Ericthescruffy [he/him]
Are these people even aware that Biden is still the fucking president right now??? Jesus christ more than racist they are just fucking stupid.
How about we just execute Biden instead? Same result and way cleaner.
As much as I fucking love Deus Ex…I think maybe we don’t want Spector on the lathe again.
Incredible. I genuinely gave the libs too much credit as I thought they’d at least wait for the transition to start giving a shit.
Everyone should take the opportunity to remind these people that not only is Biden still the president, he is still supporting and funding Israel right now even after his party lost at least in part due to their stand on this.
Palestinian lives are nothing but a prop to these sociopaths.
There’s a lot of aspects about it I really like…but as a complete piece…it’s just not there for me. Take Luke Skywalker’s cynical turn for example. On paper: fucking love it. There’s that meme going around showing young and old luke with young college philosophy graduate and jaded Marxist professor.
But like…if you’re going to have earnestly eternal optimist Luke turn cynical it has to be from a failure of that optimism to have positive results rather than a failure to follow it. Luke being tempted to kill kylo ren makes sense to me…but I don’t get how he concluded his entire philosophy and worldview was wrong when by his own admission it was a “moment of weakness” where he almost did the most contradictory thing to his own philosophy that he’s ever done. If anything I think that whole fallout would have made him double down.
So much of the movie is like that. Good pieces in isolation but none of them quite work.
That being said: it’s the best by far of the sequel trilogy. Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire. Force awakens is a pandering cynical cash grab with nothing worthwhile to say or add that gets progressively worse every year.
Last Jedi feels like it’s made by an actual artist with something to say…even if what he’s saying just doesn’t quite hit.
Lmao, wut??? Like the old saying goes, you shouldn’t call it a comeback when he’s been here the whole time.
For what it’s worth: I think most of those people are also crushingly lonely and alienated…because those things are due to material conditions more than what you’ve read.
Reading tons of shit and educating yourself doesn’t make you any more lonely and alienated so much as it helps you correctly diagnose and identify the source of those things. Also doesn’t give you any sort of special power/ability to fix it on your own though.
Kind of what I was thinking. I think if I want to be charitable he’s not saying he can’t write at all, or even that he can’t write capeshit, but that he can’t write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves. IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).
What’s sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that’s the limits of the genre he’s working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.
