"Captain of the Poopdeck"

I can't stand to see someone on social media put themselves down like that.

Parents do not do this to their children, even their adult children, on accident or incidentally to their other views. This is a reification of something they feel in their relationship and they are acting it out on their son. I don't think it's good that this is content. It should not be.

The only thing that stops me from finding it funny is that it puts in perspective how much harmful shit is normalised to uphold the conditional illusion of normality.

Like, it didn't hit me how people rarely if ever use "Not!" in that context anymore until X-Men '97 did it!

Obnoxious, but effective.

I'll say it until capitalism dies, good art existing under capitalism is a good thing, but it can never actually SOLVE capitalism!

I often think about my worst traits as a kid that I had to outgrow... and this is is the world I grew into.

That kind of slacktivism is a core factor in how "woke" ended up appropriated, looking for something easy and slogan-able to get behind without understanding its historical and cultural meaning, which allowed the alt-right and the centrists to easily impose their own irony poisoning onto it.

They're ultimately embarrassed that liberal democracies are so much further ahead on LGBTQ rights than based communist dictatorships.

We can't outrun and outsmart trauma, we have to live with it, but that doesn't mean we've let it win; it's honestly one of the more... for lack of a better word, optimistic takes on that type of horror film.