zed_proclaimer [he/him]

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Cake day: September 10th, 2023

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  • that’s how a lot of these raunchy 80s comedies were with Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and the like. I remember liking Spies Like Us as a kid, and upon re-watching it’s basically 2 hours of Chevy Chase sexually harassing every woman he comes in contact with and getting rewarded for it.

    The overall plot is pretty good though, American CIA psychos launching a nuke on themselves to test Star Wars and start a war with the Soviets is a pretty redpilled plotline. Very weird ending though where the Soviets and the American spies divert the missile after Star Wars fails and the CIA/military guys get arrested for their treasonous plot and the Soviets and Americans become friends and play games together. Very optimistic but not very realistic I’m afraid, nobody would arrest the perpetrators and nobody would be friendly to the Soviets



  • What part of ASOIAF do they interpret to mean “monarchy is good”? Pretty sure the whole thing is a damning exploration of the shittiness and reactionary nature of medieval feudal society. Even the best kings in ASOIAF history basically just didn’t cause wars and kept the realm stable, the worst were all inbred sociopathic monsters and sadists (Aegon I, Aegon II, Maegor the Cruel, Aerys the Mad King, Jeoffrey Baratheon, Baelon Greyjoy, Euron Greyjoy, Cersei Lannister), or drunk philanderers who let everything devolve into chaos like Robert Baratheon or Aegon the Unworthy. The kings of Age of Heroes are likely mythologized and not literally real (such as the Grey King, who symbolized a mariner culture from the East and not specific individuals; or Brann the Builder who symbolizes human-children of the forest cooperation & the things that can be built when two species co-exist and cooperate instead of war).

    Basically the only places in the world where it’s a good place to live (for smallfolk) are Braavos and Dorne. Braavos is specifically not a monarchy, and Dorne is so isolated from the other kingdoms they just kinda chill and do their own thing. The Axis of Resistance is basically The Brotherhood without Banners, a ragtag coalition of broken and re-formed militias who resist military occupation through prolonged guerrilla tactics, who fight for an actual noble cause even if they believe it to be doomed - their leader being martyred over and over but keeps resurrecting via the divine intervention of the one true god (peace be upon R’hllor)



  • Recognize the role of the US empire in Palestinian oppression. Recognize that jews are in an ambivalent racial category and are an oppressed people. Be specific when criticizing Israeli colonialism. Name who you’re criticizing, is it the settlements? The IDF? Likud? The US military Industrial Complex? Stop calling for ethnic cleansing of jews if you’ve been doing that. Don’t equate jewishness with whiteness / the Nazis. White people are white people, the US is the Nazis.

    Why isn’t “Israel” on your list of OK to criticize groups? The colonialist state of Israel needs to be destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth, and this is not anti-semitic to say. I’ve not seen one person on this site blaming all jews for anything. Can you provide even a single example of this that wasn’t quickly removed by mods? Stop vague posting and concern trolling if you don’t have an explicit example, now is not the time to center the attention on yourself.