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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suspect that, prior to watching the film, Sam did not know the part of the story where Oppenheimer is a communist. It must have hurt to realize that his heroic physicist was not a John Galt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what saltman thought the Barbie movie was about

fuck, he’s exactly the right age to have played bioshock and missed the point of that too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(I think Bioshock managed to do this for seasteading and biohacking)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

bioshock was such a passionate hate letter to libertarian ideas that a bunch of right-wing streamers took it upon themselves to trick children into thinking the game is apolitical and Andrew Ryan is actually the good guy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't they stop just short of actually saying that? Just implied that he was very sympathetic to them (and of course was involved in organizing labour)