We had basically won the culture war but dropped Oppenheimer and Barbie on them anyway
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I say we take off and Barbie the entire site from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
conservatives (who are actually liberals)
Wow, they finally realized it.
It's a classic No True Scotsman fallacy at work.
No, it's a conservative wiping the scales from their eyes (albeit momentarily) and realizing liberals and conservatives are just two sides of the capitalism party, which is liberalism.
I don't think they realized that at all, even momentarily. They're just calling themself the one true conservative for not seeing the Barbie movie lol.
Historical events are designed, by the woke left, to make Americans feel bad about their country.
You know they've lost the culture war when stuff like this starts popping up
Imagine getting "black-pilled" over the "anti-american agenda" of the scientist equivalent of another shoot-and-cry movie.
Is this sub anti-woke or not?
We aren't an echo chamber mate, we are a collection of individuals, with individual opinions.
I don't know why, but this exchange cracked me up, lmao they seriously talk like this
Sounds like a perfectly healthy way to live
Even his "conservative friends" are clearly put off by his culture war bullshit lol. They just want to be normal and watch normal movies.
In retrospect the line "conservatism is the new punk rock" was incredibly funny coming from the guys who got into conservative politics through children's toys.
2016: lmao leftists are such joyless scolds, everything is "problematic" to them
2023: the Barbie movie is woke 
I almost feel bad shitting on this person because you can tell they have a completely miserable life. But also link the post so I can go bully people in the comments.
it's KiA... it's like pissing into a river
More like pouring water into a river of piss
Oppenheimer is anti-American and pro-communist
Wait fr? Should I go watch it?
anything short of “the nuke was awesome and should have been used in every war since and against the USSR and China” is communist propaganda to these ppl
It's pretty neutral on communism, which is probably for the best given that it doesn't understand it at all. Its one attempt to dip a pinky into theory has them quibbling over the translation into English of 'property is theft' from Kapital, which is extremely not where that line comes from and Marx disagreed with it.
Labour organizing and attending CPUSA meetings are shown as broadly good things, but ones which Oppie needs to set aside for the greater good (since they need him to have the best chance of beating the Nazis to the bomb, and the FBI won't give him a security clearance to join Manhattan if he keeps that stuff up). The USSR is even more off-screen than Japan.
IDK American leftists squabbling about theory they clearly haven’t actually read sounds pretty on point to me.
Is anti-anti-communist, which is not exactly pro-communist
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It feels like that sub is somehow degrading. Like it was always evil and always stupid but there's still somehow a sense to me that it's devolved.
Gamergate was a lot of people's first experience with the far-right infiltrating a vulnerable group then engineering and escalating a culture war.
There was a lot of naivety back then. The alt-right pinkie promising they weren't neo-nazis was enough for thousands to give them the benefit of the doubt. People got swept up in it, believing it really was about "ethics in game journalism" and not just trying to bully feminists and anyone who defended them into suicide.
But that was hundreds of acts of domestic terrorism and melodramatic reactionary outcries ago. Most people shook off the mob mentality and saw it for what it was.
You're seeing the ones who decided to stick with being scumbags.
For most of them, it's probably because they're abusers without anyone in their life to abuse, trying to scratch that itch by hurling slurs at minorities.
Of what's left, they might be so dimwitted and gullible that they still haven't realised they've just been doing the dirty laundry of some of the worst people the modern world can offer.
It would be genuinely pitiful if it wasn't near-certain that one of them will do a mass shooting because someone made a movie that was more appealing to women than the idea of becoming a tradwife-pornstar-mommy-punching bag for a chud.
What are they even talking about? They have done NOTHING BUT win culture wars ever since 2012. If you're all doom and gloom over Barbie, I hope someone forces you to watch Idiocracy where morons like you are even more viciously pointed out.
Idiocracy is a fascist movie about how stupid poor people are having too many babies.