• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
    59·
    11 months ago

    This meme assumes the reader finds babies to be cute and adorable, rather than terrifying little goblins.

    • BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee
      107·
      11 months ago

      I know it’s a joke, and I’m super excited pro choice… But even knowing they’re dog/elephant their comment still works (other than the “humans” clarifier) as they can make independent thoughts and love their lives.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    501·
    11 months ago

    Now I’m wondering that if you replace these poster with something like “black babies matter” it would trigger replacement theory before it triggers the pro-life reflex.

  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 months ago

    Thanos was a true ideologue. He could have targeted half the universes population AND all the people trying to stop him. It would have been a insignificant amount over his intentions. Quickly erased by the exponential increase in population growth he would have started.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 months ago

        Doesn’t that still result in issues? Like it might take longer but the end result would be the same.

        • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
          12·
          11 months ago

          I mean the main problem comes from the fact that that’s not what comic Thanos’ reason for killing half the universe is.

          In the comics Thanos wanted to kill half the universe to impress lady death who he was in love with.

          But since a love triangle where Thanos is getting cucked by Deadpool isn’t really fit for movies we got what we got.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      One of the more annoying aspects of the story arc. Thanos was originally written as this religious zealot who quite literally wanted nothing more than to bone Death. Everything he did was in service to this dogmatic view that killing was a holy act. So much of his character is just my man being an uncompromising, super-powered sociopath.

      And then the MCU writers come in and try to make him a eugenicist who can’t do math. “Just gonna nix half the universe’s sentient population and then go off and… uh… farm.” Dude, come on. Why on earth did they feel the need to take one of the setting’s explicit unquestionable villains and turn him into Sam Bankman-Fried with magic rocks?

      • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        Disney, probably. They gave us some good things, I guess. Kinda sucks it’s their IP forever now.

        I’m leaning towards being competely over marvel and super hero shit in general. Sad that some might think it’s because I’m old and no fun but really I don’t think the story telling is up to my standards anymore.

        At this point I want depth and execution. Really, my standards may be too high but it’s my time, I guess.

        I just need a story that has something important under the surface. Something to keep me guessing. Then in a master stroke execute every scene with intention, artistry, and style.

        I also tend toward darker themes.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          I also tend toward darker themes.

          The mainstreaming and Disney-fication of “gritty” movies has been absolutely dogshit for the content.

          You can’t make Blade or The Crow anymore. You can barely make The Matrix. You just get a bunch of GrimDark cartoony bullshit.

          • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 months ago

            I’m dreaming of a Berserk done right. Not that shit they somehow did two seasons of. The Golden Age stuff is really good. I just want post golden age now.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
              2·
              11 months ago

              They do all this build up and the climax of Golden Age really grabs you. Then its just… damn, yeah. More of that high drama / political intrigue / folly of man’s hubris / yearning of the human heart shit. The monster fights are fun, but the real meat of Berserk is that romance and betrayal.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    252·
    11 months ago

    Ok, choice is important and right and all, but let’s not laugh at the idea of consciously dying babies.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      332·
      11 months ago

      Ok, but let’s laugh at the people who think of a fetus as a conscious baby speaking in full sentences while being snapped out of existence by Thanos.

    • HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee
      302·
      11 months ago

      About 90% of abortions are performed before 12 weeks, well before the fetus could even look like a post-birth baby like the one depicted in the meme. This is a common tactic of anti-choicers to depict abortion as being performed on fully formed and almost born fetuses. They try to use edge cases to argue against unrelated and more common experiences. Fetuses aren’t conscious or sentient or viable when most abortions are performed. Don’t let them get away with disingenuously conflating those concepts and milestones.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        232·
        11 months ago

        They look like a tablespoon of strawberry jam.

        Source: I’ve assisted in quite a few abortions.

         

        …apologies if I just ruined strawberry jam for you.

        • flicker@lemmy.world
          76·
          11 months ago

          …now I want an English muffin with some strawberry jam. But also I want to purchase, open, and put the jam on it myself without ever breaking eye contact with the jar so as to avoid accidentally injesting not jam.