#sociopolitical commentary

[fandom-hoarder]

Why Matrix Resurrections is Great - video essay by Jessie Gender

#video essay #the matrix #matrix resurrections #jessie gender #wachowski sisters #media analysis #sociopolitical commentary #Youtube

[mantra4ia]

F*** prison geppetto, aka Arizona State Rep John Kavanaugh, f*** for-profit prisons, the system that profits from the industry off of mass incarceration, F*** the health insurance racket/industry, the sickcare system and just as a general rule...

F*** the capitalistic poison the erodes all levels of society when we prioritize profit over people with zero legal/social/economic consequence, thus eviscerating the value of human life and dignity in every way but shallow pulpit points.

#people over profit #end stage capitalism #sociopolitical commentary #mass incarceration #for profit healthcare #private prison industry #health insurance industry

[dailydccomics]

her “home” is Harley ♡ Poison Ivy #12

#harlivy #pamela isley #harleen quinzel #dc comics #harley quinn #poison ivy #marcio takara #dc #tuesday spoilers #so much sociopolitical commentary to unpack in this issue but at least there's them <3

[fiapple]

society if dc hired a writing team of colour who could acknowledge the racial coding of starfire & raven, explore vic's status as a Black man in modern america who's specific disability further means his body is going to be read a certain way by certain people no matter what he does, along with potentially finding a way to sort through the racisim + fetishization that went into prior depictions of dick's heritage:

#i say team as i think team books would probably benefit from more co-writers anyway. allows for more perspective. also pays more artists. #also i think a prior lack of racial sensitivity on the part of major corporations calls for paid opportunity to- for lack of better terms #because i'm stoned & can't find them- fix the fucking mess of it all #there's so much you could do irt to sociopolitical commentary if you just hired the right fucking people. i'm so over this jesus fuck. #dc #ntt #teen titans #the titans #like and even ignoring that there's so much you could do with the idea of friendships & teams as communities if the job was given to #someone who actually fucking CARED about any of those things. #anti tom taylor #legit if i see anyone on the dash praising it i will lose all respect for their opinions. #this man is worse than every insta poet put together and we could have had SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER. #cis white guys write the most absolute crap-paper worthy at best stories&comic companies are just like ''here go. fuck up even MORE stuff'' #am angry #if you see the version of this post with a typo just say nothing. yes my brain was just going ''why why why why'' that hard.

[leftmusing]

I'm pretty avidly against cancel culture from the perspective of those mindsets reoccurring in daily interpersonal relationships and the damage it has on mental health, definitions of justice and social cohesion, but sometimes I take a step back from that and think that "wow. even against men in power, this is very counterproductive."

hear me out.

largely, cancel culture was kind of birthed as its own separated practise at the same sort of Internet time period as the #MeToo movement first gained traction, and the original intentions of this was to hold dangerous men in power accountable and to deplatform them. I could go on a whole separate ramble about accountability, justice and deplatforming, but that's not the point of this post. at its core at the beginning, cancel culture was held with good intention to hold bad, powerful, rich people accountable.

right?

but there's irony in this. because what cancel culture has degenerated into has become a much more concerning, damaging issue, mainly to friendship circles, community cohesion and minority groups. these powerful, dangerous men that this movement was originally supposed to be against, aka, the 1% of wealth, the people behind media censorship, the CEOs of social media and people in government, for example, have very cleverly over the past 5 or 6 years(ish) drip fed subtle, psychological techniques to take this notion of cancel culture and use it to pit communities against each other. they have successfully turned the collective internet's attention away from them and towards each other.

at the end of the day, these aren't left vs right issues, although that's what these people would have you believe. this should be all of us vs them. the small but dangerously powerful statistical minority.

isn't it fucked up? isn't it fucked up that we are all so caught up in these echo chambers carefully constructed by those who wish to distract us that we have forgotten the main issues? isn't it fucked up that we're more focused on digging up dirt and harassing our neighbours, our friends, our community members, instead of actually bothering to fight for the justice we claim to desire?

and the most damning of it all, is that every post, every tweet in an argumentative thread, every reblog that spreads doxxing information about a teenager who said a slur once, every comment on a post trying to cancel a minority who has simply made a human mistake, is money in the pockets of those controlling this. the evil, twisted people that we should be putting our efforts into fighting against are profiting off of the movement that was supposed to take them down.

so, above the sociopolitical and interpersonal reasons I can't abide cancel culture, this is most significant to me. how deeply counterproductive it is.

the powerful men turn us against each other over the shield of computer screens and keyboards, we fall into mass echo chamber delusion and pick fights and cancel campaigns against each other, and they sit back and watch in delight that the long term coercion they've had over the media's dynamic is finally paying off. literally paying off.

so stop wasting what you think is activism on old tweets from one of your old high school buddies where they said something shitty. stop wasting this energy on taking down the people on the same societal standing as you. stop letting yourself get so enraged over somebody having a conflicting opinion to you, and start channelling that anger into the shit that the far left actually stands for: revolution.

because cancel culture isn't left. it just isn't. it isn't activism.

that's what the powerful, dangerous people in power would like you to think.

