Netflix has like a quota, I swear.
Starting with Stranger Things, it's just ratcheted up from there.
Considering like 10 years ago there were approximately zero things like this per year, yeah, it's definitely a conscious effort being applied from somewhere.
TBH any 80s period piece must inevitably escalate to Sinister Soviet Shit
Yeah but even that doesn't explain it, it's just a convenient cover.
There's that scene where the little girl practically deadpan looks into the camera and is like, "I'm a Capitalist, capitalism is good." And then there was another season with Soviets too iirc. And then I think the new Umbrella Academy has it too, to say nothing of shit like The Romanovs.
Like it goes beyond an 80s nostalgia wave. I dunno whether it's DoD shit or what. It's extremely blatant.
True but it's also girl boss lib shit. I find it annoying but that doesn't mean it wasn't the intention to be inspiring or whatever. They didn't play "Fight Song" with the intention to be cringe either.
Overall, it just seems to me a very unsubtle attack on all fronts.
There’s that scene where the little girl practically deadpan looks into the camera and is like, “I’m a Capitalist, capitalism is good.”
Yeah but like, she's 8. It could have been written by a Marxist or Pete Buttigieg.
I only watched the first two seasons, and your comment convinced me not to go further :p
Nobody will be seated in the theater when kids throw fireworks for 7 minutes at a CGI monster.
i think the purpose of the anti-communist movies is to try to stop young people from liking socialism
Nothing happened in Fukashima because it doesn't fit the agenda.
I think it has objectively gotten worse since "russiagate" or whatever.
Worried China might start sharing their nukes with Iran and Venezuela.
(Please Xi, share the nukes)
Were you under the impression that I was unserious? Because nuclear proliferation is the greatest tool we have to ending imperial exploitation and intervention overnight.
It's red baiting shit from the 60s because they sucked all content out of the 80s already.
Plenty of red baiting in the 80's too. Red Dawn, Rambo 3.
This film is dedicated to the brave Muhjahadeen fighters of Afghanistan
Kinda sickening to imagine someone at Activision getting tasked with: "what will sell us more copies this year -- killing commies or killing nazis? run the numbers"
The consent manufacturing machine is definitely gearing up for a large conflict (economic or otherwise) with China. It was bound to happen with any country threatening American global hegemony.
I've seen the phrase "consent manfacturing" being used a lot here. I've tried googling it, but could only find a book, can some explain what it means?
Here's a quick intro & explainer animated in the style of Yellow Submarine and voiced by Amy Goodman.
Also, for anyone who's seen it, I love my communist, terrorist pac man ghosts.
As soon as I stopped tuning into the perpetual lib brain worm news cycle of reddit and actually think about it, the Russia thing is a. Still complete bullshit and b. Been non-stop since the primaries.
Weirdly(?), everyone is dicking on China, DNC and GOP pundits a-like, just hitting from different angles. The libs get heart throb stories stories and HK and chuds get to blame the them for 'releasing' the virus. We have to hate China because they're the only major economy who will come out of this with positive economic metrics and their living standards didn't haemorrhage. Western economic systems are very strong, especially in times of strife lmao. :pigpoop:
The libs get heart throb stories stories and HK and chuds get to blame the them for ‘releasing’ the virus.
But how can China have released the virus, when the virus doesn't even exist?
rly maks u think
Well cable news/twitter/reddit/DNC libs are obsessing over Russia/Trump, because of course Russia is responsible for gerrymandering states and closing polling stations in poor & minority areas and imposing onerous Voter ID requirements.
And in media there is that tv show The Americans. The third season of Stranger Things, and now some Call of Duty game I guess. Anything else?
This throwaway supernatural drama The Order on Netflix has a whole plot about scary communist mages.
The second season of The Umbrella Academy starts with a Soviet invasion of the US.
I think Netflix also had some show about the Russian royal family or the revolution itself. Lot of stuff on Netflix specifically
Isn't the new Tom Clancy bullshit staring that guy from the office set to fuck with Venezuela?
Yup, couldn't get through that.
The first season was gloriously stupid though.
It certainly feels like it. Could be a reaction to the reemergence of leftism, or they could be gearing up for increased tension with China.
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game which she hoped would explain the single tax theory of Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. Her game, The Landlord's Game, was self-published, beginning in 1906.
And then the game idea was stolen and commercialized by some rich fuck. Capitalism breeding innovation, once again.
At least it seems to have moved on from the "nuclear Venezuela" a la Jack Ryan
Hoo boy, you should try watching Australian television for your fix of that. Ozzy political and spy dramas have become my guilty pleasure as they're all about the evil Chinese secretly controlling Blairites in the government or merking attractive young tech types working on Five Eyes surveillance. All of which I unironically stan China for.
As for American media stuff I honestly think they don't use China as soon villain as much simply because it's big and complicated and you can't expect the writers or viewers to actually know or learn anything. So they just rehashed the 80s again.
