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I was reading A Christmas Carol again and I think Ebeneezer Scrooge might actually be the bad guy? Like I thought he was good because he lives in a mansion and can sleep comfortably at night. The ghosts are clearly the bad guys because they're trespassing and violating his castle doctrine to show him all the non-woke things he did. It kinda reminds me of cancel culture and how saying the N-word a few times results in a bunch of social media ghosts bringing that up in future arguments. I used to read that and want to shoot the ghosts with the guns under my pillow which Scrooge would have done if I wrote the book. But I guess he's supposed to be the bad guy because they're actually showing him consequences of bad things he does? Like Tiny Tim isn't supposed to die because he can't afford health insurance?

Judge Dredd is a great comic ruined by chuds with no media literacy.

Although this guy somehow also thinks the Galactic Empire were the good guys, so definitely extra high concentrations of Hitler particles.

I'd say I def fall into the Conservative side of the spectrum

I never would've guessed.

Okay, so the Judge Dredd thing is boilerplate fash stuff, he fails to get the satirizing, but I’m more perplexed with his take on Star Wars. It’s very explicit throughout the series that there’s a seedy criminal underworld in the galaxy that the empire is at best unable to contain meaningfully, at worst is actively utilizing when convenient. Jabba’s operation isn’t exactly a secret yet the empire clearly lets it slide. How the hell does he get “peace and justice” out of that?

"I've been evil since birth, is this perhaps bad?"

This is why you can not under any circumstances make fascists look cool in your art.

If you make fascists look cool and enjoyable to ride along with, people will want to imitate them and will absorb every complaint you have about them into their identity.

Any critique of fascists must start with the fascists being absolute clowns. They should not be "cool".

whenever a guy like this is posted here, I'm always like "Oh yeah, this guy is obviously doing a bit, why are people here falling for satire so blatant?" and then keep reading and it turns out that the person is not, in fact, doing a bit

for every person here who pokes fun at our inability to see when people are being satirical, there's a guy on reddit who not only thinks that the Empire in Star Wars were the good guys. And not even in an edgy way - he literally thinks that the intention of the films was to show that the rebels were bad and the Empire is good

the empire literally blew up a planet in their opening moment

one of the first actions we see the empire take is blowing up an entire planet to make one prisoner upset

in a just world this would get him admitted into the

Wait there's a thread going on about 2000AD and nobody told me, the inventor of 2000AD Drokkposting?

2000AD LITERALLY DEPICTED THE EXECUTION OF MARGARET THATCHER IN THE FIRST ISSUE! IT'S ALWAYS BEEN LEFTIST!

Such is the wages of "these are the bad guys, but let's make them as appealingly awesome and epic as possible" storytelling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JudgeDredd/comments/16ablud/have_i_been_reading_judge_dredd_all_wrong/

I guess redditors aren't all bad, because they're really dunking on this fash loser.

Just finished 1984 and I'm starting to think that Oceania and the party are supposed to be the bad guys

I've always been an Empire guy

100% a bit, no question

this person should be locked up for everyone's safety

Link it :LIB:

Judge Dredd vs Death was an amazing PC game, aside from neat mechanics and a full co-op campaign, a core gameplay mechanic was fabricating charges against all civilians in your path to arrest them. You were so obviously deliberately a bad guy in that regard it was a sledgehammer on the nose.

It kinda taught me from a young age just how easily cops can make shit up for any reason.

He doesn't even have the excuse of 40k fans, where the writers have forgotten that the setting is supposed to be satire.

I detest the whole idea of BLM... It's all built on lies but with perhaps a breadcrumb of truth.

Ah yes, "perhaps" there's a "breadcrumb of truth" to the idea black lives matter. And these are the people libs want to entertain.

HOW DO YOU READ THE ISSUE WHERE DREDD SENTENCES A CANDYMAKER TO EXILE IN DEEP SPACE BECAUSE HIS CANDY WAS TOO GOOD (without having any sugar or other illegal things in it btw) AND THINK "YEAH, THIS IS COOL AND GOOD!"?

This reminds me of when I realized that Rage Against The Machine was a heavily political band and their name had meaning. It was a weird moment but I went from liking them to absolutely loving them. Same thing with System of a Down lol.

I was a teenager, this guy is at least 50.

Did one of the movies have Dredd realize they were on the wrong side of things or am I thinking of a totally different franchise?

This is Gen-X media literacy excellence