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It’s a critique of stalinism but communism is generally represented as a good thing

The book starts with the animals being oppressed by farmer jones, the animals toil and die to generate resources they don’t get to control or enjoy. The chickens have no say in how jones takes their eggs, cows have their milk taken without consent, Boxer toils in the field, cattle is killed to make meat.

The animals (proletariat) are exploited for the benefit of the humans (bourgeoisie).

One day the animals have enough of it and hunt his ass away, after that they start establishing a society, among other rules meant to differentiate them from their oppressors, the most important rule was declared “all animals are equal”

After that things went well, some problems of course but they were figuring out. that is, until Napoleon (the representation of stalin) happened, he got a cult following, disappeared Snowball and started changing things for the worse.

On a deeper level Animal farm is about how corrupt individuals will use the genuine wishes and needs of positive movements to radicalize said movements into systems of oppression even against the people the movement was supposed to elevate in the first place.

Also Orwell was a democratic socialist who fought authoritarianism from both right and left sides.

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My opinion on Jax (and admitting bias)

Since the pilot he is my favorite, the second my eyes focused on him i was “yeah, this is my guy”, i relate to some of his more sarcastic moments and i want him to survive to the end (though i do acknowledge the chance is low (i am not jarujaruj))

Who Jax is as a person

Jax is a loser, he is heavily traumatized by the losses he had and copes with it by distancing himself from reality and assigning himself and others archetypes and acting in accordance, he’s archetype being “the funny one” basically a mix of Bugs bunny with a little more sadism. When Jax is confronted with reality he reacts with deflection and tries to go back into his archetype. Jax is not a sadist, he hurts people as part of his bit but his enjoyment comes from being a troll and fucking with the other players, when jax is too depressed or busy to engage into his usual fuckery and locks the fuck in he can be useful and helpful. He presents himself as a tough guy but his bedroom is all pink and cute and he has the photos of his dead friends by his bed

How the rest of the cast sees him

Most justifiably hate or fear him but for obvious reasons they don’t want him to fucking abstract and would be willing to hang out with him if he stopped fucking around

Pomni saw the best side of Jax (i assume gangle and ragatha also did before ribbit’s abstraction) and saw through his bullshit at the end of ep6 so obviously she is trying to reach out

Kinger probably doesnt really know who Jax is

What abstraction fucking is

It’s a fate worse than death, its your mind stuck in a state of basically brain death, you have no rational thoughts and is just stuck there, existing, stuck in that fucking cellar forever….also is a representation of suicide (the bad thing that happens when people who are struggling give up).

People’s stupid reaction to Jax after episode 2

Did you fools thought Jax would just fall and cry on episode fucking 2, there were people saying he was a psychopath or that he was going to the villain or something.

People have always exaggerated how bad Jax really is

Don’t get me wrong, he’s bad, but people were theorizing jax was a murderer, that he made (or was going to make) someone abstract, to this day there are people who think he ran over someone, there are people who see him as a pure evil monster, etc

Does Jax deserves to abstract?

No, no one deserves, Caine was worse than Jax and he didnt deserved to be deleted (for quick explanation, Caine had (at least) 13 abstracted in his hands and seemed to show no sadness, remorse or want to solve the problem, any time he brings abstraction up he treats it as a failing on the players part)

People actively want Jax to die

As i said Jax doesnt deserve to abstract (no one does) but the way people talk about the rabbit you think he crawled out of the screen and ran over their dog, people act like the only good ending is one where Jax dies and anything else is bad writing

How Jax could become better?

Simple, his barriers all fell by now, just don’t be a cunt anymore

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Media that features villains as the main protagonists/faction (specially when they try to make the clear villains into nobledark heroes for i guess marketing reasons) have their fanbases composed of 4 types of people. I will be referencing 40K (as a aos fan i refuse to refer to 40k as warhammer, its not the only setting and i hate it ofuscates both fantasy and aos)

1-the normal person

-Normal dude

-Enjoys their favorite faction a normal amount but acknowledges that everyone is a villain (to different degrees but still)

-Probably has reasonable and progressive politics (not racist, homophobic, etc)

-Has no problem with a more inclusive franchise

2-the larper (i loathe these guys)

-imperium fans 99% of the time

-has no other joke than to roleplay an imperium fanatic

-can’t just stay in their niche, will make their repetitive and stupid comments on anything that even slightly features aliens

-it stopped being funny the third time i saw a “xeno scum” comment in an avatar post

-overlap with faction truthers to the point it’s almost a circle

-can’t separate other franchises from 40K)

3-faction truthers

-imperium fans 99% of the time

-for some god forsaken reason believe their favorite faction is the de facto good guys

