FunnyBunny [he/him]

My hot take is that this is a disibility scam. “Oh no I got hit by the magic Cuban mind ray, I need 2K a month for PTSD” They let one motherfucking CIA agent get away with that and the flood gates just opened. They have to let everyone get away with it because the alternate is admitting it’s clearly bullshit. Also it’s government money who gives a shit anyway?

Well I think you’ve got a legitimate criticism of the movie, that Avatar does the “white savior” trope. Jake Sully being like, the best Na’vi dragonrider and leading the resistance is absolutely absurd. I can get over it tho. The Last Samurai doesn’t even have like the semblance of a good political message though right? That was more about the personal journeys of the characters I thought?

Pocahontas is not as good politically as Avatar. If you watch Pocahantas there are evil colonizers and evil natives, that want war with each other. That is protrayed as a bad thing, and eventually the protagonist Pocahantas deflates the situation, and the movie ends with peace. It’s a both sides narrative, a “why can’t we all just get along.”

Where Avatar says there is a good side, the natives, and a bad side, the colonizers, and it ends with the protagonist joining an armed resistance against the US government and expelling the colonial force.

You are right about the white savior aspect, but I still rate the movie pretty highly.

Make a bunch of money for nothing? Value comes from labor not like minting money.

My hate for bitcoin comes from me feeling like it’s really stupid and kind of a scam, and yet some people are like sycophantically devoted to bitcoin. Also the fact that it’s used for like, gun running, money laundering, and sex trafficking.

Creating Israel meant turning a multiethnic country into a ethnostate, so no, it did not made sense.

Maybe a mass migration of Jews into Palestine could have worked out if they were not Zionists, trying to create a “Jewish state” and instead were just refugees assimilating into Palestine. But that wasn’t the case, and the British empire specifically wanted ethnic strife in their colonies.

No obviously not. It does make me extremely skeptical of US aggression, either economic, or military against China for the purpose of pursuing human rights. That is where the question is at for Americans.

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Tankie also seems to ironically mean people who do not support the use of the US military and tanks.

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I mean some Amazon stiff thought that “we are better employers than Bernie Sanders” was going to win them support.