They didn’t misunderstand the message, you misunderstood their intent going into the media.

Hahaha no.

Their intent was not to understand the media, but to merely consume it.

… they still in fact did misunderstand it.

Yeah, its true that not everybody approaches a piece of media trying to fully comprehend and appreciate it, yeah its true that it’s fine to have media that doesn’t require much brain power to comprehend, yeah its fine to lazily enjoy things from time to time.

None of that means these movies and characters are not notorious for being basically 180 degrees misunderstood by people barely paying attention.

They didn’t misunderstand the message, you misunderstood their intent going into the media

Imagine saying the equivalent of this to a teacher who failed your creative writing paper because you wrote for a completely different prompt than the one assigned.

This is an asinine thing to say, its a non sequitir.

An explanation for why something happens is not the same as ‘that thing didn’t happen’.

Its considerably less all over the place when you realize Bethesda doesn’t know how to write them, Interplay/Obsidian does.

Religious Extremist Settler Colonialism just ends up destroying your society as well as the colonized.

The entire situation with the bugs was caused by Mormon Extremist settlers, who literally started the entire interplanetary war by settling on territory illegally.

A relative minor detail in the movie, but maybe perhaps relevant to current events, human history broadly.

It’s not ableist to point out the epidemic of ‘TherapySpeak’ on TikTok.

They didn’t actually make any ableist insults.

It is a legitimate problem that TikTok is a prime vector for spreading and normalizing medical misinformation regarding mental health and psychology terms and concepts.

Its one of the filters, of the great filter.

These people have NPC-ified themselves, and they basically have the AI behavior routines of zombies, just ones that can do a slightly more convincing emulation of socializing.

Brain dead by way of vanity and consumerism.

Sorry, turns out that a wide swath of humanity is too dumb to recognize what this stuff does to them, that our technological abilities have evolved way, way faster than our biology has.

We never should have made computers this user friendly. Because, when, you do that, it lowers the barrier of entry/usage down so low that you end up programming the less aware users, moreso than the software.

Not to mention that TikTok, Twitter/X and Facebook are all owned and controlled by delusional narcissist freak anti-social Epstein class people, who openly view normies as dumb cattle who exist to be distracted and surveilled and groomed and conned.

So give them a simulation of socializing, a simulation of culture, a simulation of even rebelling against that culture… so long as they control the black box algorithm, the algo that knows them better than they know themself, the algo that harvests them via either subscription payments or data extraction.

They figured out how to induce drug addiction behavior, without selling an actual drug… they hacked the human brain, via a much more advanced version of basically networked, interactive television.

Just tell them you’re the Queen of England lol

Apparently its a fast track to Norweigan residency if you can handle absurdly bad weather, and 3 month long nights and days, lol.

Send em to Svalbard if they want nightmare difficulty mode.

Gonna be a pretty important hotspot with the Arctic melting…

Oh, that works in reverse for me.

My parents would slip up or just forget some lie they’d been telling me for 20, 30 years.

Always thought it was strange they never actually told me what day their anniversiary is.

The answer is: Surprise, subtract 9 months and… you’re unplanned and we had a shotgun wedding!

Doesn’t bother me that I’m an accident, bothers me that they lied, that they spent decades giving me a totally different story.

There’s a lot more than that, but I don’t want to make myself potentially identifiable lol.

Nah, a fuck ton of people have CPTSD from persistent and consistent narcissistic abuse from their Boomer parents and those who think and act like them.

Its why 1/4 to 1/3 of millennials and gen z have gone no contact with at least one of their parents.

This is a legitimate phenomenon of the Boomer generation being disproportionately absurdly selfish and abusive.

If you’re a millennial and your grandparents are still alive, pretty good chance they’re no where near as fundamentally shitty and horrible as your parents are… significantly less people going no contact with the grandparents.

There can be no solidarity with an abuser.

This is correct.

They’re pathological narcissists, the idea that they are ever fundamentally wrong about anything is essentially not a thinkable thought for them, because that would damage their ego, their self-image.

They genuinely cannot comprehend the idea that their worldview (which revolves around themself) can be substantially wrong.

