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

    • 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)