Flippanarchy

I don't know. Part of me thinks even though I don't want to. That a majority of people are just evil, and aligned with evil as part of their own morality. I hope it isn't true. I don't want to believe it's true.

These movies are not exactly subtle about which side is the "good guys" and which side is the "bad guys".

Who do you side with in a much more ambiguous movie like Apocalyspe Now or Sicario?

Or, if you're like most movie watchers, you watched Zero Dark Thirty and sided with the American commandos. You watched The Hurt Locker and sided with the American bomb disposal experts. You watched Argo and sided with the CIA.

I'd guess there are a lot more pro-American movies where the typical audience sides with the Americans than there are anti-fascist movies where the audience sides with antifa. In fact, a lot of people who watched Starship Troopers didn't get that it was an anti-fascist movie at all and took it all at face value siding with the humans against the aliens.

Real life is not like fiction. If you fuck up in irl you end up dead or in prison

Morpheus explains it to Neo in the movie

You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

This is some 14andThisIsDeep ngl

I get the sentiment but this is called an appeal to fiction. It really isn't sound logic

The main reason is that while there are people who are willing to politically fight for the right thing, there are very few people who are willing to die for the right thing.

Luigi is one of those and even he has affluence.

We need 100+ Luigi's before we see the average person willing to risk their life.

Think about it this way: what would happen right now if Luigi were to die by the state? If he can't usher systematic change, what chance does my life have?

This isn't just online. While I'm not going to openly talk about what forms of resistance my local group has taken on, very few people are willing to do more than what we've been doing and it's frustrating.

Trump and the GOP are literally running the fascism playbook and we only have a few more chapters left until he has the ability to fully dismantle democracy.

We see it, there just isn’t a “resistance” to join that plans to do anything remotely close to those movies.

i've watched slave wars and sided with master of this gym to corrupt his mind and watch even bigger amounts of slaves slaughtering each other, drawning this world in pussy juice in the name of da great bitch cunt goddess of big black tree many of you saw in dreams because of fsb constantly microwaving synapses with radio ~holocaust never really fucking ended~ waves, which give immediate wet erection to commie-nazis, while at the same time slowly killing them [99,9% of all documented cases].

Also i've watched infinity train (on rule34) and liked it a lot. Looking for cool movies to watch.

I think there are mainly two reasons for this:

1. In fiction, you’re simply not personally affected, so you don’t have to face any adversity or negative consequences. It costs nothing to see yourself as part of the revolutionary movement, and you don’t put yourself in danger.

2. Apparently, many people simply don’t want to admit what monsters their leaders really are, even though it’s actually obvious. This is the result of decades of propaganda, I think: The U.S., for example, has always seen itself as the friendly superpower that brings freedom and democracy to the world. Now that it is obvious even to the biggest idiot that this has always been a lie - since the regime has abandoned the facade - people are looking for other explanations to maintain the worldview they have long held to be true - such as the excuse that the current U.S. president is being controlled by evil forces from other countries (Russia/Israel) and therefore does not represent his own, indeed so righteous, country at all.

well, reality is simply more complicated than fiction.

in reality there is no clear good guys and bad guys. if you see it that way then you are absolutely oversimplifying something.

there can be victims and aggressors, but that doesn't make the victims "good guys". for example, i actually despise so much of what the Palestinian government represents, and yet, they are undeniably the victims. that does not make them good guys.

that concept is too much for most people to contend with. many people, especially conservatives, never grew out of needing everything to be cast in black and white. they can see someone kicked and abused and denigrated their whole life, and still only see them as "bad" for escaping that torment with drugs.

unfortunately there are many resistance movements i could join right now in america, but they're all the wrong kind. they are confederate wannabes that just want the chance to shoot gay and brown people.

if life were a simple as "join the resistance" being generally good advice i would need to be a screaming racist homophobe to do it. i think I'd honestly prefer being killed by the fascists.

Most people in all of those stories just tried to live their lives. The story follows the few that didn't.

In real life, even if there is a resistance, the connection between those that could join/assist and the general populace, is blocked by a constant surveillance and enforcement state. When groups start to form, they're arrested because the act of organizing draws attention to them. Think of all the 'terrorist' groups you know. You know about them, because they organized. Which put a target on them. Which is also what ends most resistance groups.

Because they've systematically dismantled the reward system that used to be in place for trying.

What I found funnier is that these fictional people armed themselves. They violently opposed their oppressors. But many people are still brainwashed that peaceful protest, or single day protests, will end the oppressions.

You're supposed to make your actions unavoidable to ignore. The oppressors has to consider you a threat to even begin dialogue.