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My younger brother loves Tyler Durden quotes. One in particular “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
I’m not sure why that one jumps out at him, dude makes more money than me. I do want to say though that hes genuinely a good person in most ways, hes completely surrounded by frothing at the mouth rightwingers but maintains that he is a centrist. And he says stuff that implies left wing and anarchist beliefs but constantly defends rightwing figures when I shit talk them around him. Most notably Joe Rogan.
Hes just badly propagandized and would end up being socially isolated if he started actually identifying as left wing because all of his friends would stop talking to him. And he refuses to move and make new friends. Its depressing.
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
This is a pretty common sentiment I believe. Me and Bobby Mcgee came out in 71 with the famous lyric “Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose”
He is not genuinely a good person.
I think I know what you mean. He lacks “broad” compassion and is intellectually a coward. If you think those are prerequisites for being a good person, he isn’t one.
What I should have said is he is empathetic and inter-personally does what normal good people do in the immediate context of people around him, including helping strangers. Even going out of his way to do so.
Send him the latest Elephant Graveyard video. That should adjust his perspectives on Rogan at least
I do think his defensiveness of Rogan is fraying, if only because Joe Rogan is becoming increasingly bad at managing his own image. He stopped watching Rogan back when he started charging for his show so it was probably inevitable.
He probably wouldn’t watch any political or joe rogan deconstruction video I send him though.
That quote in particular is an awful thing to hold dear if your brother loves you and the rest of your family. What good is this ‘freedom’ without the people most dear to you? You become a shell of yourself without the people that give meaning to your life, imo.
Oof the world is full of good examples for this. Like the Torment Nexus, in every genre. South Park is another one - there used to be real Cartman fans. Also some thought it was a children’s TV show.
White supremacists liked American History X. The lady running the summer camp in “Jesus Camp” said she thought the movie was a good portrayal of her ministry.
Cartman is a great character and one that, despite being a complete piece of shit of a human, is likable because the stories are better with him around. He’s also a great depiction of certain segments of society - arrogant, envious, greedy, self centered, manipulative, petty, sore loser, whiny, bitchy - which are too dense to realize he’s supposed to be a parody of them and not a role model.
Friendship with Tim Robinson is the best modern satire on this topic because it actually makes the people who don’t get it deeply uncomfortable instead.
I am literally Ryan Gosling. I am, I’m Him. He’s me.
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Alan Moore on Rorschach.
Not quite the same, but The Matrix and so-called “red-pilled” Republicans make me laugh every time for this reason. The Wachowski sisters have flat out and openly said that The Matrix is a transgender story about the prison of toxic masculinity and escaping it by transitioning. The red pill is Premarin, an estrogen pill from the 90s, and the blue pill is a testosterone steroid (I forget which one), both of which were produced in those exact colors. So every time a conservative talks about being “red-pilled,” they’re actually talking about taking estrogen.
Now the E pills are blue, thus ruining the metaphor, another crime big pharma must answer for.
I’m out of the loop. What happened?
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That’s what
You can have fucking otham, but not shiting.
We having fuckin otham at home.
Is this a review of Marty Supreme?
If people watch it then the popularity is a filter that makes sure that only those movies are popular where the fictional maleness sufficiently represents real maleness.
