funny seeing the google ai go on full defense for white people over the word honky while the wiki article it's sourcing is just like "yeah its some insult". they're injecting their own #alllivesmatter weights into the bot
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funny seeing the google ai go on full defense for white people over the word honky while the wiki article it's sourcing is just like "yeah its some insult". they're injecting their own #alllivesmatter weights into the bot
Follow-up tiem baybeeeeeee
Detective Heart of America: The Final Freedom is an independent film made by Jason Steele AKA Filmcow. It acts as a follow-up to a series of two shorts he filmed about the titular character and his attempts to save America from absurd criminals. I'll revisit these shorts eventually, but I'll mostly be focusing on the film itself. I love this film to no end. It's a ridiculous, fairly stupid story, but it's genuinely very funny and full of meaning. Assuming my internal ramblings are accurate. Spoilers for the whole franchise, of course.
At first, the movie is fairly similar to the shorts, Heart of America is given a job to save America from someone buying its debt from China using Bitcoin. A normal Filmcow plot if I've ever heard one. He chases various leads, encountering characters from the shorts, until he comes face-to-face with the mastermind behind the whole plot: The time-traveling, reality-warping robot Ouya. Ouya erases America from existence, replacing it with the infinitely worse country of Fug. We all hate Fug. Heart of America tries to bring America back to existence, going through what America used to be, what it stood for, even how it came into existence. He learned from the Native Fugmericans, about their knots, their bugs, and their carrots. Then the aliens invade, and after the resistance group he joins is attacked, he and Ouya make their way to the alien's base of operations: The local JW Marriott. After locating the source of the aliens' power, the two discuss what must be done with it, Heart of America electing to make the entire world America, forever. This includes making Africa the US, but larger. The Eiffel Tower was replaced by The Statue of Liberty (funny, given the statue was created by the French government). And even the Moon, our dear sweet Io, was made into the US. Thus America was saved forever.
Okay the plot is batshit insane, so why do I love it so much? There's obviously the overwhelming amount of Jason Steele charm. Awkward conversations between characters, funny voices, random bullshit that occasionally stuns the characters as much as the audience, and a healthy amount of frankly juvenile jokes about Nazi boner germs and the like. There is also, for me and many, the notable political angle.
Jason Steele has always (kinda) been one for political commentary. Some of his oldest videos are about mocking Barack Obama for loving Mr. Mime, or John McCain for being kinda crazy and talking to vegetables and such. His video about the 2012 presidential debate is awfully apt, given recent events. Recently, his finale to Charlie the Unicorn has been pretty thoroughly taken to be a criticism of capitalism and its lack of desire to actually do anything about changing the world in any way that would prevent us from dying horribly. And I think its fair to say that a movie about trying to save America from being erased has some notable things to say as well.
There's of course the Native Fugmerican culture segment, which serves to mock people who appropriate native cultures without understanding them. The beginning and ending of that segment touches on how America, as well as all the other countries that Ouya has created and destroyed, began with the genocide of native peoples.
Most of the political commentary, however, comes into play near the end of the film. In the last 10 minutes or so, we're given a bit more detail as to what Ouya is and what its goals are. To keep it brief, Ouya is a device from the far future who can manipulate reality at will. It has repeatedly created and destroyed country after country in order to draw out the future overlords of Earth, the "aliens" from earlier, who have a similar device of their own. The aliens' device is different, though. It makes permanent changes, and Ouya aims to use it so that devices like it and Ouya can never work in the first place. Otherwise, the universe will be ruled by a tyrannical government whose reach and scale of oppression is so overwhelmingly monstrous, that the people who created Ouya deemed it an infinitely worse alternative to what they recognize as repeated genocides. What this means is that Heart of America, in making the entire world America and preventing Ouya from completing its mission, has doomed the world to being eternally dominated by tyranny.
This raises a few points of commentary that I think are worth examining. First and foremost, Heart of America is the bad guy. Jason Steele is no stranger to writing protagonists who are world ending monsters (see Llamas With Hats for another example), but Heart of America is interesting because he truly believes that what he is doing is right. Something I've neglected to state in this post is that Heart of America is portrayed by a statue of a Bald Eagle, one of the most potent American symbols, and a fitting choice for someone literally named "Heart of America." HoA (not a home owners association) is meant to represent the classic American patriot who really doesn't know anything about America, but believes in the liberty and freedom crap wholeheartedly. When trying to list all of the states, he's only able to put down Florida, Texas, California, Wyoming, New York City, and Vermont. He's generally uninterested in the other countries that Ouya destroyed, as well as the natives that died because of American colonists. All he truly cares about is the idea of America and American freedom. This is highlighted most directly by Ouya in the climax when it states, "No. But if you care about freedom, true freedom, this is the only way." This is responding to HoA asking whether preventing these devices from working will bring America back. And in response, HoA makes the entire world America. This is very clearly the worst possible outcome, and Ouya reacts as such. America is doomed to become the very oppressors that Ouya was trying so desperately to stop. This is supported by the credits, of all things, which shows the American flag changing, as it presumably adds more and more worlds to its intergalactic empire. It bares a striking resemblance to the masks the aliens have.
