#i think it's a political satire

[crow-caller]

This 1970s short story is about a black shelled lonely crab alien contending with human romance. I'm sure my enjoyment of it has no other factors...

(The Reality Trip by Robert Silverberg— i love my pulp short story collections, overall collection is quite eh so far, this story was a lot of fun, and then whoops, there's a sudden very racist one! I read a collection by Theodore Sturgeon before this so I'm still haunted by how much better he is than Silverberg at every turn.)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

If I could be arsed to learn how to edit videos and had some kind of mic, I would 110% make a two part video essay series on the politics of Jurassic World because MY GOD, there's so much to dissect.

The first part would be about how the park is the epitome of neoliberal futurism for techbros, including the way the park so easily falls apart though I doubt that aspect is purposeful. Everything is aesthetic first and function second, and we can't possibly use any of the reliable infrastructure we've already come up with because a train is not gonna get us to Mars, but a monorail might.

And the second would be about the buckwild terrible gender politics going on. The movie is deeply unsympathetic to Claire seemingly because she's a woman who prioritised her career as it's both centre to her character arc and also an inciting event of one of the plots. Not to mention the whole Zara thing or the Owen and Claire thing or the stupid "him, I meant him, line. The movie is rife with misogyny, but it feels like that specific misogyny was isekaied over from backlash to second wave feminism.

I could talk about it all for so long because in a way, it feels like a perfect time capsule for 2015. Back when people took Claire running in heels to be this feminist statement to be made fun of and not just a deeply misogynistic movie trying to sell you feminism. And back when Elon Musk managed to get away with his "I'm the real life Iron Man" shit, and people believed he was smart and all his plans would come to fruition. 2015 was a great time to be a tech bro in Silicon Valley with people just throwing money at all your fake promises.

Yeah. See. This is what I mean when I say I could talk about it forever.

[weedle-testaburger]

i always find it deeply irritating when people are criticising something i agree sucks and raise something i also think sucks as an example of 'how to do it right'. like i think you missed what i hated about it

[seventeendeer]

I really do love the tf2 comics with all my heart as a standalone thing but the fact that the writers tried to pull like a "win for the underdog" type story with this cast of characters is like. insane to me.

like yeah sure the bougie european twat with the borderline-magic james bond gear, the xenophobic republican screaming misogynistic abuse at any man with hair longer than a buzzcut, and the nazis-aren't-funny-but-we-can't-NOT-have-a-creepy-german-scientist-in-a-cold-war-media-parody-like-come-on character are underdogs. why not. nothing means anything anymore. root for them because they're losers like you, booyah

[daz4i]

yknow i really really try to see where people are coming from, usually. as in i try to understand why they do the things they do. but. when it comes to my country's politicians. i just can't seem to figure out how a person can disregard human life so much. like man it's one thing when you look at monarchs centuries ago who literally did not understand that other people are just like them bc they were born to think so, but these politicians supposedly all started as normal people, yet it feels like they don't see anyone but themselves, and that's just insane to me. like i have met selfish or self centered people in my life but never at this level. i can't comprehend this. they are literally like evil cartoon villains it's actually insane

[just-in-cays]

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[itsbebebe]

Nothing more comically on brand than the fact that when I was like 7 my entire class hated the local (tory) MP at the time because he stole our class toy for a year

[black-klok-youth-pastor]

Hasn't happened a whole lot, but often enough to necessitate this meme's creation:

[rosalie-starfall]

Selina Meyer & Minna Häkkinen

Veep : 2013-2019

[lucky-clover-gazette]

tfw you look at the plot outline of a project you’ve been working on for years and realize that this extended fantasy metaphor for the pandemic actually reinforces conspiracy theory and antivax attitudes within the metaphor

[alexanderpearce]

wait i just remembered The Arse End of the World by Juan Davila which i'm obviously not posting the full thing of but can we fucking talk about this

[theholidayslingerlikebadperfume]

is political fiction a genre???? what genre do u call ppl who wanna write like vonnegut and orwell and bradbury??????? like is that just political fiction?

[iiidunno]

I just finished the boys holy feckin shit

what do I do with myself now?

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

The other night I had a dream that there was a hot new parody of the song Lump by Presidents of the United States of America. Tragically, I don't remember any of the parody lyrics beyond the chorus of "she's Lump, she's Lump, she's Lump" being replaced with "he's Trump, he's Trump, he's Trump".

[mexashepot]

😭😭😭 I obvs knew what was coming but I am still sobbing like a baby at 03:33 am.

[iiced-ventii]

Hey guys? Quick pronoun question; how do you use kiss/my/ass pronouns? I heard Ted Cruz uses those pronouns and I don't want to disrespect ass's pronouns.