[–] blackguard19 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Yeah I never liked that part even though I’ve never actually seen the movie. Really rubs me the wrong way like when people call an oppressive government “Nazis.”
Oh the oppression of forcing corporate entities to serve the public good and not just their bottom line.
Oh the oppression of not letting the people who staged a failed communist coup but still ruined your whole country wander freely to fuck with minds and monies.
Yeah I feel ya. Communists are oppressive. Any two tier justice system is oppressive.
[–] DILLIGAFASSHOLE 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
[–] Vrblpollushin 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
Watched this Sunday night. Thought the same thing.
[–] fluffyunbound 0 points 26 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago
Speaking of movies, I found myself watching the movie Casablanca the other day. Casablanca was made in 1942, so the US was at war with Nazi Germany at the time. So we have a movie made about a wartime enemy, and that enemy happens to also be a regime generally regarded to be among the worst in human history. But you know what? The entire plot of the movie only makes sense if the Nazi government was more honest and more honorable than our own!
The plot of Casablanca is that Peter Lorre gives Humphrey Bogart travel papers that allow anyone to travel anywhere in German-occupied Europe. Bogart is eventually able to use these papers to help a left-wing politician sought by the Nazis to escape to Portugal, along with his wife Ingrid Bergman. But this only works because once the refugees have the papers, both the German Gestapo officer and the Vichy French prefect of police are forced to obey the letter of their own law and let them go. Watching the movie I was suddenly struck by how the US government or UK government in 2020 would simply fucking laugh at the letter of the law if it meant letting someone guilty of wrongthink win. The US or UK government would say, "Yeah those are nice papers but we're arresting you anyway." And I had to laugh at the fact that my default assumption was that my government would behave worse than the Nazi villains of a 1940's film. Even though it's not really funny, when you think about it.
[–] Merlynn 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Well,yeah. The aliens in They Live just wanted to control us. The jews want us all dead or broken.
[–] Ocelot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Tfw space aliens with spooky skeleton faces are more benevolent rulers than the kikes