The last four years have utterly shattered any illusions i’d had left about the true nature of democrats. Me too, blm, covid, yemen, and now gaza. They are serpents.

I think we are/were/have sent that upstream to the main lemmy code doohickey.

I like that analysis, thank you.

You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.

It’s not not cyberpunk.

It’s close enough and shares enough of the same things to be analyzed as part of the genre.

I do think that to a large extent the big evil bowling ball of doom is supposed to abstractly represent capital or something adjacent.

Things like the depiction of the indigenous resistance movement as unsophisticated dupes and terrorists merits analysis; why did the French director depict them this way? How can this be a reflection of French colonial history? Same with the depiction of the white Archeologists and the presumably middle easter kid subjected to colonialism in the beggining though I think there’s less there.

Leelu can be analyzed through the “born sexy yesterday” trope and there’s a lot of questions to ask from a Feminist slant.

The movie actually acknowledges some of the harms and contradictions of capitalism, while underplaying others. Showing the relationship between Corben as a cabby working for Zorg and ultimately being one of the people who thwarts Zorg is nice.

The decision to never have the protagonists and the antagonists directly interact is a neat one and opens up some very good questions about narrative norms - turns out the hero doesn’t actually need to confront the villain!

It does have a lot of cyberpunk themes; mighty and powerful corporations and governments can’t save themselves so they need a working class guy and his weird buddies to save the world. The upper classes are depicted as a gaggle of decadent idiots who have no idea what’s happening, while the corporate leader is a hyper-competent bastard who completely understands all the harm his sytem causes and loves it.

And it’s also just a silly adventure film with lots of style and cool visuals and a sappy power of love resolution.

I am three liberals in a trench coat and I’m ready to vote right now.

We’re a Citations Needed fan forum.

It’s true. I am the only true leftist in this miserable sea of liberalism.

We’re like Bane “The Venom is the only thing keeping him alive” levels of irony poisoned here. Add almost 7 years of in-jokes, memes, obscure conspiracy theories, and thousands of emojis and I can only imagine this place is a nightmare to navigate for visitors.

The 500-1k active Hexabarbearians are a plot to… uh… shit let me get back to you.

Check the lower right of this authentic vintage Frank terror meme. So many people just cannot accept how embarassingly sincere most of us are.

That’s awesome I didn’t know htat.

It’s fucking bizarre people keep hammering on this when the US is engaged in, I cannot emphasize this enough, anti-trans genocide as defined in international law. Like bruh. Bruh. Clean up your own house.

Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.

We’re method actors. I’m actually a neo-paleo-retro-Whig, but I took the job of being a communist crisis actor and I have integrity.

Lying on my deathbed in 2176, my life having been radically extended by medical research in a prohuman economic environment, My weakened eyes gaze out the window at the cities floating gently above the planet-wide food forest. I gather my descendents around me and croak out “It was all a prank, bro. It’s just a prank. I’m not really a communist. I helped build 100$ of communist as a joke. Just for a laugh.”

It’s true I am actually a 63 year old paleo-conservative living in rural Iowa pretending to be a communist with my Republican friends at hex.bear.parody. I believe in guns, going to church several times a year while accusing everyone I don’t like of being a satanist, voting in every election for the worst human being imaginable, and sports.

o7

I am 100% on board with Anarcho-Necromancy

Best decision made on the site to date.

It’s true I am a sleepy angel

Wait…

ignore any urban designing

I think you’re right. AFAIK Google tracks the real-time position of every android device with GPS and location services turned on and uses that to evaluate traffic, then route people around traffic congestion. The algo is essentially trying to work around the appalling failures of “Just one more lane bro i promise just one more lane!” by utilizing all available streets to get from A to B. It is subverting urban design, but in the US at least urban design is terrible and actively counter-productive, consistently making traffic worse in many cases. This does cause problems - Lots of traffic through neighborhoods and increased wear on roads that were never intended to support serious traffic. But it’s a reflection of the system trying to find a workable route through the terrible design of urban America.