They coulda just called it England

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Cracker Island is America, England is TERF island :cracker:

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    To give people a music video to link to instead of saying the word cracker which would get you banned from several platforms.

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    :zizek-preference: this so-called "Cracker Island" is in fact a reference to the development of capitalism and it's ideology in England - the "Collective of the dawn" being a oblique reference to the Enlightenment and liberalism, and "they taught themselves to be occult" a direct reference to the development of bourgeois values and behaviors, sex parties, the community of wives with the Carnival masks, and so on.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      They dropped some lore about the music video right before the premiere. The events of the music video are a possible future to a story we haven't seen yet, so we're seeing the narrative from the end backwards. Murdoc had visions and wanted to start a cult and talked everyone into it. They yassified Noodle or something in the video too, but the animated woman is her. The corpse that gets up that Murdoc kisses might be Paula Cracker though.

      People think that Russell was possessed by Pazuzu also since he was kind of stumbling around