where else would you see this but "White People Twitter". ironically this bullshit is turning me into the Joker.
how do you even get to this point?
"that drone strike is just like ace combat 6!" "that's bad vibes officer, you're being just like Red Skull" "this Hitler guy reminds me of the fella from Wolfenstein"
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14poz4d/aint_no_song_called_fck_the_fire_department/jqjvzak/
Communists get their understanding of the world from studying history through a materialist lens
Liberals get their understanding of the world from children's superhero movies
Liberals call communists ignorant and childish while positing themselves as the adults in the roomLately I've been thinking about how it's like the old line about the Civil War: that you learn a little and you think it was about slavery, you learn a bit more and you get exposed to pseudointellectual Confederate apologia and get brainworms, and you learn a lot and realize that yes it actually was about slavery all along.
Here you learn a little about the world and realize capitalism and American hegemony are awful things, you learn a little bit more and you get exposed to pseudointellectual neoliberal apologia for American hegemony and get infested with brainworms (liberals are here), and then you learn more and realize that capitalism and American hegemony are even worse than you originally thought.
And in both cases the second stage is the result of a concerted reactionary propaganda effort that gets institutional support.
Same thing with the Iraq invasion and American control of oil.
#1 America invaded Iraq for oil
#2 It's actually more complicated than that, the US doesn't just invade countries for oil
#3 In 2000 Saddam was about to switch selling oil to the Euro from the Dollar, and it was invaded for control of oilI've always heard this about wrestling. That as a kid you think it is real, you grow up and learn it is fake, then you become smart and realize how horrifically real the injuries and stakes are
Liberals call communists ignorant and childish while positing themselves as the adults in the room
the people who care the most about appearing "grown up" are kids
This is just a petty personal almost tangentially related thing, but my ex was a lib and was literally incapable of understanding anything without the lens of media and it was one of the things that grated on me a lot lol.
Like it was something I could deal with, don’t get me wrong but it was so annoying to be talking about real world shit and it always be “ah yeah that’s like in this movie” and it was always a very superficial relation as well it was like never a very apt comparison lol
This is just how people are, and always have been. We use stories as shorthand for various concepts, or to tie current events to either actual events in the past or mythic events from our cultural mythology. Afaik it's a human constant across all cultures, whether it's Americans looking at Marvel comics or Soviet looking at Alexander Nevsky. Perisan/Iranians name everything after Rostam, India has like five different weapon systems named after Arjuna, England goes on and on about St. George and King Arthur, and other cultures all have culture heroes and folk heroes.
America is a weird country bc it's culture is a mishmash of other cultures smothered in the anti-culture of neoliberalism. Comics and games are prominent forms of storytelling in America and their wide appeal and relatively long period of popularity gives modern Americans a vocabulary they can use to communicate complex ideas to each other with references to these stories - superman and captain america do the right thing, peter parker says power needs to be used repsonsibly, etc etc. Everyone knows the stories, at least in a very basic form, so they can be used to convey ideas to most Americans.
Okay i'm turning my anthro training off now.
Yeah I mean I get that to a degree, but also I think there’s something fucked about our cultural framing being completely contingent upon corporate treat culture. And she took it to a degree I’ve never seen anyone else be as bad at which is why it was a bit goofy.
While that may be a terrible way to understand the world, it is however the only way to really understand Kingdom Hearts
Oh so when a R*dditor compares something to a Marvel character it's 'lame' but when someone compares something to a Disco Elysium character it's 'cool'?
Disco elysium is actually good a tho and had perfect depictions of liberalism, libertarianism, fascism, and communism
"Damn, the police are really bad. They're siding with the bigots."
"Yes, its just like the story about getting invaded by foreigners."
"that's bad vibes officer, you're being just like Red Skull"
"I was going for the Punisher, but a skull is a skull"
I'm going to sleep now so I can't be bothered to type out what I wanted to say so I'll leave it at
People use stories familiar in their culture to contextualize events happening in their lives. It's nothing new. Look at all the wwi and wwii propaganda art featuring King Arthur, St George, Charlemagne, Sigurd and Fafnir, and on and on.
Pushing a French knight over in 1321 and rolling him in to the river while screaming "JE DETESTE REYNARD LE RENARD JE DETESTE REYNARD LE RENARD !"
I think that Ukraine twitter account has ruined these by comparing themselves with Harry Potter.
The HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD storyline is the worst thing to ever happen to comic books and media writ large
In this essay I will
"Half of the CIA are literal Nazis and Obama's drone program is a literal Nazi bid for world power" was one of the only genuinely cool things any of the Marvel movies did and I am shocked that it was green lit.
I liked in the new Indy the CIA worked with the Nazis and most importantly the nazis ARE STILL NAZIS like they still keep their old Nazi uniforms. Also Marvel hydra had a lot of "uhh actually we are not racist just hates freedom", especially in the tv show where it was revealed that HYDRA is some kind of ancient cult.
Honestly this alone is fine, as many of the villains in Indy movies are not nazis, but rather they collaborate with Nazis, and the directing ultimately shows that the nazi collaborators are just as bad as the actual nazis. The problem is Wanda and Quicksilver are literally former hydra, which should mean logically they are literally former Neo-Nazis, but nope we get a sob story on why Wanda have to enslave an entire town.
This is why the Winter Soldier "twist" is so insidious. It makes what america actually is, into a corruption. Like they acknowledge our actual crime of Operation paperclip but it ends there and becomes that the nazis influences US from within.
It is utter bullshit and grotesque. It is why now radlibs will talk about paperclip and the US sheparding nazis, but never for a second putting together that our country's success is the success of fascism, that we ARE the 4th Reich
This is why Michael S Judge's theory of WW3 is so fucking good