-”there are no heroes” they say when confronted, they don’t believe that

-will latch onto any evidence no matter how flimsy to justify how their faction is good and other are evil, a single vague line on the forgotten anus of a codex from 3 editions ago clearly written from a biased perspective is evidence for them, fuck, lack of evidence is evidence for these fuckers

4-the unironic space king fan (okay, the shade to space king is not that fair (i say this as a space king fan who quotes the show and can’t wait for ep 5), but you will get my point)

-again, imperium fans 99.9% of the time

-genuinely racist, homophobic, sexist chud

-probably frequents 4chan

-unironically believes “humanity first”, replace humanity with white/american people and you get what they believe

-if we discovered a peaceful alien species you know they would be xenophobic

-the genocidal nature of the imperium is neither a villainous cool thing (in the sense villains can be cool) or something to be ignored/reduced to justify how their faction is awesome, for this type of people the genocidal nature of the imperium is a pleasure to unironically enjoy as is reflective of their worldview

-cries in a fetal position when he remembers female custodes are a thing

About faction enjoyment:

Liking villainous characters and factions inst the problem, the problem is when:

-you make that your whole fucking personality

-you bend over backwards to justify why they are the good guys actually

-you genuinely believe they are right and wants to apply their philosophy

The problem with gatekeeping:

People focus too much in gatekeeping the fandom against the hypothetical “woke mob” (which is bareilly a thing and mostly corporations doing progressive stuff in a stupid way) when we should be gatekeeping against types 2-4 (specially 4)

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Some time ago, the youtuber kitty monk launched a steven universe video about the ruby squad. She basically argued that the rubies were innocent and just doing their jobs and that steven was such a meanie for not saving active enemies and the person who tried to fucking kill him.

Her arguments were:

-the nuremberg argument: basically that they were just doing their jobs and whatever, we have been talking about why this argument is absolute bullshit since the actual nuremberg trials, and she doesn’t even do it properly, she tried to equate with a random mailman making a delivery that just so happens to be bad. Quick thing though: the rubies are active soldiers of the evil empire coming with the goal of retrieving a soldier for the evil empire.

-the peridot argument: basically that steven should have gave them a chance because his thing is supposedly helping redeem people, thing is, this is not hypocrisy because steven just had no opportunity to actually talk to them in a peaceful scenario (he actually tries when he thinks navy wants to change) and second, when you take context into account, steven doesnt really own these gems anything, like cluster aside, he would be in his right to just leave peridot in the bubble, is nice that he didnt but he wasnt really obligated to do that.

About the gems leaving them in space: see what i wrote above, also the rubies put themselves in that situation by trying to murder steven when he was trying to deescalate the situation, also also the last interaction steven had with one of them the bitch tried to genuinely butcher him.

For a comparative to the situation so the context enters in the head:

A group of native americans is living after getting rid of a british soldier so strong it required the entire group and luck to defeat, some time later some british active soldiers working in the name of the crown (the same crown who wishes to colonize the americas) appears to retrieve the asshole, the natives can’t fight them so they trick them into going buttfuck nowhere and the soldiers are so stupid they accept, the natives are in the right, correct? Yeah, i think we all agree on this.

Sometime later the soldiers have the gall to show their cunt faces again and the natives trick them again, again not even an inch of the soldiers was harmed even though force on part of the natives is 100% justified, the soldiers discover they were tricked and are first to take aggressive action against the natives who fight in their own defense and by accident the soldiers and a native child end in the sea with the native child stuck in a boat with the leader of the soldier squad who tries to murder him even though he was peaceful the whole time. Do the natives own salvation/mercy to the fucking colonizer cunts? I think we all agree they don’t.

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Basically the movie features a conspiracy of a cabal of evil lemon cars that control the oil industry and want to murder a bunch of people to make ecological stuff seem bad.

The thing is, lemons are basically the disabled people of the cars world. If you think that is a stretch, remember that everything in the cars world is an automobile version of the real world to the point the setting is nonsensical sometimes.

Lemons are cars (so people) who are either born or become more fragile/less capable than the average person and because of that heavily depend on the compassion of their fellow cars to have access to things such as healthcare or even basic mobility which is often denied to (or extorted out of) them while also having to deal with insults and mockery. So disabled people.

So the villains are a cabal of evil disabled people who are (justifiably) pissed off their healthcare is getting inaccessible so they use their control over corporations to kill people.

This sounds like a right wing conspiracy, i can see Joe rogan talking about that after going on a rant about trans people the third time this week.

Do i think that’s intentional? …………..no………but is crazy no one in the writer’s room brought that up apparently.

This trope of “evil disables that do evil because of envy or revenge, usually involving destroying or stealing our capabilities” is sickening for me.