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PaperclipPerfector  9d ago (text post)   1750 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 28, 2025

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Aryan as fuck, the movie screams the word Aryan so hard that it tingles my sacred thread

The Northman is ahistorical subversive garbage. I got 15 minutes into that film and it was looking pretty based and redpilled and then ^^^Anya Taylor-Joy^^^ showed up. So now we have to take a historically accurate film set in Scandinavia in the Eighth Century AD on Earth and cram an ayylmao actress into it in the name of “diversity”

—inb4 some onions boy is like “weeell ACKSHUALLY there were ayylmao minority populations living in Scandinavia back then, look at this article from ^^^Barbra Xorlon-Stygggaszzzt^^^ from the history department at ^^^University of New Mexico, Roswell^^^

I don’t care. One blurry UFO in one Viking woodcut doesn’t mean we have to take work away from human actresses and give it to ayys. This is human erasure.

True, I too was pissed of seeing a White african playing the role of a Slavic person. Imagine the horror!

What are you even saying? You don't like how she looks so she shouldn't have been cast? That's fine I think but maybe I'm parsing it wrong.

It’s an old copypasta. On 4chan /tv/ fans of Anya Taylor Joy have a running joke that she’s actually a space alien. So whenever there was a thread about the Northman, one of them would always show up and start pretending to complain that it was actually a woke DEI movie because they cast a space alien in a movie about Vikings.

Thanks for the explanation. What a weird feeling to be out of the loop. Not the first time I've been out of the loop but it's not Twitter or TikTok based which I don't follow by choice but 4chan which I know makes it sting in some way.

She do be tingling my AYYY LMAO senses doe

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