“…shy guys (Jews)” is fucking sending me. What an absolute all-timer of a sentence
I’ll admit, it isnt a sentence I expected to read in any kind of political context.
i mean, toads are living in a hereditary monarchy, and based on the wiki, they’re agendered…and, they’re not real
also like many monarchies their monarch is not of their group, also question no one ever seems to ask is where is the King/Queen of the mushroom kingdom, why is peach acting as a regent
a woman being a leader! this is a model for the right? they want a dom mommy in a leadership role?
Well they only allow it because she constantly needs rescued
If he loves ethnostates so much, send him to tel aviv. I’ve heard the “meteor showers” there are quite beautiful these days.
Weirdly, Netahyahu isn’t out appreciating that natural beauty. He’s either in a bunker or in Greece – dude must not like astronomy.
I vote he is in a greek bunker
Plato’s cave (for the love of the god, don’t let him out)
I am somebody who has actually replayed Paper Mario and this interpretation is nonsense.
For starters, Toad Town is not ethnically homogeneous. There is the Postmaster, a Paratroopa; Fishmael, who belongs to a race of fish; Fuzzipede, a caterpillar; Rowf & Rhuff, who are Dugans; Lee, a Duplighost; Bub-ulb, a plant; Chan; a Buzzy Beetle; and Merlon and Chet Rippo, of unknown races. Apart from Chet Rippo, none of these characters is malicious, and Toad Town might actually be slightly more diverse than Bowser’s Castle.
This dullard also overlooks the especially glaring fact that the heroes are outsiders. The only Toad who could hypothetically defend his town is The Master, and he spends all day in his dōjō. Every other Toad is powerless against Jr. Troopa, the Koopa Bros., Bowser, the Shy Guys, and Kent C. Koopa (who appears immediately East of Toad Town). Who handles these characters? Mario and his diverse band of teammates. In fact, it would be so ridiculously easy to finish Paper Mario with the opposite interpretation: diversity is strength!
Ethnonationalism is fairly popular in Japan, so I could see somebody else putting forth this interpretation in good faith, but this is clearly another neofascist bore who thinks that all of his favorite media secretly agree with his simpleminded conclusions. I think that they only say this crap because the media that they already have stink. Who would unkiddingly say that G.P.U. is a classic? They’d rather reinterpret actual classics like They Live, The Matrix, and Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers because they’re so much better!
They’d rather reinterpret actual classics like They Live, The Matrix, and Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers because they’re so much better!
The only problem with doing so is that making these types of stories conform to fascist ideology requires a level of simplification most people would find intolerable and boring. “They Live” is in its own way reminiscent of antisemitic “lizard people” mythology, and could therefore easily be reworked into Nazi propaganda, but the critique of consumer culture and Reaganomics would become completely vestigial if that were to happen. Without that, how is it meant to be compelling or relevant decades later?
The only genre fascists have left is stock medieval European fantasy. And that really doesn’t count. Even though the logic of race science and white supremacy is “baked into” these stories the same way flour, water, and yeast are “baked into” a loaf of bread, all these stories are still about people putting aside their racial differences and working together!
yah Paper Mario, highest form of right wing theory
I take back everything I ever said about anarchist theory being juvenile.
I really wish we didn’t live in a world where people construct their entire ideology around children’s entertainment
Can we bring back lobotomies just for this person? I feel it would not be unreasonable
According to my credentials (I’m pretty good at Dr. Mario), I believe I’m qualified to perform this surgery. With a sledgehammer.
I think this person may already have undergone one.
I mean sure, the right is just a collection of crackpot ideas that have no consistency and are divorced from the material reality. The fact that the left tends to be far more grounded in material analysis, necessarily means there is going to be less diversity of ideas because batshit insane ideas aren’t taken seriously.
Yes, exactly. A year or two ago a friend of mine lent me a copy of Bronze Age Mindset, by an internet neo-fascist (and Zionist!) who calls himself “Bronze Age Pervert.” There were a few more-or-less astute observations that the author clearly cribbed from Nietzsche, Plato, and Aristotle; the rest was utter and complete nonsense. Some gems: Wilhelm Reich was correct about orgone, industry is actually powered by machines that run off of people’s spiritual energy, the ancient Chinese were actually white Aryan steppe warriors, etc. He had a long section about driving with a hippie friend of his, and wanting to “jack off” in the car. I don’t know why people fall for this tripe.
I would personally be embarrassed to admit that my idea of a perfect society has only ever appeared in children’s fiction, doubly so if I clearly wasn’t paying attention to the actual story and just bizarrely projected my Nazi hog-cranking fantasy onto it.
It does confound me slightly that this stupid idea of reality is completely removed from the world as it is while simultaneously having more political momentum behind realizing it than even social democracy does, much less socialism proper… can’t have shit in the anglosphere.
“Jews” 💀
TFP out of context ^
