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I’ll start:

Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.

Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The movie "Pacific Rim." Shit was corny as hell

[–] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only thing wrong with Pacific Rim is that it wasn't a four hour long cut of big ass robots clowning big ass monsters in every biome on Earth. I want to watch Gipsy Danger cut a Kaiju in half with the People's Elbow from the top of a mountain. Lemme see Striker Eureka smash a Kaiju into a railway so an incoming Shinkansen blows through its skull like a kinetic rod. Shit, one of them wielded a ship like a baseball bat, let me see a train used as a whip or a garotte. Midair Kurosawa blade jump that ends with a Kaiju landing intact and then slowly sliding apart in two pieces while the Jaeger slowly gets up.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes but unironically, this is my main gripe with big robots especially and sci-fi action movies in general. I came here to watch the giant robots or spaceships beating the shit out of eachother, i don't need vapid 10 minute romance or 30 minutes of shallow hamfisted psychological drama included. If i wanted that, there's dedicated genres with like million movies out there already.