deeply amused at this itch io comment on a otome game that is basically "why isn't this game adopting the philosophy of historical materialism as its plot"
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Why didn't Steven Universe simply lead a communist revolution?
aug 11, 2025, 7:32 pm • 5 0 • view
That is a genuine complaint that far too many people had who had CONVINCED themselves that the narrative arc of the show is Steven coming to terms with the fact that his mom murdered Pink Diamond was justified when he had to kill the other 3 to end a totalitarian dictatorship.
aug 11, 2025, 7:38 pm • 3 0 • view
The 2012-about 2019 era was half baked hard leftist politics, identity politics, class politics and revolutionary politics as a big congealed mass under the banner of 'representation' which is why grown ass adults were asking why this kids show wasn't showing the villains facing a firing squad
aug 11, 2025, 7:45 pm • 6 1 • view
Steven doesn’t even like the other diamonds for 99% of the runtime
aug 11, 2025, 8:33 pm • 3 0 • view
If the Immortal Science of Marxism can resolve class conflicts, surely it can resolve my girlfriend problems.
aug 11, 2025, 7:32 pm • 6 0 • view
Please stop posting my reviews
aug 11, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
critiquing fairy tales for not having enough class consciousness
aug 11, 2025, 8:32 pm • 35 0 • view
nu pogodi (Soviet equivalent of Tom and Jerry) was criticized for insufficient class consciousness
aug 11, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 0 • view
You can’t fool me, the Soviet equivalent of Tom and Jerry was Worker and Parasite
aug 11, 2025, 8:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine:
aug 11, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay lowkey even us libs have the tenor of doing this for conservative contemporary art so I kinda support it. Cultural reproduction matters! :P 😭
aug 11, 2025, 8:33 pm • 8 0 • view
Typical do-nothing centrist witch thinking they can solve structural problems with individual solutions and literal magical thinking
aug 11, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
"Magical entity does not use CBT to resolve conflict. 8/10."
aug 11, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
"The witch at the start of Beauty and the Beast should have given the castle to the villagers instead."
aug 11, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
the silverware should have unionized
aug 11, 2025, 8:38 pm • 3 0 • view
In the 2000s there was a website that rated every video game based on how socialist it was.
aug 11, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
They're cooking but come on these games obviously arent for historical realism its for the romance lmao
aug 11, 2025, 7:32 pm • 8 0 • view
Really the only time this criticism is valid is if slavery is involved imo
aug 11, 2025, 7:33 pm • 6 0 • view