The Culture War Thread

[Cauliflower Of Love]

you know what's really infuriating, as a social writer, the idea you would kill half your audience in just like, right away, like a snap one would say.


E: top of page thanos writing with a pencil:

 

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[HaughtyFrank]

It's really about time movies portray the positive side of god complexes

[Cauliflower Of Love]

It's really about time movies portray the positive side of god complexes

It's called the nines.

[Polident Hive]

That was maybe the most nerd infuriating part of that whole "was Thanos right?" horseshit wankery. Really, we need to have more contempt for "Marvel fans" and self-proclaimed nerds in general praising how they scraped out the entire thematic core of the Infinity Gauntlet (and Thanos personally) for objectively stupid Malthusianism and low level Star Trek tier time travel nonsense. One of the saving graces of Snyder getting fired was he wasn't able to use lame ass time travel in a story with reality shaping powers like he also planned.

Then all these dummies tried to talk us into their multiverse horseshit as the next great storytelling frontier and how much "fun" we're supposed to be having with a multiverse where everyone alive had a traumatic five year time separation and each new "adventure" is about escalating existential cosmic horrors none of the writers have solutions for. Something which everyone completely ignores until somebody steps slightly out of formula in a non-superficial way and our "fans" tut-tut them for making things "too bleak" and "losing the fun and heroics" as Gunn is currently getting.

And then there's the unrelenting inconsistent reality of these "shared universes" that exist only as the main characters (of the moment) move through them. And while I'm on it another thing is how...

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Unironically, reflecting on the last 80 of these movies in the past decade, come away thinking Zod in MoS is the best realized villain. How he’s by design, in text and in universe, one dimensional. How that single track purpose born from a eugenics forward culture feeds into every action he makes. How when he fails that purpose, he’s basically going for suicide by cop while causing as much despair to everyone else. Makes me wonder what Darkseid could’ve been. What I understand, the direction was inline with Grant Morrison’s take. With Darkseid being this manifestation of evil, a force of nature, one track in his own way. It’s an interesting contrast with the other villains, who have relatively relatable motivations, to see someone that’s unambiguously and unashamedly evil. Oh, you’re saying I should shove myself into the locker? Sure thing.

[Uncle]

They should’ve kept Thanos’s motivation as simping for Death, a big breasted skeleton lady, and erasing half of all life for her was his incel opus. Right after he created a female version of himself to make Death jealous or something. Now that would’ve been progressive.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/SophiaNarwitz/status/1657706033572184064

[benjipwns]

"As a Black Woman with natural red hair, I hope this movie is successful in every way."

 

[Nintex]

"Bring Back The Masks" 


These people are so fucking broken

[D3RANG3D]

>Wanting to wear a cuck muzzle.

[team filler]

I like when girls wear the mask tbh


reminds me of the hot ninja sluts in mortal kombat 

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[Potato]

I like when girls wear the mask tbh


reminds me of the hot ninja sluts in mortal kombat 

filler I love your ability to boil any issue down to its most simple form.

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1657843668307390464

 

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https://twitter.com/jncatron/status/1657857189287952387

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[Nintex]

I did the math and if you count 'weeks' as 3 it boils down to about 21 cents a day for each food insecure black resident of NYC.

Next I looked up the cheapest food item on Walmart.com and it's this sweet corn for just 50 cents:
]https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fresh-Sweet-Corn-on-the-Cob-1-each/44391430?athbdg=L1300&from=/shop/[...seo]


I hope they like fighting over half a corn every day because this is some hunger games shit.

[BIONIC]

Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes.

[Nintex]

Every nanosecond literally a genocide

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in minecraft

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[james]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1658155322454728705

[james]

 

Miller Lite has gone woke, start purchasing cases so you can shoot at them

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1658155322454728705

 

[Nintex]

the guy having to photoshop all that

[BIONIC]

Miller Lite has gone woke, start purchasing cases so you can shoot at them

 

Show us the angry tweets

[Cauliflower Of Love]

the guy having to photoshop all that

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[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1658105536972218369

I don't think it will get people quite as angry since you'll find puritans on both the right and the left

[Nintex]

Women also invented tits so they're basically destroying their own invention 

[Uncle]

absolutely women were historically most of the brewers, absolutely

they weren't strong enough to kill mighty mammoth so they were allowed the privilege of sitting around mixing plants and water so Ongo would have a cold one to crack open with the boys when he got back
 

[Nintex]

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1658105536972218369

I don't think it will get people quite as angry since you'll find puritans on both the right and the left

Beer seems to be good for growing massive tiddies too. Those sweater puppies are desperate to get out. Nice one Miller.

