‘Squid Game’ Is Now The #1 Show In 90 Different Countries
www.forbes.com
Netflix’s focus on global content has paid off in a big way with Squid Game, which has planted itself not just as the #1 show in its home country of Korea and in Netflix’s home country of the United States, but now, the show is #1 in at least 90 different countries around the world.

I did. We all did. Still happy to see it.

Korean cinema has really seemed to break through in the US since Parasite. I will say I am not very exposed to Korean culture outside of what makes it over the Pacific to bleed into US culture. Which in my opinion makes it all the more impressive that two anti-capitalist Korean productions became international sensations after exploding in the US.

Can you all feel it? They tried to make us feel like the energy was gone, but it's still there, and it's not just Squid Game that's showing it.

EDIT - on a show related note, Oh-Il Nam was a total surprise to me, biggest twist I'd say.

  • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The fed has admitted to inflation above 5% for 4 straight months now - last time that happened was before 2008.

    When the market crashes soon (or the dollar crashes, either way) it's not gonna feel faint anymore, not this time. Too much gunpowder has been poured on the entire situation, and try as they might they just can't seem to force Americans back into the happy-pre-covid ignorance days as easily

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's when Boston Dynamics Amphibious Sexual Assault Dogs and the FBI spy planes come out. The moment you even doubt capitalism the NSA panopticon is going to come down on you like a boulder on an ant. There's going to be like 15 guys in full deathstronaut gear pouring from every corner of the country into your living room. There's going to trucks preemptively soaking every neighborhood with teargas laden water. There's going to be LRAD's spouting every imagineable anti communist propaganda ever, and when you try to Google search "how to make molotov cocktail" there's going to be a captcha asking you to debunk anti communist talking points with a timer and if you spell one thing wrong the Delta Force operator hanging from the ceiling will pour his Black Rifle coffee on you

      • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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        3 years ago

        As funny as this description was, the US really showed it's whole ass during the BLM riots nationwide.

        They barely have the capacity to deal with domestic dissent anymore. Without deploying the entire apparatus (which may even worsen the situation), they are without a hope of victory.

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          They barely have the capacity to deal with domestic dissent anymore. Without deploying the entire apparatus (which may even worsen the situation), they are without a hope of victory.

          just wait until they start using live ammo and just start gunning us down

          • Hoodoo [love/loves]
            ·
            3 years ago

            That would kick off something noone has any real control over.

            At that point they are going all in and might very well lose.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          They barely have the capacity to deal with domestic dissent anymore.

          Biden more than doubled the funding for the hiring program. They know.

        • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm pretty sure they have a lot more stops still left to pull out, but it was pretty funny that they had to mobilize bureau of prisons thumbs and child soldiers to bolster their numbers

      • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        This comment reminded me of Robert Evan's After the Revolution for some reason.

        But yeah, hellworld... not sure what else to say lol

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Anarcho-FBI-informantism has it's faults but I really like Bobert's descriptions of future US dystopias. He's probably not that far off from the reality of it.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If the dollar crashes no way isn't crypto going with it.

        • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yep, guess who owns a large portion of Bitcoin and Crypto now? All your favorite banks and hedge funds. And guess what they like to do during market crashes? Sell to oblivion and then buy even more at the bottom.

          That's a no thank you from me for crypto as long as it's tied to the USD which the fed literally prints double existing supply every year and then decides who to give it to.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Crypto has been tied to the first for a while now. It's the only reason it's worth anything. Also the reason or needs to be do energy intensive, it's literally petro-dollar 2.0. Only this time instead of being backed by car consumption, it's backed by something that can't even be remotely linked to human enterprise.

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Almost all of crypto's value comes from speculation, and I don't think that libertarians who truly believe in the project of decentralized currency are the majority stakeholders. I think if there's a market crash big firms that hold crypto will dump it, trashing the price, and then look to buy it back up at the lower price, the same way they do other commodities/stocks during a crash.

            I could be wrong and the fundamental differences between crypto and other commodities could mean that it really is crash proof.