#monad.txt #cancel culture #sociology #politics #sociopolitical #social media #corporation #capitalism #leftism #anti cancel culture #left vs right #keyboard warrior #minority groups #social justice #social commentary #critical thinking #activism

[hostilecityshowdown]

the amount i need modern wrestling fans to study the von erichs until they're able to point at other wrestlers and go "i know where they learned that" is unreal

#[ colour commentary ] #yes yes we always come back to me rambling about kerry and mean mark callous what of it. /j #this is actually a post about fritz and japanese wrestling at heart but progressive diseases are robbing me of my ability to put anything #into words beyond a desperate plea to sit your ass down and Watch the decades of wrestling people have already suffered and died to bring us #and to Feel the impact of wrestlers of the fifties-eighties for yourself. not just be Aware of it. if wrestling as a vessel for storytelling #could be a book you read It Would Be. if it could be a handful of movies/videos you watch It Would Be. but it isn't. and when we #Care about wrestling and want to engage with it we have an obligation to engage With Professional Wrestling. With the athletics. With the #tapes. With the promotional material including printed programs and cut promos and magazine articles. learn about amateur and collegiate #wrestling. learn about grappling. names of maneuvers. origins of some of those names. the names and legacies of venues. the sociopolitical #history of time periods and regions in which wrestling was happening. you will read the gimmicks and you will love the pontiact silver dome #as you would a spouse and you WILL learn about the heart punch and why it is the most devastating move in professional wrestling-- #/j okay anyway. i lay back down now #train of thought inspired by the undertaker's kerry-honed drop kicks but Post inspired by fritz literally going to japan to save wrestling #okay. lay down now. #go watch some memphis tapes

[psalmsofpsychosis]

after my ✨️third✨️ attempt in the past 4 days to expose myself to standup comedy and build my lukewarm-jokes survival muscles i'll hereby conclude that jesus christ i'd rather fucking die

#like yes i'm sure there are actual funny standup comedians out there but #you people laugh at this shit?????? #98.99% of standup comedy culture is quite frankly incomprehensible to me i've never not-laughed at something this hard #i love george carlin but then again i watch him for sociopolitical commentary not for laughing #a lot of standup comedians are really just. extremely angry and frustrated borderline hateful people #or people with 45 accumulated years of severe depression which i mean. is absolutely fine to me #like the way i want to sit the lot of these people down and go ''talk to me. You're alright; you dont need the subpar 3.5/10 #socially acceptable veneer of jokes you can afford to have 2.5 seconds of sincere unscripted rage. maybe even cry a little. #you can do this i believe in you; cmon lets go'' #like these people are.... insanely unfunny. as a funny clown with funny shoes i find stand up comedy abhorrent honestly. #no offence whatsoever to people who like it; i know 'funny' is very a very subjective experience #i just think that the funniest people alive are often people who dont directly aim for being funny; it's got a medusa curse #the moment you look at funny directly you become the unfunniest person on the planet #(i adore hannah gadsby too but again. watching for sociopolitical commentary not for fun) #oh and i've been thinking about Joker's business of being ''funny'' too; pretty damn sure my experience of mainstream ''funny'' #is gonna play into that. oof

[misterparadigm]

One of the reasons sociopolitical tensions escalate so quickly is because people tend to embrace and embody the caricatures you build of them so that they don't have to resent themselves as much as you resent them. They take the insult and own it, and then they become the embodiment of that insult and are damaged by it.

It's a defense mechanism that perniciously breaks down your authenticity in the name of pride. And so you end up with a group identity where the truth becomes stranger than fiction.

#social commentary #psychology #stereotypes #caricature #defense mechanism #pride #sociopolitical #conflict

[zedazone]

I left a comment on a YouTube video by Jessie Gender and nothing I ever say on YT gets looked at by anybody, BUT I think I made some great points about Christianity and white supremacists and stuff, so I’m importing that shit over here: Jessie’s extremely thoughtful and personal video essay Part 1 for context [watch Part 2 as well]

