Diogenes_Barrel

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.

the Office is Sacred and In Good Hands

everyone in government is a self interested buffoon

libs be like :same-picture:

Necromancer: i will never stop restarting the Tolkein struggle session :sicko-pig:

the French staff literally thought a substantial armored force couldn't go through the Ardennes. they ignored intelligence giving them advanced warning because it was not a possibility and the scouts mustve been mistaken. they could've moved more troops to counter, attacked them aerially/conventionally in the forest, but their rigid understanding of the combat theater blinded them until it was too late.

i wouldn't necessarily call it an 'outdated command structure' but poor leadership & strategic inflexibility in spades

sometimes funded by pension funds

gotta always get that fucking jab in there eh?

capital guts pensions and forced retirement to be financialised, so now every finance evil thing can also get blamed on the slightly better off workers with unions and benefits. fucking manufactured crab and bucket bullshit

its not necessarily a yank's fault they're uneducated about what their country has done but anyone who lacks the compunction to ask "why is this person chanting death to america?" and not take their answer from a idiot news host 'they hate us for our freedoms'---these people don't deserve a voice on the meaning of a slogan from a country they know nothing about in a language they don't speak.

(also im not DtB im just defending the formula, which especially should be unproblematic here because we're aware of the context of the phrase)

the iranians have never meant "yankees should be genocided" death to has always been about opposition to imperialism and neocolonialism.

some navel-gazing arrogant americans think half the world literally wants them dead but they're the most incurious hateful people imaginable so their opinion doesn't really count on whether victims of the yankees' slogans hurt their feelings

:shocked-pikachu: whaaaaaaaaat???

ive always suspected this, its just socially acceptable to be racist about animals who can't punch you in the mouth

im not going to pretend US culture was ever anything so high as to be able to experience 'decline'. film sucks, art sucks, mostly because capitalism fucks it up but some of it don't work in ideal conditions either

we've never had communism. why do we need to fetishise art from a capitalist past with the same conditions making it awful that make it awful today?

directly compare 2019 with 1994.

this is not close to extensive, these are films millions of people watched and some millions quite liked or thought was decent.

i don't think i've ever been accused of neoliberalism for watching way too many movies before but that's a good bit

i am begging you to test this hypothesis and going and watching every release from [any period in the past] not just the ones which are beloved enough to warrant rereleases and streaming contracts. film is a graveyard of creative bankruptcy and low effort exploitation.

even the USSR has a backcatalogue of cheap imitation and trendfollowing bullshit

a culture notably devoid of market forces circa 1992.

don't get me wrong most of what comes out now is still horseshit, it just used to be too. collective memory separates the chaff and gives people an incomplete picture of whatever era they're nostalgia-ing