• Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The West Wing is about smart competent people disagreeing, then finding compromise solutions that neither like, but both can live with.

      For some reason it's set in the White House.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        Well if it wasn't set in the White House, how else would the main characters Grand Bargain their way into privatizing social security for literally 0 gain?

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        The West Wing is just Epic Clintonianism, where everybody except the President is getting blowjobs.

        • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          in all seriousness it's a late 90s early 00s TV drama about white house staff written by Andy Sorkin. And like everything ever touched by Andy Sorkin it reeks of liberal smugness, bizarre misogyny, and shoehorned sarcastic witty dialogue that nobody would actually ever say in real life

          here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh9SgyGgBW0

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Harry Potter is liberal eugenics magic school

      It's liberal reformed magic school, with a faction that believes there's not enough eugenics and another faction that believes the decision to end eugenics thirty years ago after a brutal bloody civil war shouldn't be revoked without the headmaster's permission.