Trevor Weedheart posted:

Trainbearer posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnkn-_LqOUI

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Audiences are actually quite intelligent. Anyone watching Transformers understands the conflict is between the united states and despotic terrorists, that the film is a cartoonish exaggeration and so-on. Anyone watching Star Wars understands the basic New Age message voiced by the Jedi characters, to find holistic(!) balance in your life, let go of your attachments and whatever. The characters say it out loud. On top of that, audiences' feelings are quite genuine and accurate. Megatron in Transformers really is a killer and torturer up until the end of the last film, and should be opposed. Audiences' thrill at his defeat shows a genuine desire to see wrath dispensed against the unjust. They may be misguided, but I have no beef with them. These are good people.

The bad audiences are those who are the same as the above, but claim that. "my thoughts and feelings mean nothing." Star Wars fans will go to great lengths to dress as Literal Stormtroopers and say it doesn't mean anything. It's totally loathsome.

Imagine a Star Wars fan who dresses as a Stormtrooper out of a genuine support of fascism. That's an idiot I can respect. But, of course, such people are exceedingly rare. What I'm really against is cynicism.

But anyways, you create a weird dichotomy between democratic consensus and solipsism, like Stalin:

"In The History of the VKP, Stalin (who ghost-wrote the book) describes the outcome of the voting at a party congress in the late 1920s: "With a large majority, the delegates unanimously approved the resolution proposed by the Central Committee." If the vote was unanimous, where then did the minority disappear? Far from demonstrating some perverse totalitarian twist, this anecdote lays bare the nature of democracy. It is based on a short-circuit between majority and the totality: the majority accounts for everyone and the winner takes all, even if his majority is merely a couple of hundred votes among millions."

Since I am not really concerned with majority consensus, the protest that I am against majority consensus is really eh.

As for the claim that I resort to "it's just my opinion" shenanigans: that's a thing that I don't do. But it is interesting that you are worried about my freedom/impotence. If I am infinitely impotent, what threat do I pose? This is unmistakably the same logic as the Cat Comic posted earlier. I am a 'lazy piece of poo poo' who accomplishes nothing, and yet I continually vex you. To you, I am an Other who amasses all enjoyment. I am not the reason you are unhappy.

But anyway, back to the point: I would be impressed if you actually were a Nazi who wholeheartedly agreed with Triumph Of The Will, because being a Nazi in this day and age takes gumption. Saying 'Hitler' ironically is facile.


[Maybe FYaD will accept me if I roll with the punches.] haha you guys got me. I am totally rich as gently caress and also a homeless student. I'm a real, uh, pragmatist jungian... ideology with [consulting a wiki] vascular dementia.

no they will not posted:

I Before E posted:

this thread did not live up to the premise "fyad goofs on smg"

disappointing

mick foley forever posted:

why the gently caress would you want this

DNS posted:

I want one to please.

I Before E posted:

I don't even like Macklemore, which makes the death of dogtar even sadder.

RIP.

Swimp posted:

lol indeed

Dr. Spiderman posted: