I think the problem with that film is that corporate America used it as a guide rather than a warning

Cuts off Frodos legs and arms anyway

It reinforces the idea that the only way we can understand meeting any new culture or group is through conflict … that one or the other has to overpower one another and win … that everything is automatically a contest of winners and losers.

We can’t imagine a world where we actually cooperate with one another and live in some kind of harmony. Partly because we as a species have seldom been like that and the other being that we find that story kind of boring. We prefer a world of constant conflict and fighting.

We also enjoy cheering for the underdog and listening to fanciful stories of them winning over the oppressor … the classic David and Goliath story … where the little guy gets to win. Only problem is, all throughout our actual human history, the big guy, the strongest and most wealthy always wins and destroys the little guy. It’s a fantasy we like to perpetuate to make ourselves feel good about the terrible reality we actually we live in.

As an Indigenous Canadian, I think the whole Avatar series is sickening

An invading colonizing force of foreign people invading a native people … but the natives are incapable of helping themselves so they need a white saviour to lead them in the fight against their oppressors

It’s basically cultural appropriation masked as a space opera

The worst part of it is how wealthy European people are still able in the most imaginative ways possible are able to monetize the misery and memory of oppressed people. Not only did they destroy entire cultures, they spend a good part of their time making money off of that memory and history.

The only thing I enjoy about the films is the AI, CGI and special effects … beyond that, the writing is just another continuation of white people fantasizing about what it would be like to be a heroic Indigenous person who wins over colonizers … a fantasy that has never been allowed to exist in reality.

The best is when they routinely confuse Star Trek and Star Wars and don’t care that there is a difference

By that point I’ll be too old and senile to know what Star Trek is any more

O’Brien’s buffer clones

Gives a whole new meaning to the dish … ‘Bangers and mash’

The fact that we all casually talk about how big money is almost a requirement to get into, run, manage, and maintain politics … goes to show you how democratic the system is.

Cease fire? … oooooooooooooh … I thought you said Cesium fire.

A Christian Singer with no soul … sounds about right

per hour

Do the security guards get to take their diabetes medication before or after the race?

If you guys are only doing one thing with the mashed potatoes … you can share the bowl.

Remind me to give you your own bowl of mashed potatoes.

Like I implied, the problem isn’t the HOW to do it.

The problem is in giving any one person, government, corporation or company this amount of power and control.

And because it’s so powerful, no one who had it would want to give up control by making it anonymous or in objectively protecting privacy for the user.

At this point in the car industry, the logos and brands are playing musical chairs with one another