Last season had the 'Climate Change is inevitable and resistance is pointless and unethical' (captain planet analogue goes to tragically kill coal-miners, nobody mentions that having superpowers could easily dismantle fossil fuel infrastructure or at the very least off execs). This most recent episode has omnipotent dinosaurs return to earth and create a post-scarcity Earth, leading to newspaper articles and characters exclaim how bored their life is now that banks, jobs and climate change have been eradicated. The dinosaurs are purposely boring and speak in vague lib 'empathy' language, leading to characters genuinely use the words "Virtue signalling" despite my understanding of virtue signalling being just saying nice words, not backing them up with material conditions.

This show has fun sci-fi concepts and I enjoy the slow de-edgification of Rick, but damn clearly Elon's cameo (in an otherwise perfect episode) was a harbinger of grotesque things to come.

  • Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    I forgot hoe much the captain planet one seemed odd to me.

    Like, if nothing else the show creators have anxiety and overthink everything. So it is weird they kill mine workers and not mine owners to stop mining. Liberalism is just too powerful I guess

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      To be fair, killing the mine workers to try and stop climate change is something a lib would think of as a radical solution