Remember in the hunger games when Katniss unvolunteered and let Prim die because Snow was mean to her.
Remember in the hunger games when Katniss unvolunteered and let Prim die because Snow was mean to her.
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How cute. He thinks he is part of the resistance and not the thing being resisted.
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Villains rarely see themselves as villains. The worst of them strongly believe that they are the good guys.
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Are you kidding me?
America is literally the Galactic Empire. The Matrix is literally capitalism. The capitol is literally America/Capitalism. I didnt watch the others.
Who if not the (almost?) richest man of earth is the king of capitalism?
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He didn't actually see any of those movies. He just paid someone to watch them for him
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He asked grok for a summary
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asked critical drinker to do it.
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He was busy roleplaying toddlers, ok?!!!!
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I was going to say The Matrix was ackshually a closeted trans allegory, but it turns out it's both (but also, whatever you want it to be, kinda).
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Yeah, no. The Galactic Empire brought order to the galaxy (and a little bit of mass murder). The US has done far worse, and any good we were doing like USAID is being reversed by our small pp energy dictator.
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The OG Star Wars is literally an allegory for the Vietnam War where the Vietcong are the rebels, with sci-fi nazi aesthetics (and space wizards). The USA is quite literally the Galactic Empire in that metaphor.
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My kin here really tryin claim the Galactic Empire is worse than the USA?
Dont get me wrong, America has been committing crimes against their own and foreign people and holds a firm exploitative grip on the earth. But the Empire destroys planets, actively (not conveniently) exterminates people and enslaves them. They wipe out religions, and are an outright dictatorship for 20 years.
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Annihilating an entire planet is fine as long as there is order?
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No... those are all the literal meaning of metaphorical.
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How does this guy not understand he’s the villain?
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When you have so much money that nobody else matters to you and you become the only character in your story.
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He's the hero in his own mind, in the sense of: "I'm burning down society to the ground to rebuild it better for all! Can't people see that?! Don't they realize what I'm trying to do for them!!!" Of course he doesn't have enough awareness to realize people can't see that through the smoke and flames of everything burning around them.
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I don't think he doesn't know he's evil, that's why posts like this fall fall so flat, he doesn't believe his own lies.
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He's playing stupid to convince his base they're the resistance
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sycophants. The answer is sycophants. Always being told you're right messes up your brain.
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also the amount of drugs he takes.
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Because media illiteracy is almost a prerequisite for being far right wing
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It's actually a great example of the difference between movies and reality. In most movies the evil people "know" that they are evil, they want to be evil. In reality evil mostly comes from people thinking they are doing the "right" thing, which has to be done, while ignoring their empathy or being incapable of empathy.
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...Does he think that the Alt-Right is the Resistance? They're definitely the system, they're the exact opposite of Punk Rock
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There's nothing "alt" about the party that controls all three branches of the federal government. They're just the right.
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This is what makes Elon's Post funny. He calls to action against himself.
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The "alt" was a misnomer, to attract young adults that still haven't forgotten the will to censorship of conservatives, so alt-right influencers made it seem like the left were the real censors, because a video game feminist said "maybe we should write better female characters", and a shitty atheist scientist "destroyed her with facts and logic" (yes, that's where the right appropriated that phrase).
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Yes, and if you pop into conservative spaces for a lurk, you will unironically see them saying they're the real inheritors of punk rock.
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This is what happens when basic political science isn't taught, guys like Elon have no idea that socialism (the left) is fundamentally about expanding democracy to our economic systems.
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Richest man in the world, with unchecked power in the government, thinks he’s the resistance?
it’s almost as if he’s a textbook narcissist and actually completely incapable of self analysis
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Last I checked, in all of those, the resistance tried to save as many people as they could, and didn't think empathy was weakness.
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absolutely batshit crazy levels of delusion.
does the richest man in the world think... the "resistance" is... tech billionaires?
does he believe the group recklessly wielding sweeping executive powers, directing raids of homes and schools, imprisoning, threatening, black bag kidnapping dissenters off the street, and deploying the military to the borders.... that they are the resistance?!
i know playing the victim is a standard gaslighting fascist rhetorical maneuver... but if he really thinks of himself as a "rebel" outsider. god help us. this man's continued metabolic equilibrium puts us all in grave danger.
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No one believes themselves to be villains. Hollywood has ruined everybody with their black and white delineations between “good” and “evil”. And of course, we as a whole have eaten up the lie; Musk claiming to be the resistance - in my eyes - proves this.
