MechaMarxist
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Marxist-Feminist Transhumanist Anti-Theist
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Card Carrying Communist & Giant Mecha Enthusiast
Proud Union Stagehand
Poly NB AuDHD Mestizo/Ashkenazi
Card Carrying Communist & Giant Mecha Enthusiast
Reposted by MechaMarxist
The antifascist themes of cartoons like Macross, Gundam, Votoms, Mazinger Z, Venus Wars, Brave Raideen, Transformers, Aura Battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Giam, & Dougram showed young me to always question authority & always side with the oppressed. The politics were much deeper than Marvel/DC/Disney
December 12, 2024 at 10:40 PM
The antifascist themes of cartoons like Macross, Gundam, Votoms, Mazinger Z, Venus Wars, Brave Raideen, Transformers, Aura Battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Giam, & Dougram showed young me to always question authority & always side with the oppressed. The politics were much deeper than Marvel/DC/Disney
Thank you both for putting in the research for those of us who can't read Japanese! We really appreciate it!
December 13, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Thank you both for putting in the research for those of us who can't read Japanese! We really appreciate it!
Reposted by MechaMarxist
The hosts, Nina (new to Gundam) and Thom (lifer), have been doing this full-time since 2018 and have covered government sanctioned revenge killing in the Edo period, the origins of weird lines of dialog like "the birds will laugh at me," vending machines, ice cream, war pigeons, and tons more!
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM
The hosts, Nina (new to Gundam) and Thom (lifer), have been doing this full-time since 2018 and have covered government sanctioned revenge killing in the Edo period, the origins of weird lines of dialog like "the birds will laugh at me," vending machines, ice cream, war pigeons, and tons more!
I'm hoping to do essays and videos on the various political themes and allegories each of these series use to lambast reactionary ideology, but I'm a working stiff and free time is precious. Maybe I'll finally crank out something during the post holiday lull.
December 12, 2024 at 10:47 PM
I'm hoping to do essays and videos on the various political themes and allegories each of these series use to lambast reactionary ideology, but I'm a working stiff and free time is precious. Maybe I'll finally crank out something during the post holiday lull.
The antifascist themes of cartoons like Macross, Gundam, Votoms, Mazinger Z, Venus Wars, Brave Raideen, Transformers, Aura Battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Giam, & Dougram showed young me to always question authority & always side with the oppressed. The politics were much deeper than Marvel/DC/Disney
December 12, 2024 at 10:40 PM
The antifascist themes of cartoons like Macross, Gundam, Votoms, Mazinger Z, Venus Wars, Brave Raideen, Transformers, Aura Battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Giam, & Dougram showed young me to always question authority & always side with the oppressed. The politics were much deeper than Marvel/DC/Disney
If you aint got Mojo Nixon
then your store could use some fixin
then your store could use some fixin
December 12, 2024 at 10:31 PM
If you aint got Mojo Nixon
then your store could use some fixin
then your store could use some fixin
That's not to say there isn't a conservative fanbase that egregiously misunderstands the source material, most notably with Gundam and Metal Gear Solid. But the point is it's evident that most of the creators who defined the genre had strong opinions about Nationalism, Militarism, and Capitalism.
December 11, 2024 at 9:07 PM
That's not to say there isn't a conservative fanbase that egregiously misunderstands the source material, most notably with Gundam and Metal Gear Solid. But the point is it's evident that most of the creators who defined the genre had strong opinions about Nationalism, Militarism, and Capitalism.
Death to America, a settler colonial occupation built atop my people's stolen land. Yoshiyuki Tomino is literally an anarchist. Yasuhiko Yoshikazu was a left communist who got kicked out of Uni for protesting US military presence in Japan during the Vietnam war. #Mecha is an anti-imperialist genre.
December 11, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Death to America, a settler colonial occupation built atop my people's stolen land. Yoshiyuki Tomino is literally an anarchist. Yasuhiko Yoshikazu was a left communist who got kicked out of Uni for protesting US military presence in Japan during the Vietnam war. #Mecha is an anti-imperialist genre.
Reposted by MechaMarxist
Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman would have loved Tumblr. Lenin would be the sassiest twitter reply guy. Trotsky would have written the lengthiest reddit polemnics. Stalin would have been a 4chan edgelord. Marx & Engels would tag team facebook comments section. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
December 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman would have loved Tumblr. Lenin would be the sassiest twitter reply guy. Trotsky would have written the lengthiest reddit polemnics. Stalin would have been a 4chan edgelord. Marx & Engels would tag team facebook comments section. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.