A Bug’s Life is a Marxist film.

No, I will not explain

The game is literally named after the queen who presided over the height of the British Empire

This connects with something I often find myself pondering whenever capitalism-defenders claim that selfishness and greed are just “human nature.”

If I had to boil human nature down to one simple concept, it’s self-preservation. They’re right in a sense, that this drive for self-preservation manifests as selfishness and greed, but only because we live in a capitalist society that pits people against each other and encourages selfish behavior. They take this symptom of capitalism and use it as a justification. If society rewarded cooperation and punished selfish behavior, we’d see people acting very differently.

I believe this tendency to “hustle” arises out of the irrationality of our system. Even if you grow up with a comfortable amount of money, you can take all the right steps that the meritocracy-believers tell you to and still get screwed. This is especially the case in times like now when inequality is increasing and everyone except the very richest is downwardly mobile. People are incentivized to accumulate as much of a financial cushion as they can, as they can lose it at any moment. This is where the hustle comes in – people are constantly looking for a way out, for some way to get a lot of money very quickly and not only escape precariousness for the time being, but to have enough of a cushion to never be poor again.

I’m a believer

Well yeah. I don’t think anyone here thinks the satire itself is what kills a genre. When a work of satire becomes a cultural phenomenon and no one can take the genre seriously anymore, it stops being profitable.

A scathing work of satire that manages to get insanely popular and become a cultural phenomenon.

That was Don Quixote which killed chivalric romances, and that was Blazing Saddles which killed whitewashed TV Westerns.

I love it when I go a week without washing my hair and my scalp starts hurting. Say no to shampoo. Everyone should have a painful scalp all the time.

In all seriousness, are there actually people who think that you should buy copies of old stuff on ebay instead of downloading it? The creators and publishers make no money either way

If so, that’s what’ll make me finally give up electoralism forever. Harris v. Hawley 2024 = pain

It also really bothers me how much they hate autistic people. They use “autistic” (and other less nice terms) to mean “cringe,” and throw around the R-word like it’s nothing. Combine that with their transphobia and they give off Kiwi Farms energy.