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  • I like Capeshit again

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  • This is kind of what I mean. It's not a 'fuck you' to Snyder's version. It's just a good movie. Superman saves people because that's what he does & is part of his narratives, it wasn't an epic own on the version of the movie you didn't like.

    I think the movie is denigrated so much by the 'he saved a squirrel epic snyder dunk' discourse. There's so much more to talk about than Superman being a cornball.

  • I like Capeshit again

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  • The point wasn't lost on me, it was the discourse surrounding it. It almost felt as if the (online commentary) audience missed the point of these scenes and saw them instead as Superman's 'essence.'

  • Do you prefer humanized villains or pure evil villains in fiction?

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  • Hey my personal pet peeve of 'comic book discourse' is this singular image

    Decent line delivered in a cool way as part of a very compelling narrative

    But boy the amount of comic-brained lib types who share this quote as if it's something powerful, impactful, applicable to real life, as if the story the quote comes from doesn't interrogate the sentiment itself

    Like no dude if batman existed irl I'd hope he's armed to the teeth, probably use the weapons your enemies are using especially if they are weapons that can kill

  • People always say "don't give the homeless money because they'll just spend it on drink/drugs"

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  • Yeah while I've always known systemic support to homeless people is objectively a good thing and most people take advantage of opportunities granted to them, I've also known that individual support to homeless people, like throwing a beggar a few dollars on the street, will likely lead to them buying drink/drugs/whatever habit gets them through.

    And you know, so what? I'm giving them money to help them. Why the hell should I care if they're using it to get high? Literally living on the streets. It's the smallest comfort for them. Not like my contribution was ever going to get them a house.

  • I like Capeshit again

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  • Movie was pretty good, I liked the comedic relief of the dog and the extended superhero cast of D listers really came together.

    That being said this movie specifically has the weirdest discourse surrounding it. I think the overly-invested comic audience that came with the movie came prepared to hyper analyze the weirdest details of the movie to compare & contrast to Snyder.

    Like, filter discussions back to the release day of the movie and you'll see the strongest praises for the weird cutaway scenes where Superman saves a dog or a squirrel or mugs the camera with some outdated 1950s charm. Not in any smart or creative way, just Superman saving animals & people and stuff.

    I genuinely have a hard time believing people are in the cinemas to see those scenes, but you'd get the impression they were based off the discourse.

    I think it's a big example of Diegetic essentialism causing a cultural fixation on the wrong parts of media. If Snyder never made his Superman movies I don't think people would care how many squirrels Superman saves.

    Punkrocker was peak.

  • Czech Republic banned communism

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  • They finally got true political freedom, good for them.

  • Do you also get sick whenever you are around kids during the holidays?

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  • I never realized how fast and often you could get sick until my kid started going to daycare. They are hazardous to your health.

  • I have no idea how people can afford kids

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  • I'm pretty sure my kids generation isn't going to see the worst of it. Everything's hopeless on that front if we don't raise a better next generation, anyway.

    why should your child live a life of suffering just to gratify you?

    Children are gratifying but infamously hard & life altering. No one's doing it for kicks & because it's a fun time. If my kid is suffering it'd be news to me; if I find that I'm unable to control the suffering they experience as an adult, that's just the universal parental experience. You do your best and prepare them for the world they live in.

  • Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN

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  • Fear and confusion in [X] village hit in US strike, locals say no history of [Y] in the area

    ^^^ Story as old as drone strikes itself.

  • I have no idea how people can afford kids

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  • You got it. There's no perfect scenario where you can have kids. Taking a step back, most of humanity has been raised in conditions infinitely worse than what I can offer my own children. While I may struggle as my parents did before me, I grew up well-adjusted and well-educated, even if not always happy or content. Why deny myself children based on the same conditions that created me?

  • I have no idea how people can afford kids

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  • You manage when you have them. I personally refuse to let children be a class privilege.

  • Pluribus be like "we don't kill"

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  • I wouldn't say they disregard the risks. The Hive did spend the better part of a year attempting to spread without harming anyone. The mass global event occurred out of self-defense, as they put it. One of the more interesting elements of the show is the rigid imperatives the Hive operates under, and how they conflict.

    There might be a hierarchy of priorities & preservation of specifically human life might be lower than their others, but their behaviors show it's undoubtedly a priority for them.

  • Pluribus be like "we don't kill"

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  • I think searching for where the Hive is actively lying isn't nearly as interesting as searching for where the Hive omits the truth. I think we as an audience are meant to accept the 'rules' as outlined so far, that being that the Hive genuienly does not want to kill and makes its decisions based around this limiting factor of their behavior.

    Basically, I think the Hive is telling the truth when they imply all the deaths during the initial joining really were from falls, crashes or other accidents that occur when people suddenly drop into a seizure.

    If the Hive can commit mass murder it makes their dynamic with the immune way less interesting, because it feels like killing Carol and everyone else is way less hassle.

  • [Weekly Discussion Thread] Australia Still Doesn't Exist, But is Organizing (Ft. Jordan van den Lamb) - Episode 212

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  • I’m a bit confused why they invited him on to be honest.

    Australia doesn't really have any serious organizational ML representation, like, at all. It could be that they wanted to feature someone from the Aussie sphere and Jordan/Purplepingers is all-but the face of Australian socialism, for better or for worse.

    I was pretty chuffed to see him make an appearance on the podcast, would not have guessed it in a hundred years. I could also see ideological differences a mile away. I'm happy he was on for a slightly stilted episode as both sides are mutually platformed this way. I know Purplepingers fans in real life who I can now show an episode of the Deprogram to.

  • Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"

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  • YouTube really recently stepped up their efforts to detect and circumvent adblockers. Before last year, there was no such thing as an adblock error message. Now, anything but uBlock will likely trigger it.

    Part of this is Google's step to gain more control over the browser ecosystem and lock down the ability to even use adblockers.

    I think it's both a matter of these solutions not being sufficiently problematic, while also being unfeasible to actually fix.

  • Live: One shooter dead, another in custody after 16 killed in Bondi Beach attack

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  • But who will stop the bad guys with the guns?

  • What's the Marxist position on Psychopathy and "ontologically evil" people in general?

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  • Certified good posting, this put to words some more complicated thoughts I've been dwelling on while also broadening my perspective on the whole topic. Makes me want to get into an entirely new subject of reading. Banger job.

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  • we dbhigh posting?

  • Should I watch Pluribus just to be ready to explain to my two friends who are watching it why it's anticommunist garbage?

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  • The characters have directly called this out in the show and I want to give the writers a little credit that they're using the tropes as a launching pad for something more interesting. Vince is an incredible writer but does have a track record for Americanisms in his work. Personally I don't think we've seen enough of the plot yet to know what the writers intend to say with the concept.