• Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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    02 years ago

    It feels like that sub is somehow degrading. Like it was always evil and always stupid but there’s still somehow a sense to me that it’s devolved.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Gamergate was a lot of people’s first experience with the far-right infiltrating a vulnerable group then engineering and escalating a culture war.

      There was a lot of naivety back then. The alt-right pinkie promising they weren’t neo-nazis was enough for thousands to give them the benefit of the doubt. People got swept up in it, believing it really was about “ethics in game journalism” and not just trying to bully feminists and anyone who defended them into suicide.

      But that was hundreds of acts of domestic terrorism and melodramatic reactionary outcries ago. Most people shook off the mob mentality and saw it for what it was.

      You’re seeing the ones who decided to stick with being scumbags.

      For most of them, it’s probably because they’re abusers without anyone in their life to abuse, trying to scratch that itch by hurling slurs at minorities.

      Of what’s left, they might be so dimwitted and gullible that they still haven’t realised they’ve just been doing the dirty laundry of some of the worst people the modern world can offer.

      It would be genuinely pitiful if it wasn’t near-certain that one of them will do a mass shooting because someone made a movie that was more appealing to women than the idea of becoming a tradwife-pornstar-mommy-punching bag for a chud.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        12 years ago

        It would be genuinely pitiful if it wasn’t near-certain that one of them will do a mass shooting because someone made a movie that was more appealing to women than the idea of becoming a tradwife-pornstar-mommy-punching bag for a chud.

        There’s demographic overlap with the MAGA/Q chud crowd, so there’s already been mass shootings tied to it. yea

  • Fuckass [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The prospects of a manifesto shooting occurring in the near future because they’re upset over a movie is likely and bleak lukashenko-tired

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      32 years ago

      Leftists: Capitalism plunged my family into poverty and is a dark entity destroying the world for no real reason beyond the need to sustain itself

      Chuds: Movie had woman

      • shath [comrade/them]
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        22 years ago

        Chud: movie had woman and i complained about it online and all my peers called me a pathetic little man baby

  • pooh [she/her]
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    22 years ago

    You know they’ve lost the culture war when stuff like this starts popping up

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    12 years ago

    Imagine getting “black-pilled” over the “anti-american agenda” of the scientist equivalent of another shoot-and-cry movie.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      12 years ago

      It even had some right wing style omissions like turning a contributing scientist into sad booba waifu that causes le sex god power hallucination during sexy sex. freeze-gamer gaters should be more grateful to Nolan for that.

  • Bobby_DROP_TABLES [he/him]
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    12 years ago

    I almost feel bad shitting on this person because you can tell they have a completely miserable life. But also link the post so I can go bully people in the comments.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    12 years ago

    Oppenheimer is anti-American and pro-communist

    Wait fr? Should I go watch it?

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      12 years ago

      It’s pretty neutral on communism, which is probably for the best given that it doesn’t understand it at all. Its one attempt to dip a pinky into theory has them quibbling over the translation into English of ‘property is theft’ from Kapital, which is extremely not where that line comes from and Marx disagreed with it.

      Labour organizing and attending CPUSA meetings are shown as broadly good things, but ones which Oppie needs to set aside for the greater good (since they need him to have the best chance of beating the Nazis to the bomb, and the FBI won’t give him a security clearance to join Manhattan if he keeps that stuff up). The USSR is even more off-screen than Japan.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        12 years ago

        IDK American leftists squabbling about theory they clearly haven’t actually read sounds pretty on point to me.

    • MalarchoBidenism [he/him]
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      02 years ago

      2016: lmao leftists are such joyless scolds, everything is “problematic” to them

      2023: the Barbie movie is woke ooooooooooooooh

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]OP
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      2 years ago

      Even his “conservative friends” are clearly put off by his culture war bullshit lol. They just want to be normal and watch normal movies.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        22 years ago

        In retrospect the line “conservatism is the new punk rock” was incredibly funny coming from the guys who got into conservative politics through children’s toys.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    Is this sub anti-woke or not?

    We aren’t an echo chamber mate, we are a collection of individuals, with individual opinions.

    I don’t know why, but this exchange cracked me up, lmao they seriously talk like this

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        02 years ago

        No, it’s a conservative wiping the scales from their eyes (albeit momentarily) and realizing liberals and conservatives are just two sides of the capitalism party, which is liberalism.

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          12 years ago

          I don’t think they realized that at all, even momentarily. They’re just calling themself the one true conservative for not seeing the Barbie movie lol.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What are they even talking about? They have done NOTHING BUT win culture wars ever since 2012. If you’re all doom and gloom over Barbie, I hope someone forces you to watch Idiocracy where morons like you are even more viciously pointed out.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      12 years ago

      THE ENEMY IS BOTH TOO STRONG AND TOO WEAK scared-fash

      They have to always feel persecuted while also believing their enemies are pathetic and easily crushed.