Just a small thought to add RE your incredibly valuable discussion of race at about the 23 minute mark- I think that a lot of what white people might be yearning for when they go grasping desperately for the  threads of their own 'cultural heritage' [and grab onto the scaly tail of white supremacy instead] is stuff that was largely lost due to the spread of Christianity and how it sought to culturally homogenize the 'white' experience? So-called 'pagan' traditions and cultural values were deliberately snuffed out and replaced with Christianity in a way that profoundly separates any modern English or Irish or Polish or Swedish person from any cultural heritage that is not just a part of  monolithic Christian 'whiteness.' These days we're seeing a lot of alt-right bros fetishizing ancient Scandinavian and Nordic clothing and magical staves [I hate every day what they've done to the Ægishjálmur], but those dudes are often neither Scandinavian by heritage nor sincere practitioners of these ancient religions [mostly by dint of said religions being lost to time - most of the artifacts out there have significance that can only be guessed at due to deliberate destructive measures taken by Christians who believed that they were snuffing out satan’s influence]. They don't ever seem to recognize that the colonialist spread of Christianity is to be blamed for both their alienation from their own heritage and their envy and resentment of BIPOC peoples’ frequently much closer connection to their own, and that it's also responsible for permanently obfuscating their native cultural roots. What's worse, they see Christianity as a vital PART of their roots, melding their own romanticized notions about what ancient Nordic culture and tradition may have looked like with the bigoted, monotheistic Christian sentiment that theirs is the sole ordained righteous way of being and living - the same sentiment that crushed their cultural roots to BEGIN with. It's not JUST that immigration to America  socially requires names to be anglicized and capitalism to be the thing by which their entire identity should be defined - it’s that the United States was founded by puritans, and that Christian dogma shaped the unspoken 'rules' of what American culture ‘looks’ like- white anglicized homogenization, Under God. So frequently, these men slide deep into violent, racist ideologies with the full certainty that their violence is morally justified and divinely ordained - it's frustrating and tragic, and I don't know how we're supposed to teach  modern white people how to have a healthy relationship with religion and race in this current sociopolitical environment, but I DESPERATELY hope that we can find a way.

#zeda babbling #topic: religion and myth and stuff #topic: sociopolitical commentary that is almost certainly an infuriating bummer to read

[pochapal]

watched glass onion the other day and i can't stop thinking about it and i also can't decide if i actually liked it or not even after watching it twice which is very frustrating

#:) #see like i half get the hype for it. but only halfway #it's a fun and clever movie but i think the whole anti-mystery isn't well executed #in that the movie just feels like it's lacking substance? #i am aware this is a very subjective take but since i wasn't overly compelled by its sociopolitical commentary #i was banking on the other elements of the film to carry me through and outside of its 'rich people are dumbasses' central manifesto #there's kind of not too much else to grab onto? #like sure there's the cool subtle stuff but it feels too much like easter eggs rather than meaningful content #i think the second act fumbles by virtue of not going far enough in its reinforcing of its point/revenge narrative interweaving #all the components are there but the execution of it just doesn't do it for me #because i feel like if you're gonna do a film with a specific message #that message should have more bite than a milquetoast liberal culture war-esque dunk on rich people in the abstract #i really want to like this film and i should like this film! and yet #it should have gone further. it should have been more insane. not enough people died. this is my verdict

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

brah that book sounds sick I'm gonna have to read it

it’s really interesting so far! I saw the recent interview the author (richard beard) did with novara media about the need to abolish private schools, and literally the next day i walked into my fave local bookshop and spotted his book all about exactly that topic on a shelf! ‘twas fate!

#it’s a cool concept because it’s kind of part-memoir looking back at his experiences in that world #and also part-sociopolitical commentary and analysis about very specifically british versions of class divide #and how that impacts both individuals and society at large

[fleshblight]

A Serbian Film affects everyone differently of course and the effect it had on me is that now when I see a middle aged European couple making out I say ‘what is this, A Serbian Film?’

#idk whether to use affect or effect who cares #used both #also don’t watch a Serbian film unless you’re specifically studying sociopolitical commentary in Eastern European shock horror films #it’s not worth it even tho frankly it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be #I’d rather watch Serbian film again than august underground or irriversable or cannibal haulavaust or human centipede 2 #but that’s not saying much

[blue-likethebird]

Decided to watch the last of us and wow they really had the first fucking scene be of a guy looking straight into the camera and saying “These super dangerous pathogens don’t infect humans because we’re too warm-blooded. btw this could totally change if the earth were to heat up a few degrees and then we’d be fucked” because that was a slap to the face of an opening in a world led by politicians who can’t be assed to do anything about climate change

#bluebird.txt #the last of us #this won’t happen with cordyceps anytime soon since our CNS/Immune systems are so radically different from the insects that it infects #it was honestly kind of refreshing #most streaming service content can’t drum up any sociopolitical commentary more radical than ‘trump stupid’ these days #horror movie tag

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Tuatha de Danann  -  The Dance Of The Little Ones

#Tuatha de Danann #Tingaralatingadun #The Dance Of The Little Ones #Release date: 2001 #Full-length #Genre: Celtic Folk Metal #Lyrical themes: Celtic folklore Fantasy Sociopolitical commentary #Brazil

[mantra4ia]

#sociopolitical #social commentary #climate change #authoritarianism #you're killing me smalls #it's the end of the world as we know it #2022

[vampire-crimson]

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#one thing people have been surprisingly silent on in regards to the ygo author's passing #is how vocal he was in his anti-facism. #he once made an ig post about 'hey guys the political climate is fucked right? reminders that facism bad' #and people got pissed that he was using his own characters for political messages #because... ygo definitely does not have ANY sociopolitical commentary in it... #he was also vocal about the abuse and other issues in the manga industry #he was very much a person that cared about people even if that meant throwing himself in the fire #i respected him very much