My takeaway (admittedly trying to look at it from a leftist perspective) was that their attempted revolution was a failure because they knocked capitalism down a peg and expected everything to fall in place. Their organizing was shit.
That's all true, you're definitely right that the overall message of the show is very much not leftist.
Still, it seems like there exist a lot of people who are effectively dedicated to upholding the existing power structures today who were at one point (apparently) sincere activists of some far left variety. I mean "A far left activist getting disillusioned with the prospects of a true revolution eventually shifting focus to working with the powers that be to try to reach a marginally better outcome within the constraints of the seemingly inevitable status quo," could be talking about Mr Robot, or it could be talking about a particular senator from Vermont.
But yeah, the show seemed to portray this process as good though hard to accept, rather than the tragedy that we'd regard it as.
Kinda reminds me of Mr. Robot, I liked the show but then the bad guys are China and the FBI is the good guys..
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also the only trans character was the main villian but that might have just been a coincidence idk
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My takeaway (admittedly trying to look at it from a leftist perspective) was that their attempted revolution was a failure because they knocked capitalism down a peg and expected everything to fall in place. Their organizing was shit.
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That's all true, you're definitely right that the overall message of the show is very much not leftist.
Still, it seems like there exist a lot of people who are effectively dedicated to upholding the existing power structures today who were at one point (apparently) sincere activists of some far left variety. I mean "A far left activist getting disillusioned with the prospects of a true revolution eventually shifting focus to working with the powers that be to try to reach a marginally better outcome within the constraints of the seemingly inevitable status quo," could be talking about Mr Robot, or it could be talking about a particular senator from Vermont.
But yeah, the show seemed to portray this process as good though hard to accept, rather than the tragedy that we'd regard it as.
is it a game of thrones situation? i watched the first couple mr robot episodes last week and enjoyed them. do you think it's worth carrying on?
EDIT: by game of thrones situation i mean is it bad overall or is it bad politics? because i can ignore bad politics if the show's good enough
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sick i'm glad. barely have enough time to watch tv shows these days and i don't really want to waste my time on something i won't enjoy lol.
Not as bad but goddamn there’s a couple of characters that had such shitty endings,