Social WR Lounge v250: The Discord strikes back

[The Diplomat]

Went and got my second covid shot today.

 

[Andy Capp]

I don't think I've fought with anyone in any Lounge thread tbh

 

[Jack V Savage]

Went and got my second covid shot today.

Congratulations on achieving immortality (and being able to telepathically chat with Bill Gates). I got touched with teh jab yesterday. First one. End is in sight.

 

[Andy Capp]

I would never ignore Larry, or SDW for that matter. Their content is sufficiently unique to be worthwhile, even if it doesn't really align with the purposes of the forum.

Well, at the risk of repeating myself, I'll just say that's not my reason.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Went and got my second covid shot today.

RIP.

bill gates now owns your Native American ass

 

[The Diplomat]

Congratulations on achieving immortality (and being able to telepathically chat with Bill Gates). I got touched with teh jab yesterday. First one. End is in sight.

I already feel more privileged now than ever before. It knows no bounds.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Oh I definitely can't off the top of my head, that's why I want to see them discussed.

As I mentioned in my last post, I like scenarios where an upper class proposes technology that's meant to grant more freedoms which a lower class interprets as a violation of more fundamental freedoms.

Would also add Snowpiercer.

Now in regards to Legends of the fall...

that's an interesting choice.

on one side, anthony hopkins hates war, has come to learn that governments often treat its citizens like shit, and war is not fought for nationalism but for other reasons..

all the boys go off to war, and the youngest one feels he has an obligation to serve

then you add the elements of Bootleggging, political corruption...all the bros wanting to bone the same chick...

and sprinkle some Native Americanism in there.

I'm trying to gauge a political tone to this film.

 

[Proud American]

I'm guessing his racism caught up to him. @Ruprecht can you verify?

Was it this one?

I mean Morgan Freeman solved this shit. We just don't want to listen?


"stop talking about it"

"I'm going to stop calling you a WHITE man. And I'm going to ask that you stop calling me a BLACK man"

There is no "black history month" only "history".

Seems too simple a concept though for libtards to understand.

Here's another. Stop referring to yourselves as "African American" and instead refer to yourselves only as "American". You know? Like everyone else? Kind of remove that group label regarding race and suddenly race isn't on the forefront. You are just an American.

Next.

 

[Islam Imamate]

ok, how about V for Vendetta, Do you considering this more of a "liberal" film or "conservative."?

@AgonyandIrony I would like to see your answer as well.

Haha, what? V for Vendetta is one of the most obvious leftist films out there, its based on a comic book written by a literal anarchist.

Definitely leftist.

Obnoxiously leftist. Good film but the message is woefully lacking as political commentary. I like Zizek's classic take on it

Many leftists love the sight of big popular protests but(perhaps due to my contrarian nature) I was never dazzled by them. Tahrir Square is a good example, everyone waxed poetic about how great it was that young people rose up against the dictatorship. But what did it come to? The young people on the street, despite Obama's wishes, lost bigly and in hindsight it was never going to end well for them. I remember listening to NPR around the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring and there was an interview with a women who worked for the State Department. She went over to Egypt to talk to the protestors about a political transition they said something like "We don't do politics, we do revolution" which she thought a bit naive.

I met a girl who was at Tahrir Square and it kind of confirmed all this for me. I had her for a class in college, she was a foreign student. She described it as "lit", in other words it was all fun and games and her and her friends just got stoned and basically partied in the street. It wasn't a revolution, it was more like an impromptu music festival. Elsewhere she would make thinly veiled anti-democratic comments like how 90% of Egyptians are backwards. V for Vendetta plays into the infatuation that leftists have with abstract people power without interrogating basic questions like these.

I'm realizing (via your future thread @essie, thanks in advance) that I'm less concerned with liberal vs. conservative and more concerned with technocrat liberal vs. democratic liberal.

Nolan is definitely on the technocrat side and skeptical of democracy. For instance, Batman in TDK hides the crimes of Dent because he doesn't trust the public to know and in Interstellar NASA has to be brought back in secret to shield the government from the public opinion backlash of funding the space program.