Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Disney Finally Admit They Went Too Far, But Is It Too Late?" video.

I've always used the classic Star Trek movies and series as the gold standard for how you can write political messages into content that isn't necessarily political on the surface - they asked the questions but didn't give you a clear answer, it's not supposed to tell you what to think, it's supposed to present a difficult situation, where there is no perfect answer. And that's what makes politics so difficult, there are very often situations where you just can't make everyone happy.
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@iamsuzerain3987 the writing was so good they even made you pause and think about The Borg, and if maybe they're not so bad🤣🤣🤣 they are bad, they're very, very bad, but they did make some compelling points about living without suffering.
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@Doom-if9xd and only in one direction. You can't change a non white character to white, or a female character to male, but you can and MUST change all white male characters.
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@Thesavagesouls lmao, I'm thinking of the article about how working out and exercising is a "gateway to the far right"🤣🤣🤣
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@JS-oh2dp yea there are some extremes where it's pretty clear that one side is evil, we have seen that in politics and foreign conflict, but more often than not it's more complicated than that. The concept of freedom is a good way to illustrate that, it's not as simple as just turning the dial up to 11 for optimal freedom, if it were that easy, then every society would turn the dial to 11 and we wouldn't have to argue about it. It is complicated though, because there's no such thing as absolute freedom, turning the dial up to 11 would mean everyone gets to do whatever they want. Which means you could just kill someone because you want to. That's not very free for the person you just killed, because now they're not alive, and they have no freedoms at all. We have to limit the freedom people have to optimize the amount of freedom for the most people. And someone isn't evil when they say "you shouldn't be allowed to do this", and someone isn't good because they say "you should be allowed to do this".
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@calvinfolan1736 bro I just watched that again recently, hadn't seen it in years. Brilliant movie. They did such a good job with the political messaging that you actually agreed with the Nazis about certain things, not all things obviously, lol, but they made some really compelling points about the degradation of culture. They just jumped the shark for me personally when they attach it all to race.
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Right, he's not saying they should pull back from a principled position, he's saying they should pull back temporarily because they're moving too fast and too aggressively, and people are noticing the water getting hotter.
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@FairPlayGaming it's not just that they're pandering to a fringe minority, it's that they're so ham fisted with it, there's no subtlety, there's no nuance, they just smack you in the face with the opinion you're supposed to have, and you're a terrible person if you disagree. That's why people don't like it. Even if it was a message they agree with, people don't want movies to preach at them like that.
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@LuisSierra42 You Don't Mess with the Zohan always comes to mind when I think about movies you couldn't make today. And it's dumb as hell, definitely not one of Adam Sandler's better movies, but it's hilarious if you can turn off the adult part of your brain, and the entire movie is racial stereotypes and childish sex jokes.
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@Gogosqwezethegreatest but the person who wants murder to be legal isn't coming at it from a principled position, they just want to kill people and get away with it. They can't justify why murder should be legal for everyone, they definitely wouldn't want it to be legal for themselves to be murdered. This isn't an example of disagreements of principle, it's an example of the fringe of society always being crazy.
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And you can't take a clear side, you have to present both sides and respect the audience enough to let them form their own opinion. Even if your personal opinion of the matter is well thought out and principled, if you push it too hard it just comes across as preachy and distracts from the primary point of the movie or show.
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@Gogosqwezethegreatest government doesn't have to be all powerful, it's supposed to just be a neutral arbiter.
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@Gogosqwezethegreatest abortion is a difficult topic, but I think in the next few decades, it will be abolished in pretty much the entire world, and looked back at the same as slavery.
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@Roadman3D from what I understand the current CCP has imprisoned and murdered more ethnic minorities than the Nazis during WW2. Of course it's damn near impossible to really know anything concrete about it, since China is so secretive about what's really going on in their country, and there's so much propaganda coming from every angle. So you should take that into account when it comes to anything dealing with the CCP. Even most Chinese citizens don't really know what's going on in their country.
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