Yeah it's definitely kinda funny that as hard as they try to make the Soviets these super evil villains, even in the text of the show the US is unfathomably worse.
Hopper shitting on Vietnam was a step too far though.
When he's in the Gulag talking to the prison guard that gets thrown in with him, he mentions enlisting to go to Vietnam and how the "Commie bastards like you descended on the south like a plague". It's brief but I was like holy shit that's a bold take. Of course it wouldn't be out of character for an American cop to say but it still had me going "wait what the fuck".
Yeah it's definitely kinda funny that as hard as they try to make the Soviets these super evil villains, even in the text of the show the US is unfathomably worse.
Hopper shitting on Vietnam was a step too far though.
Do not recall this, what happened?
When he's in the Gulag talking to the prison guard that gets thrown in with him, he mentions enlisting to go to Vietnam and how the "Commie bastards like you descended on the south like a plague". It's brief but I was like holy shit that's a bold take. Of course it wouldn't be out of character for an American cop to say but it still had me going "wait what the fuck".
Ah, its in the new season? Gotcha. That explains why I didn't remember. Also, at least the actor seems amenable to socialism?
No shit. Well that's cool.
Yeah, next step is getting him to read State and Rev :sicko-charging:
this isnt just a bold take, this is straight up derangement, revision of history and just pure fucking undiluted propaganda. what the actual fuck.