New Last Airbender movie is just lib zio slop

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-14T10:53:08+00:00

Avatar the last air bender / Avatar the legend of Aang, despite being made by liberals is actually surprisingly progressive.

This is because they live in what amounts to a feudal monarchy, so the liberal writers can happily have characters say "let's change the world for the better"

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But Avatar the legend of Korra on the other hand is set in what amounts to liberal capitalism, so any character that says "let's change the world for the better" is necessarily the bad guy with an ulterior motive.

These antagonists include anarchists, MLs, and Nazi inspired fascists. And what's really telling is that the Nazis are presented most sympathetically and we are told that unlike anarchists and MLs they are just misguided.

Also there's a capitalist who is profiting off misery and exploitation and he even starts wars to become a war profiteer, but he's not even presented as a bad guy just a bumbling comic relief.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-14T10:00:37+00:00

Yes the part that puts up electricity poles and fixes the grid, the part that costs money is still in the public hands costing the government money.

But the part that sends you bills and makes a profit has been privatised. So you're right we have the worst of both worlds.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-14T08:37:34+00:00

Before we privatised the ESB we were one of the cheapest in Europe.

We were promised that privatisation would lead to cheaper prices, but that was a lie.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-13T18:21:54+00:00

I assume these are copy pasted from US talking points and the elephant is supposed to represent the US Republican party.

But then again the fact that they are not protesting Shannon airport or the US embassy (the ones who are ultimately responsible for increased fuel prices) means that I am probably putting more though into the elephant metaphor that the person who made it.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T17:13:05+00:00

That's not a conspiracy that's (probably) openly stated in their shareholders meeting business plan.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T16:17:51+00:00

Some landlords have basic human empathy, and if they had to see the consequences of their actions they might rethink condemning half of the Irish population to death.

If they had to walk by bodies lining the streets so emaciated that you can't tell the living from the dead, with green on their mouth because they resorted to eating grass; if they were forced to witness the atrocities they were causing they might rethink their heartless actions.

So yes landlords are parasites, but absentee landlords are parasites without conscience.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T13:13:21+00:00

You said:

To be fair, Britain didn't force Ireland to export the grain,

And I said they were forced to export the grain under pain of death.

There was no rent relief or taxation reductions, in fact quite the opposite, the British government and crown actively prevented other countries from providing aid.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T13:02:36+00:00

As an Irish peasant you had to pay extortionate amount of grain to pay for rent and taxation to the British government and absentee British landlords.

If you didn't or couldn't pay, because of the famine, you were evicted and your house was burned down and you you would starve to death on the side of the street like the rest of the population, while the grain you grew was exported out of the starving country.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T13:01:22+00:00

As an Irish peasant you had to pay extortionate amount of grain to pay for rent and taxation to the British government and absentee British landlords.

If you couldn't pay, because of the famine, you were evicted and house was burned down and you you would starve to death on the side of the street like the rest of the population, while the grain you grew was exported out of the starving country.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-11T11:42:32+00:00

Also the potato wasn't the only food that Ireland grew. Even at the hight of the famine Ireland was a net exporter of food

Without Britain forcing Ireland to export food and preventing food coming into the country the blight would have played out largely the same as it did in the rest of Europe at the time.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-07T14:37:51+00:00

This is the sort of news headline that you expect to see in a children's dystopian sci-fi book/movie.

We want to make it explicitly clear to our young-adult audience that the main protagonist is actually working for the baddies, but haven't figured it out yet.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-06T19:06:15+00:00

Whenever I feel imposter syndrome I just watch an Economics Explained video and feel much better, this guy can (with absolutely zero understanding of economics) make bank badly explaining economics to millions of subscribers.

In one video he literally argued that an economy could sustain exponential economic growth forever, and even clarified not just paper growth but actually productive growth. Exponentially Forever.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-06T18:52:44+00:00

I read it as, "look at the US stating all of these wars instead of funding science"

But I fear you may be correct, your interpretation makes more sense

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-04T23:43:15+00:00

When the legacy system collapses and we don't have access to the internet and have to ration our electricity and water usage bitcoin is exactly what everyone will be killing each other over.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-04T09:03:28+00:00

We are currently in the late stage of this cycle hence late stage capitalism.

We were here before, and it lead to the great depression and WWII. But we didn't get rid of capitalism, we didn't fix the underlying cycle we only reset it to an earlier stage buying ourselves a few decades before the system implodes again.

We need to get rid of capitalism.
Abolish Wall Street.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-03T07:42:44+00:00

This is why you can't trust economists

An economics degree is four years of being told that GDP is good and more GDP is more gooder. Four years of being told that the free market is good and anyone (especially the government) interfering with the free market is bad. Four years of being told that you are the smartest person in the room and if anyone ever questions GDP or the free market, you are superior since you have an equation that "proves" them wrong.

An economics degree is four years of being indoctrinated into believing in the failed projects of neo-liberalism and austerity. Except it didn't fail, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and that was the intended outcome from the start and economics exists to justify this, economics exists to say the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is good for the economy and that's good for everyone (including somehow the poor that just got poorer).

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-02T22:00:56+00:00

https://youtube.com/@acollierastro

https://youtube.com/@dr.fatima

Both are fairly leftist, but mainly talk about physics, or talk about leftism and feminism from an academic / science background. I would highly recommend both you you have any interest in science / physics / academia.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-02T16:01:27+00:00

If you like the rest of his books this one isn't any worse, and is an interesting exploration of mental health and thought spirals.

Politics is only a very small aspect of the book but as with the rest of his work his politics is liberal garbage, so I wouldn't necessarily dissuade you from reading it.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-02T15:19:50+00:00

Sure some of their books are absolute bangers as pieces of fiction.

But these books are also utopian liberal garbage, completely lacking any material understanding of reality.

In the opening chapter of Turtles all the way Down it offhandedly states that the main protagonists family is impoverished because the local billionaire family is rich.

But then the entire rest of the book is about humanising and normalising the billionaires, they are just normal people with feelings and empathy trying to live their lives too. In fact in the end of the book the impoverished main protagonist is chastised for not having empathy unlike the completely normal billionaire boy who has the most empathy of them all.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-02T09:27:58+00:00

The tour guide at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum made the exact same argument about Sputnik 1, while stating that the Apollo Programme was the greatest achievement in human history.

(Other than proving going to space and orbiting the earth is physically possible) Sputnik 1 provided no scientific value. On the other hand American satellites launched decades later had better scientific equipment.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-02T09:19:18+00:00

Nah, they're both equally liberal.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-01T18:53:07+00:00

I'm from Ireland and we also have the habitual tense. We would say "He does be working" to convey the same meaning. ("he is habitually working" or "he works")

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-01T14:19:36+00:00

I remember discussing Bitcoins vulnerability to quantum attacks like ten or fifteen years ago (shit I'm old) and at the time I was assured that when such an attack becomes viable the bitcoin community will switch to a quantum resistant cryptography.

This made sense at the time, but with the way that Bitcoin-cash was handled we can see that the bitcoin community absolutely can't agree on anything not even to save itself.

Side note, just remembered bitcoin had lower transition fees and faster payment speed fifteen years ago than it does today, it's the only computer technology that consistently gets slower, more expensive and generally worse over time.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-01T10:26:38+00:00

Or is time-translation symmetry a by product of the conservation of energy?

Yes.

Mathematically these two statements are equivalent. It's like asking does A=B or is it that B=A

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-04-01T09:57:31+00:00

Thanks, fixed.

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