Ericthescruffy [he/him]

A lot of American soldiers, just like a lot of Americans otherwise, have main character syndrome.

There was a reddit post a while back from some troop who had regrets who really summed it up well saying: “When I enlisted I thought I was signing up to be Luke Skywalker. Instead I realized one day I was just another faceless Stormtrooper.”

I love the Republic!

Reminds me of how China was stupid and backward for overreacting to sars and then overnight we suddenly were told to be very skeptical of their numbers and even question if they leaked it themselves. Legit…I take everything in western media with a huge grain of salt these days.

Ultimately whatever your feelings on this action…Isn’t this kinda the inevitable conclusion without any effort to de-escalate?

The ruling class has made it perfectly clear that any and all posturing and moralizing about political violence and human rights is complete cynical horseshit so inevitably you’re going to have people that call them on it. Wrong target, wrong method et al…I don’t know how we really are supposed to engage in that kind of dialogue when nobody in authority seems to have any interest in doing so.

What is the politics of Pac-Man?

Just as a surface read: something about strength through consumption or nourishment to overcome obstacles and enemies. Also: ghosts are bad.

I don’t think it’s a gotcha at all, but rather an important additional point that just because all art/media is inherently political does not also automatically mean all art/media is inherently deep or complex. The saying is less the idea that all art/media has secret political messaging and more an observation that because all art/media has human voices and creativity behind it it objectively means that it has their own views and biases baked into it.

Exactly. All art and media is political. No exceptions. The degree to which you consider a piece of media/art ‘Apolitical’ is the degree to which it either reinforces or at least does not challenge the politics you consider to be ‘normal’.