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Not reporting is bourgeois


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Anyone else is disturbed much when burger media (well, or Jap media) vindicates purported good guys commiting war crimes/crimes against humanity? For me personally the first thing that cames to memory is the infamous scene where Optimus Prime executes Sentinel Prime with a shotgun as wounded and defenseless Sentinel screams for mercy, accompanied by heroic music and followed by "le epic badass" shot of Optimus standing.

Now, in theory Sentienel surely deserved that by virtue of being a traitor, a backstabbing murderer, a Transformer supremacist imperialist who planned to genocide humanity and massacred human civillians, someone who is himself okay with slaughtering begging for mercy POWs, and an absolutely horrible father figure to boot, but, like…

At that moment, Autobots had already won, and there were no urgent need for violence. And Optimus did not gave Sentinel even WW2-USSR style военно-полевой суд trial! Like… aren't good guys good because they do NOT unlawfully murder in cold blood?

But the actual worst thing is the real-world implications of that. Bayformers were literally made as an USAmerican army propaganda movies, and continue to blast USAmerican vision of the world to people watching them to this day.

I cannot shake off the feeling that is not statistically improbable that this very scene had directly inspired at least one case of NATO invaders killing surrendering Lybian troops, or Ukronazis killing surrendering Russian/Eastern Ukrainian troops.

Or am I being an idealist again and freaking out about superstructure when I need to freak out about the basis?

No, you're right to feel that it's fucked up. Personally I think it's a disturbing trend also.

Pretty emblematic of the American ruling class mindset. No mercy for the defeated, no compromise with the enemy, and a "hero" that's willing to do "whatever it takes."

>>26211
I’ve also seen a trend of characters recalling fucked up stuff they did, because showing instead of telling would force them to produce a fictional gore vid, and then afterwards people don’t act shocked or disgusted because the perpetrator did their duty for le country or felt bad about it.


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