#right-wing narratives

[alwaysbewoke]

[ravenkings]

i really wish v for vendetta (both the movie and the graphic novel) hadn't become associated with deeply irritating (and often reactionary) online political subcultures bc it really does slap so fucking hard

[hilacopter]

leftists when there are bigots in their country: obviously not everyone here is a bigot because we're human beings with differing opinions and political views, people who generalize all of us as bigots are being xenophobic.

leftists when there are bigots in the country they don't like: SEE THIS IS PROOF THEY'RE ALL EVIL ULTRA-RIGHT WINGERS AND WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN WANTING THEM DEAD WE MUST CLEANSE THE WORLD OF EVIL

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Obviously a lot of season 2 focuses on Jinx's compassion and love and kindness, what with Sevika's new arm, getting her family back, and everything with Isha. But one scene that really struck me is when Ekko tries to talk her off that roof. She pulls the trigger again and again before he can even speak cause she knows he'll change her mind. But what struck out at me was that, when he complains about being blown up, she opts instead to throw herself from the roof. She had it all planned out but would choose to improvise rather than harm someone who considers her a loved one.

[local-redhead-bookworm]

If you somehow managed to watch any of Mobile Suit Gundam and think it was apolitical, I am going to tape your eyes open and force you to rewatch it

[cuntylestat]

one of my students saying that their course is trying to turn students into leftists and is "super woke" is very funny but also a bit concerning

[bonebabbles]

Wind Runner gives birth a month early and loses a kitten to a seizure, indicated by the child having 'spittle' frothed at the corners of its mouth.

Gray Wing shuffles up with his Characteristic Wisdom,

"Maybe it's for the best that your weakest child died"

"Also maybe it would make your loss easier if you started believing in our religion just like we pressured you into taking a name like ours"

Harsh? Yes.

Deserved? Also yes.

Maybe next time he'll think twice about proselytizing to a mother of a different faith who just horrifically lost a child, still cradling its corpse, after going off about how "maybe only the strongest should survive"

At least Bumblestripe waited for the funeral! The dead baby is NOT EVEN COLD, GRAY WING!!!

[onejellyfishplease]

I just finished reading the new chapter for Open Your Shell and AUGH it hurts so bad. One part really stood out to me: "Donnie's hands curled into fists, slamming down onto his desk, just narrowly missing his keyboard. He started at it. The 'D' key was coming loose." I didn't really think much of it at first, but then I realized the significance of the loose key being the 'D' one. It symbolizes that Donnie is drifting apart from his family. The key is breaking and coming loose and so is he. The key hasn't fallen off quite yet, but it will soon if nothing is done about it. Donnie hasn't left yet, but he plans to once Leo is back home. I may just be looking into it too deeply, but I really loved that line and it got me thinking, so I just had to gush about it for a minute.

oh im so glad you noticed!! i was really proud of that little nugget of symbolism.

and another little tidbit is- Donnie isn't bothered to fix it, he knows its almost broken and he isnt going to do anything to stop it. like he's accepted it as inevitable.

love it when people look into my writing like that!!

[tumbloggingattheendofitall]

I think it's actually really solid from a philosophy standpoint that Aaron Sorkin created the contrivance of The President Invoked The 25th Amendment

Because above all, the text of the amendment covers the circumstances

But beyond that, it's been like 20 years and I've gotta say that if half as many politicians had involved that level of cognizance in decision-making, I don't actually think we would be in this political landscape

What I mean is. They swore a man in to do a job that collectively lasted less than a day. He did do that job, unbriefed and largely unprepared and it was on the back of The US President was Unable to continue his duties that they made another guy temporarily President and they only got there because the president was already so taxed by his daughter being kidnapped that he was unable to continue

Jfc I mean I do actually Hate the motherfucker that made Temp President in the show

But I think it's really valuable that this show was so obsessed with Process for so long because it made a better show where we're asking ourselves not only politically what this does to this guy (which makes us politically savvy) but in a modern context, I'm frankly asking what the fuck else wasn't focused on, in-universe, that makes this situation challenging to navigate and weird to get through because we now have a temporary new president and not for the reason that the amendment envisioned either

I mean it's actually fascinating as a discussion and I think it makes things like political science more interesting as we try to a world where people frequently get so old they die (or get voted out) before resigning their seat in public office