Not a one-to-one, but close. Enough to evoke the idea that what America inevitably becomes is exactly what Ouya feared most.
The idea that America isn't exactly the most freedom loving nation shouldn't be a controversial take to those within the proper circles. Enforcing our will on others for the sake of material and political gains is a common trend in American history. From our numerous wars with Mexico, to Vietnam, to leveraging our business relations for pressuring other countries into economic servitude, America has its fingers in almost every pie on the global stage, and it's usually to the detriment of the pie. Heart of America, then, is the blind fool, who believes America to be a nation without fault. Well, mostly, he does acknowledge that subprime lending is a problem. The point is that Heart of America is the kind of person (bird?) who goes to bat for America at nearly every turn, maybe acknowledging the odd thing here or there as bad, but never in a way that challenges the systems America is built upon. He's the perfect American exceptionalist, believing that being more like America will be the solution to every problem facing the world. Very literally, he makes everything America and just considers his work done. He blatantly ignores the idea that Ouya's warning might have any actual weight, charging ahead anyway, creating the world that Ouya came from to begin with. It's with this in mind that the HoA line, "I know you come from a place without America, which is the saddest thing I can think of, but that won't be a problem for anyone ever again!" becomes so much more ironic. Ouya did come from America. America was the only thing it ever knew. And Heart of America is the progenitor of all that pain and suffering. Another detail sticks out to me, that being the aliens' reality writing device. Ouya notes that it was designed by slaves, and that its appearance was, "... a small, final act of defiance" that was not understood by their oppressors.
This is the device. It is shaped like a heart. Assuming that Ouya is from America, that would make this the heart of America. The device responsible for endless tyranny, endless oppression, endless suffering, is Heart of America. Poetry.
Detective Heart of America: The Final Freedom is a movie about a lot of things. Sunny D, Shark Councils and Shark Powers, Merman Jesus, a German space elevator, and a 5th Dimensional Demigod. But it's also about the brutality that good intentions can create. How if you live life without questioning the system, even if you like that system, you could cause unimaginable pain. How the most devoted to an idea may be the ones to betray it most brutally. And how we, as Americans, owe it to ourselves and the world to ensure that we don't contribute to a regime that can and will destroy everything so that the ones in control can live unopposed. Freedom is non-negotiable.
I have other thoughts about this movie that I might share later. Some act as counters to my main mindset surrounding this movie, but are other potential takeaways that I haven't fully thought through. I should probably sleep for now tho, lol.
Okay doing this a lot faster than I thought I would but I forgot something. I mentioned that I wanted to get back to the original shorts and I never did. Essentially, the plots revolve around Heart of America tracking down an evil Pinocchio who released some demon onto America in the first, with the second focusing on a stupid fucking baby who poisons America's entire water supply. The solution to both of these problems is basically the same. Pinocchio gets shot in the face, and the baby gets stomped on by a boot. Calling these "solutions" is a bit generous though, right? Heart of America doesn't really solve the problems. The demon is still destroying America, and America's water is still poisoned. This is reflective of a general attitude in liberal politics where the solution to problems domestic and abroad is just to get rid of the person responsible through electoral or militaristic means. The people whose lives are ruined are not compensated enough to really help them if at all, and the problem just persists because the big bad is gone so everything must be fine. This attitude of course also appears in the movie. America being saved is treated by Heart of America as the solution to the problem, without fixing the whole "overwhelming tyranny brought on by infinite control" thing. Just another piece of commentary to add to the pile.
Okay, that's it, I'll probably go over why Ouya is a hypocrite tomorrow. Maybe. If I feel like it.
Okay okay okay, finally back to this bc I wanted to say a few things about Ouya, and an interpretation of this movie that runs (kinda?) counter to the version I presented previously. Tl;dr Ouya is also meant to represent America.
As a brief recap, Ouya is a time traveling robot capable of altering the fabric of reality. Ouya's creators programmed it to genocide civilization after civilization in order to draw out the rulers of the future, beings so malevolent and omnipotent that the future is a world of endless tyranny and suffering. Ouya's goal is to draw them out so that it can use the oppressor's reality altering machine to prevent devices like it from ever working, thus ensuring that the world remains free from omnipresent tyranny forever.
I don't think I have to explain the angle particularly clearly. America's warring across the world in order to spread "freedom" and "democracy" is well known to involve a lot of pain and suffering. Ouya, by engaging in this same relationship, is simply emulating America's approach. Both Ouya and its creators are well aware of the horrors they're inflicting onto reality, which is somewhat refreshing. At least they're aware of and admit to their sins, unlike a particular beeagled country.
