It is a globally stunning revelation, I figured everyone should know…

Is it?

Bluesky is a joke and its userbase are the punchline.

Succinctly said, I love it

I mean if you walk onto private property with a gun in the US, errr well that is kind of diving hard into the Find Out part of the FAFO Loop right?

You aren’t wrong though, the Trump administration hates taking prisoners as the prisoners keep turning up innocent upon closer inspection, it is much better for their PR narrative to kill outright. Then they can portray the culprit any way they want and they can scream RADICAL LEFT over and over again without the thorny details that it was in all likelihood another MAGA piece of shit who tried to shoot Trump.

The majority of us are mad as hell at both cases, I assure you.

Yeah, you get a huge bonus multiplier on your humanity score for that. Don’t discount it!

I think that is what Trump, Steven Miller and Netanyahu want to be honest.

Everything just gets so much more violent and well you know nice and starkly simple after that which would make all three of their jobs so much easier, narratively speaking.

He sent a carrier there, totally exhausted hoping some totally overworked and undertrained servicemember will blunder, create a catastrophic opening and a carrier or other big carrier will be hit bad killing US servicemembers in a spectacular way that makes for good Memes.

Cue Patriotism!

At the point we can finally all shut the libs up, stop talking, cancel elections and go to WAR!!!

Look, don’t get me wrong I am not saying there isn’t corruption, and that soldiers lives weren’t thrown away carelessly in the development of the CH-53. We are talking about a massive US military program here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-53K

When considering the operational history of the CH-53 though (and especially most modern version the CH-53K) I don’t think you can fairly label it a deathtrap, you will have an easier time arguing it is the best mass production heavy lift helicopter in the world.

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/how-the-ch-53k-king-stallion-can-transform-marine-heavy-lift-operations/

“What contributes to that challenge is the fact that we called it the CH-53K instead of going with something wholly different, the fact that we made it look a lot like a 53 Echo,” Fleeger explained. “I think it actually encourages, unfortunately, people to view the platform as a replacement platform instead of a revolutionary, key element of a really forward-thinking concept of operations.”

The CH-53K’s larger engines, advanced avionics, and greater payload capacity don’t just improve existing capabilities. They enable entirely new operational concepts. Where the CH-53E required extensive preparation and carried significant risk when lifting 20,000-pound loads, the CH-53K handles such operations routinely, fundamentally changing how ground commanders plan missions.

Wanna try to fight me when I can airlift piles of 155mm heavy artillery to every single hill and defensible location around you? Wherever you are?

Jealous, I only pee once in a piss-moon.

Not technically Alpha, but the large corporation released him into the world before he was ready so more like “Should Still Be In Alpha”.

Fuck AI

Neither the V-22 nor the CH-53K are cancelled, the V-22 will be eventually replaced by the MV-75 and the V-22 has a lot of serious issues but it is not a true failure like say the Littoral Combat Ship class was for example.

I am not saying the V-22 doesn’t deserve to be bashed, but it is very easy to miss how the future of mobility in military terms will be tiltrotor bicopters because of the specific failures of the V-22 program. Keep those two things separate in your mind, the future is absolutely aircraft that look like the V-22 they just likely won’t have engines that tilt along with the rotors.

In particular one area that tiltrotors will dominate are emergency lifesaving services (whether in military or civilian contexts), it is good then that MV-75 is being built from the beginning with a medical airlift version in mind to ensure it can fulfill that potential to the maximum.

Are you thinking of the V-22 or something? The CH-53K is an absolute beast I am sure it has had issues but it is easily one of the best heavy lift helicopters on earth.

UpScrolled is also for-profit right?

Is it a good idea to over and over again line up all your traumatic memories just right so they disappear in one big satisfying poof though?

They know the hero’s journey will sell because it is easy for the average Westerner to digest and enjoy. So you see a lot more hero’s journey stories on the screen than you do in the wide world of books, which can afford to be more experimental or art-driven. Someone like Banksy isn’t worried about finding a rich buyer to recoup the cost of his stencils and paint. Would you agree?

