I feel that the first season was pretty neutral, maybe kind of left-leaning aesthetically, but it also aired way back in 2013.

The newer episodes are dropping more fashy lines. The Unity episode where Rick frames some minority alien group for something, and then says "sheesh, don't blame me it's the police who are racist"

Or the "future crystals" where rick keeps getting routed through fascist alternate universes with nazi morties, only to end up with a wasp rick where the entire wasp Smith family eats the (Black) math teacher larvae. Not exactly subtle.

The whole premise of the show also became even more over of a power fantasy in seasons 3/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMILvY_FJj8

  • Nakoichi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I actually thought that was making fun of fascists and the liberals that side with them. Someone tell me why I am wrong, I usually am.

    • CaptainFreedom [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not sure it's even really a joke. Harmon had a bit of a breakdown after Trump was elected. He's really freaked out by all of the people that are comfortable with fascism.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvsLLfRpLs

      • Nakoichi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean satire can be honest and serious. That's really the best (and arguably only) form of satire.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That was more justin roiland, dan probably could have done a better job standing with the union, but I haven't heard about him working against his employees like that (could be mistaken though)

    • NarcissistLeninist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I don't remember the details of the wasp thing, but in general it seemed like the recurring fascist thing was a) a standard repetition to the point of absurdity comedy bit and b) representative of the experience many have had lately of finding out they're surrounded by fascists.

      • _else [she/her,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        i think he said 'jesus fuck when did this become the default?' and the wasps say something like 'hey, we might (horrible things wasps do), but at least we're not fucking fascists.' when rick-prime comes in and unenthusiastically pretends to be one.

    • nom_nom_chompsky [any]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, the "no politics, just classic fun adventure" mortysounds exactly like the gamergate crowd, and him getting beaten up is portrayed as the correct thing

      • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, thats what I took from that to. Rick literally killing the gamergate crowd, its not exactly high brow but it wouldnt be the first time CHUDs missed that an artist wasnt exactly endorsing them.