DashboTreeFrog

Aunt went to a Catholic school, they made her switch. It's not just a middle ages thing

I mean, if we go back to the original Haitian term, they'd act like slaves who've been drugged up and/or made to really believe that they are "trapped" in their own bodies, mindlessly following orders. Here's an article with some interesting journalism on zombies in Haiti in relatively recent years: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/10/are-zombies-real

Pop-culture zombies though, I suppose they'd move as much and as well as they could before their muscles and bones can't physically keep up with whatever is compelling them to move.

Oh wow! and they're still having annual meetings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family

I feel like we're all already moved on from this discussion, but I JUST came across mention of the original anti-vax movement and hippies on "Some More News" (aka Cody's Showdy), felt it was interesting to run into a day after this discussion: https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=rqEEZCGLQ8wH2GNV&t=2781 (comes up at 46:21 in case the time stamp doesn't work).

I might be wrong but I always associated hippies with left-leaning, liberal politics. And I'm not sure where the association between the left and the anti-vax movement came from but I know it was a thing that was frequently made fun of. I even remember catching a Simpson's episode where they went somewhere and commented on how progressive/liberal it was (forget the specific word), then Marge asked a random woman if she vaccinated her kids and she responded "of course" then Marge said "and not TOO liberal".

Now that I think about it, maybe the political association of the original anti-vax movement was manufactured?

The original anti-vax movement was always weird to me, the issue screams "muh freedums" so I always found it strange that it came from the left. I guess it goes into the same box as all the hippy dippy wellness stuff, which does have some things like meditation that turn out to have real benefits, but there are just some people who take to all that really strongly without evidence.

Anti-intellectualism I always considered a right leaning thing, like, you always hear republicans saying universities are tools of left-wing indoctrination and not the other way around? But I suppose hippies had that "don't trust the man" thing going on.

Are hippies how people's idea of the far left formed? My understanding is the whole hippy movement, while memorable, was quite short lived?

This makes a lot of sense to me, the US has a good long history of being anti-communist so anything moving close to that has been villanized to the point that any kind of socialist idea faces push back and true leftist views go under-represented. It does feel like the overall movement in the US has been to the right though, but that could be my own recency bias.

So communism so hard it swings back around into fascism, yeah, I suppose that would be "far-left". This may be my own limited experience talking though but I don't think that's a popular world view? Especially not in the US from what I can tell. I know there's a lot of talk of "tankies" on Lemmy (still not 100% sure I understand what a tanky is), but I have yet to actually have a conversation with a legitimate one IRL or online. Far-right extremists on the other hand you can run into multiple times a day, so I know which side I have more concerns about.

Honest question, not trying to start an argument or anything, but what is extreme left when we're talking about the current political landscape actually? Cause when I look at US politics I don't see anything close to what I'd consider extreme going on on the left side. Maybe individual people with no significant political power talking about overthrowing the whole capitalist system but yeah, they don't seem to have any actual political power.

Yes, I feel like the initial premise was interesting, and the atmosphere of discomfort at the start was really well done, then fake boob got whipped out and it just got more and more random.

I randomly start singing swear words, but I've learned to do it quietly

Barbarian

I feel like it got so hyped up by the kind of people I usually agree with and the way everyone kept saying "Don't look up anything, just go in blind" had my hopes up for something really unique and interesting with twists in all the right ways.

In the end I felt like it was just random and dumb... Good acting though.