That thesis itself is literally one of the hallmarks of facism is the thing. The fundamental belief that life is struggle and violence inevitable is at the core of the ideology.
I would also argue current events that I think you are referencing don’t line up neatly with with oppressed and oppressor in the way Attack on Titan present it.
their fundamental belief is that these are actually good things you should enjoy.. i wouldn’t say that understanding that life is constant struggle is inherently fascist (they treat the real struggle as an ongoing war against pussy society instead of what’s often just for the right to exist which is why they’re fascists!) but certainly enjoying the inevitabilities of violence is. I bet you a hell of a lot of Palestinians would agree that life is struggle and they certainly aren’t in love with fascist ideas..
“The cycle of violence is inevitable but there is still merit and purpose in trying to end it” is one of the more positive lessons someone could take away from the Nazi anime I think
While life is a struggle to some extent inherently, I do not think that is inherently in line with violent conflict being fundamental, but I think we fundamentally disagree in our outlooks on the world here so I’m going to move away from that argument because neither of us are gonna budge.
My specific comparison here was less that Palestinian resistance is not necessary or unjustified, though, and more the idea that oppressed inherently cyclically become oppressors. Zionists are not the same thing as the Jewish diaspora as a whole. Zionists worked along side nazis post war after all. They were the same kind of evil, just with a superficially different ideological dressing. Like the US government, too.
we were talking about violence being inevitable though, would you look at history and say that it’s mostly peace and sunshine or what, i’m not trying to convince you to change your outlook on the world just saying that your two examples are extremely broad generalizations that are kind of unhelpful in nailing down what fascists are actually about ideologically. if we take the fact that many communists believe those same two things then you’ve accidentally invented horseshoe theory
I think it’s one of the pieces of the tragic Nietzchean outlook that the Nazis adopted in bad faith (they don’t feel it’s even tragic)
It was especially convenient for the Nazis to claim “violence is inevitable and coming back soon” because it gave them the perfect excuse to strike first against their neighbors. If they’re going to attack you later anyway, that’s just called not being a sucker.
I’m not sure how central it is to fascism more generally. Franco certainly had a zero-sum outlook and did some wars but didn’t follow the idea to the same extreme.
i could’ve just posted this earlier i guess
- For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.
they really gave this thing no budget, huh
As befits the original.
Cyclops being the one to say “To me, my X-men” instead of Xavier was pretty gross, presumably Wolverine cuts his heart out right after that.
Going with X-Men 97, when the show sort of stumbled to its death, rather than 92 when it took the (children’s television) world by storm feels like a subtle way to temper expectations.
My Little Pony: Rescue At Midnight Castle
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My Little Pony: Escape From Catrina
i recently watched all the scootertrix studios my little pony generation 1 parody videos and love them and quote them continually, to myself
so i checked out the specials theyre sourced from cuz i also unironically think the cartoon my little ponies are cute. And it should go without saying these are both super sugary sweet rot-your-teeth cute. i like that kinda thing, so! also theyre 80s Toei animated so they look fuckin great
The first one feels like a pretty complete animated fantasy TV movie in 22 minutes, its actually kinda impressive (both specials even fit in a couple musical numbers without feeling too cramped). it’s straightforwardly good and charming and has a rad villain, Tirac the demonic centuar who keeps a dark rainbow in his mansack and turns your little ponies into fucked up dragon things
the second is less coherent but more bonkers weird its villain is a magic drug addicted furry (“witch weed”) and apparently also obsessed with enslaving cutesie magical creatures to make more drugs for her instead of making it her own damn self
one of the recurring jokes in the scootertrix videos is that Meegan, the human child is reluctantly dragged into helping the ponies with stuff and this is actually hilariously on point with the original. in the 1st shes like press ganged into helping by Firefly the pegasus, and the 2nd is nominally about putting on a party for her (interrupted by aforementioned furry and her scalie boyfriend) where the first thing she does on arrival is go babysit some foals. i suppose if youre a young Horse Girl its worth the hassle
Firefly is cool
edit have to link the infuriatingly catchy sea pony song
SHOO BE DOO SHOO SHOO BE DOO
It’s every bit as weird as the other hasbro toy commercial cartoons in the 80s and it seems like it was totally memory holed.
I was always pretty indignant about the bronies badmouthing it as just tea parties because it’s completely unhinged
what thats ridiculous, Midnight Castle is a direct stated influence on Friendship is Magic. like Rainbow Dash is a blatant expy of Firefly
as if FiM isnt a lot of tea parties too sheesh. lowkey the funniest thing about it is that it doesnt lampshade or downplay the sickening cutesiness of the setting it just has the characters say stuff like Grand Galloping Gala straightfaced in animated sitcom dialogue
I’ve been watching RoboCop: Alpha Commando on Youtube.
It’s Robocop with Inspector Gadget gadgets. It’s scratching my 90’s action cartoon itch.
Finished season 1 of Hazbin Hotel, a thing my beloved tumblr did everything in its power to make me not want to engage with. I liked it! It’s a fun Disney-style musical with a great VA cast:
I didn’t really care for the pilot, due to it trying to do 15 things at a time, every scene, and most of those things being “check out my O.C!!”, so I was happy to see the show definitely had an editor take a red pen to the whole affair. Largely, it’s kept on-task, focusing on a single main Good Place-type “the afterlife is broken” story that gave this whole thing some much-needed structure.
I’d say the big strengths are the cast, who banter well with each other and crucially behave like actual shitty self-interested sinning demons. I love that Charlie swears constantly, but does so without the slightest bit of malice. I could’ve done for more attempts to exploit Charlie’s kindness by the main cast, since they seem to become good friends a little too fast.
Lucifer was a great surprise for me, I haven’t really seen a take on the devil like this, and he felt very “true to bible lore” as crazy as that sounds. Angel Dust was another highlight, I loved his abusive dom / owner subplot, and the VA is a delight.
Behind the scenes, I’ve read that they underpaid artists for the half-dozen pilots they made for this thing to get picked up, and also that the entire VA cast was replaced between the pilot and the full series, with no clear reason as to why.
I’m interested to get a better idea of what went on production-wise for this one, since it’s “the dream” for many artists to get their characters into a full-ass musical series, and I wonder what was sacrificed or who was exploited to get here.
after netflix avatar (fine) we revisited korra. i was turned off by the steampunk and the proper noun “Equalists” when it was airing
the steampunk is still annoying (eg every episode starts with an old-timey news reel) but the rest of the show is a fantastic mashup of fullmetal alchemist and x-men. sparing use of CG and impressive animation throughout
v funny to be turned off by the gruesome violent sequence at the top of netflix avatar but rapt for people bending blood and breath
After Avatar’s pretty cool anti-imperialist themes, I was so disappointed with Korra’s weird equivocating liberal politics that I couldn’t get past season 1. The equalist shit was so bad, and I hear that later seasons also revolve around leftist-coded villains. Like I hear they end up teaming up with the cops to fight an anarchist.
i mean
the third season has the anarchist who is played like magneto or scar from FMA and survives into the fourth season
second and fourth season villains are both unequivocally evil imperialists
i was definitely more interested in korra’s psychological arc than the sociological. begins as a weak affinity for the spirit vs body and reverses
Korra as whole is unfortunately a little to centrist saying all extreme political ideologies are bad but can be met with the power of friendship. Even for someone that put people of specific groups in camps.
I don’t mind the steampunk for the part that was most fun for me was seeing how the world developed industry with bending but it admittedly got lazy on some spots and just filled it in with steampunky gibs.
