This is unimpeachably true. He gave license to ordinary people to embrace their own sadism and cruelty. That further poisoned our politics and undermined traits in leadership like competency or evenhandedness. Now we are at the mercy of these freaks as the world gets set on fire

Shudder may be losing the show that brought you there, but that free streaming app with all the ads and the titles that you love that you’re going to flee too… They’ve been known to edit movies. Cut things down, and zoom in on scenes. Zoom. In. To censor. In 2026. No thanks.

agree with the sentiment however it is funny i still basically only see people make this argument with examples of children’s movies and not like pink floyd’s the wall or princess mononoke or anomalisa or whatever

This is also why people get so mad when you say something negative about their favorite TV character, by the way. They only know how to interact with fiction through self-insertion, so anything said about their fave feels like you’re saying it to them.

Always love to see how much they absolutely despise us

This read aligns with why, despite Lucas in both the original prequel trilogy critiquing facism and the US, Star Wars obtained a fanbase that leans towards facism, bigotry, and conservatism.

This is pretty disgusting man. It's really sad to see the film space be degenerated into the worst form of sports.

I really do hope people wake up to the fact that those in power are unironically evil, and this is a rot on almost every level.

Orion logo still gets me nodding going "hell yeah"

"you will be left behind if you dont start using AI in your writing" where are you all going ... i don't want to join you i don't want to be there.

toxic masculinity was a discourse from like 2014-2016 and no one has really talked about it since and these people have never been able to get over it, biggest babies ever

republicans genuinely think you are cattle designed to suffer for their glory

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

does iran have a right to defend itself? does palestine? does lebanon? or is it just israel and america who get to claim self defense as they engage in wars of conquest?

reminder that in 2002 the US signed the Hague Invasion Act into law, which states that if any US, NATO or Israeli official is charged with war crimes, arrested and brought to the International Criminal Court, the US will invade and destroy the city and court

Yeah you gotta coup him at this point, even as a naked bluff civilization extermination talk shouldn't be allowed to seep its way into the bloodstream.

fire how winter lasts til may now because cars were invented

he’s right