That’s why they hate us deep down. They can’t reconcile the fact that they are not actually the most progressive and tolerant person in the room.
We actually support the LGBT community, we don’t just say we do. We don’t just wait until politicians finally get on this side of the fence and then cheer when they finally get on the right side of history.
Liberals are the kind of person to say their community is accepting of all genders, all nationalities, all minorities etc. but then not ban fascists who threaten that acceptance (and even lives) because everyone deserves free speech. It’s like they walk half the way, then suddenly stop and stand there, claiming this is actually where the trail ends even though you and they can clearly see the trail keeps going beyond the horizon.
We have better politics in all ways.
- We actually want things to get better
- We actually don’t want people to die, no matter if it’s from homelessness, hunger, or Ukraine.
- We actually want to hold our politicians accountable.
- Shit, we actually want competent officials.
- We actually want democracy, not whatever capitalism passes off as democracy (hey here’s a riddle, you get to vote every 4 years and your boss can decide your schedule without consulting you! Is that democracy?)
- We actually recognize fascism, even when it comes from liberals.
- We actually fight against it too.
- We are able to deeply analyze societal issues and not simply repeat from our high school history lessons.
- We know our history and geopolitics. Liberals will repeat from NATO propaganda. We’ve actually read about it.
This is impossible to the liberal who thinks so highly of themselves that they must, by default, be the most accepting and progressive person in the world.
And so they resort to calling you a CCP shill instead of actually examining their privilege and positions.
Face it liberals, we are actually the person you think you are. Not the person you want to be, because you don’t want to be anything other than what you are right now (because as a liberal you are, after all, perfect). But the person you and your fellow liberals spent years building up as being a pretty great guy.
And yes that includes whatever the fuck conservatives think they are.
Sure, he’ll devastate millions to billions of lives to fuel up his car because multiverse means sapient life is (somehow) worthless and disposable, but he sure hates them fascists right?
Obviously I’m not a fan of the multiverse car battery shenanigans and their implications.
Omitting it when judging his character isn’t that far off from “Hitler was really nice to his dog and did a funny dance this one time on camera, even if I’m not a fan of the death camps.”
I understand that comparison, it’s just in a show like Rick and Morty, its hard to take seriously.
I couldn’t get into the apathy mindset enough to ignore it. I suppose it didn’t help that the people around expected me to laugh at the suffering.
It didn’t help that I was told by those same people that the especially hilarious place to start was (CW: sexual violence against children)
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Roiland’s cartoon shorts where the punchline was children being violently sexually assaulted by monsters over and over again, including to death, as a punchline.
And it was all le funny ironic satire just to see what happened top kek lel.
Until it wasn’t. (CW of links: pedophilia, domestic violence)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64258125
https://humanevents.com/2023/01/25/read-the-texts-ousted-rick-and-morty-co-creator-justin-roiland-allegedly-to-sent-young-fans
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/report-rick-and-mortys-justin-roiland-allegedly-engaged-in-toxic-workplace-behavior
If I learned anything from the show it’s that excuses of “irony” and “satire” for edginess-for-edginess-sake entertainment often tend to be increasingly thin masks for who the person behind them was all along.
I totally understand not giving into apathy, and for what it’s worth it always disturbed me how Rick was willing to sacrifice entire civilizations out of spite, humor or entertainment. I scarcely find it funny, more like horrifying.
Justin Roiland is a fucking scumbag. Dan Harmon had his own shit, but he at least owned up to it and seems to be a genuinely good person. Roiland is a wife/girlfriend beater and a pedophile. It sucks that he got off scott free so far with no real legal punishment.
I’m sometimes a fan of edgy humor, but I hate that irony and satire are used as covers for obviously true beliefs people hold.