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Trevor / he / 20+ / icon by spitsplash

[niqvassieart]

Sleeping on the dining chair as everyone else gets ready for bed.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

its crazy how Steven Spielberg is just about single-handedly responsible for basically all of the most dangerous pro-war propaganda made in American history that directly led to the attitudes surrounding the global war on terror which extend into our present bare-faced fascist government worshiping martial force above all else.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

>releases Saving Private Ryan in 1998

>completely deranged movie that re-invented the mythology of WWII and forged it into a spectacle of righteous bloodshed

>has a character whose arc is completed by overcoming his resistance to gunning down unarmed, surrendering enemy prisoners

>whole thing is sheathed in uber-sentimental Spielbergisms about the duty and honor and sacrifice and shit

>Sets up Dreamworks Interactive

>Produces Medal of Honor, released 1999

>invents the genre-form of the military shooter and, again, slathers it in rousing sentimental justice and honor and shit

>In 2001, releases Band of Brothers, which he "created" and produced alongside Tom Hanks

>show all about camaraderie, and soldiers' duties to one another, about the bonds they form and the resilience these relationship provide these men in the face of the difficulty of what they must do, that being the war

>each of these stories are essentially about the burdened masculine duty of warfare, doing the difficult thing that must be done, the honor and dignity and sacrifice in the only war we've ever had that was ethically justifiable because of the the universal aggression of the axis forces

>makes the perfect case for why, sometimes, in the face of a truly great evil, warfare is just, and righteous, and men can choose to do it out of goodness, to protect that which they love, and that there is immense, heightened beauty in this love during war the likes of which nobody but a warrior can truly understand

>the first episode of Band of Brothers airs on September 9th, 2001

>In 2002, after working on and releasing Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, 22 members of Dreamworks Interactive start their own studio

>In 2003, they release their first game

>it's titled Call of Duty

[balaclava-trismegistus]

YOU ‼️Understand completely! The wave he was riding at the time was so influential, so institutional, so powerful, that he completely re-defined the concept we have of what WWII looked like. Just the landing sequence changed America's vision of warfare. Each of its constituent parts were immediately parodied and, just as quickly, turned into genre tropes. Hacksaw Ridge is a movie I was sort of disgusted by. Nominally, it's about praising the nobility of a pacifist during wartime. But it was directed by Mel Gibson, who is a crazy pig, so it tries to have its cake and eat it too with gleefully reveling in the cartoonish destruction of human bodies. The pornographic quality of men being hacked apart with mines and mortars and machinegun fire, to behold their misery, is something cut from Saving Private Ryan whole cloth. But in Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson, in his worship of the spectacle of warfare, his jubilant bloodlust, even lifts the somewhat infamous detail of a flamethrower specialist having his fuel tank explode when it's struck by incoming fire. Somewhat infamous because it's now generally agreed upon that they can't explode like that. Much like everything else in that sequence, it is a theatrical fabrication to pull the audience into feeling certain ways, resting on an illusion of authenticity. Now that's just how people imagine the war. The spectacle of misery and brutality is what people expect. It's entertainment. It's pornographic. Americans can't cum unless they see a young man writhe on the ground in agony begging for his mommy. And then Spielberg's movie ends with his decadent, deep-fried sentimentality stating "well all that human suffering and loss of life was 100% worth it. No notes. Bye." This is a 30-year track we were set on by Spielberg. This was crucial for everything that happened, for the specific culture of veneration that sprang up around our military during the global war on terror. This is like a parasite he designed in a lab to inject into our brains and kill the country from within. He just completely, fundamentally changed the way America thinks about warfare. And that's before we even get into him inventing the military shooter! He's responsible for fucking CALL OF DUTY coming around. This dumbfuck, in all his talent, attempting to venerate the sacrifice and glory of The Greatest Generation, created the most fatal cultural time bombs anyone has ever made, specifically because he designed them to be so agreeable. Because of his domestic sentimentality.

[tamamita]

To substantiate on OP's claim, Spielberg even desired to make a COD movie.

Steven Spielberg Wanted The ‘Call Of Duty’ Movie, But Activision Bailed, Says Report

We almost got a Steven Spielberg Call of Duty movie, but according to a new report, Activision just couldn't go through with it.

[everydaylouie]

touch tank

[alivehouse]

its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

[naimu420]

樂園、傘、岔路、人間

Paradise, Shelter, Path, Mortal

[natalikoromotoart]

Thinking about the wild macaques we saw in Kyoto last fall✨🍃🤎

[tagfer]

it’s 4:20 PM it’s time to post Weed Pikachu

[tagfer]

yooooo happy 4/20 everyone

[meat-wand]

what's the point in hooking up with older men if they can't even host? you're 43 with 2 roommates????

