If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago… I knew they were brain-dead, just not that much…
as always there is nuanced to everything, if I see a comedy or horror I’m not going to hold it to the same standards as a drama that is trying to convey a message, there will be a limit if it goes against my values in a crazy way, and I’ll stop watching it, but my main mentality is not there, I don’t watch it from a “defensive” position, so my alarms don’t go off as easily as other people’s, and I assume more good intent by default, which allows me to enjoy more of them, even if they “make fun” of my way of thinking or morals.
Being able to laugh about yourself or your beliefs without thinking you are “helping the other side win” in some kind of imaginary online culture war is quite healthy actually.
Honestly, I love friends, but I would never recommend it to younger audiences.
Humour is a very personal choice, and like colors, not everything being fun for the same people. On top of that, A TON of today’s humour descends from friends, so the jokes feel dated and simple, but they were the literal origin of many tropes, at the time it was perfection, like a chewing gum.
And most importantly, nowadays people (specially chronically online people) can’t just sit back and relax, they are always being judgemental little pricks to feel superior to everyone else, while not even trying to contextualise the time when what they are seeing was made.
Not to mention how sad it is that all the media, no matter the genre, have to pass their stupid moral compass (whether the progressive one or the conservative one). The whole sit back, relax and have a laugh is lost to them.
Is a very sad reality of hyper judgement they lived in, probably fueled by the cancer that is social media. I’m sad for them, they keep chasing the internet points thinking it will make them happy somehow, they don’t just watch something, they keep filling the checklist to then “have something to say”.
I’m so happy the internet was not a thing when I was growing up, what a brain worm I dodged, just in time to enjoy it as an adult as well. I’m really sorry for the young people today.
The dyslexic community: “plaese don’t”
yeah I’m not surprised, I watched the prequels. This guy was a legend in the 70s, that is like 50 years ago.
He hasn’t done anything great since co-writing Willow 40 years ago. Go to his IMDB, he’s lived out of star wars nostalgia since then, and all of them after the initial trilogy was a downgrade.
Is it the worst part? I think the worst part is that is happening. And yes, this definitely gives me anti-EU sentiment. (And I have always been pro-EU)
The problem with today’s politics is the cult mentality that comes with it. There is such “keep supporting our team” rethoric that fucking politicians count on it. We should just hold them accountable.
This is my line in the sand, Fuck EU, Fuck all the parties voting yes, and Fuck every-fucking-one.
If everyone is acting fascist, there is no point on trying to stop fascism. And whether you like it or not this is Fascist as fuck.
None of “for the children” initiatives do anything good for them, prevents anything or saves any of them. Also, in most cases politicians who actually rape kids are always exempt.
As a rule of thumb, never trust any “for the children”, “for security” or “against terrorism”. It never is about those things, and even if some of the people involved think it is, it gives the ill intended people great weapons against free speech, privacy, healthy democracy… These slogans are always to target people’s irrationality and stop them from actually having logical thinking about the implications. They used them in the past and continue to do so because they work.
The people spreading misinformation will continue to do so because they sooner or later end up in power, and none of these laws will control the government, only the people. Which in itself should trigger you to not trust it.
the land before the techbro company that adds very little value got rich by putting themselves in the middle, scamming clients and exploiting workers, while making them angry with each other.
“progress”
here we go once again to being fucking embarrassed to be European.
the first try of this made me stop voting altogether because all the fucking parties on my country were a YES. Fuck politicians, hope they all get killed.
I’ve never been big on social media, kinda hate it really, best I can do is a comment a couple of comments a week on lemmi/YouTube, but every time people talk about Tumblr or define it sounds like a place I might have belonged to (even when they define it in a negative way 😂)
I’m assuming this meme doesn’t count the end “glow up” of the character though, which defines the film as a product of its time.
I want to add (without prison sentences… for now) all the push of Europe to do the internet surveillance China style, after we have criticized it so much.
Is so sad how “autocratic government surveillance” suddenly becomes “protecting the children”…
Fuck politicians, hope they all die a terrible death. They deserve all the hate in the world and then a bit more.
that’s what Americans voted, wasn’t it clear?
I know Europe tends to follow America’s trends to some extent, but I really hope this is not one of them.
BTW, In the past I worked for many hours being fooled by my employer thinking it was a spike, and there is a moment where the productivity just drops, at least in engineering the idea of + hours +work is just stupid. Which scares me, because CEOs all over the world are stupid as fuck.
If the animal is bigger than my pinky finger I would probably just run the other way, so I hope I don’t get asked this.
This doesn’t mean that at that size or smaller I would win, just that we can start talking about it.
oh c’mon kamilah al-Jamil’s sister, you know your fiance doesn’t like being called that! xD