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I guess this is a step forward. Liberals used to support evil in reality, like the Iraq war, but then they would use fantasy to virtue signal that they are actually the good guys by not supporting the Empire in Star Wars or something like that.

Not anymore! Now they are just like "kill kill kill"

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

look, i know liberals always thought this way, but i really don't like how mask off they've been over the last 3 months and I really wish they'd slip it back on

[–] Des@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

it's almost like they're super stoked they've been given permission to do full fascism

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A perfect example of why reeducation is necessary.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

re-education is for your racist uncle who hates communism because he thinks we literally want to chop off his dick and starve him to death

people like Ben over here... I'll just say I don't think re-education will turn him into a reasonable person

I'll just say I don't think re-education will turn him into a reasonable person

Never said they'd all graduate... labour and education until they're better or die of old age ig

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, we're not doing that?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

It's voluntary but according to chuds another part of the re-education is force-femming so.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The reeducation camp where they just force the inmates to watch James Cameron's Avatar series on loop until their opinions improve

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most enjoyable parts of the Avatar movies is when humans get got.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sicko-pog when some motherfucker in a helicopter gets skewered by a nine foot long arrow

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Me watching most of the movie: this is some appropriationist white saviour bullshit

Me watching some megafauna bulldoze through a bunch of machines: this fucking rocks. 10/10, no notes

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

oh no, we're posting the 'homeless hunter' failson again

[–] abc@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Ben Dreyfuss has literally posted about paying an addict $50 at a party so he could supposedly hunt & shoot him with a paintball gun before and of course, is Richard Dreyfuss' failson. What made you think he was even a 'liberal' (lol) beyond his dad trying to get Bush impeached during the Iraq war? His shitty MotherJones work?? michael-laugh

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Wtf were they mining in that movie anyway? What were the humans using it for?

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

surely he's being tongue in cheek here

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

One of the things I LOVE about Avatar is how little of a shit the human capitalist society gives to its people. We know that unobtanium is valuable, but to whom? Jake Sully, a person who fought for the empire, should theoretically be receiving the spoils. Instead, he is tossed out with no use of his legs, which we learn that in-universe can actually be healed- but not without a hefty fee to the capitalist grifters. Just like the real world, unobtanium is only useful - and profitable - to those at the very top. And, just like the real world, Jake Sully has been beat up and spat out by the evils of empire, creating a revolutionary ripe to betray the human settlers.