GenZedong

"Gulag" has to remain a necessary shorthand for "the bad kind of prison that foreigners do", because you can't have people living in the state with earth's highest prison population go around recognizing the conditions and class composition of their own prisons when they consume dystopian fiction.

It's the whole capitalist realism thing. It's fine to criticize the system as long as it's understood that there is no alternative. Every other system is worse, so just suck it up and accept the horror of capitalism as your only option.

Remainds me of Polish book market, most of the books, even completely unrelated, at some points have the ritual condemnation of the demon of communism. It's usually short from one sentence to half page, and often is completely at odds with the topic, for example some light romance with sudden "Soviet rapehorde" mention and then back to flirting, or jab at marxism during analysis of kingdom of Western Zhou.

I read somewhere how anticapitalist media is often part of promotion of capitalism. "The system is bad, but it's best of what's available "

I was genuinely surprised how anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist Black Adam and Blue Beetle were few years ago, you really don't expect it from usual superhero slop these days. I really wonder how can they make more similar movies to get past the usual Hollywood checkup on this stuff in order for it to be released, because they usually can't or have to put shit like this if they want it to pass.

Minus the few exceptions, really disappointed with almost everything that came out last year, from Joker 2, through standard superhero slop and to top it off, usual showing of Eastern Europe as backward shithole just Medieval.

*paid by & financed with strings by capitalism
(The invisible hand of "free market" is there to hold the poor by the balls.)

Look at it this way - politicians, even the ones in power, always criticise the gov & affiliated systems too. It's not the change that is rewarded, it's keeping & refining the current system.

We have a single reward metric (monies), ofc that absolutely dictates the inevitable enshitification.

2nd time, in as many days, that i see a snowpiercer post; this place rocks!

Recuperation.

I just rewatched the movie and I forgot how good it was. It leaves you feeling angry all the way throughout. Is the show any good despite the expected lib slop like in the screenshot?