I want to believe.

  • AbolishAmerikkka [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables - slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war... Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

    • Not_irony [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I've flipped back and forth on this movie. A year or so ago I thought it was reactionary fanfic for right wing terrorist. Now I wish I could organize my comrades half as well as my man Tyler

      • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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        4 years ago

        How was he right wing? He blew up the credit card companies.

        He was def sexist tho so maybe that's what you mean. Yeah actually, huge misogynist.

        • Not_irony [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, I think that's the part of the movie that made me think it was right wing reactionary nonsense. That and just being a lib at the time

          • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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            4 years ago

            yeah if durden had been a feminist he'd have been badically a kinky maoist. I don't think i remember him saying any homophobic shit, but i haven't watched it in a long time and the last time I did was with a vibrator so i was mostly just paying attention to brad pitts body and meat loaf

            • Not_irony [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              Didn't he beat the gay coded guy to a bloody pulp? Or am I reading too much into that?

                • Not_irony [he/him]
                  hexagon
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                  4 years ago

                  Yeah, it was jared. Not sure. They call him beautiful and he was blonde, but otherwise don't remember anything about the character that stands out as gay coded. So :shrug:

                  • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    could just be toxic masculine stuff not wanting to be a “pretty boy” dork and wanting to be a tough rough man

                    • Not_irony [he/him]
                      hexagon
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                      4 years ago

                      Yeah, that's definitely the surface level read. Not like Fight Club was otherwise subtle

              • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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                4 years ago

                Reading too much into that. He honored Meat Loaf who was clearly bear coded.

                Also Tyler Durden is bisexual. I’ve decided this because he’s hot and a fictional character I can project lust upon.