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To be fair, one of the points of the Hunger Games was that the rebels were just as bad as the Capitol. Maybe that's the resistance he identifies with.
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Man the dude is so so close to understand what a douche he is and yet completely misses the point
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It's like watching a marksman with good aim shoot in the entirely wrong direction.
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More like a blind guy on a merry go round accidentally hitting a near bullseye
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I realized just how dense this motherfucker is when he said his favourite book is the Player of Games which as an aside presents Fully Automated Luxury Gay Communism as the superior system (which Musk clearly bypassed or more likely never read). He just literally always identifies with the resistance movements without a hint of introspection or deeper thought because of his main character syndrome.
Musk does a better job at disputing the lie of capitalist "meritocracy" than most anti-capitalist critics ever could.
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Agree here. I feel like Elon Musk and his ilk shouldn't be allowed to enjoy any of Iain Banks's works, since they are ideologically so opposed to everything he's demonstrated himself to be in favour of. But really I'm probably making excuses for myself -- I just don't like it when people I think are cs enjoy things that I enjoy, whilst remaining cs
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Did you intend to write “c***s,” but the markup put your comment in italics/bold instead?
Formatting tip - if you put a backslash “ \ “ before the asterisk, it ignores the normal command to italicize/embolden. The markup commands on Lemmy are similar to those on Reddit (though not identical; Lemmy doesn’t break links as often as Reddit does.)
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I never told CEOs were better people or anything but I thought that they were somewhat competent. You might not be the smartest but there has to be some abilities, right?
Elon made me realize how silly I was. Money. Money is all difference. There might be smart CEOs but certainly there are very very dumb ones.
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Hunger Games - Resist oligarchy, enslavement and groteque forms of capital punishment for ancestral "crimes".
Star Wars - Resist the fascist space dictator and the military industrial complex.
The Matrix - Resist authoritarian control, the obfuscation of reality, lack of bodily autonomy, and literal farming of our organs.
Divergent - Resist.. cliques, I guess? I'm gonna be honest, everything I know about this series seems dumb to me. Maybe someone more informed and 10 years younger can make a better case than me here...
V for Vendetta - Resist actual factual old school fascists/Nazis, war crimes, concentration camps, human experimentation, total media control, punishment without due process.
Notice how none of these are "Resist governments that make me pay a progressive tax that limits the burden on lower income earners, that regulate industries to ensure worker, public and environmental safety, that seek to limit the influence money plays in our elections so that our representative democracy remains representative of everyone, not just the rich?" Because the shit you are resisting is the good shit, you dumb manchild fuck. It's not the fucking same.
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Divergent definitely doesn't belong in that list. It's like listing The Beatles next to The Monkeys; in regards to it being clearly derivative of the hunger games and the only real thing they have in common is they both made money.
The hunger games gets to stay only because v for vendetta pales in comparison when it comes to cultural relevance.
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never the purge, as musk would get purged, he would never qoute the rick and mortys episode of the purge planet.
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Entirely seriously, I have been listening to many right wing Star Wars fans, since the 90s, make very serious arguments that the Empire were actually the good guys, that Agent Smith from the Matrix is actually a good guy just doing his job.
Also relevant to this: For a long while, Elon used JC Denton, the protagonist from Deus Ex, as his avatar on Twitter...
Somefuckinghow, entirely not realizing that he bears much, much more similarity to the main villain of Deus Ex, the uberwealthy deepstate oligarch Bob Page ... who ... concocts a false reality, regarding a pandemic, to mask the fact that he is covertly meeting with and buying influence of other prominent business people and politicians... all while also heavily investing in advancing AI tech, which he wants to proliferate everywhere.
Like 15 years ago, Elon was a major AI skeptic, considering its development potentially extremely dangerous.
Then he realized he could make money if he got AI (self driving cars) working, and just did a fucking 180.
Oh right Bob Page also pour gabillions of dollars into genetic research to grow the perfect super soldiers (JC and Paul Denton)... meanwhile Elon has ... basically an artificial insemination/breeding kink that also almost certainly involves some kind of artificial genetic selection or manipulation during pregnancy, as ... waaay too many of his kids come out AMAB compared to what you'd expect from the baseline of not doing that.
I have said this before: If you were to ask Elon to summarize his life story, he would tell you his whole life is basically a gigantic 'revenge of the nerd' plot.
He is the uber-incel.
I do genuienly believe he has Aspbergers (so now we'd say he is on the ASD spectrum) given how ... just astoundingly socially awkward he is, goes ham into his hyperfixations (with billions and billions of dollars), is really, really bad at understanding and regulating his own emotions...
