Simulacra
CategoryMake America Brannigan
Billy West channels Trump via Zap Brannigan.
Here’s to you black soldier, fighting in Afghanistan…
A dress rehearsal for things yet to come.
The occupation of the American mind is ongoing
Can’t understand how Israel’s ongoing criminal military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of Gaza aren’t widely condemned or properly analysed in the mainstream media? Me too! But here’s a doco for you produced by the fantastic Media Education Foundation which will help.
What Kind of Dystopia Would a Drumpf-led America be?
Will it be:
A. Starship Troopers
B. Back to the Future 2
C. They Live
Off-brand Lego is.. Off
The problem with actual Lego, dig, is that if you want to re-enact Operation Desert Storm, or a police swatting, you have to use your imagination.
By glaven you should check out the Frinkiac!
Why is it that I have to rely on a self-generated Simpsons meme to tell it like it is?
Is ‘The Chickening’ a late capitalism masterpiece?
Is this a perfect example of the relentless meta-mash-up we’re regularly bombarded with via our modern multichannel media pipes? You freakin bet!
Stop the Cloaks
Wizards of Aus holds a magic mirror up to Australia and reflects a putrid racist mess. Way funnier than Go Back to Where You Came From though.
Bowie
Dismaland
Probably a parody of everyday life, or of the simulacrum of everyday life.
Check out Immortan Trump
Who killed the world?
Wire Cutters
According to Motherboard: “the most adorable film ever made about the perils of space capitalism.”
FIFA is corrupt but that’s not the disturbing thing
Sure it’s fun to see a $multi-billion Swiss-based boys’ club close ranks and/or sqabble over who did or didn’t get a piece of the action, but don’t do a happy dance just yet. You see, there’s corruption and there’s corruption.
I’ve eaten three doughnuts by the time you wake up
Now that the US’s idea of war is becoming more like a first person shooter, we have obviously needed a movie or two depicting the new and intense challenges face by the military drone operator with orders to kill e.g. ‘Drone’, ‘Drones’, ‘Good Kill International’… but this one looks good too.
How do you win a lost war? Rewrite the ending
40 years later, the fall of Saigon has miraculously transformed from a failed and brutal war of American aggression into a tragic humanitarian rescue mission. One can only imagine what bizarro stuff the US state will be saying in a couple of decades about Iraq and Afghanistan.
Upgrade anyone?
Face it, you’re already a cyborg. Your personal mobile communications device, that technological extension of your organic self keeping you connected to interwebs (and, of course, our paranoid rulers) is a permanent part of you. Why not just get the upgrade? You need it right?
It’s not just a holiday
Let’s face it, if you want a fight between the monarchy and the workers, you want our side to come out on top right? Never forget that May Day actually means something.
Is it over yet?
Our Way of Life (pic related): worth dying on someone else’s beach for?