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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Avatr is about capitalism

That wasn't glaringly obvious to everyone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well it's literally Pocahontas in space so more obvious comparison is to the colonialism. They could grow gardens and farms while destroying the natives, the movie would have been the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago
  1. Colonialism was driven by capitalism

  2. They weren't settling land - they were setting up a mining operation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Thx. Thought I missed something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

There's someone arguing otherwise in this very thread

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Like, to absolutely everyone? This ranks up there with "breathing is good."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Well acschually oxygen is a corrosive chemical and probably damages your lungs (since that's the tissue that comes in most contact with it). And also the Great Oxydation Event is probably one of the greatest - if not the greatest - mass extinction of all times, so ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

you forget the kind of people who complain that wolfenstein games or the x-men animated series "became" political

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Some people are dense enough that “the point” is the name of a baseball bat you have to go get to get it across.

It was also about the poor soldiers getting used to further capitalism.

Honestly, though…. That military wasn’t very credible. Half their aircraft you could disable by dumping buckets of pebbles into the fans.