be nice.

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Sorry, none of the boys have good politics. Ben is vaguely libertarian-ish, but not exactly doctrinaire.

    Occasionally Henry talks shit about capitalism, but he's not exactly gonna be out there executing landlords.

    Marcus is just a Khmer Rouge guy cuz he wants more spoopy bones.

    Also, if you listen to their JFK eps, they have an extremely shallow and uneducated view of the USSR. They basically conflated the stagnant 80s USSR with the optimistic and vibrant 50s and 60s USSR, betraying how they didn't do their research.

    • Robin [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      You gotta admit it is funny to think a secret service guy accidentally exploded JFKs head tho.

    • goldsound [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That JFK series killed me. I honestly couldn't finish it because of how much CIA good/Commies bad propaganda they were spitting the whole time.

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It was honestly a VERY weak series overall. I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's because one of them was moving plus they were finalizing the Spotify deal, but it really felt thrown together and shallow across the board. Like, yeah, JFK is a biggie, maybe even THE biggie, so it's gonna be a challenge, but they definitely didn't meet that challenge.