wolfinthewoods

joined 10 months ago
[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

The United States actively support and give Israel billions of dollars in military aid for their extermination of the Palestinians.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

The Gaza genocide has been actively going on for over 70 years my man, Octobe 7th just showed the world what a mask off Israel looked like.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

50% of the time I pass everytime

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago (64 children)

It's like banging your head against a brick wall inevitably causes you to see the truth, but at that point your brain is so addled that you are hallucinating the truth, despite your best tries at avoidance.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Buuut it's your guy's fault, if only you'd have voted for the less evil of the two evil guys we'd have a waaaay less evil guy doing less evil guy shit and being waaaay less evil-y obvious about their evil shit. Don't you see? You made it obvious that the evil guy is an evil guy, instead of the less evil of the evil guys, damnit!!!

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (96 children)

In this post: making a case against electoralism without realizing they're making a case against electoralism...

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

It truly is fantastic. I put it on everything, pizza, breakfast burritos, tacos...whatever. I snag packets of it for free at the local store because I'm a broke ass lol.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh man, how has nobody mentioned cholula? I can't even use other sauces except for siracha.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And Batman doesn't exist, so the quote still checks out. But, if he did, he shouldn't either. Absolute Batman has a great take on Batman as a poor, working-class person. I think Batman works better as that. Batman inherently is problematic, as a billionaire playboy beating up mentally-ill people. (This coming from a Batman fan myself).

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I can see that. I think there was one progressive blip in US politics, and funnily enough Roosevelt was pushed left-ward by the communist and socialists of the era to get the New Deal passed. And we've not seen such a progressive slant in US politics since. That's what happens when you get a major purge of progressive parties from the McCarthy era forward. Communist and Socialist parties used to be much more prominent in the early 20th century until they we're practically eliminated, now they're a shadow of what they once were.

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Mods were made of cheese, username checks out

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A fantastic book covering the American political system, is "Democracy Inc" by Sheldon S. Wolin, which wrote about how the system is constructed to give the semblance of democratic participation but, is in fact, what he terms a "managed democracy", in which the levers of the democratic processes are manipulated to a minute degree. He wrote this book in ~2006, I believe, which just goes to show how long this horse and pony show has been going on for (probably FAR longer).

 

So, it dawned on me while watching a documentary directed by an obviously well-to do upper-middle class guy, that most media is slanted towards upper-class sensibilities and perspectives more often than not. This is especially prevalent in movies and tv where the main characters are typically upper-class or even rich. I'd always had an aversion to these depictions, but I've never fully articulated my disillusionment with it. The problem is that these depictions of "average" families are woefully unrepresentative of your average person.

My question is: what is some media, in any format, that is informed by a working-class perspective?

I've found a few obvious authors out there, like Steinbeck, Bukowski and Irvine. But am interested in not only authors, but artists of all kinds and different mediums. Alternative comix and independent cinema, and things like zines spring to mind as mediums that might have more representation along those lines. Are there any specifically worker derived works that any of you can recommend?

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