“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Min

This is actually hilarious.

This needs more love.

Mayb I'll make a full post of it later for the whole pasta.

Future Nato member? 🦃 Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Consider that their environment, I'm assuming you're from :amerikkka: or at least the west, has drilled into them since childhood that rugged individualism is what's morally correct. The concept of the superstructure and the base, that the superstructure is the combination of education/media/culture that drives into people repeatedly the message that competition is good and on a subtler level might makes right. The culture which valorizes success as material wealth and demonizes poverty is what leads people to be selfish and uncooperative. It is the sense of compassion and cooperation which has been killed by society and the elite have worked very hard to make it this way.

Aang is kind of mid as a bender,

Aang was a prodigy as an Airbender, he became a master at the age of twelve and invented new techniques. He was mid at the other 3 because he hadn't had time to practice.

But I do agree with your overall point. Animes are usually good on this trope because they love the idea of training super hard. That has it's own tropes of bootstrapping, but I love how in the DBZ verse you can just do martial arts hard enough and learn to fly.

I'm loving all these posts about writing.

And I'm pretty ambivalent to any magic system now where you're born with it or you're not, or there's no way to learn magic. Avatar is the exception.

What they’re going after is just not their right.

People having individual choices can't be sacrificed for the greater good, c'mon. Definitely no hidden ideology in there.

In the Parliamentary period of Russia, the Socialist party participated in elections at every level they could. They didn't limit themselves to elections because they established Soviets to build dual power, but they were interested in siezing the levers of power however they could.

Should it really be "damnthatsinteresting" if it's not at all a shock revelation?

Unfortunately "ending dependency on Russian Oil" is already a talking point with neoliberals. And it's an argument for more fracking.

Lindsay Ellis's shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven't appropriated Mel Brooks's lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". Nazis do not love "Springtime for Hitler" in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don't have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.