[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Or just a Magneto movie where he doesn't just randomly decide to start murdering someone or betraying everyone around him because "he only knows vengeance" or some other bullshit to remind you he's supposed to be the bad guy.

Seriously, he'll be strategic, logical, and the most insightful character throughout most of each movie and then to balance that out, they need to make him throw all of it away to do something overtly evil that deviates from his plan or the plan suddenly has a twist that involves someone's death with little to no good justification. Why? Because he's supposed to be the baddie.

For once, just drop the act and let us have a cool Magneto that makes sense and doesn't do deranged shit. Idgaf if he's meant to be the villain or an antagonist, everything he does is more interesting than the tired platitudes Prof X and crew give us. The plot always ends up the exact same. In Dark Phoenix and even for a bit in Apocalypse they decided to ease up on him and let Magneto just be cool, but they still had to add enhinged, murderous rage scenes and spontaneous moments of betrayal that are otherwise completely inconsistent with his character and goals.

We don't need a clear black and white, good vs evil story.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago

WTF is this social credit score nonsense? This is AMERICA. Keep that stuff in communist CHINA.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Hasan would be fun, but if I really wanted a chaotic show, let's get BadEmpanada and Trump on a call together. Better yet, let them go tweet for tat.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Typical. You post a reasonable response and get a bunch of ad-pilled shit takes:

"But will you eat shit if I put a little chocolate on it?"

"If you don't eat shit, you don't deserve to ~~interact with the internet~~ eat."

"Maybe if you pay them a little money, they'll stop trying to serve you shit?"

Advertisers contribute nothing of value to our society and contribute little of value to even the companies they serve. Let them burn. Every action they take to "serve" me ads will be met with an equal counteraction.

We deserve to live a life without being constantly bombarded with messages telling us to buy, buy, buy! This significantly decreases our quality of life and is endemic within our entire society. What the hell are all of you who defend advertisers thinking?

Give them an inch and they will take a mile. It definitely won't be the first time.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 3 months ago

"Omg, this homeless problem is out of control! What are we going to do about the homeless question?"

"Make it illegal to be homeless. Problem solved."

Fucking liberals.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 months ago

Nah, it's almost as if proving a treatment is "safe and effective" is the entire purpose of a phase ii clinical trial.

If you want pharmaceutical conspiracies to chase, follow the money. The point at which they are trying to "program" you is when the drug hits the market and commercials come out. It's not that these products are ineffective at this point, just that they will do just about anything to capitalize on them.

Pharmaceutical companies are by no means clean and trustworthy, but your conspiracy is literally just a description of marketing and advertising, which I agree is a plague upon our society.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 5 months ago

No, because they are obviously smarter and betterer at running things than us poors or else they wouldn't be so very rich.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 6 months ago

Which do you prefer: the New York Crimes or the Failing New York Times?

Personally, I'm all about "that bourgeois rag."

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 8 months ago

Do your country proud. Always send military recruiters PPB. Call them groomers. Share their phone numbers with spammers.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 10 months ago

The death and destruction they reap is not real to them because they conveniently never have to see it or have reality put their beliefs to question.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 10 months ago

Lol, you just assumed they care about material reality or other humans!

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Imperialism is a result of capitalism...

When the resources of your home country are insufficient to feed the need for constant growth of profits, the resources of other people begin to look attractive. It's just a matter of convincing your people that it's worth it to go take those other people's resources. Its easier to convince your people to exploit other people if you have dehumanized the other people, so you revert to racism and other tactics of making the others look like barbarians. Then you go make colonies and suppress the native population while exploiting them for labor and resources.

Fascism is imperialism turned inward...

Either the flow of resources from your colonies are insufficient to feed your need for the continual growth of profits or you don't have the means to colonize far away lands, so the resources of countries closer to home begin looking very attractive. Its easier to suppress people at home first, so you turn that imperialist oppression on for a portion of your population at home, exploiting them more than other parts of your population. This doesn't satisfy your needs for more resources for long, so you continue to exploit your own people more and expand the definition of who gets to suffer the imperialist oppression.

When your population can no longer satisfy your needs for continued growth of profits, you turn that imperialism on countries nearby. This process is why people say fascism is imperialism turned inward.

More food for thought...

Some argue this process is why Hitler and the Third Reich are looked on as the ultimate evil. The Nazis took imperialist oppression, a tool that every European country had historically only used on people in far away lands where the culture and the way the people looked was strange to the people at home and they turned that imperialist oppression on the white populations of Europe. Europeans finally began to experience the horrors they had been inflicting on the rest of the world for centuries.

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