u/SeniorRazzmatazz4977

Basically a list of rebuttals and responses to anti communist talking points. Quick and easy responses to common anti communist cliches.

After 9/11 the west went mad with racist hatred towards Arab people (not saying it didn’t already exist but you can’t deny that it got more extreme after). One of the most common racial stereotypes was associating arabs with explosions and blowing things up.

What’s so ironic and hypocritical about this is that nobody loves to bomb things more than the US.

The US used more air bombs in SE Asia than every country in WW2 combined. Used napalm, agent orange. They are the only country to have used nukes in a war. What their proxy state is doing to Gaza. Carpet bombing countries. America’s solution to every problem seems to be to drop bombs on it yet somehow Arabs are the ones who love to blow things up.

So from what I understand theirs the imperial core and the periphery. The third world or global south (whichever term you prefer) are countries that are exploited by capitalists for the enrichment of the core.

So my question is does it make sense to consider countries that are victims of capitalism and coerced into exploitative roles as being capitalist themselves? We don’t consider workers who live under capitalism to be capitalist’s so shouldn’t the same apply to exploited nations?

The main reason Aang didn’t want to kill was because he’s a pacifist and doesn’t want to sacrifice his convictions and values of his culture as its last living member.

But there is another reason not killing Ozai is so important thematically.

The ideology of Ozai and the fire nation is one of strength, power and might makes right, if Aang had killed the fire lord all that would’ve proved is that Aang was stronger than him. For someone like Ozai It’s not enough to beat him in a competition of strength. His belief that might makes right needs to be challenged as well.

By removing his bending and leaving him alive he is rendered powerless and is forced to live in a prison cell for the rest of his life with the knowledge of his failure.

It showed that he was wrong, that the fire nation was wrong.

Nothing could be worse for someone like him.

Christopher Nolan for better or worse is a director who makes movies with very grounded tones. When he made Batman movies he wanted to make the character as plausible and grounded in reality as possible and removed all fantastical elements from the Batman world (I’m personally not a fan of this approach but that’s another thing)

he has made science fiction movies (inception, interstellar) but they are hard science fiction.

All of this is why I am completely baffled that he would even want to adapt a story like the odyssey.

The odyssey is a fantastical story involving gods and monsters and is far from grounded, gritty and realistic (words I associate with Nolan)

Nolan is not a bad director, he has made good movies in the past but he is not the right person to direct an adaptation of the odyssey. This is the guy who wouldn’t even let joker have bleached skin

I just don’t think a fantasy story is his wheelhouse.