The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
turning all of the art of film into artless fascist dreck is not harmless, and it’s turned a generation of adults into blithering children. It’s as contemptible as adults who still frame their worldview in harry potter. It’s childish and obscene and reflective of deep problems in society, as I said.
I said the severity of the crimes is not the same.
I never said that Marvel was harmless. It’s disingenuous to even imply I did. The movies are literally military propaganda.
This random Reddit user watching it is harmless, though, or at least, our negging doesn’t reduce the harm. Our insults are nothing but an annoyance that’s trying to pierce an actual social institution of people who “enjoy” (said loosely due to the “quality” of the films) Disney’s media.
These people aren’t brainless, idiotic ghouls who are just going along mindlessly with what they know. They got here because there are a ridiculous number of social pressures that lead people into becoming obsessed with Marvel.
It’s probably one of the only things they talk to their friends about, and not just because they themselves bring it up, but because it’s one of the only forms of shared experience that people have these days, as horrifying as that is. It’s the same thing as celebrities and news stories about them. Just mindless slop that has no real bearing on reality. But people still stay up to date on it because all their friends and their entire social network seems to care about it.
Every single one of these things are all things that insults have no power over. We like to say bullying works, but this is where it’s power ends. Disney has such an intense stranglehold on the West’s culture that all an insult to a person who consumes their content does is just hurt them a little without even remotely changing their behavior.
Think think blaming this exclusively on Marvel movies seems more than a bit reductive.
Ooh reductive eh? My shitpost was reductive? You want me to write a Marxist thesis every time I critique some dumb lib shit in our society?
Very telling that as soon as treat critiques come up half of hexbear shitposters who have no problem throwing around insults and reductive statements in every other scenario get very serious and somber and demand a thesis. It’s like when family members of cops or troops demand very serious Marxist analysis before we mock da troops. No. I don’t care about your hang ups
Dragging treats is truly the treats of this site. You make the mildest of treat-sympathetic statement and the reaction is far more over the top than what you get from the typical treat chaser.
Treat chaser quotes in this very thread:
WHAT TREAT!??? WHAT TREAT!??? I HAVE NO CONNECTION TO MARVEL, I’VE SAID THAT SO MANY TIMES? WHAT FUCKING TREAT AM I DEFENDING?? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY “TREAT” IM DEFENDING IS MY OWN FUCKING DESIRE FOR INNOCENT RANDOM PEOPLE NOT TO BE INSULTED AND IF THAT MAKES ME A TREAT DEFENDER THAN IM FUCKING PROUD OF IT IF HAVING FUCKING EMPATHY, EVEN FOR RANDOM FUCKERS WHO LIKE SHOWS I HATE, MAKES ME A TREAT DEFENDER, THEN I’LL BE A TREAT DEFENDER AS MUCH AS I FUCKING WANT, AND YOU’LL FUCKING DEAL WITH IT
I wasn’t even defending treats bro, I fucking hate marvel movies (except Spider-Man, I’ll admit I like Spider-Man), was just saying you were being reductive, which even you admitted was true you just got pissy at me for pointing it out.