I'm facing a dilemma here.
On the one hand, I believe Ivanka and Elmo are both devious enough to take the message of someone they despise and use it for themselves.
On the other hand, both are probably too stupid to understand the message in the first place. The old malintent vs. incompetence problem.
To be fair, I also never interpreted the message of these movies in this way; but on the other hand, I was about 13 when the movie released here, and I can't remember referring to any of the movie's elements since then, less so to use them as allegories. While impressive in a technical way back then, they never had such a lasting impact on me.
Considering that taking the red pill causes you to awaken to the realities of the world around you, and you could describe that as being woke, I'd say they're idiots.
This reminds me of that guy who declared he wouldn't be listening to Rage Against the Machine anymore because Tom Morello had become too political 😂😂😂
How about when a republican Tweeted:
"Bummed to learn that @deesnider, the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values… “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is riding the train in the wrong direction. How could it be that he sang for us but now fights for them?
And Dee Snider:
You think i wrote a song in support of "traditional American values"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! You funny.
My favorite response the Morello tweet got was "what 'Machine' did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?" Lol
Nah, definitely was a printer.
Well, in a way, raging against a printer usually is just raging against late stage capitalism with extra steps
“Ms. Gore claimed that one of my songs, ‘Under the Blade,’ had lyrics encouraging sadomasochism, bondage and rape. The lyrics she quoted have absolutely nothing to do with these topics. On the contrary, the words in question are about surgery and the fear that it instills in people. … I can say categorically that the only sadomasochism, bondage and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore.”
-Dee Snider at the PMRC Congressional hearings.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dee-snider-on-pmrc-hearing-i-was-a-public-enemy-71205/
the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values
Ah yes, the famously conservative hair metal singer whose stage getup was just shy of a drag performers. How could one forget this pinnacle of conservative values.
I've seen drag performers with less makeup than Dee Snyder. He was approaching "circus clown" in that song's video.
That's the funny part, and why he destroyed tipper gore's dumb parental advisory witch hunt; He doesn't drink or smoke, and is a family man. He's much closer to conservative family values than people expect. Here he is recounting that time he made a fool of Congress
You should also watch his full congress speech if you have time
Did they not see the music video for that song where a rebellious kid using the power of rock rebels against his authoritarian father? Turning into the effeminate-looking singer of the song in the process, a song by a band named twisted SISTER? Said father who is heavily implied to be a former US Marine?
Yeah that's about as "Traditional American Values" and "Pro-Conservative" as a black lesbian burning down a Chic-Fila-A on June 1st with a molotov cocktail made from a bottle of Bud Light (It's not very Left Wing, but the brand triggers the fuck out of Righties) while making out with her transgender undocumented immigrant girlfriend, who had a perfect 15 inch girl-cock boner the whole time, because she is non-op and does not desire Bottom Surgery nor feel she should get a procedure that would be more effective on someone who actually does have dysphoria down there... She does however hope to have implants some day, and will look into it after gaining citizenship via marrying her black lesbian lover... However said Black Lesbian Lover gets SSI on account of being epileptic and cannot marry anyone without it harshly affecting her benefits and jeopardize her already vicarous living situation, so the wedding is off until they can find a lawyer to show them the right loopholes.
Oh dear God help me this is becoming a short story......
(Not a threat or call to arms, please do not burn down any establishments chicken or otherwise, voting for Biden will be enough, thank you)
This reminds me of people who accuse Star Trek of being too political also.
I saw one a while back where people were getting upset that X-Men had become "woke" lol
smh Tom Morello talks so much about politics these days you'd think he has a degree in it
I love when I learn things from sarcasm.
He attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello
We should be lauding Elon Musk for dispelling the notion that the wealthy have any inherent superiority to anyone else. He keeps proving it over and over and over.
Thank you Elon, for being yourself and proving, once and for all, that anyone can be a billionaire, all you have to do is benefit from the exploitation of apartheid.