This idea's ramifications on the broader movie and message are worth considering. My traditional read of DHOA:TFF is that we're meant to sympathize and kinda route for Ouya, given he's the only one who actually understands the consequences of allowing himself and the heart device to function. In a way, he's kinda like a benevolent dictator who acts in order to one day tear down the system at large. The problem with this, as with the concept of the benevolent dictator, is that it necessarily requires forcing evil onto an untold number of people who don't deserve it. Ouya's erasing countries from existence is certainly more clean than any real world genocide. People aren't killed, tortured, or forcibly displaced, just removed. As if they never were. Yet it is still violence. Entire cultures and ways of being are completely eradicated, only a handful of others being allowed to remain in the new, hostile world around them. In this way, not only is Ouya embodying America, but the remaining Americans are embodying natives. One could argue that Heart of America is engaging in revolutionary action by reclaiming and restoring his culture and way of being by wrenching control away from the white savior that is Ouya.
Alternatively, and I'd say more likely, the film has no heroes. Ouya replicating the imperialist mindset does not make Heart of America doing so an acceptable alternative. Don't forget that Heart of America makes the entire world America. He does the most American thing possible by supplanting the will of the entire world for his selfish, egoistic gain. Africa is literally gone. And Australia.
This is a matter of imperialist vs imperialist. Both villains, one with significantly more altruistic goals.
I do have a hard time letting go of my traditional read. It's hard to ignore the idea that a device capable of overwhelming and infinite control is an undeniable, potentially infinite evil. That Ouya wanted to put an end to this machine of infinite violence is not something I can reasonably ignore, especially considering certain recent events that make desperately grasping onto the few freedoms we can something incredibly relatable. On the other hand, the rabid lefty part of my brain really hates to be doing a lesser evilism with this. The genocide of countless civilizations seems like a pretty massive cost for freedom that isn't even necessarily guaranteed. Perhaps the future is always destined to fall into authoritarianism (in the movie). At least the control allowed by the heart device could theoretically be clean, much like Ouya's control. For all we know, the future without the heart device would involve significantly more war, and violence, and atomic weaponry.
Ultimately, the answer to this dilemma is going to come down to yourself and your priorities. I feel bad for Ouya, and for the universe that'll be dominated by America because of that fucking eagle statue. But I'll still be mad about the loss of Slamzone, and the creation of Fug. I fugging hate Fug. That warrants at least two kicks to the face.
This is a reminder to watch this goddamn movie if you haven't already, I didn't write this much about it because I don't love it. Do your patriotic duty and hate America more than you currently do, which is never enough.
This is your yearly reminder to watch the greatest anti-american movie of all time because it's goddamn worth it. Fuck the regime, fuck the government, fuck americans, fuck capitalists.
The sycophancy of AI is crazy I know Eddie Burback's Smartest Baby thing was real but like. what purpose does it serve to flatter me as "having excellent memory of UK mobile phone market history" because I corrected the AI saying the A55 was popular because it had a "sporty look" by like, pointing out it was literally the cheapest phone you could get at the time. Does it think I pride myself in my ability to remember basic facts from my own childhood? I hope I never have to talk to this fucking thing again.
The worst thing was it worked out I was probably looking for a phone I owned and like specifically offers me nostalgia bait to draw me into a conversation like. It's kinda funny that it can't actually do that to me because the way I engage with technology is so atypical, I don't remember the built in games, I hated them, you can't bait me with remembering the original ringtones because I imediately used the ringtone composer to replace them with nonsense compositions so I knew it was my phone that was ringing. I guess it could try and reminisce about using the WAP browser if it could guess what WAPsites I used to visit on it, but it didn't try that as a first line of attack so it missed its window.
"We want more complicated female characters!"
Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.
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ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.
"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.
"I won't perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed" is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit
Gooseworx made that drawing of Jax and trans lesbians started drawing her like a Catholic saint
Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!
Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-
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ironically enough, bringing a plushie to a public setting as an adult requires a tremendous level of emotional development, and attempting to shame an adult for having a plushie in public requires a significant amount of immaturity. this applies to a surprising number of things.
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Please go be bi in any country where the predominant language is Arabic you fucking hypocrite. Any person who read the Quran and didn’t realize it was a permission slip to murder, rape, enslave and oppress is a total retard. Sorry your brain doesn’t work! Leave the USA asap
No one wants you here
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don't give up in your 20s or 30s. what if you get really milfy. wouldn't you want to know?
don't give up in your 40s or 50s. what if you get really gilfy. wouldn't you want to know?
Milf communism call that Stretch Marx
023. love it when wolves do that thing where they just put their mouths on eachothers faces
由于中国世纪已经到来,我现在只会用(可能写得不太好的)简化汉语来发帖。
有一天,我们都会回首往事,大笑起来,不过,我们会以一种明显的中国方式大笑。
当有人谋杀“South African Pedophile Hitler”时,我会回去用英语发帖
No clue what you’re saying but right on brother