"Don't Look Up" is the perfect thing to say in response to "Let's Go Brandon"

[Ralph Wiggum]

traitorsgalore (452 posts)


"Don't Look Up" is the perfect thing to say in response to "Let's Go Brandon"

 
It encapsulates so much of what the easily duped GOPlague believes in 1 simple phrase.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216186657

Okelely dokely do, I read that three times and don't understand what it means.

[Ralph Wiggum]

And apparently this is some meme that is setting the DUmp ablaze:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216186181

babylonsister (168,562 posts)


If You Think "Don't Look Up" Is Just an Allegory About Climate Change, You're Missing Something



23 hours ago
If You Think “Don’t Look Up” Is Just an Allegory About Climate Change, You’re Missing Something
We’re woefully unprepared to deal with any existential risk at all.
Tyler Austin Harper
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It also contains spoilers for the film Don’t Look Up.

snip//

It is scenes like this that lead many critics to see Don’t Look Up as a rather on-the-nose commentary not about rogue comets, but rather America’s failure to address climate change. Writing in the Intercept, Jon Schwarz even compares Don’t Look Up to the heralded nuclear war black comedy Dr. Strangelove, going so far as to suggest that the former might galvanize climate activism in the same way that the latter supercharged the anti-nuclear movement during the Cold War. He is not alone in this view: The overwhelming consensus among critics is that McKay’s new comedy is an allegory for climate change, a film that lampoons our refusal to take sufficient action to deter an all-too-real environmental crisis that is rapidly spiraling out of control.

This interpretation of the film makes sense, and there are good reasons to endorse it. Don’t Look Up is, after all, a movie about a social media–obsessed civilization ignoring scientists as they warn the world about a threat to life on Earth, only to be undermined by politicians and business-folk who prioritize present profits over future peril. It also doesn’t hurt that DiCaprio, who plays a leading role as a bumbling astronomer, is one of the world’s foremost celebrity climate activists. However, while the critical consensus that Don’t Look Up is a climate change allegory is certainly not wrong, this interpretation is also limited.

Calling a movie (or novel) an allegory is often a way of saying that it’s smarter than it appears at first blush. When critics or academics proclaim that George Orwell’s Animal Farm isn’t really a book about talking pigs but totalitarianism, for example, they’re making the case that the novel has a subterranean, secret, and above all more serious meaning. At its most basic, reading allegorically is about digging deeper, going beyond the “surface” of a work that we might otherwise be tempted to dismiss as a fluffy blockbuster or escapist beach reading—like a comedy or science fiction movie—and revealing it as doing intellectual heavy lifting. Yet there’s a flip side to allegorical interpretations: They can also function like blinders, illuminating one viewpoint while crowding out competing ideas.

In the case of Don’t Look Up, insisting that the film is just an allegory for global warming blinds us to the fact that in addition to satirizing our climate inaction, the film draws attention to the fact that the human species is threatened with extinction on multiple fronts: climate change, yes, but also renewed tension among nuclear powers, the possibility of malevolent artificial intelligence, supervolcanoes of the sort lurking beneath Yellowstone, pandemics for which COVID may be a mere dress rehearsal, and, of course, comets.

In academic parlance, we call threats like these “existential risks”: disasters that carry with them the possibility of human extinction or global social collapse from which we could not reconstitute civilization. Yet, unlike climate change, most existential risks are understudied, underpublicized, and underfunded: Toby Ord, an Oxford ethicist and one of the leading scholars on human extinction, often notes that the Biological Weapons Convention—the international body whose job it is to prevent human extinction through biological warfare—has an annual budget of less than $2 million. As Ord likes to point out, that operating budget is smaller than that of the average American McDonald’s franchise. Like Don’t Look Up, it’s a fact so scary it might make you laugh if it doesn’t make you cry.

more...

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/12/if-you-think-dont-look-up-is-just-an-allegory-about-climate-change-youre-missing-something/

[USA4ME]

Saying "Don't Look Up" sounds as dementia-ridden as Slo Joe himself.

Good luck with that, primitives. 

.

[ADsOutburst]

Well, it took them a few months, but the masters of esprit de l'escalier think they've finally got the perfect response* to those uppity Biden critics!

*Other than trying to appropriate the phrase for themselves, and attach it to Biden's "accomplishments", like they do to most memes.

[DLR Pyro]

babylonsister (168,562 posts)


If You Think "Don't Look Up" Is Just an Allegory About Climate Change, You're Missing Something



23 hours ago
If You Think “Don’t Look Up” Is Just an Allegory About Climate Change, You’re Missing Something
We’re woefully unprepared to deal with any existential risk at all.
Tyler Austin Harper
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It also contains spoilers for the film Don’t Look Up.

snip//

It is scenes like this that lead many critics to see Don’t Look Up as a rather on-the-nose commentary not about rogue comets, but rather America’s failure to address climate change. Writing in the Intercept, Jon Schwarz even compares Don’t Look Up to the heralded nuclear war black comedy Dr. Strangelove, going so far as to suggest that the former might galvanize climate activism in the same way that the latter supercharged the anti-nuclear movement during the Cold War. He is not alone in this view: The overwhelming consensus among critics is that McKay’s new comedy is an allegory for climate change, a film that lampoons our refusal to take sufficient action to deter an all-too-real environmental crisis that is rapidly spiraling out of control.

