This meme is CLEAR illustration of how these people don’t understand that in reality, there’s a thing called “nuance.” And that everything in the universe exists within the grey area in between their illusory everything is either black or white ideology.
In short: THE REAL WORLD ISN’T A TV SHOW.
Hey bruh, we joined Lemmy. Not like we're exactly going with the flow.
Just don't pay to much attention to Starship Troopers.
Which resistance are we talking about? "The Resistance" movement in response to Trump's election in 2016? Or "the resistance" which tried to overthrow the election on January 6, 2021? Sorry for being myopically American, but being American, I assume that's what we're always talking about.
Who do we associate with the power being resisted against in reality? Governments? Politicians? Police? Corporations? The ultra wealthy? Religious institutions? One person's "bad guy" is another person's "good guy".
It's because they have happy endings. It gives the opposite effect due to that. The rebels win, everyone makes it out alive, we get to sit in the garden with our blonde children under a nice tree and never worry about saving the world again.
It's placating. Imagine going up to a Walmart and the doors are blocked with on fire cars, because the guys fighting for a union are not taking no for an answer, imagine the bosses office gets pipebombed, or moltov'd, that's what it would take, people won't go that far when they're placated emotionally. Walmart goes to some very high extremes to fight unionizing, it would be horrible, they'd have to DO hazmats right, they'd have to stop the constant psychological warfare with their workers, they'd have to actually pay out a meaningful profit share not just $300 every quarter a head for a store that makes 2mil a day on average. It would mean they'd have to bring back middle management jobs to promote people to based on senority. Can you imagine?
I did watch Dexter and sided with a psychopath, but I wouldn't in real life.... or would I???? :-D
Stupid take, I don't know this person so not even sure which side he is talking about since all the sides use this argument precisely because people are stupid enough to make political decisions based on movies.
Did no one side with the Maquis against the Federation?
The maquis end up, in my opinion, as supremely unlikeable. Of course our exposure to them is through the federation lens, but in the abstract it is hard to understand how they can be the good guys.
From what we understand, the federation is a post scarcity society due to replicators. The maquis origins, as I understand it, is that to broker peace between the federation and cardassians some planets swapped ownership. The maquis are the displaced people from planets that shifted to cardassian control.
Ok, losing your planet sucks. Now whether or not these figures are sympathetic hinges on the federations accommodations to them. The federation offered to relocate them to other planets. They are federation citizens so they can go to any developed world in the federation or start a new colony, replicating whatever they need.
How did they respond? By going “no this patch of land is super duper important for some reason that no one will ever be able to explain” and refuse to leave. Then they begin terrorizing the cardassians for trying to settle the planets that were agreed to. Threatening the peace and stability of a space utopia society because they want to hold their breathe and stamp their feet and not sit in a shuttle craft for a day and go to some other of the vast countless planets in the universe they have access to.
Billions upon billions of federation and cardassian lives at risk so some jackass can keep farming a plot of land indistinguishable from the replacement plot of land he’s being offered for free. Oh and also he doesn’t fucking need to farm anything at all this is like a hobby or some shit because they have replicators.
Sisko was right to launch the tricobalt devices at their colonies and the federation should enlisted him to go Sherman on those traitors.
You were awake when your elementary school teacher taught you about the American Civil War, and you didn't side with the resistance.
The brown coats!
Weird. I dont remember Neo murdering civilians and then parading their naked bodies around while pelting them stones. I also dont recall the rebel founding charta mentioning something about a holy war of eradication against all clones in the galaxy.
Maybe, just maybe, the real isnt like a neat 3 hour film with clearly established sides and maybe we could acknowledge that neither Hamas nor the fucking IDF is remotely close to being good. But nah, that would require us to not make cheap point for likes on twitter.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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