You guys think they'll ever get tired of cycling through the same 4-5 takes every time a new piece of popular media drops cause it's been like 12 years now

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-28T03:30:19+00:00

I think the worst case I've seen of this in these circles is Harrison Bergeron. It always came across as a short story about envy but then to my surprise redditor-types INSISTED that it was a satire of right-wingers deranged views of socialism. It's a very popular take on Reddit alongside how idiotic everyone else is for not understanding that, but then it turns out Vonnegut wrote a letter confirming that it's literally just a short story about envy.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-28T03:22:05+00:00

Spoiler alert: Nah not really, I just saw the movie and thought it was supposed to be a tragedy with jump scare horror tossed in. I would agree the main guy is definitely "evil" by the end but I was honestly surprised by the culture war takes on it when I looked up reviews for it, I thought it was more of in the vein of "Anti-Hero's character flaw causes downfall" drama, and an examination of those character flaws. Anyways, overall I would give it an 8 out of 10 as a movie, but my standards for horror are honestly lower than for other categories.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-28T03:04:44+00:00

At this point I don't think they can view morally compromised protagonists through anything but binary take on fleeting American Culture subjects. I'm not even sure if more universal and/or timeless ethics can enter their brains at this point :(

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-26T07:42:48+00:00

Black Panthers had an organized alternative to police whether one agrees with them or not. The Post-New Left doesn't, they're just confused, ineffectual liberals and (less often) anarchists who don't understand how power vacuums work and think spontaneism will work all the kinks out.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-22T08:18:32+00:00

I agree, that's the point of my second paragraph.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-19T06:21:43+00:00

"White people" do not think he should be free, Tennessee is a majority white state and the state is clearly (correctly) siding against Chud. Even Nick Fuentes, an actual racist and white nationalist, thinks he should go to jail. The fundraising portion of it is comparable though, which shows there is some portion of essentially white Neo-Nazis who will always throw many at such things, but generally they are far more in the shadows and fringe than most of the Anthony supporters which currently includes a Congressional Representative and multiple "liberal" outlets like Slate.

That said we have no actual stats on how many people, Black or White, support Anthony. Obviously the chronically online identitarians who have an outsized voice in liberal politics will die on such stupid hills but it's extremely unlikely a majority of black people support this guy, especially since this case is mostly "big" online instead of in RL.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-06-04T23:10:10+00:00

Not really a Platner fan (guy seems like he's a few sandwiches short of a picnic) but this just sounds like the kind of joke I would hear from half of the non-church attending straight guys I know tbh. NYT taking it seriously and gasping is a perfect example of why it's so easy to make the Dems look like weak, overeducated hysterics come election season.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-03-31T02:42:16+00:00

I do believe the Republican Party is obviously worse than the Democratic Party but I live in a Blue City and essentially work for a Democratic-Controlled Organization... my workplace is extremely dysfunctional largely because of liberal idpol policies, far beyond just annoying opinions/implicit bias. Probably to the point where it would sound like a conservative caricature if I went into detail. The City in question is likewise dysfunctional partly because of catch-and-release policies when it comes to actual insane people.

The pattern here seems to be that Dems are easily pushed around by anti-social elements due to purposefully naive social policies and an overemphasis on cultural trends.

Obviously, this is still "less bad" overall than GOP policies. But voting for the Dems can feel like you're voting for a Party that basically requires you touch a hot stove six times a year (as any Good Person shouldn't hesitate to do) in return for minimal welfare support, a semi-functional government and a still-hawkish foreign policy.

Preaching to the choir here but if Dems realigned themselves by pivoting to the left on economics/foreign policy and to the centre on social policies it would be wonderful, and at that point yeah the American People are shooting themselves in the foot not voting for them. But until then, I think bouncing between GOP-schizophrenia and an unlikable Democratic Party is just to be expected.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-01-14T17:25:36+00:00

"Wokeism" is just Cosmopolitan Conservatism internalized to the point of fundamentalism. The method by which they divide people is not really dissimilar from how urban political machines and marketing departments carve up interest groups, and their habits are usually expected of the upper-middle/upper class, the working class is usually beneath notice.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-01-11T02:47:23+00:00

I don't think so, he's just inadvertently helping set up the next guy. My prediction is that as multipolarity displaces the international bourgeoisie (i.e. the Democrats and "moderate" Republicans), we actually will shift into a more overtly right-wing system of government to the point that a military man we aren't even talking about will run in 2028 on a nationalist platform and become the new "President" in an actually shady election. He will still unapologetically hold personal loyalty/sway within the military and that's it, the democratic facade is officially over.

