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This could be a bit. It could not be a bit. It could be someone who saw other people doing a bit without understanding it was a bit. It could be a bit hidden within other bits
The Occluded Bit
in a just world this would get him admitted into the
Link it :LIB:
“I’ve been evil since birth, is this perhaps bad?”
Adults who derive their morality from legality will forever be children to me
Some 20-30 year old manchild is gonna tell me they think “the law was a solid rock in a sea of chaos” in defense of a piece of media which was mocking all of that with a straight face?
Then again, he is a self-admitted conservative, maybe it should be more impressive he reads things that aren’t InfoWars or gun fetishist magazines
I was reading A Christmas Carol again and I think Ebeneezer Scrooge might actually be the bad guy? Like I thought he was good because he lives in a mansion and can sleep comfortably at night. The ghosts are clearly the bad guys because they’re trespassing and violating his castle doctrine to show him all the non-woke things he did. It kinda reminds me of cancel culture and how saying the N-word a few times results in a bunch of social media ghosts bringing that up in future arguments. I used to read that and want to shoot the ghosts with the guns under my pillow which Scrooge would have done if I wrote the book. But I guess he’s supposed to be the bad guy because they’re actually showing him consequences of bad things he does? Like Tiny Tim isn’t supposed to die because he can’t afford health insurance?
There’s been several published “in defense of Scrooge” chud takes already from chud rags like PragerU.
This has to be a bit. This has to be a bit. Someone please tell me this is a bit
At this point hopium won’t save us now
Until talking about Star Wars there’s not really anything dunk-worthy, and at that point it’s just poor media literacy. It doesn’t get bad until BLM. They’re asking their question politely, they’re not being defensive, they’re open to the thought they might be wrong and they explain their thought process.
Then they complain about BLM
but it seems like it’s the typical type “enlightened” centrist, except it seems like they’re at least asking questions instead of just bloviating about how clever they are and they’re honest about being conservatives.Lmao i disagree. Fuck em.
I mean I agree, they’re a chud fuck them, but I was just commenting on the fact that they’re not doing anything egregious in my eyes. They have poor media literacy, but at least they’re willing to ask questions rather than defensively accuse the other of being dumb.
I’m going to take the enlightened centrist position and say fuck 'em but also I hope this line of inquiry leads them to reevaluate some of their beliefs.
PUSH THEM LEFT
I mean, this person is showing a slight bit of personal growth so this in an improvment.
I’m having difficulty accepting this could be real. How could someone miss obvious cues for 40 years and then magically find understanding, then have the humility to ask his online brothers for understanding before looking online for reviews.
Maybe I’m cynical. I just don’t see it
I wish it was a bit too, but the Reddit profile has way too much content over several years that’s consistent with his views. Of course he could just be very dedicated.
When I was reading it as a lad I always thought it was a parody of American culture, policy and law enforcement. A true sci-fi western. Substitute Judge for Marshall, guns with the right bullets solve everything and really long sentences or death fix all the problems of the society.
The joke being that Dredd never ever has any real impact on the society.
Oh and Tharg’s Future Shocks did it way before and better than Black Mirror!
I detest the whole idea of BLM… It’s all built on lies but with perhaps a breadcrumb of truth.
Ah yes, “perhaps” there’s a “breadcrumb of truth” to the idea black lives matter. And these are the people libs want to entertain.
I couldn’t cope around this person
This is why you can not under any circumstances make fascists look cool in your art.
If you make fascists look cool and enjoyable to ride along with, people will want to imitate them and will absorb every complaint you have about them into their identity.
Any critique of fascists must start with the fascists being absolute clowns. They should not be “cool”.
one of the most annoying aspects of nazis is how funny they think they are
I’ve been told many times that chuds will always idolize the nazis in fiction, but I don’t ever see chuds idolize the nazis in The Producers.
It sucks because I actually like having cool villains in my fiction. It can make for visually interesting and exciting conflicts, or make the evil instantly recognizable. Ngl I really like the look of the empire in star wars, but I hate that it’s only damn filthy tankies (and those neo marxists taking over universities ofc) who seem to be interested in critically analyzing media and can separate interesting fictional aesthetic from, yknow, actually supporting fascist ideas.
The libs/chuds (
) can’t be trusted to not slobber on even fictional bootsYou can absolutely have a ferocious, scary fash villain. Fascists don’t need to literally be Mr. Bean to be a clown. Have them obsessed with something that would otherwise be benign. Have them feel some lack from a failed purity test (i.e. being It*lian and feeling like you’re not white) rot their soul from the inside and torture them. Maybe a powerful mage in an all black military uniform who’s self-conscious about going bald. A skinhead with a legendary weapon who shaves their teeth until they’re all sharp and gets an infection of the mouth. A powerful tycoon whose project is a natural order that is obviously based on fictitious pretenses who has fooled an entire army who refuse to get out of Plato’s cave. An elusive, beloved bard who conditions victims to believe that society is full of drones and his victims can do nothing but repeat what the bard has said uncritically. You can give a villain a fatal flaw allegorical to being fash that both makes them look like a clown and doesn’t preclude them from being aesthetic.
The newest Wolfensteins did a good job making them look like clowns. Especially the second one, good stuff.
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I’ve seen impotence used pretty effectively in sinister fash villains
Frollo in Hunchback is a fine example of ferocious, scary, and repulsive. Very few chuds want to be him.
Nah, in real life the villans are ridiculous and lame.
Cool villains are a fantasy about the world being more just. What if the suffering you experience isn’t from some dentists kid who inherent your house but some cool evil guy. Then your struggle would be noble.That’s true, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a bit of unrealistic fiction here and there, as long as you can separate the exaggerated & escapist nature of that fiction from reality. For a not insignificant number of people their view of “evil” is based entirely on fiction (eg that “trump is voldemort” shit).
Personally I enjoy exploding space nazis wearing cool looking power armor in ridiculous fictional battles, while also acknowledging that 99% of the time the perpetrators of cruelty are the most milquetoast, spineless, banal, and evil pieces of shit in existence - who also happen to deserve the
all the same.Sometimes it’s nice to have that escapist fantasy of incinerating nazi cyborgs, as long as it doesn’t prevent you from doing good in real life of course.
I blame Hugo Boss.
whenever a guy like this is posted here, I’m always like “Oh yeah, this guy is obviously doing a bit, why are people here falling for satire so blatant?” and then keep reading and it turns out that the person is not, in fact, doing a bit
for every person here who pokes fun at our inability to see when people are being satirical, there’s a guy on reddit who not only thinks that the Empire in Star Wars were the good guys. And not even in an edgy way - he literally thinks that the intention of the films was to show that the rebels were bad and the Empire is good
I don’t think art should change to accommodate them
If its parody then it had to have a source
This is Gen-X media literacy excellence
