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And now I'm not sure if THAT came first and the Herzog penguin came after, or if the Herzog penguin was the first... Not that it matters. It's weird. And yeah, NOW it's full on "we go alone and die because if you have to ask why you wouldn't get it, libtard"

Like everything the right does these days it's just cringe and stupid

Watch the whole film! It's brilliant.

its definitely both. a large number of the top ones think of themselves as the leaders of a death cult, the rest are just shockingly incapable of coherent thought

I'm putting all my tokens on overt evil.

TBH I think it brings -exactly- the right energy for all of this, especially as support calves off of the Trump iceberg.

Something happened to make this creature anti-social to a deadly degree, let’s celebrate it!

Conservatives don’t realize he’s heading towards certain death. They think he’s a pioneer penguin willing to think independently and walk down an untraveled path instead of blindly following the herd.

Libertarian penguin

"the Trump administration is, as always, happy to make the subtext text: The penguin rocks because it’s killing itself in beautiful full-color video. Just like us." maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...

Okay but Werner Herzog nails that role

I checked the cast list, he is right.

Always fun to see an example of "I don't instantly recognize Werner Herzog's voice" in the wild. Ahhhh the burdens of living in LA.

Ah... it makes so much more sense now !

You could have died 50 years ago. I was born & raised in NYC which is already diverse

Who are we to dissuade them?

I always thought of these penguins as manifesting the same kind of "I gotta get outta here" (IGGOH) energy The Elephant Graveyard talked about in regards to Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, etc. Just, "Fuck it, I'm out" for no reason. So unsettling.

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I am not emotionally stable enough for this clip today. Jesus fucking Christ.

It is funny to say they are small, it is funny to say they are big.

You misspelled "and" with "or" there.

Fascism is always basically nihilism. It's a rejection that there's a better future worth building. No, just tear it all down and rip up all the rules, and hope that people will think you're worth following based on empty rhetoric alone.

At best, it's reminiscent of Camus' Myth of Sisyphus

They're also—again, having met them—in love with overt evil.

Yeah it's both.

It is stupid AND evil. That is the paradox of the "success" of Trumpism. It is easier to achieve epic acts of stupidity and evil than it is to achieve great acts of wisdom and goodness. They will always have a leg up in that regard. "Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." - Camus

Herzog's last words are literally "he's heading towards certain death" . I don't think that's a good plan to follow lol.

I vote media illiteracy

I mean, I'm can't say I'm going to object to white supremacists wandering off to die alone in the cold...