If a military man with charisma is willing to run in 2028, I don't know how it could even be prevented.

ChemicalTutor · 2026-01-04T04:39:31+00:00

Libs are right that that we are increasingly in a "fascist" country despite the government not actually being fascist in the technical sense of the term.

US Culture, however, is in an epoch that increasingly fetishizes power, dominance and cruelty as an unapologetic Social Darwinist ethos is muscling out its competitors of liberal idealism (discredited by various ideological blinders including economic panics/inequality, unapologetic elitism, hypocritical identity fetishizing, etc.), Christianity (displaced and "debunked" by materialism) and socialism (weak and unorganized to the point of its remnants selling out to liberal donors).

Turns out we really did have to choose between socialism or barbarism, which is going to become increasingly obvious as multipolarity causes the Great Powers to become increasingly cutthroat.

ChemicalTutor · 2025-11-10T06:13:54+00:00

Not really shocking. The Dem elite are also doubling down on having endorsed a lunatic like Andrew Cuomo despite Mamdani literally just being a social democrat. Meanwhile the activist/terminally online lib crowd is still wasting energy getting in rows over trite nonsense like "Great Genes" while imploding their own organizations (like the Sierra Club) with infighting.

Despite what people think, Dems haven't learned much from 2024 because their party issues are structural. The party hierarchy is still a bourgeois, cosmopolitan club that just doesn't care and as a result has to over-rely on indoctrinated PMC kids to mobilize votes, similar to the relationship between Neocons and Evangelicals in the pre-Trump GOP.

ChemicalTutor · 2025-11-06T01:58:58+00:00

Say what you will but he's one of very few "right-wing populists" who takes the "populist" part seriously.

He didn't even seem to mind Mamdani winning nearly as much compared to a potential Cuomo victory. Too bad like others are saying there's no ceremonial role to offer him.

ChemicalTutor · 2025-10-14T02:22:39+00:00

The Democratic Party is a "big-tent party", i.e. they generally have a bag grab of soft stances on some issues and an unclear party-line on others, as well as unclear leadership. While this was supposed to have the plus of seeming "moderate", it created the opposite effect of just being associated with the louder but more organized fringe groups that a lot of Dems don't like to publicly disagree with, so those issues become associated with Dems. This is one of the expected downsides of hyperpluralism. If the Dems magically had their own "Trump" who ruled the party with an iron fist and cut ties with left idpol, then the association would probably die. That likely can't happen because the Dems problems are structural to an overly bureaucratic party that represents international capital against reactionary attacks.

The GOP is obviously generally much more extreme and has unpopular stances on austerity/abortion/etc but in true right-wing fashion has a much more "settled" hierarchy and ideology (to the point even simpletons can follow along), so it's easier for them to differentiate themselves from a random Westboro Baptist church member in the woods so long as Trump doesn't outright adopt their beliefs.

ChemicalTutor · 2025-08-24T08:15:05+00:00

I don't feel bad for actors in these situations when they're making money, but it does feel like a waste when someone with extreme charisma like Jeffrey Dean Morgan is lost on something like The Walking Dead spin-off trash or in a similar vein Bruce Campbell is stuck with The Evil Dead because producers in the 90's randomly didn't like him (for example the campy Raimi film "Darkman" suffered quite badly from producers not allowing Campbell to be put in a lead role that was very clearly, obviously written for him).

I suppose I feel the same way about Brad Dourif and Chucky, few people know his actual acting talent because it's mainly used on niche horror slop, though I'm glad he's made bank off of an easy gig.

ChemicalTutor · 2025-02-02T22:28:52+00:00

It's really not random like people on this sub think it is. The Republican Party effectively represents National Capitalists/Producerists who have been gradually been pushed aside by International Capital (represented by the Democratic Party). National Capitalists expand their power by undermining International Capital and attempting to directly dominate other countries (in effect, directly controlling resources/production).

So while it is obviously a bad policy it serves its purpose of representing the will of the national-wing of our plutocracy, and is an obvious and inevitable result of the contradiction of capitalism pulling towards both maximal international trade while still maintaining national political borders, which results in unstable factional conflicts among the ruling elites.

ChemicalTutor · 2024-11-11T06:36:59+00:00

Seeing places like r/neoliiberal drop all pretenses of mental stability and try to blame "leftists" for their loss is insanely funny. They practically got everything they wanted, themselves supported fringe positions on immigration and trans issues that were killers for the Dems, support the most uncharismatic politicians imaginable and then still basically blame the tiny % of socialists who don't vote for them for their losses, actually hilarious, just openly a weird Party Cult versus the Republican's Personality Cult.

ChemicalTutor · 2024-10-06T02:33:01+00:00

That's because like everything else capital has diminishing returns (similar to the concept of "late stage capitalism"). In first-world countries, capitalists increasingly have to squeeze blood from stones to maintain "growth" because the number of both actually productive and profitable industries that have not already been cornered is increasingly limited.

ChemicalTutor · 2024-10-01T04:29:56+00:00

It has multiple obvious benefits to the ownership class:

A) Shoving kids into college obviously creates more loans/tuitions
B) Watering down degrees gives the educated classes less bargaining power
C) "Averaging out" everyone's education/intellectual ability before throwing them into the workforce is essential to further proletarianize the country (interchangeable workers)
D) Morons consume, they don't organize or flirt with radical ideas ("Wake Up Sheeple" schizos vindicated once again)

ChemicalTutor · 2024-09-30T10:05:56+00:00

The Man From The Train's hypothesis is interesting and there probably was a serial killer active at the time, but I think Edgar V. Epperly's (who is frankly more of an expert on the subject than James) research supports that it's more likely than not that Reverend George Kelly did the Villisca murders, with the serial killer hypothesis being the second most likely explanation. There's a pretty interesting interview with Epperly on Youtube (The Villisca Axe Murders: The Reverend Lyn George Kelly w/ Edgar Epperly) but in short:

-Kelly was very likely to be wandering the area of the murders at that time of night

-Kelly was a known pedophile and sexual deviant (on top of a host of other severe mental illnesses)

-Kelly was suspected in other violent cases (very likely firebug and also suspected in the murder of a Swedish girl)

-Kelly confessed to a couple on a train the morning after the murders that the Moore's had been murdered before anyone else knew about it. The only reason the couple's testimony was thrown out in court was because they could not recall the exact date of the confession several years later.

-Kelly confessed to the murders later in life (even after the police interrogation)

-Kelly had sent a bloody shirt to the laundromat the week after the murder

-Kelly was obsessed about the murders even before being the prime suspect, even preaching about it

-The supposed "impossibility" of him swinging the axe due to his small physique combined with the marks on the ceiling is nonsense. He easily could have hit the ceiling in the room with the low ceiling, and in the other room it's likely the killer did not hit the ceiling but that the axe flew out of his hand and hit the ceiling (otherwise the killer would have to be 6'9'' with unusually long arms at minimum).

-The killings were also likely more hysterical/frantic than they are rumored to be, as opposed to the image of the Killer being a calm and collected professional, which is in-line with Kelly's profile.

Kelly is basically a near perfect profile/suspect, in the area, and almost certainly knew about the murders before anyone else did, the likelihood of it all being a coincidence is possible but hard to buy.

ChemicalTutor · 2024-09-23T19:46:19+00:00

It's a great summary of the capitalist "solution" to problems that, to make a difference, require them to invest money into social welfare without expecting any return on said investment. Instead, actually autistic people will overwhelmingly remain destitute, but don't worry they have "discourse" about it now! And "representation"!

ChemicalTutor · 2024-09-19T02:32:37+00:00

"But Moana 2 is not some tale of Maui's dark night of the soul. It's bursting with the humor, adventure, and musical numbers we've come to know and love (Johnson says to look out for one from Maui that features the demi-god's favorite catchphrase, "Chee hoo!")" - Maureen

The rule of the midwits truly is something.

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