[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

grapes of wrath explicitly says capitalism is evil how and why. what the fuck

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I mainly find that movie funny at the suspension of suspension of disbelief that the audience is supposed to have that someone could blow up an airport in Paris and somehow not be immediately arrested/shot. The movie was made after 9/11 as well. Do Americans just not believe that foreign countries have cops or something

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

for a while into that I thought they were talking about the Kardashians and was getting increasingly confused

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

these aren't the techbros that know about AI either AI is actually quite boring and mainly involves computers doing statistics based on past results to generate predictions. These people learned about AI from star trek.

It's the computer science equivalent of some guy talking about the dangers potentially posed by lightsabers

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

it's worse than that it assumes that an all rational being once it exists would try and retroactively ensure it's existence which just isn't how linear time works and is unfathomably stupid

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I think the first game actually came off slightly in favour of libertarians by portraying them as principled

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

bioshock 2 communism is when you do the borg and no one matters, also the collectivist is portrayed way less sympathetically than the libertarian nutjob

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

my granddad just pretended not to be able to shoot and spent several years playing poker and smoking when the British government wanted him to occupy a colony

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

he should have gone and pulled out a packed lunch his mum had made - Alice

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

which given how cheap that meat is might actually contain chemicals that make you gay

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

libs are gonna lib, he also had the customary bad take on Tibet.

[-] steve5487@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

it looks like he had the best take possible for a liberal

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