Paranoid leftist film that highlights leftist ignorance
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BakedEel — 12 years ago(January 29, 2014 04:37 PM)
Just face it lefties, you've won and its more likely that this country will be installing gulags to cure people who suffer from conservatism than any right wing regime being formed.
Is it me or do lefties tend to lump anyone they disagree with as "right wing" be they conservatives , classical liberals, libertarians, neo cons, thatcherites, Powellites, nationalists and fascists?
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BakedEel — 12 years ago(January 31, 2014 05:06 PM)
The average person wouldn't even have heard of Antonio Gramsci, or know anything about him, and you clearly don't know much about the average person. You're right that conservatives are often ignorant or blind, though.
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BakedEel — 12 years ago(February 07, 2014 09:33 AM)
Wrong on the first point, and on all three examples (maybe less so the second and third ones, particularly if the individual was from England or from France, respectively). Also further evidence both that you don't understand the meaning of the original comic, and that you don't understand the average person, as paranoid rightwing cynics typically do not.
"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell"
V.
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BakedEel — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 01:42 AM)
lol, well that's due to pop-culture. I hate that too, but that's got nothing to do with leftwing politics, it's about money, because crap sells. If you have a problem with this film, it's with the American makers and writers of it, not with anything in the UK.
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delriosong — 9 years ago(November 27, 2016 02:59 PM)
lol, well that's due to pop-culture. I hate that too,
Using a social media discussion of a film and a graphic novel is such a great forum for you to express you disdain of pop culture.
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!!!deleted!!! (40461903) — 12 years ago(February 01, 2014 10:38 PM)
I too hated this movie for all of the reasons you've listed.
I must add, though, that I found that whole "isn't the Koran a lovely book" scene to be particularly repugnant. That's absolutely typical of the Left in Europe - endlessly criticising Christianity and conservatism in the West, while constantly fawning over Islam and "moderate" Muslims (which is usually anyone who is slightly less extreme than the late Osama bin Laden). -
detroit-velvet-smooth — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 08:53 AM)
How has it been going in Christian society until the most recent generation or two?
Christianity, the two thousand year old culture that gets to take the high ground because it reformed some of its cultural taboos and prejudices in the last few decades. -
!!!deleted!!! (40461903) — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 02:03 PM)
Yes, it does indeed get to "take the high ground", because it HAS the high ground. Compare that to even the more "moderate" Islamic countries like Iran or Indonesia, where homosexuality is punishable by public flogging (Indonesia), or even hanging (Iran).
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detroit-velvet-smooth — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 02:57 PM)
You mean moderate Islamic societies that were driven into the hands of the extreme religious bands because of the destabilization of their democracies because the white Christians with the moral high ground felt like them running their economies for their own interests was grounds to topple them in favour of a secular dictator?
Kick people around and they run to the extremists. It happens every time. Its why communist revolution was so popular in Central America - the American backed regimes were just that awful that living under Communist rule was preferable.
Meanwhile civilized British society still censors everything, and chemically castrated its war hero math genius. I presume you've seen the bio pic starring Benedict Cabbage Patch.
Meanwhile in the states a huge list of state governments are doing everything in their power to reverse many of these moral high ground changes because their religious right wing base is potent enough that you can get ahead politically promising that idiotic nonsense. The best part is that 50+ years ago when America hated the Catholics politically it was because they feared they had no respect for the firm separation of church and state. The dogma was that Catholics answered to the Pope and were traitors at heart. Now those same people are extremely opposed to the notion of Separation of Church and State so if anything the shining beacon of moral superiority, the US of A, is regressing in its religious progress towards reason and balance in secular society.
Incidentally even a country like Iran has better paternity leave protections for women than in America.
Its amazing what these savage muslim lands are like. Better female medicine covered by the state in Iran, better access to doctors and education in oppressive Cuba. The moral high ground is treacherous as it often falls away unexpectedly from your feet and suddenly you're looking up at the most unlikely of characters, ones you were promised were beneath you. -
EricCartmanBrah — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 12:10 PM)
It wasn't good up until the last few generations, but it has never, EVER been as bad as it is in muslim countries to this day! While western countries are progressing there, Islamic countries are only regressing more and more.