I am autistic as well and he is like me at 14 years old, just never actually grew up in terms of taking the time and therapy/counseling to learn how to interface better with neurotypical social norms, understand and accept yourself and how you are different...
Instead, he just wants people to think he's cool, because he never fundamentally learned that... you gotta accept and love and define yourself first man, worry about what other people think about you second, you don't and shouldn't need to be loved or worshipped by everyone ... you should be able to validate yourself.
On that level, it is so fucking sad and pathetic.
Reminds me of the line from a Metric song: All the gold and the guns in the world couldn't get you off.
On another level: This man is a comic book supervillain evil CEO, and needs to be fucking put down or locked away before he just actually kills millions of people, either basically directly, or through astounding incompetence.
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Sometime I wonder who elon is posting as now. He's clearly addicted to it and we know he makes alts and impersonates people. Absolutely crazy this guy gets to run countries and run businesses. I feel like if there is no internet elons the creepy dude in the camero sitting outside the concert waiting for teenage girls to come out so he can give them drugs and try to date rape them.
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If the 4chan posts that are purported to be Elon... actually are...
His latest persona is literally the AntiChrist.
... Normally a person like that ends up in an involuntary hold in a psych ward.
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cocaine would explain his ability to post all day, plus the erratic paranoid behaviour, and ketamine while in public.
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Well said! Glad to see you chose our instance :)
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i believe he preferentially selects only his male sperm as insemination. he could be just on drugs, and he self-diagnosed which is not credible hes using to excuse his shitty behaviour.
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The best scene in Star Wars was when Darth Vader was curled up at the Emperor's feet crying and whining that he was the cool rebel really.
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I bet his favorite band is Rage Against the Machine and he loves to sing along to In Bloom by Nirvana.
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Lmao, no one watched divergent
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..I did. Nothing groundbreaking, but decent enough to have on a side screen while flying around collecting herbs in WoW.
Then again perhaps the herbs were more interesting, now that I think about it..
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Thank you for your candor.
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"Y U mad? I'm totally on your side!" -- Guy who is definitely not on your side
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Jokes on him. The hate doesn’t stop till he’s broke or dead. Preferably both.
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This is what a lack of self awareness looks like i guess?
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you are almost there Elon keep straining those cells and you will get it soon
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This is also missing the comment where in none of those movies was the richest man in the world a good guy.
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Is Musk actually operating under the belief that the literal government is "the resistance" or is he just pretending? I think he might be delusional enough to actually believe it
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Stock price is a helluva drug
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It's still higher than it was 6 months ago, that shit needs to plummet more. I want to see it do into double digit territory, that's where it's true value is relative to it's new outlook.
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this usually when elon starts sober up from his drugs, just before he takes more.
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He sided with the Dark side.
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That's from August 2024. Then he didn't have the same power.
I would love to know if he still sees himself as a rebell. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42766191 Him leaving politics because of the left criticism suggests that he thought he was fighting the good fight.
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I would agree if he wasn't publicly voting Republican at that point, which he was. By midterms 2022 he had publicly stated that the Democrats were the party of hate and division and that everyone should vote Republican. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_Elon_Musk
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It would be interesting to see him fake being progressive again, say "it was all a joke" and deliver a non-apology in hopes that his EV sales pick up again.
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I hope he never has an unstressed day for the rest of his life. And I hope it's a short life. Fascist fuck.
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is he just... writing out his internal monologues? Cuz... like. that's not crazy.
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He didn't write this, he stole it, like everything else.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a better example of "main character syndrome" as Musk just displayed here.
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I knew the resistance would win in the end for all of those. Real life feels more like Game of Thrones and we aren't even the main characters.
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The Empire did nothing wrong. Also, nobody has ever seen "Divergence".
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Never even heard of this movie (Assumming you're talking about "Divergent"). But doesn't seem to have gotten great reviews either.
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Its like a hunger games fanfic that's so much worse in every way.
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The book was so much better. They cut an entire friendship for the movie yet kept the death scene for said friend.
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Can he depart from this planet already?
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Nothing this moron stands for is a rebellion against anything (except for maybe against human decency and empathy).
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He should have changed Twitter's name to Gaslight.
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Melon is just Cypher
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The problem is, in the real world? Right now? There is no "resistance". I'd support them if they existed, but they don't.
Oh, sure, the "Hands Off" people have their performative protests to make themselves feel good, like they're actually doing something. They aren't.