[benjipwns]

Really don't think GIRL POWER in 2023 is going to upset people as much as Dylan Mulvaney in a bath tub.

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                 anticipatory hypothetical outrage?
 

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[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/justinboldaji/status/1657572831352242176
https://twitter.com/justinboldaji/status/1657588935781138432

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Sturgeons_Law/status/1657843058904559617

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https://twitter.com/jruderman/status/1657864530540769280
 

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https://twitter.com/evilballerninja/status/1657858513467752448
 

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[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1658335253227012096

 

I don't know why anyone is hitching their flag to Cleopatra. She was literally part of a foreign dynasty ruling Egypt.

[Nintex]

Morally ambigious characters

Saving the princess from the demon king in my self-made Gundam transformer 

[james]

https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1658493913034833920

[Nintex]

The University of Amsterdam has been taken over by their radical left wing students and teachers

https://twitter.com/uvarebellion/status/1658475769839112194

Free Palestine, Carbon Zero, Decolonize, No Police on campus. All in one protest.
The only thing missing is the trans nonsense but they probably don't get along with the people calling for a intifada.

[BIONIC]

Dutch Directness

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1658335253227012096

 

I don't know why anyone is hitching their flag to Cleopatra. She was literally part of a foreign dynasty ruling Egypt.

You could almost call her the original coloniser and white supremacist!

[Potato]

The University of Amsterdam has been taken over by their radical left wing students and teachers

https://twitter.com/uvarebellion/status/1658475769839112194

Free Palestine, Carbon Zero, Decolonize, No Police on campus. All in one protest.
The only thing missing is the trans nonsense but they probably don't get along with the people calling for a intifada.

I wonder how tempted they are to let them run it for a few weeks and watch the whole thing collapse before they get their degrees?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1658335253227012096

Paying attention to aggregated user review scores for random garbage media isn't stupid, it's the praxis of the vanguard.

[HaughtyFrank]

Before the show’s premiere, the series was criticized by the Egyptian government and others who condemned the show for not portraying Cleopatra with white skin. Many accused the creators of “robbing” Egyptians of their history. James addressed the backlash on The Wayner Ayers podcast, saying, “I find it sad that people are either so self-loathing or so threatened by Blackness that they feel the need to do that, to separate Egypt from the rest of the continent.” The next day, she called the controversy “fundamentally racist” on Steph’s Packed Lunch and said Cleopatra’s race is “a very small part of the conversation, really.”

https://decider.com/2023/05/15/queen-cleopatra-audience-score-review-bombed-rotten-tomatoes/

The response from the people who made this documentary has been just so crazy. Like how can you not see that this is textbook cultural appropriation made by a bunch of Americans and Brits while actual Egyptians just shake their heads?
Imagine some documentary declared that Nelson Mandela was actually Arab and then respond to critic with "I find it sad that people are so self loathing or so threatened by Arabs that they feel they need to do that"

As fucked up as the history of yellow-face,, black-face, brown-face etc. has been in hollywood, they still didn't go as far as claiming that Genghis Khan was actually a white dude when John Wayne played him.

[Potato]

The unoppressed and uncolonised people of Egypt should sit down, shut up and listen to the Americans and British people making this documentary.

[HaughtyFrank]

Anyway...

https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1658186756074659850

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Bastilgo/status/1658187193255612416

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https://twitter.com/HITCSevens/status/1658089752518639616
https://twitter.com/HITCSevens/status/1658102399611879427

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

Anyway...

https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1658186756074659850

this is not the kissing I want to see from walhburgh

[Nintex]

I wonder how tempted they are to let them run it for a few weeks and watch the whole thing collapse before they get their degrees?

The police removed the people wearing fortnite cosmetics caling for a mostly peaceful intifada from the premises

https://twitter.com/Matthijs85/status/1658795354534420480

[D3RANG3D]

[HaughtyFrank]

I really want to know who looks at that "fixed" version and thinks "yeah, that's a cool character"

[Uncle]

I really want to know who looks at that "fixed" version and thinks "yeah, that's a cool character"

[Nintex]

To be fair that mentally capable person^TM would be the most popular character in whatever game she's in but for not for the reasons Dove thinks. 

