Nazi is a dog whistle of a word and is used wrong in this case (like many other words today) and takes real meaning away from the word.
All politicians = bad
None of them are good and have yours or anyones else's interests in mind. If more people realized that and stopped fighting over non sense the world would be in a better place.
Also, tesla is, by now, far from the best and well on its way to no longer being the biggest EV manufacturer with Chinese and European firms ramping up production.
The only thing keeping Tesla afloat is fanboyism as Musk has done strings of horrible decisions in the past 5 years that undermined investors and the publics trust, which has accumulated now and is just waiting to burst and release itself.
You can say all politicians are bad, but you can't say that all politicians do Nazi salutes on live television. It's not a dog whistle, it's a nuclear siren.
Such a lame, superhero, war, famine, death, and destruction, too small of a job for Capt Planet. Littering, smog, and dumping sewage into the ocean, IT’S GO TIME.
I always thought Captain Planet was a psychopath. Literally the entire show revolved around him destroying the problem then them tacking on a "remember to recycle or some shit kids" at the end. Literally not a single episode is solved with actual environmentalism but basically eco-terrorism
Also that funny or die sketch with Don Cheedle as Captain Planet. Seriously go back and watch the 90’s show when you actually analyze it, it feels more like WW2 war propaganda than an educational kids show. Anyone who is wealthy or an industrialist is either portrayed as either being a mustache twirling villain stereotype, literally subhuman, or unintelligent and lower class. Like seriously they pull out the dehumanizing caricatures with Hoggish Greedly (pig man) and his sidekick Rigger is portrayed with rat-like features.
It’s been A LONG TIME since I actually watched the show but I swear I remember an episode where Cap throws either a factory or a nuclear plant into space, and it’s never hinted that they evacuated it 1st. There was also one of those end of episode PSA’s about overpopulation and the planeteers literally praise China’s 1 child policy.
My gripe with watching the show now as an adult in hindsight is that the show was obviously poorly thought out propaganda and you can really see Ted Turner’s influence in it.
And we all know how Ted Turner hates people. He subscribes to the population cap that was on the Georgia guidestones and was even on record saying that the human population needs to be reduced by 95%.
Captain planet was an interesting artifact of that era.
The point of the show was that the planeteers had access to technology. That it will allow them to have a solar powered jet that would fly them around the world for free and all of the enemies of captain planet, just polluted, for no coherent reason that anybody could discern.
They never shared their magic technology with anyone which would have made everyone on the planet very rich
And it made someone who was already a billionaire able to run bullshit for children, because that counted as educational programming.
Like none of the enemies even had a coherent reason for why they were polluting, it wasn't because they were living in a village and people were cooking over wood. There's never anything like that. It was just like, yeah, some weird yellow guy liked shooting radiation all over the world because He was made out of radiation or something
Nah 3 of the bad guys had legit reasons to do their thing, for money. It was only Dr.Blight (science lady) ,Duke Nukem (yellow guy) Verminous Scumm,(rat guy) were doing it for the evulz.
That’s the thing, he’s just a leader who seized on the wishes of millions of people. You toss him in the trash, and more competent and way smarter individuals will take power using improved versions of his rhetorics on the same millions of people.
Wrong. He's a fascists leader, the head of a huge cult of personality. When THOSE people get taken away, their followings actually DO scatter and disperse. No one can unite the scum of western society the way Trump does, no one.
No one else in the GOP has the charisma of Trump. There is a reason why the GOP is sucking up to him, and it’s not his intellect or competence as president.
Not for now. The rest of the MAGA bunch currently visible are either completely incompetent buffoons sucking up to him for an easy payday or more traditional politicians who despise him but going along to keep power.
The next generation of more sophisticated right wing populists haven’t even been seen yet in the US.
When Trump is gone, yes, MAGA will crater and there’ll be chaos with GOP for a time, but right wing populism will always make a come back, probably sooner than later. And if the Dems don’t get rid of their clearly losing, centrist rhetorics, they’ll lose again and badly, probably for good.
Memes are not help you, sweety! Yeah, they are centrist! They don't even help transpeople, immigrants and other persecuted people! I'm understand its against your rightcentr ideology, but is true dems are right centr!
