes. Like the kind that has a drop and you have to buy it quickly. I still like them but I’m unsure of how to get into it again.
Like the kind that has a drop and you have to buy it quickly
I gotta admit, that is a capitalist masterstroke of brilliance. Those goods are essentially the same as any other, but they leverage crowdsourced hype and add artificial scarcity to intensify demand. As someone who has stood in line at Supreme in my consooming days, I can say the mania really does overwhelm your better judgment.
I'm consoom media slop that has gay content. I have standards though, so none of the cynical ploys Disney pulls appeal to me.
How much of that slop kills off one of the gays so the other gay can has a sad so the straights don't have to see ongoing gay relationships between living gays? :spongebob-party: :anprim-pat:
Too many, but I look it up to see if I have the bandwidth to watch whatever I'm interested in.
It's been quite a decade. I still remember going to see the Imitation Game in a town 70 minutes away since it wasn't showing in my town. I left the theater so mad.
Nowadays, I can stream Heartstopper and turn off my brain.
And every now and then, you get something like Our Flag Means Death where everyone is something LGBTQ and actually interesting. (Like how are you gonna make 5 Pirates of the Caribbean movies and not have a single gay pirate?)
Heartstopper is so cute. My husband and I watched it in one day a few weeks ago. The way our relationship started was a lot like how the one in heartstopper did, except in our 20s and in a red state.
It really is. I'm glad kids can have something like that.
And congratulations! I'm happy for you both!
The number of Harry Potter apologists who excused the Fantastic Beasts movies' lack of gay content. I've become the unfun one because I point out the laziness, insincerity, and disdain JK expressed towards people like me.
And I'm just annoyed they left good writing on the table. A wizard's ex turned evil. In a time where LGBTQ spaces were incredibly limiting. In a setting where you're already hiding parts of yourself. And they're going to not mention that at all? And instead they're going to shoehorn in a heterosexual relationship with a character who would've been better off written as ace or too invested in his work to maintain a relationship.
But yeah, I totally believe Dumbledore was written as gay from the start
I like Hamilton. No fucking idea why (I despise America and American history) and I wish I didn't but I do. I think my brain finds the story so absurd and distinct from reality that in my head it's just an entertaining story about fictional people. It's even more weird because I've always hated early American history and find it the most boring shit ever. Guess the musicals lack of accuracy helps me further not tie it to reality. Cause in real life I couldn't give a fuck about any "founding father".
