Repugnant comments in response to someone comparing Iran to Ghorman. Libs truly cannot have a modicum of humanity with the third world. These same people will say "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" when asking you to support the people who bombed Gaza to rubble. A LOT of Ukraine flag bio posting in there as well. People saying Ukraine is the real perfect victim cause their government has never hurt anyone. Yeah 8 years of bombing schools and arming literal nazis was just nothing, just epic wholesome shit. They want to pretend to be anti-fascist cause they watched a show, but they will worship actual fascists in a second

I said at the time that the choice to make the Ghor French-coded belied the fact that they couldn't imagine making audiences empathize with "imperfect" victims or even minority coded victims.

It is a dead-end, not radicalism or a call to action. These people jack off to "I have friends everywhere" signs cause they recognize a fellow consumer, but they will not recognize the legitimacy of states opposing the west.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago

With fiction people see what they want to see. Maybe that's in part a product of the destruction of media literacy both functionally and ideologically ("the curtains are blue!"), and it's partially the fact that writers are libs and even when they're writing something ostensibly anti-imperialist they can't help but code their fictional Empire with aspects of The Other as the real-world Empire devices them, but regardless of the reason the end result in our current moment is that satire and critique will never change anyone's mind about anything.

The best you can hope for is to already be on a journey towards anti-imperialism for other reasons, and to connect with a show about it because it makes those concepts seem a lot more clear.