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In the spirit of aesthetics as politics, what media references would you prefer liberals to use to make hamfisted analogies? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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No more capeshit or terf wizards. They consumed different media and updated their reference pools.

What media would you want that to be?

It wouldn't change anything, but the memes and stuff would be from something else.

I think it would be fun if Sailor Moon reentered the mainstream and people drew comparisons between hillary and Usagi.

It would melt my brain, but at least I could laugh at the art that comes from it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

DBZ: the libs telling us that not voting is like refusing to lend Goku your ki for the spirit bomb

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Okay that's really good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

DBZ: Libs want you to watch them grunt and build their supposed power level so they can do an epic powering up and save the day any episode now. football-lucy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I prefer it when they use Harry Potter and MCU references because it makes it easier to identify garbage opinions.

If I had to pick, though, I’d like it if they started referencing literal children’s books, the kind with pictures and like two lines of text per page. Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon, Peter Rabbit, the Busytown books, etc. If they’re going to act like children, it would be less jarring if they went all the way with it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Social safety nets are like If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. The freeloaders will always ask for more. That’s why we need to eliminate welfare to coerce people into crushing jobs with below-poverty wages and have police kill all the those sleeping rough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

That’s almost too coherent an analogy for them. It’s more like “Donald Trump is the mouse from If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. He got a cookie in 2016, but we don’t have to give him another! Vote!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Future President at the End of This Book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I think there’d be something funny about them adopting telenovela references for political analogies as an awkward way to do superficial identity politics. Like they wouldn’t even watch the shows, they’d just disseminate in their circlejerks the kinds of comparisons to make between characters and real life politicians and then act like leftists and conservatives not getting it is because they’re racist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

battletech would be an interesting one
kinda surprised they don't already considering the Capellans and the obvious cultures that faction is drawn from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The Clans had the right idea but they went too far therefore space feudalism with colonial characteristics is cool and good actually morshupls

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Barbarella

there's a DANG CHEETO feeding the MATMOS in the white house! cheeto-man

joe biden is Pygar joever

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

hillary is just like julia dobreva

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh God, I would be completely convinced we live in hell.

But it would be very funny.

EDIT: Trump is obviously king Frissel!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

trump-anguish

We have the purest, the purplest cocaine here, it's never been done before. You know I had one of my advisors show up to me today and said "King Frissel, maybe you should go easy on the Nose Candy today" and immediately I had him, had him sent to the Apricot Suzerainty. We do not let people skip on the cocaïne here, believe me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

also, "khaleesi is coming to westeros" to describe hillary was actually a great line from Obama('s translator) back in 2015, I still think it's funny.

Also (and this is me coming out as a liberal and a asoiaf fangirl) I think tywin is a good comparison for Putin bc for both of them, their fans hype them up as stone cold strategists- but a lot of the time they act out of revenge/vindictiveness and/or fear of losing face, to their own detriment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Autobots versus Decepticons, especially the new continuity where Decepticons are largely a proletarian revolution that got hijacked by the selfish motivations of the movement's leader and where Autobots were arrogant colonialist status quo warriors that were just asking for the internal contradictions to topple them.