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.

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

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