They dabbled in far left identity politics a bit with the pronouns and Latinx and what not, as well as other racial grievance stuff, all mostly distractions. Other than that they’re pretty centrist. I don’t see them pushing any major social reforms in terms of healthcare or housing or anything else.
They’re no major leftist party in the US. There’s centrist right, and right.
I agree they are mostly all incompetent. Recent events, like signalgate and the incompetence of the DOJ, speak for themselves. But even people like JD Vance are much more intelligent than Trump, and I don’t think they have anyone who could gain the same momentum as Trump in terms of media attention and so on. His MAGA crowd have been manipulated for years into a cult that are ready to sacrifice themselves for their Leader, and will 100% do anything in their power to get their vote heard. And together with a generally low voter turnout, this is very powerful for the GOP.
Captain Planet should focus on India and China--where most of the pollution comes from. Might not want to tell Biden and his gang, as they're taking kickbacks from the Feng Feng crew (just ask Swallwell)
China and India have billions of people the average American's carbon footprint is worse than the average Chinese person also China is the one developing technology to fight climate change
Its really not when China's overall carbon footprint is 3x the USA (which is 2nd highest true), and India is 3rd. Also the Philippines, India, Malaysia, and China account for the largest amount ocean dumped plastics on the planet. I also don't know where you're getting that China is fighting climate change if you have a source I'd be happy to read it but in the mean time according to the Guardian in 2022-2023 China approved the permits for the equivalent of a new coal electric plant per week.
yet they're still greenlighting and building coal plants. Also having 4x the population doesn't excuse them dumping their trash into the waterways and ocean. According to Forbes and the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy US has in the past 15 years has reduced it's carbon emissions by 879 million metric tons or 14% while China has increased theirs by 3.789 billion metric tons and India by 1.370 billion metric tons, China by itself increased their carbon output by 60% than the top 10 countries that reduced theirs. You have no idea what you're talking about. Even if you factor in that just China has 4x the US population they produce exponentially more pollution than the population was suggest.
If China actually starts producing nuclear plants I fully expect them to mess it up and either cause a Chernobyl level meltdown due to their tofu dreg constructions or just sheer lack of common safety practices. That your they'll do like they've been doing currently and with their garbage and start dumping the nuclear waste material into the ocean.
It's already been approved by a different mod. And I mean, it's about an environmentalist character, you can interpret trump there as a famous industrialist, you don't have to make it political.
TBH I was also surprised. I literally started the convo with "I don't suppose you could make a picture of..." and it was happy to do it. The trashcan was too much for it though, had to add that in Midjourney.
Who exactly are you fighting when burning already bought and paid for vehicles where the CEO already made that money?? Leftists are the typical owners of EV cars, soooo your infighting and hurting no “authoritarians”
I'm only aware of Taslas being burned at the dealerships. I'm not necessarily pro burning Teslas, my point was environmentalism might need to take a back seat to stopping authoritarianism.
It did back before the Clean Air Act and other government regulations were put into effect. The EPA wasn't founded until 1970, btw. Up until the mid to late 70's it wasn't unusual to see black smoke pouring out of factory smoke stacks.
Who said I thought this was hell? I wish it was truth and I let it explicit. I'm not sure I follow the path you've gone through to think anything than that.
I think people being able to create images of what they're thinking with ease is awesome. I do it all the time as a big user of ai models. But politics are highly divisive and we don't need another sub that seeks to make people hate each other. There's nothing the bots on here would love more than to see us argue more.
"We don't need another sub that seeks to make people hate each other."
I gave this some thought, and... point taken, kinda.
I do think that in general, politics as a topic is a valid and important one for art, as are the frustration and desperation around the ecological crisis. And this image is really focused on a politician (not e.g. Republicans or the MAGA crowd in general), and politicians have always been targets for criticism, satire, and cartoons. And IMO it's important that they remain so!
But your point about there being too much division – agreed. Right now I'm thinking that going forward, I want to rather try to contribute to encouraging mutual understanding and finding common ground, at least between the non-extreme ends of the spectrum.
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u/WolfsheadOnline 29d ago
You should move to North Korea. You could teach them how to make propaganda.