marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]

He missed a day or two of streaming, which harmed his income.

Oh I like Dan. I forgot he came back.

Yeah they lost everyone that I cared about a long time ago. I have no idea who is even still there at this point.

I had the same reaction to that scene as you and was pretty bummed out at first. I have since come around to having similar feelings as XiaCobolt does in this thread

“what if final fantasy was good”

There’s Andor not knowing who is, but I think there is another meaning and that is the existential question of what the fuck is he doing.

His entire life was dedicated to the order of the imperial state because he believed it cared about peace, security, and justice only for him to find out it only gaf about efficiency and profit and everything else only served to meet those goals. In the end, their order and security was nothing more than destruction and death to the people they were supposed to be providing security to.

Just to add to this, and to be fair to George, I don’t know what it was like to make commercial movies during the cold war. Seems like they were very careful, especially since the empire was the US in George’s head. They may have had good reason to be as careful with the messaging and symbolism as they were.

I’m on team phantom menace but I thought I was alone on that one. There are actually things I can enjoy watching in phantom menace. Every scene in rots makes me cringe so bad

Yeah that would be great, unfortunately the world we live in doesn’t work like that. Asking for cooperation when the other side is perfectly fine using violence and manipulation then you are effectively just advocating for subservience to the bourgeoisie.

According to who? People defending the narrative that they are contradicting? Yeah man. What a totally unbiased and reliable source for that information.

I didn’t say everything is authoritarian, I specifically stated your politics as being authoritarian.

Let’s not pretend that your politics aren’t inherently authoritarian as well.

Either you support capitalism (or worse), which is grossly authoritarian as it inflicts massive violence not only via warfare but through mass starvation and deprivation, or you support socialism, in which case you have two options:

1. The violent overthrow of the current system (spoiler alert: that’s a very authoritarian thing to do!)

2. The gradual reform of the current system, meaning maintaining the status quo for an exceptionally long time as we ever so slowly creep our way to a more just economic system while countless people starve, go homeless, die without healthcare, end up in yet-another war and so on (which is a very authoritarian proposition, just throwing away the lives of the poor in your own country-not to mention those in the developing world-just so you can have a neat and tidy reformist approach that doesn’t rock the boat.)

Lemmy was built by communists and the audacity of these liberals to come here and demand shelter from exposure to communists is really something