This interpretation of the film makes sense, and there are good reasons to endorse it. Don’t Look Up is, after all, a movie about a social media–obsessed civilization ignoring scientists as they warn the world about a threat to life on Earth, only to be undermined by politicians and business-folk who prioritize present profits over future peril. It also doesn’t hurt that DiCaprio, who plays a leading role as a bumbling astronomer, is one of the world’s foremost celebrity climate activists. However, while the critical consensus that Don’t Look Up is a climate change allegory is certainly not wrong, this interpretation is also limited.

Calling a movie (or novel) an allegory is often a way of saying that it’s smarter than it appears at first blush. When critics or academics proclaim that George Orwell’s Animal Farm isn’t really a book about talking pigs but totalitarianism, for example, they’re making the case that the novel has a subterranean, secret, and above all more serious meaning. At its most basic, reading allegorically is about digging deeper, going beyond the “surface” of a work that we might otherwise be tempted to dismiss as a fluffy blockbuster or escapist beach reading—like a comedy or science fiction movie—and revealing it as doing intellectual heavy lifting. Yet there’s a flip side to allegorical interpretations: They can also function like blinders, illuminating one viewpoint while crowding out competing ideas.

In the case of Don’t Look Up, insisting that the film is just an allegory for global warming blinds us to the fact that in addition to satirizing our climate inaction, the film draws attention to the fact that the human species is threatened with extinction on multiple fronts: climate change, yes, but also renewed tension among nuclear powers, the possibility of malevolent artificial intelligence, supervolcanoes of the sort lurking beneath Yellowstone, pandemics for which COVID may be a mere dress rehearsal, and, of course, comets.

In academic parlance, we call threats like these “existential risks”: disasters that carry with them the possibility of human extinction or global social collapse from which we could not reconstitute civilization. Yet, unlike climate change, most existential risks are understudied, underpublicized, and underfunded: Toby Ord, an Oxford ethicist and one of the leading scholars on human extinction, often notes that the Biological Weapons Convention—the international body whose job it is to prevent human extinction through biological warfare—has an annual budget of less than $2 million. As Ord likes to point out, that operating budget is smaller than that of the average American McDonald’s franchise. Like Don’t Look Up, it’s a fact so scary it might make you laugh if it doesn’t make you cry.

if it takes that many words to explain a 3 word "cut down", then it ain't going to catch on DUmmy

[67 Rover]

Is this about the polar bears drowning again? 

[freedumb2003b]

If nobody has ever heard of it, it sucks as a meme.

Did anyone actually READ that tome?  I sure as hell didn't.

[Zathras]

Leave it to the DUmbasses to use the title of a movie that nobody saw as an insult.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The only time "Don't look up" is relevant to the left is when they're trying to give each other advice on how to not drown in a rainstorm.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Sounds like the Left is ripping-off America's pitching-legend and off-the-cuff philosopher, Satchel Paige...  " Don't Look Back.  Something might be gaining on you. "

[SVPete]

Multiple s earned and issued!


Nothing says "Snappy comeback" like parroting the title of a movie of which most normal people have never heard, .

[Delmar]

Saying "Don't Look Up" sounds as dementia-ridden as Slo Joe himself.

Good luck with that, primitives. 

.

I guess it's back to the old drawing board, DUmmies.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Multiple s earned and issued!


Nothing says "Snappy comeback" like parroting the title of a movie of which most normal people have never heard, .

I'd never heard of it either, therefore I don't get the reference.

"Lets Go Brandon" was organic in its origin, as we all know.  An NBC Sports reporter said "Let's Go Brandon" in response to the NASCAR driver who she was interviewing while the crowd was chanting the obviously vulgar LGB.  So it became sanitized and the left is still apoplectic for daring to subtly insult Fuhrer Biden.

[jukin]

TL;DR

Dear DUmbass, please suck a wet greasy turd out of my asshole.

Hey look. I didn't have to write a three page essay. That was a simple, vivid picture of a beat down.

[Zathras]

Unfortunately Brandon Brown, whos post race interview started this whole thing, has been hurt because of the chant

NASCAR driver who unintentionally sparked ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant says corporations don’t want to sponsor him

By Emma Colton FOXBusiness

The NASCAR driver who recently rose in fame after unintentionally sparking the "Let’s Go Brandon!" phrase says he’s had a hard time finding corporate sponsors following the chant going viral.

"It got extremely difficult for us. … If you’re a national corporation, that means you sell to all consumers … and unfortunately, when you get dragged into the political arena, people want you to take a side,’" Brown told Sports Business Journal in a recent interview.

"It's hard for a brand to want to attach to somebody who might be kind of divisive in their consumer base. If I'm going to divide Coca-Cola, why would they want to talk to me?"

The phrase "Let’s Go Brandon" took over social media In October after an NBC interview with Brown. Fans of NASCAR were chanting "F--- Joe Biden" during the interview, and in an apparent attempt to steer the interview away from politics, reporter Kelli Stavast said they were chanting "Let’s Go Brandon" in support of Brown.

