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2026-05-22 10:55 UTC
There's a lot of little touches that really add to it and legitimize its critique of colonialism - at one point, two of the main characters meet a human driver for the aliens. He explains that he's completely unnecessary, but the aliens keep him around because it's the native culture, and so it's stylish. He used to be a neurosurgeon, but being a trophy driver for these aliens pays five times as much as he ever got doing actual useful work.
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@fuckfetish@fuckaas.space 2026-05-22 10:57
Human culture is treated as this kind of exotic oddity in a way which I think is quite revealing if you're white and not used to seeing your culture constantly being appropriated. There's no respect shown to it whatsoever, just this bizarre fetishization that demeans and misunderstands the object of its desire. This is a 'benevolent alien occupation', but the aliens are here to consume humanity - not our meat, but our very essence.