Satire is beyond dead, it's been purged from human memory

  • GrafZahl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This has "when you didn't read the book, but have to turn in your essay" vibes. I'm pretty sure I could have come up with a better text when I was still at school and I sucked at writing. They spent three paragraphs just naming all the shows they could remember the titles of FFS

    • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They spent three paragraphs just naming all the shows they could remember the titles of FFS

      this is not even hyperbole oh my god

      Better dramas with longer story arcs, such as “St. Elsewhere” and “Hill Street Blues,” began to appear in the 1980s, but it was not until the 2000s that U.S. television achieved a new golden age with shows such as “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Mad Men,” and “Breaking Bad.” But that age has now ended. “Game of Thrones” aired its last episode in 2019, and there has not been a U.S. series since then that has achieved a similar cultural impact.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    "People in the US really love this media property from another country. Therefor it follows that all neoliberal policy vis-a-vis the enforcement of opening markets and liberalizing economies is a good thing."

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      What was that ATLA episode where the guy knew he would be safe? Was it the secret tunnel? They escorted him through and he's like, "see! I knew nothing bad would happen!"

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

    WP has some wild ass takes. In their version of reality squid games glorifies the free market and the contras were revolutionaries

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Every time you watch a foreign TV show, you are seeing the benefits of globalization and free trade

    Everything good we have in this world is due to capitalism. If we had global communism then there is simply no way media would be created in one part of the world and viewed in another part. Nope, no possible way that could happen.

    And ohbytheway while all good things come from capitalism, the bad stuff like climate change, well that's not capitalism's fault. That's just human nature or something. I have a very big brain.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    This whole piece is completely absurd but this bit in particular is a gem:

    [I]t was not until the 2000s that U.S. television achieved a new golden age...[b]ut that age has now ended. “Game of Thrones” aired its last episode in 2019

    Lmao I don't think Maximum Boot ever watched Game of Thrones

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    3 years ago

    globalization and free trade

    An analogy what this actually means in practice is that the Frontman in Squid Game had to speak English with the bloodless angloid ghouls and not the other way around.

  • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    They're really scraping to show any positive benefits to the American people. Cause they are few and far between. The benefits have overwhelmingly gone to hostile countries that hate America, and that show absolutely zero gratitude for the assistance.

    If it was up to me, we'd ditch the $15 blenders that break after two weeks and go back to the $50 blenders from Sears.

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Pod Damn America: "Squid Game w/ The Horror Vanguard" https://podbay.fm/p/pod-damn-america/e/1634343958

  • meme_monster [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    "No one should be surprised that so many of the best political systems and decisions are no longer made in America. The United States, after all, has only 4 percent of the world’s population."

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I refuse to read this article but I will go fishing through the comments for some second-hand brainworms.

    Mitch intends to turn America into the Paper Tiger that Mao once said it was.

    :yes-comm:

    Lots of comments about the exploitation of labor due to globalization. But without those jobs that exploit them, what would they be doing and would they be better off?

    :gulag:

    The result eventually is a dystopia that is manifested in many movies over many years.  Just consider this one movie: Blade Runner.

    You missed your mark with Blade Runner. Earth in that context was the Old World from which people with ambition, talent, and resources emigrated. Those stuck on Earth were those who were either replicants or natural borns who couldn't hack it off-world. Globalization was the secret sauce that got humanity into the galaxy so they could witness attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

    This guy thinks Elon Musk is going to live on the Mars colony voluntarily.

    Globalization is so good that we should nationalize it

    :bugs-stalin:

    Globalization, unlike war, actually helps populations in the long run.

    :yea: