• skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      23 hours ago

      I was so disappointed when The Good Place set up an entire “there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism” plot, only to resolve it as “…but we can’t possibly stop Capitalism, so we’ll rewrite the ethical rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for that, you go ahead and consume as much as you want. Fremulon.”

      • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        To be fair, they were also being placed under the restraint of not being allowed to change things for living people.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      39·
      1 day ago

      The Flag-Smashers: “Nationalism is a regressive mindset. We had global solidarity after the Snap and there’s no reason we can’t get back to that.”

      Also the Flag-Smashers, for some reason: “Lets do terrorism that completely ignores our values”

    • tyler@programming.dev
      66·
      1 day ago

      No joke, watched James Bond Diamonds are forever this weekend and it was pretty much the same thing. Villain invents a weapon to stop all governments from using nuclear bombs, has a great speech about bringing peace…and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder? Huh?

      • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Kingsman the villain was a super genius black guy climate change activist who spent his life battling world leaders and elites to stop pollution, and then he decides he’s going to save the world leaders and elites and kill everyone else to stop climate change… the second movie’s villain was a woman who did all of that because she wanted to pay taxes to sell weed… I was surprised the next villain about to destroy the world wasn’t a transsexual who wanted gender-neutral bathrooms…

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        28·
        1 day ago

        and then suddenly decides to auction off the technology to the highest bidder?

        Instead, he should extort nuclear-capable governments, threatening to deactivate their nukes unless they pay up.

        • tyler@programming.dev
          7·
          1 day ago

          Yes it was blofeld. Been a long time since I watched the older James Bonds though so I don’t remember what else he did.

    • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world
      30·
      1 day ago

      For real. Let’s give a good motive to the villain so they can be more credible, but let’s make sure the ways of achieving their goals are immoral as to not wake up the people too much.

      Edit : Just realized I TLDRed the original meme…