• Ech@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Avatr is about capitalism

    That wasn’t glaringly obvious to everyone?

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        6 days ago

        you forget the kind of people who complain that wolfenstein games or the x-men animated series “became” political

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        6 days ago

        Some people are dense enough that “the point” is the name of a baseball bat you have to go get to get it across.

        It was also about the poor soldiers getting used to further capitalism.

        Honestly, though…. That military wasn’t very credible. Half their aircraft you could disable by dumping buckets of pebbles into the fans.

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        Well acschually oxygen is a corrosive chemical and probably damages your lungs (since that’s the tissue that comes in most contact with it). And also the Great Oxydation Event is probably one of the greatest - if not the greatest - mass extinction of all times, so …

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      Well it’s literally Pocahontas in space so more obvious comparison is to the colonialism. They could grow gardens and farms while destroying the natives, the movie would have been the same.

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        6 days ago
        1. Colonialism was driven by capitalism

        2. They weren’t settling land - they were setting up a mining operation.

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          5 days ago

          It was just one line of dialog, but the sequel did mention that the company is expanding from just resource extraction to selling settlements to the wealthiest who are fleeing a dying earth

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            5 days ago

            the sequel

            So not the original then. The one being discussed.