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Ah that's true, I was still partly lib during that time. I just remember when Biden came into power and began the "end of the pandemic" propaganda which involved a lot of reining in of non-corporate media. A lot of websites and journalists that kind of served as my entry point were affected or straight up banned. Then yeah Russia and Ukraine just kicked it into overdrive.

Oh, I was calling WaPo misinformation lol. Just a misunderstanding

This was posted here a few weeks ago: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-indomitable-covid-virus

The campaign started under Biden to eliminate dissenting information on the internet and social media has been a rousing success. They have made the internet a liberal bubble again.

Yeah I've just been reading about how the big problem with COVID is how our quickly our immunity against it wanes, literally the opposite of what WaPo is saying here. But they wouldn't lie just to keep pushing the idea of the "end of the pandemic" would they?

FDA is moving so slowly on these I'm skeptical of how effective it will be on the current strains going around

Literally disinformation but okay

Are we really gonna make fun of someone for starting a discussion about reactionary ideology in bourgeois media? Like you can think it's totally off base but damn

I just can't get past how ableist the movie is towards Andy. What aspects of his character do you think are interesting in the movie itself? Or do you mean what it represents about how broader society views disabled folks?

Yeah, they make a synth character a Rain Man-esque caricature and treat the whole concept of synths as a stand-in for intellectual disabilities/autism/neurodivergence; he gets treated like shit and used and abused much how real people who belong to the aforementioned groups are abused in real life (I think you could argue there are strong parallels with shock therapy, forceful restraint, etc. and straight up emotional abuse and manipulation). The movie basically says he deserves it because he isn't a "real human" and the movie expects us to sympathize with and root for the other characters who treat him like shit. It wouldn't feel so bad, however, if the film makers didn't make it seem they sympathized with him and acknowledged that the way he is treated is unjust and gross in the beginning of the movie only to pull the rug out at the end with how they handle his character.

I view it more as neoliberal ideology, where in the original it felt more clear that the violence was a product of the system and living under capitalism and working for corporations, Aliens centers the Xenomorphs as the primary source of evil that needs to be exterminated. It's been a minute since I've seen them, so I could be way off base. Still, I think this represents a big ideological shift.

It is so incredibly ableist, I wish it were just a bad nostalgia bait movie. It's hard to see it go from the relatively pointed social commentary of Alien to just full on reactionary slop