@enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems

Post #2306252

2026-03-22 08:55 UTC

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems i just hate that they take stories that i love, stories that warn about shit they are doing, and drag them through the mud by treating them as aesthetics and using them for their fascist agenda. As someone who loves dystopian literature it upsets me to see it used that way. It depresses me to see anti-authoritarian art be twisted into their propaganda. It feels like a slap in the face.

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@enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-22 08:57

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems and i know this is an insignificant issue, but i’m autistic, dystopian media used to be my special interest for some time. So it feels hurtful in a deeply personal way.

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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-22 09:00

@enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems Oh, it pisses me off for those reasons, too. They always do that, though; they take things that have messages antithetical to their very existence, claim they love them (or I guess they do in the way an abuser can love the people they abuse—it's not the same, but the parallels are there... since they also happen to be abusers, too), and try to ruin them for the rest of us. But when I have to listen to people go "But that's not what it means!" at them, I'm just like... They don't care. They will never care. They want to ruin everything for the rest of us. That's part of their goal. (And there's one sure-fire way to stop a fascist from doing it, and a lot of the people who do this very thing? Also keep telling me we shouldn't do it because we have "rise above." Ugh.)

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