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No Kings! (lemmy.world)
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[-] semisimian@startrek.website 31 points 2 weeks ago

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

Watery tart

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

Both Barbie movies are way more based than they had any right to be.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

That's from Toy Story 3, though.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, forgive my ignorance. I just assumed there was a Barbie movie that I didn't see.

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

2023 Barbie is nowhere near based, it feels like a half baked apology from Mattel, who happens to be the ones which forced unrealistic body types over women for a whole century

Honestly, not a good movie either, can't recall rn but I feel like 25% of it was about mattel corpo propaganda.

Some of it was fun though. I liked the flashy songs

[-] Liberteez@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

Mattel made a movie based on their toy line and it had an agenda?? I'm aghast!

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I get where you're coming from, but the new Barbie film was pretty based if you take a step back and examine it as a whole. I mean the whole Ken takeover of the Barbie village is strangely prophetic, given the whole trump takeover (so happy my small town had the biggest protest I've ever seen from her yesterday!) and the snippet about Margot explaining what fascism means. And this is coming from a 6'6 270lbs. Cis het ally with a shaved head and fairly thick beard. I enjoyed it for what it was. Yeah it's no citizen Kane, but it definitely hit higher than it's weight class.

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

No system can achieve consensus consent of the governed. All governments maintain authority through a monopoly on violence.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

No systems that rely on and encourage centralization and concentration. Systems exist. They don't educate us about them purposefully.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] mercano@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago
[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh shit, I still haven't seen that. T. Hanks

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's the one where Woody and Buzz Lightyear finally fuck.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Bravo@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 week ago

What about him?

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Side note but my partner and I just recently watched Toy Story 4 for the first time and, wow, what a disappointment compared to the first 3.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah should've stopped at 3.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I haven't seen 4 but 2 was my favorite lol

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

All of society runs on the underlying threat of violence/force... From staving off wars, to enforcing our laws. It all requires people to be cajoled into being good/better under the threat of punishment. Usually through isolation from the rest of society, or straight up violence.

That threat of force is given to the government on behalf of the authority and consent of the governed. If they continue to abuse it, then it's only on the governed to establish that change themselves. Either through political violence, or by changing the politicians / laws.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is quite literally fascist rhetoric. Mattel & Disney quite famously made their debuts making antifa propaganda, that it was intentionally written by Michael Arndt that Barbie would say this, instead of Ken.

But again, the folks desiring to be governed in the first place do not comprehend the authoritarian exploitation Barbie enforced in the end of that movie.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Too bad The Disney was a well known Nazi sympathizer, but I saw the mattel logo everywhere one time visiting the PGA club(yes That PGA) and thought to myself "why would a toy company be holding a conference in possibly the most expensive club imaginable? It must be something else!" But no, it was that mattel. Now ask yourself who they are all voting for!

I'll give you two guesses which major party the vast vast majority support. If you get it right the first time you win, if you get it right the second time then you're fucking delusional.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't need to guess. Governing by the plurality is still governing by mob. And that is no tyranny I want to be part of.

Woody chose correctly to find a home to be welcomed for who he is, not for who he is owned by.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I don't have a fancy way of saying "cool".

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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