I think you see this conversation as discussing a serious of fairly innocuous individual elements whereas I see it as part of a broader, irrevocably intersectional problem that must be addressed in a wholistic fashion by integrating all pieces of it. I see advertisement as not separate from art and only harmful in its unintended collisions with it but rather an intentional as well as subconscious colonization and co-opting of the societal values around human artists that has culminated inevitably in AI wrecking havoc on what remains of our curiosity about human creativity.

Campbell’s theories therefore provide justification for white westerners to reject the interpretations that non-western peoples give for their own stories, if those interpretations don’t align with what the white westerners in question think the interpretations should be. Thus, western perspectives are portrayed as universal perspectives and non-western perspectives are dismissed.

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Thinking about the culturally specific influences behind familiar stories is important because it reveals that many of the assumptions that exist within our own culture that we take for granted are not universal at all, but rather rooted in very culturally specific prejudices. For instance, in the Star Wars movies, darkness and the color black are both closely associated with evil. The evil side of the Force is referred to as the “dark side” and the title darth, which is used by the evil Sith Lords, literally sounds like the word dark. On top of this, Darth Vader wears a black suit and the Emperor wears a black cloak.

This association of darkness and the color black with evil is rooted in Christianity, which has been the dominant religion in the United States for most of modern history. Throughout the writings of the New Testament, darkness is repeatedly equated with evil and Satan, while light is repeatedly associated with goodness and God. For instance, in the Gospel of John 8:12, Jesus is portrayed as saying, as translated in the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV):

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/

“It’s always night, or we wouldn’t need light”

Why do you feel the need to defend Campbell so passionately? Is he your daddy or something?

Also yeah, I am the smartest person here, I am the hero so duh, obviously?

Wait, do you think Hollywood only copies ideas that are good ideas and work well?

Somebody doesn’t watch enough Maggie Mae Fish

He’s right in that to a westerner, it will be hard to understand and may be boring.

Ok, but he is wrong in believing that says anything meaningful about Storytelling, it is just a shitty mirror to our own failings as a culture to point out this repetitive structure, encourage people to repeat it more and then idolize it as “universal” when it isn’t.

Over the last few decades, this structure has come to dominate much of popular storytelling, and Hollywood cinema in particular. With so many bestselling novels and international blockbusters using the Hero’s Journey to great success, it would seem at first glance that Campbell was right—that most or all great stories can be distilled down to a formula, which is universally applicable across time and place.

However, as we’ll be exploring in today’s blog post, Campbell’s theories aren’t always a perfect fit for the needs of storytellers in the real world. The Hero’s Journey is not as universal as Campbell would claim—and the framework is weighed down by Campbell’s own antisemetic and sexist thinking.

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“projected Anglo-Western storytelling and cultural values onto Indigenous mythic narratives, which in fact have very different storytelling norms and serve a very different purpose to the individualistic striving for self fulfilment which he identified [as the key to all storytelling].”

In other words, Campbell cites superficial similarities between myths of different cultures as evidence for the claim that the stories of all cultures share an underlying purpose, i.e. the dramatic reenactment of the individual’s quest for self fulfillment.

In the process, he ignores overwhelming ethnographic evidence that the very idea of an atomized, individual “self” separated from clan, species, etc. is a relatively new one in the history of human thought, and that such a striving self is not a central feature in stories from many parts of the world.

https://freerange.com/blog/joseph-campbell-history-and-antisemitism-critiquing-the-heros-journey

Do I really need to explicitly connect why this broken conception of stories is advantageous to the Advertising Industry? It encapsulates the full extent of artistry within the bounds of capitalism and subsumes the work of the artist as simply the cherry on top to help a product be sold. EVERYTHING an artist can do is just a manipulation to impose a very particular narrative of a set of events into the minds of the audience.