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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days agosays his movies do good because he doesn’t do politics.
He’s almost certainly right. I haven’t encountered any significant our side/their side political mud slinging in his works. His two biggest hits, The Martian and Project Hail Mary, both feature nature itself as the antagonist, and all of society, everyone everywhere, setting aside their differences to work on solving the problem using the most powerful, righteous tools available: Science and Engineering.
Now, what cohort would you expect to try to cancel the author of books like that? The dogmatic, anti-science, fascist right wing? Nope! It’s the assigned-gendergaseous-at-tumblr crowd, because he does something other than recite the colors of the pride flag.
Which of those two groups did you expect to be the most insular and shunning? Was it the skinheads or the bluehairs?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 days ago
You sound like a transphobic alt-right dickhead.
Checks out you’d be on the Nazi instance spewing shit like that.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I knew someone was going to make my point for me better than I ever could have.
I have voted Democrat in every election since 2006. That was a mid-term. I voted for Obama twice, Clinton once, Biden once, and Harris once. I voted no on North Carolina’s bathroom bill in 2016. Is this the behavior of a “transphobic alt-right nazi?”
No. Voting Republican is, like 13% of LGBTQ voters did. I’ve done more for LGBTQ rights than 1 out of every 8 American queers. Actually, probably more than that, probably closer to 1 in 6 or 5, because that 13% is out of those who bothered to cast a ballot at all.
So you get to miss me with that slander.
“Wokeness.” Allow me to reiterate: Andy Weir writes stories about the peoples of the world setting their differences aside to work together to solve problems using science. Stories of mankind’s greatest triumphs, our finest hours, are those of cooperation and evidence-based understanding of reality. Anyone who is actually woke, actually enlightened, would be overjoyed at seeing folks on the right embrace those stories. An actual enlightened person would be trying to think of more ways to get more stories like that in front of the right’s eyes.
What I see out of the self-styled “Woke” is absolute language policing. To the same or even greater degree than The Right, The Left, particularly the “inclusivity” enclave, demands obedient conformity to in-group norms. You will be declared an outsider and most heinous enemy if you say the wrong things, say things the wrong way, or talk to the wrong people. I am not your ally, not because I hate you, but because you make it impossible.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
I don’t give a fuck if you voted for the right wing Democrat party.
I give a fuck that in your head you perceive the left as blue haired people wanting basic respect for their gender and see that as a negative to slur them with. It’s 100% telling the sort of shitty person you are.