I had a similar experience, sans jail and FBI. During a family gathering, I argued with my father that poor people should not be poor and jobs exploit us all. He's like "this sounds just like some run of the mill Marx and Engels".

So then I read Marx and Engels and now I want to destroy the West

The caves of Barcelona yearn for billionaire flesh

Oh, I've seen it too. Many shows back then had eco activism as a good thing, or at least oil execs as villains. I think even that weird "Motormice from Mars" show had an oil baron as the main antagonist.

And I don't think it couldn't happen now. Media, even when revolutionary on the surface, is barely driving real world engagement and can be easily defanged. We live in the revival era of anti-capitalist messaging in media (film and even video games), and yet it's been fully consumed by capital. I hate Zizek and his clique, but Mark Fisher was spot on in Capitalist Realism.

Avatar, one of the biggest box office successes in the world, has a blatant anti-colonial message yet most people don't apply it to the obvious parallells in the rral world. We just consume, feel good for a moment for agreeing with the obvious morally correct choice, then do fuck all about it. And execs know it.

sorry for the doomer note here

I am all about kill your heroes etc, so I don't follow her and only hear about her every few months, and while I am always positively surprised, she wouldn't be the first to take a nose dive at a moment's notice. At the same time, I don't think she's actually trying to sell out, her shit is extremely unsellable ever since she dropped the lib "school strike" and went in with more hardcore activism. I think she might be genuine, and I say that as somebody who thought she was just a preppy kid back during her strike years (she comes from a well-off family etc).

I live in sweden and the divide on Greta is hilarious. On one hand you have reactionaries who STILL put stickers like "fuck you greta!" on their shitty cars, on the other you have lib climate activists who seem downright scared of her more based activism and talk about her "having gone too far" in hushed voices. Only ppl I've met that like her now are either MLs or hardcore anarchists. Imagine if she would join a marxist org

When I was younger, I enjoyed watching this local TV show "Luxury Trap" (translated from the original Swedish "Lyxfällan") as kind of a guilty pleasure. I am not gonna lie, I watched it for the "feel good factor" of "at least I am not as miserable as these people" - which is probably the reason most people watch it. The whole premise is that these self-proclaimed financial experts help people who are in deep debt to get back on their feet by helping them sell valuables and pay off the worst in short term, and set up a pay off plan for the long term, and then bam, all fixed. Along the way there is a lot of shaming the indebted people for their life choices, mainly stuff like buying fast food, snacks, and sometimes some bad spending habits or gambling problems. It's a 30 minute formula that always gets happily resolved by the end, and is followed up ONCE after one month with a perfect "thank you I'm cured" response, the entire theater part is thinner than a white guy's skin. It's just milked for drama all the way through.

Every episode follows the exact same formula and after a while you start to understand that it's all about just kicking down on the people who have deeper issues than just being slightly irresponsible with their snack money, having been ground down by the shitty life they are dealt, but it sells like crack, they are probably at something like season 30 now. Disgusting, really, even if I personally find fast food to be devil's work

I watched HIMYM as a teenager and WOW did it not age well

He is well known for liking the 4 B's: Bullets, Blood, Babes and Bombs.

And this show is clearly bombing

I literally had a coworker from Poland who went "soviets were so evil, if Hitler won the war, polish ppl would be better off". He would not listen to me saying that if hitler won then polish people would simply not be, at all.

Although it probably didn't help that I opened with "look, you don't need to like Stalin to understand..."

I hate communism because it didn't cure my family of being reactionary shitheads despite lifting them out of famine-ridden dirt farmer life.

they are saying what part out loud?

I know the twitter guy is racist and hating the fact that Yasuke is the protagonist, but what does that sentence even mean

I saw the worst fucking takes around this in a facebook "leftist" group, so many "not all men" telling women to shut up and touch grass, because obviously talking about abuse and being mistrusting of men is "hysterical" and "permanently online". I thought I had stumbled onto 4chan by mistake.

the worst ones were probably spouting literal right-wing racist shit about immigrant men being overrepresented to le epicly troll those evil misandrist women.

fucking disgraceful