UlyssesT [he/him]

One of my favorite player backstories was a well-to-do guy having a midlife crisis and going on adventures while still writing home sometimes to assure The Wife that he’s just on a business trip.

We actually recognize fascism, even when it comes from liberals.

It’s a scary moment as a nascent leftist to realize just how much entertainment presented to us is about portrayals of great and special men borne to a special caste of greatness and superiority that require unchecked and unaccountable power so they can hold off the unclean unruly both-too-strong-and-too-weak resentful masses that often have a valid grievance that is shown to be going too far so extrajudicial violence is required.

For example, Nolan’s take on Batman was fascist propaganda and rather blatant fascist propaganda.

Liberals, through a combination of learned helplessness and unearned arrogance, and with the help of a whole lot of western media propaganda, see the presence of societal failures as better than some imaginary worse alternative. They see corrupt men in power as The Adults In The Room That Get Shit Done And Make The Hard Decisions just like in their Prestige TV treats. They see atrocities as not only necessary but good if they happen to people they don’t like. The status quo looks fine from their water cooler chats and within their wine caves.