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Generalorder4 #crackpot deviantart.com

The show M.A.S.K has no political pretense at all. It's about a bunch of well-meaning scientists from different backgrounds against a criminal organization that obtains money robbery, extortion, counterfeiting, kidnapping, or attempting to steal historical artifacts.

Now you COULD make a bunch about the lack of diversity on the team or that it's ableist because non of them have severe speech impediments or the fact that it's based on Nevada (in AMERICA...hisss!) or that the safety tips only take into account people in middle class economic brackets or the very contemporary notion that crime is never REALLY crime is the correct people do it...

No. No one sane does this.
The villains are called V.E.N.O.M. an acronym for 'VICIOUS EVIL NETWORK OF MAYHEM'
We are not doing things by halves here.

But you can't make this claim of general universal interest and escapism with anything nowadays.

You can't have a non-white in the cast without them going on extended rants about inequality specific to the supposed mores of the very political climate of now. You can't have a white character without them being evil, stupid, or submissive. You can't have a villain without them either being misunderstood or some variation of the old bugbears of specially far left liberalism...which means they are beyond all saving. After all, the man might have lied, cheated, tortured and murdered people...but he didn't use a MICRO-AGGRESSION!

You can't separate politics from BAD writing.

The tale of mankind's hubris leading to the rise of Godzilla is a universal tale. A bunch of races who once fought together to defeat a dark lord banding together is a universal tale. A man arriving from another planet and adopting his new home as a place he wants to use his abilities to do good? Universal.

What is NOT universal is thinly veiled very contemporary political shots, endless reiterations of 'the ____ experience' which never shifts in tone or tale. What's a 'refugee' experience? ALWAYS a hopeless put-upon saint looking for a decent existence being stalked by villainous racist ICE parodies. Every...single...time. Is this the only possible refugee experience in reality? Not at all.
But it's the only story that Hollywood can tell.

Generalorder4 #conspiracy #dunning-kruger deviantart.com

I didn't use to care. Lando Calrissian was cool because he was suave and because he decided to be a hero at the expense even of his own safety, not because he was black. Magua from The Last of the Mohicans had his family slaughtered by white men...but he was also a monster who was brutal, cruel, and straight up villainous. In the series Wild C.A.T.S one of the heroes is a short white business man who often uses his wealth for the cause of humanity, and even risks his safety to help his friends. That's unthinkable nowadays for no reason at all.
Bill Sikes is a poor man...but he's also a drunkard, a murderer, and a fiend. Again, this would be impossible because his economic status instantly is supposed to make his situation ambiguous.

There's an upcoming Treasure Island movie with David Oyelowo as Long John Silver.

I have a feeling that Long John will NOT be like the book and be very sympathetic and all his actions will be justified. Why? Because it's 2026 and he's played by a black man. No one on earth has the courage or integrity to either READ the book and adapt it or portray and non-white actor as truly evil. At most he'll be a tragic villain, pressured to a life of villainy by the evil forces of society.
And, if they feel really spicy, he'll be a former slave because why the hell not.

YourLocalAmerican #fundie #wingnut #psycho deviantart.com

What I Believe In
(Feel free to disagree but don't be a hater)
American &
Christian Nationalism.
Republican Government
Voting for 30+ citizens,
Voter equality between races and sexes.
Strengthen the police force, ICE, and border patrol.
Reduce government spending. Privatize Medicare/Medicaid.
Strengthen the power and respect towards the American worker.
Lower the power of big companies/isurance companies — and STOP loopholes and fraud.
Illegalize pornography, Illegalize non-medical drugs, Illegalize Rape.
And kill ALL pedophiles and rapists

Generalorder4 #conspiracy #dunning-kruger deviantart.com

It's why the term 'virtue signaling' came into being. In the new Toy Story we have to continually belittle and sideline characters because of what they represent in the 'real world'. Woody is a man, so he's a useless object of mockery. Buzz is a strong man so he has to be feminized. We need all the female characters to be the strongest, the smartest, the center of the story.
Because of cowardice.
Because the studio is terrified that people in the real world will complain about a movie they may not even bother to see. Because we need to show we aren't like THOSE people, so we need to drop those not too subtle references to pledge our loyalty, to show we're GOOD people.

It's a ritual, and it's emphatically hypocritical.

Because when it comes to certain people, the gloves come off again. Our heroes are broken, hapless, they've done bad things and even if they can't even atone they deserve a second chance because they're living, feeling beings with their own identities!

Oh, there's a fascist soldier who was probably brainwashed? Torture him to death and laugh.

Even Indiana Jones used to knock out Nazis. Nowadays if the character says 'THOSE people' or something to that effect he will karmically die a horrible death to appease the politically correct gods.

Generalorder4 #dunning-kruger deviantart.com

The Odyssey changed the story of a cunning adventurer into a drugged out veteran with PTSD regretting his colonialism....because modern day. We can't have heroes in a past sense because a modern audience couldn't comprehend them. So we change the heroes of the past, we drain the world of mythology of their spark and wonder. We are left with vague bumbling deeply troubled narcissists obsessing about political issues, regardless of what time period of even what fictional setting they are in.

Generalorder4 #crackpot deviantart.com

Formidable mother, who was of course not in the book except at the beginning, but we can't have some random white kid be the star! We need his existence coached on one side by a race swap of a famous white character and on the other side a strong woman to do all the heroic stuff.

I'm not making this up: they will TELL You this is the intention: to change the universal tales of yesterday into political allegories of today.

But maybe one day the fatigue well set in deep enough, the studios will lose their remaining money, and the last person will cancel their subscription to the sycophant media.

This how the circus will stop.

But we can in the mean put a damper on all this running around by using some good old fashioned apathy.

- Oh, you think it's hateful in earlier movies where the one back character is a bug eyed caricature? Then you need to be equally mad about the only white character being a bumbling, self-defacing, constantly apologizing sacrifice to modernity.

- Oh, you don't like it how some movies have religious propaganda? Then you get to complain about movies made for the sole purpose of spreading an ideology to the point internal logic in the production breaks down to make a political point.

-Oh, you don't think black face? Then stop putting white characters in it with race swaps.

And most of all, make stories to tell stories. Make art for the sake of art itself.

The Psychlid #elitist deviantart.com

Exactly! And when the reviews finally came in, I've been seeing the same thing all over social media: (mockingly) "Oh, Coyote vs. Acme got a perfect hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes!" "Oh, David Zaslav's having a fit right now!" "Oh, animation is cinema!" Okay, you wanted the film released, you're happy that it got good reviews, and you hate David Zaslav! WE GET IT!!

Oh, I'm making a "big deal?!" At least I wouldn't blindly harass anyone to get what I want, unlike what those cartoonaboos did!

Paramount only redesigned "Ugly Sonic" because after the backlash they faced, they agreed that "Ugly Sonic" was... well... ugly! But Coyote's case is different! I'll admit, I didn't make too much of a fuss when they did release it. But the fact it's getting released and getting this many good reviews is only implying that if you do whine and scream, you'll literally get whatever you want, and that's not a good thing!

Away from this place, so that I won't have to watch a movie that was only released through a HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN!!! (Storms out of the theater, slamming the door behind him)

I'm sure I'm gonna lose a lot of followers and friends for this, but confession time: I did not support Coyote vs. Acme all the way. And the sole reason for that is none other than the toxicity of the animation community.

I can't truthfully say I was that bothered when the film was picked up by Ketchup Entertainment when it was nearly shelved, mostly because I felt like it'd be a critical flop, or at least not be that much of a critical success. But then the reviews came in, and with it nearly getting a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, that when animation stans really reared in their ugly heads and threw all the "David Zaslav is gonna have a tantrum" and shit like that. (And no, I'm not a "Zaslav-simpin' sumbitch" like Damek said, but I knew better than to harass people like him, skeptical as they may be.) I also went on a bit of a "tirade" expressing my frustration over it, and it all led to this submission right here. (And I swear to God, if it ends up getting an Oscar or Annie for Best Animated Feature, or even sweeps the Annies, I'm gonna fuckin' lose it.)

Bottom line: You can enjoy Coyote vs. Acme all you'd like, but there's no need to partake in the animation equivalent of left-wing groupthink over it.

Regardless, for those of you who are sane and/or non-toxic, enjoy!