General Politics Discussion (IX) [ARCHIVED] • Page 1649

I don’t even know what bipartisan immigration reform would look like right now

 

super water down to the point of being actively harmful but still touted as a win?

next they'll raise the minimum wage to 12 an hour and then find a way to legalize white folk selling pot while ensuring POCs remain incarcerated

 

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/202...had-gun-taken-away-after-trying-to-save-wife/

 

"Blast-O-Gram: For $100, Ukraine will Air-Mail your message to Russia on an Artillery Shell"

https://sofrep.com/news/blast-o-gra...your-message-to-russia-on-an-artillery-shell/

 

I can’t imagine what this kind of inhumanity would do to me.

 

I honestly pull out my phone and pretend to be talking to someone at least three times a week.

 

They ask you to get on the plane please when they deport you.

 

Labor exploitation, explained by Minions Vox piece explaining this actual academic article on Minions and capitalist exploitation, both in the films and by the studio producing and marketing them:

Beautiful Exploitation. Notes on the Un-free Minions

Their exploitation comes at the hands, she argues, not only of their master Gru but also of Universal Pictures. By being portrayed as the unruly proletariat, the film casts Minions as foolish and infantile creatures who are only able to actualize themselves under capitalism: Serving a master who belongs to the “transnational jet-set” of billionaire-coded villains who own private jets and live in palaces is the only way they seem to achieve happiness. Meanwhile, the film suggests that the Minion’s freedom from these masters is “precluded by the ostensibly limited cognitive capabilities of the working classes. Thus, the toil of the nascent subject is ultimately ridiculed.”

It might be possible to argue that by exemplifying the effects of capitalism, the Despicable Me franchise is actually producing anti-capitalist commentary. Szklarczyk doesn’t buy this, though: Because Gru is ultimately a good master to the Minions, the films fail as critiques of the system, and in fact condition children to live in an unequal world. “In such a world, those failing to side with Gru are considered misled, mistaken, or plainly wrong,” she writes.

This is, in short, how capitalism packages and sells itself: Those who are incapable of accepting the free market as an adorable, beautiful playground where everyone gets to feel happy and self-actualized are simply too stupid and childish to reap its benefits. It is not a mystery as to why the Minions' most staunch critics are culturally aware left-leaning young people, people who might find them aesthetically creepy or cringe but metaphorically standing for something much more sinister.

Thus, there is only one solution: We must free the Minions, just as we must free ourselves.

 

They know I'm just going to either go back to smoking Cigarettes or switch to some janky ass bootleg vape brand that's way less safe right?

 

Felt this so hard while interacting with my wife’s conservative family at a wedding recently.

 

Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes

 

Why Is Sonia Sotomayor Trying To Redeem Clarence Thomas? - Above the Law

All the liberal justices are cowards. I don’t want to read one word of a dissent. Fuck the whole Supreme Court.

 

It’s been killing me to defend Biden on gas prices and inflation constantly instead of discussing how terrible he is