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@HariSel57511397
Feb 15 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Why the first Starship Troopers movie failed as a parody, a thread:

Watching the movie, it was clear the director was aiming for a campy, over-the-top depiction of the Terran Federation. Perhaps not an outright mockery, but certainly a drastic departure from the serious novel. Image
First, let's tackle a writing pitfall that irks Leftists to this day. If you make your characters naturally handsome, fit, and well-groomed, then it becomes increasingly difficult to properly mock them. Beauty is self-evident, and all the characters in ST are good looking. Image
This extends to the overall Terran Federation as well. We see clean, beautiful streets. Life seems good for Rico in his polite high school. This is a far cry from the crime ridden and drug addicted cities we know today. Where are the homeless encampments, the ghettos? Image
Can we nail the Terran Federation for being cruel? I guess. But when you play off cruelty as a joke, you are undermining your own message. This isn't a dialogue about the brutal conditions for training soldiers in a futuristic setting. This is a gag, and it's hilarious. Image
All right, what about a critique of comparison? Perhaps the enemies of the Terran Federation have a better system. Oh wait, no, they're bugs. I've seen people genuinely argue that the bugs are supposed to be sympathetic. But they're still bugs... Image
THIS is not a face I can relate to, sympathize for, or even have a dialogue with. This screams at me to kill it with fire. Even IF I didn't want to kill this thing, I want to be in orbit, far away from this creature. It's horrific, and only a contrarian can argue against that. Image
The only thing you can really critique about the Terran Federation is the propaganda and incompetence. But when everything is so slapstick, it fails at landing a serious point. These guys are badasses in a funny movie, not a warning about the dangers of fascism. Image

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Sep 20
"All art is political"

Let's take a step back and examine that statement. Why does Left always parrot this phrase? Why can't anyone else have their own interpretations?

Why can't the woke just appreciate art? A thread🧵1/
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The woke is nothing more than a reaction to the failed promises of liberalism. It's a manifestation of a brittle belief system lashing out because it is worried about being called out as hollow--which it is. It has no more teleological promises it can offer. /2 Image
Previously, the Left could proclaim diversity, sexual liberation, and material prosperity as the justification behind their beliefs. Now, as things get worse, all they shout is "You're a bigot!". They don't have a justification for their power or a transcendental belief. /3 Image
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Founding Myths. We've all seen the 4chan post about how the Post-WW2 Consensus is the basis for modern society.

But what about the Founding Myths of the future? More specifically, what about first contact is so tantalizing for the Left? A thread on our posthuman future 1/🧵 Image
Up until fairly recently, first contact has been the wet dream of atheists and rationalists everywhere. The idea of finding evidence for alien (sentient) life is another psuedo-religious impulse, a search for meaning in the cosmos. /2 Image
And it just so happens that (they thought) it would justify a lot of their ideological premises. We've all seen the meme of atheists dunking on Christians with how first contact would disprove religion (it wouldn't). /3 Image
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I caught some flak for my Prometheus thread, specifically accusations that I was strawmanning Atheism. So let’s address that here.

Why Atheism is really boring for storytelling, thread 2 electric boogaloo 🧵 1/ Image
Deliberate design is a completely pseudo-scientific concept (according to atheists). There’s no evidence for it, and the mainstream consensus is that life was a cosmic accident. But you can’t say anything about a cosmic accident. You can only shrug your shoulders at it. /2 Image
Nearly every Sci-Fi story has some form of deliberate design, they just replace the Christian God with aliens or whatever. Even though it is often atheists writing the stories, they reinsert this completely pseudo-scientific concept. Why?

Because Atheism is really boring. /3 Image
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Aug 25
Since people are talking about Prometheus again, let’s return to one of my favorite topics

How atheists can’t help themselves reinserting religious impulses into narratives, a thread 1/ 🧵 Image
Now Atheism is a really boring ideology for storytelling. There’s no God, no morality, and no meaning. Everything is an accident, and we can take only the most superficial material interpretations possible.

This kills all storytelling except the most nihilistic genres. /2 Image
And this presents a problem because nihilism is well… boring. It can’t sustain a narrative. People seek meaning. People seek purpose. It’s not just instinctual. It’s necessary.

So what do atheists do? They take old religious meanings and filter them through an atheist lens. /3 Image
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A day has passed. And I want to re-articulate some things in this thread to clarify what my intentions were. 1/
I write threads as they come to me. I don’t draft them up beforehand. And even when I plan things out, there are sometimes connections/tangents/points that I understand, but unfortunately get misunderstood when sent into public. Some of these are inevitable, but I admit I could’ve done a better job with this one.

I did not mean to imply that Matt Walsh was responsible for Mr. Birchum. What I was trying to get at was the spiritual attitude of his scene and why shows like Mr. Birchum exist and why mainstream Conservative platforms struggle with art.

I see Matt Walsh as a Conservative archetype, and I can see similar thought processes in the creators of this show.Image
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I came off a bit harsher than I intended. For the record, I don’t think Matt Walsh is a grifter. He’s just a product of very real pressures for someone of his status. And also, he’s done genuinely good work.

But we’re never going to get a real art scene from these guys at The Daily Wire. They don’t have the disposition or temperament for it.Image
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Aug 23
The implication behind this post is that Christians are raving zealots who hate new media out of a puritanical spite. But that’s a caricature of a much deeper problem.

Let’s take a look at the kinds of Christians in charge of media empires. 1/

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The thing to understand about Matt Walsh is that he’s not a zealot. He may have very good Conservative stances on LGBT, abortion, contraception, and so on. But politics is not spirituality.

Matt Walsh is a trend chaser. He’s a merchant on the social media market. /2 Image
Everything from the way he presents himself to the his topics to his demeanor online communicates that he is a brand.

I don’t doubt that he has real faith, but he is a (spiritual) Boomer more interested in dunking on his political enemies than cultivating a real art scene. /3 Image
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