The phrase soon became synonymous with criticisms of President Biden, and rang out at concerts, sports games and events where Biden has spoken.

"So the short answer is it's been tough to connect with partnerships just because it's kind of viewed as a ticking time bomb: 'What is he doing to choose or say and how would that effect our consumer base?' It's too much of a risk.' I understand it on their side but it's made it really hard to tie everything down," Brown continued.

Just on Christmas Eve, controversy was sparked when a dad of four called to speak with Biden and the first lady during a holiday-themed event and said the phrase live on the call.

"I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Merry Christmas and Let’s go, Brandon!" the dad, identified as Jared Schmeck from Oregon, said at the end of the call.

Biden responded: "Let's go, Brandon, I agree."

The president then asked Schmeck where in Oregon he is from, but no one responded.

"I think we lost him," Biden said.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nascar-brandon-brown-lets-go-brandon-corporations-marketability-tough

[Mr Mannn]

Lefty can't meme.

[dandi]

If the DUmmies are applauding that movie, you can bet its a tedious, shallow, preachy piece of shit with "satire" that you can find scribbled on the walls of any good Greyhound bus station.

[DLR Pyro]

Lefty can't meme.

no kidding.  Before I left facebook a last year a "friend" who had gone over the edge after Trump was elected shared non stop memes from the FB group "occupy democrats"  The majority of the memes had a mini novel superimposed over a picture. 

Anyone who still swims in the FB sewer should take a look at that group and see the word salads that make up the majority of memes posted there.

Effective memes use few as possible words to get the point across.  A high school term paper plastered across a picture of President Trump loses most readers by the 3rd paragraph.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Is this about the polar bears drowning again? 

You mean the ones that follow natural migratory routes as well as instinctive food gathering routes and they stop to rest on a small iceberg so people can take their picture and complain about climate change.

Those polar bears?

[Wineslob]

"Dont look up?" You mean DUmmies, the propaganda trash? It's a Progs wet dream except everyone dies......

[BamaMoose]

"Dont look up?" You mean DUmmies, the propaganda trash? It's a Progs wet dream except everyone dies......

Even the more progressive magazines' film reviews have panned this film as nothing more than a virtue signaling liberal circle jerk:

Don’t Look Up reviews

I stand by my assertion in that previous piece, first of all, that the movie “is so painfully un-entertaining, so full of sound and fury signifying nothing, and so condescending toward the targets of the film’s ire that a much better and more accurate title for this one would have been Don’t Watch This.” The whole thing is an allegory about climate change. But it ends up, in fact, coming off as so unfunny you really have to force yourself to finish watching it.

And for a film that’s currently #1 on Netflix’s Top 10 list for the US? A surprising number of critics seem to agree.

From Polygon: “Don’t Look Up is a hellishly unfunny ride through The Discourse”

The Wall Street Journal: “Don’t Look Up review: A Cosmic Disaster”

The Daily Beast: ” … It’s not a film with anything particularly interesting to say …”

Rolling Stone: “Don’t Look Up … Or You Might See One Bomb Of A Movie Hurtling Right Toward You”

You get the idea. Heck, even the left-leaning UK newspaper The Guardian — the leadership of which has steered the paper to devote more of its coverage to climate change — accused the film of taking mere “potshots.” And of possessing a “smug superiority.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tons-of-critics-are-bashing-the-1-movie-on-netflix-right-now/ar-AASbNcq?ocid=msedgntp

It appears the only people who are cheering on this movie are the liberals who are either trying to show how in tune they are with "climate change" or the ones who are trying to demonstrate how intellectually superior they are to the riff-raff that are too stupid to grasp the "deep meaning" the movie is trying to convey.  So it seems appropriate for the DUmp that their response to a grass-root, organic meme expressing displeasure with Biden would be "I'm a pretentious asshole blindly following and parroting the Democrat leadership.".  Kind of sums them up in one nice neat sentence.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Leave it to the DUmbasses to use the title of a movie that nobody saw as an insult.

Ditto, I'd never heard of it and think I'm rather politically aware, even of the leftist crap that we all ridicule.

I suppose a comparison would be to use a movie title that actually people have heard of, such as "An Inconvenient Truth" or "Fahrenheit 9/11".  While I know they were leftist trash, those titles are recognizable rather than some obscure woketard movie which only folks in Greenwich Village flocked to watch.

[freedumb2003b]

Multiple s earned and issued!


Nothing says "Snappy comeback" like parroting the title of a movie of which most normal people have never heard, .

Agreed.

[freedumb2003b]

If someone says that to you (they will not as it is a non-meme practiced by one), the proper response is any of the following:

• Luke, I am your father
• The first rule of Fight Club is never talk about Fight Club
• In space, no one can hear you scream
• Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape
• Plastics

[Zathras]

If someone says that to you (they will not as it is a non-meme practiced by one), the proper response is any of the following:

• Luke, I am your father
• The first rule of Fight Club is never talk about Fight Club
• In space, no one can hear you scream
• Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape
• Plastics

I think the appropriate response to "Don't Look Up" is "Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes".