I guess this is a step forward. Liberals used to support evil in reality, like the Iraq war, but then they would use fantasy to virtue signal that they are actually the good guys by not supporting the Empire in Star Wars or something like that.

Not anymore! Now they are just like "kill kill kill"

  • EstraDoll [she/her]
    hexbear
    72
    1 month ago

    look, i know liberals always thought this way, but i really don't like how mask off they've been over the last 3 months and I really wish they'd slip it back on

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
      hexbear
      67
      1 month ago

      it's almost like they're super stoked they've been given permission to do full fascism

  • SupFBI [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    51
    1 month ago

    The most enjoyable parts of the Avatar movies is when humans get got.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
      hexbear
      36
      1 month ago

      sicko-pog when some motherfucker in a helicopter gets skewered by a nine foot long arrow

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
        hexbear
        7
        1 month ago

        Me watching most of the movie: this is some appropriationist white saviour bullshit

        Me watching some megafauna bulldoze through a bunch of machines: this fucking rocks. 10/10, no notes

  • Mindfury [he/him]
    hexbear
    38
    1 month ago

    oh no, we're posting the 'homeless hunter' failson again

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    29
    1 month ago

    Ben Dreyfuss has literally posted about paying an addict $50 at a party so he could supposedly hunt & shoot him with a paintball gun before and of course, is Richard Dreyfuss' failson. What made you think he was even a 'liberal' (lol) beyond his dad trying to get Bush impeached during the Iraq war? His shitty MotherJones work?? michael-laugh

  • @Sons_of_Ferrix
    hexbear
    23
    1 month ago

    Wtf were they mining in that movie anyway? What were the humans using it for?

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
      hexbear
      33
      1 month ago

      It's just an ambiguous standin for any resource that countries colonize others for.

    • StalinStan [none/use name]
      hexbear
      28
      1 month ago

      Space oil. They it is called unobtainaium it is an old sci-fi joke about a resource that does whatever the plot needs it to do. It is functionally a material that breaks gravity so you can do fun physics tricks that we cannot do in real life.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
        hexbear
        15
        1 month ago

        Somewhere in the lore, it was a room temperature super conductor, which was also their explanation for floating mountains. Somehow didn't induce currents in everything around them (except "instruments ")

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
    hexbear
    5
    1 month ago

    One of the things I LOVE about Avatar is how little of a shit the human capitalist society gives to its people. We know that unobtanium is valuable, but to whom? Jake Sully, a person who fought for the empire, should theoretically be receiving the spoils. Instead, he is tossed out with no use of his legs, which we learn that in-universe can actually be healed- but not without a hefty fee to the capitalist grifters. Just like the real world, unobtanium is only useful - and profitable - to those at the very top. And, just like the real world, Jake Sully has been beat up and spat out by the evils of empire, creating a revolutionary ripe to betray the human settlers.