The world and everything and everyone in it exists to validate them and everything they’ve ever thought said or done.

They basically have the arrogance of Old Testament God, something like that.

See that last quip there shows that she knows she is entirely full of shit.

She knows none of her advice is actually useful.

She doesn’t care.

She just wants to always feel superior to you.

Same with bro in law.

‘That’d be nepotism’ means 'that’d be nepotism that I personally might not benefit from.

… here, I have the glasses from They Live, you can have them, but you’re not gonna like what you see.

They know they’re full of shit, they’re complete hypocrites. Otherwise the advice they give would… you know, generally work. They don’t care that they are complete hypocrites.

They have the mentality of scammers and con artists; a massively oversized ego that must continually be fed with I am awesome and everyone else is a sucker.

They do not actually care about you or your wellbeing. They care about feeling like a success.

If I were you, I’d cut them out of your life; all they’re good for is wasting your time and causing you sanity damage.

A huge part of it is they are literally idiots, dumb stupid assholes who cannot think good.

Or you can just tell the primarily fear motivated idiots to be afraid of things, and then their brains stop working, they just don’t like the scary thing and want scary thing to suffer because scary thing is bad.

You can’t win an argument with an idiot; they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Remember the whole… they go low, we go high, rhetoric?

Assanine. Literally an in-group signalling feel good hugbox measure, doesn’t actually work at all on the out group. Vanity and smugness as a strategy, a strategy that repeatedly fails in a political system that is rigged to over represent the local yokel ya’ll qaeda types, and is rigged to disenfranchise the working poor and minority groups of all kinds.

You think that you’re playing an unrigged game, for some reason, maybe because thats a comforting thing to hold onto, that democracy is inevitable and rules and norms are just and eternal, because they seem nice and fair to you.

Well guess what?

We got 1/3 of the country that effectively gets 1/2 the voting power.

The game isn’t fair, the rules are always changing, and this 1/3 of people would and literally has willingly voted to destroy democracy itself and replace it with tyranny.

You gotta change the rules you are willing to play by… if the real game is how you rig the apparent game, you need to think outside your comfort zone, or just admit defeat right now.

Yep, its pretty much that stupid.

But… if its stupid… and it works…

… it isn’t stupid.

Playing chess with a pigeon and getting mad that it isn’t playing by the rules and then flaps over the pieces?

You’re the fool.

Just get some bird seed and also a broom, apply positive and negative reinforcement toward the desired result.

You fundamentally don’t get it.

Being an asshole about it is the tactic that works.

You’d want to avoid me just like you’d want to avoid the assholes this would work on, because you’re not like them, and you don’t like them.

You can’t reason with everyone. That tactic, reasoning, doesn’t work on or with everyone. Some people just do need to be rhetorically slapped around, all pathos and ethos, because logos has no real effect on them.

People like you would hand wave away a brash boistrous blustering bloviation of bullshit.

People like them, that’s the real language that speaks to them, the only thing that makes an impact on not their conscious thoughts, but their subconscious that gives rise to those conscious thoughts.

Stop acting as if everyone else is like you.

The whole point here is what tactic convinces people that are not like you and cannot be convinced by reason? That that tactic wouldn’t work on you is irrelevant. Get over yourself.

Trust me I wish I was wrong.

Tried for 2 decades to do the reasoning thing.

It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t work.

They don’t argue in good faith, because most of them literally are not capable of arguing in good faith.

You make them your bitch, and force or trick them to realize your way is better for both you and them.

Most others do see it this way.

They just got you convinced you’re outnumbered.

You’re not.

They just own the media, the social media, and only ever get better and better at determining who does and doesn’t get to vote.

No point in conceeding shit to bullies, they’ll just keep bullying you.

You got the life experience of a 12 yo if you think being reasonable to a diehard conservative will have any effect on them other than making them internally chuckle that you’re trying to take them seriously, in good faith.

I’ll meet them where they’re at and tell them they’re a fucking moron.

I also don’t get to vote, because of them, so maybe stop pretending this is a fair fight.