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They kinda represent the last vestige of the wild west Internet now that I think about it

I think he’s a goalkeeper. Well he used to be at least

PayPal and Venmo ban our news sources because that’s how foreign governments fund their operations right? That’s definitely not because they rely on reader donations or anything, obviously.

Movies have gotten so bad and simultaneously showings of indie movies, classics, etc. have gone way down since the pandemic, at least in my town

Graphics get better, I enjoy games just the same. Just an excuse to sell new consoles.

A lot of it stuff that used be like 80 cents is now 2 or 3 dollars instead so it’s hard to realize how much you are spending until you get to the register

Curious how they never turn inward and levy any similar sort of criticism to mainstream western economists. They never acknowledge that Marx was literally building off of Adam Smith who they treat like Moses writing down the word of their god first of all, let alone dive deep into Keynes, Hayek, or whoever else the fuck they base their religious fervor for capitalism off of. Just such fucking hypocrites

Ah that’s true, I was still partly lib during that time. I just remember when Biden came into power and began the “end of the pandemic” propaganda which involved a lot of reining in of non-corporate media. A lot of websites and journalists that kind of served as my entry point were affected or straight up banned. Then yeah Russia and Ukraine just kicked it into overdrive.

The campaign started under Biden to eliminate dissenting information on the internet and social media has been a rousing success. They have made the internet a liberal bubble again.

Are we really gonna make fun of someone for starting a discussion about reactionary ideology in bourgeois media? Like you can think it’s totally off base but damn

I just can’t get past how ableist the movie is towards Andy. What aspects of his character do you think are interesting in the movie itself? Or do you mean what it represents about how broader society views disabled folks?

Yeah, they make a synth character a Rain Man-esque caricature and treat the whole concept of synths as a stand-in for intellectual disabilities/autism/neurodivergence; he gets treated like shit and used and abused much how real people who belong to the aforementioned groups are abused in real life (I think you could argue there are strong parallels with shock therapy, forceful restraint, etc. and straight up emotional abuse and manipulation). The movie basically says he deserves it because he isn’t a “real human” and the movie expects us to sympathize with and root for the other characters who treat him like shit. It wouldn’t feel so bad, however, if the film makers didn’t make it seem they sympathized with him and acknowledged that the way he is treated is unjust and gross in the beginning of the movie only to pull the rug out at the end with how they handle his character.

I view it more as neoliberal ideology, where in the original it felt more clear that the violence was a product of the system and living under capitalism and working for corporations, Aliens centers the Xenomorphs as the primary source of evil that needs to be exterminated. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen them, so I could be way off base. Still, I think this represents a big ideological shift.

It is so incredibly ableist, I wish it were just a bad nostalgia bait movie. It’s hard to see it go from the relatively pointed social commentary of Alien to just full on reactionary slop

Lmao good timing, I just ranted about the newest one on the general discussion mega the other day.

Definitely agree with you, which sucks considering how good the original is; especially thematically, it had something to say and it was executed well and not really reactionary.

Unhoused folks desperately wish they could work. They loathe relying on social services for food and housing. Fuck you. They didn’t choose this. Burn in hell.

If you control for the fact that we have labeled specific jobs for women and have systematically denigrated and underpaid women for those jobs, you can clearly see that women just happen to take lower paying jobs and thus there is no pay gap! I’m very smart.

I’m as critical of western medicine as anyone, shit like this pisses me off so much because it steers us away from returning to a social model that is really what we need

Yep I noticed that too. The consequences of destroying and debasing the humanities, that shit would get called out so quick if it weren’t a STEM paper