I really wanted to openly show my support for my comrades here
Based. Welcome, comrade o7
Beware of the tankies though, they're literally everywhere
KommandoGZD
joined 2 years ago
Jesus Christ that top comment alone. This whole Ukraine business has changed people. Before I could watch mainstream news and read threads like that and some of it would irritate me, most of it I'd disagree with, but it was still tolerable. It was chauvinistic, often racist and ignorant, but often relatively bening. Since 24th Feb it's pure, unhinged racism, imperialism and stuff like this is bordering on ethno-nationalism.
Mainstream left and right seem to agree now that our free, social and prosperous European way of life is to be cherished.
Literal third way fascist rhetoric. Mainstream libs are getting scary man
Just the way they fucking talk. You all know what I mean, they all have these dorky ass, snarky, sarcastic, reeking of proud ignorance and arrogance phrases they rehash over and over again. I can't even put it into words, it just makes me viscerally angry. Like fuck conservatives and chuds too, but at least they don't talk like this...
BREAKING: China has announced the end to the following cooperation with the US
- Calls with leaders
- Defense meetings
- Maritime Security Consultation
- Climate Change Talks
- Anti-Drug cooperation
- Transnational crimes
- Illegal Immigration
It's like he feels the need to counter anything seriously based he's saying with some hollow both-sideism to appear as the "balanced, rational one unlike the others".
Book: Walden. Was so hyped to read it, had massive expectations due to it's popularity and because it sounded awesome. Horrible book. I can't even really put my finger on it, but to me it was just trivial, boring, uninspired rambling and it made me unreasonably angry. One of the very few books I've consciously not finished.
TV show: Big Bang Theory. The most milquetoast normie shit dressed up as nerdy and quirky. It's not smart and the humor is atrocious. Bazoongy! xddddddddddd hahaha Shelbot did le random thing omg what a nerd, btw Batman xddddd Just hate everything about it. The fandom, the characters, everything.
Movie: Coldest Game. Just because I've seen it recently. Horrible pacing, horrible writing, horrible acting, horrible story. Absolute dogshit movie and on top of that it's one of the most unabashed anti-communist piles of garbage I've seen in quite a while. Polish resistence guy literally calls a couple of Soviet soldiers fascists. The whole 'dark ebil empire with the gray sky and grey buildings' aesthetic dialed up to the max. Most cartoonishly evil Soviet antagonists. Fuck it.
Also Transformers. Literal US military propaganda with some fancy boom boom, garbage actors and the most nonsensical stories ever. Fucking sentient car robots from outer space...
Haven't seen it, don't plan to, don't care to tbh.
But having talked to some people about it, this is my takeaway: "Messaging" is simply a new tool of marketing, especially "subversive" messaging. You're not buying a car - you're committing a revolutionary act of activism against climate change and fossil capitalism. You're not buying an ethically farmed, grass-fed, local steak, you're fighting animal cruelty and big farming lobbies with your consumption. You're not simply dressing up skandidly in pink to watch a multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood production of Barbie produced and approved of by its parent company, giving new legitimacy to that old rubber toy franchise and boosting sales numbers. You're totally subverting gender roles and criticizing capitalism by doing so.
Imo you're not. You're just buying a new car, munching another steak and going to the movies again promoting one of the most famous IPs of all time. It's the same thing we've done our entire lives. Changing the messaging around the act without changing the act, doesn't change the act. You're just doing the thing.
There can't be anything really subversive coming out of the hegemonic culture industry. By the very nature of its production, via the commodification it undergoes, it has already become toothless and assimilated. Neoliberal anti-capitalism is just the newest sales-pitch. It's along the lines of "diverse" CIA targeting officer recruitment ads. Just like capitalism can't produce true anti-war movies, it can't produce anti-capitalist or real anti-gender-role movies. It would be self-defeating if it did.
That being said, if you enjoy it more power to you. Nobody needs a grand narrative of subversion and messaging to go see and enjoy a movie at the theater. If you get something deeper out of it, even better.