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me when there's no funny football emotes to express me lmao at finding out columbus crew is a MLS team

shit that is really funny

so considering the soviet sci-fi art movement when the USSR dissolved was about six times older than solar-punk as an art movement is now, proportionally you would need to post roughly twenty two more examples of labourer-focused soviet sci-fi art to meet the same level of representation of the four credible examples of labourer-focused solar-punk art

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i brought it up as a counter example to the dispossessed on soviet sci-fi, before i ever called the dispossessed a foundational piece of solar-punk media

but i will agree that at the time, the concept of communism becoming a interstellar society was very real to those living in the USSR

in the material circumstance of ursula living in cold war era america, anarcho-syndicalism being applied to build socialism in a theoretical future interstellar capitalist system seemed much more plausible, which is also why the dispossessed had a second boost of popularity when solar-punk started up as a movement in between the dissolution of the USSR by capitalist encroachment and the rise of china as a second communist superpower

the art style of modern solar-punk is largely based on earthships https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship, but its foundational ideas were largely inspired by the dispossessed

when did i claim that inhabited island was foundational media for soviet sci-fi art? i said the dispossessed was foundational media for the solar-punk movement, and then asked why you said soviet sci-fi art like inhabited island are more realistic and plausible than it. is there another piece of soviet sci-fi you want to use instead as an example for it being more realistic and plausible than the dispossessed?

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the basic fact you posted two examples of soviet sci-fi with prominent labourers and i posted four credible examples of the much younger solar-punk art movement with prominent labourers?

so you don't consider it cherry picking when you post some of the soviet sci-fi art that isn't landscape art, but it is cherry picking when i do it in response?

one of the biggest themes of the dispossessed was how the non-hierarchic anarres workers focus on sustainability, it is one of the founding media of the solar-punk movement

how does soviet sci-fi like inhabited island strive for realism and plausibility more than the dispossessed does?

i genuinely fail to understand the columbus crew, like zionists get stolen land out of blatantly supporting genocide, idk wtf anyone gains from dying on a hill for that one guy who was so shit at navigating he thought he was on a different continent and then proceeded to kill and enslave thousands and kickstart the largest genocide in human history. i guess a political bloc for the organizers?

solar-punk isn't realistic in the same way soviet sci-fi wasn't realistic, it's an idealistic anti-capitalist future

the dispossessed is as detailed as for instance the inhabited island in how its anarchist society works and how it is powered

what makes anarres society just another version of the nordic model?

okay im reading them again, you said that workers are simply not a prominent theme in solar-punk after calling four solar-punk images credible examples of labourers being prominent in solar-punk art, yes?

the statue of liberty is actually the first copper statue ever made, they were completely caught off guard by the patina