One of the more moments for me as a nascent leftist was realizing that the quasi-deified Founding Fathers™ were almost entirely just 1700s equivalent of today’s creepy techbros, including sus sex predator stuff.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 has some great sections about how the only people worse than the Royal African Company for a slave were the American small business hustlegrinders who tried to cut the small costs of food and proper lodging the RAC treated as the simple cost of flesh-trading.
Not surprised they liked it. One of the characters is a billionaire weapons dealer who worked with terrorists to sell more weapons, push a strategy of tension, and ignited a bloody war. He’s also the good guy, married his secretary, and is rewarded with a state award
Dude is just Charlie Wilson and NATO, the character
also he literally has a pablo escobar style luxury prison constructed so that when he is inevitably imprisoned for his corruption, he ends up in what is essentially a cozy hotel room. This would seem like a satire of capitalism, but it is played off like he is a clever and sympathetic character for doing this
The enemy in the first season is basically just a communist, but they pretty openly compare it to fascism (the propaganda posters he puts up around the city basically have the Rising Sun in the background). Then they just kill him off. It’s very lazy.
All you need to know about Legend of Korra is that r/neoliberal recommended it as “a good show about the dangers of populism”
“AMERICA SPREADS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. THAT IS WHY THOSE UNRULY MASSES MUST BE CONTAINED AND SUPPRESSED.”
They really do be thinking that USA is some philosopher king of the world, don’t they?
One of the more
moments for me as a nascent leftist was realizing that the quasi-deified Founding Fathers™ were almost entirely just 1700s equivalent of today’s creepy techbros, including sus sex predator stuff.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 has some great sections about how the only people worse than the Royal African Company for a slave were the American small business hustlegrinders who tried to cut the small costs of food and proper lodging the RAC treated as the simple cost of flesh-trading.
We are living in the griftlands
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Not surprised they liked it. One of the characters is a billionaire weapons dealer who worked with terrorists to sell more weapons, push a strategy of tension, and ignited a bloody war. He’s also the good guy, married his secretary, and is rewarded with a state award
Dude is just Charlie Wilson and NATO, the character
also he literally has a pablo escobar style luxury prison constructed so that when he is inevitably imprisoned for his corruption, he ends up in what is essentially a cozy hotel room. This would seem like a satire of capitalism, but it is played off like he is a clever and sympathetic character for doing this
The enemy in the first season is basically just a communist, but they pretty openly compare it to fascism (the propaganda posters he puts up around the city basically have the Rising Sun in the background). Then they just kill him off. It’s very lazy.