What the fuck level of cult of personality even is this? They’re writing fan fic about their fucking overlords. What the fuck I cannot emphasize enough what the fuck?

  • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    I think this is just all Amerifat political discourse, our people think real life works the way movies do, which is why while Trump was flopping in office they had to make up that he was doing 4D chess or hiding his power, as if things were going to turn out like a climax in a double cross heist film.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      Or even more sinister, they do the opposite and venerate fiction like Dune, LotR and GoT as if it was real history, then use those ‘histories’ to base their opinions on.

      • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Yep, you think their idea of a chosen one leader or shifting loyalties between camps are from the Bible or history, but their mental model is actually the plotline from some show or movie they watched while eating.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 month ago

        I personally became as liberal as they come after reading The Giver. I used this in conjunction with Narnia to synthesize Markism-Lenonism-Yoko Onoism.

          • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            I haven’t read that book in decades but I didn’t get that message from it. The message I thought I got was why suppressing messy feelings for the sake of conformity and “stability” was bad. What did I miss?

            • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 month ago

              Oh the book is super anti-communist. The whole thing is basically “gommunism is going to tell everyone what to do, destroy the family unit, make fun illegal, and will practice eugenics.”

              9-year old me thought all that sounded pretty good if we just didn’t do the eugenics part. I don’t think that’s what my 4th. grade teacher was hoping I’d get out of it lmao