I wonder how that would have influenced our current situation in the US.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The mediatic chud meltdown would've been the most deranged shit seen since the post-9/11 years, there would've been people braying for blood on TV 24/7 claiming he'd been assassinated by the chinese virus and that we should immediately nuke Beijing, the white House would've probably had a Death of Stalin type situation where they deny and downplay Trump's mysterious absence or about a month before they admitted that, maybe possibly the president may have passed away after all, and Pence has mysteriously been spirited away into a bunker four thousand feet underground to spend the remainder of the presidency and also elections are suspended for uhhh reasons. Basically all the funniest possible outcomes all at once

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      Is Death of Stalin good? Like, as a communist, is it going to leave me seething with rage, or is it something that kinda avoids actual political shit and can be laughed at?

      • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's propaganda, and it makes Stalin uniquely evil, centers around making :corn-man-khrush: look good. Recurring joke throughout the film are people being executed, at one point they're in the middle of a purge with firing squads, they get a phone call to halt the purge and stop executing mid-session.

        Go into it with a very critical mindset and you'll find it does have some stellar humor and performances topped off by an amazing cast.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Highly recommended. It's about as accurate as a cast of mostly Americans not even doing accents. The setting is just window dressing for a really good dark comedy.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I didn't find it all that funny but I'm not a comedy movie sort of person. I found absolutely nothing wrong with it politically, though. Any unfair inaccuracies are clearly jokes.

      • Gosplan14 [any]
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        3 years ago

        It's lib af, but it's a decent enough movie with some good funny scenes

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It’s a good movie if you are a no nothing liberal.

        The Left Media Podcast has an episode with Proles of the Round Table that is good at breaking down the inaccuracies, lies, and liberal propaganda of it. It’s a funny movie if you look at it from “office politics” way but I can’t stand how they do my boi Stalin in it. Worth at least one watch.