Yep, Gates era billionaires had the good sense to maintain a vaneer of selfless philanthropic personality where each interaction with public was carefully crafted by PR experts. So the general public didn't know who they really were as actual people.
But Musk landed on the scene and showed the world that billionaires are as stupid as—if not more because they are out of touch with the reality—as the regular person.
Gates after his PR rehab, that is. Society seems to be forgetting just how universally hated that guy was.
After the antitrust deposition where he came across as petty, arrogant, contemptuous — and clearly guilty — he disappeared for a while and returned with perhaps the greatest PR transformation of all time.
The hilarious part is, he absolutely had the same PR team that the Gates and Jobs and Buffetts had.
And at some point in the Trump presidency, he just straight up threw them to the curb. Fired the lot of them, or at least stopped listening to a word of advice they gave. And he just started going on rants, tangents, and showing who he really was for all the world to see.
Nobody will ever know for sure, but best guess is his addiction to Twitter drove his need to be acknowledged and accepted by the general populace. He was a rockstar, and he got off on that feeling.
MAGA fools needed 4 seasons to understand that The Boys is making fun of them.
What if I told you...
... that the Wachowskis first contacted Will Smith to be Neo, but he turned it down as he was working on Wild Wild West at the time?
But uh yeah, it is absurd and infuriating that 'red pill' now means "become a misogynist douchebag scam artist bullshit guru to maximize profits" in a movie series that is entirely about defying the world as constructed by orientation around the profit motive.
I still use red pill to mean estrogen and if a misogynist tells me he took the red pill, I congratulate her on starting her transition.
Imagine ‘escaping the matrix’ only to end up supporting capitalism and the overall status quo.
So basically Cypher.
"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss."
The Red Pill was literally Estrogen, it comes in green now, but came in red then
I always thought the two pills looked like DayQuil and NyQuil.
The part in Matrix 4 where theyre like "do I really have to spell it out for you? We have to do this again?"
This is the same guy who loves Iain Banks' Culture novels while somehow remaining oblivious to their strongly leftist and anti-capitalist stance, and just sees "cool spaceships go pew pew". He's a complete moron.
He also says he loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is extremely anti-corporate and portrays every AI as flawed, an asshole, or both.
I started reading that series recently. I was aware that Elon is a fan and named multiple SpaceX modules after Culture ships. Absolutely blew my mind and made me realize how dumb he is, since The Culture seems like the opposite of everything he stands for. Plus some very pro trans messages IMHO.
The Culture is Fully Automated Luxury Gary Space Communism, and all he saw was AI ships have funny names.
This is like the video of Trump folks blaring Rage Against The Machine screaming "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!", and not seeing the irony.
Or the people bashing Tom Morello for "getting political".
Former Republican speaker of the house Paul Ryan said he was a RATM fan. The same guy who gave people Ayn Rand novels as Christmas gifts.
Tom Morello's perfect response: "Paul Ryan Is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against."
The Matrix being predicated on a climate disaster is also entirely lost, along with nonconformity in general.
People need to stop using that dumpster site.
Original meme was based, but so vague it just validated everyone who reads it
Conservatives telling you to escape the matrix and join them is always the funniest shit, because like grandpa, have you thought about how few people basically shape your entire worldview right now?
Can someone explain to me how The Matrix was a protrans allegory as the post claims. I've seen the movie many times and I don't remember anything to that effect.
Basically, the Wachowskis (directors) are trans. The trans aspect was only one part of the film, but the idea is basically that your body in the real world (sex) is separate from your identity in the matrix (gender) and the character Switch (who has a male body but is a woman in the matrix) is maybe the clearest example.
The Wachowskis themselves both say that there is a strong trans element in the Matrix while Lilly Wachowski also says she doesn't know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing".
Switch is a woman outside of the Matrix in the final cut. Early scripts called for Switch to be male in the Real World, but studio censors thought that was a little too daring.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435
I actually don't recall the anti-capitalist message, beyond the implication that office drones are just exploited human capital in a endless life of drudgery-
Oh, wait, I see it now.
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