Cory Booker got up and talked for 25 hours... which didn't actually block any legislation from passing, or block a nominee, or alter Trump policy on, well, anything really. But hey! He talked for 25 hours!
Show me a resistance to support.
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And you? What are you doing to resist? Shit on those who are trying?
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I'm pushing for an ACTUAL resistance.
What needs to happen is for all the Hands Off protests, especially the ones in Blue States where the citizens already agree with them, to migrate to D.C. and shut THAT city down for a month. Clog the arteries, make it impossible to function. Bring 300,000+ people to D.C. and shut it down.
Nobody cares about protests in Seattle, Portland, L.A., Chicago, etc.
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You do these things to setup solidarity and organize. Want a general strike? It starts by getting lots of people to come out and protest. Then, people see that there are other people who will join them in a general strike. You can't start by randomly calling one. Each individual person will see that they're taking a risk of losing their job, and that risk can only be justified if everyone else is doing the same thing. Can't fire all of us. If the organizers of the same protests you've been going to are saying we should all participate in a general strike, then individuals are assured they won't be sticking their own head out there only for it to get hit by a truncheon.
Replace "general strike" with whatever sort of large scale action you'd prefer.
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I hear you. There’s a serious lack of grand scale organizing, and with all three branches of government captured there’s not even the consolation prize of legislative or judicial obstructionism.
That said, there is resistance at the local level, and it needs people badly. Those hands off protests aren’t being organized at the national level. The national org is calling for protests on a specific day and unaffiliated local groups are organizing the individual events. Those local groups could really use your support in whatever form you can give it. They’re almost always handing out flyers and info on their projects at protests. Most don’t require membership to help out and you almost never have to rsvp to just attend. Odds are there’s an organization or two near you that you can support, and if not most of the national orgs have organizing instructional materials on their websites for free.
It’s easy to be so worried by what’s happening nationally that we forget the difference that local orgs make. I was a part of a canvassing effort for an abortion rights amendment last year that knocked on over three thousand doors with no more than ten people every Saturday. We didn’t get the amendment passed, but it did get majority support and we saw a huge surge in new members. We’re now using our newfound numbers to help push for a city council recall and explore candidates for school board. Ours isn’t even the most well established organization in our city either. We regularly collaborate with four, more established, orgs and we’re working to build relationships with three more.
This knitting together of smaller orgs is the process of resistance building. It is unfortunately slow, but it is happening, and I promise it isn’t just happening here. Even in the middle of nowhere I have a friend in a town of two hundred who’s been auditing the town budget to show the incompetence of the “maga moms” on their town council in an attempt to get them removed. You’re right to be frustrated, but for all our sakes I hope you find something to do with that frustration.
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Wholeheartedly agree. I’ve seen little more than pageantry.
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nah, I like stormtroopers
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Does Hunger Games, Star Wars, and the Matrix all incorporate a plot of "good guys win, get complacent, government goes back to fascism and they have to defeat it again only it is harder this time around because they are old and people question if doing the same thing again will lead to the same results?"
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Do fashy things and the left will attack you. That is just how it is. Dude is such a child.
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Did musk actually post that? First time I want to post something he posted.
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Hunger Games: the resistance I guess
Star Wars: mostly the empire
Matrix: the answer is love, not a side, did you even watch it
Divergent: never heard of it
V: Guy Fucks wasn't the good guy
I'm only 1/5 on my resistance score
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you sided with the empire in star wars? wtf?
matrix: no, that’s not at all the point, did you even watch the trilogy?
divergent: me neither.
V for Vendetta: Guy Fawks is the 18th century person who the mask and holiday is named after, the protagonist is named “V” (his true name is revealed later but that doesn’t matter).
he’s definitely the good guy, and fighting a fascist dictatorship put into place after a virus and pandemic was released in order to control people….
i never watched hunger games, mostly because the directors son was a school shooter and the whole story was ripped off from “battle royale”.
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Star Wars is too silly to take seriously. I rather play as clones or the empire because tie fighters sound cool, green lasers > red lasers, clean designs are better than Fallout trash sci fi, etc. It's not like I'm siding with Cardassia.
Matrix is surely about love being used to break cycles and the realization that it's not "the matrix" but "a matrix." The digital world was a matrix designed to imprison humans. But also the way humans thought was another matrix that had to be escaped. Each is a prison that shapes what humans perceive.
I'll tell you what. I'll balance liking Darth Vader with being on the side of nature in Ferngully. And I'll throw in praise for Atredes and Picard.
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