Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]

social justice is not just beliefs held by the population, it rests on economic foundations which were swept away by the fall of the warsaw pact.

Necromancer: i will never stop restarting the Tolkein struggle session :sicko-pig:

the French staff literally thought a substantial armored force couldn’t go through the Ardennes. they ignored intelligence giving them advanced warning because it was not a possibility and the scouts mustve been mistaken. they could’ve moved more troops to counter, attacked them aerially/conventionally in the forest, but their rigid understanding of the combat theater blinded them until it was too late.

i wouldn’t necessarily call it an ‘outdated command structure’ but poor leadership & strategic inflexibility in spades

sometimes funded by pension funds

gotta always get that fucking jab in there eh?

capital guts pensions and forced retirement to be financialised, so now every finance evil thing can also get blamed on the slightly better off workers with unions and benefits. fucking manufactured crab and bucket bullshit

true imperialists get scurvy on a boat drinking sour beers before bombarding unarmed coastal villages with massive guns.

not like those mewling nomadic types taking on opponents with numerical & technological parity

benders made up the entire police force & the governing body. even in the text of the show unsympathetic to the equal-guys those conditions are textbook intolerable. fuckssake the avatar’s son whose tribe is all of 6 people got an equal say to the earth, water, and fire people

its not necessarily a yank’s fault they’re uneducated about what their country has done but anyone who lacks the compunction to ask “why is this person chanting death to america?” and not take their answer from a idiot news host ‘they hate us for our freedoms’—these people don’t deserve a voice on the meaning of a slogan from a country they know nothing about in a language they don’t speak.

(also im not DtB im just defending the formula, which especially should be unproblematic here because we’re aware of the context of the phrase)

the iranians have never meant “yankees should be genocided” death to <country> has always been about opposition to imperialism and neocolonialism.

some navel-gazing arrogant americans think half the world literally wants them dead but they’re the most incurious hateful people imaginable so their opinion doesn’t really count on whether victims of the yankees’ slogans hurt their feelings

it was different before! it was more artistic 20 years ago!

:thonk: which is what they were saying 20 years ago. and 20 years before that. Snobs have been complaining about lowbrow pushing out highbrow since like, the advent of the talky. And then in a couple decades it gets reappraised as ‘oh that schlock we were hating on is actually Super Art and the shit coming out now doesn’t compare’.

But they can never talk about why this is, even though its obvious and has been the same fucking process the entire time. Hollywood has always always always been about getting asses in seats, never artistic achievement. You want to see what artist-lead film is go back in time to the fucking Soviet Union.

God these nostalgia hogs make me sick