It's Tintin, specifically The Blue Lotus. I remembered it because some of the things mentioned here were brought up in some tweet posted in the dunk tank and I still see them being brought up in general.

Also pls bring back main aaaaaaaa I can never find an appropriate community

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    Oh yeah it started out as pretty sick rightist stuff, but at some point Herge did an about-face and became a liberal pretty ashamed of his previous work, especially the racist depictions of indigenous peoples in Tintin in America and Tintin in the Congo.

    Also there's a reason Tintin in the Land of the Soviets was never redrawn like the other early stories, specifically because it kind of sucked.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In some later ones there is someone who is obviously a stand in for Castro/Che and he is portrayed as kiiind of the good guy.

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          idk, that tapioca guy seems alright. alcazar moved to :amerikkka: married 'peggy,' and then years later returned to seize power with the help of a bunch of white foreign nationals?

          smells like a :cia: op to me

            • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              i mean, various leftist governments have also used stahlhelms, cause, yknow, why spend money on new hats when you just took over a fascist armory? slap a :china-stars: on that sucker and itll be good for decades!

                • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  yeah, just pointing out its not exactly conclusive.

                  especially if tapioca was communist, and had done a coup to a pro-nazi gov.

                  forcing alcazar to flee to the ur-nazi u.s, where he then set about doing the gusano thing, only then his bay of pigs actually worked because tintin has an aura of plot armour thicker than a bowl of oatmeal


                  :thonk:

                    • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                      4 years ago

                      well if the overall bent of the story is conflation of fascism and communism a la horseshoe theory, there may not really be a proper answer.
                      since, if in the authors mind those two things are the same, they might all actually simultaneously be fascist and communist.

                      im going to assume the bordurians are costa rica, and alcazar is literally batista tho

                      edit: :fidel-cool: yeah i like tapioca, fish eyes taste great

                        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                          4 years ago

                          its all coming up horseshoes :centrist:

                          edit: parachuting scotch to people is great tho, i hope the cia sends me a nice islay during the protracted peoples war

                    • JVissarionovichYT [none/use name]
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                      4 years ago

                      I always read borduria as being communist coded, esp. in the calculus affair where many if the cold war tropes are in borduria (cult of personality to mustache man, secret police, even in architecture styles)

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          People in Europe mostly knew about first nations people from the descriptions in American media (especially movies, books etc) so of course they had racist caricatures in their mind lol