[relelvance]

I feel like this will be me one day and this post would hurt my feelings, can we cancel op

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

The global reaction to Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation has been very jarring. I understand how powerful and scary it is to witness such a young man set himself on fire while screaming for a free Palestine, but to now see comments like “his death will not be in vain” and “the video will haunt me forever” is very strange considering the depravity of the videos we have been seeing coming out of Gaza for 4 months. It seems like people are now using Aaron as the “perfect martyr” of Palestine that we can put all of our efforts into celebrating as if there has not been 30,000+ Palestinian martyrs that we have been begging you to acknowledge

[byjove]

“Americans believe in big portions! That’s so crazy.” Look at this European getting scammed into paying for 100 calories worth of food. Fool. Idiot. You wish you could have this 16 ounce Big Gulp and this serving of rice I will eat off for three days but you can’t. Cope and seethe.

[byjove]

I also love watching Italians get mad at Italian American food. You’re cranky because your hungry, aren’t you? Cranky because you don’t get that delicious olive oil and balsamic vinegar to dip your bread in before meals? Cranky because your pizza kinda sucks?

[scattoo]

[byjove]

Beef? You aren’t eating, I just said that.

[byjove]

[hollowboobtheory]

who has that one post that’s like “americans will lightly rib british people for their accents and brits will be like ‘your children will die in a school shooting’“

[duncebento]

maybe it sound pretentious to you cos u be watchin bluey only

[eelsabound]

[tikkunolamresistance]

Here is a masterlist of every single genocidal statement made by the State of Israel, all appropriately quoted and sourced.

These statements cannot be retracted.

The Zionism Observer is a database documenting Israeli genocidal intent.

Quote from the Israeli State Minister of Agriculture and Development.

And yet, Zionists will tell you that “This is not a genocide, Hamas are using Palestinians as human shields!”

[limerencs]

"untamed" series by sibylle perretti

[plumslices]

18k GOLD VICTORIAN FAMILY OF PIGS PENDANT

[slopaganda]

on a scale of “dapper” to “fuckboy” how would you rate your taste in gnc womens fashion 

[slopaganda]

[slopaganda]

wait actually

[fuckrealityihaveablog]

[sofubis]

アブピョン〜AbductionAnimals〜「月面に立つ」Ver. (妄想工作所)

[vague-humanoid]

Hamas terrorists were 'carrying chemical weapons manual', says Israeli President

HAMAS massacre terrorists were today claimed to have been carrying a chemical weapons manual — as Israel released horrifying new footage of

[desertsolarpunk]

Oh, this guy again:

Israeli left leader says intermarriage by U.S. Jews is ‘actual plague’ and he vows to find ‘a solution’

Isaac Herzog, Israeli left leader now head of the Jewish Agency: In the U.S., "I encountered something that I called an actual plague. I saw

[el-shab-hussein]

Anyone believing this shjt is failing an open book test.

[mordantivore]

I'll keep saying this because it's true as an Elder Millenial Iranian American, this shit is terrifying because I am seeing the same patterns the US used to justify invading Afghanistan & Iraq and kill millions of people-- when that proved to be too difficult to do with ground forces, shifted to indiscriminate aerial bombardments and drone strikes for years Like, Palestine barely had enough food or water to live before; they didn't have enough chemicals to make the necessary medicines that they weren't allowed to import; they entirely lack PPE and have been suffering the ravages of COVID without masks or vaccines How the fuck is Hamas supposed to get the materiel and personnel to construct WMDs? This is preparation work for more genocide and it is called atrocity propaganda. People in the past couple weeks are already being lynched throughout the so-called west because they're Arabic or Muslim & just like in the W years of the war, this will only worsen with more attacks. A white landlord murdered an Arabic child tenant and attempted to kill his mother too. Zionists are showing up at Palestinian solidarity rallies brandishing weapons, promising genocide. These things we saw too during 2020 when fascists were attacking almost every single protest in every city refusing to be silent and complicit in the police state genociding people of color after witnessing the murder of George Floyd. People died from white terror attacks and then as now and as in the aughts, the police ensured little to nothing happened to the perpetrators as the mainstream news turned away & remained silent, while denouncing desperate efforts to defend protestors from police and assorted "civilian" and paramilitary fascist terror attacks

I will forever condemn everyone who has claimed to have sympathy, empathy, or solidarity for the oppressed & marginalized but refused to support our acts of resistance.

[kaydub80]

"Failing an open book test" is hella accurate. How do so many people who endured the the "Saddam has WMDs" lie keep falling for this shit?