And this one is such a wild circumstance that it could only be tv but these are the kind of circumstances that do kind of make public office and how those leaders deal with it tells you a lot about them

Like how for example I think being President is more important to Donald Trump than any process that allows for the country to actually function

I think he'd never invoke the 25th even if he were suddenly upon his deathbed by disease with warning

Because I think he's the kind of man that cares more about his ego than how an entire country functions (it doesn't or it Tries Badly) without that figurehead -because I would argue the biggest advantage to a president is having a figurehead at which other countries can point a gun, which allows them to lose focus on the other ways that the government actually (theoretically) runs

Anyways I'm just saying things recreationally but I'm really pondering this in light of what I have seen in the show and the ways that this show largely reflects a politics that is baking to the one we continue to play (because the people who haven't embraced the panopticon believe politics still works like this, or else have already died)

I'm just saying there are already many obviously challenging pieces to this but conceptually there is a letter that removes his power as an elected official, and another what returns it, and both get approved at once.

And then the capitalism that makes a rabid and ravenous Press also makes itself known and I'm reminded that people make their whole salaries on the shit like this which is why the 25th has only ever been theoretically enacted (and I don't know history but I'm pretty sure I'm right about that one since it's an American time

[buttfrovski]

opening pandora's box would be more tolerable than going through cartmans phone

[alwaysbewoke]

i have to remember not everyone in florida voted for these people in power because it's hard to feel sorry for them sometimes. really hard (watch til the end smfh)

and she's going to turn around the vote for him AGAIN smfh

[firefighter-diazbuckley]

i genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, think you are just plain fucking stupid if you believe in conspiracy theories and the “mandela effect”

[prokyon]

[long post of israeli bullshit propaganda]

oh i wonder if this person cares about "the joos"?? maybe their racist bullshit is at least backed up by a veneer of caring about antisemitism or something-

the FIRST post you see on this zionist shithead's blog:

if you dont know what this is, it's fascist "the west is collapsing because women get rights" crap. it's very very stock standard for nazis. you got it all here, you got ableist r-slur, you got "darkmaga" pepe frog, you got "rome fell because women!!!" and "abortion is evil and an afront to god" and "controlling the reproductive resources of the West is a necessity" crap.

but oh yeah go ahead and tell me that zionist freaks are very Jew-friendly and not right wing fuckheads, and that we should bother engaging with empty handwringing over false claims about "the left are the REAL antisemites" anymore.

it's a fucking joke.

[crackny2k]

*wokely* i think immigrants are amazing because they sell kebabs

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think in a sense the MCU made me get away from all the comic characthers they already touched because liking a characther in the comics is very different to liking a characther on a popular movie franchise.

When I say I love Batman or that Riddler is my babygirl or that I think Superman is great and Green Arrow is fun or Zatanna is cool, I'm talking about the concept of the characther paired with some specific versions of them. The inconscistence of mainstream super hero comics as an ever changing universe that exists in different eras and was touched by different writers and artists and audiences means that in the end what we truly like about a characther is their potential and the core traits that were mantained during this whole mix, is personal. We may like the same characthers for the same reasons and still it is a very unique experience.

But the MCU took it from me. I can't say Ironman is my disaster boy or that I adore Wasp or really like Scarlet Witch because it isn't about a personal experience related to the first impressions and the versions of the characthers that marked me and made me like them despite the rest. The MCU is constant, the characthers are the same even with the writers changing and the time passing, now a characther being OOC isn't a feeling or someone breaking a fundamental trait (and this arguments of what is in characther won't take to an interesting dicussion of how we percieve the characther wadawadawada) and they are popular enough that saying I like Tony authomatically means MCU Tony unless I make a long explanation. Not only that but if I criticize Wanda for something that had a similar conterpoint in comics when I love comic book Wanda it's seen as wrong because the idea of the chracthers being more concepts to be enjoyed makes no sense in the movie universe and therefore aren't truly understandable by an exclusivaly movie viwer wich means that liking the comics version of the characthers ends up coming with the necessity of explaining the different ways I interact with both medias and why plus the differences between the comic characthers and the movie characthers until I'm tired and there is still some stans who are mad with me.