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Avatr is about capitalism
That wasn't glaringly obvious to everyone?
Well it's literally Pocahontas in space so more obvious comparison is to the colonialism. They could grow gardens and farms while destroying the natives, the movie would have been the same.
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Colonialism was driven by capitalism
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They weren't settling land - they were setting up a mining operation.
It was just one line of dialog, but the sequel did mention that the company is expanding from just resource extraction to selling settlements to the wealthiest who are fleeing a dying earth
the sequel
So not the original then. The one being discussed.
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Thx. Thought I missed something
Like, to absolutely everyone? This ranks up there with "breathing is good."
Well acschually oxygen is a corrosive chemical and probably damages your lungs (since that's the tissue that comes in most contact with it). And also the Great Oxydation Event is probably one of the greatest - if not the greatest - mass extinction of all times, so ...
you forget the kind of people who complain that wolfenstein games or the x-men animated series "became" political
Some people are dense enough that “the point” is the name of a baseball bat you have to go get to get it across.
It was also about the poor soldiers getting used to further capitalism.
Honestly, though…. That military wasn’t very credible. Half their aircraft you could disable by dumping buckets of pebbles into the fans.
There's someone arguing otherwise in this very thread