#rthko

[pwnicholson]

Rail Abstracts Kansas City, MO, USA https://flic.kr/p/2r7bXQw

[alluv1um]

Checking my mutuals blogs like i’m reading the morning paper

[josieandthepussycatsofficial]

[ranty-mc-rantface]

@rthko

What the Verge is reporting is an exaggeration of an honest mistake with the intention to harm a youtuber’s reputation. The incident that they are reporting may be based in truth, but it’s clear that they exaggerated the issue.

It’s... not even an argument whether or not pewdiepie identifies as a Nazi. He doesn’t. He’s gone out of his way to say this - not least in his latest video about the matter. So, I guess we could argue about that, but it certainly wouldn’t last all day.

Oh, and I’m not an anti-pc blog. Not sure where you got that from. And the reason why I’m posting screenshots of your replies is because this is a sideblog. I can’t respond to you in the comments. Odd that you feel the need to be annoyed about that. Anyway.

“Objectively speaking, he does benefit Nazis”

how?? Lmao

Felix promoted the channel because he enjoyed a series the dude had done on Death Note. He states in his video that he wasn’t aware of the edgy Nazi references going on and, when it was brought to his attention, he made a video to explain this, and went back to edit the reccomendation out of his previous video because, as he said, even if it’s just edgy jokes, he wants to distance himself from that shit (understandably).

“Felix personally liked and commented on this video”

Tbh I’d be curious to see which video that is, and what Felix commented, rather than you just pulling that outta nowhere.

“If you refuse to believe Felix himself identifies with fascists, fine. It’s very possible that he doesn’t, and he just wants to be edgy.”

Well... it’s good that you’re willing to accept that, because he doesn’t identify with fascists, there’s no “refusing to believe” about it. He doesn’t even “want to be edgy”, again, I’d reccomend you check out what he said on the matter in his video today. “Reccomending nazi propaganda to children”, despite what Verge says, was clearly not his intention with that promo. Hence why he removed that reccomendation when he became aware of the references in the channel. Shit happens and humans make mistakes.

I think he made a human error. This really isn’t as big of a deal as people seem to think it is.

[maswartz]

I’m not trying to be combative, but why do you hate Sanders?

Back in 2016 I supported him during the primaries, then he got his ass handed to him and I moved to Hillary. Many didn’t. His supporters are one of the biggest reasons I started to take a second look. The more I learned the more I realized he’s a hypocrite on many levels.

Not to many his many unanswered questions and connections to Russia

Then there’s his similarities to Trump

As long as his supporters paint him as the single hope for this nation I will be there screaming about his sins.But in the end SNL summed it up the best

[kenobios]

rthko replied to your post “antis: star wars was never about romance george lucas: the whole...”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism Not the same as “romance”

@rthko Ah, yes, let me see here on this page you have linked where it says: “Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.” Thank you for pointing out that this is most definitely not what George Lucas was talking about, seeing as, in the same quote, he is talking about “the pirate films and the romantic films of the '40s”. He then points to, as an example, Errol Flynn films, the most well-known of which always had a strong theme of romance - Captain Blood has Peter and Arabella’s love story, Robin Hood has of course Robin and Marian, and The Sea Hawk has Geoffrey and Dona. Overall, Errol Flynn is known for his ‘romantic swashbuckler’ roles. Note here as well that ‘romantic’ is not capitalised. As an English major you never mistake ‘romantic’ for ‘Romantic’. To further clarify, here is the definition of ‘romantic’: 

1: consisting of or resembling a romance 4. b: often capitalized: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of Romanticism

However, there is this definition of romantic which might be closer to what you were trying to insinuate, rather than ‘Romanticism’:

4. a: marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized

This does sound more like Star Wars. In fact, George Lucas admits that he owes a lot of Star Wars to Joseph Campbell’s theory of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ or ‘Hero monomyth’ presented in his Hero With a Thousand Faces. On Campbell's The Hero's Journey Lucas states, "I had an idea of doing a modern fairy tale ... I wrote many drafts of this work and then I stumbled across The Hero with a Thousand Faces ... And I said, 'This is it.' After reading more of Joe's books I began to understand how I could do this ... It's possible that if I had not run across him I would still be writing Star Wars today”. 

However, this does not mean that romance and love was still not a part of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, as we can see here:

The Meeting with the Goddess Campbell: "The ultimate adventure, when all the barriers and ogres have been overcome, is commonly represented as a mystical marriage of the triumphant hero-soul with the Queen Goddess of the World ... The meeting with the goddess (who is incarnate in every woman) is the final test of the talent of the hero to win the boon of love.” 

Now, seeing as Star Wars has multiple protagonists, one doesn’t have to assume that the romantic aspect of the Hero’s Journey has to be for Luke, but instead according to science fiction author and literary academic Donald E. Palumbo (of whom I draw much of my Star Wars analysis knowledge from), “the conditional qualities of the hero as lover are fulfilled by Leia and Han”. Regardless, romance indeed plays in important part in both references of inspiration that George Lucas calls upon.

And if that isn’t enough, George Lucas even mentions that “people don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera”. Now, let’s look at the key parts of what makes a soap opera: The main characteristics that define soap operas are "an emphasis on family life, personal relationships, sexual dramas, emotional and moral conflicts; some coverage of topical issues; set in familiar domestic interiors with only occasional excursions into new locations... Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, and genuine hate have been the basis for many soap opera storylines.”

And if THAT isn’t enough, check out the first teaser released for Star Wars.

Not to mention the multiple cast members describing Star Wars as being akin to a ‘fairy tale’. I doubt I need to go into detail of the prevalence of romance in a fairy tale, when I’m pretty sure I’ve already made my point way overboard. I’m just pretty tired of people trying to blatantly disregard the place of romance in Star Wars. I’m not saying the main protagonist has to be in that romance at all - but to claim that romance was never a part of Star Wars, when the very foundations of what George Lucas built Star Wars upon involves romance, definitely astounds me. What’s so bad about admitting the romantic element to Star Wars anyway?

[jockoppressor]

since you've already gotten the one I sent here's a freshly brewed gay question I came up with: what is your favorite gay meme?

“x is gay culture” is definitely my favorite. i even incorporated it into a poem i wrote for my intro to creative writing class

[ranty-mc-rantface]

Also, a quick note on @rthko’s sources: c’mon fam. The Verge is an incredibly biased clickbaity outlet, and they’ve been known to jump on and overexaggerate small misjudgements like this when it comes to people like Felix, who they have tried to attack in a similar manner multiple times in the past over equally small details.

Looks to me like, yes, the dude Felix reccomended includes edgy nazi references in his videos, but the way that this has warped around into “PEWDIEPIE ENCOURAGES CHILDREN TO WATCH NAZI PROPAGANDA” is just another case of the media exaggerating shit in an attempt to break down someone they don’t like. End of story