https://nitter.net/TheEconomist/status/1690713079405768704

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    4chan calls us Chinese people "soulless bug men" and it's just so cool and good that the Economist is printing the polite version of that.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Bu.. But you're brainwashed! YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY NEED FOOD! DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!

      rage-cry

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Do not, my friends, become addicted to food. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          That was such a brilliant, wonderful, terrible line. Just... so much... political bullshit and lies and dissembling and cruelty and indifference is tied up in that line.

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            It's a great film; so much of it could easily have come across as hokey or dumb, but somehow it all works.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              I found it really authentic because everyone was totally bought-in to the camp. The things that would have been camp were part of these people's lives, and there was so much attention to detail in how they spoke, moved, dressed, and acted that it sold the whole thing as real people in a real culture living their lives. Like the war boys weren't dumb, mindless thugs throwing themselves to their death for nothing like in an 80s action movie. They took time to show how they were devoted to Joe, they had religious beliefs, they genuinely thought of themselves as heroes fighting for a worthwhile cause. They invested the warboys with so much depth and character that I, at least, never thought they were silly. These are warriors from a warrior culture who have their rituals of war, their symbols of valor, their pride, their pathos. When the one guy takes a bolt to the head and his buddies are praying for him to get up so he can die as a hero there's just so much realness in that moment.

              And for me, personally, I know a little bit about guys like General Butt Naked in the Liberian civil war, and some other pretty out-there gangs and warbands and mercenary companies, so a lot of the "over the top" elements were recognizably similar to things that warrior cultures do in real life.