[HardcoreRetro]

You could already play as a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow in the old Fallout games.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Before the show’s premiere, the series was criticized by the Egyptian government and others who condemned the show for not portraying Cleopatra with white skin. Many accused the creators of “robbing” Egyptians of their history. James addressed the backlash on The Wayner Ayers podcast, saying, “I find it sad that people are either so self-loathing or so threatened by Blackness that they feel the need to do that, to separate Egypt from the rest of the continent.” The next day, she called the controversy “fundamentally racist” on Steph’s Packed Lunch and said Cleopatra’s race is “a very small part of the conversation, really.”

https://decider.com/2023/05/15/queen-cleopatra-audience-score-review-bombed-rotten-tomatoes/

The response from the people who made this documentary has been just so crazy. Like how can you not see that this is textbook cultural appropriation made by a bunch of Americans and Brits while actual Egyptians just shake their heads?
Imagine some documentary declared that Nelson Mandela was actually Arab and then respond to critic with "I find it sad that people are so self loathing or so threatened by Arabs that they feel they need to do that"

As fucked up as the history of yellow-face,, black-face, brown-face etc. has been in hollywood, they still didn't go as far as claiming that Genghis Khan was actually a white dude when John Wayne played him.

Literally nobody gave a fuck when Bridgerton made the Queen of England black, because at no fucking point did anyone pretend Bridgerton is a documentary.

I also can't imagine a lot of black folks are super thrilled with the implication there's nobody black in history worth making a documentary about so they came up with this we wuz kangs fairy tale nonsense instead.

[Potato]

Before the show’s premiere, the series was criticized by the Egyptian government and others who condemned the show for not portraying Cleopatra with white skin. Many accused the creators of “robbing” Egyptians of their history. James addressed the backlash on The Wayner Ayers podcast, saying, “I find it sad that people are either so self-loathing or so threatened by Blackness that they feel the need to do that, to separate Egypt from the rest of the continent.” The next day, she called the controversy “fundamentally racist” on Steph’s Packed Lunch and said Cleopatra’s race is “a very small part of the conversation, really.”

https://decider.com/2023/05/15/queen-cleopatra-audience-score-review-bombed-rotten-tomatoes/

The response from the people who made this documentary has been just so crazy. Like how can you not see that this is textbook cultural appropriation made by a bunch of Americans and Brits while actual Egyptians just shake their heads?
Imagine some documentary declared that Nelson Mandela was actually Arab and then respond to critic with "I find it sad that people are so self loathing or so threatened by Arabs that they feel they need to do that"

As fucked up as the history of yellow-face,, black-face, brown-face etc. has been in hollywood, they still didn't go as far as claiming that Genghis Khan was actually a white dude when John Wayne played him.

Literally nobody gave a fuck when Bridgerton made the Queen of England black, because at no fucking point did anyone pretend Bridgerton is a documentary.

I also can't imagine a lot of black folks are super thrilled with the implication there's nobody black in history worth making a documentary about so they came up with this we wuz kangs fairy tale nonsense instead.

Bridgerton's clear success also puts to bed the notion that "alt-right chuds" are to blame for trash like Captain Marvel, Forespoken and other wokebait underperforming.

[Uncle]

exactly, it's the age-old "Ghostbusters 2016 criticism is sexist!" vs. "Annihilation 2018 also featured a team of 4 scientist women and everyone loved it because it wasn't dogshit"

[benjipwns]

exactly, it's the age-old "Ghostbusters 2016 criticism is sexist!" vs. "Annihilation 2018 also featured a team of 4 scientist women and everyone loved it because it wasn't dogshit"

omg nobody has ever heard of whatever you're talking about, what matters are the permanent enduring corporate brands that make up the cultural superstructure of capitalism not some low budget movie nobody knew to review bomb

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/1658845179976069126

[benjipwns]

I do not identify as female. Can I participate in the settlement?

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What should I do if my legal gender or identified gender is different from when I worked at Riot?

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[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1659225026875342848

I really don't care too much about who was lying to who here (the latest claim is that the "Karen" was actually in the right, but who knows), but it really is a bit crazy how random interactions get turned into national news.

[Transhuman]

What else would they show on the national news, national news? PASS.

I can only speak for myself but when that Chipotle manager got temporarily fired for refusing to serve those repeat dine-and-dashers unless they paid in advance, I didn't believe the kids for even one hot second. On the otherhand, when I first saw the Citi Bike vid I took it at face value because she seemed so guilty. And if there was bikes to spare, why was this guy so insistent he have hers? There's doesn't seem to be any upside for the guy, but i've seen enough videos on r/publicfreakouts of women (usually white women) exhibiting this same "Me first!" behaviour that the guy's version seemed plausible. If it turns out she was in the right it'll be the first time I can remember getting got. I'll finally get a taste of how all those Smollett/Heard posters felt.

[Polident Hive]

Personally, I probably wouldn’t get into a fight with some pregnant nurse over a share bike, film the encounter, and share it knowing people online will work towards ruining her life. Easier to douse it with radioactive isotope and make it off limits for us both.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1657918241614774275

The video for those who haven't seen it.

Bike rentals, you will own nothing and you will be happy 

[james]

She deserves to be cancelled for yelling help like a weird wind up toy