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Media didn't become sad, the world did
| Reportedly even Charlie Chaplin regretted making "The Great Dictator" after he found out about the Holocaust.
| >>829484
Supposedly, but I read that a long time ago. I just tried to find a source for it and am coming up dry.
| >>829492
I don't think that's true. He made the great dictator as an anti-hitler thing. And it did serve that purpose, helping lean American sentiment against Hitler.
| What he *did* say was that he would never have been able to make the film had the true extent of the Nazi's crimes been known.
Not that he regretted it, that he wouldn't have been able to step away from it enough to write the jokes.
| >>829517
Ok, that makes a lot more sense. I knew that the movie was always intended to satirize Germany but I misunderstood how he reacted to the Holocaust itself.
| I like to make jokes about the sad things about the world to cope with its sadness.
| >>2f02a9 be sure to not make any offensive jokes about minorities lol
focus on people who are responsible for creating a situation where the world's at, they are the real clowns
| To be fair, when HASN'T life been sad on this planet? The times we were happiest was when we were the most ignorant
| A better world is possible but people need to work at it and sadposting about how bad things are on twitter is just masterbation.
Like so many on the left who are like "welp looks like Bernie/Corbyn lost that's my activism done for the decade let's pack up go home. World sure is horrible eh?"
| Like if so many don't care what happens to them then what are they scared of by going out to help better things? Scared of pain? Being arrested? If anything it shows despite all the hopeless talk they are scared to lose thier comforts in life.
| I hate the right but at least they have balls. The motherfuckers attempted a coup and yeah they looked retarded doing it but at least they weren't on twitter sadposting all day.
| >>829784
I hate to tell ya this, but that wasn't a coup attempt. That was a tantrum by fringe groups.
Most people who actually consider themselves the right stayed home because they trust the system to work correctly. That's a large part of what conservatives are.
A real coup attempt involves assassinations. A so-called "peaceful coup" is just a populist, majority change in government.
| >>829959
Anyone who argues that it wasn't a failed coup attempt perpetrated by Trump, Qanon and other republican leaders is nothing but a fibbling apologist.
Don't argue against facts and never go full retard.
| >>829966 An effective coup attempt requires a truly organized force, like the police or the military. What they got wasn't worth even calling a militia. The police could've easily done a Tiananmen then, but then that'd open up grounds for an actual paramilitary groups to form.
| >>829989 you said itself — effective. They definitely wanted to kill people and put someone else in charge. Plenty of coups have been by fringe groups and failed before
| >>830003 eh, I suppose I refused to believe that despite everything that Trump did that he really is that retarded to attempt that, but oh well
| >>829683
>be sure to not make any offensive jokes about minorities lol
focus on people who are responsible for creating a situation where the world's at, they are the real clowns
But aren't those clowns a minority too?
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| My step dad told me he couldn't watch movies at the theaters, because all of them were depressing and joyless.
I think that it's not really movies that are sad, but the world (society if you will :0)) we live in.
Imagine having to make art, in a world were you can have the knowledge in your hand that people are suffering very far away, that you eat from animal slaughter, and that the world is dying.
It's hard to smile, it's hard to paint a colorfull canvas.