TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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"I enjoy bombing brown people so much, I overrode congress to spend billions on it"

That one will go down a treat.

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One consideration: what about reporting on international relations involving the US?

If the US does/doesn't fund military aid for Ukraine, is that about Ukraine or the US?

Utter hoofwanking bunglecunts.

**** censorship

Everything by Femtanyl

🎵Just who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Gitler...🎵

Every work has the author's stank all over it, it can't not. It's seen through their eyes and spoken through their lips (or fingers I guess).

Once you know what it is, it will - and should - colour your perception. If it turns out to be something toxic, then you're allowed to be viscerally repelled by it. It's okay. It's not intellectual dishonesty to have an emotional-based opinion on art ffs.

Now if you let your opinions on engineering get affected by emotion, that'd be another matter. When deciding whether a bridge is safe to carry traffic, you absolutely should not let your personal feelings about the architect factor into the decision.

But this is art we're talking about. Entertainment. Works designed specifically for emotional impact, with no value outside of that. How you feel about them is the only valid criterion.

If a work squicks you out because the author is a piece of shit, that's a genuine, valid and authentic opinion - it's pretending otherwise that would be dishonest.

And in my experience, the ones shouting the loudest about the intellectual integrity angle tend to be fanbois with a huge emotional attachment to the work from their adolescence. Buncha simps, in other words.

Which fine, feelings are valid - but they should damn well own it. If nostalgia > victims, then have the balls to just say it, don't try to well-ackchewally it into some lofty principle, because it isn't.

First up, fandom is free advertising; fuck them I'm not promoting their product for them, even if I don't buy it.

But more than that, it's sending a message that the behaviour is something we're willing to condone, that we stand with the abuser rather than their victims.

Imagine telling a sexual assault survivor to just lie back and enjoy the masterful comic stylings of Bill Cosby, or at least to shut up and let you enjoy it, because they're ruining the funny.

Would that person have reason to consider you a friend or ally after that?

The Harry Potter IP, for instance, is just a giant anti-trans flag now, and the people who wave it around are picking a side. They can't pretend they're not; pinning the logo to their chest is explicitly endorsing the author's views, and spitting in the face of every trans person in their life.

Why would I try to do so in the first place?

Imagine someone telling you "you have to separate the product from the corporation. Yes, they lobby to permit slave labour and are directly funding the genocide in Palestine, but they make one fine chicken sandwich - and if you don't put down your silly objections to focus on that, you have failed as a human being".

Fuck that, fuck everything about that.

Art is political. Fiction doubly so. You cannot and should not try to rip art free from its cultural context, because that context is the perspective that gives it meaning in the first place.

And extra-splintery fuck the idea that the onus is on the audience to sweep everything under the carpet for horrible people.

We're in no danger of running out of art. We have an unlimited supply of artists just waiting for a break in the canopy to sprout up and grow into something new and exciting. If a handful of toxic assholes get canceled despite being popular, then so much the better.

If only. I'd be rich.

He committed the ultimate crime, though: stealing from rich people. And he even had the effrontery not to be rich himself while doing it.

That's what they're punishing here.

Gee it's almost like we need some goddamn freeze peach in the place.

It's shit that shitty people say shitty things, and the urge to stop them from doing so is understandable.

But freedom of speech - as a general principle, not just the legal interpretation of the US constitutional amendment - saves us from a lot worse.

Once you start poking holes in it, you start getting this kind of bullshit: being prevented from saying good things, or from calling out shitty things.

What was absolute has become negotiable, and shitty people don't negotiate in bad faith; almost by definition, they have fewer scruples than you., and will ruthlessly and cynically exploit any edge they can lever up.

They will abuse their power against you,, while giving themselves a free ride. That's why it always had to be a seamless, all-encompassing 'no, fuck off', no matter what the provocation.

But now -

Fools. God damn fools.

Hera.

Lacking some of the more intriguing gimmicks, perhaps, but political clout out the wazoo. Get her on your side, ain't nobody going to risk fucking with you.

I don't think so, at least not for everyone.

My grandfather (born round the start of the first world war) was hideously racist, not overtly religious, but neither of those seemed to figure into his horrified disgust and moral panic at "rock and roll". Seriously, he'd be less shocked at someone wiping their ass with a slice of bread and eating it, than he would be at them playing rock music in the house. If it featured on a TV ad, or came in the window from someone driving past, it was like he was under siege.

Part of it was the sex-and-drugs angle, I'm sure, but I think even that was a small part of the whole.

I think the biggest part was that it was a symbol of counterculture, of men growing their hair long and rejecting the order and authority of the world he was born into. He experienced a fuckton of social change in his lifetime, he couldn't navigate the culture any more, and this left him lost, angry and afraid. There were these people pissing on all the symbols he understood, and waving around a bunch he didn't, while rejecting all the values he'd been taught - and dancing about it, like (from his perspective) a horde of crackheads ransacking a library and smearing shit on everything for lulz.

I mean, I wince and block channels with any kind of 'reaction videos', and I'm only genX. I get it, to a degree - though I'm trying at least to ensure that when I get irretrievably stuck in the past, it's at least from this century. But the change I've been through only stretches from Kojak to Skibidi Toilet whatever the fuck that is. His stretched from before cars or refrigeration to the internet itself. I don't think I'll see as big a transformation as he did in his time; I hope I cope a shitload better than he did with what I do see, but who knows?

Anyone who did not successfully fight to keep their name out of the civil case

So no. The rich and powerful are protected.

Get back to me when someone wins with a platform of treating Palestinians like human beings.

Until then, I wouldn't cross the street to piss on them if they were on fire.

Trump is a suppurating piece of shit.

However, fuck the mindset that says "I don't need to be good enough to vote for, so long as the other guy is worse".

And extra-splintery-fuck the mindset that blames the voters for 'getting it wrong'. Mmmnope, that's rejecting the entire premise of democracy.

If you don't get the votes, it means you suck.

If you want to win, stop sucking.

If you want to keep sucking, you don't get to complain when you lose.

Maybe - and this is a pretty radical, bleeding-edge out there kind of idea - maybe Biden should stop fucking supporting Israel, then.

They're competent adults, if they're voting. Nothing but contempt for any of them.