we dunk on libs and cons so much we sometimes forget centrists are worse. they are so. much. worse.
Like...
California "leftists" are libs and texas conservatives are libs so I guess that scans. People in this thread forget that liberalism and conservatism ARE just ideological arguments about how to run a bourgeois state and have absolutely nothing to do with a proletarian state.
That said, it's really stupid from a mapbrain perspective because the two states would be economic competitors separated by desert increasingly unable to support human infrastructure.
liberals think civil wars are fought over simple ideological disagreements
liberals think Nazis were simply having a particularly aggressive argument
The battle of Stalingrad was just an especially busy stall in the marketplace of ideas.
"Yeah Stalin was SUPPRESSING the FREEDOM of the Nazis to exterminate Slavs and enact Lebensraum!
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"I don't know literally anything about politics or ideology or even basic geography, commerce, and military logistics" -- Alex Garland explaining any aspect of his stupid movie
This movie is going to be so unintentionally funny. I'm just imagining all of the incredibly smooth brain things that the reporter main character might say that will cause libs to nod sagely and conservatives to declare the movie woke propaganda.
He’s not wrong. Liberalism and fascism are two sides of the same coin that synergize to protect the capital order.
The left and right in this case is of course relative to the American perspective.
This is what I thought the California - Texas alliance was supposed to represent. A proposal that fascists and neoliberals ultimately have the same worldview, they just differ in terms of aesthetics and in spicy times they'd merge together. Now I realize that despite that Garland wrote Dredd and Ex machina, he's just another goofy Hollywood centrist
I knew this guy's movie was gonna be dogshit the second the trailer brought up the "California and Texas" alliance
I would also question any possibility of a California and Texas Alliance, were it not brokered and achieved by "The American Mandela", Sir Joe Rogan in 2031 during the first hours of the Battle of Chicken Nuggets during the Treat Wars.
It could be an interesting choice to highlight the class unity of the bourgeoisie and that Texas' and California's economic power is far more important than superficial American politics.... but we know it won't be lol
This guy probably hangs out in Austin and LA and was like “wow we are all the same “ not realizing he is just upper class
I mean centrists are liberals who are conservatives. American liberals are all about preserving the status quo with incremental change. Sounds pretty conservative to me. American conservatives are more reactionaries because they want to regress society to an era they’re nostalgic over.
I love that this blockbuster movie exists and yet we're still supposed to pretend that it's Russian disinformatski that is driving political polarization in the US
Politics are just ways to get votes, they aren't tied to material realities.
They're doing Horseshoe Theory but for slightly progressive liberals and bog-standard Republicans
oh this movie is going to be fucking delicious. all you can eat
cafeI was huffing a lot of cope about this movie for awhile. Garland directed my all-time favorite movie, Annihilation. I was hoping this one would be better than the marketing team was letting on. Maybe something about the US' extraordinary violence being brought back to the homeland, especially with the PoV of a journalist. Fuck.
Annihilation is based off a good book by Jeff vandermeer though, it seems Civil War is originally written by Garland
Oh for sure, but it's so wildly different in content (while perfectly preserving tone) that I was really impressed by how Garland adapted it. I was hoping some of that skill would transfer to this movie, but I guess he's too trapped in the hegemonic ideology :/
Have you read the books that Annihilation is based on? They’re very good if you haven’t
I have, and I agree that they're pretty great. Due for a re-read, now that I think about it
Same lol. I would watch it if it had something as a strange and abstract as the ending of Annihilation
